This is replying the post from another thread on Tolle, but i will just keep it to this thread. If "something happened" to him, as he described, then he didn't do anything to "become happy", or "enlightened", etc. He didn't "learn it" like a Tibetan Buddhist monk might learn it, after decades of mental training. To me, it sounds like he had
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Tolle listed as in the lineage (or something) of a Shri H.W.L. Poonja. ---------------- From an interview titled "The Power of Eckhart Tolle A teacher of Tolle's work describes his unique brand of 'secular spirituality.' An interview with Dr. Gunther Weil", about Tolle: "He spent the next two years reading Krishna Murti, Ramana Maharshi, going t
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QuoteAmong other things, I am not aware that Tolle has ever mentioned which groups or teachers he studied with to refine or develop his insights. (If Tolle has published this information, could someone please post it, along with citations or URLs where it can be fact checked?) On his web site, under News, following the Archive link at the bottom of page, then link to India Tour, his #1 wom
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QuoteI really do see what he is saying as a type of metaphysical suicide attempt. Its sick. Why not embrace our wonderful human mind, which is a wonder of evolution, and still unexplained by science? We can still learn to relax, and enjoy life, and use our POWERFUL critical faculties to not be duped in this manner. He's preaching nihilism, and Ego-death. Scary stuff. This enti
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Coz, thanks for starting this thread. The social and economic context in which ideas of all kinds are marketed these days can undercut the efforts of the kindest and most well intentioned teacher, unless that person is aware and is constantly, and strenuously taking precautions to ensure that social context and the pressures of marketing dont undercut the integrity of his or her teaching care
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I ordered this book from the library, as so many people were talking about it. There is just too much to go into, but I find many aspects of this guys stuff not helpful, and even destructive. First off, he talks about how... "until my 30th year, I lived in a state of almost continuous anxiety interspersed with periods of suicidal depression". Then he gives a bizarre account
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...not in any professional sense. Thats why I needed to get help FROM a professional (grin) Thank you for mentioning this subtype of migraine headache. Just as we are discovering that many people experienced painless heart attacks, its very interesting that one can experience a painless migraine and have disruptions in the quality of conscious awareness. And (sigh) not all physicians would eve
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The writer is telling a correspondant that 'freezing one's thoughts' is not the same as enlightenment. It makes me wonder whether the prolonged trancy stare of the gurus you've all met cause our thoughts to freeze, merely because our eyes become fixed on them, whether by fascination, adoration, or terror (which is probably what happens to his victims when certain abusive t
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Landmark is an corrupt organisation, selling abusive seminars promising people a happy and successfull life. The Forum leaders are corrupt people selling their integrity for money. Before their minds were conditioned by society, now their minds are conditioned by Landmark. The Forum leaders are just parroting the same unauthentic information like copy cats. Forum leaders are company men, neve
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