I was thinking about my history of reading ET, and listening to his talks, and decided to come post in this thread. I do own the BK book with The Work, I never got into it. I found The Work to be a waste of time. ET had an immediate effect though and I was reading TPON again and again. This was between 2010 and 2013. This influences me even today. The most helpful aspects of the book app
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Hey Andy, I, like you, have come to the conclusion that Eckhart’s “teachings” are not for me. I will try to put my experiences into a nutshell- I read the Power of Now for the first time when I was 21. I was going through a very messy breakup with a girl that I thought was the “one”. Dealing with loss of my best friend, and grandfather, Eckhart’s book definitely helped me look at the though
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I am very grateful of this site. It's been useful in my recovery from "new-age" bunk and learn more about cults. I took an "Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction" course a while back. It was somewhat helpful, but lately I have been getting e-mails from my teacher about Don Miguel Ruiz spiritual sabbaticals. I didn't think much of them and deleted them. Now I have bee
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