The Seer

Eckhart: Everybody could probably feel the presence, but not everybody is interested. Many people are still in the grip of the ego and completely identified with their thoughts.

One way of becoming present is to feel the inner energy-field of your body. Feel the aliveness in your hands, arms, feet, legs, and then in the entire body. I call that awareness of the inner body. It takes your attention away from thinking and anchors you in the present moment.

Another way is to become conscious of your breathing. This is one of the most ancient meditation methods. Follow your breath with your attention, all the way into the body and out again. When you are aware of the inner body or follow the breath with your attention, you are highly alert, but not thinking.

Question: Once I have felt what being present is like, do I carry that knowledge inside all the time, like something learned once and forever, or do I have to practice constantly in order to become more conscious?

Eckhart: In most cases, it requires constant practice. Practice means you lose Presence, then realize that you lost it, then choose to return to it again and again, until Presence becomes your normal or predominant state.

Question: If everyone could connect with that state of awareness, would there be a change in global consciousness at a planetary level? How would that new world be like? How do you imagine that new era, as a new human evolution?

Eckhart: It would transform the world. It is the next step in human evolution, or one can even say the coming into existence of a new species. I don’t imagine what the new earth would look like, but I’m sure it would seem to us almost like a different planet.

Even science and technology may no longer exist, replaced by a simpler, more direct way of manifesting material forms through the mind. Of course, we would not need as many things as we do now

Eckhart Tolle