What I didn't fully anticipate was the reaction that some individuals with significant ties to other forms of meditation - particularly yoga - would be. Apparently there's a significant number of people who have been passing themselves off as some kind of meditation wizz kids, or experts, for some time. What I didn't realize was just how easily the egos of some of those people would be bruised by the notion that someone might have uncovered something that they might have missed. In some cases their reaction has just been to automatically pooh-pooh or downplay in an attempt to keep the focus on whatever it was that they happened to be pitching. Or what some people who have significant ties to yoga have done is just default to the position that all forms of meditation are essentially yoga. That way they've got their ass covered in the event that they might've actually missed something. They're petrified that they might look bad.

Let me make one thing clear. My technique is not yoga. If my technique was yoga the ancient yogis would've discovered the energy factor 2000 years ago. We know that that just simply was not the case. People with ties to yoga have been basing their claim that ECMT is yoga on one thing. They point out that because yoga was defined as the restraint of thought then ECMT is yoga because I mention a state that I refer to as "mind shutdown" in my book. Well, their own argument is in actuality their own argument's best rebuttal. You see, whereas yoga might've been defined as the restraint of thought, ECMT is not. ECMT is defined as energy control or, more specifically, the resetting of energy factors. Nor is yoga's restraint of thought ECMT's mind shutdown. They're entirely diferent. Restraint of thought is something that anyone can do anytime. You could try to restraint your thought right now. Just try to stop thinking. There, you've restrained your thought. That's not ECMT's mind shutdown, folks. Mind shutdown is a state that can occur when performing ECMT correctly. It is not the technique itself, though. Nor for that matter does my technique focus on breathing pattern, incorporate the use of a mantra, or any physical contortions like yoga does.

My technique is based on the way that the mind actually works. In fact, one of the caveats of my book is that not only does it teach the reader how to meditate, it teaches the reader how the human mind works also.

Some of the things that have been written about my book online have been outright malicious. For instance, take a look at this malicious review that some deranged lunatic with apparent ties to yoga posted to Amazon.com:

"I was given this book by a friend a few weeks ago and read through it. Unfortunately, there was not really anything there. It was just the author rambling about not eating red meat and how to switch personalities. I would have been very upset if I had bought this. The technique is nothing new by the way. Its called "Nirodha" if you study Yoga."

This is a perfect example of the depths that the insane element of the pro-yoga crowd will sink to in an attempt to deliberately mislead the public about my book. If you haven't read my book already, what are you going to think? You're going to think that it's just about me discussing my diet, right? What you wouldn't know is that although I do mention an experience that I had with red meat, it isn't until the very last page of the book and comes at the end of a very serious chapter on how to recognize signals that your subconscious mind sends to your conscious mind. Consequently, to say that the book is just me rambling on about not eating red meat is not only a lie, it's an insane lie because it was intended to deliberately mislead the public. But if someone hadn't read the book they wouldn't know that

I believe that people who tell lies to deliberately mislead the public are insane. It would be similar to someone deliberately posting a review about a book on cabinet making and saying that the book was about gardening instead. Yet when I pointed out to Amazon that this fruitcake had posted a deliberate and malicious lie about my book they responded: "The review meets the guidelines of our review policy." That should tell you all that you need to know about Amazon's review process. Any review process that allows people hiding behind aliases to make up and post malicious lies about books is a review process that's totally lacking in any credibility whatsoever. You might just want to avoid all reviews on Amazon altogether - reviews of all books!

(Note: Since I wrote this, the above-mentioned review has been mysteriously deleted from Amazon.com. But the fact that it had appeared in the first place should still serve as a warning regarding any reviews or comments that you read on Amazon.)

The bottomline is to be careful about what you believe when it comes to anything that you happen to read about my book online. The first question you want to ask is does the person who posted a given review have strong ties to yoga? Chances are that if they reference the term "yoga" in their review, they do. That should be a red flag right off the bat. People with strong ties to yoga automatically will not say pleasent things about my book. They're afraid that ECMT is superior to yoga. Or, if they've been making money off yoga, they consider my book a threat. Here are some more red flags to look for:

1) The review in question doesn't make any reference to the energy factor. The energy factor is the main topic of discussion in my book. It's my claim to fame. Any review that doesn't mention it can't be considered reputable or credible

2) The reviewer very carefully dances around mentioning anything said in the book. This is one of two things that all the individuals who've posted unfavorable reviews of my book have in common. They all have very carefully danced around mentioning anything specific that's said in the book. The reason for that of course is because they know that it's a very interesting book. So much so that if they were to mention anything in it they would just pique people's interest in the book. For instance, among other things, all my book does is explain the way the human mind works. These people don't want you to know that.

3) The second thing that all the individuals who've posted unfavorable reviews of my book have in common is that nary a one has tried to dispute anything that I say in the book. This is more significant than you might think. These people are out to destroy my book. Believe me, if they could dispute something in it, anything, they most definitely would. But they know they can't.