He was right: by the second year The Power of Now had developed into an underground bestseller, as one reviewer later called it. Stephen Gawtry, the manager of Watkins, the world’s oldest metaphysical bookstore in London, England, wrote at the time, I foresee great things for this book. Friends helped by placing copies of the book in spiritual bookstores farther afield: Calgary, Seattle, California, London. That was the time when I would personally deliver a few copies every week to some small bookstores in Vancouver, something I found enormously satisfying, knowing that every book that I handed over had the potential of changing someone’s life. During its first year of publication, the book found its readers almost exclusively through word of mouth. Nobody could have predicted the rapid growth of the book when Namaste Publishing in Vancouver published the first edition of three thousand copies in 1997. I am moved and deeply touched by many of those accounts, and they leave no doubt in my mind that an unprecedented shift in consciousness is indeed happening on our planet. Due to the extremely high volume of correspondence I receive, I am regretfully no longer able to send personal replies, but I would like to take this opportunity to express my deepest gratitude to all those who have written to me to share their experiences. It has reached several million readers worldwide, many of whom have written to me to tell of the life-changing effect it has had on them.
Although I was privileged to give birth to it, I feel that the book has taken on a life and momentum of its own. Six years after it was first published, The Power of Now continues to play its part in the urgent task of the transformation of human consciousness. AUTHOR’S PREFACE TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION
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