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This is a great book that takes on the position of a new belief system, one that strongly leverages the Bible without understanding it's cultural and historical context. I also think (and feel) that abusing other religions to make up a new one is unnecessary and shows within itself it's own lack of love for people. In practical application, I don't see how a family could survive on this belief system. Thus, no family to continue such belief will leave a belief that no longer exists and will be forgotten. As with many new age beliefs. I appreciate this author, thanks Mr. Abanes.

I was deeply moved by Tolle's "A New Earth". I am a Christian. I was hoping for a cogent assessment of Tolle in relation to Christianity. Sadly, Richard Abanes writes from a confusing and narrow box.I wll give two brief examples, but there are many, many, "logical" points that just don't make sense. Abanes quotes Tolle as saying "His Truth...can only be found by intuition, internal knowing, and emotion". He tries to "prove" that feelings are not a reliable standard by which to measure truth. But churches teach this consistently, often telling of "spiritual sight" and faith that cannot be explained, only felt. Abanes says Tolle makes judgements about what is good, bad, right, or wrong, and quotes from New Earth, (for example, wars, exclusive religious claims, the witch hunts of Europe, materialism, sickness, addiction). So, what is the point? Is Abanes trying to say these things are't bad or wrong, but Tolle is judging them so? Am I incorrect in assuming there are some universal moral wrongs? I don't think Tolle is alone here.Abanes does just about everything he accuses Tolle of doing in his writing, and left me with a "we Christians are the only worthy truth bearers" feeing.This book shows a great deal of effort to prove what? Still scrathing my head.

Clearly this author is very much on an ego trip. As a follower of Christ for the past 20 years of my life in no way did I find what Eckart wrote in contridiction to my faith. What the book did do is help me understand the bible more. I think Mr. Abanes needs to become a bit more conscious before passing judgement. Everyone is entitled to believe what they want and what makes him think what he wrote is so right? People just make up your own mind about God and why he has you here. It is on the inside of you. Just listen not to the voice in your head but to the small whisper in your soul.

Abanes dissects Tolle's "enlightenment" claims relative to Christianity in a precise and thorough study. Tolle is dangerous also purely on psychological grounds. Contrary to what psychotherapy is based on, he suggests repressing and suppressing the past - preventing emotional growth and accountability for the past. All of Tolle's techniques and teaching styles mirror basic strategies of cults. His real goal is financial - check out the website address on his "store" - "mybigcommerce.com"

Abanes book is well written and his arguments would be valid if we assumed that the Bible is flawless. But we know that it is not. It is full of man made errors, arcane rules that are certainly no longer applicable to anyone on the planet and needs to be read in the context in which it was written. If at all.It is interesting to read Abanes' book to see how an obviously articulate and intelligent man can be so brain washed into thinking 'my way or the highway.'We should find ways to promote Jesus' message of love without promoting the associated 2000 years worth of self righteousness.Peace out.

I have read much of Tolle's work and wanted to read Abanes to see a different opinion and get a noted Christian author's viewpoint. Unfortunately, the book seemed to be very poorly written with little excerpts pulled from Tolle's body of work and taken out of context and attacked and discredited without understanding Tolle's total message. I felt it was written from an egotistical Christian perspective and not from an honest difference of opinion. I was hoping for a healthy debate but unfortunately I found Abanes book to be a condescending and petty.He seems to be so fearful of Tolle's ideas that he can't accurately capture the larger concepts from Tolle's works before he critizices and judges them with the typical "Christian" arguments. This is a big disappointment. It amazes me that Abanes must think he might teach me something by criticizing Tolle's work instead of generating convincing arguments.I struggled reading this book because it was written with such a narrow focused point of view. It makes Abanes "god" seem so small, petty and judgmental. If Tolle's work does anything it has vastly expanded my view of an omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient God...Abanes work not so much.

I felt this book was entirely useless as a refutation of Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth.... Mr. Abanes writes only from the perspective of a Christian who views the Bible as literal truth, rebutting Mr. Tolle's assertions only as they do not, in Mr. Abanes' opinion, correspond to scriptural teachings. For people who embrace more liberal Christian philosophies, as well as the many Jews, Muslims, agnostics, atheists, and other non-Christians who read this book in hope of finding some logical arguments against some of Mr. Tolle's proposterous conclusions, this book is quite a disappointment. There are so many, many ways that A New Earth, Awakening to Your Life's Purpose is illogical, unrealistic, and downright impossible that to use only scripture(which can also be illogical, unrealistic and impossible)to counter its claims is an exercise in futility. Someone should write a book discussing how really misguided Mr. Tolle's is in his views on awakening to life's purpose.

Good all around.

Clearly rejecting the Christianisation of Core Hindu philosophy and trying at any cost force fit Hinduism into Christianity, by hook or crook... The two philosophies are mutually exclusive mostly and this is insincere to both Hinduism and Christianity. It would have been far more honest to call it the smuggling of Hindu Ideas into Christianity. This is not new to Christianity which has appropriated many cultural ideas and symbols of past and annihilated the followers of those faiths while benefiting from their cultural symbols (Christmas tree, Santa clause, easer egg etc) ...What I do like is Richard is honest and loyal to his faith and did nothing to equate the two religions or cleverly appropriate those concepts which many Christian groups are eager these days with In-culturations like Christian Yoga. And Christian temples copied over directly from Hindu temples and only replacing the main deity with Christ, to call upon tip of an iceberg.

Abanes tears apart the age old "new age" anti-Christ constructions, exposing flaw after flaw and demonstrating the short-cuts and illogical arguments of "A New Earth" and the snares "new" agers try to entrap their victim's with. Blessedly, they end up tripping over their own traps, falling foul of sound reasoning and sensible intelligence.

I enjoyed reading Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth and thought it was very convincing. Hence I was wondering why Richard Abanes thought it was a deception. After reading this book, I am not any wiser. Abanes has just a different personal view and it is not very convincing.