What does Yas Forums think about Eckhart Tolle?

>I had an absolutely earth-shattering experience that scared the fuck out of me.
Care to share it, or too personal?

> How is it that the Hindus believed in a nondualistic "God" and universal oneness yet also had the caste system?

It’s been some years since I’ve read evola —what did he say again? I’m not against responsible non abusive drug use user, as you did. It can really help some people.

Literally just read his book, pretty based and recommended

His book is egomaniac deterant

In short, it started with a little "trip party" with my friends. Except I went a completely different route. I started seeing the nature of time and watched it move backwards. Unexplainable things. But this all came to a climax when reality broke and I was gazing into the abyss, almost as if a studio audience sat behind me and laughed. "This is what you wanted, isn't it? This is the 'truth' you wanted to see in using these drugs." This was then followed by seeing the physical world as it truly is...utterly base and devoid of any real personality. The ego is that which adds "flavor" and "life" into the world before us. Well that was wiped out for me and I saw the physical world as it really is. I saw these strange hairless physical organisms that were my friends talking, speaking amongst each other as only conditioned reactions against sophisticated stimuli. I saw the animalistic nature of this reality. They were no longer "Jake" and "Dylan" but just fleshy organisms. This was accompanied by a fear that not even your parents can mend, for they are stuck in it too. I saw the Hellscape that we are in for what it really is.

I was able to put this in perspective as I delved deeper into "mysticism." Eckhart kinda showed me that what I know as reality is just the ego's flavoring as I said, but he only gives a small breadcrumb typical of the new-agers that appropriate aspects of eastern religions to give a feelgood backdrop the the modern hippie's drug experience.
Alan Watts showed me that this reality is all really an illusion of the ego.
>youtube.com/watch?v=fcPWU59Luoc
He showed me the true meaning of the Yin/Yang symbol. That everything we see before us is not a fixed "difference" but carries an implicit unity. We know hot in opposition to everything "not-hot". Hot depends on cold to exist yet it appears as separate phenomena. In the same way we make endless categorizations. We know Dog from everything not-dog.

But Evola brought it all full circle to a political level. Showing how this all fits into a society and political organism. How despite us all deriving from the same oneness, things like racial spirit, hierarchy, all of these things matter. It is the drama of life that is playing out. And that we truly are in the midst of the Kali-Yuga, for the new-agers can never quite explain why in this modern "peaceful" age, man is more discontented than he's ever been. And that we are merely in the midst of a cycle. And the truth is that the heroic qualities of ancient civilizations are what gave life true meaning, a reason to live and persevere. Without these traditions, life is not worth living. The world where God is dead.
At this point, I believe that there are only two routes to go. Flow with the cycle in a sort of Taoist acceptance of the decay that we find ourselves in, preparing to stand as men among the ruins, or fight against it with the utmost fury. The latter seems more unrealistic as the days go by.

ugh i wish i could dabble in some mushrooms but have no access

Have a (You). I went to a therapist that my friend recommended to me. One of the first things he said basically boiled down to "our life has meaning because all living things are connected. All made out of the same basic materials". Babbys first buddhist shit. It really is amazing that people can say this and not realize how they are refuting their own point. If I were to believe that I was disconnected; an atomized creature who was cursed with consciousness to live out its days knowing what awaits us all...my life is actually more meaningful ironically enough. Its a shit meaning but it has more "oomph" to it than knowing all is void. I really don't know how to deal with it. The world, reality, nature or whatever you want to call it just is. Theres nothing I can do about that. I never asked to be here yet I am here. I used to think that I needed to just live in accordance with nature. But i have a human nature. I live in the human drama. I have to learn to care about the human drama.

Hmm - this is interesting, but maybe the drug experience helped fast-track you to it. I will try the Wim Hof breathing, and then to meditate on it. However, I lack knowledge of the best way to meditate, if there is such a way.

Is it just sitting and entertaining no thought, being in the now? I can do this, it helps when I want to sleep. Funny story, or not really because it's extremely short and lacks any actual point, but in some museum thing (whatever you call it, museum but with activities) there was a thing that measured brain activity in a rather crude manner (strapped around the head, two electrodes at the front). Whoever "thought less" (generated less activity in the frontal lobe I guess) would push a ball from the middle, to the opponent's side, and win. I could easily win every time, and switching sides made no difference. This was, coincidentally, after I had read The Power of Now (most of it on the train trip there). I just looked at nothing in particular, and imagined nothing. If thought forms arrived, I gave them no energy, and so they went away on their own. It's pretty relaxing for the brain (although I'm not sure it's to any real benefit).

I don't know enough to express it as you did, but from your two options, I'd think that accepting reality as it is, and trying your best to improve it in the ways that you can, would be the only real option. You could aim to become some sort of leader, but for that I've given up before I've even started. I think to become a real leader/"guru"/good example or what have you, you mustn't want to become one in the first place, either. It likely has to happen organically, and so until you find yourself in such a situation, I think there's little you can do but make your peace with it.

>most of it on the train trip there
(Not to the museum, to the city that it was in, visiting someone)