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| | A New Earth |  | Author: Eckhart Tolle
Publisher: Penguin Highbridge (Aud)
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1322 reviews
Sales Rank: 1246792
ISBN: 0786555394
Dewey Decimal Number: 291
EAN: 9780786555390
ASIN: 0786555394
Publication Date: October 6, 2005
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| Customer Reviews:
 More Wisdom from the Critics than the Expert November 5, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Ladies and Gentlemen who reviewed Tolle's latest with one star, just let me share that I gained more wisdom from your comments than anything of Tolle's I've read. You all sound like fine, balanced people and should get together and write your own book. Well done!
 a new earth November 2, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Very helpful, it has changed my life. I think anyone would benefit from reading this book.
I like this book ;) November 2, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
He's right. It's so nice to have some confirmation about things that I feel to be true. Especially things that cannot be explained (or explained away) by logic. Maybe this book is not for some others, but I can look back to when I was a little kid and know that I felt what he is saying to be the REAL TRUTH, even then. I started questioning my Catholic upbringing at a very young age and I started reading a lot of spiritual books, too. They confirmed some things for me, but I am (lol I have thought of myself as?)a thinker through and through and it's been very hard to give myself permission to let go of that. Scary, actually, as any of you who find value in this book can attest. His advice definitely also has practical application. Will it be easy to follow? I'm not so sure. I will try.
My husband loves it. November 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The book actually was not for me, but my husband. He's being through a difficult transition in his life. This book guides him very well. He said he loves this book, it's very interesting.
 The Wan Era (A Gnat Ran Siam) October 31, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I started to flip through "The Power of Now" because of the fuss about it at the time, and to my surprise I finished it easily. Here was someone who had been through a real and fascinating spiritual experience.
The teachings were simple and repetitive, but that's what works today: few people have the patience to unravel the complex, beautiful, elliptical spiritual teachings of slower ages. There was nothing new in them, but that was also good. Spiritual teachings aren't supposed to be new.
You are not your body or your thoughts; you are not any form that can be indicated. You are the timeless Presence beyond all this. The past is only thought: memory, regret, nostalgia. The future too is only thought: hope, expectation, fear. Presence exists only Now, in that instant finer than a hair that is yet vast enough to contain Eternity.
So the practice is to stay in the Now unfailingly. This is like Buddhist Mindfulness, but notice the crucial difference of aim. Buddhism teaches No-Self: the point of Mindfulness is to see that There Is Nothing beyond passing thoughts and sensations. Tolle, like Hindu Nondualists, teaches Presence: Something rather than Nothing.
But with This book I'm afraid he lost me. Hate to gloom everyone out, but I see no sign of a New Age, a Global Spiritual Awakening. Ask the people in Iraq, Palestine or Somalia about a New Age; ask slum-dwellers in Cairo, Delhi, Manila, Sao Paulo.
More important, why is a Nondualist telling us this? Why this interest in a Coming Age, in the future, in time at all? Whatever arrives is certain to depart again. What Is always Is.
When he began to describe the "pain body" I gave up. Scores of vague psychological entities have been hypothesised since the days of Freud: this is one of the least interesting. It's hard not to feel he's pandering to an audience absorbed in their own emotional lives and problems.
Try Hindu Nondualist teachers like Ramana Maharshi or Nisargadatta Maharaj. They are just as accessible, and they'll be around a lot longer.
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