I just think it’s so amusing and appropriate that A New Earth is receiving huge press and generating enormous sales since Oprah chose to use the book for her first webcast bookclub.

I wanted to post here my weekly newsletter from Dec. 19. I had just returned from the Chopra Center workshop in Colorado and for some reason decided to pull the New Earth CDs from the shelf. I had read the book about a year earlier, but didn’t really get it. When I began listening to the CDs I realized it was exactly what Deepak and David Simon had been teaching at the workshop. I couldn’t stop listening!

Obviously, there is some sort of cosmic consciousness at play. The Chopra website has put it up as a “book they are reading”, and, or course, the whole Oprah thing.It’s just kind of cool to watch these things happen. Cool and beautiful. Please read the book!

(Original email from Dec. 19, 2007)
Hi All,
So I’m listening to Eckhart Tolle’s CD of his book A New Earth. I read it when it came out a few years ago, but for some reason I decided to listen to it this week. I feel like I never read it – this is amazing stuff that maybe I wasn’t ready to hear… It’s all about the EGO. The tricks it plays on us, trying to take over, making us think something is there when it’s really not (love, hate, anger, anxiety, stress, etc.). I laughed out loud this morning while listening to him talk about the collective ego as it applies to the work place:

“A collective ego manifests the same characteristics as the personal ego, such as the need for conflict and enemies, the need for more, the need to be right against others who are wrong, and so on…It’s members will experience the suffering that inevitably comes in the wake of ego-motivated action. At that point they may wake up and realize that their collective has a strong element of insanity. It can be painful to wake up and realize that the collective you had identified with and worked for is actually insane.”

I really can’t comment on this as people I used to work for may be reading this. But isn’t it marvelous!?