Bryan Mercier author of Counterfeit Spirituality: Exposing the False Gods joins Trending with Timmerie. 

 

Episode Guide

• How we celebrate Halloween (0:56 )
• The new age – what are occult practices? Astrology, tarot card reading, seances, ouija boards (24:52 )
• JK Rowling slams Glamour UK's Women of the Year transgender cover (43:45 )

 

Resources mentioned: 

 

Legend of the Jack O’Lantern

https://relevantradio.com/2025/10/the-legend-of-the-jack-olantern-special-podcast-highlight/ 

 

Counterfeit Spirituality: Exposing the False Gods 

https://amzn.to/46QfeOt 

 

Episodes on occult with Bryan Mercier

https://relevantradio.com/?cat=23210&s=bryan+mercier

 

Crystals and healing energy: what is wrong with using them?

https://relevantradio.com/2023/10/energy-crystals-can-catholics-use-them/

 

Why not yoga? 

https://relevantradio.com/2023/02/new-age-penn-badgley-in-you/ 

The Lure of Eastern Spirituality

https://relevantradio.com/2025/04/the-lure-of-eastern-spirituality/

 

Spiritual Not Religious

https://relevantradio.com/2025/03/spiritual-not-religious/

 

Catechism of the Catholic Church on Divination & Magic section 1215-1217

God can reveal the future to his prophets or to other saints. Still, a sound Christian attitude consists in putting oneself confidently into the hands of Providence for whatever concerns the future and giving up all unhealthy curiosity about it. Improvidence, however, can constitute a lack of responsibility.

 All forms of divination are to be rejected: recourse to Satan or demons, conjuring up the dead or other practices falsely supposed to “unveil” the future. Consulting horoscopes, astrology, palm reading, interpretation of omens and lots, the phenomena of clairvoyance, and recourse to mediums all conceal a desire for power over time, history, and, in the last analysis, other human beings, as well as a wish to conciliate hidden powers. 

They contradict the honor, respect, and loving fear that we owe to God alone 

 

Catechism of the Catholic Church section 2332-2333 

 

2332 Sexuality affects all aspects of the human person in the unity of his body and soul. It especially concerns affectivity, the capacity to love and to procreate, and in a more general way the aptitude for forming bonds of communion with others.

 

2333 Everyone, man and woman, should acknowledge and accept his sexual identity. Physical, moral, and spiritual difference and complementarity are oriented toward the goods of marriage and the flourishing of family life. The harmony of the couple and of society depends in part on the way in which the complementarity, needs, and mutual support between the sexes are lived out.