Eckhart Tolle Discussion Community

I haven't been here in a while, but I wanted to comment on the last few posts. I find it very interesting that tod and peleke4 both mention how difficult the first five chapters of the text are. There is a reason for that. The main version of the Course that most people read is the Foundation for In...

Thanks, Andy. I am still "around." I have been dedicating the last two years to a very intense study of the Text and Workbook of A Course in Miracles, with guidance from my Course teacher, Charles Record. I read the entire Text in two years (reading it and discussing each chapter with my teacher eve...

I attended the School in October of 2006. It was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. And, that is exactly what it is -- one experience after another where you are brought face to face with your own "conditioning" (your own story) and are then invited to do The Work on whatever arises. I ...

"The Work" did wonders for me. I introduced it once to a friend of mine who was having issues in his life. I tried my best to explain the idea between the first two questions (Is that true? Is that absolutely true?). He wouldn't budge. That was 100% his reality, his sacred religion. It seemed that ...

Here is the most recent bolg entry that i wrote for my Gaia page. It is called "Your Neighbor as Yourself." The Greatest Commandment: And one of the scribes came and heard them arguing, and recognizing that He had answered them well, asked Him, "What commandment is the foremost of all?" Jesus answer...

What I find so fascinating about the Course is you don't have to understand it for it to work. Just read it, do the lessons and changes(or miracles) occur of which I have had a few. I respectfully disagree. What I have learned is that the three volumes of the Course represent three different but ne...

I wanted to revisit this topic since I have been studying the Course very intensely for the past 7 or 8 months now. I am very grateful for my Course teacher. I have learned so much about the Course in the past several months and feel very strongly that it is a spiritual masterpiece. It is not for ev...

The Work Online is a great resource for those new to The Work. I let my membership expire and have not renewed it yet. However, I am not new to The Work, and even I enjoyed the online program and the "help" that it provided when I was using it. Basically Katie (via video/audio) walks you through the...

I have noticed that I am sometimes automatically "turning around" thoughts when I am aware of them, so it might be starting to become a natural practice in me. For now, I will still write it out so that I can see it on paper. It does seem that writing it out on paper is very important. Like Katie s...

Hey all, I remember first reading about Byron Katie on this forum, so I eventually decided to have a look at her work. I read "Loving What Is" and really enjoyed it, just last week I started doing The Work (self inquriy) on myself on an almost-daily basis. Tolle has been quoted as saying "Byron Kat...

Here is some correspondance between Byron Katie and Jill Bolte Taylor that was published in Katie's most recent on-line newsletter: Of course we don't all have to have a stroke to understand the beauty of things exactly as they are. The four questions and turnarounds are enough. You can end your own...

Have any of you gotten this 6 CD set yet? I am loving it. I think I am on disk 4 right now. I am liking Adya more and more. I like the way he distinguishes between two types of awakening -- the abiding type and the non-abiding type. I can certainly see that I have experienced the non-abiding type. I...

Could you tell more about what led up to this expereince--like what were the workshop exercises you were doing and were they related to this experience? I was attending the Level II Training in Integrative Restoration (iRest) Yoga Nidra as taught by Richard Miller, PhD. This was the second 40-hour ...

At a recent training in Integrative Restoration (iRest) I had a few "experiences" that seem to relate to this topic. 1) I was in a dyad with a partner and I got a sense of myself as the ego. I "took on" the ego and described it as much like wearing a mask. I then shifted to Pure Awareness and had a ...

I absolutely love this book. Not much time now to post about it. I will try to say more later. It is a wonderful "tour" of the awakened life. Highly recommended!