Eckhart Tolle Believes That Humans Are Evolving Toward a Higher Consciousness

What would that world look like?

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As a former Hollywood screenwriter, I’m prone to letting my imagination go wild. I wrote a movie twenty years ago about how the U.S. government could plausibly fall into a dictatorship. Impeachment. The 25th Amendment. Sound familiar?

Then there was a television pilot about a brilliant, charismatic, billionaire, but bipolar, U.S. senator who takes Washington by storm. That one was fun. The first act ended with Senator David King diving into a mosh pit at an ACDC concert.

Imagination gone wild

But this time my imagination is going somewhere WAY deeper and farther off into the future; it is thus much harder to envision.

I’m trying to imagine what the world would look like if Eckhart Tolle’s uber prognostication came true; namely, that our world is evolving toward a conscious awakening.

What does Eckhart mean by evolving toward a global, conscious awakening? I could write 500,000 words on that, but I’ll do my best to winnow it down.

What the heck is a conscious awakening?

One way to describe an awakening in one person would be the loss of their ego, aka their conditioned self. Eckhart…