I'm curious. What motivated you to read all his books and watch numerous CDs? I can't say much about Oprah, but I've seen, read and listened to enough of Tolle and others that have been around him that he does "walk the walk." Should he be a full-time hermit? I'm really not sure what people expect him to do or not do in terms of writing and/or public appearances.
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QuotecspI've been involved in spiritual pursuits for decades (both eastern and western) and have read all of Mr. Tolle's books and watched many hours of his videos looking for any sign of insincerity or fraud. I've found none whatsoever. Believe me I've been witness to many, many frauds over the years, but Mr. Tolle is not one of them. I'm also a researcher in the field o
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Great post, DTE. Ego-Death is completely ridiculous in the modern world. If you are a monk in a cave, or a rich New Age Guru who likes to play-act...then fine. But the rest of us mortals would like to keep our wonderful Minds which are a miracle of Evolution. The human mind is a fantastic thing, its not the enemy. Its possible Tolle's mental illness which was driving him to suicide,
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Google "Tolle, A Course in Miracles". Interesting results.
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"left_of_the_dial": Have you read this entire thread? I must admit, I haven't done so myself recently, but I'll get to it when I can. I did, however, read this account on this thread, which you might find interesting: It may be possible, too, that people here, when they use the word "ego", have different definitions of that word in mind. It is very popul
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DownToEarth, have you read the threads here about The Secret? THE SECRET thread There are also threads about A Course In Miracles...ACIM. ACIM is just ridiculous, I had that book years ago. There are also threads here about Abraham-Hicks. The Hicks are just old-fashioned carnival barkers, out to make money money money. Its interesting that Oprah has said the public isn'
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You know, on my way out of the new agey cult-type stuff, Eckhart Tolle was THE thing that gave me the biggest push...OUT the door. Yes, ironic, eh? I had tried to read The Power of Now quite a while ago, and not only could I not get into it, but I actually felt very negative about it. I stopped reading it. Then I heard about Oprah's big endorsement of "A New Earth". The book
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Quotehelpme2times Hi chick, I don't know if there's any direct connection between Byron Katie's approach and the Sedona Method. But there does seem to be an indirect connection, which you've pointed out... that the application of each method might result in disassociation. I actually read a Sedona "book" a while back, but to be honest I don't recall one da
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Oprah is pumping A Course In Miracles again. looks like Marianne Williamson has a XM radio show on A Course in Miracles. Marianne Williamson new book is The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife. More A Course in Miracles
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Oprah has promoted "A Course In Miracles" for a long time, and I have seen posts here about ACIM. Here's a search. Oprah will probably be doing radio LGAT courses on The Secret soon, if not already. And maybe Scientology next week too. I don't really see any evidence that Oprah believes any of these things are anything other than desirable and profitable.
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Quotejust-googling And both the Skull & Bones Society and the Bohemian Grove are both associated with ancient Egyptian symbols and other satanic-type images that would make the average Christian frown. And the burning of human effigies seems definitely anti-Christian and very cult like -- not the kind of thing one expects from powerful politicias, huh? While there is much junk-food conspir
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Yes, he says he is married to her : Aren't they a match according to the principle of karma ? QuotepauliztarzaIsn' t she the lady married to this shaman fella : www.poweranimals.com If you have a dog, this fella shall tell you how you can spiritually connect to it. I expected to find out how to ask German Shepard lady out for a date but then realized it's j
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Isn' t she the lady married to this shaman fella : www.poweranimals.com If you have a dog, this fella shall tell you how you can spiritually connect to it. I expected to find out how to ask German Shepard lady out for a date but then realized it's just the devil doing his stuff. Louise Hay is allright for self-help and support. I was surprised to see she had this animal pr
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IdahoKat: A Course In Miracles itself is just a set of books with no organization controlling it, although there are some mind-control groups that may use ACIM in their "teachings" so he may be in with a mind-control group or he may just be friends with current like-thinkers. If he's in a mind-control group you will find him intolerable. Even if he's deeply into the ACIM ind
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QuoteRhonyThank you to everyone who responded. I need time to think about each response and digest it. I will read at least one of the books recommended - can't remember the name right now but will go back to the forum and get it and read it. Actually, most of this belief has been presented to me from a Course in Miracles class and not so much by the pastor at this point. It's h
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Thank you to everyone who responded. I need time to think about each response and digest it. I will read at least one of the books recommended - can't remember the name right now but will go back to the forum and get it and read it. Actually, most of this belief has been presented to me from a Course in Miracles class and not so much by the pastor at this point. It's hard to exp
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QuoteshimonI did look at amazons book reviews for hawkins latest book, Devotional Nonduality and I only saw 5 reviews, and all five of them gave it the highest marks, and highly recommend the book. QuoteDevotional Nonduality (Discovery of the Presence of God) Amazon.com Sales Rank: #105,018 in Books I took a look at the Amazon reviews. Here is a sample: QuoteMay 11, 2004 By John Cole (Dallas,
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QuoteshimonI just found out that Hawkins cancelled his europe schedule for Hay House and will be issuing refunds. Ah darn, those europeans wanted to see Hawkins and see his ktesting in person...Phoenix Potter if you can find out why he cancelled his european schedule I would find that interesting. According to Hay House in London: QuoteDue to health reasons David Hawkins has had to cancel his ta
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QuoteshimonI was wondering if you could share more about what the ACIM teachers said about Hawkins. Both teachers of A Course in Miracles that I specifically wrote with independently stated they believe applied kinesiology and his calibration system are complete nonsense, that they tell anyone this who asks and have told a number of people, but that they did not wish to write on it publicly at th
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Andrew Paterson wrote to me in December of 2006 a rather prophetic statement which at the time I asked if I could quote here. QuoteThe bottom line is that Hawkins' weakness is his method of determining absolute certainty. By linking his philosophical worldview to AK he lays himself open to testing and contradiction. This works for a short time until those tests are done. Most other cult l
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This is rather amusing. Hawkins has been criticized by fellow Dr. Wayne Dyer-endorsed Hay House author Gary Renard in his book Your Immortal Reality: How to Break the Cycle of Birth and Death. Renard purports to have had conversations with two "ascended masters" who come from the future named Arten and Pursah...(Yes, Hay House will publish anything, provided it is just crazy enough.)
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There are a lot of dangerous products in the market right now and one very deceptive writer is Doreen Virtue whose Ph.D. is from a degree mill in California. Virtue's claim to fame is that she is teaching the world how to work with the angelic realm. Her trademark product is called Angel Therapy which is about working with one's angels to manifest what they want. Wow ... in the Holy Bib
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For all those Doreen Virtue fans and ex-fans .... there is another author whose going down the Doreen path. Both were once beautiful sweet souls whose greed has dimmed their once wonderful gifts as they start their own religion the way Marianne Williamson did. The Facts Speak for Themselves: Sonia Choquette's Ph.D. in metaphysics is from the American Institute of Holistic Theology which i
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The Facts Speak for Themselves - Sonia Choquette's Ph.D. in metaphysics is from the American Institute of Holistic Theology which is unaccredited. She attended the University of Denver and the Sorbonne in France but from what I gather ... did not receive a certificate or diploma or baccalaureate. In Diary of a Psychic I recall her stating she dropped out of Denver and worked as a flight atte
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After some consideration, I've decided to share some things about Doreen Virtue that I experienced, for the most part, directly. Here goes... I became a Certified Spiritual Counselor (aka "CSC") upon completing just three weekends of training with Doreen Virtue in the late 1990's. To say that the training was superficial is an understatement. :lol: Interestingly, after
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The set-up would be I imagine similar to those study groups based on A Course in Miracles. But the teacher had been trained to teach it or something I think, it was not a dicussion group, but a taught course of exercises and meditations. This lady and perhaps some others were running this course at several venues in my city alone at that time, (about 6 years ago) so I imagine there was a simi
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Hawkins states on his web site: QuoteJust as Einstein’s Theory of Relativity was the hallmark of scientific discovery, Dr. David R. Hawkins’ discoveries are the E=mc2 of human consciousness research and spirituality. And at Wikipedia: QuoteMy personal concern has to do with alignment with the highest good which is served by verifiable integrity…That all discoveries have had their detractor
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QuoteIsnt there just a hate mentality behind much of the criticism. I dunno. Did you press on a person's arm and that is what the arm said? If so, I won't argue with you. I know AK is absolutely true... QuoteIF someone had truely uplifting messages and put them in a book and wanted to publish them, then would every cycnic cry out - cult! Hawkins fits objective criteria for estab
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I understand the questions over his degree but it might be a little naive to rate him based just on that. When I consider the man's list of credentials I am give pause to think that perhaps attacking every little nuance can shut one off from seeing other things. Anyway, I found this on the website and I expect most of it can be varified by people interested in the truth of them. (see
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What follows does not apply to any particular group or cult, but this section of the board seems to have the most activity, which is why I am writing here. Moderators - please feel free to move this, trash it, etc. as you see fit. It won't hurt my feelings... First, my confession. I feel that I was, for a while, an (unwitting? unwilling?) accomplice in the perpetuation of many of the
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