Consequences of a Dream World

Beyond Eckhart Tolle’s New Earth

Eckhart Tolle, in his popular book, The New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, denigrates the physical world we live in as a secondary reality; a distraction from who we really are -- pure Being. But Tolle errs. The physical world, this three-dimensional place we inhabit, is a reflection of being, and the failure to appreciate the incredible improbablity that such a world exists, may lead someone, such as Tolle, to ponder instead the inner world of Being as constituting ultimate reality. It may be, but this ultimate reality has an unknown power to project a three-dimensional world of form that we should honor, not denigrate. ...

Measuring Time in a Dream World

If the world is really a dream, our conception of time will have to change. Given modern science's current belief that 13.7 billion years have passed since the Big Bang, this may take some doing. On the other hand, if it turns out the world is really a dream we will have to change our frame of reference for determining the age of the cosmos. This is because a mind can dream a physical object -- such as a mountain, tree, or even stars -- quickly, and it would be inappropriate to base the age of the dream world upon a dreamt object. ...


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