Mastering the Power of Now

A few weeks ago an ad appeared on Google. It was for a free course entitled "Mastering the Power of Now"
in which "Seven world-famous spiritual teachers reveal powerful information and practical steps you can take right now to experience the spiritual awakening described by Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth, The Power of Now, and his online lessons with Oprah."
Intrigued, I signed up for it. The course has been put together by Bill Harris who is director of the Centerpointe Research Institute and it consists of six conversations between Bill and spiritual teachers from a variety of traditions who have gone through similar awakenings to Eckhart Tolle and who dwell in what Tolle describes as 'The Now'. One talk is made available each week and a transcript of the talk is also available. Each session lasts around 1 hour 15 mins.

So far I have listened to the first two of these talks. These were with Genpo Roshi, a Zen master, and Ken Wilbur, the author, philosopher and spiritual teacher. I would say that they are certainly worthwhile listening to. As you might expect there is a certain amount of plugging of the participants various programs but this is not too obtrusive and I think acceptable as they are giving the talks for free! Future sessions are with Diane Hamilton, spiritual teacher, Saniel Bonder and Linda Groves-Bonder, awakened teachers, Sally Kempton, student of Swami Muktananda and author, and Byron Katie, awakened teacher and author. You can sign up for the course at http://www.masteringthepowerofnow.com/
From the course I learnt that Eckhart Tolle did a series of webcasts with Oprah. These are available on Oprah's website This series consisted of 10 classes going through Tolle's book 'A New Earth' one chapter at a time. I have yet to view any of these but my intention is to re-read 'A New Earth' and view the associated class at the end of each chapter.