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Summary: This Book is NOT the Product of a Sick Mind....Here's Why...
Review: ...The book's freakish tone has more to do with the content of the material Ms. Cumbey covers, rather than the state of the author's mind. Ms. Cumbey is rightfully shocked at what she learned about core New Age teachings.Before I start, let me say that I was involved in New Age pursuits prior to becoming a Christian. I was a guru initiate, spent summers at a well known holistic center and was a proponent of mind-body healing techniques. Although I cannot say how much of an 'organized conspiracy' lies behind the New Age movement, I can say that studying its foundations exposes an underlying set of core beliefs which are still influential today and which are diametrically opposed to the tenets of authentic Christianity. Although the book is short on documentation and has a dramatic conspiratorial tone, I am studying Biblical Prophecy almost 20 years after this book was written and am seeing many of Ms. Cumbey's hunches come to fruition. A brief scan of the internet shows that many of the movements Ms. Cumbey attempts to document in her book (c. 1983) are still alive and kicking in the year 2002... ...Both scoffers and serious students of this type of material should read Gary Kah's book, THE NEW WORLD RELIGION, which is a far better documented and up to date commentary on the interweaving of New Age and New World Order in today's sociopolitical scene.
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Summary: The Lady Knows What She's Talking About
Review: A caveat: only Hal Lindsey nails this subject better. This book is scary, it is so good. Why? Read the newspapers, it's happening, word-for-word, note-for-note, every day. Initially, I thought Ms. Cumbey was a bit confused about the identity of the antagonist, some bizarre entity called "Maitreya." But if you, the reader, are ever in the Atlanta GA area, have somebody else drive, and go north on I-75, past the airport, about 5 miles before where 75 & 85 merge. Right around the "Hapeville" exit, look at the billboards on the right side of the road, and you'll actually, literally see a "Maitreya/come hither" sign. Talk about seeing history unfold before your very eyes...
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Summary: From a bona-fide, card-carrying "New Ager"
Review: Capitalization is alive and well. Many of you live in fear, you suspect Satan is the source and Constance Cumbey validates your fear (for profit). Rather than waste your money on this book, put it into your community! I have fears too - everyone who rates this book so highly is probably a registered voter!
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Summary: exceptional, well documented, a must read book
Review: Constance Cumbey has done an excellent job trying to open Christians' eyes to the evil situation that is escalating about them. She portrays well documented evidence of the workings of Satan as God opened her eyes to his schemes. Her shock is genuine and sincere. She isn't an end of time alarmist and she doesn't even proclaim herself to be an author. She is merely a shocked Christian, trying to reveal a hideous situation that God has made clear to her. I have read this book a number of times over the years. The first time I read it was perhaps in 1988. It has been over ten years and I have continued to watch this movement she identified as satanic ten years ago. Everything she said about them 10 years ago has proven to be true and this group of people isn't as secretive in 1999 as they were in 1988. It's much easier to keep an eye on them now than before, but I wouldn't have ever been alerted had God not stirred her up to write those two books. Thank you Constance Cumbey.
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Summary: I agree - it is the work of a sick mind.
Review: Contance Cumby really tapped into the paranoid conspiracy theorist type witch hunt mentality of some evangelicals with this group. She started a feeding frenzy which spread to the likes of Dave Hunt and Tex Marrs. This is filled with deceptive information and half truths.
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Summary: The Hidden Dangers of Inaccurate Reviews
Review: I am the author of the Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow. It was released in 1983. It was not released as erroneously reported on Amazon in 1985. I read some sales versions that claimed a Ron Rigsbee was "co-author." That definitely was not true. Ron Rigsbee wrote a book for Huntington House co-authored by Jim Bakker's former sister-in-law, Dorothy Bakker. He at no time had anything whatsoever to do with the writing of any of my own books. I stand by everything I wrote in HIDDEN DANGERS. Many things of which I wrote in 1981 and 1982 between the times I started and finished that manuscript have come to full fruition and with most of the same primary players -- David Spangler, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Shirley Maclaine, Mark Satin, Marilyn Ferguson, Findhorn Foundation, Club of Rome, etc., of which I wrote. Much disinformation has gone behind it. I was the pioneer. Pioneers get shot in the back. It's settlers who reap the rewards. It appears I started an industry from which everybody but yours truly has profited!
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Summary: The Hidden Dangers of Inaccurate Reviews
Review: I am the author of the Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow. It was released in 1983. It was not released as erroneously reported on Amazon in 1985. I read some sales versions that claimed a Ron Rigsbee was "co-author." That definitely was not true. Ron Rigsbee wrote a book for Huntington House co-authored by Jim Bakker's former sister-in-law, Dorothy Bakker. He at no time had anything whatsoever to do with the writing of any of my own books. I stand by everything I wrote in HIDDEN DANGERS. Many things of which I wrote in 1981 and 1982 between the times I started and finished that manuscript have come to full fruition and with most of the same primary players -- David Spangler, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Shirley Maclaine, Mark Satin, Marilyn Ferguson, Findhorn Foundation, Club of Rome, etc., of which I wrote. Much disinformation has gone behind it. I was the pioneer. Pioneers get shot in the back. It's settlers who reap the rewards. It appears I started an industry from which everybody but yours truly has profited!
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Summary: excellent author, excellent book..we need more from her.
Review: I read Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow when it first came out. I learned much from it and passed on the knowledge to others. The book was outstanding. Every sentence was filled with important, verifiable information, unlike many books which tend to give some good information and alot of unnecessary filler. Where has Constance Cumbey been? I read her second book as well and I'd love to read more from her. Her writings are stimulating, informative, and more importantly, necessary for every Christian in understanding the ploys of the enemy of our souls.
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Summary: Truth has a long shelf life
Review: Lets see. How emphatic can I possibly be in print? PS On the line - I'm born again Christian. I would recommend GREAT caution with this book. There are two principle reasons. Firstly, there are undoubtly several new age cults, all false, proclaiming all sorts of harmful nonsense. But I must stress that this book is an extremely poor source book for material relating to these cults. A much better series of books is to be found in the secular press, an example (light hearted, but very thorough) is "Everything is under control" by Robert Anton Wilson. The Cumbey book is very out of date, and probably has not been reprinted for this reason alone. Secondly, there have been in the last eight years a very large number of cults which are very difficult to distinguish from the mainstream churches, particularly in the American Mid West. These have their origins, oddly enough from the Jesus movement (which was very good at the time) of the early 70's. I was quite involved in this movement in England, and I can say that many good things happened there. But this movement generated some leaders who originated some seriously harmful cults - the Bradford Harvestime cult, for instance, which had its origins with the Boston Church of Christ and the Kansas City Prophets. These cults have been well exposed by Hank Hanagraaf, Tricia Tillin, and others. They almost certainly present a far greater danger than the cults discussed here for at least the fact that they look far more like the real thing... Strangely, the Cumbey book also passes over the extremely influential witchcraft and Satanism movements which have only paid lip service to the new age movements. These are increasing their membership roles quite alarmingly. Another mistake made in the book is to assume a seamless continuity between the sixties artistic movements in the USA and Europe and the UK, often known as the "hippy era", and the current new age movements. In almost all cases connections can be made, but these ignore the tremendous effects of a 20 year generation gap centred around the eighties. Such conections, moreover are nearly always spurious and don't have the hallmark of proper research at all. The recent phenomena of the faith movements' connections to American political lobby groups is far more relevant to serious researchers and academics (Christian and otherwise). Not a tracce of this is to be found in this book. Worse than all of this is the state of decay in the American mainstream Pentecostal Church. Having been brought up in the movement in Britain, I can only say that the content of doctrine in the church now, being wedded to appalling political ideology, is FAR more important than anything that this book purports to discover or reveal. The current state of affairs as regards the involvement of the gross compromise of the church itself is, from a biblical standpoint, the greatest evil that the world has ever witnessed since the creation, the bible makes that very clear. You would be better off, frankly, in getting some nice, new A4 paper, and working through an old book on plane geometry or algebra. At least that's REAL, and far more pleasing to God.
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Summary: Connecting All The Dots
Review: Open any book on the New Age Movement up, and if it's one that attempts to expose the dark side of the NAM, chances are that the author will site Mrs. Cumbey. That's because she was the first one to research the subject and make her findings available to the general public. Trying to understand NAM research without reference to Constance Cumbey is like trying to understand Egyptology without mentioning the Rosetta Stone. Cumbey connects all the dots. She links each major segment of the New Age Movement, along with allied groups, into a systematic whole. The story is alarming and unsettling. Cumbey's well-researched thesis(she took several years off from a busy law practice after stumbling upon the initial information) is that there is a systematic, organized movement, with many fronts, that seeks to reform the Earth and humanity along the lines of their utopian beliefs. Secular readers may wish to equate this with lower-order manifestations of power, such as world government ("The New World Order"), but Cumbey lays the responsibility where she, as a Christian, clearly saw that it belongs: with Satan. You will have a difficult time disbelieving this book, and events since it's publication in 1985 serve to confirm it's message and warning. -Lloyd A. Conway
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