A New Earth

Is anyone else reading A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle? I actually bought it as an audiobook (a concession to my lack of eyesight, errgh!) and have been listening to it. I tried to do the Oprah class last night but the internet connection jammed cause they had too many people accessing at the same time. I think that's kinda cool in a way--all the people searching for answers---and also, sort of sad....depending on the day.

I read The Power of Now a few years ago. This new book expands upon the same issues of understanding when ego is talking and when YOU are present. It's very interesting to me because of course, this is my life's work and I love hearing the message in a different way. Sort of like reading the Bible and reading the Tao and the understanding of the message being the same. Eckhart Tolle is writing the Bible, the Tao and Road Less Traveled by Scott Peck in a new way so we can be reminded of the lessons again. He speaks the same language of The Celestine Prophecy and The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, The Alchemist and The Bhagavad Gita. It's just depending on what YOU need to understand.

I have found this very difficult to hear and comprehend on a personal level right now. It's one thing to understand how other's are behaving and what they should do but quite another when you recognize yourself in the words. Especially when it's your job to help others understand. Especially when you are entrenched in a life drama of your own.

Once I said to a therapist, "why do I have to keep learning the same lesson over and over again?" She brought out beautiful Russian doll set. One by one she opened up a doll to reveal another inside, and then another and then another....until she had the baby, unclothed, ungarnished, just as the day you were born. "We create the layers as we grow, mostly as survival techniques, conditioning, a way of fitting into the society we live. As we begin to come into our own, we must peel the layers off again to reveal the beauty inside-- the source, who we really are." Each time I come up against this same drama...the same type of person over and over again, they are teaching me a deeper version of the same lesson that I need to learn.

I get it. Oh how I get it. But it's still difficult. If it wasn't, I would coast. My superior self would just let the ego keep reminding me of how wonderful I am and how unfortunate the rest of the world is and I would never have to confront the unpleasant reality of how I create drama for myself by surrounding myself with people with far more drama than I. It's the ultimate head trip. The lesson of confronting and standing up and not enabling...how tired I become of it. But oh, how much I have learned. It is so rewarding.

We had a great group at the Open Door. We did Reiki on 10 people, I had 5 for tarot and would have had more if we had time. As it was, we went over by about 2 hours! Every one seemed to have a really nice time, we met some beautiful new souls and at more than one point I had the profound experience of being in the moment and realizing it was one I have visualized over and over. The Reiki was ultra powerful-- felt it the next day as 2 of the people from the day before were in my yoga class and it was just a whizzing around the room! I feel it now.

I would not be able to do this if I didn't keep peeling off the layers and becoming who I am. No matter how difficult it is, it is not about me. Or shall I say the me who is my ego.... not the one connected to Source. The one who watches.

Get the book... you owe it to yourself. No matter where you are on your spiritual journey.

Inspiration... In Spirit