Exposing the Occult in New Age Medicine

I wanted to write a brief note about something that’s been on my heart for the past month or so.

In the month of January, the well-known Shabbat Night Live did a month-long series on energy healing. Even though my husband and I were featured guests on Shabbat Night Live in June 2023, this recent series made us very sad. We are, honestly, appalled at the Torah Movement’s increased interest in healing that has its roots in the new age movement.

Using energies and remote healing—this is just shamanism, turning to mediums, and pagan idolatry, dressed up in Hebrew-roots lingo.

Alphonzo Monzo, who was featured on Shabbat Night Live, claims that he learned his method of energy healing from Jin Shin Jyutsu, “which contains many new age ideas and philosophies,” and from Dr. Glenn King, who “changed the name of the art to Ki-IKI JUTSU® and eventually to TKM® (The King Institute Method®).”¹Alphonzo V. Monzo III, ND, Aleph-Tav Body System (Ohio: Health Restoration Ministries, 2021), 48.

According to Monzo, the creator of Jin Shin Jyutsu “experienced a feeling of being lifted out of a deep trance… and tremendous heat” when “healed” by the method he “discovered” on a mountain in Japan, while “sitting in specific positions and holding his fingers.” Monzo claims that this long-lost method could possibly have been brought to Japan by the lost ten tribes of Israel.²Alphonzo V. Monzo III, ND, Aleph-Tav Body System (Ohio: Health Restoration Ministries, 2021), 50-51.

Dr. King, who practiced other new-age healing practices such as acupuncture, acupressure, shiatsu, reflexology, and other “color, taste, sound, and aroma” therapies, supposedly “stripped the years of mysticism and mythology surrounding the [Jin Shin Jyutsu] method down to its core, and in doing so, discovered the fingerprints of a perfect and awesome Creator.” He claims to have had a deep understanding of the method “not taught or found in any writings” but received from “many revelations from God.”³Alphonzo V. Monzo III, ND, Aleph-Tav Body System (Ohio: Health Restoration Ministries, 2021), 52.

Monzo himself was taught in many new-age practices. He completed a “three-year internship with the King Institute, Inc. where he specialized in The King Institute Method® (TKM®).”⁴https://www.drmonzo.com/professional, accessed 02-21-2025 He has “a double degree from Life Training Institute as a Naturopathic Doctor (N.D.) and a Licensed Professional Naturopathic Minister (Beaumont, TX),”​⁵https://www.well-beingbydesign.com/aboutus, accessed 02-21-2025 where students are taught unbiblical healing methodologies such as iridology, muscle testing, homeopathy, and reflexology⁶https://lifetraininginstitute.org/professional-naturopathic-programs/, accessed 02-21-2025.

Monzo admits that “much of the information and understanding [in his Aleph-Tav Body System] was clouded by either New Age principles from the Jin Shin Jyutsu® (JSJ) teachings or even paganism disguised as Christianity from the King Method (TKM®) teachings. Now it is most likely that neither Dr. King or Jiro Murai purposely intended to teach New Age or paganism principles, but there is residue from both cultures and their religious systems.”⁷Alphonzo V. Monzo III, ND, Aleph-Tav Body System (Ohio: Health Restoration Ministries, 2021), 54.

“Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am YHVH your God” (Leviticus 19:31).

“When you come into the land which YHVH your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, or one who practices witchcraft, or a soothsayer, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who conjures spells, or a medium, or a spiritist, or one who calls up the dead. For all who do these things are an abomination to YHVH, and because of these abominations YHVH your God drives them out from before you. You shall be blameless before YHVH your God. For these nations which you will dispossess listened to soothsayers and diviners; but as for you, YHVH your God has not appointed such for you” (Deuteronomy 18:9-13).

Many Torah people believe that we can strip all New Age or pagan practices from something and redeem it as good. However, Deuteronomy 12 says just the opposite.

“These are the statutes and judgments which you shall be careful to observe in the land which YHVH God of your fathers is giving you to possess, all the days that you live on the earth. You shall utterly destroy all the places where the nations which you shall dispossess served their gods, on the high mountains and on the hills and under every green tree. And you shall destroy their altars, break their sacred pillars, and burn their wooden images with fire; you shall cut down the carved images of their gods and destroy their names from that place. You shall not worship YHVH your God with such things” (Deuteronomy 12:1-4).

We are to come out of Babylon. We are not to touch any unclean thing!

Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said:

“I will dwell in them
And walk among them.
I will be their God,
And they shall be My people.”

Therefore

“Come out from among them
And be separate, says YHVH.
Do not touch what is unclean,
And I will receive you.”
“I will be a Father to you,
And you shall be My sons and daughters,
Says YHVH Almighty” (2 Corinthians 6:14-18).

Dear sisters, just as we cannot clean up Halloween, Christmas, or Easter, we also cannot clean up New Age healing practices. Just because something could have come from the Lost Ten Tribes (who were cast out of the Land because of idolatry, by the way) does not mean we should copy it! Seeking remote healing and energies is the same as seeking after mediums. It is idolatry!

Helpful Resources

Amy Guenther, from Torah Sisters Magazine, has written an in-depth article on why these energy healing practices are of the occult. Definitely take the time to read that.

Shauna Manfredine, of Lighted Way Ministries and author of Escaping from the Dragon’s Jaws: How to Safeguard Your Family from Satan’s Deadly Infiltration, has made two helpful videos to teach why these practices are so dangerous. She also explains how to know if a “natural” remedy is okay to use or not, according to the Torah. She did an excellent job on these, so I wanted to share them with you.

(Note: These videos were on her YouTube channel until February 20, 2025, when “YouTube took our channel down, overnight on February 20… They have informed us that we have violated their rules for content, although we carefully read their rules and have not found that to be so. We requested YouTube to redress the matter. They did and said that they are standing by their decision. Our YouTube channel is permanently removed and we are forbidden to make another YouTube channel.” You can find Lighted Way Ministries on Vimeo and Rumble.)

Here is a recent teaching from my husband on this issue:

Here is a video about a similar method called Reiki, where they talk about how it was made palatable so Christians would accept it.

I hope you will take the time to study this out for yourself, with your Bible open. Just because something calls itself “Torah observant” doesn’t mean that it is. Be careful!

Thank you for letting me share my heart!

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