Spiritual Deception: Livin’ in the GurUSA

By David Kyle Foster

In this excerpt from his autobiography - Love Hunger - David tells the story of his experience following Guru Maharaj Ji during the heyday of cults in the 1970s. Follow him as he jettisons a seven-year acting career to follow the guru before finally finding Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemene in Israel.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: David Kyle Foster
• Release date: Jul 20, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005520380

David Kyle Foster

Dr. David Kyle Foster (M-Div - Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; D-Min - Trinity School for Ministry) is the author of Love Hunger: A Harrowing Journey from Sexual Addiction to True Fulfillment, The Sexual Healing Reference EditionA Biblical Guide to Finding Freedom from Every Major Area of Sexual Sin & Brokenness, and Transformed Into His Image: Hidden Steps on the Journey to Christlikeness. He has served as adjunct professor at Asbury Theological Seminary, The Bible Institute of Hawaii, Trinity School for Ministry, Logos Christian College & Graduate School and the Wagner Leadership Institute. His articles have appeared in numerous journals and magazines and he has been a guest on countless television and radio programs at home and abroad - witnessing to the power of God to set anyone free from anything. David has spoken on five continents for ministries such as Youth With A Mission, Ellel Ministries and others. He is also the founder and director of Mastering Life Ministries, producer of the “Pure Passion” TV program (www.PurePassion.us) and producer/director of the award-winning documentaries, “Such Were Some of You”, "How Do You Like Me Now?" and "TranZformed: Finding Peace with Your God-Given Gender". Making his home in the Nashville, TN area, David loves hanging out with Jesus during the Autumn in a quiet mountain cabin and being in the company of people who can’t stop talking about how much they love God.

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Spiritual Deception: Livin’ in the GurUSA

by David Kyle Foster

An excerpt from Love Hunger by David Kyle Foster

It was a night that was impossible to forget. Sitting alone on my bed, legs crossed in the lotus and hands formed in the Gyan Mudra positions, I began to meditate on Holy Light. By now, I was quite proficient in this technique and could quickly bring to my awareness the light that shown within. It was my favorite of the four techniques of meditation that had been revealed to me by the Guru because it was the most supernatural in its effect. I loved to bathe in the light and meditate on the belief that it was the pure essence of God Himself. I had also been taught that it was my purest essence as well, and that the ultimate goal of meditation was to become so one with the light that I would lose my identity and merge into it, thus gaining the consciousness that I was one with it.

Of course, on this night I didn’t expect anything different than the normal blissful experience that I had grown use to having during the meditation, but was I ever in for a shock. About 40 minutes into the meditation, I suddenly moved from observer to subject. In other words, I suddenly merged into the light and became one with it. My individual identity ceased and became one with the light. On the one hand, it was a bit frightening to lose my individual identity, yet on the other hand, the experience was one of complete bliss and peace. Without warning or expectation, I had achieved nirvana and was suddenly experiencing the incredible experience of God-consciousness that gurus spent their entire life pursuing. This, of course, was a spiritual deception from the dark side. For even Satan himself masquerades as an angel of light. (2 Corinthians 11:14).

A Gathering in Malibu

My close relationship with Jerry, the well-known Malibu playwright, went on for years. In truth, I needed his approval as a father figure. I also treasured the recognition of seeing – and of being seen by – the coterie of genuinely talented people that surrounded him.

When July 1979 came around, the day before my 28th birthday, I called him and asked if I could spend the night on his pool deck. My hunger for love was insatiable and my thirst for spirituality was intensifying. Someone had told me that the spiritual energies on that particular day were powerful because of the full moon and some kind of a spiritual convergence. In my emotional misery, I was trying explore the depths of life since the heights had proven so disappointing. At first, Jerry said no, because he had other plans. But uncharacteristically, I insisted.

While I was there, a Malibu surfer named Don came over to visit. He was a young kid and I assumed that he was another of Jerry’s boy lovers. He was very nice and enthusiastic and upbeat - a refreshing change from the jaded Hollywood crowd. He and Jerry were leaving to go see a video about an Indian guru - Maharaj Ji. As an afterthought, Don invited me along, too. I told him I didn’t want to go see no tape about no guru! Then Jerry mentioned that they were going to Timothy Gallwey's house. That caught my attention. Timothy Gallwey was the author of one of the biggest selling books at the time called Inner Tennis. I hadn’t even begun to stop chasing the great and the near great, so I went along.

Maybe, I thought, somebody will make a movie