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Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina  They probably found me via the web or a personal referral. Lots of people in this field know about my website, so the fact they contacted me didn't surprise me. People contact me with interesting offers every week. One of my articles ranks in the top 10 for a Google search on "power of now," so that would have been one possible connection to Tolle.
I think they were looking to recruit additional trainers to help teach Tolle's material. Teaching someone else's material is the wrong path for me though. They'll surely find someone else who can do a good job as a Tolle trainer. That isn't the best way for me to help people.
I really didn't care what exposure or money was involved -- if the path is wrong, it doesn't matter if it's paved in gold. |
I see. Too bad it wasn't part of your path - I think it would be cool if you got exposure that fit your path. Close.
I think they are off their rocker to try to find someone to teach Tolle stuff. It seems that isn't in keeping with Tolle's work either. I mean his ideas have to do with dispelling masters and apprentice and gurus and that there is only one way. I'd hate to see some multilevel hierarchy around these ideas. That would be back to having an ego structure to try to deliver a message about dispelling the ego.
And, Steve, your blog is saying the ego is good. No need to kill it. Well, that's a definition. The ego gets defined many ways. The ego as defined as what causes separation and being stuck in duality, is the part that drops away. We don't have to fight anything, since it's really a mis-perception to think or identify with that part of us that thinks we are separate. The more we fight that, the more the ego of separation gets fed. It is actually the ego doing the fighting if there's a fight about it.
What happened to SR? Isn't SR the view that our identity is not our little ego? That we are actually everything in our sphere of being (and more). And so in a way you are saying with SR to let go of the ego too? You are part of the war on ego by having a SR concept.