Lorber's New Revelation study circles

Domain XIV · Western esoteric, divinatory & new spiritual movements · Jakob Lorber · 1840 · Graz, Austria

What it is

Lorber was a Graz violinist and music teacher. In 1840 he turned down a post as Kapellmeister in Trieste because an "inner voice" (innere Stimme) called him to write down a kind of new revelation. Followers and scholars date the call to 15 March 1840. He experienced the voice near his heart and…

Format

• The circles have no published phase structure, grades or initiation. The framework below is for the therapist's work and is. No source gives session counts, so none are stated. The pace is set by the client's goals.
• Format: ordinary individual sessions.

Evidence status, as the guide reports it

• Evidence status (one line). The claim that the texts were dictated by Christ is a matter of faith. Church research bodies and historians treat them as religious literature of their time. There is no empirical test of the claim.

Questions to explore with your client

• What drew you to it, and what are you hoping it will change?
• Does it involve any substance, plant preparation, remedy or supplement? Has your doctor or prescriber been told, especially about any medication you take?
• Does it involve fasting, a special diet or 'detox'? Have you discussed this with your doctor?
• Is it a group, retreat or community? How do they respond if someone wants to leave or raises a concern?
• How do you and the practitioner understand what is happening, in spiritual or cultural terms? Is that a source of comfort, worry, or both?
• Who runs it, and what training or registration do they hold?
• What actually happens in a session or meeting, and how often?
• What does it cost, and is there pressure to commit to more?
• How do you feel afterwards, in the hours and days that follow?
• Does it fit with, or clash with, the work we do here?

What practitioners of it watch for

• depression after leaving, loss of support, and fear-based returns.
• missed medical care, restrictive diets in growing children, and isolation from peers.
• delayed diagnosis, weight loss or restriction, and children's care being affected (see 4.13).
• growing isolation, all decisions referred to texts or messages, and dependence on one circle member's interpretation.
• the client trying to recruit you into the reading, or asking you to judge whether a message is authentic. Decline gently and explain why.

When to involve someone else

• New or worsening physical symptoms, or advice to stop or change prescribed medication: involve the client's doctor or prescriber.
• Signs of coercion, isolation from family and friends, escalating costs or secrecy: discuss openly and consider safeguarding.
• A crisis or thoughts of suicide: follow your crisis protocol. In the US, call or text 988; in the UK and Ireland, Samaritans on 116 123.

Drawn automatically from the guide's own sections. Stay curious: neither endorse nor dismiss what the client values, and check anything that matters against the full guide and its sources. Not medical advice.