Anyone read any of the Eckhard Tolle books such as "A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, or "The Power of Now?" At first reading I thought is was complete mumbo-jumbo put out by some new age fairy. Then I looked all around me, and I slowly realized there is some element of truth in some of the things he talks about. It really does explain a lot of current phenomena that seem illogical and ridiculous to me. Take for example what masquerades as "Reality T.V." My daughters lap that stuff up, and all along I kept telling them why don't they live their own lives rather than watching someone else live theirs. Then it dawned on me that my kids are not "living in the present" as Tolle would suggest. They go day to day absolutely oblivious to what is going on around them, and to the rest of the world. They don't enjoy the "art of being" a term coined by the Austrian psychologist Eric Fromm.

My opinion is that Eckhard Tolle's work is "Buddhist Light" much like my friends call Pastor Joel Osteen "Christianity Light".