How Your Presence Affects the Collective Consciousness | Eckhart Tolle

If you respond unconsciously out of the ego, then usually it amplifies, it fuels conflict and you bring more unconsciousness. But in a strange way you also, your state of consciousness affects other humans, even humans you don't come into contact with. That's a little mysterious. But all humans at a deeper level are connected. There. There's one collective human consciousness, which is an aspect of the greater consciousness of the universe. Just array of the greater. There is a collective human consciousness on that deeper level. Every human is connected to every other human. And what you, if you embody, if you begin to awaken into the state of presence, it's not a state, but let's call it a state. If you awaken into state of presence, dimensional presence, that makes it easier for other humans to also awaken into presence. That's so in a subtle way, that's how humans are connected. For example, in a somewhat different way, it has been discovered when, when one person makes a new fantastic discovery, quite often almost at the same time. In other parts of the world, some other humans have made a similar discovery at this almost at the same time. That's often been discovered. That's because all humans are connected at a deeper level. So in that sense, even if you have little or no contact with other humans, if you're present, you still affect the totality of human consciousness. But most humans are continuously interacting with other humans. And then you become a teacher of presence. Obviously, if your profession involves a lot of contact with other humans, that's even a helping profession. Then more obviously you become a teacher of presence. When you realize it, whether you are a teacher or a social worker or a doctor or a nurse or a therapist, psychotherapist, physical therapist. So if you're in a kind, some kind of helping profession, then you become a teacher of presence. You, of course, whatever you're teaching will be a different thing. But you realize when you convey the whatever it is that you, your the modality that you used to interact with those humans, helping capacity. If you're present, that presence flows into the way in which you relate to the other human being. Let's say you're a therapist. A therapist spends a lot of time listening to humans and they're talking. That's usually encouraged in therapy. So you're listening. And the other person, your client, your patient, whatever you call him, her talking usually about their problems. And then the therapist has a certain modality. He has been trained in a particular therapeutic approach, whatever it may be, could be old fashioned psychoanalysis or something more modern. So the Therapist will be applying their particular modality, been trained to approach the deification in particular way. But if, when the therapist becomes a teacher of presence, in addition to being a therapist, there's an energy that arises when the other person is talking, the therapist is listening. In that listening, there's an energy of presence. Because the therapist, if he is a good, if he becomes a teacher of presence, is no longer listening so much through the conceptual mind, but listening in the state of the clarity of presence. Just. It's more than listening. Presence is there. And you, you embody the presence. For the other person who does not have presence yet, hasn't discovered it yet. And then the most important part of your therapeutic relationship becomes a state of presence. And then you find yourself, regardless of. Of your training, whatever you have been trained to say or do, you may find intuition coming in more and more. Maybe you've been trained in a particular therapeutic approach, but you will then gradually your intuition will become more important than whatever you have learned. When they're training as a therapist, more and more you'll find your intuition will come in more. What is internally, you say something and you didn't know beforehand until you said didn't come. You don't come from a place of knowing, you come from a place of not knowing, which is very deep. And then you become an effective therapist only. And so I have met therapists, they've spent years sitting with people and applying their techniques, whatever they learned. And then gradually, or maybe not even gradually, they began to realize, or maybe they didn't realize even consciously, just gradually, the ability to listen grew in them, and then that became just presence. And then they became extremely effective as therapists because presence was taking over. Whatever, their training became secondary. In some cases, they all completely didn't use it anymore. But sometimes it comes only after. The question is, when can presence use you as a channel? Sometimes it requires a lot of practice before presence can use you as it. Not always, but sometimes. This not only applies to helping professions, it also applies to presence arising in you. When you are engaged in some creative endeavor, whatever it may be, are a musician or an artist, or whatever it may be, composer, maybe. Interesting. Is presence able to use you as a vehicle or as a conduit, can flow through you and inspire what you create and do? Yes, but often it requires many hours of practice so that the channel is ready for presence. There was a. I've often a few times quoted. There was a writer who discovered, who examined creative people like musicians, who created things that became classics. Whether it's classic for example in music classical composers like Mozart or Beethoven or modern pop music like the Beatles. And he looked at the hours they spent practicing their craft, so to speak. Thousands of hours before presence was able to suddenly come in. And they became inspired. And he stipulated he Even calculated that 10,000 hours you need and then there's a possibility for. For presence to flow in. And then. Then what you then create through presence. You don't create it. What is being created through you becomes unbelievable. How can a human create such beauty or such. Such powerful thing Even with. I mean if look at the beat of this relatively compared to Beethoven Beethoven modes that are more complex classical music constructions. Nevertheless, the Beatles also the songs are deeply inspired as a quality to make many of their songs that this is why they stay around. They'll still be played in 200 years time, 300 years time. Whereas most other music disappears after a few months or after a year definitely or even a few weeks. Is popular for three weeks and then it's gone. Because it's just noise with a little bit of hype. You can make that noise popular for a little while and then it disappears. But some. There's a quality what is created through presence. There's a quality to it that you cannot define. But almost everybody can sense it and feel it and to even be touched by it. So that. So. So I wouldn't say that in the. In a way. In a wider sense you could say people like that they are also teachers of presence. They teach through whatever they create through presence becomes extremely helpful to other humans because it still contains the energy of presence. Sa.