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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.
