Saturday, November 24, 2007
A COURSE IN MIRACLES ON OPRAH
Beginning January 1 one lesson from the workbook will be taught each day on the Oprah Winfrey show. According to the "Course in Miracles" website "The spiritual mind-training program of A Course In Miracles is a transformational curriculum in Self-realization." It's a course in pantheism and self-salvation. Marianne Williamson will be the instructor.
What next is Hollywood going to dish up for mass consumption?
Read a review of "A Course in Miracles" from a Christian perspective here, including
1. "If It's Not Love--It Must Be Illusion: Only love is real. All that is negative is illusion. It simply does not exist. If anything negative is in your consciousness, it is real only because you give it reality by holding it in your mind."
2. "The Problem of Evil: You guessed it, The Course also teaches that evil does not exist. It is an illusion that must be overcome by right thinking."
3. "The Problem of Guilt and Sin: A pamphlet published by the Foundation For Inner Peace states, "Sin is defined as a 'lack of love.'" [That sounds a lot too much like something that Benedict might have said in his encyclical. - ct]
4. "Thought-Reversal: The stated goal of The Course is to change how one thinks, to change one's belief system by subtle deception."
5. "Religious Recovery--The Thirteenth Step: Many who become involved in studying The Course are active in self-help groups such as Twelve Step programs. They are seeking to make connections in their lives and discover who they truly are. They are willing participants in this transformation."
Given the research I've done over the last few months, the following from the website doesn't come as any great surprise:
In 1965 a Jewish atheistic psychologist from Columbia University began to channel messages from a spirit she believed to be Jesus. She ultimately produced, or she says Jesus revealed to her, well over a thousand pages of revelation during the next seven years.
According to her testimony, Helen Schucman had a difficult relationship with her department head at the university. In an attempt to move beyond their differences, they set out on a journey to find a base of common agreement. Schucman began having "highly symbolic dreams" and experiencing "strange images." Her colleague encouraged her to transcribe the content of these phenomena so they might understand them better.
As she began to write, she was surprised to see "This is a course in miracles" appear on the paper. She went on to say that this was her introduction to the "Voice." This voice began to give her rapid inner dictation that she took down in shorthand.
Spirit channeling. Forbidden by Scripture. Old Testament.
Kenneth Wapnick, a Jewish agnostic who later became a Catholic monk, founded the Foundation for A Course in Miracles. Wapnick states that The Course and biblical Christianity are not compatible. He gives three reasons why he holds such a view. First, The Course teaches that God did not create the world. Second, The Course teaches that we are all equally Christ. Jesus is not the only Son of God. And third, The Course is clear in its teaching that Jesus did not suffer and die for man's sin.
Atheist. Jewish. Channeler.
How many Catholics are going to tumble when Oprah promotes it?
Is it totally out of the question to see hints of the anti-Christ in this? An anti-Christ who, according to the Early Church Fathers, would come from the Tribe of Dan?
And right at this critical time in history, the Church is about as weak as She can get, here in America She is anyway, thanks to the sexual abuse scandal that JPII ignored.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us!
