A New Earth (Oprah's Book Club) | 
 enlarge | Author: Eckhart Tolle
Publisher: Dutton
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Rating:  1432 reviews
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Pages: 315
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Dewey Decimal Number: 204.4
Publication Date: April 10, 2007
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"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."
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 rambles on and on July 1, 2009
Paul Gehrman (San Francisco, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I give this book two stars because I agree with the basic premise that people should embrace the present moment. The problem is that the author repeats this basic idea over and over. While certainly some repitition is justified in order to get the point across, the repetition here rises to absurd levels. I think this book could've easily been written under 100 pages, but then, alas, it would be difficult to sell. Paul Gehrman, Author, Kaleidoscope
 Oprah and Eckhart Tolle are promoting anti-christian doctrine! June 30, 2009
C. Lyles (Coeur d'Alene, ID)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Barack Obama's connections to Oprah Winfrey and her New Age guru, Eckhart Tolle, are the least examined, yet most revealing, and by far the most potentially ruinous of the senator's controversial associations. Obama claims to be a "committed Christian," yet appears to support Oprah in the worldwide dissemination of Tolle's and her virulent anti-Christian doctrine.
The closeness of the connection may now be paying off. Oprah has rejected the idea of having Republican Vice Presidential candidate Gov. Sarah Palin as a guest on her show before the election. Palin would seem a natural. Did Oprah put Palin aside because of her loyalty to Obama?
And who is Eckhart Tolle? According to his own account, after a childhood of trauma and a young adult life of despair and depression, Tolle, at age twenty-nine, experienced a psychic split in his personality during which his ego or his false, suffering-self collapsed, leaving him with the realization of his "true nature as the ever-present I am, consciousness in its pure state prior to identification with form." Not long after that, he entered into what he calls his "new incarnation as a spiritual teacher." Believe it or not, Tolle thinks that he has become the greatest living spiritual teacher on earth by overcoming "egoic delusion."
Oprah accepts Tolle's doctrine completely and promotes it globally with a fervor unmatched in her other pursuits, so we may call the foundation of their joint venture, the Oprah/Tolle doctrine. But what exactly is it?
According to Tolle, the Sacred Scriptures (the apostle Paul's term) are no longer sacred, having lost their essence, power, and inspiration. Tolle himself is now the ultimate interpreter of all things spiritual. Tolle's words, not Christ's, "contain a great deal of spiritual power." Tolle's books, not the Bible, are "spiritually alive."
The Oprah/Tolle doctrine says that God the Father is a worn-out phrase disguising the true "it" behind all things: "universal intelligence," in and of which, Tolle and Oprah imagine they partake abundantly. Jesus Christ is not the Son of God, but rather a "rare" human being, in contrast to the stoic Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius, whom Tolle describes as an "exceedingly rare" human being. The second coming of Christ is not at all what the scriptures describe, but rather "the transformation of human consciousness, a shift from time to presence, from thinking to pure consciousness, not the arrival of some man or woman." According to Tolle, when Christ spoke of "salvation," He actually meant "enlightenment," more specifically, the "radical transformation of human consciousness."
If we were to put the Oprah/Tolle doctrine into the form of a bumper sticker or a sound bite it would be this: "Forget Christ and the Bible. Believe Tolle and Oprah." In short, the Oprah/Tolle doctrine makes a mockery of Christ and all of scripture.
The false teaching inherent in the Oprah/Tolle doctrine is bad enough. What makes it a thousand times worse, egregiously reprehensible even, is the fact that Oprah tells the lie of lies about it. She introduces her online class presenting the Oprah/Tolle doctrine by asserting that it "is not for or against any religion." Not against Christianity? For the purpose of grasping the destructive violence that the Oprah/Tolle doctrine does to Christianity, picture the complete word of God as existing on baked clay tablets. Now visualize Oprah and Tolle taking sledgehammers to them. Those who seek to obliterate the very foundation of Christianity are not against it?
On Oprah's Web site, next to the words, "This online class is not for or against any religion," she has placed an image of the spire of a Christian church with a cross at its top. How much more morally corrupt could Oprah be?
The Oprah/Tolle doctrine asserts that "[a] significant portion of the earth's population will soon recognize, if they haven't already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die." Oprah and Tolle, in their own minds, have "awakened" and "evolved." Oprah sees Barack Obama as having "awakened" and "evolved" as well. In South Carolina, Oprah called Obama "an evolved leader who can bring evolved leadership to our country." This suggests that Oprah, who describes her relationship with Obama as "very, very personal," knows the senator to be one who subscribes to the Oprah/Tolle doctrine.
At a UCLA rally, Oprah said, "I'm just following my own truth, and that truth has led to Barack Obama." Oprah's "own truth" is the anti-Christian Oprah/Tolle doctrine. Is the real Obama the Obama Oprah knows?
In Iowa, Michelle Obama said that Oprah had touched her soul and empowered her. How so? Through the blatantly anti-Christian Oprah/Tolle doctrine?
Is Obama a "committed Christian" as he claims, or is he on board with Tolle and Oprah in their global anti-Christian crusade? Or, as a third explanatory possibility, is the Tolle-entranced Oprah, "the richest and most influential woman in the world," not the Oprah Obama knew?
Tolle describes those who embrace his teaching as being "not for `my' country but for all of humanity, not for `my' religion but the emergence of consciousness in all human beings, not for `my' species but for all sentient beings and all of nature." Sound familiar? Are those the values we want in an American president? Time magazine called Tolle's book, The Power of Now, so much "mumbo jumbo." Even if you're not a Christian, do you want a president whose vision of the American future is based, to any degree, on Tolle's mumbo jumbo?
 The ONE book I would want if on a deserted island! June 28, 2009
Kathleen M. Diehl (Arizona USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been on my own conscious spiritual/metaphysical journey for over 16 years, and have read a plethora of books on these topics. Eckhart's book, "A New Earth" is my current all-time favorite. If I had to choose just one book to read while stranded on a desert island (something that sounds very attractive, actually), this would be the one.
Why? Because it contains a depth to it that is so far beyond mere words. It is one of those books that I can read over and over, and feel almost as if I am reading it for the first time. Its wisdom is spans every level of spiritual development. I believe it is one of those rare books that has a message for each person who reads it, as well as new messages for me each time I revisit it.
I also own the audio version, which I love even more than the paper book. I find Eckhart's voice to be slow, relaxed, calming and soothing, such a nice change from the harried and hurried readings of other books on the market. Indeed, to listen to him speak is, for me, a meditation. I often play the CDs while laying in bed at night, allowing myself to fall asleep to them, ensuring a deep restorative peaceful sleep and often some insightful dreams as a bonus.
I am grateful to Eckhart for being such a living example of Presence, and of living life beyond the ego-mind. His words often come back to me in the midst of certain circumstances. Sincerely, Kathleen M. Diehl, author of "The Collective Awakening." The Collective Awakening: Messages Along the Path of AwarenessI
A New Earth June 28, 2009
Allie (Los Altos, CA)
I strongly recommend this book for everyone. Regardless of who you are, you will be enriched by the author's message and you will have a deeper understanding of YOU and your life's purpose.
I did not like it at all. June 26, 2009
Mrs. Claudia Robinson (texas)
The book did not turn me on.I thought it was more interesting,but I can always regift it............
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