A New Earth, Chapter 1: The Flowering of Human Consciousness
Tomorrow evening kicks off the webinar with Eckhart Tolle and Oprah at 7pm MST. Check the website to arrange to be a part of this truly groundbreaking 10 week series.
Each week is focused on a chapter, and the first sets out the book’s purpose:
“Can human beings lose the density of their conditioned mind structures and become like crystals or precious stones, so to speak, transparent to the light of consciousness?” (p. 5)
Can I? Can you? I believe so.
One of the qualities that sets this book apart is that it is more a tool than a set of claims. This is very exciting. This is not an argument or an attempt to change your beliefs or improve your habits, though any of those activities may ensue. Or not.
“This book’s main purpose is not to add new information or beliefs to your mind or to try to convince you of anything, but to bring about a shift in consciousness, that is to say, to awaken. … If the awakening process has begun in you, the reading of this book will accelerate and intensify it.” (6-7)
What do you make of this? Do you believe it is possible to loose our conditioning? The ultimate condition of language, and therefore the mind, is time and soon follow space and duality. Are these structures outside of which we can be? Have you? How?
I look forward to reading of your experiences here and elsewhere. Thanks for being. Here. Now.
Namaste
(the universal spark of me recognizes and bows to the same universal spark of you)
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