addiction to food. This time I think it is more a symptom of a LifeQuake. The crisis part of the seven stages of a LifeQuake are the labor pains of the soul birthing itself into its next level of evolution. I think who Oprah Winfrey has been is being called to die and be released to an even bigger self. I think her soul is crying out to bring the content of what she allows herself to talk about on her radio show into broadcast television. Yes, she has had Eckart Tolle on and Michael Beckwith and Elizabeth Lesser but there is a bigger mandate and it is to help people understand that the chaos we are in is part of this evolutionary leap in consciousness. Many people are coping by turning to addictions and distractions.
A reporter interviewing me asked me last week what my thoughts were on newlyweds cruising internet dating sites. Supposedly, one million people who are married a year or less had come to this one site last year. This shocked even me and I thought I’d heard it all. My point here is that the rise of addictive, compulsive behavior is a part of this birthing process. It doesn’t have to be that way. There are people (I interviewed some of them for my book) who recognize that their lives are not working satisfactorily and they do something about it. They don’t numb themselves out, but the large majority of people are dragged to their destiny after a lot of trauma and drama.
Back to Oprah. Oprah did a show where her staff showed how they were putting in her schedule more down time to get a manicure, to have time for lunch, etc but nowhere did I hear anything about solitude, meditation, contemplation, stillness as something they were putting into her schedule. Now, I know she believes in these things. She’s