Posted on 04/17/2008 10:59:02 AM PDT by kingattax
Oprah Winfrey may have gone too far in exploiting and distributing the teachings of a questionable New Age writer.
On Monday night, Winfrey conducted her weekly Web "event" seminar with New Age writer Eckhart Tolle. His message: "Life is the dancer and you are the dance."
Got that?
The seminar was No. 7 in a series of 10. On the first 90-minute Webcast with Tolle, Oprah extolled the author’s virtues, calling his best-selling "New Earth" book "one of the most important books of our time," the seminars one of "the most exciting things I’ve ever done."
Imagine that Winfrey considers her conversations with Tolle, a man with a shady and un-checkable background, more important than her schools in Africa and Mississippi for underprivileged children, more important than her Angel Charity network or her zillion-dollar syndicated TV show. Tolle must be something else!
But it’s not like Winfrey is endorsing Maya Angelou or Toni Morrison, serious, educated artists with portfolios. Tolle is more like Kilgore Trout, Kurt Vonnegut’s science-fiction crackpot alter-ego.
And what’s different about the Tolle connection for Winfrey is that for the first time in her much-applauded Book Club’s history, she’s gone into business with the author. And the author is not one of a novel, memoir or cookbook; he’s the mysterious creator of a philosophy that Winfrey endorses and suggests her readers live their lives by.
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Oprah is proof that having a lot of money doesn’t mean having brains.
it appears that obama has employed the same successful “oprah” model of mesmerizing the masses.
Life is a ham sandwich and I am hungry.
Don’t think so, because, the only weapons they’ll have will be expensive kitchen appliances. No, wait, I’m getting them confused with the Martha Stewart cult. Maybe they’ll be armed with rolled up copies of “O” magazine and the latest books from her book club.
Life is an ocean......we are bobbers.....
being mindless is a prerequisite for being an oprah groupie and a member of the church of the holy mother oprah the divine.
Life is the fortune cookie, and you are the piece of paper with a trite philosophical statement and some lucky numbers on it.
“I am the Keeper of the Cheese and you are the Lemon Merchant.” - Ren and Stimpy
On Monday night, Winfrey conducted her weekly Web "event" seminar with New Age writer Eckhart Tolle. His message: "Life is the dancer and you are the dance."
No way. It's obvious that the correct message is: "You are the dancer and life is the dance."
Don't found your cult on a silly mistake, Oprah!
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Life is a colon, I am a fart.
Or, to quote Geo. Gobel
‘Life is a tuxedo, and I’m a pair of brown shoes’
Great modern art perspective: color photo montage of the beard. What about photo montage of: Oprah, Lindsey Graham and Charlie Crist, entitled: I am here and I am Queer./Just Asking - seoul62......
Oprah IS a cult. just like Obomba
But wait! Call now and we will send you a second helping of BS for the same donation and .... a Whopping third helping!
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