The book The Power of Now, A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle, has been widely recognized as one of the most influential spiritual books of our time. A #1 New York Times bestseller, it has been translated into over 30 languages. The book has helped countless people around the globe awaken to the spiritual dimension in their lives, find inner peace, increased joy and more harmonious relationships.
The problem of course, as with virtually all popular self-help books, training courses and spiritual paths, is that they fail to recognize the fact that the brain is an organ which is subject to immutable laws of biochemistry, and when the brain is nutritionally starved, full of neurotoxins and plagued with chronic imbalances of neurotransmitters, as amassed scientific studies suggest is the case in most modern day human beings, many people may be relatively incapable of accessing The Power of Now. Regardless of how well-taught A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment is, many people may not stand a "snowball's chance in Hell" of realizing inner peace and enlightenment. When people work a spiritual path in order to get a taste of enlightenment using these methods, and they suffer from brain malnutrition, neurotoxicity and neurotransmitter imbalances, the door to heaven may be slammed shut in their faces, and they often abandon paths towards spirituality in disillusionment and cynicism. How can one expect to travel far in a car which is out of gas, has not had the oil changed for 50,000 miles (detoxification) and has never had a tuneup?
The position that our brain chemistry, by its very design and functional relationships, is obviously designed to help us become enlightened, completely changes the whole approach to the issue of spirituality. A new dimension of hope is available for those who had been unable to realize the benefits of The Power of Now or other paths to psychospirituality or psychotherapy. The astonishing implications of the information presented on this website, The Neurotransmitters of NOW, is that the "normal" condition of human consciousness is enlightenment, and that the current plight of most people's brains, in which the The Neurotransmitters of NOW remain dormant and dysfunctional, is a highly abnormal condition.
Although in purely statistical terms, to not exist in the NOW and to be somewhat preoccupied much of the time with anxiety, fears, resentments and mental anguish appears to be "the norm" for many people, as the headlines in the media would suggest, that widespread condition of "endarkenment" is, in terms of what the amassed biochemical and neuroimagery evidence would suggest, a very abnormal state. Having large segments of the brain existing in a dormant state is simply not supposed to be the way the brain should work, anymore than going through life with 2 perfectly functional arms and never using them would be considered to be normal.
Knowledge is power, and we can use our scientific power for our destruction by destroying people's brains with drug profiteering and junkfood, or we can make the scientific case for our salvation. The reverse engineering of God's creation, the scientific dismantling of the human brain to understand how God put it together, should compel us to treat it with tender loving care, to feed it properly, to detoxify it and help to optimize its function, so that the brain's of humans will be positioned to realize their spiritual birthright.
I pray and hope that those like Eckhart Tolle, who are engaged in their important spiritual work and teaching others about enlightenment, will come to realize that in this day and age, relatively few people can achieve value from their work, because of the impaired natured of their central nervous systems. The advent of these scientific principles changes the whole dynamic, and for the first time in history a plausible rationale exists to effect a mass awakening of Humanity into a true age of enlightenment. When one considers the nature of terrorism and widespread dissemination of weapons of mass destruction, such a mass awakening, based in part on scientific evidence and the true power of knowledge, has never been so timely. 