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05/20/2008
In my last life I was a tree ... a beautiful tree ...
Oprah terrifies me. The other day she had a psychiatrist on her show who "hypnotized" the audience so that they could "remember" past lives. Oprah and Dr. Mehmet Oz ("America's Doctor" and actual surgeon) looked on excitedly and gullibly.
The psychiatrist then hypnotized Dr. Oz, who said, "We don't have to advocate [the therapy], but we do have to evaluate it" and compared it to the once-new idea of doctors washing their hands before delivering babies. This obviously isn't a fair analogy because while bacteria were invisible to the naked eye, they could be perceived via the already-invented microscope.
And finally,
"Dr. Oz says he does feel like there is a collective unconsciousness out there. "I actually in my heart think that all of our minds are connected and all of these minds in history are then reflected, and we're feeding into this energy system that we can tap into. It's like karma. You can bounce into it. It bounces you back," he says. "So what I really think we want to do is challenge people to the belief and understanding that life is not as real as it seems. There's other stuff out there."
"Other stuff" is a matter of belief, but Dr. Oz doesn't present it that way. I certainly wouldn't want my heart surgeon thinking about collective unconsciousness and bouncy karma in the same way he thinks about my heart.
And she's doing another show on past-life regression on 6/17, which most likely means that past-life regression is going to become a new Oprah-induced fad that allows people to think (and make stuff up) about themselves. Granted, it's not as scary as the Nazi-philosophy-like The Secret, and not as elitist as her funding a school in South Africa that does little more than create an instant upper class, but it's still pretty damn stultifying.
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I saw this Oprah show once where she was giving away loads of cars and her audience were running over to these cars and people were crying and having fits, probably speaking in tongues... it was one of the most bizarre things I've ever seen
Posted by: squib | 05/21/2008
I suspect she's a cult leader who operates by giving people cars ...
Posted by: PrimroseRoad | 05/23/2008
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