Oprah's First-Ever Live Interactive Webcast Class!!

American TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey, the most influential book reviewer in the world, has once again bestowed her awesome marketing power on Vancouver-based spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle.In revealing her 61st choice of reading material for her 700,000-member book club and countless other fans, Winfrey on Wednesday told her TV audience she was selecting Tolle's A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose.Winfrey, who in 2001 helped catapult Tolle's The Power of Now into a million-copy bestseller, also announced she will soon join Tolle in hosting an online workshop on A New Earth.

Each weekly class will correspond to a chapter from "A New Earth," with the 90-minute discussion focusing on each chapter's theme. During the week prior to the live Web event, students can access their personal interactive workbook-a guided online journal that complements each webinar session-that provides introspective questions as well as related exercises for awakening. The 10 weekly sessions will be webcast every Monday night from March 3 through May 5, at 9:00pm ET/6:00pm PT.

Brian Tart, President & Publisher of Dutton and editor of the book said, "Sales thus far have been incredible. It really has been a phenomenon and the webinar is sure to create even more sales momentum in the market.""For the first four weeks on sale, 'A New Earth' is our bestselling Oprah's Book Club title," said buyer Jules Herbert of Barnes & Noble, the largest book retailer in the country.Winfrey hopes her web course with Tolle will become "the world's largest classroom."Tolle, 59, who was born in Germany and educated in Britain, has for more than a decade made his home in Vancouver, where he now lives close to the University of B.C. campus.

The 10-week class, which begins March 3, can be accessed via www.oprah.com/anewearth.In A New Earth, Tolle implores readers to recognize that the current conflict-ridden state of the world, which is based on an erroneous identification with the ego, is one of dangerous insanity.A New Earth maintains that "humanity, perhaps more than in any previous time, has an opportunity to create a new, saner, more loving world. This will involve a radical inner leap from the current egoic consciousness to an entirely new one," says promotional material.