The Church is there to protect me from deceptions and autonomous, independent interpretations, but it is not there to water down the truth that God wishes to speak to me, or to diminish my faith that his Word gives insight and direction. Fundamentalists do see God working in the ordinary everyday experiences-they pray, often successfully, for everything from parking places, to healings for their children, to financial concerns right down to the penny. It is in this very area that the Church can steal some of the fire of fundamentalism. Let the Church teach her children in the way they understand. This demands a submission of heart that keeps Satan out.
Devotion is no guard against deception.
Fervently wanting God is not enough when coupled with a disregard for the safeguards God has already given against deception. Fervent desire to accomplish a journey even when headed in the right direction is not enough to save us from grave accidents if we do not believe in the system of stoplights and refuse to obey them. There are Scriptural guidelines for many dimensions of life that the Catholic seeker wants to be put in touch with. This is inner psychological and outer physical healing as per Fathers DiOrio, Kelleher, McDonough and Scanlan, are often preliminary to the healing of the soul. Evil stalks the unsuspecting in astrology, New Age, etc.