finding our timeless essence. In this episode Eckart talks about the sense of guilt

which has plagued humanity through the centuries. He says it's part of the

ego's dysfunction. The feeling that not only is there something wrong with the

world, there's also something wrong with me. Eckart explains certain religious

traditions have interpreted this as God's punishment. We believe somehow we are at

fault when bad things happen. He says this result in a heavy pain body burdened by

resentments, grievances, and also the sense of being a victim. Eckart says there

are ego identities based on faulty thinking he believes what's needed is

wisdom so we can free ourselves to find our true identity. Some traditions

call it our Buddha nature or Christ consciousness. Eckart says this aspect of

us cannot be harmed by what has happened to us. It is not touched by suffering.

He believes we must look inside to find this timeless essence that lives within

each of us.

Perhaps this is going to be the silent talk.

Stillness speaks.

It's a little paradox. I just realized that this title of the little book I wrote

is a paradox.

We talked about a belief or more accurately

living realization in all ancient, indebtedness cultures, a realization of the

aliveness of the world beyond what we can see with our senses. So the anthropologist

call that animism. A leader term is pan-psychism. Pan means all or everything.

Psychism means it has aliveness in it, whatever you want to call it, consciousness.

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