The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment  is intended to be a guide for day-to-day living and stresses the importance of living in the present moment and transcending thoughts of the past or future. The book draws from a variety of "spiritual traditions", and has been described by one reviewer as "Buddhism mixed with mysticism and a few references to Jesus Christ a sort of New Age re-working of Zen. It uses these traditions to describe a "belief system based on living in the present moment". Its core message is that people's emotional problems are rooted in their identification with their minds. The author writes that an individual should be aware of their "present moment" instead of losing themselves in worry and anxiety about the past or future