Eckhart Tolle Discussion Community

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I wonder... if one never wastes a single opportunity in his/her life, then would he/she be wasting the opportunity to explore the experience of opportunity wasting? :D I think you're on to something :idea: I don't think I buy into the idea that consciousness is growing, or even needs to grow. Maybe...

Thanks for sharing Rachmiel. Went to an OBE seminar in NYC couple of years back through the organization IAC. Had some very interesting stuff. So, wonder if this is a similar thing. Will check it out.

Jen thanks so much for contributing here and sharing your own wisdom. Eckhart's teachings still come back to me with the simplicity of his words. Such a fascinating topic and one that will forever intrigue me, until I croak and get all of my own answers or that NDE I have forever been waiting for :D...

Thanks for contributing WW and Jen. I agree with both of you. I do believe that the larger purpose is within some sort of infinite expansion/evolution of this thing we call 'God/Source/Being'. Almost like, experience is so infinite, like the imagination of the mind of a child, that each new experien...

To carry on with this discussion, one of the things that has come up for me, is the question of.....well, what is the 'goal' of life then? I am posing this question from an experiential perspective of how this directly relates to my own life, and how I can apply it to my own life; how this relates t...

I sent this in a PM to Jen and here is her response. I will add more to this after as well. E2B : I'd be curious to know if, in your NDE, you learned that everything was sort of already 'set in motion' in a sense? I found your comment on free will very interesting. It's something I've gone back and ...

An attorney (consigliere) named Roberta Grimes has spent 40 years researching the afterlife (through information gathered through deep-trance mediums and other sources) and has come to the conclusion that our afterlives are solid, physical, Earth-like and very fun and happy (believe it or not) The ...

Thanks for sharing openly Rachmiel and you don't need to explain yourself to me or anyone, as to why you post. Again, it was just an observation and didn't mean to de-rail the thread, but then again, as Smiley Jenn used to say, to paraphrase, these threads tend to branch off into a variety of differ...

Thanks for the responses gents. I guess anyone can also say, E2B, if you don't like it, no one asked you to respond, and I'd say that's a fair enough assertion as well! I understand your reply, Rachmiel. I too am very analytical. Many of us, are just very analytical people and that's just kind of th...

What I find interesting is that these types of discussions (which there have been a large variety of over the years on this forum, including this very same query), are fun no doubt to debate, discuss, share views on, and play with, and chew on, but they are theoretical, conceptual, and oriented towa...

E2B: But, there's more to it too, because I personally believe that we are each also existing/creating our own individual realities in a sense, while intertwining in each other's stories through a common consensus of sorts. Think parallel universes. Wild stuff RachMiel Okay, this needs some explanat...

In a nutshell, everything is conscious, from quarks to rocks to humans to galaxies the the totality = all that is. And everything is interdependent. So the brain is conscious, as are all its neurons, neurochemicals, etc. As is the body that houses the brain, all objects in the world “external” to t...

Really cool story Web Wanderer. Thank you for sharing that. Get chills reading that. When you first encountered NDEs and OBEs did you doubt their veracity? Or did they just always feel right/true to you? Have either of you had an NDE or OBE experience? If so, did having that experience convince you ...

The one I started with is this interview with Dr. Eben Alexander which I will post below. WebWanderer posted it a few years back and it was my introduction. Because Dr. Alexander is a neuro surgeon who was a hardcore materialist/atheist before his experience, and had his life completely shifted 180 ...