A New Earth, Ancient deception: An evaluation of Eckhart Tolle‘s A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose

By Marcia Montenegro (page 1 of 3)
Written April/May 2008

From Oprah Winfrey‘s Television Show, April 9, 2008:

A woman in the audience says that even before she read Tolle, she had come to believe that Christianity is about “Christ consciousness,” and that to be “fully human” is to be “Christlike.” She believes this is what Tolle is teaching.

Oprah responds, “Yes, I’m Christian, too, and I got that a long time ago. I mentioned this also that in this book called Discover the Power Within You, by Eric Butterworth, where he talks about the Christ Consciousness. And up until then, I was like you, Margy, I thought Jesus came, died on the cross, that Jesus’ being here was about his death and dying on the cross, when it was really about Christ coming here to show us how to do it —- how to be — to show us the Christ consciousness that he had, and that that Consciousness abides with all of us. That’s what I got, that’s what I got.” There is applause and then a commercial break.

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Eckhart Tolle’s bestselling book, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose (NY: Plume/The Penguin Group, 2005), gained high profile when Oprah Winfrey initiated an online study of the book in March 2008 with Eckhart Tolle and Oprah hosting. A New Earth sold more than 3.5 million copies in the first four weeks after it was added to Oprah’s book club. The online group reportedly involved 2 million people. Eckhart Tolle lives in British Columbia with his girlfriend, Kim Eng.

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