Customer Reviews
Erm! - By: Nel, 16 Sep 2008 
I found this too wordy & deep for a simple soul such as myself however I did as advised on the Oprah site & sat with 2 marker pens in different colours to underline that which I understood & that which I didn't. Needless to say one colour got a heck of a bashing!!
I've given it 3 stars though because I did actuallly get some reallly good bits out of it which I jotted down on the spare blank pages at the back (in my own words so I would understand later) & for that it was worth reading/buying.
What I am most chuffed about however is reading a review by Paul Chipperfield (lower down) recommending Cheri Huber's book which as he said is much kinder to us mere mortals & he is sooooo right!! Cheri Huber writes in a way I can understand & access reasonably easily - challlenging still but achievably so!
Nice one mate!
A New Earth - Best Book Ever!! - By: Mrs. Jennifer De Brye, 04 Sep 2008 
Dear Reader, if you only read one book in your lifetime, let this be the one. It is a must read for anyone ill or in hospital too. It's happy & uplifting. It will lift the the spirits & leave even the terminallly ill in blissful peace. I am speaking from experience. 'Your presence (presents) is PURE JOY. Jennifer
There are better books out there - By: T. Young, 03 Sep 2008 
Reading this pretentious, sensationalistic, overblown book makes me want to dry-heave & at times a little sick actuallly came out my mouth from its eye-watering, vomit-inducting passages like.....
'By the end of the century, the number of people who died a violent death at the hand of their fellow humans would rise to more than one hundred million... we only need to watch the daily news on television to realise that the madness has not abated, that it is continuing into the twenty-first century. Another aspect of the collective dysfunction of the human mind is unprecedented violence that humans are inflicting on other life-forms & the planet itself.. blah blah'
You get the message. We are doommmmeeeeddd!!! Having to wade through scaremongering sensationalistic crap like that is annoying to say the least. The style of writing is like reading sheet from The Sun.
I did give it two stars because there is something behind this book. The concepts are drawn from Hinduism & particularly about understanding the ego, self, self-realisation & self-awareness. I guess the good thing is that at least it does get the message across to the new age masses. But personallly, I would go straight to the source from where the author get these ideas from... The Bhagavad Gita, The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi, books by Swami Vivekananda etc etc.
super book - By: Mark S. Huber, 02 Sep 2008 
Great one for the spiritual sceptics , stick with it there is something for everyone in here . Personallly reccomended to a few friends something in here for everyone but if your reading it you probably dont need it , if your in doubt go check out the "is that so" chapter at the book store
A big ego writes about ego - By: Dreamcatcher, 12 Aug 2008 I was given this by someone who saw Oprah raving about it & bought two copies in a state of excitement. I thought that the first three pages were quite good then was extremely disappointed as the rest went no further than to rehash Buddhism. My overriding concern is Tolle's continual denigration of the ego & his attempts to persuade us that if we could just annihilate any sense of being an individual or having individual thoughts or preferences we could alll acheive permanent bliss. In fact, if we alll followed this advice we would alll coagulate in one big splurge of mush as no one would be alllowed a personality at alll.
This kind of spirituality feels very uncomfortable. I have always believed that the ego is a misunderstood beast & gets very bad press in New Age circles. We each represent a shard of God, here to express & experience our uniqueness & to evolve the whole while understanding we are part of the whole to which we will return following death. In addition, Tolle's regurgitated & extreme trashing of the ego is incongruent given that he benefits from the proceeds from a whole range of products, from calendars to cards, emblazoned with his name. No ego there then!
This book feels like a quick attempt to jump on the coat tails of his previous book and, for me, offers nothing new. I am sure this will do very well for the Eckhart Tolle franchise but am concerned about the cost to anybody who adopts this philosophy without understanding that 'God' the Universe or whatever you believe in gave us the ego for a reason. It enables you to find who you are & what you stand for. There is nothing inherently spiritual about voluntary self anhihilation. Even the Dala Lama left Tibet rather than adopting a stance of staying put & being 'meek' in the presence of danger. It isn't a New Earth it is a rehash & it doesn't say what it says on the tin 'awakening to your life purpose' should read 'putting your life purpose to sleep as it doesn't exist.'
