Family constellations are practised everywhere today, especially according to Hellinger. I have literally been urged by people to include this practice in my lecture. Again and again I have encountered people who report nightmares, depression, anxiety and unfulfilled promises after participating in a so-called constellation. This practice of family constellation is carried out as a complementary procedure by life counsellors, alternative practitioners, management trainers, motivational coaches, positive thinkers, by astrologers, health practitioners, homeopaths and reincarnation therapists, even sometimes in Christian homes.
The majority of the providers, writes author Colin Goldner, have made themselves graduates in family constellation. Most of them neither have the qualification to practise healing nor any legal authority to do so. A vast range of offers for this can be found, and preferably on the esoteric psycho market.

Thereby, the esoteric ideas are clearly expressed. In the small print of an advertisement for participation in a course, a constellation practitioner writes: By participating in the course, you declare yourself able and willing to take full responsibility for yourself during the course and not to derive any claims from possible consequences. Recently a participant told me while standing in the so-called "knowing field" that he was suddenly a different person. What is going on there? Why does it lead people into a practice that is expected to solve conflicts, quarrels, fears, mental distress, i.e. problems of all kinds, even illnesses, and perhaps even to heal them? Is it not things things that have produced sin, guilt, and a life against divine laws and directives! How else could they be healed or solved than by God Himself. What exactly happens in the energetic space of the so-called "knowing field" of a constellation is interpreted differently.

Bert Hellinger himself says: there is nothing else to do than to perceive, guided by a great soul, inspired by the energy field of a "knowing system". A constellation practitioner formulates the "knowing field" as follows: a spiritual force is at work here, which we may assign to the spiritual world, we may be sure that this "something" does not work out of us, but through us. We make ourselves receptive to this "something", this "something" goes along with us and stands silently and discreetly by our side. We are allowed to serve this "something" and are then gladly grateful for it. And she continues: "Here lies the secret of constellation work, in wanting to trace things back which we rightly shy away from.

A "knowing field", in which cosmic and energetic powers are supposed to work and bring about solution and healing, belongs to the magical religious world view. It totally contradicts Christian teachings and pastoral care. Other names and terms for the "Knowing Field" are: Akasha, Tao, collective unconscious, morphogenetic field, psi-field etc.

Another statement of a constellation teacher: If someone is reluctant to admit preconceived ideas, I work explicitly with their unconscious mind using trance and visualisation techniques and enable them to go back into trance in order to get back in touch with former attachment situations and feelings of attachment. Specifically, I was told by a constellation practitioner that the spirits of the deceased are expected to participate. Necromancy is forbidden in the Bible. I put a big question mark behind whether it is really the spirits of the dead.

There are also homeopathic systemic constellations. Here we speak of three structural levels: Regular family constellation, patient constellation and medicine constellation. There are reports of states of cramp during the constellation, which are then relieved with the help of homeopathic high potencies. There are already constellations for children. There are also reports of constellations inspired by the occultist Sai Baba. These constellations, it is said, lead to the desired success in a few minutes. A practice used by some psychotherapists is called "systemic family therapy". Here the living members of the patient's family are re-enacted. It is said to work differently from the Hellinger constellation, i.e. without the "knowing field" and necromancy. I have been told that in this therapy the participants perceive the feelings of others and that negative burdens are taken over, especially by sensitive people. This practice is not advisable either.

Constellations according to Hellinger are also associated with Reiki, astrology, family constellations in the horoscope, self-awareness and consciousness expansion courses, kinesiology, antroposophy, chakra reading, hypnosis, tantra seminars, tantra massage, shamanism, rebirth therapy, and channelling. Channeling is intercourse with spiritual beings, with entities from the spiritual world, i.e. necromancy.

Deuteronomy 18:10-13: "There shall not be found among you any one who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, any one who practices divination, a soothsayer, or an augur, or a sorcerer, or a charmer, or a medium, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord."

In the Holy Scripture in the Old Testament, King Saul commits this offence against God's commandment and he and his sons had to suffer the consequences of this action. I once again draw attention to the fact that we experience our deliverance and healing through God by trusting in Him, by turning to Him in prayer, in the prayer of deliverance. This is what Christian seminars and retreats are appropriate for. Any other action leads us into a new attachment and burden and we need new ways of deliverance and detachment.