Tuesday, March 11, 2008

A New Earth: Eckhart Tolle and Oprah

Beginning on March 3rd, 2008, Oprah and Eckhart Tolle began a free online course that will run for 10 weeks on Monday nights at 8pm on Oprah.com.  Live, viaA New Earth web cast and chat, Oprah and Eckhart will discuss a new chapter each week and take calls from the live Internet audience via chat, Skype, and email. Each episode is archived on the Tuesday following the live show, and can be watched free-of-charge at your own leisure - so if you missed the start and would like to get caught up with everyone, or, if you'd just like to see what the course is all about, go to Oprah.com and check it out for yourself. 'Chapter One: The Flowering of Human Consciousness' is an excellent introduction to the coursewith some great tips and explanation regarding stillness, being in the now, and really seeing things as they are.

Now, if you are at all familiar with the work of Dr. David R. Hawkins MD, PhD, it might be of great interest to you that Eckhart's book, 'A New Earth' calibrates at Consciousness level 480. This is a level which pushes the boundaries of the intellect, venturing forth into the abstract and nonlinear with the intent of harvesting a greater understanding of man's higher nature.

Given that the United States and Canada currently calibrate in the low 400s on the Map of Consciousness, the material being discussed on the program is still very accessible to the people who will be experiencing it - and if this is your first taste of Eckhart Tolle's work, his first book, 'The Power of Now' calibrates at about 555 on the Map of Consciousness and provides some excellent teachings which will surely build on those of 'A New Earth'.

What is most incredible about the course is the fact that it is so effortlessly assembling millions and millions of people to serve a highly spiritual purpose. Events such as this have the potential to create a field of positivity that can most literally change the world. I haven't quite finished reading the book yet, but I've no doubt that the sort of change that such a project could bring about is directly a reflection of the 'New Earth' that the book is speaking about. And it all starts with the Self - Becoming fully, that which it Is.

-Rob
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Anonymous said...

I am so greatful to Eckhart Tolle and Oprah for turning me onto Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor and her beautiful book ""My Stroke of Insight"". Her story is amazing and her gift to all of us is a book purchase away I'm happy to say.

Dr Taylor was a Harvard brain scientist when she had a stroke at age 37. What was amazing was that her left brain was shut down by the stroke - where language and thinking occur - but her right brain was fully functioning. She experienced bliss and nirvana and the way she writes about it (or talks about it in her now famous TED talk) is incredible.

What I took away from Dr. Taylor's book above all, and why I recommend it so highly, is that you don't have to have a stroke or take drugs to find the deep inner peace that she talks about. Her book explains how. ""I want what she's having"", and thanks to this wonderful book, I can! Thank you Dr. Taylor, and thank you Eckhart and Oprah.

1:14 AM, May 31, 2008

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