“For “A New Earth“, Winfrey wanted to do more: “Many people aren’t that familiar with spiritual growth. They might need some help at first with the languaging of new consciousness and things like that. So I thought, “Wouldn’t it be great to have classes to help people through the process?’ “
Tolle, 60, says from his home in Vancouver, British Columbia, that the online sessions, each of which lasts about 90 minutes and is webcast from Winfrey’s Chicago studio, won’t be “formally structured but will evolve spontaneously.”
He says his philosophy, which includes Buddhist, Christian and Islamic influences, is “not like academic study with new information you have to absorb. Rather, it’s about uncovering what’s already in you, getting at that deeper level.”
Faith is not the issue
He says he’s not offering a religion or a set of beliefs, but appeals to people of different faiths or “no faith at all.”
He notes that when his career as a “spiritual teacher” began in Britain more than 20 years ago, “I taught in people’s living rooms to audiences of 10 or 20. Now, I feel as if it’s come full circle. I’ll be back in people’s living rooms, just a lot more of them.”
Tolle, who was born in Germany, underwent his own spiritual transformation in 1977 – from suicidal despair to inexplicable bliss – while working on a doctorate in literature at Cambridge University in Britain.”–USA today article, ‘World is Oprah’s Classroom, March 3,2008.
More on Tolle (Author of ‘New Earth’):
“Some 25 years ago, the German-born Tolle, 55, looked inside himself during a middle-of-the-night spiritual crisis. An intense bout of self-questioning led him to experience a mysterious surge of energy, drawing him into sleep.“The next morning I woke up, everything seemed fresh and new and had an aliveness to it,” he recalls. This resulting “shift,” as he calls it, gradually transformed a Cambridge University researcher into a contemporary spiritual teacher whose ideas have spoken to many, including one influential follower named Oprah Winfrey.” Source: Belifnet article, ‘Distilling the Divine in Stillness.’
And now, Oprah is launching an online course with metaphysical teacher Eckhart Tolle based on his book The New Earth: Awakening to Your Soul’s Purpose. In Tolle’s earlier book, The Power of Now, he teaches that we are “God”:
“Don’t get attached to any one word. You can substitute ‘Christ’ for presence, if that is more meaningful to you. Christ is your God-essence or Self, as it is sometimes called in the East. The only difference between Christ and presence is that Christ refers to your indwelling divinity regardless of whether you are conscious of it or not, whereas presence means your awakened divinity or God-essence.” (p. 104) [bold added]
Oprah on her XM Radio Program is teaching “A Course in Miracles” for one year. Here are some of the teachings in ACIM:
- “There is no sin. . . “9
- A “slain Christ has no meaning.”10
- “The journey to the cross should be the last ‘useless journey.’”11
- “Do not make the pathetic error of ‘clinging to the old rugged cross.’”12
- “The Name of Jesus Christ as such is but a symbol. . . . It is a symbol that is safely used as a replacement for the many names of all the gods to which you pray.”13
- “God is in everything I see.”14
- “The recognition of God is the recognition of yourself.”15
- “The oneness of the Creator and the creation is your wholeness, your sanity and your limitless power.”16
- “The Atonement is the final lesson he [man] need learn, for it teaches him that, never having sinned, he has no need of salvation.”17
“Oprah and Friends” To Teach Course on New Age Christ--article by Warren Smith
‘New Earth’ selling at record pace, thanks to Oprah
So What’s the Big-O’-Idea? So what if Oprah is an admitted New Ager? The only problem with it that I see is that she is leading people down the road to destruction and eternal Damnation. Myself being a Christian, a born again believer in Jesus Christ the Only Begotten Son of God, have a concern regarding Oprah’s far reaching claws. How many of our daughters and sons watch ‘the Big Give?’ How many of the ladies at church watch Oprah in the afternoon? How many of our School Bus drivers listen to the Pod Cast of her XM radio show? How many Pastors know that Oprah can reach far more of their congregation than he? Now I know Oprah is Big! but the Lord God of Israel is bigger! and our Lord can save despite Oprah’s (or should I call a spade a spade and dare say-Satan’s) attempt to lead people astray. Just be aware of people and of the Principalities and the Powers behind things. Test the Spirit (1 John 4:1) Alert your mission field to this perverse abomination. Be comforted that Jesus Christ is who He said He is and take hope in knowing Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ has the victory won on the cross!
*This article is posted with the attempt to shed light on the Apostasy taking place.I pray you have been educated as well as informed and then prompted to Pray fervently and seek God in everything. His Word is coming true before our Eyes:
Matthew 24:5
For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will deceive many.
2 Timothy 3:13
But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.
2 John 1:7
[ Beware of Antichrist Deceivers ] For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
2 Thessalonians 2:3
Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition,
1 John 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1 John 2:22
Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.
Oprah’s Target Audience is Women, Women between the ages of 20-40 years of age, Women who are stay at home moms, Retired Women, Young Women, it is for this reason I find it highly applicable to share the following scripture:
2 Timothy 3:1-7
1 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! 6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Father I pray for those women who have stumbled upon this article, that you would protect them form the strongholds of the enemy. Father, cause those who find this article to search your scriptures for themselves. Any Christian Sister who is reading this and did not know Oprah’s denial of you I pray that they would stop listening to her and seek after you! Help them Lord to return to your truth. Give them knowledge and understanding of your word, that they would not be forever learning and lacking understanding when it comes to you and your word. I pray for Oprah too Lord, that you could cause a mighty and holy transformation of her heart. Cause Oprah to Repent of the blasphemies that she is teaching. Lord I ask that you would exercise your perfect will in Oprah’s life. Amen.
