Essential Teachings Special: Maintaining Consciousness in the Midst of Chaos

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We don't have to be drawn into the dysfunction.

We can be the light of consciousness, even in the darkness.

Hello, Mr. Eckertoy.

Hello.

If I may take a moment for this great opportunity

and thank you for being my guiding light, my guru, my teacher,

my hope in many moments of darkness,

and being the spark that awakened me.

And that continues to do so.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

My question for you today is,

how do I, as an awakening soul,

keep faith in manifesting global and personal love,

peace, and harmony at this time

when there's so much chaos, corruption, fear,

and a lot of hate, actually, and anger,

among the global puppets,

among those close to me,

in other words,

how do I not fall into the darkness of fear

and separation from my source, from my essence,

and from separating from others

and remembering that, as you say,

it is not personal, it is not who they are.

How do I use conscious manifestation

to achieve that?

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

To use the term manifestation

in a wider sense,

one could say that you manifest

the way in which you experience

what you might call reality

or your life.

You could call it your life.

You could call it reality.

How do you experience it?

And to what extent

are you dependent upon external conditions

as far as your state of consciousness

is concerned?

How much freedom do you have?

Can you live peacefully

in a world that is

to a large extent

not peaceful?

And if that is possible,

how do you do that?

How do you not

get drawn into

the conflict

and anger,

egoic dysfunction

of the world,

individually, egoic

and collectively, egoic?

Let's start by looking at,

to some extent,

it might be helpful as a starting point

to differentiate

between what would

conventionally be called

your life.

This is whatever

in your daily experience

of people, people

that you interact with,

whatever you do in this world,

work situation,

family situations,

meeting people here

and there going from here

to all your private sphere,

there's that,

so you meet all kinds of people,

familiar people,

some people that you meet

briefly have interactions

with,

and then you have,

in this technologically advanced society,

not everybody,

but most people,

have another level of interaction

with other people that also

becomes part of what they call my life,

and that is interaction

through technology,

you interact through social media

with more people

than you actually know,

the case with many people these days,

they interact with more people

than they actually know

in their normal everyday existence,

you interact with all kinds of people

that you've never met,

not everybody,

but most these days,

because people use all kinds of things,

sending messages and so on,

and on social media,

you also interact with people

in a different way,

so look at,

then the third level,

so we have

actual personal contact with people

and whatever that,

whatever the nature

of these interactions is,

it could be,

is it conflict-ridden,

is it conflict-ridden

in your,

or is there some conflict,

but also certain amount of harmony

in your daily life,

then you look at the other level

of social interactions

through the media,

through social media,

what kind of interactions

do you have there

with people that you might never have met,

but nevertheless,

you're in contact with them,

what is the quality

of that kind of interaction

that you have,

how much conflict is there,

how much negativity is there,

and how much is there,

that is a manifestation

of consciousness.

You have to look at that.

Many people are,

there are people,

as you show you know,

especially younger people,

but others too,

there are many people in this world

for whom the human interactions

that they have through technology,

are much more important

than the actual interactions

they have with human beings,

they interact through social media

with countless people,

and the virtual world

becomes to them more important

than the actual surroundings.

It's an amazing thing.

I don't believe

that is a very helpful thing,

but that's how it is.

It's a huge challenge,

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Then you have another level

where you can contact with the world

through what we might call mainstream media.

You get the news

and you get commentaries.

And mostly these days,

the news and commentaries

are mixed up.

They come in one.

You can't just get the news anymore.

Then you already have it.

The news already embedded in a commentary.

That the third level

becomes also for many people

almost more important

than their daily existence

with the people that they actually know

and interact with.

Sometimes, of course,

those levels can meet.

For example, you're here in the news

about people going into stores

and not wearing their masks.

And then there's a lot of upheaval about that

and people get worked up about this

and very angry.

And then you can see little clips

of people shouting at each other

because somebody's not wearing a mask

and then the other person is shouting something back.

And to some extent,

there can be that level.

And the person level can meet

because 10 minutes later,

you go into the store

and you might witness something similar.

So your experience of reality

or your world consists of these levels.

So you have to look at these three levels.

Not as first of all,

it's important not to lose touch

with the fact that level one

where you have actual human interactions

with people in your daily life,

which is relationships that you have,

people you work with, people you meet casually,

but actual human interactions

that really is the main part

or should be the main part of your life

should be that the actual living experience.

And so what I'm recommending

is that you separate

or see if you can separate those levels

and look at the primordial level

of your actual experience

with human beings,

leaving aside for a moment,

social media,

and leaving aside,

watching the news every day

and all the other things

connected with the news,

whatever, leave that aside for a moment.

It's important to see the difference.

So when you talk about negativity

and destructiveness and all anger

and antagonism and conflict everywhere,

first of all, look at your life,

your actual life,

does that apply there

or to what extent does that apply there?

Because that's an important part of your reality,

is your reality that you create,

that you manifest in your personal life,

that is primary, I would say,

is that sometimes, of course,

the reality that you see

in the mainstream media

when you watch the news,

sometimes the two meet,

as I said before, they can meet.

So first of all,

you need to take responsibility

for your life here

on the level of personal interactions.

That's where it starts.

And that's where you can do a lot of good,

and you can do harm too.

Do you contribute there

to human unconsciousness?

Or do you contribute there

to the awakening of humanity?

Every encounter with another human being,

whether it's a person you've known for a long time,

family member, spouse,

whatever it may be,

or whoever it may be,

every interaction with a true interaction,

not talking about social media,

every interaction with another human being

is important.

What is the quality of your consciousness

as you interact with actual human beings,

not ciphers on this screen,

actual human beings,

what's the quality of your life on that level?

And that applies even if,

even if you were living in an even more,

the situation we are moving,

experiencing a certain amount of upheaval in the collective,

that could be worse,

it has been worse,

it could get worse too,

but I don't know whether we'll talk about that.

A certain amount of upheavals in the collective, yes.

But what I'm saying now would apply,

even if you lived in a war situation,

I would say it's still very important,

every interaction that you have with another human being

is of great importance,

because the world changes from there.

So you begin that,

do you emanate,

do you have, is there empathy?

Do you operate from ego,

or do you judge people?

Do you judge, do you confuse people's ego

and unconscious behavior

with who they are in their essence?

Or are you able to see

the unconsciousness in certain people that you may meet

and then look deeper,

realize it for what it is,

a temporary dysfunction in a human being,

and you can still have compassion.

Do you emanate, go to well towards other humans,

even humans that can't do anything for you?

Do you, do you, do you,

do you have an empathy?

Do you feel their being?

And only feel their being,

if you can feel your own being,

and you can feel their being is a reflection of yours.

There's one consciousness, one being.

So do you emanate,

go to well towards others that you meet?

All these important things to be aware of,

because that's where your world,

that's the foundation for what you might call

your reality, your world.

Because in Miracle says,

which is this cause for transformation,

which some people find very helpful,

but not everybody.

Every time you meet a human,

it says that it's a holy encounter,

a holy encounter.

I would add potentially a holy encounter,

because in actuality, in most cases,

it's not a holy encounter.

But potentially, you can recognize,

not just the humanity,

the humanity is the condition part of every human being.

That's the humanity.

You see the humanity and every humanity is deficient

and imperfect.

Every human,

on the human level of being human,

the humanity is very deficient and imperfect.

So you recognize that.

But are you able to recognize

what I could call,

I would rarely use that word,

the divinity in every human,

because in every human,

there's humanity,

which is conditioned,

mind, mental emotional field.

Are you able to see that,

without completely realizing,

confusing this,

with the true identity of that human being?

Are you able to see it,

and see beyond it?

That means seeing beyond it means to recognize

the beingness of the other,

the essential beingness,

which we could call,

the divinity.

They are also,

they emanate from this one source of all life.

All beings are emanations from the one source.

And so you recognize that,

and then it's a holy encounter.

When you see more than the humanity,

even though it may not be that easy,

because the humanity may be quite overpowering

in its negativity and destructiveness.

But that's part of your spiritual practice,

with every time you meet a human being,

to see the divinity and the humanity.

Then you see the, after a while,

you see the divinity more than the humanity,

so to speak.

And this is why I use the human,

I use the English term,

human being,

which we use,

because the English language does not have a word

that includes both men and women,

traditionally in old books and so on.

People use the masculine,

all men, and they include it women,

but the human one never mentioned,

because English language doesn't have a word for man and woman.

The German language does, which is mens,

mens means could be,

is a man or a woman.

But English, you have to say human being.

But I think that's a good thing,

because it shows the two dimensions.

You are a human being.

On the human level,

your condition entity,

that's your condition by your past,

by your culture,

even by the language that you grow up with,

by your parent,

the parental background,

or all kinds of things,

you are the human.

And the human only is ego,

so there's a human ego.

And then you have the being,

the human being,

being is the unconditioned,

the consciousness,

the unconditioned consciousness.

So in daily life,

what reality do you manifest

in your daily life

on your personal,

so-called personal level?

That's an important question.

And now there are so many people in this world

who pay relatively little attention

to that level of reality.

They give more attention

to social media

and listening to and watching mainstream media.

They're so absorbed by what's wrong with the world,

they don't realize what's wrong

on the foundational level of their own life.

And they try to find some kind of solution up there,

but they haven't eaten.

There's so much unconsciousness in their own life.

So the foundation is,

I'm not saying completely disregard things that happen

in the world,

but that is important too,

but it comes next,

it comes second.

It doesn't auto,

it does not mean

that your reality needs to be perfect,

but you practice,

you realize that this level is very important.

And then is the world really on that level,

if you are relatively conscious

and you're awakening,

or awakened,

then you realize on that level,

your world isn't that bad.

In fact, you are improving the world

because whenever you meet somebody,

something you emanate,

something that comes through your words

or your actual action,

you help in some way,

or they simply feel good in your presence

because they can feel recognized,

they feel recognized in their innermost being,

and this is so wonderful.

So you bring a different,

completely different vibrational frequency

into this world on this level.

That's something to deal with.

And there,

there's a lot that you can do there

to live more consciously.

And then you look at the other levels,

then how do you social in social media?

How to what extent is it taking over your mind?

Are you addicted to it?

Do how much time do you spend there?

Do you realize that,

or do you still participate in creating false images?

For example, on Facebook,

people create images of who they are,

how they want to be seen.

And then they put out all these pictures of them.

And everybody's,

most people fabricate an image,

and they put that out.

It's part of the ego,

technology helps to,

helps the ego to become more and more inflated.

And then you get,

you have more and more so-called friends,

people you've never met.

100 friends,

200 friends, 300 friends.

Well, they, I don't know,

but it feels good to the ego that everybody loves me.

They don't, they don't even know you.

The image that you have presented.

And then many people feel bad about themselves

because other people,

they read other people's images.

They see,

it's all a fabrication.

So don't lose yourself in that world

because you lose consciousness.

You can use Facebook,

but in a real way,

I think it's possible to use it in a real way

without presenting some absurd image.

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Now, the next level is,

what's happening out there?

What's happening in the collective?

And the way in which you mostly learn about it

is through consuming

the mainstream media,

either on television or on one of your devices.

You learn about what's happening in the world

and it doesn't look good.

In fact, a lot of it looks dreadful.

And so,

now, what's very important,

what is the state of consciousness

that you are in while you watch these things?

To what extent do these things draw you incompletely?

Are you aware how much awareness

is there in you while you watch,

for example, mainstream media news accounts

and so on?

Do you realize what you are seeing?

First of all,

there are some people who select

what's newsworthy.

They say,

this is what we want to show people

out of many, many events every day.

The certain number of events are selected.

Very rarely do they select anything good that has happened.

It's almost as if nothing good would ever happen

when you watch the news.

Anything good happened today?

No.

Because it's not news.

When you want to see it,

it seems the ego thrives on conflict,

the ego,

because it takes sides.

And by taking sides,

it becomes more inflated,

the false image.

So the news,

then they focus on the most,

I'm not saying these things do not happen,

but they focus on the most dysfunctional aspects

of human interactions.

And by focusing on the most dysfunctional aspects

of human interactions,

they amplify the most dysfunctional aspects

of human interaction.

And this is not easy to see

that they actually contribute

to the unconsciousness.

First by selecting all the things that are bad

and presenting them.

And then out of those things,

they focus on the,

to take a few things and focus on that

and by focusing on one particular type of dysfunction,

or unconsciousness,

they amplify it.

And I don't think they even know

that this is what they are doing,

that they are in the grip

of unconscious forces.

They're in the grip of unconscious thought streams,

collective,

and that humans don't realize

that thought streams,

to a large extent, are collective.

And thought streams,

they live in you and through you.

They are like energy formations

that use your mind.

And these energy formations,

you absorb them from the collective

when you watch media.

And ultimately,

every thought is an energy formation.

And everybody has experienced occasionally,

some thoughts can become obsessive.

Some people,

it could be a melody,

that doesn't come out of it,

it doesn't leave your mind.

Or you have some kind of thought,

you can't stop thinking about this,

it's close on and on.

So this can happen,

but on a much larger scale,

huge groups of humans

can be taken over by certain collective thought streams

even though they are being taken over

by certain,

and usually they're in negative

and destructive thought streams.

An entire country can be taken over by,

it happened, for example,

let's say Mao is China,

when Mao is China,

like for several decades,

everybody got taken over by particular,

everybody set the same thing,

very destructive behavior.

Children would denounce their own parents

for having set the wrong thing

and be taken away to prison.

The most absurd things

at the height of the Cultural Revolution,

they would even tear flowers out of the parks,

they said,

flowers are bourgeois,

we don't want any flowers,

we get rid of flowers,

the most absurd behavior.

And millions of people,

all dressed in the same way,

all holding up a red book,

and shouting the same thing,

and believing in it,

not realizing that they are possessed

by an energy stream,

which is a collective mind form.

And then they come out of it now,

it's no longer,

China has grown a lot,

it's no longer,

in national socialism,

in Germany,

it was a similar movement,

Soviet communism,

in Russia,

these are collective energy streams,

they possess millions of people,

and people just,

so identified with it,

because they are spiritually,

totally asleep,

they don't know who they are

beyond those thought forms.

And so,

when you watch the media,

you have to be careful

that realize how these functions,

yes, these things are happening

what they prefer,

and many of these things are not good,

but,

first of all,

you get a considerably distorted view,

of what's going on in the outer world,

for the very fact,

that all they focus on,

is the worst aspects,

of society,

of what's happening,

the most dysfunctional things are,

newsworthy,

many good things,

because continuously millions of good things happen,

people helping others,

many things happen,

but they're not usually reported,

there would not be news.

Yes, of course,

you want to be informed,

it's good,

you don't want to know what's going on in this world,

and perhaps,

you can help in some way,

integrate the larger issues

that are happening in this world,

perhaps there's something that you can do,

but when you consume

these mainstream news,

be aware that it is a distorted view of reality.

It's distorted,

because, first,

they select dysfunctional unconscious behavior,

as most newsworthy.

Second, it's also distorted,

because, once they have selected,

out of those things,

they amplify certain things,

give it special attention that gets blown up,

and then it's not just reporting,

the reporting of the news

is also interpreted,

as they are reporting it,

it's not just the news,

it's already giving you their perspective,

it's seen through their eyes,

and so they create further events

by amplifying very unconscious behavior,

they create further events in this world,

and that they don't even know that that's what they're doing.

But the important question is,

are they drawing you,

as you watch and consume,

are they drawing you into unconsciousness

while you watch and consume?

Are they pulling you down?

Are you able to be aware

as you watch,

so that you don't forget

your connectedness with source or consciousness?

Do you know that you are aware

and don't get completely drawn in feel?

What you are watching is human unconsciousness happening.

It's not the totality of what is happening.

You're seeing a partial view of the most unconscious things

happening on the planet at this time.

So it's important to know that

that then the question is,

are you able to stay conscious

to realize it for what it is?

To realize, yes,

these things are happening,

but also

it's a distorted view of reality, yes.

And what is most likely happening right now,

we need to be aware of that.

It is true that there is an increase

in the collective at the present time

of what we might call dysfunction

or disorder

or even chaos disruption.

We are entering,

or we have already entered collectively,

a time period of collective disorder

or disruption or chaos.

There are time periods that they fluctuate.

It's always there.

It's true that the media,

the media actually is part of it.

They don't just report it.

They amplify the disruption

and the chaos, unfortunately.

I'm not blaming anybody there.

The fact is that the mainstream media

is part of the disorder

that is increasing disorder in this world.

And my feeling is there's more to come.

So be spiritually prepared.

Very important.

Be spiritually prepared so that you

do not become part of

the disorder that's happening

and increasingly,

I believe, going to happen even more in this world,

the world always moves between order

and chaos,

there are two polarities.

You should always strive for order

that's important in your life,

in the world,

but realize the world for its evolutionary progress

also needs chaos periods of chaos and disorder.

And out of chaos and disorder,

a new order develops.

And so there is a gradual evolution of consciousness.

When there is disorder,

there is a regressive movement,

which means most people become

relatively more unconscious.

And in the present time,

anybody who is not awakenings,

even to some extent, spiritually,

will be drawn into deeper unconsciousness

because they become part of the collective movement

of disorder or chaos,

when structures dissolve.

And that is a challenge for humans,

now especially for you,

everybody I'm talking to and many others,

of course,

it is your challenge to stay conscious

while this is happening,

so that you do not become contaminated

with the collective negativity and unconsciousness.

It doesn't mean that you necessarily need to completely withdraw

from the world.

You can still attempt,

to the best of your abilities,

to create a better world,

if you have whatever your sphere of influence may be,

see if you can bring in more consciousness

into whatever you do,

in contact with,

be a bringer of consciousness.

You bring consciousness into an unconscious world,

without creating some mental conceptual image,

I am the bringer of consciousness

than you lost in ego again.

But be prepared for increasing challenges in the collective.

Do not be drawn into reactivity

and do not be hypnotized

by these events when you watch what's happening in the media

and so on.

Stay present.

What you're watching is an evolutionary story.

Humanity is displaying,

probably entering a regressive period,

as they sometimes happen,

or there's a further awakening of consciousness.

Perhaps, I'm not for sure,

but there's a good chance we're entering a regressive period,

which is perfectly fine.

What you're watching is,

the evolutionary growth of the human species,

and so they are manifesting

whatever behavior corresponds

to the particular stage in the evolution of humanity.

The evolution is,

towards more consciousness.

That's for sure.

So don't lose yourself.

Be present, mind you watch.

And don't watch too much,

just watch enough to know what's going on.

But don't be hypnotized by the media

until you can't stop watching.

And very important is,

don't be drawn into

the unconsciousness,

for example,

by regarding certain groups of people

as enemies of your

dehumanizing certain groups of people

by calling them this,

but attaching certain labels to certain people.

The dehumanization, of course,

racism is one example of dehumanization

that's mental labels to a whole,

to a group of people.

And you egoically identify it with these mental labels.

So you're imposing collective identities

on you, other humans.

It's a deep form of unconsciousness.

So there are many ways of,

you can even demonizing other groups of humans

in the collective, very dangerous things.

But it's unlikely that this will happen to you,

but it could,

if you're not careful,

if you're not alert.

So be present.

And see it for what it is.

Don't be part of it.

But do not necessarily refrain

from taking conscious action

wherever you can.

Even conscious action,

if you engage in social media,

be careful that you're not drawn

into anything reactive from social media.

If you don't attack other people on social media

that was very unconscious,

you can present a viewpoint,

you can present an opinion,

an alternative viewpoint,

whatever it is,

but stay conscious in all your interactions.

So the greatest challenge is,

in an age when there is a growth of temporary increase

in unconsciousness on a collective level,

your challenge is to stay conscious

as a human being,

conscious while this happens.

And I therefore recommend,

on a very practical level,

next time you watch the news,

while you watch the news,

is aware of yourself,

your presence,

your awareness,

while you watch,

so that you don't lose touch with the deeper level

of who you are.

And see that,

yes, it is a distorted view of reality,

but yes,

these things are happening,

but nevertheless,

it's not the totality of what's happening,

and it no longer has the power to draw you in,

to make you unconscious.

It has a gravitational pull,

the media,

social media too,

has a gravitational pull,

and you're not careful, you go.

And you notice when you watch it,

and you're not aware,

your mind stops,

you're not thinking,

your mind gets completely taken over

by what you're watching,

or the words,

while you're watching,

you're not thinking your own thoughts are very rarely,

it's completely taken over.

It's quite a dangerous.

So,

but this cannot happen if you're aware,

how do you, how do you, how do you,

where,

well, one way that I recommend is,

if you find it difficult,

be aware of the inner energy field of your body,

the inner body, as I call it,

incorporate that into your sense of presence,

you're present with every cell of the body,

and then you can watch,

and then you realize

that which is beyond

all the unconsciousness,

and it's in you.

It's also in every one person that they don't know it,

it's in every human,

but so you,

you can remain peaceful,

even while the world is chaotic.

That's a challenge.

I'm not saying it's not a challenge,

and the world needs that, of course,

it needs that, especially in periods of chaos,

it needs a certain number of humans

who remain essentially at peace,

they remain peaceful,

they don't contribute to the chaos of the world.

So, let's see,

we're moving into very interesting times,

and there's nothing to fear,

if you're in touch with who you are,

or what you are,

on that level,

there's nothing to fear,

because ultimately,

what people are afraid of is death,

and death, of course, is assured

to the physical body will dissolve,

but find death before death finds you,

and then there's nothing to fear.

How do you find death before death finds you,

well, by dying to the mind-created,

egoic sense of self,

that is a conceptual identity,

and by dying to that,

you realize your essential identity,

which is pure consciousness,

and that essential identity,

Jesus called it,

eternal life.

And in Buddhism,

eternal, of course, means timeless,

eternal life.

In Buddhism, it's sometimes called Amaravati,

which means the desolate realm,

which is the dimension of the desolate,

where there's no death.

It's a wonderful description.

Let's see, transcended dimension.

It's your mission in this world,

is to awaken to that,

and then you'd no longer fear,

things in this world.

In 90 years from now,

or let's say 100 years from now,

everybody who is alive on this planet

will be gone,

so it's short-lived.

The life of the human is short-lived,

but the being,

the being is the timeless dimension

of who you are,

it's who you are,

beyond form.

And then you can watch the news,

not being fearful,

but then even if some

huge disaster were approaching,

it wouldn't matter that much,

because you know that

everything that we perceive here

is, one could say,

the surface of reality.

All the things you perceive with our senses

is the surface dimension,

and underlying that

is something deeper.

It's like the surface of the ocean

and the ocean.

Don't just live on the surface of the ocean

as a little ripple,

but realize you're not only a ripple,

because the ripple is going to die soon,

but more essentially you are the ocean.

But the ocean would not have realized

its own essential identity

just lost itself

in a ripple identity.

And this is why the bodies say,

if there were no illusion,

there would be no enlightenment.

So even that is all part

of the evolutionary process,

which is so vast,

we cannot possibly understand it

through the mind.

Perhaps this is enough for today,

spring moments of stillness

right now,

be aware

the people you see are points

of consciousness,

and to you yourself

are a point of consciousness,

the one consciousness,

assuming form, different forms.

And so you are

that one consciousness.

Ultimately,

I should be saying not you are,

but I am the one consciousness.

There's only one I.

There's only one I.

And I am that one I.

There's no you.

There's only I.

You are I.

And so for consciousness,

to become conscious of itself

is very joyful

when you feel

yourself,

you become aware of being,

you become aware

of awareness,

and there's joy in that,

being,

consciousness,

joy,

or as they say in India,

sat,

shed,

and under,

being,

consciousness,

joy.

Thank you.

Thank you.

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