So I finally got around to reading The Power of Now.

I had studiously avoided the text since it’s publication in 1999. I think because a part of me had made certain assumptions about this book.

Let’s call that part of my mind The Intellectual Snob. The Intellectual Snob had assumed that Eck’s bestseller was nothing but minestrone soup. How could it be a “spiritual classic” in such a short time? Who cared if Oprah Herself was singing its praises – no, this phenomenon was nothing but excessively reheated minestrone soup. End of.

And that’s not good soup by anyone’s standards, that’s soup made up of spiritual bits and bobs, cherry-picked from Eastern and Western traditions, strung together with a snappy, bumper-sticker slogan and delivered in my audiobook format through Mr T’s faintly creepy vocalizations.

THE POWER OF NOW?

Yadda yadda, yawn.

(Forgive the tone of my Intellectual Snob, but that’s how they sound.)

CONTINUE READING: http://stevewasserman.co.uk/therapy/the-power-of-now-therapy/

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