In his bestsellers, Eckhart Tolle tells us we have a “pain-body” carrying our “living past”—a concept closely resembling ideas in Maurice Nicoll’s earlier writing. View side-by-side comparisons of more than …

Eckhart Tolle writes that negative states are contagious, toxic, cause illness and misery, yet we take pleasure in them like a drug—echoing what Maurice Nicoll wrote decades earlier.

Eckhart Tolle closely corresponds with Maurice Nicoll in describing how self-observation gives us a conscious “power of choice” over how we react to people and events. By becoming responsible for …