Revisiting guilt, shame, and fear

[mat422]

Lol. You need to read "The Power of Now" and chill out.

I really didn't like that book. I'm just curious what you got out of it?

Probably what you didn't like about it, to be honest. In essence, it helps you dis-identify with your thinking and your mind which, for you, I could see being a frightening concept.

Not being attached to one's emotions and not being caught up in thinking is good. I understand the concepts, but admittedly I'm not perfect at executing them, hence my rants from time to time. But my main gripe with this book is it's straight up brainwashing. Tolle presents everything as the truth, he encourages you to be in the now(lowered thinking=more suggestible), his ideas leak into your subconscious and you start believing them as the absolute truth.

I don't like gurus. And while Tolle states in this book that you don't lose your ability to analyze and think critically, I found myself losing that exact ability while making my way through the book.

That may sound paranoid to you. And if I encountered this exact response while I was in my power of now phase I would have dismissed it as ego. And that's the problem, it's too easy to brush off any critical thinking as ego, as if questioning Tolle's teachings were a bad thing.

So if you benefit from this book I think that's great. But to me Tolle bastardized a lot of good teachings and suffers from the same problems most gurus do.