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Originally Posted by Jaz
now suddenly he is Eckart Tolle.
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I thought I'd check out the Echkart Tolle audiobook....
Not that impressed, he has some good stuff to say like social conditioning, the ego and not focussing on the past and future etc. I was going to write a review but I've given up on it after a few chapters.
The main problem is that even though some of the stuff is pretty good it's got this pseudo spiritual crap attached to it. I think Tyler did a good job of filtering a lot of that from the blueprint.
Echkart Tolle does talk a lot of bollocks about how there has to be a higher power because the human cell is so complex and that only a higher power could create it (er evolution! He doesn't even mention it or try and say why it doesn't explain it).
He also goes on to claim that art and creativity, leaps in imagination and great discoveries have come about because people have had spiritual enlightenment.
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All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. The mind then gives form to the creative impulse or insight. Even the great scientists have reported that their creative breakthroughs came at a time of mental quietude. The surprising result of a nation-wide inquiry among America's most eminent mathematicians, including Einstein, to find out their working methods, was that thinking "plays only a subordinate part in the brief, decisive phase of the creative act itself."1 So I would say that the simple reason why the majority of scientists are not creative is not because they don't know how to think but because they don't know how to stop thinking
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He fails to even acknowledge lateralization of brain function (right vs left, although this is a simplified view of it) and how the brain works. He perceives as the only way the mind works is in a problem solving way and that the only explanation is his way of thinking.
Anything at odds with this he just says that you are thinking too much about it and it's your ego. I think if you stripped away all the spiritual bollocks in it and threw in some science and philosophy it would be pretty good.
I think Tyler read it, stripped the crap out and applied it to a real world situation, along with other stuff he'd been studying.