What Is Your View on Angelic Forces? | Eckhart Tolle

And ultimately, if there is a true message that includes angels or angelic presences, it always boils down to find out who you truly are, find your connectedness with the source of all life. Well, some people seem to have contact with different entities that are not physically embodied. And there's no doubt that there are entities that are not physically embodied. There are lots of guides, those entities who are also pretending to be somebody else. And the main criterion is what is the quality of the information that you are getting rather than trying to figure out who they really are. And this also applies to so called channeling, when this is still quite popular, I suppose in some places more than in others. In the States there's a town called Sedona, which is a new age kind of in Arizona, a new age town where it seems every other inhabitant channels some kind of spirit guide. So I have seen many channeled writings and a large percentage of them seems not all that relevant to anything. Small percentage, yes, there's something there. A prominent example is the cause in Miracles, which is not for everybody, but it is a high quality text, scripture you want to call it. And that was definitely channeled because the person who wrote it had an inner dictation and she wrote down what she heard. She did not fully understand what the dictation was saying and she couldn't live it. The teaching, and yet the book was produced. You may have heard the saying, as far as deceased people, some people think when people, the moment they are deceased, they know everything. But there's a saying that goes, just because they are dead doesn't mean they are smart. So whether you do channeling or you go to somebody who does channeling, who goes, the eyes usually close and they go, this is so and so talking to you. And whether or not it's genuine, listen to the quality of the teaching. If it is a teaching, the words, is it truly is it just. Is it fictitious? Could it be information that you have to believe in and they could say anything and does it make any difference to your life whether or not what they say is right or wrong? Perhaps they're talking about life on those distant planets and what happens There could be a science fiction novel as far as you are concerned. But some people are so impressed by the fact that these are channeled entities, they go, okay, and then what happens on those planets? Or they identify themselves as big entities from outer space. Who knows? Ashta. My name is Ashta, commander of the Galactic Fleet, and I have come here to guide you. Okay, so what do you have to Say and ultimately, if there is a true message that includes angels or angelic presences, it always boils down to find out who you truly are. Find your connectedness with the source of all life. All true answers will come from within you. And whatever I say, verify it in your own experience. Don't believe me? If you cannot verify it in your own experience, then it's not relevant. This is what the true guide would say. So the great scriptures of the world were not. They're not the author. Some are anonymous. There's a difference between spirit guide and teaching. That comes from a deep connectedness of the teacher with the source. In that case, the teacher does not feel that it comes from an entity, but it comes from the source. And if an entity gives you information, where do they get that from? From the one consciousness. So it may well be that this entity is more closer, more deeply connected to that one consciousness. But they are not separate consciousnesses. There's only one consciousness and every guide. The one consciousness can only speak through any guide, no matter who it is. Whether it's an angel or a deceased person or. Or Ashta, commander of the Galactic Fleet. There's only one consciousness that can speak through them. And the essence of their message needs to be if it is to be true. Find out who you are in your essence and then begin to live from the essence of who you are. So use your own inside, and I believe you will be able to tell whether what they say is helpful or not. At the moment, I can only think of cause and miracles. That's of a high quality. There was a time when there was Seth, the writings of Seth, a woman channeled, an anti God Seth. Some of that is interesting and has some. Some helpful things there. It doesn't necessarily go to the deepest level. Nevertheless, there's some useful information there, but not, not at the deepest level. When I speak, I don't feel that some other entity speaks through me. But I do realize that this is not the person speaking. This is consciousness using the mind, this person's mind as a vehicle. And consciousness speaks through me in that sense. What I say is also channeled. Also, I don't know what I'm going to say next. And most of the time I don't know even before a talk, what words are coming to come out of my mouth. And that connectedness is important. That is the connectedness with the source, with being, with stillness, with presence, whatever you want to call it, and that you have that available to you. Also, you might not give public talks or you might at some point, and some of you already do. But in whatever area you are active in, to be connected to the Source will empower you in whatever area you are active in and will make your work much more helpful to others and more empowered. You become more inspired and you become an inspiration for others. Even if you are just. Even if you sell tickets, cinema tickets or whatever, it doesn't matter. There is. Everything becomes transformed through your connectedness with Source. So, but to have that, the vital thing is to be able to access the space of no thought in another way of calling that space of no thought, which I sometimes express, because it's an inner space. Thinking, thinking, thinking, you remember, and then you go present. That's the space of no thought. So in order to have the connectedness with Source, you need to open up that space of no thought. Alertness, relaxed alertness. It seems almost paradoxical, but they go together. Relaxed alertness. And you could also call that becoming comfortable with not knowing, because otherwise your mind always thinks it knows already. So when you're trying to help somebody, somebody has a problem, you, often people will immediately try to say something helpful. They think hard, okay, what can I say to this person who is so suffering so much? I need to say something helpful in the search in your mind. And usually it's not that great, and it's not, and it's not well received by the person, and it's not that helpful. They might say, okay, thanks, but they feel it doesn't come from any deep place within yourself. Although your intentions are good, you're trying hard to say something helpful. But to be really helpful, you need to become comfortable with not knowing anything. And that because that the space of no thought is. You don't know anything in the space of no thought, at least not conceptually. The miracle is that in the space of no thought you access the source of all knowledge. But it hasn't reached concepts yet. Its potential potential of all knowledge, the primary source. So many people are actually afraid of going there because they're afraid of not knowing. And so they need to keep thinking. So if somebody comes to you, let's assume you have practiced already beforehand, not knowing, for example, by not labeling compulsively everything around you, but actually be present with a tree, with the sky, with another person. And so you almost, another way of putting it, you almost disappear as a person in that state of no thought. Because in no thought, who are you? You're simply a presence. You're not a particular person anymore. So it's a voluntary kind of disappearing act where you as the personal entity disappear. And there's just a space of consciousness where you were before. This sometimes happens to people who suffer greatly. They suffer so much that their ego gets destroyed and eroded. And what's left is just a presence. And this could happen to you, but probably won't need to happen because you're already voluntarily going there. So life doesn't need to push you into it. So to become comfortable with not knowing, let's say a person comes to you, is in suffering again, or is close to death, or somebody has just died, or they have just lost everything, whatever it may be. Of course, it could be pseudo suffering too. It could just be suffering totally created by their mind. No actual situation, just totally mind created. In which case I naturally always have a little smile on my face. I'm not laughing at them. I'm just smiling because I realize it's a delusion. But let's assume it's real suffering. Somebody has just died or is approaching death or has an illness. And then instead of figuring out what can I say, you just go still and you just listen. And it may be that no words come, but an energy. You contributed an energy to that situation that is helpful. That is healing. Some healing comes in healing. The deepest healing really comes in that way, too. When you access that, it's not always words that come out of that space. Sometimes a wordless emanation comes out of that space, which some people might call healing. And healing is not necessarily healing of a physical symptom. There's a deeper level of healing that helps that other person to connect with the deepest source within themselves. And that's really the ultimate and true healing. So when I was many years ago, I was many, many years ago, I was beginning to work with people who came to me for advice and counseling and so on. And I was always naturally becoming very still. So that's. And it all came out of that. I never knew the answer beforehand. Just get still and listen. And I may have told the story before. For a while, I thought I was a healer, because that was early on, after my shift in consciousness, when I didn't understand much. So I was sitting with this woman who had been a Catholic nun for 15 years and then left the order because he hadn't found God yet. And he came to me. And I was sitting in that state of not knowing, but being comfortable with not knowing, not being uncomfortable with not knowing, because that's not pleasant. And then it gets blocked immediately. And she said she could feel the energy suddenly. That was flowing and said, oh, you are doing healing. You are a healer. I said, oh, that's what I am. And I thought, oh, so that's what this energy is. And then for a couple of years, the word must have spread. People called me a healer. And some people came for physical healing, and some people had a pain there, and the foot was hurting and can you heal my foot? Well, I don't know. And then I realized after two years, most people who then came were just interested in getting rid of certain symptoms. They were not interested in deeper healing. So I made an announcement. I am not a healer. It.