Tolle did not learn how to fire up anything; if anything he allowed that fire to consumw him until there was nothing left by it. How this process happens is not clear, and I do not believe there is a prescription for it. There is somethin deep that produces that transformation.
They are the same in the abstract, but for them to be experienced as the same, that is awareness, and it is not something one part can will against the whole.
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It reminds me of the mechanism that leads to insight. Spontaneous flashes of insight are precipitated by long periods of intense thought and incubation. Insight might appear as an independent event but it is not.
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Eckhart Tolle was depressed for much of his life until age 29. Tolle's spontaneous awakening occurred at a critical point when suffering was "almost unbearable." Such drastic, sudden transformations are rare and usually occur when the suffering reaches critical levels.
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At this point in my understanding I am almost certain that psychology has the least to do with the experience of enlightenment (for lack of a better term) and that it is a very rare and very extreme form of biological adaptation, one which i reserved for very few.
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