Tolle on Egoic Mind.

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When consciousness frees itself from its identification with

physical and mental forms, it becomes what we may call pure or

enlightened consciousness, or presence. This has already happened in

a few individuals, and it seems destined to happen soon on a much

larger scale, although there is no absolute guarantee that it will

happen.

 

 

Most humans are still in the grip of the egoic mode of

consciousness: identified with their mind and run by their mind. If

they do not free themselves from their mind in time, they will be

destroyed by it. They will experience increasing confusion,

conflict, violence, illness, despair, madness.

 

 

Egoic mind has become like a sinking ship. If you don't get off, you

will go down with it. The collective egoic mind is the most

dangerously insane and destructive entity ever to inhabit this

planet. What do you think will happen on this planet if human

consciousness remains unchanged?

 

 

Already for most humans, the only respite they find from their own

minds is to occasionally revert to a level of consciousness below

thought. Everyone does that every night during sleep. But this also

happens to some extent through sex, alcohol, and other drugs that

suppress excessive mind activity. If it weren't for alcohol,

tranquilizers, antidepressants, as well as the illegal drugs, which

are all consumed in vast quantities, the insanity of the human mind

would become even more glaringly obvious than it is already. I

believe that, if deprived of their drugs, a large part of the

population would become a danger to themselves and others.

 

 

These drugs, of course, simply keep you stuck in dysfunction. Their

widespread use only delays the breakdown of the old mind structures

and the emergence of higher consciousness. While individual users

may get some relief from the daily torture inflicted on them by

their minds, they are prevented from generating enough conscious

presence to rise above thought and so find true liberation. Falling

back to a level of consciousness below mind, which is the pre-

thinking level of our distant ancestors and of animals and plants,

is not an option for us. There is no way back.

 

If the human race is to survive, it will have to go on to the next

stage. Consciousness is evolving throughout the universe in billions

of forms. So even if we didn't make it, this wouldn't matter on a

cosmic scale. No gain in consciousness is ever lost, so it would

simply express itself through some other form. But the very fact

that I am speaking here and you are listening or reading this is a

clear sign that the new consciousness is gaining a foothold on the

planet.

 

 

 

Complete PDF version of POwer Of Now by Tolle:

 

http://giantmonster.com/ThePowerOfNOW_Eckhart-Tolle.pdf