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| A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Oprah's Book Club, Selection 61) | 
 enlarge | Author: Eckhart Tolle
Publisher: Penguin
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Pages: 336
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ISBN: 0452289963
Dewey Decimal Number: 204.4
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Publication Date: January 30, 2008
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Book Description
The highly anticipated follow-up to the 2,000,000 copy bestselling inspirational book, The Power of Now
With his bestselling spiritual guide The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle inspired millions of readers to discover the freedom and joy of a life lived "in the now." In A New Earth, Tolle expands on these powerful ideas to show how transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only essential to personal happiness, but also the key to ending conflict and suffering throughout the world. Tolle describes how our attachment to the ego creates the dysfunction that leads to anger, jealousy, and unhappiness, and shows readers how to awaken to a new state of consciousness and follow the path to a truly fulfilling existence.
The Power of Now was a question-and-answer handbook. A New Earth has been written as a traditional narrative, offering anecdotes and philosophies in a way that is accessible to all. Illuminating, enlightening, and uplifting, A New Earth is a profoundly spiritual manifesto for a better way of life—and for building a better world.
About the Author
ECKHART TOLLE is a contemporary spiritual teacher who is not aligned with any particular religion or tradition. In his writing and seminars, he conveys a simple yet profound message with the timeless and uncomplicated clarity of the ancient spiritual masters: There is a way out of suffering and into peace. Eckhart travels extensively, taking his teachings throughout the world.
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 Buddhism repackaged April 14, 2008
444 out of 519 found this review helpful
This is an interesting book to review because I can tune in and see what is happening to people who read it and get a close up look at the author using his philosophy to answer questions. While I applaud Oprah for this novel approach to bettering the human race, I take issue with both this author and his book.
I read Tolle's first book and found it to be a boring rehash of Buddhism. Because Oprah was so high on his second I figured I'd give him another try and join the book club. I thought it would be interesting to see a book "in action" and discuss it with others. I even sent a copy to my sister who could use a bit of computer recreation since she now lives in a very small town. This book is better than the first in that it is a better compilation of Buddhist thought. However, it rambles constantly, draws conclusions from encounters that are not necessarily justified and the attitude of its author (who sees himself as enlightened and continuously "conscious" and egoless), is laughable. Tolle's vanity is nothing short of astounding. Buddhism isn't a pill, it is a practice and awakening has many layers. In spite of this, Tolle has tons of people saying that they have awakened. On one hand adherents claim to be valiantly battling their ego's while on the other they flaunt their "awakening", telling others who claim to be in serious pain to simply read page such and such or tell their "pain body," to effectively shut up and go away. Yikes!!! While it is true that you can't blame the messenger for what people do with the messenger (Jesus protect me from your followers!) Tolle adopts a similar attitude toward others on the streaming video. His dead pan delivery of jargon in response to questions does not impress me as enlightened or egoless. It might behoove him to remember that those Zen stories he includes in the book were once used by master to deliver highly specific teachings that met the needs of particular students. He has turned awakening into a race....to what I am not sure, but I do know that enlightenment is not a competitive event. A few months from now there are going to be a lot of people with one hell of a philosophical hangover caused by all those subconscious drives they never bothered to examine and thought they'd left in a dumpster somewhere.
I keep waiting for the day when someone writes a version of Buddhism for the working mom. I think that person should herself be a mother with at least one ADHD child. She should be clinically depressed and have a couch potato for a husband. If she manages to help the child grow into someone with a good marriage and a real profession, I'll buy all of her books. Unfortunately what we keep getting are philosophies created by self-satisfied, introverted, childless, hermits like Tolle. There is nothing wrong with an introverted, childless, hermit being self-satisfied. What is wrong is suggesting that his way of being represents THE path to enlightenment for everyone. I would say that all he has found in Buddhism is a treatment for his (self acknowledged) form of depression and suicidal thoughts. I am glad he is well and happy and wish him the best....but I won't buy anymore of his books because they are just Buddhism repackaged and linked to an attitude I am not fond of.
More egocentric drivel from Mr. Tolle February 12, 2008
146 out of 226 found this review helpful
Oprah fell for this latest nonsense new age babble from Mr. Tolle and made him a wealthy man. If you want to learn about yourself, read 'The Prophet' or anything by Kafka, not Mr. Tolle's mumbo jumbo. For reasons I now forget, I read Mr. Tolle's 'The Power of Now' and had to use all of my present moment energy to get through that one, which was at best a minor attempt at intellectual depth. I decided to give him another chance since, well, if it is in Oprah's bookclub, it must be brilliant. How could a greedy ego-maniac like her be wrong? Bottom line: 'A New Earth' is stupid. Don't waste your time or money. And if you want to learn about flowers, buy a book on Garden Design. Or better yet, read this excellent suspense novel: Drachman's Dilemmas You will gain insight you did not know you had.
 A very odd book by a very odd man February 1, 2008
138 out of 188 found this review helpful
What I find simultaneously most fascinating and infuriating about Tolle is his failure to grasp the fundamental contradiction of his book, as well as the New Age movement as a whole: that you cannot discount the role that the mind itself plays in life, even when (maybe especially when) you're claiming to have found a new and exalted level of consciousness or supposed inner meaning. There is no escape from the conscious and especially the subconscious mind; it is always active, and in fact may be heavily influencing Tolle's own sense of his inner being, even when he himself doesn't think so! Also, Tolle's explication of his concept of The Now is absurdly simplistic and out of sync with the realities of modern geopolitical living. Consider that he once replied thusly to an interviewer's question about how he (Tolle) would've handled 9/11 and the response to same: "I don't know what I would do, because I can only know what is right in an actual situation which demands a response. It's very hard when you look at hypotheticals." Ah yes, but the whole concept of preparedness and contingency planning is based on hypotheticals and the ability to step out of Tolle's beloved "Now" so that one can gain the benefit of experiential learning (i.e. the past) and planning for the worst (i.e. the future). So what is Tolle going to do when an emergency blindsides him and he suddenly realizes that--in his perpetual state of Now-ness--he didn't plan for it? It's absurd. This book is manna for the masses--telling people what they want to hear--and as one who has intensively studied the New Age movement, I urge you to pass on it. [...]
An alternative to Christianity, where God is Me February 27, 2008
124 out of 210 found this review helpful
Simply enough, Tolle's book is so attractive and popular because it removes the distractng reminder of a God who loves us enough to die for us, but who also loves us too much to acquiesce when we deliberately choose to spend Eternity apart from Him. Follow Tolle's philosophy and you'll break the second commandment; namely, you'll make a god in your own image (yours!) God wants for us what Tolle's book supposedly offers, but He is the only one who can get us there.
 Some good points made, but not a keeper for me March 1, 2008
110 out of 129 found this review helpful
I have mixed feelings about "A New Earth". While I thought some very good points were made, I didn't find it easy to read because the style of writing is so dense. Many of the ideas that Tolle presents are not original (e.g. how we interpret people or events is a result of our own thoughts or egos, we must strive to live in the present moment), but they are still well made and thought-provoking.
Some parts of the book do get hard to follow. While Tolle acknowledges this, he also tells us that if we find the book incomprehensible and meaningless, it means that we have not begun the process of awakening - i.e. any fault is with the reader, rather than it being down to the writing.
My main criticism of this book is that I didn't find it of much help in a practical sense. Tolle talks a lot about how you can effect change in yourself by bringing awareness to situations. This has not been my personal experience - while I agree it's the first step, I think sometimes we need a little more "how-to" guidance if we are to make real change. Often when I was reading this book I'd think: "wow, that's such a great point he's just made", but then it would get kind of lost as the book moved on. And ultimately it comes across as being a bit selfish. This idea that your spouse may leave you and your friends may drift away when you achieve spiritual growth, but that's all for the good.
To get the most out of "A New Earth", you probably want to read it slowly and let each chapter sit with you for a while before moving onto the next. Even better, have someone to discuss it with as you go and help you to explore the apparent contradictions e.g. when Tolle says on one hand that you don't want to dwell on the future but stay in the present, and then on the other hand he says that you must have a goal or vision that you are working towards. There is definitely a lot of interesting material in here, but I have found other books to be more accessible and useful.
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