Could be, yet, I actually believe NDW was actually having channeled conversations with God, which would be from whom Gotama got it in the first place. The premise of the book (Conversations with God, Book One) is that God told him to take out a yellow pad and start writing...I don't read any new age spiritual gurus, yet that book I read cover to cover in 2012. I've never read any of the umpteen books he wrote afterwards. That book was the first yellow brick in my road to spiritual awakening