What Is The Purpose Of Mental Illness?
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Eckhart Tolle is widely recognized as one of the most original and inspiring spiritual teachers of our time. He travels and teaches throughout the world.
Eckhart is not aligned with any particular religion or tradition, but excludes none. His profound yet simple and practical teachings have helped thousands of people find inner peace, healing and greater fulfillment in their lives. At the core of his teachings lies the transformation of individual and collective human consciousness - a global spiritual awakening.
Eckhart Tolle is the author of The Power of Now, a #1 New York Times Bestseller, which has been translated into 32 languages and become one of the most influential spiritual books of our time.
In his most recent book, A New Earth, he shows how transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only essential to personal happiness, but also the key to ending conflict and suffering throughout the world.
I believe many conditions that we consider to be mental "illnesses," are in fact emotional "illnesses" caused by emotional trauma in early childhood.
My mother has Ahlzheimers/Dimentia. Her brain is shrinking and has gaps in it from the Plaques and tangles. That is organic brain damage and quite different from those who don't necessarily have a diagnosed mental illness. She was very traumatized as a young girl by her mother.I observed her anxiety and fear intensify as I was growing up. All of my siblings have this same kind of anxiety and my mom was quite verbally and physically abusive as well. Collectively it was a huge cause of my whole families anxiety issue. Eckhart Tolles work has brought awareness of this to all my siblings. I shared his work with all my family after I read the Power of Now. We are healing wonderfully now.
Mental illness is not really just an individual problem, but is symptomatic of the context of society. A "schizophrenic person" is not actually ill, but is perfect in who they are. It is in the context of society that mental illness can have purpose. Our society is very complacent in our illusions and we think it represents reality. When someone doesn't play by those rules, we call them crazy and separate ourselves from them. That is the collective mental illness that needs healing.
I am Schizophrenic but I had my first spiritual experience at age 31. I knew God was real because I felt a peace wash over me and I could see people with my spiritual eyesight.
why can't he just answer the question??
In OCD and delusions I have found spiritual awakening. But I feel Western Society is not a place for me anymore
The animals in laboratories and factory farms suffer much more than any human. This needs to be addressed. Until this is fully addressed humans will not move things into the right direction.
I popped out into awareness at 18, my mum called the docter lol, bless her, she couldn't work out why her angry teen daughter was suddenley so peaceful..
I would never became enlightened without ocd and intense suffering
i was diagnosed "bipolar" 3 years ago, and through this subsequent journey of hospitalisations have i embraced a new spirituality....wonderful stuff!
I had a serious depression over several years and when it got too hard, my ability to live was so torn apart that I couldn't receive post packages without crying by thinking about opening the door. I was so messed up that I shared my room with beasty spiders and basically lived surounded in trash. My will to do anything about it was simply non-existent. Once it got so far that it shook me to the core, my ego shattered away and I started to awake. I was feeling like a baby and cried about simple emotions in youtube videos. I was never the same since but found my true self within weeks.
This man's sense of humor is so underrated !
Recognizing what is insanity is part of awakening! Great words!
I feel that, in accordance with Tolle's perspective, there is the collective pain body of the community and culture. As the population in general avoids the discomfort within themselves, this pain and toxicity end up by getting expressed by others who are too sensitive to be able to avoid feeling this toxicity. The way to release this toxicity is to observe without judgment, accept and feel it and by doing so feel it leaving us. When we judge the experience or discomfort within us we contract around it and hold it, making it stay. As we observe and accept we release our grip.
To anyone out there not sure what they are feeling, if they are having issues identifying what awakening is, stop thinking about it and just keep experiencing and processing what is happening, paying attention to what is happening, but not the fine details. Don't think to much on it and the thoughts will come to you!
As a child I was taught advaita; Ramana Maharshi, Ramakrishna, et al, whilst being exposed to severe domestic violence and drug abuse. I have been through so many horrible states of depersonalisation, breakdown, depression, and worse, and at times the spiritual teachings made it all worse. Now, at 54, I am able to partake of these teachings and find consolation and peace from them. I’m mostly in the Now and feel the Being, yet I have to take antidepressants too. My “troubles” are dissolving through awareness. It’s a wild ride.
I’m so thankful for the long depressive episode I had my junior-senior year of high school. I started the process of awakening. I learned so much about myself and the world. I learned how to stay present. I am still awakening. I’m not totally there yet, but I’m getting there
I was in slight depression last year, that's when I encountered the Power of Now. My life pretty much had changed drastically as I became part of this journey.
I LOVE you Eckhart Tolle, I love everyone else as well and wish all a beautiful existence.
I must also add that practicing breathing and meditation, staying in the present has really helped me have fewer episodes of deep disabling depression.