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Unlocking tolle secrets can be difficult.  As much as Eckhart Tolle offers, there are some big problems within his books and teachings.  The biggest problem is, he doesn’t really explain what to do to live more in the Now, — except mostly in terms of using the power of already being deeply in the Now! So basically he’s talking at an advanced level, but my experience has been that most people aren’t at such an advanced level. What they need is something more.

The Power of Now is full of statements that only work if you’ve already mastered the light of consciousness. For example, on page 76, he says, "Anything unconscious dissolves when you shine the light of consciousness on it." But that only works if you’ve already got the light of consciousness. It only works if you’re already deeply in the Now. And it gives people very little help in terms of how do you learn to get into the Now all the time in your everyday life, if you’re not already there?

Another example is when Tolle says to “totally accept what is.” In my experience, most of his readers unfortunately do the following in response to that. Firstly, they become a little less dishonest with themselves. That’s great. But they probably remain quite unaware of how deeply dishonest they continue to be to themselves in subconscious ways. Secondly, they often interpret that phrase to mean they should repress or deny their negative feelings with things or people they dislike. And that’s adding in more dishonesty with themselves.

For these and other reasons, my point is that when 90% plus of readers seek to “totally accept what is,” they don’t even get a McDonald’s version of a la carte. And nobody’s telling them how to fix that. Certainly not Tolle,by and large.

Tolle talks an awful lot about the Now as a kind of fait accompli. Many of the things he describes sound simple, but the truth is you can only make use of them, practically and only make full sense of it, once you’ve graduated to a certain level.

So there’s a big need to tell people the things they need to do and the kinds of obstacles they need to pass, and the kinds of hands-on principles they need, to “graduate” to progressively higher levels. This is a recurring problem in Tolle’s writing.

It’s similar to child development, in a way. Children go through certain stages of cognitive learning as they get older. For example, around age seven most kids get the ability to read maps. And earlier than that, they can’t think abstractly. So that if you had a five- or six-year-old and started talking to them about some spot on the map being across the road from where they are, they wouldn’t be able to understand what it means.  You’d only be confusing them.

In the case of Tolle, if a person actually wants to know what to do, if they are ready to develop themselves and use Tolle’s ideas and secrets, that information for the “how to” is largely missing.
 

I became interested in developing methods that would help people who have read Eckhart Tolle because of the problems people have with understanding and practically applying his teachings. Tolle is more geared to people who are already in advanced stages of the process, and not to beginners.  One major difference between myself and Tolle is that I focus quite a lot on how people can get started when they are just beginning. It turns out that the same practices and principles also apply when you have reached advanced stages as well.

Anyone who becomes familiar with my principles and exercises will be much better placed to fully understand and use Tolle’s teachings.

For example, Tolle discusses the “pain-body” in great detail.  The first exercise I teach people enables you to see your entire pain-body regardless of what stage you are currently at, and it only takes five or ten minutes to do it.  I have personally known people who have spent half a lifetime seeking to obtain a complete overall picture of their pain-body.  You don’t have to already been in the Now to do the exercise. In fact, anyone can do it. Similarly with most of the other exercises I’ve developed.

It’s one thing to watch the pain-body as part of it comes up. But to be able to see your own entire pain-body in a nutshell quite precisely and specifically to you is the kind of precision that Tolle doesn’t get into.  This is in spite of the fact that Tolle devotes half of his book ‘A New Earth’ to discussing what a pain-body is like. Reading that book won’t give you a balanced and complete picture of what’s in your pain-body.
 

Welcome to my blog "What’s missing in Tolle"

When I was 15, I experienced what’s known as spiritual enlightenment.  It was certainly the most vivid experience of my life – a blindingly joyful experience and discovery, that caused me to realize that life – existence – isn’t a problem.  From that moment on, I was absolutely incapable of feeling lonely, and the experience has outshone anything that intimacy, love or sex have ever given me.  This spiritual enlightenment opened up direct access to my intuition, and a direct sort of “knowing”.  Everything else was a huge let down, in comparison!  In other words, I didn’t need the new car, new partner or anything else to make me feel happy or loved, because I just have this reality of the world being everything I need.

 All of this started when I was 15.  My parents started calling me “Your Majesty” sometimes, and they did that because they knew for some reason I believed people should treat me just that way and people sometimes did.

The world I found myself experiencing was similar to the world of deeper levels of the “Now” that Tolle continually writes about in his books.  As my life went on, for over two decades from 15 on I was kind of in love with the Now. It seemed clear to me that the Now was more real, more joy-filled. And what everyone around me was worried about seemed to me not deserving to be taken too seriously.  I still generally needed to work at making money, and to create at least some satisfying friendships.  But it was like there were two sides of me, and even two worlds. The everyday world to me was very much kind of an illusion, just a kind of theatrical play where I had to pretend to be very interested in whatever work or business I was involved in. And everyone’s behavior mostly just followed the socially determined script. The light of the Now shone into it, thank goodness, and made it bearable.

I’ve since come to know quite a few individuals who have also experienced spiritual enlightenment, and even levels of liberation. This helped me to realize twelve years ago that no matter how deeply or how long anyone spends in the Now, that doesn’t in itself heal their psychological or emotional scars or blockages. Many things that Tolle says seem very misleading on that point. Some meditation schools, both in the West and even in the East, have begun to realize this at last, mostly in the last ten years. This is one of the reasons why I had no choice but to develop my own methods, which this blog will discuss and share with you.