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| A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose (Unabridged) | 
 enlarge | Author: Eckhart Tolle
Publisher: audible.com
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1327 reviews
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 What it is and what it is not July 8, 2006
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
For the people who write "There are good ideas in it", have totally missed the point. What this book is is the tool for awakening to a new state of consciousness for those who are ready enough to understand his message. Once you understand the message and view the egoic dysfunction within you, as well as within everyone you meet, you'll see the epidemic proportion and urgency of the matter to relinquish the egoic state of conciousness. I see people here reviewing saying that Eckhart talks about reincarnation. Its as if they didn't even read the book. Eckhart says simply put that god is everlasting, and if you still havent understood what god is read this book. The consciousness that animates and sustains all things, the eternal 1 life that is so vast it can sustain all the myriad forms of itself, of which you me and even the pessimist reviwer are all part. Again, if you are looking for something to read so you can dismiss it as false this is it, as well as any book you pick up. However if you are ready to listen to an amazing teaching that can profoundly transform you and everyone around you this is also it. Please give it a read people, the world is in bad shape and in need of change and you are that all powerful being who can change it.
Amazing July 5, 2006
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This audio CD is a great addition to the Power of Now. It goes more deeply into concepts only touched upon in the Power of Now, and it also explains how to align one's outer purpose (life goals, career, etc.) with one's inner spiritual purpose. It also touches upon the outer purpose of the universe and grand meaning behind all that is. It's very enlightening.
Very good... for starters July 3, 2006
23 out of 38 found this review helpful
Mr. Eckhart Tolle's teachings are excellent for the Westerners who just begin to wake up not so much to the "true reality" as to the basic falseness of our existence. This is, of course, the most important first step in the right direction. Unlike many contemporary spiritual teachers, Mr. Tolle is not afraid to speak about the madness present in our psyches and in our civilisation, and it is very amusing to apply his analysis to the political correctness and the individual rights movement (which both show then their true colors as the ego-reinforcing, freedom-denying ideologies.) In this respect Mr. Tolle is providing a precious service which, however, is more easily accessible in, say, his "Stillness Speaks" than in the present volume.
In contrast to the Oriental (especially East Indian) exponents of Advaita Vedanta, its Western followers tend at some point to veer into the self-help mode. Mr. Tolle is no exception here as
evinced by his discourse on the pain-body. Ramana Maharshi would simply ask, "Who feels this pain-body?" and it would become immediately obvious that the right answer is "nobody". But perhaps Mr. Tolle's concern with such merely egoic concepts is a concession to the coarse human nature of the majority of his readers.
I am also rather surprised by Mr. Tolle's adherence to the concept of reincarnation (which term he seems to use as including metempsychosis.) Although still very much present in the popular spiritual culture, this idea has been convincingly debunked not only be Rene Guenon and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy but also - from a different perspective - by Ramana Maharshi and Nisargadatta Maharaj. With Mr. Tolle, however, this may be simply a wordplay since he speaks elsewhere about us "reincarnating" at every instance of regaining our consciousness. Even so, reincarnation - just like the pain-body - is a concept quite alien to the general metaphysical landscape of Mr. Tolle's teachings.
Another surprise, this time on the factual level, is his repeating the fallacious story about 2-3 million witches having been killed by the Church. This feminist fable has been proven untrue many, many times over (most recently during the Da Vinci Code controversy) and Mr. Tolle - usually very accurate in the matters of historical record - should really know better (the facts are: not 2-3 million but about 150 thousand, and not all women but 25% men; also, mostly not at the hands of the Catholic church but by the Protestants.)
Despite these shortcomings "The New Earth" is a valuable text for initiating a transformation of human consciousness at the most rudimentary level. Once this is accomplished, Ramana Maharshi or Nisargadatta Maharaj should be allowed to take over.
Eckhart does it again ! July 2, 2006
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
Words cannot do justice to this amazing and very important book.
There's good stuff in there July 2, 2006
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book has a lot of good ideas in it. It's written simply enough so if you are not a spiritual seeker or don't even know what that is, you can pick this up and like it.
The book describes how the "ego" works and what to do about it to be more at peace. Personally, I don't see Eckhart Tolle as "enlightened", he describes ways of purifying the "ego" and if you were to do everything he writes, you would be saintly, not "enlightened". I think "enlightenment" is a term thrown around too much in the spiritual world.
But anyway, if you like to read different ideas about why we're here, how to be in the present and at peace, this book is a non-quackish, interesting read.
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