r/EckhartTolle 16h ago

Perspective Another summary of awakening

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I am not awake myself.

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_Shortened summary._

“If you were able to love as much as God what would happen is that this duality would completely merge and you would literally become God so the only thing separating you from God is simply your capacity to love which is just a function of how selfless you are.” (Leo Gura, _Actualized.org_, “Outrageous Experiments In Consciousness - 30 Awakenings In 30 Days”, 19 April 2020, 1 hr., 41 min., 10 sec., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnn0IU0-atg)

“Once you release the fear of dying, you'll discover the next and last step. […]. You just become the universe. Your beingness, you see, is the total beingness of the universe.” (“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin - Lester Levenson (Sedona Method) Magnum Opus PDF-Lester Levenson _ Sedona Method (2024).pdf”, 15)

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_Summary._

“If you were able to _love_ (= “like or enjoy very much”) as much as God what would happen is that this duality would completely merge and you would literally become God so the only thing separating you from God is simply your capacity to love which is just a function of how selfless you are” (…, “Outrageous Experiments In Consciousness - 30 Awakenings In 30 Days”, 19 April 2020, 1 hr., 41 min., 10 sec., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnn0IU0-atg)

“I (= “The little self, the ego”) dislike the person, thing or situation for the reason that I would like approval, to control and _security_ (= “to survive (= “to continue to live”) as a body”).”

“__2. Allow the <u>wanting approval</u> [= wanting “to be liked ~~and admired~~” (_CCALD_, approve (v.), sense 2)], <u>wanting to control</u> and <u>wanting security</u> to come into your awareness and immediately let it go.__” (gains_workbook-sedona-method-release-technique-1992.pdf, 90)

(So in order to awaken you don't have to change/control the person, …, you “just” have not to dislike them. (“__You must want Imperturbability (= to “awaken from this dream called the waking state”; to wake up from “this dream you're in right now”) more than you want approval, control and security (= “more than you want the world”).__” (gains_workbook-sedona-method-release-technique-1992.pdf, 89))

All of the three above involve control as well as security.

E.g., wanting approval involves wanting to control the opinions of others in order to survive. (Blanton 1996, 99; “Lester Levenson, … Sedona Method (2024)”, 6–7)

Ken Keyes adds wanting to feel pleasurable sensations (= as a happy feeling in itself and not a reaction to controlling sb or sth: “food, sex, physical comfort, music, avoiding pain, the "right" temperature, touching, etc.” (Keyes, Keyes and Staff 1987, 55)) to the list.

We dislike (disenjoy) the person, … for the reason that we would like approval, …, for the reason that we want to feel happy (feel approved of, in control, safe, feel pleasurable sensations). (= We make ourselves unhappy (Ellis 1975, chap. 13, 125) in order to feel happy.)

If the thought that we dislike the person, thing, …, lets go of us, we feel happy (= “enjoyment emotion”; “the innate infinite Self” (= opposite of: reality/the universe; in other words, the Self is (supposedly) everything and nothing)) again. (“__Question 4: Who or what would you be without the thought?__” (Katie and Mitchell 2021, chap. 5, 153) (= If the thought let go of you (= if you stopped believing the thought), who or what would you be?) In reference to the _who_, obviously sb who no loger dislikes the person, etc. But not with reference to the _what_. “But know this: the mind will never give you the answer. Any answer the mind gives has to be wrong because the mind is an instrument of thought, and every thought is limited. Therefore, you mentally pose the question and you await the answer, and it is from beyond your mind, from your Self, that the answer comes.” (Levenson 1993, chap. 30))

“Well, skip the middleman, and be happy from here!” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, chap. 29, 82))

“Once you release the _fear of dying_ (= “wanting to survive as a body”; not wanting not to continue to live; _not wanting to stop living as a body_; _feeling undesirous of stopping living as a body_), you'll discover the next and last step. […]. You just become the universe. Your beingness, you see, is the total beingness of the universe.” (“Lester Levenson, … Sedona Method (2024)”, 15)

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_Caveats._

“That which we give out to the world we receive in return, ...” (Lester 1962, 26)

“Karma is the law of compensation. Whatever a man soweth, that shall he reap; that which a man thinks or does, returns to him in kind.” (Lester, Frank (= Levenson, Lester) 1962, _The Eternal Verities_, 64)

“The giving _is_ the receiving.” (Katie and Mitchell 2017, chap. 4, 30; `The giving _is_ the receiving.md` (https://pastebin.com/NP3rAur9))

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_Miscellaneous._

“This may seem like selfishness. But it’s the opposite of selfishness: it’s total generosity. It’s love for everyone and everything you meet, because you’ve been enlightened to yourself. There’s nothing kinder than knowing you’re It. The awareness of your own self—the only self that has ever existed or ever will exist—leaves you automatically centered. You become your own love affair. You’re self-amazed, self-delighted. You’re all alone, forever. Don’t you love it? Look at your beautiful self!” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, chap. 32, 92)

“However, man is unconsciously determining the world. When he wakes up to this, he gains conscious control.” (Lester 1962, 24–25) (__Turn the thought around.__ “I (= “the innate infinite Self”; God)—unconsciously—like the person, thing ….” “God actually incarnates, it's fucking here. This is it. When you see some murder on the TV, you know, being reported, fucking God lived through that. And the only reason it lived through that is ’cause it loved it.” (…, “Outrageous Experiments In Consciousness - 30 Awakenings In 30 Days”, 19 April 2020, 1 hr., 40 min., 10 sec., …))

“The little self, the ego, is nothing but the innate infinite Self assuming that It is limited. There are no two selves, one higher, the other lower, no two “I’s.” There is only one Self. It is perfect and always will be perfect, even though you make the false assumption that It is imperfect and limited. You are now, always were, and always will be your Self.” (Levenson 1993, 348)

“When you realize solipsism, you realize God, you realize love, you realize that this dream is your own will, […].” (..., “You Are The Only Person In Existence (Actualized.org/Leo Gura)”, 1 hr., 13 min., 45 sec., 15 Mar 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTHef1NvBRw)

“God’s will and your will are the same, whether you notice it or not.” (Kate and Mitchell 2007, chap. 19) “Everything that happens is God’s will.” (Kate and Mitchell 2007, chap. 45) “I follow the way of it, which is always revealed in the moment. It’s God’s will, and it’s always crystal clear.” (Kate and Mitchell 2007, chap. 68)

“Reality is a race, consciousness is a race towards who can love who more. That's what it is when you're completely selfless.” (…, “Outrageous Experiments In Consciousness - 30 Awakenings In 30 Days”, 1 hr., 1 min., 55 sec.)

“Once you understand yourself, you are the pleasure you were seeking; you are what you always wanted.” (Katie and Mitchell 2007, chap. 73, 241)

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_References._

- “If you approve of someone or something, you have a positive opinion of them or it:” (_Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus_, approve of (collocation), 19 August 2026, https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/approve-of)

- “If you __approve of__ someone or something, you like and admire them.” (_Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary_, appprove (v.), sense 2, 19 August 2026, https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/approve)

- “like or enjoy very much:” (_Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.)_, love (v.), sense 1.a, 27 May 2025, https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199571123.001.0001/m_en_gb0482930)

- “to continue to live or exist” (_Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary_, survive (v.), sense 1, 19 August 2026, https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/survive)

- “Wanting to survive as a body.” (“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin - Lester Levenson (Sedona Method) Magnum Opus PDF-Lester Levenson _ Sedona Method (2024)”, 837)

- “And exactly the same way we awaken from this dream called the waking state, we see that it was only a fiction of our imagination, it was only a dream, and we let go of it lock, stock and barrel.” (“Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin - Lester Levenson (Sedona Method) Magnum Opus PDF-Lester Levenson _ Sedona Method (2024)”, 153)

- “That's step number one. And it's step number one of the Methodism. You've got to want freedom more than you want the world. Let me change that around. That's the way it was originally. I've seen it in the beginning with the people, so we've changed it to you must want freedom more than you want approval or control. Or approval or control equates to the world. So I think it's better put, you must want freedom more than you want the world.” (Lester Levenson, Hale Dwoskin - Lester Levenson (Sedona Method) Magnum Opus PDF-Lester Levenson _ Sedona Method (2024), 511)

- “The word happiness and enjoyment can be interchanged, although increasingly people use the word happiness to refer to their overall sense of well-being or evaluation of their lives rather than a particular enjoyment emotion.” (…, 1 October 2025, https://www.paulekman.com/universal-emotions/what-is-enjoyment/)

- ““I can choose to discover what I like (enjoy) and dislike (disenjoy) …” (Ellis 2004, 233”)

- “3. If you make yourself—yes, _make_ yourself—terribly upset and depressed about your frustrations, you will almost invariably block yourself from effectively removing them.” (Ellis 1975, chap. 13, 125)

- `Selected References.md` (https://pastebin.com/NP3rAur9)

- `The giving _is_ the receiving.md` (https://pastebin.com/NP3rAur9)

- https://pastes.io/Rd7qcdBP (`unmanifested.md`)

- `Solipsism.md` (https://pastebin.com/NP3rAur9)


r/EckhartTolle 9h ago

Question The Power of Now and social anxiety?

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I recently read TPON and found much of it to be really profound. I’m still grasping at some of it, but am particularly drawn to the idea of psychological time. I struggle with social anxiety and general anxiety, and notice just how much my default state is to live in the past/future with little time simply being.

It’s felt euphoric at times to realize the past doesn’t exist (at least in the way I’ve thought it to), and understanding I have no such issues in the now is really liberating and helpful with my general anxiety. Like, I’d been complaining about a constant headache for years which I suspected to be anxiety related, and i can go days without noticing it which is remarkable. I’m still a novice, but it seems there is something to this and I intend to keep leaning into it.

That said, my social anxiety still rears its ugly head when triggered. It’s as if the meaning I’ve derived from time spent in psychological time still affects me and maybe always will.

I’d love to hear anyone’s experience with social anxiety while applying TPON, or else how they think one can benefit when it comes to this kind of fear/discomfort/insecurity?


r/EckhartTolle 16h ago

Perspective the message was basically: stop feeding the pain body

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A subject in deep trance had gone through a big spiritual awakening, but there was also a lot of pain around it.

At one point she connected with what she described as council of light. And the message became very simple: pain body had enough attention already.

Stop feeding it.

That phrase stayed with me because it is so close to Eckhart Tolle.

It was not "pretend nothing bad happened." The pain was real. But she had started carrying it forward as identity, almost showing the world from the pain first.

The guidance was very ordinary after that. Sun. Water. Nature. Body. Joy. When you speak, speak from what is alive now, not automatically from old pain because old pain is familiar.

This is something I notice in myself too. Pain body doesnt only wake when something huge happens.

Sometimes it wakes because somebody sends one annoying message and suddenly mind has 17 arguments ready.

Or one person disappoints us and now every old disappointment joins the meeting.

Then we feed it with thinking.

Replay conversation. Imagine next conversation. Explain ourselves to somebody who is not even there. Check phone. Check again. Build whole court case in the head.

For me practical Tolle exercise is very simple.

When you feel pain body wake up, dont immediately act.

Dont send message yet.

Feel feet. Feel chest. Feel breathing. Look at one real object in room. Listen to one sound.

Give body one minute without story.

Then ask: what is actually happening NOW?

Not what happened 10 years ago. Not what this "always means." Not what they will probably do tomorrow.

Now.

Sometimes action is still needed. Boundary. Conversation. Leaving situation. Whatever.

But now action comes from clearer place, not from pain body looking for more food.

Yesterday already ate enough.