Bad Bestsellers Summarized, Part 2: The Power of Now by Tolle.
Focus on the present. Stop thinking so much.
Why?
Because focusing on the present relieves suffering.
What is suffering?
Thinking, emoting, anticipating, expecting.
That’s it! Thanks folks!
Tolle is a particularly wily, manipulative writer. His book is essentially content-free. Like a wasp concealing a sting under his soft belly, Eckhart Tolle builds into his text multiple defences against criticism. Since we can’t really say anything more about the book’s content, we must address the context.
The context of The Power of Now is a self-reinforcing and closed belief system. Anything you say against it reinforces it. The Power of Now is a closed belief system, a mental loop, a self-defending psychosis. Any attempt to open the belief system just forces the mental trap more closed.
The Power of Now has multiple points of defence against reality. We will point out each of them in turn.
Why are we doing this? Because Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now is not just mediocre, not just nonsense, but dangerous and evil.
You’ll see. Hold on to your hats, folks, we’re gonna do a listicle:
12 Reasons Why Eckhart Tolle’s Power of Now is not simply mediocre nonsense but actually also a bad and dangerous book:
- False claims to authority. Tolle is a…
