En ny jord : nuets muligheder og livets mening (2005)

A book exploding with wisdom. One I will read again... with a fuller review. ( )

Yeah, I guess I’m not ready for enlightenment or awakening. I quit. ( )

La oportunidad de construir un mundo nuevo y mejor, supone una revisión radical del papel de la consciencia, identificada con el propio ego, que debería convertirse en el instrumento de una comprensión distinta y más profunda de quiénes somos.
Para que esto ocurra, las mismas estructuras de la mente humana necesitarían experimentar una transformación. Tolle nos muestra como puede producirse dicha transformación, no solo en nosotros sino en el mundo que nos rodea. Nos describe minuciosamente como actúa normalmente nuestro ego y, a partir de ese conocimiento nos guía de manera muy práctica hacia la nueva consciencia, que nos llevará a la experiencia de nuestro ser más profundo y nos permitirá descubrir que somos infinitamente mejores de lo que pensamos.
Mensaje profundo e inspirador. Si queremos que la humanidad y el planeta sobrevivan, el despertar espiritual no es ya una opción sino una necesidad. ( ) ( )

Fantastic. This will go on the "Books to read several more times" shelf. Came to it from Dan Harris's 10% Happier with the scepticism Harris conveyed about it. I think he was too harsh. The talk about frequencies is strange but when you're discussing hard to nail down topics, you use whatever language you can. The science behind taking it literally is less important than the general message. I learned a great deal from it. ( )

I did a read-then-skim on this one. It's got some valuable insights in it, but I don't enjoy the presentation. It's something of a jumble of philosophies distilled for a wider audience, which is fine---like I said, valuable insights---but I'm not sure there's much for me than I've already gotten from years of mindfulness and NVC. At this point, I'm looking for something meatier. I would prefer to go to the works of the philosophers themselves and build from there.

Aside from the Oprah feel to this book, I dislike how Tolle occasionally oversimplifies to the point of inaccuracy (e.g., when he wrote that crime had increased dramatically in the past decades, which the data don't support). And then there's the incongruity of having a book about letting go of ego that has a giant picture of the author on the back cover and his name in type larger than the title on the front cover. I do my best to judge the message rather than the vessel in which it's presented, but the extra-large font size is difficult to ignore. ( )