{"id":12389,"date":"2008-06-03T07:26:49","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T13:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=12389"},"modified":"2008-06-03T07:26:49","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T13:26:49","slug":"the-gospel-of-o-dan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=12389","title":{"rendered":"The Gospel of O! [Dan Collins]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not of Obama, in this case, of whom Karl treats, below, but of Oprah.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Oso Famoso of the Catholic blog, “You Are Cephas,” describes Oprah’s endorsed spiritual practice “Gnosticism rehashed for the American housewife.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

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Oprah’s XM radio show is promoting a year long study into the New Age Cult Book “A Course in Miracles.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Each day for 365 days the listeners will receive one lesson from the book. For example, Lesson #61 tells each person to repeat the affirmation “I am the light of the world.” Lesson #70 teaches the student to say and believe “My salvation comes from me.”
\nA Course in Miracles teaches its students to rethink everything they believe about God and life. The Course Workbook bluntly states: “This is a course in mind training” and is dedicated to “thought reversal.” And which “thoughts” does the course seek to reverse?<\/p>\n

For starters:<\/p>\n

1) There is no sin.
\n2) A “slain Christ” has no meaning.”
\n3) Christ is in our minds.
\n4) The name of Jesus Christ is but a symbol…a symbol that is used to describe all the gods to which we pray.
\n5) God is in everything I see.
\n6) The Atonement teaches the lesson that there is no sin.
\n7) The era of the “single savior” is over.
\n8) It is foolish to cling to the \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201crugged old cross.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p>\n

It is important to note that these teachings aren’t really new. They were dealt with firmly by the Catholic Church thousands of years ago. It is also important to realize that this book, “A Course In Miracles”, was written by Helen Schucman in 1975 and she claims that she received the revelation from the book from an inner voice in 1965 named, “Jesus.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I recall that inner voice, too, from about 15 years later, but I called it “acid.”<\/p>\n

Oprah can believe any kind of ridiculous trash she wants, and she can peddle it, too, as far as I’m concerned, though I am among those who will object to her calling it a form of Christianity, but this is of a piece with other creeds that she has peddled that are compatible with most celebrities’ self-understanding.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 To sum that up: their success is due to their cosmic value, which is in turn a function of their uniquely graced insight.<\/p>\n

This is why Sharon Stone is capable of attributing a deadly Chinese earthquake to the cosmos’ karmic dissatisfaction with China’s Tibet policy.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 It is how Al Gore can straightfacedly attribute a rash of hurricane activity to AGW.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 It is no different from the idiocy of pastors stating that New Orleans flooding is due to God’s unhappiness with homosexual coddling and loose mores in general.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 In short, it is to make a religion of infantilism.<\/p>\n

This isn’t the only craptacular newageyness being peddled by Oprah:<\/p>\n

Eckhart Tolle and <\/strong>A New Earth<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Lundgold states that with each shift, the needed tools are given. Two years before the shift into Galactic Consciousness, Eckhart Tolle published, The Power of Now<\/em>. With a comprehensible approach to spiritual wisdom, Tolle described a simple way to relieve stress and drama. Focus within, follow the breath, feel the body, achieve detached observation and inner peace. He drew many readers and a large audience for workshop presentations but worldwide interest would take another book, 11 more years and the endorsement of a major, trusted celebrity.<\/p>\n

Tolle says the idea of A New Earth <\/em>arose from the stillness as a new way of presenting his message. The title, from the Book of Revelations (John 21, verse 1: \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cAnd I saw a new heaven and a new earth\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d), contains the promise of better times. The book explains that the next evolutionary leap is a shift in human consciousness itself. Releasing the grip of the ego mind to allow a higher understanding paves the way to Conscious Co-creation. Tolle\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s book is a powerful tool to prepare for the shift into a new heaven and earth in 2012. The overwhelming response to Oprah\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s endorsement shows that human consciousness is ready.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Most kids understand that X-Men is fantasy.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Then there’s Oprah,\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0the millenarian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not of Obama, in this case, of whom Karl treats, below, but of Oprah.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Oso Famoso of the Catholic blog, “You Are Cephas,” describes Oprah’s endorsed spiritual practice “Gnosticism rehashed for the American housewife.” Oprah’s XM radio show is promoting a year long study into the New Age Cult Book “A Course in Miracles.” Each day for 365 days the listeners will receive one lesson from the book. For example,<\/p>\n

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