Tolle is a pantheistic monist who blames the ego for all that's wrong in this world. This does not come without repercussions, most notably, his system inhibits true human flourishing. The human person cannot flourish when humanity, personality, and all that this encompasses - thinking, acting, feeling, etc. - are brushed aside as irrelevant, and even worse, a deceptive pathological delusion! Although people generally desire a buffet-style spirituality that is made-to-order - and thus, one reason for this book's great popularity - there is also another reason, and the blame lies with the church. People would not so quickly buy into Tolle's system if their hunger for spirituality had been met in the Christian church. The church's treasure-house of spiritual riches - its profound and mystical union with God in Christ through the Spirit, its sacramental way of viewing creation as a means of revealing God's grace, its call to practice God's presence in all things, etc. - has hardly been mined for all its worth.
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