"The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle - as an Aspie

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My 2¢'s is that Eckhardt Tolle is just one more person who has set themselves up as a spiritual guide using the same basic half dozen big aphorisms. The first of which is "be here now."

Oprah is the one who pushed Eckhardt Tolle into the big times. Here's a pretty good article about him: http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2 ... 5_CV_N.htm

I wish I could communicate how I feel about this author. I don't know how to find the right words to express my thoughts here without it sounding negative. I understand what a discovery it is for people to actually participate in the seconds of their life when I guess they have not been doing it. I have no choice in this and it has made life almost completely unbearable. I hope it is just more something people will learn to find as a way to keep focused and not get lost in what is past or what will be in the future.

I will continue my relentless search for how to deal with the overwhelming intensity of every moment. There aren't any lost minutes in my existence, at times even sleep feels like a string of action sequences. Nothing stops it, nothing ever has, and it is my greatest gift and my greatest challenge.

Okay I've looked into him a bit more and definitely not the same thing I was doing. I'm now irritated that people can use the same sort of words for very different things. Leads to too much... total misunderstanding of seriously important stuff.

There is a fascinating book called "My Stroke of Insight." It is the story of a woman who was a brain surgeon, and she had a stroke in her left temporal lobe, and she lived in the be here now world for a long time. Here is the book http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780670020744-0

And here is a radio show that I found right up my alley... and the author Jill Taylor is interviewd during the show... http://www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab- ... ommentlist

I think I am saying the opposite of some of you while others agree with my main point to some extent.

So this could be a bit of a reach but I think its worth suggesting. I realize I can only speculate and theorize on what would be like to be an N/T but its very clear to me that N/T's seem to be able to float through life and while they can think, they don't let themselves get bogged down with thoughts.

Do you see the point I am making. Both Aspies and N/T's can think. Aspies use it to their advantage but also to their disadvantage. N/T's possibly only use it to their advantage. Because they know they are most productive when they are in autopilot non-thinking mode.

Is it possible that when Tolle had his inner transformation he lost his Aspie tendencies ?

Here is something rather sad but true.

When I am out with people and we are drinking, I seem to gain intelligence while they lose theirs. So on relative terms I move up in my "group intelligence ranking".

Only because we all start thinking less and less as we drink more and more. According to Tolle, alcohol puts one at a level "below thinking" whereas being present is "above thinking".

So I watch all my friends become more stupid while (at least from my perspective) I seem to become more smart.

I wish I lived in a world where everyone else was drunk all the time and then it would be a more fair fight