A New Earth, Awakening Your Life's Purpose.

It is a book that Oprah has been promoting for a while now, she SWEARS by it, and was apart of her book club. I just recently got the book (took forever for it to get sent here to south korea), and was wondering if anyone else had read it. I have watched many shows (on oprah ) about it, and am hoping that it lives up to the expectations everyone has set so high for it. I am only on page 22 and have so far enjoyed it.

A few sections from the book:

"This book's main purpose is not to add new information or beliefs to your mind or try to convince you of anything, but to bring about a shift in conciousness, that is to say, to awaken. In that sense, this book is not "interesting." Interesting means you can keep you distance, play around with ideas and concepts in your mind, agree or disagree. This book is about you. It will change your state of consciousness or it will be meaningless. It can only awaken those who are ready. not everyone is read yet, but many are, and with each person who awakesn, the momentum in the collective conciousness grows, and it becomes easier for others."


"This book shows the main aspects of the ego, and how they operate in the individual as well as in the collective. This is important for two related reasons: The first is that unless you know the basic mechanics behind the workings of the ego, you won't recognize it, and it will trick you into identifying with it agian and again. This means it takes you over, an imposter pretending to be you. The second reason is that the act of recognition itself is one of the ways in which awakening happens. When you recognize the unconciousness in you, that which makes the recognition possible IS the arising conciousness, IS awakening. You cannot fight against the ego and win, just as you cannot fight against darkness. The light of conciousness is all that is necessary. You are that light"



"According to Christian teachings, the normal collective state of humanity is one of the "orginal sin." Sin is a word that has been greatly misunderstood and misinterpreted. Literally translated from the ancient Greek in which the New Testament was written, to sin means to miss the mark, as an archer who misses the target, so to sin mean to miss the point of human existance. It means to live unskillfully, blindly, and thus to suffer and cause suffering."



"Fear, greed, and the desire for power are the psychological motivating forces not only behind warfare and violence between nations, tribes, religions, and ideologies, but also the cause of incessant conflict in personal relationships. They bring about a distortion in your perceptions of other people and yourself. Through them, you misinterpret every situation, leading to misguided action designed to rid you of fear and satisfy your need for MORE, a bottomless hole that can never be filled.
It is important to realize, however, that fear, greed, and the desire for power are not the dysfunction that we are speaking of, but are themselves created by the dysfunction, which is a deep-seated collective delusion that lies within the mind of each human being."



So far so good, anyone want to put their imput on the book?