With his bestselling spiritual guide The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle inspired millions of readers to discover the freedom and joy of a life lived "in the now." In A New Earth, Tolle expands on these powerful ideas to show how transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only essential to personal happiness,but also the key to ending conflict and suffering throughout the world.

With his bestselling spiritual guide The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle inspired millions of readers to discover the freedom and joy of a life lived "in the now." In A New Earth, Tolle expands on these powerful ideas to show how transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only essential to personal happiness,but also the key to ending conflict and suffering throughout the world. Tolle describes how our attachment to the ego creates the dysfunction that leads to anger, jealousy, and unhappiness, and shows readers how to awaken to a new state of consciousness and follow the path to a truly fulfilling existence.

CHAPTER ONE The Flowering of Human Consciousness

 Evocation

 The Purpose of This Book

 Our Inherited Dysfunction

 The Arising New Consciousness

 Spirituality and Religion

 The Urgency of Transformation

 A New Heaven and a New Earth

CHAPTER TWO Ego: The Current State of Humanity

 The Illusory Self.

 The Voice in the Head

 Content and Structure of the Ego

 Identification with Things

 The Lost Ring

 The Illusion of Ownership

 Wanting: The Need for More

 Identification with the Body

 Feeling the Inner Body

 Forgetfulness of Being

 From Descartes's Error to Sartre's Insight

 The Peace That Passes All Understanding

CHAPTER THREE The Core of Ego

 Complaining and Resentment

 Reactivity and Grievances

 Being Right, Making Wrong

 In Defense of an Illusion

 Truth: Relative or Absolute?

 The Ego Is Not Personal

 War Is a Mind-set

 Do You Want Peace or Drama?

 Beyond Ego: Your True Identity

 All Structures Are Unstable

 The Ego's Need to Feel Superior

 Ego and Fame

CHAPTER FOUR Role-playing: The Many Faces of the Ego

 Villain, Victim, Lover

 Letting Go of Self-Definitions

 Pre-established Roles

 Temporary Roles

 The Monk with Sweaty. Palms

 Happiness as a Role Vs. True Happiness

 Parenthood: Role or Function?

 Conscious Suffering

 Conscious Parenting

 Recognizing Your Child

 Giving Up Role-playing

 The Pathological Ego

 The Background Unhappiness

 The Secret of Happiness

 Pathological Forms of Ego

 Work--With and Without Ego

 The Ego in Illness

 The Collective Ego

 Incontrovertible Proof of Immortality

CHAPTER FIVE The Pain-Body

 The Birth of Emotion

 Emotions and the Ego

 The Duck with a Human Mind

 Carrying the Past

 Individual and Collective

 How the Pain-Body Renews Itself

 How the Pain-Body Feeds on Your Thoughts

 How the Pain-Body Feeds on" Dram

 Dense Pain-Bodies

 Entertainment, the Media, and the Pain-Body

 The Collective Female Pain-Body

 National and Racial Pain-Bodies

CHAPTER SIX Breaking Free

 Presence

 The Return of the Pain-Body

 The Pain-Body in Children

  Unhappiness

  Breaking Identification with the Pain-Body

  Triggers"

  The Pain-Body as an Awakener

  Breaking Free of the Pain-Body

CHAPTER SEVEN Finding Who You Truly Are

 Who You Think You Are

 Abundance

 Knowing Yourself and Knowing About Yourself

 Chaos and Higher Order

 Good and Bad

 Not Minding What Happens

 Is That So?

 The Ego and the Present Moment

 The Paradox of Time

 Eliminating Time

 The Dreamer and the Dream

 Going Beyond Limitation

 The Joy of Being

 Allowing the Diminishment of the Ego

 As Without, So Within

CHAPTER EIGHT The Discovery of Inner Space

 Object Consciousness and Space Consciousness

 Falling Below and Rising Above Thought

 Television

 Recognizing Inner Space

 Can You Hear the Mountain Stream?

 Right Action

 Perceiving Without Naming

 Who Is the Experiencer?

 The Breath

 Addictions

 Inner Body Awareness

 Inner and Outer Space

 Noticing the Gaps

 Lose Yourself to Find Yourself

 Stillness

CHAPTER NINE Your Inner Purpose

 Awakening

 A Dialogue on Inner Purpose

CHAPTER TEN A New Earth

 A Brief History of Your Life

 Awakening and the Return Movement

 Awakening and the Outgoing Movement

 Consciousness

 Awakened Doing

 The Three Modalities of Awakened Doing

 Acceptance

 Enjoyment

 Enthusiasm

 The Frequency-holders

 The New Earth Is No Utopia

 Notes

 About the Author