Consciousness soul: Can you be enligthened over night? It seems you can.



How then do you become a consciousness soul? Do you want to become enlightened? Do you want to be a consciousness soul? I have good news and bad news:

The author Eckhart Tolle has the most amazing insight into enlightenment. I don't often make a video clip essential to my articles, but this clip from Youtube is so critical toward understanding enlightenment from a different perspective - heard from one of the most advanced enlightenment thinkers of our time.

As one of the this enlightenment era's enlightenment philosophers his insight is simple and easy to integrate, yet difficult to practice. Firstly, you can not become enlightened in the future. What the hell does that mean? To comprehend this, you have to have a deeper understanding of the Eckhart Tolle biography. He wrote the book, The Power of Now. This book identified him as a consciousness soul. He describes how his traumatized agony had lead him to separate from his psychological ego so intensely that he experienced an ego-less reality within the space of 24 hours. His greatest contribution as enlightenment philosopher is helping us understand that time is an illusion. This is not a new concept, quantum physics has been saying that for years. What Eckhart Tolle does very well, is to give us the experience of living without time - living in the now as he calls it. It seems enlightenment is a state of being which you experience or not. Thus, it is not a destination or objective and making it an objective means not being in a state of enlightenment. So finding enlightenment is not something you achieve like you obtain a degree or diploma, rather it is the ability to live in total harmony with pure consciousness.

This is not a new concept, consciousness without your ego launching a stream of thought on you regarding the past or future. If you have experienced enlightenment it may be only briefly (before you ego butts in again) or over time and more practice, the state will have more permanence. Again, you cannot arrive and say you ARE enlightened as you ARE a doctor. No, you can merely at any given moment state whether you are enlightened NOW! This is supported by Mooji - another consciousness soul. He calls it "Satsang with Mooji", satsang meaning the invitation to step into the fire of self-discovery. Here's clip from Youtube.

I list this clip from Youtube here as the enlightenment era seems to want to find enlightenment only from eastern philosophies, but there is little that Mooji says that is not echoes by the western author Eckhart Tolle. In fact I am not always convinced that the eastern philosophies are always correct. For one the famous Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (himself a consciousness soul), the founder of the Transcendental Meditation organization, seems to view the achievement of enlightenment as a slow process, which has to go through phases. In fact he teaches the 7 levels of consciousness after which you will be finding enlightenment. Here is Mahareshi's take on enlightenment also from Youtube.

This is diametrically opposed to what Eckart Tolle suggest. Eckart Tolle view is supported by the natural view held by Dr Deepak Chopra (another consciousness soul) who once said that if something is an effort, you are doing something wrong. Nature is effortless, every living thing except humans, live in a state of bliss. The effortlessness (not be confused with passiveness) is a manifestation of pure consciousness. Maharishi also claims to lead the scientific revolution and enlightenment, but there is such controversy over that statement that I will rather dedicate an entire page to that. I have been involved personally with Maharishi's TM and don't quite agree with him.

They describe the process of finding enlightenment as similar to the old process of dying a cloth. You dip it in the die, wash it and some color is retain. Every time you repeat the process, a bit more of the color is retained. So every time you practice TM, you access pure consciousness and some of it will remain when you come out of meditation. Over time, enough will be retained for you to be enlightened. Then I've also practices Eckhart Tolle's living in the NOW. The latter is more in line with what I know about consciousness (timelessness being the strongest element). There is now effort, no objective, no achievement - NO. There is only awareness, the more aware I am, the more consciousness I am. The more aware I am, the more enlightened I am. All in this moment as I cannot judge the next moment or know what state of awareness I will have then.

You might find these Mindfulness exercises helpful in raising awareness. I suppose as westerner, Eckhart Tolle resonates with me more, yet this is not merely because of his western origins. It is also because his views on enlightenment are supported (albeit not directly) by quantum physics. There is some response to Eckhart Tolle. The below Yogi (referring to a male practitioner of spirituality) give a detailed response in this little clip from Youtube.

Not forgetting that the Renaissance was an enlightenment era. Yes it referred to a different understanding of enlightenment or did it? Does a greater awareness of art, science, nature, etc. not mean greater consciousness? Is that not what enlightenment is all about?

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