Removing New Age Items and Influences from Your Home
Excerpted from “Removing New Age from Your Home” available at: https://a.co/d/h76nULF
By Doreen Virtue
My home looked like a New Age metaphysical store before God saved me in 2017. Almost every room was stuffed with statues and paintings of Hindu and Buddhist deities, crystal pendulums, occult books, divination cards, yoga mats, and clothing with new age symbols. My phone was also filled with new age apps about astrology, divination, and eastern meditation.
Perhaps your home isn’t as extreme as mine was, yet you still may be knowingly or unknowingly harboring new age or occultic items in your home. Ever since God opened my eyes and saved me in 2017 as I was reading the Bible, I’ve been warning about new age deception.
Many professing Christians have told me that they didn’t realize that they owned new age materials. They were horrified to learn that they were unknowingly involved with new age practices. In this book, we’ll do a deep dive into some items you may have in your home that are new age, new thought, or occultic in nature.
The Narrow Path
Jesus told us that He is the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to Father God without Jesus (John 14:6).
We can’t co-mingle or blend other religions and spiritual paths with Christianity, because Christianity is a narrow path. We can love people of other religions and traditions. We should pray for them and seek to share the Gospel with them. But we shouldn’t try to adopt their religious or spiritual customs, beliefs or symbols – especially into our homes.
The bottom line is that Jesus died for the sins of paganism, idolatry, sorcery, witchcraft, and divination. Why would we want to glorify any of those sins with items in our home?
God’s Word warns us to not open our homes to false teachers or teachings (2 John 1:10). So, we shouldn’t open our homes to false teachings within books or other items related to false teachings. As parents, we also need to protect our children from these influences.
Beyond Decluttering
We hear a lot these days about decluttering, yet removing new age and occultic items from your home is light years beyond getting rid of clutter. It’s removing spiritual garbage from your home.
In the new age, we were obsessed with “clearing our space,” meaning that we wanted to banish “negative energy” from our surroundings. To do this, I was involved with a form of spiritual housekeeping called “feng shui” that teaches that clutter disrupts the “energy flow” of a home. In feng shui, we’d rearrange, redecorate, and add and remove certain objects for protection and to “manifest” our desires.
When I toured with a famous psychic, he taught me a method of visualizing spiritual energy grids around the stages where we gave seminars and audience readings. Another new age practitioner made his own sprays made from essential oils mixed with ground-up crystals, as his way of “clearing the energy.”
Yet, those new age efforts couldn’t yield the peace that we sought – they actually ensnared us further in deception. Only through our faith in Jesus and yielding our life to Him as our Lord and Savior can we be saved and find eternal peace.
Removing Paganism and Idolatry from Our Homes
We aren’t saved by our good works, yet once we’re saved we desire to please and obey God. Getting the idols and other pagan items out of our homes is obedience to God.
I threw out thousands of dollars worth of artwork, books, statues, jewelry and clothing. We see a similar process with new Christians burning their expensive sorcery materials in Acts 19:19.
With each garbage bag that we tossed into the dumpster, there was a sense of relief. I’d been experiencing horrible insomnia-producing spiritual warfare ever since I left the new age to follow Jesus. It’s normal for Christians to be oppressed by demons who try to discourage their witness. Yet, there was a definite reduction in spiritual warfare after the dumpster company towed away all of that garbage.
New age items aren’t “possessed” by demons, but they can definitely be an entry-point to spiritual warfare. The Bible describes sin as being an element that leads to demonic oppression, and it’s a sin to be involved in new age practices and have new age items.
In addition, these new age items can be a temptation for some people. It’s just like an alcoholic shouldn’t keep alcohol in his home so he’s not tempted to relapse.
When a professing Christian has new age items in her home, it could cause someone else to stumble into new ageism. You remember when the Apostle Paul discussed in 1 Corinthians 8 and 10 how the meat that was prayed over in pagan temples could be redeemed and eaten by Christians? Well, he never said that the pagan temples or the pagan prayers could be redeemed. Those unredeemable pagan prayers and temples are analogous to new age practices.
Paul also said that he’d never eat or drink anything that could cause someone else to stumble from his example. Well, if a person visits a Christian home and sees pagan statues, artwork, books, or other items in that home . . . it could cause her to think that it’s fine for Christians to have pagan items. She may buy similar pagan items as a result.
Children in the home may also be influenced by seeing their parents use new age items. In my case, when I’d visit my paternal grandmother, I used her divination tools which influenced me to believe that divination is fine for Christians since she was a church-going Presbyterian. So, there are many reasons to get the new age items out of our home!
“Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.” Ephesians 5:11
Besides, why would we want to have any item in our home that is amongst the sins that our Lord and Savior Jesus died on the cross for? He suffered and died to save our souls from the punishment that we all deserve for the sins that we’ve all committed (Romans 3:23), and that includes the sins of idolatry, divination, sorcery, and witchcraft that are inherent within new age practices.
The bottom line is that Christianity and new age items cannot commingle. Christianity is about glorifying, submitting to, trusting, loving, and obeying God. New age is self-obsessed and is about affirming and elevating the self as a coping mechanism. New age practices and items violate the Bible’s commandments against idolatry, divination, sorcery, and witchcraft.
Excerpted from Removing New Age from Your Home: A Practical Application Christian Guide for Cleansing Your Home of Hidden Occultic Influences available at: https://a.co/d/h76nULF
Doreen Virtue holds a Master’s degree in Biblical & Theological Studies with highest honors from Western Seminary (56 units / 2021), and an MA in Counseling Psychology from Chapman University. Doreen is the author of “How to Avoid New Age & New Thought Deception,” available on Kindle and Amazon.
Prior to being saved by God‘s grace and mercy in 2017, Doreen was a psychotherapist specializing in women’s issues, rated in the top 15 most influential living spiritual teachers by Watkins, and the top selling new age author in the world. She was born and raised in new thought churches which she attended for 33 years, before segueing to new age and Wicca in 1991 while touring with a mind-body-spirit conference organization.
Before her salvation, Doreen frequently appeared on Oprah, CNN, The View, Coast to Coast and other liberal secular media. After the Holy Spirit convicted her of her sins, while she read Deuteronomy 18:10-12, Doreen repented and gave her life to Jesus as her Lord and Savior. Doreen has been helping professing Christians to identify and avoid new age and new thought deception.
Doreen volunteers in discipling women who’ve been saved out of New Age in a private Facebook group. Doreen was a speaker at the Answers in Genesis 2025 women’s conference at the Ark Encounter. She has been featured on American Gospel 3, American Gospel TV, Daily Wire, Moody Radio, Spillover, Christianity Today, Cultish, New York Magazine, Spiritual Counterfeits Project, Servants of Grace, and other Christian media.