It is not easy to dismiss him. At least not as easily as one can dismiss Sadhguru. But I am sort of convinced that he is not what he seems. I am sharing one of his videos. You would have to watch quite a few (each no more than few minutes) to realize that it is not easy to cut him off at the knees (metaphorically).
He is not an obvious imposter but his recent bout of promoting his wife has caught my eye. Till that time (about a year back) I was sort of convinced that he is an Instagram era Jiddu Krishnamurti.
Sample video
Eckhart's channel on YT
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj9fPe ... 7mSo-tB1Mg
His transformation -
One night in 1977, at the age of 29, after having suffered from long periods of depression, Tolle says he
experienced an "inner transformation". That night he awakened from his sleep, suffering from feelings
of depression that were "almost unbearable," but then experienced a life-changing epiphany.
Recounting the experience, he says,
I couldn’t live with myself any longer. And in this a question arose without an answer: who is
the ‘I’ that cannot live with the self? What is the self? I felt drawn into a void! I didn’t know at
the time that what really happened was the mind-made self, with its heaviness, its problems,
that lives between the unsatisfying past and the fearful future, collapsed. It dissolved. The
next morning I woke up and everything was so peaceful. The peace was there because there
was no self. Just a sense of presence or "beingness," just observing and watching.
Tolle recalls going out for a walk in London the next morning, and finding that "everything was
miraculous, deeply peaceful. Even the traffic."The feeling continued, and he began to feel a strong
underlying sense of peace in any situation. He stopped studying for his doctorate, and for a period of
about two years after this he spent much of his time sitting, "in a state of deep bliss," on park benches in
Russell Square, Central London, "watching the world go by." He stayed with friends, in a Buddhist
monastery, or otherwise slept rough on Hampstead Heath. His family thought him "irresponsible, even
insane." He changed his first name from Ulrich to Eckhart; by some reports this was in homage to the
German philosopher and mystic, Meister Eckhart.
A 2012 interview article states that he saw the
name Eckhart on one of a pile of books in a dream, and knew he had written the book; soon after in real
life he ran into a psychic friend who called him Eckhart out of nowhere, so he changed his name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle
