UNDISTRACTED with Laura Bennett S12E09 Julie Sheehan: "New Age spirituality doesn't offer love the way..."
Feb 19, 2025
Julie Sheehan, former New Age practitioner turned Christian author who reclaimed her life after decades in spiritual deception. She talks about her 30-year New Age journey, experiences of spiritual oppression, how childhood trauma drove her search, and the recovery she found through faith. Short, candid reflections on warning signs, deliverance, and refocusing life on Jesus.
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Thirty Years Rooted In New Age Practices
- Julie Sheehan spent 30 years in New Age practices starting from astrology readings that felt uncannily accurate.
- That curiosity led into classes, psychic readings, magic, crystals and Reiki which became her spiritual toolkit.
Why New Age Practices Can Seem To Work
- Julie explains New Age workings as demonic deception that can still produce accurate-seeming results because Satan counterfeits light.
- She frames successes as temporary counterfeits that lack the lasting healing available in the kingdom of God.
Personal Deliverance After Charismatic Church Encounter
- Julie describes intense oppression she experienced and a dramatic deliverance after attending a charismatic church in Caulfield.
- She recounts being on the floor with a demon stuck in her throat and later being delivered weeks after conversion.