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Ambling Towards Consciousness: Reflections on Waking Up
Everyday challenges require diverse teachers
Rediscovering Eckhart Tolle
In the last months of 2023, I was drawing many mandalas and wanted to listen to something interesting while creating my pieces. I checked out some podcasts and remembered Eckhart Tolle. I was a big fan in the early 2000s but drifted away from him after he teamed up with Oprah. Part of me felt he had sold out.
But as I thought about who I might enjoy listening to while drawing, I decided to give him another chance. I went to his show and noticed that back in 2019, he recorded a series of 10 episodes with Oprah, each one covering one chapter of his book A New Earth. I read the book many years ago but didn’t remember much about it. I thought it could be interesting to review it through the Q and A format of the podcasts.
Listening to that podcast series helped me remember what had attracted me to his work in the first place. The man has rocked steady for over three decades. What he teaches now is what I remember from twenty years ago, and having Oprah by his side did not change a single iota of his energy or message. He’s the real deal.
So that is how I decided to begin again on a journey toward consciousness.
