I've read parts of this thread, but I haven't read everything. I just want to say that I did extract some value from The Power of Now, but from a certain point on it felt like something was slightly off for me. LoA and Tolle's ideas overlap here and there, but that's as far as it goes. There's a lot of contradiction between the two.
I personally incorporated the parts that had value for me, but no matter how hard I tried, some parts of Tolle's teachings just didn't seem to resonate well with me on a deeper level. And I don't think it was my ego trying to protect itself, I fully understand the message and I certainly can put myself in a state of ego dissociation and keep it for long periods of time if I really want to and be really present (I eventually lose that, but I have been able to do that for 3 days in a row). But, unless I'm totally losing the point (which I don't think I am), I still feel like there's something off.
When Steve posted the article "
The War on Ego" that made a lot of sense to me and shed some serious light on what was off for me. So I'm with Steve in this one.
With that being said, I think that lots of people might have a different experience, so I think each person should embrace what feels right for them. But LoA and Tolle's teachings are not 100% compatible. Like I said, I did find some overlapping, but there are contradictions and this is where each person needs to figure out by themselves what makes more sense for them.