BOB: Yes, absolutely. Look, the classic movie “The Exorcist” was indeed a story of a child who did just that with a Ouija board, and I cannot tell you of the hundreds of case studies I have of people with Ouija boards or other forms of divination who have tried to communicate with the spirit world who they themselves got those spirits, and then they need exorcism and deliverance.

SID: I have even heard of people going to movies needing exorcism as a result of what they have seen in the movies.

BOB: Well, a spirit of fear can enter into somebody at a slasher movie, if you want to go see Texas Chainsaw Massacre, be prepared, you may come home with something you didn’t have when you went there.

SID: Listen, Bob Larson is talking about movies like Star Wars, talking about Zen Buddhism, talking about things that are kind of, you know, just kind of in, Kabala, all these things are doors to the demonic. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want any door to the demonic, do you believe what he is saying? He is going to tell you some real life experiences, don’t go away, we’ll be right back.  

SID: I’m here with Bob Larson, foremost world expert in deliverance, cults and occult groups, and Bob, we’re featuring your new book, it’s a wonderful book, as a matter of fact, you have so many different cults and occult groups mentioned, so that if someone says something and you feel like, well there just might be something wrong with it, you look it up in the book, it’s written in such a simplistic fashion, you find out its roots, its origins, why its wrong and what to do about it. I think that every believer in the Messiah needs this book and if you are not a believer in the Messiah you doubly need this book, what kind of results are you getting from people reading this?

BOB: Absolutely fascinating, peoples reaction they after give me is just, “I can’t believe this.” We had a woman who came to one of our conferences, and she was a massage therapist and a very sweet Christian girl. She said, “I looked at this book, I think I’m doing something wrong.” I said, “What are you doing?” She said, “Well the person who taught me these therapies did hot stone therapy.” I said well you know a nice hot rock to relax with is not a bad idea, but she said there’s more to it than that. They told me to lay these stones at the location of the seven chakras and in doing so I would spiritually enlighten the people. She said according to your book I’ve done something wrong. And I said well lets pray about it, I said just renounce what you’ve done. And when she began to speak the words they would not come out of her mouth and she had to go through a full- blown exorcism to get free from that. She was innocent; she didn’t know what she was doing

SID: the blind leading the blind.

BOB: The blind leading the blind. But ignorance is no excuse in spiritual law.

SID: So you are touching something. What about a massage therapist that says I’ve got healing hands and when I give you a massage I think good thoughts and you, is there anything wrong with that?

BOB: Let me tell you another story, I had some people come to me with a child paralyzed from birth in a wheelchair, and I began to delve into this and I said well you know the only way the devil gets that child if this is of the devil and not simply an organic disease is through the parents, so lets talk to you about the entries of your life. And I began to work with the mother and she actually manifested demons right on the spot. I said, “How did you get this child?” And it said the aunt; I said the aunt, what’s the aunt got to do with it? And the spirit said aka. And I talked to this woman and said you have a sister. Yeah, she’s a massage aka practitioner. What happened was one time she had left the aunt to baby-sit her child, and this aunt did this energy distribution, passing the hands over the baby, and actually put spirits into the little baby, which were spirits of infirmity that had paralyzed this child.

SID: What about something as innocuous as yoga, especially the exercises, which they lower blood pressure, they relax people, they limber them up, what’s wrong with that?

BOB: Yoga is a Sanskrit word that means yoked with or in union with God.

SID: So every Christian, every Messianic Jew should want to be yoked with any union with God.

BOB: The catch is the definition of God, and it’s the god of ultimate unitary conscientiousness of the enlightenment, the Brahman if you will of Hinduism. And all the classic yoga texts teach this. In fact the classic yoga texts warn you cannot separate yoga from Hinduism. You cannot do it, they tell you this outright and they become very angry when Americans try to do this because they say it can’t be done and I believe them.

SID: Okay, someone doesn’t, forget Hindu, smindu, all they want is exercise, its good exercise Bob, what’s wrong with that?

BOB: I do good exercise, Sid, I have a

SID: No forget what you do, what’s wrong

BOB: No, no, no, no, I have a stretching routine every single day and some of what I do can resemble certain yoga positions, but I am not practicing the world-view and all the accoutrements of it, I am not putting myself in a body posture and calling them after names of Hindu gods and goddesses and various animals. I’m simply stretching my muscles. The difference is in the process of yoga you don’t do one or two stretching positions, you do a whole routine, all of which is designed just like just like a radio to tune you into the spirit world and to awaken these chakras which I believe are some kind of locale in the body of spirituality and the devil knows that.

SID: Tell me about some people that have been involved in yoga that you had to pray that evil spirits leave.

BOB: I’ve had so many I can’t begin to tell you who just went for, like Hoffa yoga that just went for the physical yoga

SID: Yes.

BOB: And they picked this stuff up along the way. And I remember one particular woman all I did was just take a Bible and run it up her spine and in doing so called forth seven demons which were in the spine. I remember another man, a very prominent businessman came to me and he had been involved in this and the Lord spoke to me and said take your Bible and put it right there in the seventh chakras, and he was just sitting there calmly, when I put the Bible there and said I come against the psychic third eye, the seventh chakras, this guy just went berserk, he said oh my God what’s that? And I said this is what you got doing yoga and it becomes localized. See the whole purpose of yoga is to achieve a psychosexual union between shockte and shiva. Shiva is the third member of the trinity of Hinduism, the destroyer, the death angel if you will, linked with shockte who is the female consort and the two of them come together, this is the whole purpose for yoga. There is a whole field called tatra yoga, which is designed to create demonic sexual arousal.

SID: Listen you’re stirring a lot of things up right now

BOB: Good.

SID: I want to find out about Zen Buddhism, I want to find out about the movie, Star Wars, we’ll be right back after this word. 

SID: Sid Roth here with Bob Larson. Bob is the worlds foremost leader in understanding, you’ve probably seen him on Oprah, or Larry King, or any of the other popular shows, but one of the most foremost spokesman on behalf of deliverance, cults, occults, as a matter of fact I have your brand new book called “Larson’s Book of World Religions.” Why did you write this?

BOB: Well first of all to give people an understanding of the place that Judaism and Christianity play in the larger picture of religion. So the book starts out, you can’t understand what cults do until you understand the fountain of cults, which is Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Daoism, and the so called great religions of the world, and then from there I move into the basic concepts, you have to understand what words like meditation, enlightenment, reincarnation, these things that are bandied about to give you a foundation. And then we move into hundreds of specific cults and show you this root structure manifested in all these belief systems.

SID: You know, I couldn’t believe, we were talking previous to this interview and you said in England they asked for the number one religion, what was it?

BOB: Stars Wars, or The Force, or Jedi. In fact the same thing happened in New Zealand, they did a poll there and they found out that, I believe that it was about fifty percent of the people put down as their religious preference Jedi Knights.