WTF is with fraus and Tolle's The Power of Now

[quote]Not one word had any resonance or meaning.

I agree. I was looking at some short interview with Oprah just yesterday and I gained nothing from it. He's a total con artist.

Even the title stinks of bullshit.

Found this on a forum talking about what a pompous fucking arrogant Tolle is. There are a billion reasons to hate Oprah. Tolle is just one. Fucking fraus! I hate every one of them.

Thanks for motivating me to post a few comments. The book just a rambling, wordy, preachy, manipulative screed.

- Tolle says you either "get it" or you don't. What arrogance. Tolle is above criticism? He is above making mistakes? Yes! That is what he thinks. He's an egomaniac.

- Tolle begins his book with completely FALSE statements about Evolution. False. Wrong. Incorrect. He's clueless, he seems to know about as much about it as the fundamentalists.

- His ignorance of Evolution also applies when talking about how Life moved from the sea. He is completely ignorant. Maybe he should read some science books. Can an "enlightened" person be ignorant and arrogant?

- Tolle attacks the "I" constantly, meanwhile, Tolle's Ego is the size of Trumps. Read his drivel about the "I" on page 28. Tolle is preaching the destruction of the Ego...this is due to his own SUICIDAL IMPULSES.

- pg 38: weird story about dying people giving away their posessions, rings, etc. Sounds like a BYRON KATIE deathbed cash-grab.

- Tolle says the "Ego" creates illness...where's the proof for this? He gives none. Just cause he says so. As a matter of fact, there is no evidence that the "Ego" has anything to do with many illnesses. So a child creates its own cancer? Here we go again...you created your cancer through your Stinkin' Thinkin'. Shame on you...

- Tolle misquotes Descartes and Sartre out of context. He is so ARROGANT. He is like a pseudo-intellectual flunkie, who learned how to say a few fancy words to impress New Agers. Its worse than a bad joke. What he says about Sarte is a fraud, straight up. (Tolle also seems to have lied about his past educational experiences).

- page 70, his ARROGANT views about Catholics and "Truth" are beyond laughable. He would flunk a first year philosophy course. And Tolle is of course smarter than the Pope too. He's smarter than everyone on earth combined. He's the Savior of the Earth, of a New Earth, that's right!

pg 79: Tolle tells us WHAT JESUS MEANT. How the fuck does Tolle know what "Jesus" really "meant". What a FRAUD. Tolle is a fraud. First off, Jesus did not write anything, those are all texts from generations later, written in a different language. So for Tolle to say "what Jesus meant" is a fraud. Its a complete fabrication.

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It just goes on and on.

He hints there were other Masters in history, and implies he knows them? That is cult manipulation 101...implying he has Secret Knowledge.

Eckhart Tolle is an extremely arrogant pseudo-intellectual flunky, who impresses the New Agers with a few intellectual tricks and name-dropping. He is a serious businessman, who made a fortune even before Oprah.

The man is a FRAUD. He is NOT enlightened. His "story" is exaggerated and fabricated, vague, and sprinkled with lies. He has stolen ideas from 50 places, and gives no references. That is intellectual FRAUD.

He is a spiritual fraud, and a psychological fraud, and an intellectual fraud. He is a manipulative writer, luring people into his cult of personality to buy his stuff. $$$$ He is upselling his other books, and has many other products and services for sale.

Do you really think an "Enlightened" person would be such a huckster? And so pretentious and ARROGANT? God, his material just drips with arrogance and egomania. If a person were "enlightened" the first thing they should probably have is some humility in the face of the universe. But Tolle is so extremely arrogant, he thinks he's figured out the history of the world, and the future of the earth, and everything else. And (some) people just buy it hook, line, and sinker.

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Just being "detached" is not being "enlightened". That is called Schizoid personality disorder.

Either Oprah just thinks his pablum will sell to the masses, as a first step in her online "classes", or Oprah is not too bright in this area. Oprah is a great TV presenter, and a great entrepreneur and salesperson, and seems to give a lot of money away. Fine. But in terms if intellectual topics along these lines...she really is the blind leading the blind.

Tolle is a fraud. Put Tolle on TV with some proper intellectuals and philosophers and he will crumble like a house of cards, and retreat into spiritual arrogance. Its a shame people are so easily deceived.

As far as Krishnamurti...by the end, he actually realized he WAS a fraud! He admitted it, his followers tried to project on him all of their stuff, but in the end, he realized he was a fraud.

Don't get duped by these folks claiming they are Enlightened, and will sell you that for a dollar, or ten thousand dollars, then bamboozle you with bullshit.

Tolle is a fraud, in a number of ways, except for salesmanship. Just wait...the facts will come out on this guy sooner or later. He can't hide everything forever.

PS: people are going to learn a harsh lesson. They will buy all his books, CD's, DVD's...spend hundreds and thousands, get flipped over to other cultic Gurus like Byron Katie from Tolle...and they will get WORSE AND WORSE. Their lives and functioning will decrease if they buy into his stolen ideas. People will get thrown off-course for 10 years of their lives....

There was some other guy (total con) she used to have on who was even worse.

He spoke wida weird accint - to make him seem even more "other-worldly" even though he was as American as a picket fence.

I wish I could remember his name.

It's not only fraus; I first heard of him on RuPaul's podcast.

Why does he make you so angry, OP? From what I've heard/seen, you probably right in your criticism, but if he makes people happy, so what? Some people have religion, others fitness regimes, others E. Tolle. The ones going to seminars are probably well-off anyway. Selling self-help books is a huge business and not comparable to real cults (like Scientology) which suck people into spending lots of money on their courses.

[quote]Why does he make you so angry, OP?

I think he's more irritated than angry.

Everyone on her show were 100% frauds catering to Oprah's millions of brainless clueless white frau morons seeking enlightenment from these frauds. R7 Fuck off, frau. There is no such thing as objective anger. There is only truth or lies in this world. Oprah is ALL lies.

Right up there with “The Secret “.

Isn’t he the one who created est and more recently Landmark Education (“The Forum”)? Sorry, the “get it” reminded me.

Oprah might be a smart woman, but she has a gigantic blond spot for charlatans and hucksters. It’s why she and Markle are still pals after everyone else got wise. Let’s make a list of the people who Oprah has promoted who’ve become discredited for their snake oil:

Dr. Oz (yes I know he’s a revered cardiologist but he shills all sorts of unscientific bs like raspberry ketones and ear candling)

“The Secret” (Magical thinking) which dovetails with...

James Arthur Ray The Sweat Lodge guy (Fatal magical thinking)

James Frey (fraud author)

The Rosenblats (fraud author)

Joao Texeira De Faria (perverted magical thinking)

Mickey Singer (tax-evading magical thinking)

And last but not least:

$CIENTOLOGY! Although she never publicly touted it, she had some connection. I’m positive they were ardently courting her with her deep wallet, worshipful fraus and translucent closet. She had ALL the bigwigs on her show. I’m not sure if it was just a PR contract, but she gave them a lot of airtime. And knowing her penchant for pseudoreligions (cults) and spiritual searching, I suspect she was close to getting hooked in.

R9, I agree with you about Oprah. The only time I tuned in she had a special segment about angels. Since then I've been shocked that she's an American icon.

But you are obviously angry. Maybe you need some power of now.

^^ blind spot.

At least Oprah’s smart enough to avoid going blonde.

Obviously, Oprah has deep insecurities which she is willing to explore very publicly: struggling with weight and her SOUL. It’s a huge part of her appeal to women. She is endlessly searching.

The problem is that it’s the blind leading the blind.

In the uncensored video of that Gary Pukeoff video he was frank about how Oprah's ancestors and people came over as slaves in chains in slave ships. Originally he talked about how his ship theory in O's case were slave ships. Oh, the delicious irony. Something like 90% of the African American slaves never survived their cruise across the Atlantic. Most African American slaves were stolen and sold by other blacks in Africa but nobody ever mentions that.

Most African American slaves were stolen and sold by other blacks in Africa

Link?

That was the guy whose name I was trying to remember, R9, LOL.

This article says whites could not have just casually stolen 20 million black slaves from black Kingdoms. The black Kingdoms had to have given them, usually for money. People rarely read about the fact that millions of whites were also sold into slavery, especially the Irish, who have always been looked down on as trash and sub humans by the Brits.