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Tolle stresses that it is of the utmost importance that people (re)gain the capacity to be in the "here and now" more often and that being more often in the "now" also brings about better feelings and better development and growth. Being in the "now" produces more awareness and a better understanding of oneself and of one's situation. Being in the "now" stills the ever blabbering radio in one's head and reduces the needs of the ego. | Tolle stresses that it is of the utmost importance that people (re)gain the capacity to be in the "here and now" more often and that being more often in the "now" also brings about better feelings and better development and growth. Being in the "now" produces more awareness and a better understanding of oneself and of one's situation. Being in the "now" stills the ever blabbering radio in one's head and reduces the needs of the ego. | ||
| − | In terms of "[[The evolutionary stability of a bi-stable system of emotions and motivations in species with an open-ended capacity for learning|Reversal Theory]]" and of our CEL model ([[Towards a Cognition-Energy-Learning Model|Cognition Energy Learning model]]) what Tolle describes with "being in the now" is basically the Paratelic State, one of the always alternating antagonist emotional - motivational states. The "Telic" and the "Paratelic" state continuously reverse into one another, but in most people the Telic state (goal directed and re-active) is the most dominant emotional - motivational state. | + | In terms of "[[The evolutionary stability of a bi-stable system of emotions and motivations in species with an open-ended capacity for learning|Reversal Theory]]" and of our CEL model ([[Towards a Cognition-Energy-Learning Model|Cognition Energy Learning model]]) what Tolle describes with "being in the now" is basically the Paratelic State, one of the always alternating antagonist emotional - motivational states. The "Telic" and the "Paratelic" state continuously reverse into one another, but in most people the Telic state (goal directed and re-active) is the most dominant emotional - motivational state. |
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| + | Tolle advertizes a shift from living in egoïc states in which the brain is continuously pre-occupied with thoughts about the past or about the future, to living in the "here and now" in which awareness grows and feelings can expand to eventually merge with the whole. | ||
| + | From [[The evolutionary stability of a bi-stable system of emotions and motivations in species with an open-ended capacity for learning|Reversal Theory]] we can however derive that being in the "here and now" is just one of the two basic meta-motivational states and that both of these two states, the "Telic" state and the "Paratelic" state do need to alternate in order to function properly and to develop properly. | ||
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Revision as of 22:37, 19 March 2008
Eckhart Tolle: A New Earth, awakening to your life's purpose
For positive or negative reviews of this book on the Amazon site see: Amazon reviews
We consider Eckhart Tolle's book "A New Earth, awakening to your life's purpose" as a valuable new contribution to our understanding of the human condition and a worthy sequel to his "The Power of Now". In our view it is one of the contemporary books that no doubt help to prepare the way to the Point Omega transition. That is why we discuss it here.
Tolle describes the sub-optimal neurotic states most of us are in. These states pass for "normal" and he explains in great detail the alternatives that are possible and available to us instead of those sub-optimal states. He also presents a number of practical methods to enhance the development in oneself of those more agreeable alternative states of being. As such, it is another guide to enlightenment, and a rather effective guide at that.
In order to increase the effectiveness of Eckhart Tolle's book, we will give below a number of additional facts and notions that can make the story of "A New Earth" more complete, easier to fully understand and thus more effective.
We will point out a couple of blank spots of missing information in his book, which we will fill out and also some issues that we interpret in a somewhat different way in order to make the total picture still more comprehensive and easier to understand from an evolutionary point of view.
Tolle stresses that it is of the utmost importance that people (re)gain the capacity to be in the "here and now" more often and that being more often in the "now" also brings about better feelings and better development and growth. Being in the "now" produces more awareness and a better understanding of oneself and of one's situation. Being in the "now" stills the ever blabbering radio in one's head and reduces the needs of the ego.
In terms of "Reversal Theory" and of our CEL model (Cognition Energy Learning model) what Tolle describes with "being in the now" is basically the Paratelic State, one of the always alternating antagonist emotional - motivational states. The "Telic" and the "Paratelic" state continuously reverse into one another, but in most people the Telic state (goal directed and re-active) is the most dominant emotional - motivational state.
Tolle advertizes a shift from living in egoïc states in which the brain is continuously pre-occupied with thoughts about the past or about the future, to living in the "here and now" in which awareness grows and feelings can expand to eventually merge with the whole. From Reversal Theory we can however derive that being in the "here and now" is just one of the two basic meta-motivational states and that both of these two states, the "Telic" state and the "Paratelic" state do need to alternate in order to function properly and to develop properly.
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