The Devil in Disguise: Steven Bancarz on How the New Age Masquerades as Light in a 'Spiritual' Culture

The Devil in Disguise: Steven Bancarz on How the New Age Masquerades as Light in a 'Spiritual' Culture

Author: Edifi Podcast Network October 28, 2025 Duration: 57:18

Jenn Nizza sits down with Steven Bancarz—once the creator of one of the internet’s biggest New Age platforms—to uncover the dark deception behind popular “spiritual” practices like yoga, meditation, and manifestation.

Together, they expose how the enemy disguises darkness as light, weaving demonic philosophies into everyday culture through wellness trends, entertainment, and self-help spirituality. Steven shares surprising research, biblical insight, and his personal story of deliverance from the New Age movement—showing why Christians must discern what’s truly behind these “harmless” practices.

Whether you’ve dabbled in the New Age or simply want to understand how to protect your faith in an increasingly spiritualized culture, this episode will challenge and equip you to see light and darkness clearly through the lens of Scripture.

Topics include:

  • Why “spiritual but not religious” beliefs are rising among Christians
  • The hidden origins of yoga and its ties to Hindu worship
  • What science reveals about meditation’s dark psychological side
  • How Satan disguises destruction as “peace, healing, and light”
  • Biblical discernment for modern spirituality


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Ex-Psychic Saved: Exposing Divination, New Age, and the Occult is a conversation grounded in a profound personal history. For twenty-five years, Jennifer Nizza was not just a participant but a teacher within the world of the occult, operating as a psychic medium and instructing others in practices like tarot, mediumship, and the law of attraction. That experience, which included a period of what she identifies as demonic oppression, gives her a unique lens. Her perspective was fundamentally altered when she left that life behind through a Christian conversion. This podcast is built on that dual reality: an insider's detailed understanding of New Age and occult systems, examined through the framework of her subsequent faith. Each episode delves into specific topics-from past life regression to automatic writing-not as theoretical concepts, but as practices she once lived and taught. The discussions aim to dissect their mechanisms and spiritual implications, offering clarity and warning from a place of firsthand knowledge. It’s a resource for anyone seeking to understand the allure and the risks of these spiritual alternatives, or for those who feel entangled by them. The Edifi Podcast Network presents these frank conversations, which move beyond surface-level criticism to a nuanced, often gritty, exploration of a hidden world. Listeners will find a blend of personal testimony, doctrinal insight, and practical discernment, all directed toward exposing what she believes are the spiritual dangers lurking within popular mystical trends. The tone is direct and compassionate, born from a journey out of what she describes as bondage and into a different kind of freedom.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 77

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