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I think there needs to be a decently sized article on Eckhart Tolle. He's quite popular, and a lot of people don't realize his connection the New Age movement, Deepak Chopra, and self-help.
I'm tempted to go out and get a copy of his books to dissect and satirize. I know a lot of his interviews contain nothing more than word salad. Anybody got some resources? Feedback?— Unsigned, by: FantasticMrFox88 / talk / contribs
- Quite agree. My cultist former boss, who was all over Tolle, Avatar, and The Forum, gave me one of these books. I was as appalled with it as I was with the Harry Palmer nonsense about "entities". These are widely available, even in English in many European country's public libraries.
00:40, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
- Applause is all I can offer, not even fact-checking. Those are circles where I choose not to sit. Sprocket J Cogswell (talk) 00:46, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
- I added it to the to-do list. Wehpudicabok [話] [変] [留] 01:20, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
- Applause is all I can offer, not even fact-checking. Those are circles where I choose not to sit. Sprocket J Cogswell (talk) 00:46, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
- Sounds good. What can we do that the Wikipedia article doesn't? - David Gerard (talk) 19:39, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
- The WP article is a serenade. It only mentions relatively erudite criticism from christian theologians, but largely ignores criticism of Tolle's work as what we would call woo: new age nonsense. It also uncritically mentions Oprah going to great lengths to promote Tolle, where others have expressed concern that she's setting him up as a cult leader, or using him to set her own self up as a cult leader. We already know Oprah's no stranger to spiritual pseudoscience. There are also parallels to be drawn between Tolle's philosophy and Scientology/Avatar — he appears to believe in the functional equivalent of Scientology's thetans or Avatar's entities. 20:12, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
- The WP article is a serenade. It only mentions relatively erudite criticism from christian theologians, but largely ignores criticism of Tolle's work as what we would call woo: new age nonsense. It also uncritically mentions Oprah going to great lengths to promote Tolle, where others have expressed concern that she's setting him up as a cult leader, or using him to set her own self up as a cult leader. We already know Oprah's no stranger to spiritual pseudoscience. There are also parallels to be drawn between Tolle's philosophy and Scientology/Avatar — he appears to believe in the functional equivalent of Scientology's thetans or Avatar's entities.