All right, ladies and gentlemen, as I tape this right now, it is 3.56 p.m. Eastern time on July 31st, 2025.

About eight hours from now, I officially go off the grid for the month.

And I could not possibly be more pleased to bring on my last guest of the season.

We will be airing this on August 1st, my first day off the grid for the month.

He is a legendary spiritual teacher, an author,

and perhaps I should ask him what he likes to be referred to most. But I like to call him

my friend Eckart Tolle. Eckart, it is great to see you. And of course, the author of Power

of Now and many other books. How are you, my friend? I'm fine. Thank you. Good to see you again. It's been a few

years since we had our last, well, we had a private conversation in Miami not long ago,

but the last interview was perhaps four or five years ago, right? Yeah, well, it's great to see you.

Yeah, we saw each other in person just a few months ago, but my guys just checked. The first time we sat down in person was 2019, and then we did it again in 2021. So it's been, you know, about four years since you've been on the show. And I meant what I said up top. I don't think there could be anyone that I could end this season with, end this period of time with, and really put up as our first interview when I'm gone,

then you, because your life in some sense perfectly embodies, I think, why I'm trying

or why I've been trying to take this month off the grid. So maybe before we get into that and sort of our relationship

with technology and some of the other things that you talk about, particularly mindfulness,

which is really why I'm, and being present, which is more than anything else, why I'm trying

to do what I do. For somebody, if there's somebody out there that doesn't know you, how do you describe

yourself at this point? I mean, I know everyone knows you, but how do you describe yourself at this point?

Well, sometimes people ask me, what do you do? Well, I'm getting old now, so everybody probably

assumes that I'm retired.

But occasionally still people ask me, what do you do? Or they ask, what did you do?

So sometimes it's best to simplify things, give people something that they can immediately relate to it, understand. So the simplest answer I

sometimes give is I'm a writer. And sometimes that's it, but they're happy. And sometimes

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