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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho the FUCK is Eckhart Tolle?
And why won't he get out of my face?
Is he the Undead Werner Erhardt in a new mask?
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Eckhart Tolle (pron.: /ˈɛkɑrt ˈtɒlə/ ek-art to-lə; German pronunciation: [ˈɛkaʁt ˈtɔlə], born Ulrich Leonard Tolle on February 16, 1948) is a German-born Canadian resident, best known as the author of the The Power of Now and A New Earth, which were written in English. In 2011, he was listed by the Watkins Review as the most spiritually influential person in the world.[1] In 2008, a New York Times writer called Tolle "the most popular spiritual author in the United States."[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle
tularetom
(23,664 posts)Like Egbert Souse.
Whovian
(2,866 posts)GoneOffShore
(17,340 posts)Much like Deepak Chopra and others of that ilk.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)'The Power of Now'.
LisaLynne
(14,554 posts)I thought he faded away after Oprah stopped having a show.
radiclib
(1,811 posts)LisaLynne
(14,554 posts)I was really hoping he was "over".
SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)She treated him as the second coming. To see what the fuss was all about, I read "The Power of Now." Meh. Psychobabble. Basically tells you to clear your mind of worries and emotional pain and concentrate on the present to be happy. Basically a new age retread of the old "don't worry, be happy" tune.
Berlum
(7,044 posts)KaryninMiami
(3,073 posts)I've heard him speak, read portions of his best selling book, The Power of Now, have enjoyed his meditation tapes and enjoyed learning from him from time to time when listening to his lectures. Not a huge fan but have found his work interesting. Has something recently happened regarding this man that I missed?
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)are #1. woos and #2. "in your face" for having the audacity to question the current dysfunctional paradigm.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)You probably looked at some books on Amazon regarding spirituality and now you're getting the ads. No one else gets those ads. I get ads about Mother Of The Bride dresses because I've been helping a friend find a dress for her daughter's wedding.
If you ignore them (by not clicking on them) they will go away and the regular DU ads will come back.
hunter
(38,317 posts)Yes, it's an ad for the DuckDuckGo search engine, but it explains what google, bing, etc. are doing.
toddaa
(2,518 posts)It's my default search engine on all my browsers. Try switching from Google or Bing for a week and you'll likely never go back. The bang! commands are pretty cool, too.
radiclib
(1,811 posts)or anything else that would make me a demographic for this shit. Unless it's porn.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)demwing
(16,916 posts)Recently.
If you opened the thread, you got hooked into the ad cycle
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)kentauros
(29,414 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)i finally did. it is a good book.
much better living now than the illusion of past or future.
dont know why the OP is trippin'. not much info was given. but, i liked the book.
LisaLynne
(14,554 posts)know who he was, which is understandable. Ads irritate me, too. Mine are all about cats, though. Cats and shoes. :/
I also read the Power of Now and I agree -- I think he's right on about not letting the past dominate what you are thinking/doing right now. I carry a lot of resentments from the past that I just need to let go, so I think he's spot on about that.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)my activity was being 'watched'. But still, it is kind of freaky.
Advertising is a perfect illustration that we are suggestible creatures.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)As paradoxical as it sounds to actually take 'time' to step out of 'time' and be totally in the 'now', it really keeps things in perspective.
It's the ultimate experience of objectivity.
OneGrassRoot
(22,920 posts)Good one
PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)Earth Bound Misfit
(3,554 posts)toddaa
(2,518 posts)Unlike Watts, Tolle offers little to guide you back to the original sources of his 'enlightened', 'new' way of living. Not as atrocious as Chopra, but pretty damn close.
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)is simply about focusing our mind's attention away from the irreversible past and the unpredictable future into the present moment to reduce internal agitation. That's it. Nothing 'woo' about it, if you have the time to investigate.
zazen
(2,978 posts)"Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction"--a western term and approach for some ancient Buddhist practices, updated with insights from cognitive therapy. Lots of research from Harvard, Johns Hopkins, etc., on MBSR. You're absolutely right--nothing "woo" about it.
Nor do I mind successful practitioners making a living teaching about it, though when they reach the status of Echkert Tolle and Adyashanti, there's always the danger of contemporary capitalism inflating them into cult status with one a day calendars and coffee table aphorism books and other merchandising. And of their getting sucked into ego. I feel that ET has done a bit of that; Chopra has done a lot; and Adyashanti not at all (for the time being.)
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)Agreed. I don't follow any of these teachers closely enough to be aware of their approach to marketing themselves, however. What I usually do is take what is useful from the teaching and then move on. With most of these teachers that rise to some level of prominence, it is usually, initially, for a good reason-- because, initially, they have something of value to impart that some need to learn (what may be basic for some, may not be obvious to others.) So myself, unless it's really something agregious, I don't get wrapped up in the personal marketing preferences of these teachers. Sure, they could be rehashing what someone else said but we all learn at our own pace and we've got to learn it from somewhere. How we learn a new insight into ourselves or the universe is not nearly as important as learning it.