Provocateur Limbaugh waddles to his bully pulpit every day, and gets paid a fortune to spout the worst possible distortions, lies and insults, and that’s ‘free speech.’
Homeopathy is a vicious fraud. In all but the “weakest” potencies, the medications contain not one atom or molecule of the original substance–but are only sugar pills.
Dark Greens have poisoned the well for the uncommitted. Their austerity and neo-Victorian admonitions imply that we have a ‘spiritual’ problem, that our appetites make us defective.
I always have great sympathy for closeted atheists and agnostics. They are forced to dance between their true feelings, questions and knowledge, and the expectations of their social circle.
If you heard on the radio that a man was being accused of beheading his wife, and someone offered you a $10,000 prize to guess the man’s religion, what would be your final answer?
Tolle weakly challenges Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am.” What is existence without thought? That sounds like a very good description of inanimate matter.
You can repress parts of your personality, but you can never eliminate them. What Tolle has done is to repress what Carl Jung would have called the shadow self.
Best selling New-Age author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) recently delivered a TED talk in which she called into question the role of the human mind in the creative process.