What Do You Think About Near Death Experiences? | Eckhart Answers

Eckhart shares that we are deeper than our physical form. The essence of who we are survives death. It is the body that dissolves while our consciousness continues.
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[@vaunniethayer1484]

A good friend of mine died at the age of 35. She left a husband and three children behind. There was an open casket at her funeral. I debated whether I wanted to view her body. I had never seen a dead body, much less of someone I had known and loved for many years. When I looked into the casket I knew that wasn’t who she was, it was no more than a garment she had been cloaked in, a disguise. That’s when, I knew our spirit lives on.

[@dare-er7sw]

There's no death. Our real nature is the immensity and infinity of consciousness.

[@brianjett6452]

True. This vessel is form and finite yet the animation and awareness aback the form is infinite.

[@dare-er7sw]

@@brianjett6452 True.

[@Rabmcm32]

@@dare-er7swTolle is fundamentally wrong though - there is individual consciousness . It’s not just “one consciousness .”

[@ikuiper]

I can relate to your story… I was sad before I saw the body of my deceased relative. When I saw his body my sadness changed into a peaceful feeling. I guessed at that moment that this is the feeling of faith. Since then I know there is more between heaven and earth… ❤💫

[@nilacurry4230]

Eckhart’s dry humor is unusually satisfying 😂

[@tiffanyjoleenbowserdimeco6294]

😂 It is!!!❤

[@lexqbeanable]

Always 😂

[@ItsMia916]

💯😂🙌🏼♥️

[@warriorshedge6772]

Its cuz you like older men

[@danielpaulson8838]

@@warriorshedge6772 Comment section are only complete after hearing from a teenage boy.

[@yourcalmplace]

- I just want to let anyone who’s reading this, and going through a tough time know that it’s going to be okay. You’ll get through it! ✨

[@cozicoops]

Your calm place.. you are so annoying!

[@luigigiuseppetti8484]

Possano tutti gli esseri senzienti,per quanto possibile,essere ""guariti"" dalla sofferenza "emotiva spirituale fisica"🙏🌼🌻 namastè 🙏 tashi deleh 🤝🤝🌲🌞

[@adamradziwanowski8693]

It is Now

[@luigigiuseppetti8484]

​@@robertholland3186 🙏...a volte,per poter superare certo momenti difficili,non sapendo come fare,rivolgiamo la nostra attenzione al cibo,al fumo,al bere,per compensare la mancanza di un qualcosa che,per noi, è importante,ma NON ci viene dato o donato😔😔 namastè 🙏🤝🌲🌼possa tu trovare il modo,per esserle di aiuto, grazie 🌈🌈

[@GeeGee.]

My tough times are never ending, getting real tired of it, I awakened 2 years ago and I lately just stopped trying, sick of earth living

[@Yaya7773]

I understand that we are invisible! When my mother died, I was sitting down next to her holding her hand. When she passed the body was just a sack that housed her for 83 years! I watched her take her last breath and leave! I know we move on!

[@garylarson4415]

See my comment above.

[@BecomeConsciousNow]

I still identify with thought forms and emotions and I'm in the process of learning to disidentify with them and be conscious. I have been strongly conditioned from a traumatic childhood to have strong negative emotions and anxious thoughts and i have a reasonably heavy pain body. So, I probably have a lot of work to do, although I know I can awaken this very moment by becoming present, here and now. I'm still finding the ego a difficult obstacle to manouevre around and can easily get lost in thought, but..."here and now"...that's it. I wish everyone peace, love and joy.

[@manuel3962]

At least you are aware of the fact that you sometimes are still run by your thoughts and emotions. And that already is quite some awakening I would say. Not trying to achieve awakening might be helpful, just surrender to the fact that sometimes you are still trapped in your thoughts and emotions. And that is OK 😊

[@Benny_000]

You need to lose yourself in thought again and again and again, until it fully sinks in what you already know: stop thinking and be! It's really tempting to use your thoughts to analyze the situation that you're in and to come up with a plan of approach to get to a place where you don't identify with thoughts anymore. Eventhough this thinking is well intentioned, there is no plan or road to where you need to be to not identify with the ego. All that needs to happen is nothing. Just be!

[@OctavioRichetta]

IMHO, U R 100% in the right track. Study Thich Nhất Hạnh

[@markfuller]

I relate to all you said. I suggest you see a psychologist. Everyone walks around telling themselves a story (like Mr. Magoo). For most, it's just like m&bation. It feels good, makes the present moment more exciting/pleasurable. They can wake up to that fairly easily (like giving up sugar). But, some people with dis-integrated (repressed) trauma, anger, shame can depend on the story for more existential reasons. The subconscious can be "helping" them more than the average person living the narrated life. Psychology and awakening both seek the same goals (a better relationship with reality, the present moment; less effected by the past/future). Many therapists incorporate mindfulness into their practice (especially Jungian. Jung himself had an awakening experience which he hid until 50 years after his death. His theory of the mind is something I relate to as something an awakened person would think of.). If you're already "there" with mindfulness, and struggling with the demons, a few sessions with a psychologist could help you see the subconscious angle (the dis-integration at the source of your emergent conscious mind). Therapy is endless for people in denial, combative, projecting. If you're there looking for the answer already (having had an ego death, or still seeking it), a psychologist could be like a sage to you. IMO, the risk of psychology is making what's not real more real (re-living the past which isn't real). It could go too far in that direction. But, the simplicity of mindfulness (nothing is real except this present moment) is harder for some people who have subconscious damage. That stuff is real -- until you get past it & realize it was always just a story you were telling yourself.). It's strange how it can be so real, but isn't. That can be a hard chasm to cross for some people who have made it real for years (existentially, unlike the average Mr. Magoo).

[@venusnode6]

Thank you for sharing your experience without the polish and for being authentic.

[@thomasmaxime2340]

Psychedelic are the reason why I didn't take my life when I was at my end.i was stripped of my ego and saw the beauty of life and interconnectivity

[@allybee342]

Psychedelic is the answer to most severe anxiety and depression...The use of magic mushrooms completely helps one get over depression and makes you feel like yourself...I used antidepressants for some years but it only made me feel like a zombie but with immediate use of mushroom 🍄 in few months I feel like I'm living a whole new Life.

[@dearity33]

I made researches and found out that shrooms are very helpful , it has really helped to reduce anxiety and depression and some other mental health issues..i would love to try magic mushrooms but they are hard to source!

[@tessymitch]

​@@dearity33 I live in Michigan….suffering for awhile now but didnt realize how serious I may have it until recently - probably bc of @self medicating” with alcohol

[@jefferyscott8148]

​@@dearity33It’s so difficult to describe depression to someone who’s never been there because it’s not sadness.

[@sherrimandel6983]

I've been having this constant, unbearable anxiety because of my Job stress..not until I met Myco_louiis, he really helped me

[@keithbaker944]

My dad had a NDE after he was pronounced dead from a heart attack. He was out of his body watching the doctors around his body from above. He had the life review and saw the light people talk about He went through the light and was found himself in a field near a forest. He said an older man walked out of the forest. He had a long white beard and my dad described him as looking like an old wizard . The man said he had to go back as it wasnt his time. He then fealt himself sucked back into his body.

[@rosamarie9660]

❤😊🎉

[@harima36]

Yeah... we get annoyed at the interruption of having to send most of you back.

[@StuMas]

During my NDE, I was amazed at how easily I had forgotten about my real, eternal existence. I even remembered what I was doing before being born. The afterlife is actually returning to your pre-life. Amnesia is the single most important factor that makes this reality and your 'life' possible.

[@croissantlover1]

I've heard a few others say your soul is on somekind of Amnesia too untill you die.

[@StuMas]

@EndofMusic I was overseeing the functioning of this reality which, primarily involved maintaining its rotation/spin. However, whilst doing so, I vaguely remembered that I messed up in some way and as a result, was born - almost by accident. Apparently, being born isn't such a big deal because life doesn't actually last that long as time is an illusion.

[@MaryzAigredou]

I had a simple OBE, I was in total darkness in front of a magnificent living light. I was totally peaceful, 100% my true deepest self. When I came back, I was actually glad to rush back for my kids. But I realizes how artificial this world is, how dimly lit, how the colors are not that beautiful... Now I'm not as scared to lose my loved ones. I know they will go to the most wonderful place and be their true self again. Death is not bad. The way you die and especially the way you live can be terrible though.

[@croissantlover1]

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[@DihelsonMendonca]

I always had the intuition that we chose to be here, and the life we have. And when the body dies, we remember everything about us. It's just returning to where we really belong on eternity. 🎉🎉❤

[@annapogosova]

What I struggle is letting go of our families and loved ones…always wondered about that. That’s the most painful, not having those we love anymore.

[@stephenlnoe]

Matthew10:37 “If you love your father or mother more than you love me, you are not worthy of being mine; or if you love your son or daughter more than me, you are not worthy of being mine. 38 If you refuse to take up your cross and follow me, you are not worthy of being mine. 39 If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up your life for me, you will find it. **I hope it helps you sister.

[@theforensicastrologer]

I wonder this too , how haven’t we evolved to understand death yet too 😢

[@drjojo5551]

WOW Anna…I certainly don’t want to have any contact with those CREEPS in my family! I wish to start divorce proceedings against them animals!!

[@annapogosova]

@@drjojo5551 😆😆 fair

[@Dr.Pancho.Tortilla]

if you the think that "struggle im letting go our families and loved ones" is "painful" you don't have the slightest idea what real pain is. What about burning alive?

[@jillh2186]

I had the honor of caring for and laying to rest both of my parents. My father died in 21 and my mother and 22 both elderly. I loved being able to spend the last two years with them, greatest gift, they both were able to stay home until their last breath . I’m 63 now I am grateful and thank the higher power every day.

[@VG-rj8pn]

You think the higher power? What's that God doesn't work in this world? God doesn't work in this people die God doesn't take anybody. I don't know who taught you that but they are completely wrong

[@scottgoulette8900]

@@VG-rj8pn I sense some negative vibrations going off in your orb, who are you to say there is no higher power at work in the spiritual realm? I believe we get what we give so be mindful of what you are putting out there.

[@valeriemahabir7997]

​@@VG-rj8pnSorry, VG, but what I experienced when my mother passed on, an experienced that lasted some three days makes me disagree with you. My experience with her went on for some four days in I told her that I won't be Ok and that she was to go. And that was it. A bird would come to my window at dawn for the next week, until I spoke to it too.

[@viviennethorpe1035]

Well done to you Jill..a privilege indeed. I gave up my home in the UK after 38yrs to come home to Ireland to cate for my mum who has Alzhimers at age 88. Sadly shes now in care..Im 66 and will be forever grateful to be with her ❤

[@ashk7431]

Our hearts should be as light as a feather while we are in this body and when we leave it. The rude person on the road or behind the counter is being themselves, “you” just happened to be there to practice patience. If you’re breathing and they got your coffee order wrong , thank god you’re alive and have the ability to order coffee.

[@nostromo7928]

Thank you for your simple, elegant message. 🙂🙏

[@Valerie-gn1rr]

I like this.

[@lynda9241]

AMEN 🙌🏼 I try to stay in a thankful state always. Sometimes I fail, then have to remind myself...

[@sweetpeanmolly]

I remember entering my body. I saw in front of me, a fetus. The background was black. My sense was that I was getting smaller and smaller. So as a child, I knew that (I) was operating the body. We are all quite Blessed by Eckhart’s lectures, are we not?

[@Dr.Pancho.Tortilla]

nope

[@blucat4]

I don't believe your story.

[@tomwalsh1138]

​@@blucat4 😅 😊

[@DihelsonMendonca]

Perhaps it was a dream you had years ago, and with time, you solidify, thinking that it really happened. 🎉

[@mkor7]

Maybe it was just as he said it was. @@DihelsonMendonca

[@bartie55]

Eckhart is so good in putting into words what I think a lot of us feel.

[@nasreenmomen9727]

Only his words put me at ease at this time of my life when my mom's words can no longer comfort me , her ability to do that ended seven months ago , she is now a consciousness without a form. when I crave for her voice her advice. I listen to Ekhart. Thank you , you have a beautiful soul.

[@victorbondoc2311]

Tolle reads a lot and repeats a lot.

[@mikemol5995]

At 19 years of age I spent 6 months living very intensely and attempting to find my "identity and purpose". After failing to find any answers in desperation I walked out into a field sobbing uncontrollably and fell on my knees. I emptied my being without realizing it and I begged God to show me that there was a thread of Life which attached everything (and me) to this world and that there was a reason for my being here. In the field was a single large tree and as I'm in Southern Ontario and it was springtime the leaves had not yet appeared. So I "felt" something on my right arm. When I glanced over to see what it was you can imagine my amazement when I saw that what I had thought was my arm was in fact a large limb from the tree. On this limb a robin had alighted and I could "feel" this bird. So my gaze turned to the location of "my body" and there it was in the field, on it's knees, just a "form" as you have described. As quickly as the experience had begun the lesson was over and it was an incredible gift which assured me of my belonging, my immortality and of God's Dominion. Rather than "near death experiences" it would probably be better to refer to them as "outer body experiences", as small a point as that might be. Thank you for showing me others from our family.

[@Mika-El-]

Thank you for sharing. I am sure you are aware of the symbolical significance of a robin, especially in regards to Christ? Wish you a blessed life.

[@mikemol5995]

@@Mika-El- Thank you. That robin was so much more than a sign of spring and new life. It was my awakening to real life. To Him be the Glory forever.❤🙏

[@Mika-El-]

@@mikemol5995 Mighty ! ❤️‍🔥

[@Mika-El-]

@@mikemol5995 I have also been blessed with synchronistic event regarding a robin, although not so intense as you. Glory be to Him!

[@juditlow7621]

O. This is amazing

[@Age_less_dream_more]

I just want to say THANK YOU; I read 'The Power of Now' over 15 years ago but recommended it to a friend in need today. You must have saved hundreds of millions of lives around the world with your teachings. THANK YOU ❤

[@little-bandit-music]

Lol yah, give the power of now to a child born into famine, should help them right out, thank god for the new age manuels.

[@Age_less_dream_more]

@@little-bandit-music Philosophy is not a replacement for basic human needs; it is meant for people who are working on their spiritual evolution. Stay in your ignorance, not everyone is meant to be great.

[@keep_walking_on_grass]

I sat beside my stepfather and I was holding his hand when he died. That moment is hard to describe. I perceived his body was disconnected to his spirit, when it was leaving the body. It is not the same as if someone falls asleep. He has been in a coma. And is was not like that he just stopped breathing. I have no words, but I can say it was overwhelming. And although he was in coma, he waited until I was there, and he died within these 10 minutes, after about 1 week in coma. I am still speechless. If you are in that sad situation, that a loved one is in coma, keep talking to them. They perceive it.

[@-DigitalExcel]

they do perceive it indeed

[@danielpaulson8838]

We are energy beings. We sense each other naturally.

[@SCHEY101]

I find people who have had NDEs to be very believable. We can only theorise what happens after we die for the most part but those who have died and returned give us an insight and they are telling us it's awesome.

[@chirpywiggins5796]

They didn't die

[@brittanybaumann6342]

Maybe if we all knew what happened after death we would all just leave and that's why we're not capable of comprehending it.

[@skybellau]

I wonder if anyone has left a message on their death bed saying my NDE was so awsum I couldnt stay here after it. No reports so far. Those who do share their NDE say it made them aware of tasks they needed to accomplish first and so they stayed with more sense of purpose and less fear of death.

[@savon5499]

They didnt escape this world but thats the goal! If you die you should use your free will to do not come back but to go back home, to be god!

[@markschuler1511]

​@Chirpy Wiggins the NDE's I take seriously are the ones who were actually hooked up to machines(surgery) that confirm that death did indeed take place.

[@joycenaylor4488]

Love this man! I didn't understand him years ago, yet now I grown to a new level and get so much more!

[@patkivlahan9099]

Me too. There is so much more to him that I could not begin to grasp even a few years ago.

[@annastacia3190]

Haha, me too. I thought he was a bore.

[@frankoreo]

Me three.

[@ReynaSingh]

May we all experience that wonderful still presence in our day today

[@natureisallpowerful]

👍🙏🌳🌿

[@izzyizzm8761]

Your life is a gift!.. That's why it is called the present!

[@amcorazon698]

Just when you think you already know all of Tolles teaching... This will be another video that I will love to watch over and over again❤

[@MichaelLittle47]

I don't know why, but I don't think I've heard this particular teaching ever so well clarified and delivered. It is something I needed, a kind of missing missing piece to a much larger puzzle of self understanding. Thank you Mr. Tolle for being the one to offer me this most precious gift. 🙏💕😊😊

[@Karina_Engr]

If you listen to NDE and DE stories then you'll start hearing the patterns.

[@lindamckenzie4543]

It is so special the way that you, Eckhart, share your incredible truth with us, while also making us laugh. What a beautiful Soul. Eternal gratitude. 🕊🥰

[@VG-rj8pn]

I guess you're 1ofthebootlickers

[@karphin1]

I have always thought the Creator ensured that a sense of humour is part of our survival kit. I love how Eckhart shows this! It is delightful.

[@dougf5204]

I died in 1979. Tolle's description is spot on. The death experience is exceptional.

[@gav25x]

Oooh a ghost 👻 🫣💩

[@Wil_Dsense]

died... ...your hair.

[@obelie]

I died last year in an accident, for a short time, it felt like infinity. When I woke up, it felt like dreaming in sleep and suddenly waking up in the dream. Similar to lucid dreaming.

[@markfuller]

I was a backseat passenger in a very bad accident when I was 17. I had an out of body, near-death experience before I ever had heard of such a thing. I was afraid to tell anyone because it sounded bizarre. The experience gave me an interest in "stranger than fiction" stories (and the occult, astral projection -- which I don't recommend). I read a NDE experience in a book & it was a huge relief to hear someone else who had had it. Skeptics say our subconscious produces this experience because we've heard of such experiences. That sounds reasonable. But, I hadn't heard of it then. Another thing that was proof to me: when I floated above the car, I saw the car battery tossed into the fan, and the blade sliced into the battery (this was back when battery cases were like tar. You could dig your fingernail into it.). A couple weeks after the wreck, I had a friend take me to the junk yard where the car was (for the reason to see if the battery was tossed into the fan as I'd seen). It was. I hadn't seen it that night of the crash. I crawled out a window and up an embankment where a passing car found me. It was pitch black. I couldn't see much even if I wanted to. (I never told my friend about my experience, even after I'd read someone else's in a book months later.). I remember feeling (out of my body, after traveling in a tube, exiting in the presence of a bright light) that I had all the answers, and things were much simpler than I'd thought. It was like "om gosh, why couldn't I realize this? It's plain as day." It was a "nothing matters" realization. Like seeing everything from a higher level and, nothing I thought that mattered did. As a living person, I couldn't see the forest through the trees. Then I realized I had died. I became very panicked that I would go to hades (raised fundamentalist church). I was begging, "give me another chance." Then there was a voice (but I didn't hear it, it was like an impression that went through me): "there's something you need to do" and then *slam,* I was back in my body. (I still don't know what I was supposed to do. For years I thought it would be something like pushing a child out of the path of an oncoming car. :) Something dramatic, self-sacrificing. I don't know what it was, unless it was to awaken from myself. Have that realization (nothing matters) in life.

[@mellifergold]

​@@markfuller Hi ! Thanks for sharing - that might be part of what you have to do...

[@MarthaMiller-tq3dr]

Thank you Eckhart for being my Teacher for 20 years. ❤

[@LoveOurEarth]

Same here! I have always connected to his teachings. ✨

[@zoelake8573]

I remember when my beloved Aunt Zoe died looking into her eyes and realising that she was no longer there, the being I had loved all of my life had left her physical form. I suddenly felt a great sense of peace and release from my sorrow and felt happy. Thank you Eckhart. Thank you. 😇

[@RenateGunther-kr9gd]

This is the best explanation I've ever heard of Buddhist teachings on death, rebirth and liberation. It makes complete sense. Thank you Eckhart 😊❤

[@DihelsonMendonca]

Eckhart Tolle puts in few words what other people would take a book to explain ! And everyone can understand him. Fascinating ! 🎉🎉❤

[@DihelsonMendonca]

I always had the intuition that we chose to be here, and the life we have. And when the body dies, we remember everything about us. It's just returning to where we really belong on eternity. 🎉🎉❤

[@TomTom-hj3nq]

THANK YOU ECKHARDT. Great !!! ...as always. You ARE A BLESSING TO ALL OF US !!!❤ from Munich Germany tom

[@karphin1]

God is enjoying coming to us, through Eckhart! Love his sense of humour.

[@VG-rj8pn]

Well that's gonna be your little secret you really don't know anything about god and he certainly doesn't do like you think

[@postscript5549]

"Consciousness is a singular." Yes. Thank you for the vowels and consonants. You help me.

[@johnrainmcmanus6319]

That Eckhart has over 1 million subscribers indicates at least a sliver of hope for humanity.

[@Berkanann]

"Ultimately there is no death." I wish for all who read this to discover the truth of this statement!

[@johnbush8254]

I took LSD once in 1972 I could understand the purpose of life. However when I came down I couldn't explain it. Too difficult

[@theforensicastrologer]

Anyone who has lost someone and had to watch them pass… as Awful as it is….we are privileged..sending love to all of you ♥️

[@eirinitsartsara20]

Thank you Eckhart for your always calming words, reminding us of all that is..7 months ago I lost my father due to what 'late stage dementia' causes to the body. It was amazing what glimpses of insight my dad had towards the end of his living and I was blessed to be present while he shared some of those with me..."we are all just passing by in this life but the soul is immortal. The body makes an invitation, the soul inhabits this body for a while and then again frees itself from it....but we human beings have forgotten how to be with each other in a respectful and loving way". Not remembering or losing his ego identity, never took away from his essense what I always felt his conscioussness was.

[@hannedahl1591]

❤ I recommend a book by Anita Moorjani; “ Dying to be me” ❤she Got healed from cancer 🙏💜 🥰

[@luigigiuseppetti8484]

🙏🌻🌈🤝🤝 grazie per il suggerimento 🌼 l'ho condiviso con un amico, che sta facendo il suo cammino,unendo,per sua scelta,sia la medicina allopatica,sia l'altra medicina psicobioenergetica e omeopatica🙏🌈🤝rispettando la sua scelta,unisco la preghiera all'UNIVERSO, affinché il suo sia un cammino per ""guarire interna/mente 🌞🌼🌻 namastè 🙏🌬️🌪️

[@annemurphy8074]

Great book!

[@aldeiceci818]

Great book..I’ve lent it out at least 20 times which was very appreciated and helpful…

[@razony]

Yup. She had a purpose and cancer wasn't going to be allowed to work it's course. We will ALL be ok.

[@nostromo7928]

Excellent book. I enjoyed it too.

[@jerryrogers4825]

NDE is more real than the here and now by a long shot. I've been there. So I know. Thanks

[@scottytoohotty7617]

Watching my dad pass is what led me to men like Eckhart. It's amazing how .. foolish I was. I could have avoided much pain and guilt. Instead I suffered.

[@IslandGirlKelly]

Hi, Scotty. I understand, but suffering is part of the process of being here. It is better to hear the messages a bit late, than to never hear them at all. Congratulations for finding your divine self. 👍🙏🏻

[@blackbirdie4919]

You even said here, it was your pain and suffering that led you to the teachings that could free you from it. Now perhaps you could free others driven by similar pains. The hero's journey starts while he is a fool.

[@dragonfly9209]

"Grief is the price of love". It's normal to have grief, even knowing what we know. Pain, from the loss---but we should banish guilt. There's no reason for it--and they wouldn't want us doing that to ourselves. Yet I understand it's difficult to do.

[@timgarrison8097]

Your answer , non / answer , to the questionnaire's question , Eckhart , was a cop out. You said the English language or any language for that matter , doesn't have enough sounds to answer or explain the answer to the questionnaire's question. I will answer that question. Yes it does matter answering why do we need a pre - death consciousness since we're going to have complete Consciousness when we die anyways. It's about going to the most beautiful place imaginable even tho we're still alive. We need that because it's a part of life. The God created that part of our life , isn't that good enough for you ? Or was that some mistake by by the highest intelligence ? Not everyone experiences religious or spiritual experiences for sure. Many do experience such experiences and they don't even realize it. Perhaps years later they could say to themselves I know I had that Lit feeling , I've never had such Joy before. I realize now it was a spiritual experience. We have those because it primes us for the next life ( whatever that means) Those realized experiences drive away our fear of dying ( to a certain extent) lt also makes us less judgmental in this 3 D Dimension. Land of Form as you call it. Most of all Eckhart , from a human perspective it is a cherished gift , are you kidding me.. Lastly , I could go on and on , let's just say once we have a Glimpse we thirst for It. Btw , when is the Asram coming.. you don't need another spiritual experience to tell you to get on it

[@YonKat24]

Much love to you, be well 🙏❤ you are a bright light

[@natureisallpowerful]

When I witnessed my dad pass away I had a feeling of sadness,peace and relief.❤ Also eckhart is theorizing here as the only person who will ever find out...IS YOU

[@SCHEY101]

I experienced profound sadness immediately after my mother died and then soon after waves of joy would come through. I think this is probably a common experience and I remember feeling at the time it was coming from a deeper place.

[@SA-lz1vx]

@@SCHEY101 Omg the same happened to me when my grandmother died. Grief followed by spurts of joy.

[@vivekbhat2784]

Check out the reincarnation soul trap at the sanity machine channel and overwatchchannel on you tube

[@miguelangelleonabarca2921]

He is totally right. Death doesn't exist. I'm always here ❤

[@vortexfx420]

My only few vivid dreams I have had in my life, I 'died' in a helicopter crash. I came out of my body feeling amazing and then went into the dark void of love. Then I woke up. I have seen UFOs as well. A fascinating place we are experiencing right now out in space. Just remember the presence of now and everything will take care of itself in the 'end' 💓💓🙏🏼🙏🏼🌠🌠

[@quixotica726]

He's so funny! He's seen how the puzzle goes together, and the best way he can articulate it is through humor. Like don't worry it's all ok.

[@charbandibane]

word of wisdom. we're blessed to have this spiritual master in this life time.

[@yodab.at1746]

Wow, the part about reincarnation was mind blowing. The habit of not being within the body through meditation is the key to holding concentration and not jumping into the next heavy (physicality) vibration upon death.

[@markfuller]

Dr. Mark Epstein is a buddhist psychiatrist. He has a story about when his father was dying, he thought about how he'd never said much to his father about buddhism (the father never seemed interested). The son (by then a well-known author on the topic) thought he should counsel his father about death in buddhism. What he said to his father was that buddhism (mindfulness, self-awareness, awakening) brings you closer to the part of you that you can remember being when you were 12yo. I.e., most people when asked if they're the same person they were when they were 12, they can recognize something that is the same. The story we tell ourselves now has changed (we're jaded, conditioned, more elaborate story of who we are). But, there's some part (a story-less essence) that we recognize as being the same person. He told his father that being more aware of that part of himself as he passes away will (should) contribute to progress in the next life, a more awakened & less-suffering next life (compared to clinging to the story The Pirates of Penzance: "I am the very model of a modern major general..." If he passed while invested in his becoming an MD, and living a successful life in NYC, and raising a son who became a psychiatrist -- all "form" identity, then that could be more of the cycle that would continue. But, if he could recognize the difference between that and the non-storied self, the essense of who he is, has been, unchanged, the cycle could turn for the better.). What you said reminded me of that.

[@alby7186]

I agree, this was the first time that I clearly understood why I was incarnating. It's amazing to me that I'm not here to do anything, I'm here to address a very subtle point, a misidentification with form.

[@cleo5079]

​@@alby7186 what happens when we choose not to reincarnate. Nothingness??

[@alby7186]

@@cleo5079 According to the Hindu spiritual texts Ive read the final state is beyond Knowledge and ignorance, and there are no words for it..but ignorance is nothing, its 0, so whatever it is, is beyond nothingness

[@alby7186]

@@cleo5079 Here is something about it from Das Bodh, A 17th centrry hindu text on non-duality: First, visible appearances are given up. Then, going beyond the void one sees the "Primal Illusion". Only from there, can the Absolute Reality, Parabrahman, be realized. When one tries to see from a perspective of being a separate observer, one finds the state of the void, and doubt increase in the mind about the state of nothingness. Experiencing a sense of separateness from it, one labels it as the void. However, if one's goal is the realization of Reality, one must first recognize undivided oneness. Be Reality to see Reality. When looking with a sense of separation one only gets the experience of the void. The experience of the void can never be the realization of the Absolute Reality. By being Reality, one sees Reality with one's own experience.

[@recordgirly2567]

So rare! Rare, because once enlightened that will be your last time being reincarnated to this world! (Why there aren't many teachers) So thankful for Eckhart!! AND so thankful he's been recorded so that future people may experience his teachings! Many thanks and many blessings dear Eckhart... ❤

[@rupinderh01]

yes hawkin's map of consciousness. I wonder if anyone knows how far along on consciuosness infj meyers briggs types are, Ive heard they are at the last stages of reincarnation.

[@lindaross783]

He gets more wonderful every now moment!

[@young1939]

I have had an NDE and have spent the majority of my life as a meditator. My wife and I were discussing reincarnation and speculating as to rather or not we wanted to do so. I said I didn't but would if I felt I could help someone achieve enlightenment. At one time I said I would be okay with dying at any time, then my wife had serious cognitive problems from COVID-19. Now I want to stick around to help her. Our perspective changes with the circumstances. 🤔

[@ADBVoiceActing]

I love his sense of humor.

[@carolina6683]

I was with my aunt when she slipped away and also saw my father's body after his death. Neither of them looked like themselves. Their essence had gone. Eckhart is so right in what he says.

[@rodius59]

I have had the privilege of being with my dear love as he was passing and the process was amazing to me. As the death experience was happening he saw friends standing by him. He said he was tired and wanted to nap. I stayed awake and was looking at him. I saw a blueish purple haze/light/energy over him. I then fell asleep. When I woke his body was struggling and realized was leaving. He calmed down and the doctors took him to intensive care as he was declared brain dead. I knew he was gone and I had the privilege of being with him when he crossed over. It was pure love and light!❤❤❤❤

[@galaxymetta5974]

Modern research on Near Death Experience by Raymond moody, reincarnation memories by Ian Stevenson/Jim trucker and past lives regression by Brian Weiss all independently but coincidentally show that our consciousness survive death, we live many lives and our thoughts and actions matter in the hereafter. So be kind and helpful to others, be virtuous, meditate and cultivate ourselves to higher spiritual levels. Cheers.

[@alexajessop5590]

As a four month old baby I died 3 times. I had Meningitis and Hydrocephalus. I now sometimes unfortunately see events that will happen, and I wish I didn't know.

[@karlschmied6218]

The fact that we cannot imagine our non-existence, and our wishful thinking, motivate these speculations about indestructible consciousnesses.

[@anolbe]

Love is the only word i can use to describe the feeling of stillness. And it's intensified when walking in forests amongst all the life there. That gives a complete understanding, without thoughts. I just know by feeling in one with everything and anything. ❤

[@apembertonfowler]

I was regressed once by someone giving a lecture at the ARE on reincarnation and regression. I felt just as real and connected to that past person as I do right now sitting here. It’s hard to explain but I’ll never forget it. Before the regression, I had an idea that reincarnation existed. Now I know for sure, without a single doubt whatsoever. ✌🏽🙏🏽

[@jurgitafitness1977]

I love this guy!! One of the best teachers out there. Thank you for sharing this knowledge with us! ❤️

[@kris4117]

I would give respect to the highly evolved. I too love the Ekhart. Some souls come here to teach us.

[@RudeBoy77777]

It's nice to listen to a "teacher" who is with both feet walking the same ground as you.

[@letitsnow8518]

What did u learn

[@annikabirgittanordlander6887]

"Every human being is Consciousness manifesting as a temporary form, taking form as what we perceive as a human being so the human being itself is a manifestation of Consciousness and ultimately no other than Consciousness”. Eckhart Tolle. Thank you Eckhart 🌎

[@MKI4EVA]

Wow this one is a MUST listen. Have been listening to Eckart for 5 yrs now and this is another level of insight. I’m blown away here he is sharing his intuition into how consciousness works as much as he can he words. I was crying after this as it made me think that we all really are just one ppl. And that we should cherish every moment we have with others of all walks in life during our time on earth however long or short. What an amazing teaching this is. Next level 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️❤️❤️

[@tonireed4123]

Well, Tolle has definitely regenerated --to use a word from the bible and rosicrucians. Yes, in this lifetime one can go beyond form. How? by going within one's midst, into that little room within where one forms an inlove relation with one's opposite. Funny, lots of people are changing sexes or wondering what they are. So if you are a female you are negative and your positive male spirit awaits you within--then there is balance and you spiral upward with the other until you are one and God then unites with HIS?HER Word--the Christ within. Remember only that which comes down goes up. We all have to unite with our flame within and ascend from within the egg. All ancient religions and others know what goes on in the egg within. First one is enlightened with a ray, then one has a pure relation within with one's other half. unites with God and becomes sacred to Him. Then one is as joyous as Tolle because you feel God at the center of your being at all times and then he/she returns to you and you make love and all is delightfull. Tolle does not say all that he knows because one must be of a higher frequency and have the developed consciousness antenna to receive All. So quest for all within. If you have ever been in love with another than you have a leg up. Then you do the same within. There is nothing better than love with God!

[@michaelnurse9089]

I would like to add something from the book Journey of Souls (Newton) which shows that in the planning of the next incarnation typically three final options are presented to a humans being about to incarnate - an option for an easy life with little development and an option for a hard life with much development - presumably the third option lies between the two. In this sense, you should be quite accepting of it if your life is hard, as you choose that way and further the rewards are many times higher.

[@vivekbhat2784]

Check out the reincarnation soul trap at the sanity machine channel and overwatchchannel on you tube

[@bisrib]

Thank you Michael! What you tell about the three options makes sense and beautifully completes my understanding about my coming into this world. I already knew that my consent was asked and that I chose to be born to my parents:) I didn't know about those three options but they make sense - I chose the hard one;)

[@bobbifoth5492]

Guess that means most Americans took the easy middle road

[@jogendrakalra1846]

When doctors declare a person died as his breath and heart beat is no more , his many cells and organs are still working. I had this experience. I felt very peaceful but after a few days I came back as usual.

[@albundy9597]

I live as a European in a Buddhist country. My Buddhist father-in-law died last month and I along with many other people from the village sat by his side in his house to accompany the dying process, the monks had performed the last rites and had left long ago. It was an unspectacular death, he just stopped breathing, with no sense of awe or sadness the jokes started. Five minutes later his adult children were discussing which photo should be enlarged for the funeral. It was the most mundane thing I had ever witnessed.

[@myotherusername9224]

" a condition of complete simplicity costing not less than everything" -T. S. Eliot

[@samar3634]

Wow not even a sadness or grief?

[@albundy9597]

@@samar3634 No, nothing. Expressions of grief isn't a Thai thing anyway and probably comes from the Buddhist idea that, "it is as it is". He wasn't a popular man even among his family but everybody did their duty by him, one daughter drove 500 km with her husband to be there and together with my wife bathed him and changed his adult nappies (something his wife refused to do, I think she was relieved when he died). I saw nothing holy or esoteric about it, after he drew his last breath I touched his forehead and remarked he felt warm to the touch and then his face was covered up and everybody went outside to eat and drink while his grandchildren chased the ducks around laughing. The next day the grounds surrounding the house were decorated with flowers and banana plant leaves, a framework for a large tent like structure was erected, carpets laid etc. and everybody generally enjoyed themselves until the monks arrived and a long chanting funeral service was held over his coffin. Then the feasting and drinking for around 200 people began (funerals and weddings are very popular). It really was quite mundane.

[@RosaGrau2014]

Yes, I agree. I don't see anything sacred in the process of dying. It"s quite crude and ugly.

[@hempdr6099]

The definition of the paradise is an awakened human

[@synchromystique]

Powerful talk, so much light in it! Thanks, Eckhart, for speaking so well about the unspeakable. :) In 2010, I've lived one NDE from a respiratory coma. That experience has completely transformed my perception of the reality. I agree, certain glimpses of realization of Consciousness are not describable, when you “come back” to your ego identifications, you can't even talk about it, but the “feeling” of it rests. And it actually “helps” to have the “motivation” (from the manifested world perspective) to go in the direction of returning to the source. But anyway, I'm not really attached to that goal any more, because it is also in itself a "picture-isation” of something that is already here somehow. I feel that I just have to enjoy the ride, co-create with consciousness, and even if some situations of life, often feels like surfing chaos... surfing however gives a nice feeling of harmony, and to surf you really need to Be, in the now. :) Love & Light to you'all, keep surfing !

[@Katie-jx4kz]

@synchromystique Beautiful

[@alanhehe4508]

I think that the need for life to have some ultimate purpose is a very human need that may not exist outside our minds. When people ask, "what is the meaning of life??" I like to answer with another question: "What is the meaning of water??" Concepts and ideas have meaning and purpose. Reality simply IS. So, perhaps there isn't some ultimate purchase, except-- perhaps-- the drive to evolve.. ✌❤🔥

[@veraintuizione6497]

I fully agree. 🙏 We are Universal Consciousness which acts through us to reach the most aware of awareness, which is pure LOVE. It doesn't matter if we are not aware of it. I'll just add this even if I risk being mistaken for crazy: I dreamt about my dead, they have told me what they see in their full PRESENCE i.e. the so-called future, which is not a future but is a presence that we still don't perceive. When I see them in my dreams they are them but at the same time they don't seem like them ... Hard to explain, anyway. Not only that. Even when they were about to cross the sacred Threshold and they were "still "alive - they told me in detail what would happen to me. I was busy with so many things to do in situations like that, I thought they were delirious... I really hope they have forgiven me for my blindness! They had such a beautiful face and bright eyes despite the illness that affected me deeply. I didn't tell them and I don't even know why... A long time ago I went to bed for a few minutes before going back to work, I was very tired. I didn't sleep because it's not my habit to sleep in the afternoon, I just can't. Anyway, suddenly I felt that I WAS everything but in the same time I WASN'T ME I've never experienced this kind of wonderful sensation, a feeling of love and immense pity which left me amazed... Just as suddenly I returned perceiving all the annoying sensations of everyday life even the most trivial...I didn't want to go back! I still remember the immense annoyance of returning to this dimension of ours ... Is this the so-called death? To be profoundly ourselves without being ourselves anymore? ✨✨✨💓🙏✨✨

[@abhun1313]

Eckhart being hilarious at times is amazing😂

[@jillkent6134]

I can’t say it enough I love Eckart he answers questions before I even ask them , brilliant ❤

[@uplecsolutions7063]

Couldn’t have said it better myself!!! Such a blessing to this world you are my brother! 🙏🏻❤️

[@TheMediumChannel]

When I had a "body detachment"...IDK if I'd call it "near death" but during heart surgery in 2017 I found myself in a room with my deceased parents and others relatives, some I knew, others I did not recognize and I met my guides who showed me the things about the 2020s including the pandemic, what it means and how to prepare so once I got healthy enough I started to teaching about New Earth Spirituality and how to prepare for these times.....and of course presence is what opens the door to Spirit (or the quantum field). There are other things they showed me that are about to happen. Buckle up!

[@gdgkuf2315]

Can you give more details on what you were shown?

[@TheMediumChannel]

@@gdgkuf2315 There is a lot and I did a livestream recently outline my top 11 predictions for the 2020s but some of it was crazy stuff most people wouldn't believe, like ETs working with humans on starships, the virus being man made and other forms of biological warfare, Russia and US becoming allies towards 2030, a second pandemic in the later 2020s ...to name a few...

[@jimmynguyen227]

If i had to guess, AI is going to change everything about humanity and understanding about consciousness (or becoming humans who become more and more conscious) will play more of a role in everyone's daily lives. Maybe even straight up necessary

[@Donita1213]

I believe in life after death. Not from reading about it or someone telling me I should believe in it. I've had several OBEs. And some of them were very intense. There is a lot more going on than we could ever imagine.

[@JEBBY123IFY]

Do tell!!!

[@innerlight617]

Thank you Eckhart! ॐ ❤ 🙏 -13.44" if you have gone beyond the compulsion to reincarnate in this lifetime,when you have recognized the essence of who you are beyond form, that realization does not leave you. When you die there is a freedom that comes,because the freedom you have already found in this lifetime,because you have died to this identification with form"

[@warofsouls9065]

This happend to me recently too. I was there with my daughter waiting for my dad to go, that was a sacred moment, and I’m greatfull he choose us to be there bef he left. The moment he went I knew it, we just know it happends, actually we all know we are invisible 🥺but we forgot we are🥺i wish you to be free and happy dad❤️❤️❤️

[@sarahtruth2643]

Thank you Eckhart ❤ Your way of truth always makes me laugh 😂

[@francisjoubert9937]

What a wonderful explanation! I understood before what reincarnation was, but the way he explained consciousness is wonderful! What an inspiration Eckhardt is. Thank you

[@vangestelwijnen]

I went back to a past life in a regression and it felt so complex and true, that even without 'proof' I knew the things I encountered this 'life' were the clear result of the 'previous life'. This and Eckhart give my consciousness wings!

[@freesoul0109]

Form is emptiness, emptiness is form.色即是空空即是色, 太棒了!!! Thank you so much!!!

[@keithwise8028]

I believe the moment of death brings total bliss albeit for a fragment of a moment, ultimately you have to surrender when you realise that you are going to die and there is nothing you can do about it. Have been close a few times and believed that I might die, and been with others when they have died. As for what happens afterwards is not for anyone to speak with great authority, we can only believe what we believe, but I reckon Eckhart would have to be very close

[@mirkajakiel6346]

Beautiful explanation ❤🙏

[@zoomby4380]

God bless this humble man. When he walked onto the stage in Sydney...still, quiet and non ego. Beautiful man...❤❤❤

[@patrickhurley7029]

This man and the light totally transformed my life - and that direction I'm due onward

[@andreaschmerler8763]

Excellent explanation. Thank you so much Eckhardt ❤

[@sheilajoseph9953]

Thankyou Eckhart, you explained that very well.

[@rinarina5799]

I had a NDE. You lose absolutely nothing at death. Same form stays with you, only the light/ very subtle form is still with you. You feel and look the same. You look at the drooped body without need or concern.

[@periwinkle40]

Thanks for these freeing teachings, your lightness and simplicity of explaining and being, creates an openess in my heart....a space of joy ❤

[@ekupie]

I love this man!

[@sleepysatellite1326]

Amazing explanation. Thank you! « When you die, you don’t reincarnate if you have freed yourself from identifying with emotions and thoughts of form » (not 100% word for word but I think I get this) ❤

[@deebrown7479]

OMG, LOVE having my insights validated by Eckhart!

[@alisagremore9051]

Such a wise wise man.

[@melbadee8301]

So enlightening 💓 Thanks a lot 🙏🙏🙏

[@sassymate5684]

I watched my mother die recently, her body was just too tired to keep going, I was by her bedside when "life" left her, the drs and I agreed to stop keeping her barely alive, they took her off everything and 45 mins later she was gone, I watched her breath her last breath, very quickly , air bubbles came out her mouth , like excess air, she stopped breathing ,died and in a few seconds turned into a cold porcelain colour , it wasn't nice, but it was real, "life", really did leave her

[@berylwatts3647]

I saw that too when my husband died. The colour drained from his lips, which did become like porcelain, yes. I saw life drain from him, and I knew he had left his body. You are right it wasnt pleasant, but I was in no doubt that he had 'gone' and left the shell behind. His body.

[@michaelpudney]

He is a good speaker, and worth listening to, his intuition is spot on.

[@warlordpriest1]

Just a short talk but there’s so much wisdom here

[@dierdrebolton6806]

To say you loose your sense of self on death doesn’t explain the many spirits of people that make their presence known to their loved ones soon after death

[@andreroswell1561]

Happen the loved ones are experiencing the spirits of people from only their own perspective. The manifestation is only to the loved ones, by the loved ones for the loved ones.

[@javasroe6541]

yes,,, the so called other side is here right now but not for the ordinary state of mind we are usually concentrate upon. I had some unusual experiences and they show me that reality is more complicated than we can think or imagine 😀

[@Sirius263]

Yes. We are not what we seem. 🙏 As we are set free from the limitations and leave the fleshy prison, Rumi said that our final scream in this life, instantly transforms to a shout for joy in the next. Thank you, Eckhart. 🙏 Please accept my apologies for not knowing how to respond to your WhatsApp msg. I genuinely don't know how and thought it may be a scammer using your identity. 🙏

[@Wil_Dsense]

Lol, that most Definitely is,,,There is no way Eckhart would be Messaging you on WhatsApp.

[@yodab.at1746]

I was most upset that Russell Brand reached out to me asking to WhatsApp him. He obviously had not read my comment 😅

[@Sirius263]

@@Wil_Dsense It was here on this channel, with a link to a WhatsApp number with Eckhart's image. A lot of high profile people ask me to contact them. The last thing I wanted to do was be ignorant. Even if it wasn't Eckhart, I am not a rude person, hence my response.

[@Sirius263]

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[@susannefiore4338]

Are you positively sure that the WhatsApp thing isn't a scam? I've heard on other podcasts on KZbin they all say the same thing I don't use WhatsApp to reach out to people. I would hate to see you get hurt

[@alexcombes]

one of the best explanation of selflessness i ever heard

[@paulettemaximun2505]

Thanks for confirming. Easter is my favorite holiday because it means for me...we don't ever die...love you

[@tuvibracion]

Me encantó su correlación de la palabra "reencarnación" con la palabra Chile con Carne jajaja, amo a Eckhart y su gran sentido del humor, claro está, no es siquiera necesario mencionar toda su sabiduría. Gracias!

[@peterpoc2857]

I love you Eckhart! You saved my life! =)

[@pienclaassen3526]

How beautifully you talk and smile about this subject, wonderful

[@aukedeboer191]

It is probably the last lifetime we can be withness of Eckhart Tolle. 😊