New Age Spirit Guides Down Wrong Path

Posted by owner on August 4, 2008

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New Age Spirit Guides Down Wrong Path

July 2, Durham, N.C.  Joy Suzanne Johnson was arraigned in Durham County court today on multiple charges of “instigating and encouraging” her husband, Joseph Scott Craig, who has been charged with rape, forcible sexual offense, three counts of second-degree kidnapping and two counts of assault with a deadly weapon. The July 1st headline in the Raleigh N.C. News and Observer announcing the arrest read, Jolting tales surface of satanic rituals.
    Johnson, an official in the Durham Democratic Party and vice chairperson of the local Young Democrats, is a partner with her husband and Diana Palmer, first vice chairperson of the local Democratic Party, in Indigo Dawn, a company whose web site offers private instruction in channeling, spirit guide communication, intuitive guidance and other occult practices.
    On the web site Johnson explains the significance of the Indigo Dawn name. She writes, “Indigo children are born with an indigo aura. Indigo children are crucial to bringing about the New Age. Indigo is the color of the third-eye chakra, which represents psychic ability and clairvoyance.”
    Former co-workers of Craig were shocked at the charges, which included forcing a man into a dog cage and terrorizing him for hours, as well as the second-degree rape of a woman. The News and Observer quoted one acquaintance who said, “He wasn’t walking around chanting or anything. He was a normal person.” Another acquaintance agreed. “You’d see him wear black pants and a T-shirt with weird stuff on it, but it wasn’t that different.”
     For background, see archived articles on >Spirit Guides >New Age >Indeterminate Demonization >Moral Impact of the Occult
July 3, Durham, N.C. Leaders of the Church of Satan, founded in San Francisco, denied any association with Joy Suzanne Johnson and her husband Joseph Scott Craig, who have been charged in Durham County Court with crimes which included second degree rape, kidnapping, and assault with a deadly weapon. While the pair, and a third party charged Wednesday, Diana Palmer, are partners in a New Age business called Indigo Dawn that offers various occult services, Church of Satan officials say neither Johnson nor Craig are members.
    According to her attorney Mr. Palmer, who is also first vice chairperson of the Durham Democratic Party, “vehemently denies any association whatsoever with a satanic cult.”
    In the same article in the Raleigh News and Observer, long time friends of Johnson are reported to have noticed “changes” in Johnson, a 1996 graduate of Raleigh’s Millbrook High school, after she met Craig. A new acquaintance of the couple who met them after moving into their neighborhood two weeks ago remarked, “I know a lot of people who think they’re shams and go to shamans. It doesn’t mean they’re in a satanic cult.” .For further background, see archived articles on >Satan worship >shamanism