Daily Meh is an edited stream of consciousness, by Simen.

Here, Now: Eckhart Tolle Takes the Stage

Adam M. Bright:

We should begin with a confession: by most metrics, I’m a New Age nut. I have a life coach. I begin my day with an hour of yoga, then proceed to my morning journal, my meditation, my visualizations and my spoken affirmations. On Sunday mornings, I wake at dawn and walk to my local Zen temple in order to sit motionless, in absolute agony, for three hours with other like-minded nuts. I am currently collaborating on a book of Eastern spirituality cartoons with my own mother (herself a yoga teacher). Yet—and here I place my brittle hand in yours—I am also, like most of you, I imagine, a cynic at heart. I am aware that I am a nut and it shames me. I despise the other nuts. I despise my own nuttiness.

I’m definitely a cynic at heart. This is why there might well be people who have the answers to all my problems, but I’m too cynical and skeptical to put any faith in them. This stuff sounds like a perfect fit, right? But it also sounds too much like New Age. The fact that people can write long essays on the man’s teachings without being able to convey what they find in them that is so fantastic doesn’t exactly restore my faith in the written word as a way to spiritual enlightenment, either.