The Experiment
When Eckhart Tolle TV began, Eckhart referred to it as an ‘experiment’. When asked recently how he felt about it now, Echart replied:
“What I’ve found hard at first with this unfamiliar medium was to have a relationship with a camera – because I’m not used to having a relationship with cameras, I have relationships with people who listen. And the camera, not being alive, I found it hard to speak into the camera, because I felt that there was nobody there.
We had a small studio audience, so I tended to look around the room at other people, at the live beings rather than the seemingly ‘dead’ camera. And people had to continuously point at the camera saying “Look here, look here!” so that you establish a relationship with the people, far more people than in the studio audience who are actually watching from their homes.
And yet, I tried several times and I just couldn’t establish a relationship with the camera, until the third or fourth time. Suddenly, it happened. And spontaneously I visualized the camera not as an object in itself, but as – to use a term from science fiction – a ‘wormhole’. So, I could feel that as I looked into the camera, the camera was no longer there as an obstacle, it was an opening.
So an inner shift had happened inside me, in relationship to the camera. And I could now feel that the camera was actually an opening, and through it I was speaking, suddenly, into the opening. I felt that I was reaching people – the other end of the wormhole. At first, the camera was in the way, and then suddenly my inner perception of it changed, and the camera became an opening.
That, for me, was the most surprising and revolutionary thing that happened, that I can now have a relationship with all the people who are sitting at the other end of the wormhole, in their homes, in their living rooms, or wherever they are. The vital thing here is to sense, to feel, that there is a connection, there is an energy outflow. The experiment seemed to work quite well … because this shift happened.
The next stage of the experiment is just to see how the teaching works through that, over the next year or so. I need to see that it works for people — that it’s transformational for the people who are watching at home. Also, another criterion that I always use for myself, is whether I enjoy doing it. If you are doing something and you don’t really enjoy doing it, then the energy flow isn’t there.
It’s also good to know that the Internet, which is used for many ‘insane’ purposes, is used to bring about a shift in consciousness, raising consciousness rather than lowering consciousness. In itself it’s neutral, like any technology – it is neither good nor bad, it depends how it’s used.
Technology tends to amplify patterns that are already there, in the human mind – so you can see the madness of the human mind amplified if you surf around the Internet, you can see it very clearly there. A lot of it is. But it can also amplify the opposite of that, it can amplify the rising consciousness, a new level of consciousness.
So far, there’s probably more madness than sanity on the Internet, but that could change. We are using this medium to see if it can be used for a positive purpose, rather than amplifying the insanity of the human mind – it counteracts that.”
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