21 December

This month we viewed a short film All You Need to Know about Angels, an Interview with Dr. Joy Philippou, President of Body, Mind & Soul International.
We do have an open mind and who is to say it is impossible, living is a miracle so why not another, although not persuaded that Angels exist we accepted that Joy is joyous through having the belief in Angels and a cosmic Christ who acts as a intermediary to God.
Her obvious health intelligence at an age that most of us are getting very tired she sparkles with a glow that is a testament to her faith.
We then went on to look at another person who claims to be enlightened A man, indeed, who was spiritually enlightened twenty years ago. Eckhart Tolle (pronounced Toll-ee) says that while “there are shifts in intensity”, he remains in the same state of “bliss and peace”. He no longer sits on a park bench but lives in a high-rise in Vancouver and teaches others how to attain enlightenment, among them Gillian Anderson of The X Files; Cher, who says he “has changed my life”; and Meg Ryan, who introduced Oprah Winfrey to Tolle’s first book, The Power of Now: A Spiritual Guide to Enlightenment. Last year, Winfrey chose the book for her Favourite Things show, saying she had read it eight times and keeps it on her bedside table. Sales skyrocketed: The Power of Now — with an original print run of 3000 — became No. 1 on Amazon.com and spent 20 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list, selling more than one million copies in North America. Released in Australia in 2000, it was still on the top 10 list this year, and has been translated into more than two dozen languages.

Not having time to see a film of his we just discussed his philosophy of living in the "now" by letting go of the ego, where the world is enshrined with the light of God. We are not sure that this is the state we ought to live in constantly although it may be needed each day to help centre our being.
I have read A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle and found it very "enlightening." It is in the Totton library

Will look at this subject again.