Eckhart Tolle’s Hall of Mirrors

Tolle's project is one of empowering humans to detach from the many externalities that people typically identify themselves by--histories, bodies, desires, beliefs, work, emotions, roles--which are thought to be the sources of personal affliction. To detach from them allows one to enjoy a more truthful and untroubled life. The "true self" that Tolle promotes is a self that is stripped of the externalities people identify with so that they might enter a spiritual realm that is transcendent and an