Study Group on Eckhardt Tolle’s A New Earth with Steve Hadland, MD

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As we drive to work making our daily contribution of carbon to the atmosphere, a family in the low-lying Andaman Islands near India wonders where they can go when their land is claimed by rising seas. We can no longer pretend that the world is not one community with serious problems to face collectively. As the seriousness of our situation grows with every report of food shortage, resource depletion, and ecosystem collapse, there can be a feeling of helplessness, like that of passengers on a plane coming apart rivet by rivet. How does one begin to approach such monumental problems creatively without lapsing into passivity and denial or being driven by anxiety, guilt or reactivity? Eckhardt Tolle in his book A New Earth suggests that the we are not separate, individual egos in competition with one another each pursuing individual happiness, but rather that we are literally one, undivided consciousness capable of the unity it will take to heal the planet. Join Steve to take an in-depth look at this material and our responses to it. You can review a similar format in which Tolle pairs up with none other than Oprah Winfrey for a 10-session webcast available on Oprah.com. Quite entertaining!

Instructor Steve Hadland, MD