And yet, it doesn't seem all that rare for you to post something saying "I just discovered another idiotic bug in my mental functioning. So I bypassed the gibson using my self-transcending transcendence-transmogrification method, and I'm better now." To my cynical eye, there seems to be some tension here.

As a programmer, I will charitably note that it's not uncommon for a more serious bug to mask other more subtle ones; fixing the big one is still good, even if the program may look just as badly broken afterwards. Judging from his blog, he's doing well enough for himself, and if he was in a pretty bad state to begin with his claims may be justified. There's a difference between "I fixed the emotional hang-up that was making this chore hard to do" and "I've fixed a crippling, self-reinforcing terror of failure that kept me from doing anything with my life".

That said, there is a lack of solid evidence, and the grandiosity of the claims suggests brilliant insight or crackpottery in some mixture--but then, the same could be said of Eliezer, and he's clearly won many people over with his ideas.