Beliefs have traditionally come with blind acceptance - either due to very complex disposition or due to its origins in fear (sins/hell etc). To that extent, I

Beliefs have traditionally come with blind acceptance - either due to very complex disposition or due to its origins in fear (sins/hell etc). To that extent, I agree that what Tolle is doing falls outside of beliefs - it is a paradigm change in that the path he charted to get to enlightenment is much more scientific in nature - verifiable, logical and something that can be easily experimented with. And most of all it doesn't have its origins in fear or authority.