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A New Earth | 
| Author: Eckhart Tolle
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd (UK)
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 313
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0141027592
EAN: 9780141027593
ASIN: 0141027592
Publication Date: October 31, 2006
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 A New Earth May 12, 2008
Excellent has clarity in writing style. Simple and to the point. Live in the Now.
You will find out on your death bed May 12, 2008
Enjoy your life! Or if you can't,find pleasures, buy stuff ,work hard ,make war ,win. Do it with your religions to. Then you get old, if you lucky. All starts to fall away.How much drama , pain and suffering you went trough. Then you are gone. Scientist found out that Earth , and life existed for millons of years. Humans for about 125 thousand. For all this time we tryed to figure out the Universe.What makes as beleive that we can? Eckhart and his book is a gift for humanity to ease their self created horrors. Hopefully it will help many before their lifecycle ends, so they can thank life for their existence. Only then they will understand what free will is. You will know the consequenses of your actions and thinking. Help yourself with this book, or dive into your painful pleasures without discipline.For those who are very clean inside, never get angry, judgemental, or very posessively loving , can work a hard day, rest under a tree, or have romance with knowledge and discover things; Start writing your book. Bless all of You!
 Snake-Oil Spirituality May 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As other reviewers have said, Tolle's work is vague, rambling, simplistic and ultimately nothing more than a clever marketing ploy geared towards an intellectually destitute bourgeoisie with too much time on their hands to spend thinking about themselves.
These criticisms have been covered well and so I will not go into them. What I would like to discuss is the way Tolle manipulates logic to make his "philosophy" seem infallible to the inattentive reader. One theme of the book is the idea that if you see flaws in or do not understand his work, then you simply aren't ready for enlightenment. Fine. Such may be the case, although one should be immediately suspicious of anything that cannot be understood unless it is also believed. Such a concept only places a roadblock in the way of inquiry and dialogue. But Tolle does not stop there. He goes on to say (somewhere around page 68, I believe) that the "unenlightened" not only fail to understand what he is saying but also the very nature of reality itself. He writes that the ego (read, "unenlightened person") cannot tell the difference between opinion and fact, that it totally blurs our perception of even the most banal aspects of objective reality (Tolle also seems to be confused as to where he stands on the issue of the existence of objective reality). Something most readers don't pick up on, but which is very much between the lines, is the implication here that no criticism of his work could possibly be valid, since anyone skeptical of it is confused and delusional anyway by mere virtue of being skeptical. It looks very much like Tolle is providing his believers with an easy answer to any criticism people such as myself may pose, and anyone who reads this passage and really stops to think about it will find it intellectually appalling and insulting. Even conventional religions, such as Christianity, Judaism and Islam, are at least honest about the fact that at a certain point in their logic everything boils down to faith. But Tolle seems to be trying to trick the reader into buying into the supposed infallibility of what he is saying.
Earlier on in the same chapter, he writes about the error of putting the "ego" in our assertions about matters of fact, basically giving the common-sense advice against becoming too defensive in a discussion. His thinking gets a little odd, however, when he implies that placing the ego in these statements actually changes the truth-value of the statement itself, as if objects and facts in reality morph in relation to how much ego we place in our statements about them. Also in the same chapter, while elaborating (to whatever extent Tolle ever "elaborates") on this idea, he places an interesting little kernel that serves the same function as the passage mentioned above: "The truth, anyway, needs no defense." True. The truth does not need to be defended for it to be true (if it is defended with too much ego, however, apparently it ceases to be true). But this statement in its context has another, more subtle implication: that any assertion we defend is automatically suspect by virtue of being defended. Here Tolle again seems to be protecting his believers from the influence of his detractors by cutting off all dialogue. So, when someone expresses belief in one of Tolle's many ridiculous ideas, and someone else replies with a defense of the true state of things, the latter person, by Tolle's logic, is automatically in the losing position in the conversation simply because s/he spoke up at all.
Even I must admit, Tolle is extremely clever. He has no doubt amassed a fortune by successfully tapping into the needs and desires of a culture of anti-intellectualism that has lost its spiritual grounding over the past few generations. I do not believe that Tolle is a pure cynic -I think he does believe much of what he says. But even if he were nothing more than a clever opportunist out for a profit, could you blame him?
Food for the Mind and Soul May 11, 2008
You need to take this bit by bit, slowly and refer back from time to time. An amazing piece of work.
Fantastic Read Makes So Much Sense May 11, 2008
This is fantastic read and makes so much sense but I think he is right if you are not ready the book won't make sense to you. I disagree with some written comments about him being into Buddhism, I don't think this is about religion period, that why this is so great finally freedom of spirituality!
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