Hey Oprah - Can we borrow a pencil?
March 3rd, 2008 by Lani and AllenWe don’t know what you’re doing on a Monday night at 8:30pm, but we’re doing something pretty interesting. We just “took our seat” at what very well could be the biggest online class ever. More than 750,000 have signed up, and last-minute stragglers are welcome to show up and check out the action - now, or later, when they’ll be making a podcast of it available on both Oprah.com and iTunes.
It’s called “A New Earth Web Event,” and it’s a book club-ish class around the ideas and philosophies found in Eckhart Tolle’s book, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose.
Though we happen to have a very noisy, babbling baby with us right now, and the “pre-show” promo is doing too much stuttering and rebuffering to make this look like a viable reality for us tonight, we’re both impressed and inspired by what’s happening here.
Oprah is using the Web and her wealth of resources in a powerful way, to unite people in positive, insightful, bold thinking…and ultimately, (and hopefully) in taking joy-filled action to make this world a better place.
We both listened to big chunks of one of Tolle’s other books, The Power of Now, on audio. It’s truly outstanding. A little outside the comfort zone of normalcy (Tolle’s new-agey voice freaked us out a bit at first), but the IDEAS and incisive TRUTH of what he says really blows your mind, if you let it past the gatekeepers.
Though we just got A New Earth at Border’s on Friday and haven’t yet cracked the binding, we know the content will not let us down.
Soooo…
Have you signed up for this yet? If not, why not? Not to sound like a schoolyard brat or anything, but…Are ya a ‘fraidy-cat? Do you have a thing against Oprah? Dontcha like to learn, listen to ideas, challenge your thinking, be part of cultural happenings, or just see how they pull off this giant virtual classroom thing?
Consider it recommended. And if you check it out, let us know how it goes.
