A Shift for Oprah????

Oprah, what is up with you? I used to be a fan. When the show was the interviewing of celebs, discusssing how to make relationships better, how to look 10 pounds lighter without dieting, but Oprah seems to have really jumped on the New Age band wagon. First it was the promotion of the book The Secret, now it is the 10 week on line course of study on Eckhart Tolle's new book A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose.
Apparently Mr. Tolle is an "essential spritual teacher, the father of now" (whatever that means!). He wants to help us get in touch with the stillness within ourselves and discover what the greater purpose wants from me rather than what I want from the greater purpose. (Isn't that what we Christians call meditating on God's Word??) According to the book:
"Any life-form in any realm-mineral, vegetable, animal, or human-can be said to undergo "enlightenment." It is, however, an extrememly rare occurrence since it is more than an evolutionary progression: It also implies a discontinuity in its development, a leap to an entirely different level of Being and, most important, a lessening of materiality." HUH???
"Once there is a certain degree of Prescence, of still and alert attention in human beings' perceptions, they can sense the divine life essense, the one indwelling consciousness of spirit in every creature, every life-form, recognize it as one with their own essence and so love it as themselves." ALRIGHTY THEN.....

The goal of this book and Oprah's 10 week on-line class is to bring about a "shift in consciousness, that is to say, to awaken." BUT ( and I guess this is a very, Big BUT...)..."it can only awaken those who are ready. Not everyone is ready yet, but many are, and with each person who awakens, the momentum in the collective consciousness grows." YUP, I GUESS THAT WOULD BE ME.....ONE WHO IS NOT READY.

The scarey part of all this is the big following Oprah has. People tend to follow her blindly. If she promotes it , it must be good. YIKES!!

3If anyone teaches false doctrines and does not agree to the sound instruction of our Lord Jesus Christ and to godly teaching, 4he is conceited and understands nothing. I Timothy 6:3