Slice of Laodicea

Wednesday’s Oprah was a doozie as she featured New Age spiritual teacher, Eckhart Tolle. His bio on the back of his latest book reads, “Eckhart Tolle is a contemporary spiritual teacher who travels extensively, taking his message throughout the world.” No other info. Where did he learn his spiritual knowledge? Nobody knows, but millions of American women were spoon fed his New Spirituality poison yesterday on the show. Oprah was so pleased with Eckhart Tolle that beginning Monday, viewers can log onto Oprah’s website and sign up for a live webcast classroom that will take them through the book, a chapter a day. All classes will be taught LIVE each day by Oprah and Eckhart Tolle themselves. So what is the book? A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose. This is in addition to Oprah’s featuring of New Ager Marianne Williamson who is teaching the occult- channeled Course in Miracles.

I can sum up Mr. Tolle’s book very simply. New Agers believe conflict exists in the world because of our ego-based state of consciousness. We are “separate” because our “attachment to the ego creates the dysfunction that leads to anger, jealousy, and unhappiness.” The New Age/New Spirituality solution is “oneness”. That is what every New Age teacher alive preaches, the doctrine of “oneness”. Tolle, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Marianne Williamson, Neale Donald Walsch, James Redfield, all of them are teaching the same thing: the planet must awaken to a new state of consciousness to save the planet. It is not only needful, they teach, it is mandatory for the salvation of the earth. Those who object to this oneness are deemed to be, in the words of Barbara Marx Hubbard, a “cancer” in the body of humanity. (That would be you and me who believe in Jesus alone for salvation.)

That’s really it. That’s the whole sum and substance of Tolle’s book. This doctrine of “oneness” is being heard more and more, whether from Rick Warren with his call on Sunday for oneness between evangelicals and mainliners, whether it’s Jimmy Carter’s attempts to unite all Baptists, regardless of doctrine, or whether it’s the Pope with his interfaith dialogue and his calls for the reunification of the Eastern Church (Eastern Orthodoxy) with Roman Catholicism. If you listen, you will hear this call for unity grow louder and louder. An evangelical church, gutted by syncretism and ecumenism, will go along with these calls, and only those who refuse to disobey the Word of God will be viewed as threats to social order in our global society.

Thanks to Rick Warren, we have heard the word purpose ad nauseam. The New Agers have found this very useful. The purpose at work with Oprah and her glittering parade of New Spirituality prophets is to dethrone Jesus Christ and usher in a counterfeit savior who will lead mankind in a final planetary rebellion.