Does Eckhart Tolle and Oprah’s webinar contradict your religious beliefs?
Yesterday, Oprah did a show about the impact that her webinar with Eckhart Tolle is having. People from all over the world including someone serving in Iraq and a woman dying of cancer wrote in to say how Tolle’s book is providing them with peace during times of great stress and anxiety. A common question that came up is whether Tolle’s book contradicts religion. One response was that Tolle’s book helps people from all religions because it empowers people to experience and know their spirit or soul on a much deeper level. One commentator even compared Tolle’s book to adding honey to tea because Tolle’s book increases ones experience of their own religious beliefs.
May 30th, 2008 at 1:19 am
I am so greatful to Eckhart Tolle and Oprah for turning me onto Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor and her beautiful book “”My Stroke of Insight”". Her story is amazing and her gift to all of us is a book purchase away I’m happy to say.
Dr Taylor was a Harvard brain scientist when she had a stroke at age 37. What was amazing was that her left brain was shut down by the stroke - where language and thinking occur - but her right brain was fully functioning. She experienced bliss and nirvana and the way she writes about it (or talks about it in her now famous TED talk) is incredible.
What I took away from Dr. Taylor’s book above all, and why I recommend it so highly, is that you don’t have to have a stroke or take drugs to find the deep inner peace that she talks about. Her book explains how. “”I want what she’s having”", and thanks to this wonderful book, I can! Thank you Dr. Taylor, and thank you Eckhart and Oprah.