"What started off as studying turned into practice," Bancarz says. Tarot card reading, meditation, lucid dreaming, astral projection—he ate it up.

"Christianity seemed naive and childish, and I used to look down on Christians as being thoughtless and intellectually inferior."
 
As he progressed, he became one of the more popular New Age figures on social media. 

What threw a wrench in his philosophy, though, was how Jesus saved people from the brink of death. 
 
"In the back of my mind, I was like, 'OK, there's something unique and different and special and pure and holy about Jesus.'"
 
Yet he pushed forward in the New Age movement, using social media to spread his spirit science message.  

Bancarz thought that by teaching New Age doctrine, he was helping humanity. But still, God nagged him. (Screengrab via YouTube)

"I used to think God was the energy of the universe... ," Bancarz said. "I understood (Jesus) as someone being self-realized, who realized His unity with the divine and that He was calling us to do the same. I thought Jesus was someone who'd ascended to His own inner-god nature."
 
Greed and materialism fueled his motivations, though he felt unfulfilled.
  
But as his life began to implode, he began to... 

Click here to watch a video of his riveting and very moving testimony.

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