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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That’s why it resonates with her. She was supposed to be named ‘Orpah’, but her parents couldn’t spell. According to her.
LOL! I always loved that quote of Norms.
Here’s mine:
Life is a dog and I am the fire hydrant.
How about:
You are a dunce and life is a duncer?
Life is a prance and you are the prancer?
Life is a trance and you are a trancer?
Life is a poop and you are the pooper?
Thats all folks!
Life is the windshield and you are the bug.
Whatever Oprah is, she is a capitalist, which is more to say for her than her boy toy Barry Hussein Obama. When Uncle Jeremiah started preaching Marxism, she evidently let her FEET do the talking. That is a quite a question, Oprah why did you leave Wright’s church while Barry saw fit to stay? Unfortunately, the only one talking is Barry who keeps “mangling” his remarks. Too bad, we cannot hear from Oprah and Barry’s Uncle Jeremiah.
Actually your, “Life is the dance and you are the dancer”, makes more sense, but who am I?, just a bitter-bit$h from fly over country.
Oprah’s been invovled for a while wiht (if not in) New Thought. She practices a somewha eclectic spirituality.
She has promoted “The Secret” and she is promoting Tolle. Conservatives like Sean Hannity are reading “A New Earth” and recommending it. And “The Power of Now” is an excellent, well-received book (again, hannity-recommended.)
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
Emphasis mine.
No, life is an ocean and we are the drops of water.
Well, yes, and vice versa.
We are teh deliberate, intentional expression of God.
I am alive as Spirit and Spirit is alive as me.
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