Have you met a teacher of spiritual awakening?

Have you met or studied in person with any of the teachers listed in the sidebar of the home page here?  I would love to hear from you if you have!!

It is exciting to see ‘spiritual awakening’ become a more commonplace interest.  Byron Katie and Eckhart Tolle seem to be the most popular voices right now; they both present the teaching in a way that jives with living a typical modern life.

If you are familiar with Byron Katie and Eckhart Tolle, probably you have wondered, as I have – what was it like to be with these teachers before they got famous?    How did they teach before they were booking huge, sold-out venues?  Who were their first students?

Perhaps our task of discernment is easier with teachers who already have an established following of relatively intelligent, ‘normal’ people (whatever that means :)

Perhaps it’s easier to recognize teachers who have published books and videos because we can digest the message from a distance.  We can sit back, comfortable in our own homes, and run the material through our BS detectors.  We can check to see if it’s the same message (different expression/terminology) given by the true teachers we already recognize.  We can check to see if the inner teacher says, “yes!”

But before Eckhart Tolle wrote The Power of Now, and before Byron Katie wrote Loving What Is,  I wonder… how did people respond to them?  What was it like to be with them?

Here is a written interview in which Byron Katie talks about the early days after her ‘transition’.  And a super fun video interview with Eckhart Tolle on Canadian TV show The Hour.  In it, Eckhart talks about his childhood.

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