For Christmas 2006, my aunt gave from her heart Eckhart’s “A New Earth” book. I read a little bit of it early the next year and put it down. I resisted much of what my aunt gave to me or suggested because I lived in fear. Childhood, teen, and early adult traumas in the form of my ego was still holding my life hostage from opening up and accepting that there are different viewpoints of reality – mine was the veil of tremendous fear.