How to Protect Yourself from Toxic Beliefs & Tech | Eckhart Tolle Interview
The Rubin Report
Emma Dog Productions
4.6 • 14.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to author Eckhart Tolle about the rise of toxic beliefs, what we can all learn from Ben Shapiro's talk with Russell Brand, and how social media is filling our head with negative beliefs. First, Eckhart shares his observation that many people are living in a distorted reality filled with toxic ideologies. He warns that if we do not develop more self-awareness we may end up on a path to disaster. Eckhart shares why he thinks Ben Shapiro's appearance on Russell Brand's podcast is so important and why we need to be able to hear differing viewpoints. Finally, Eckhart discusses how smartphones are creating a problem of excessive thinking and damaging children's ability to solve problems.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Dave Rubin and joining me today is one of the most widely recognized spiritual |
| 0:11.6 | teachers on the planet. |
| 0:13.7 | His book The Power of Now sold 12 million. |
| 0:17.6 | That's million copies and the follow-up. |
| 0:19.6 | A new Earth sold over 15 million copies, both have been translated into over 50 languages. |
| 0:26.6 | My friend Eck Artoulai, welcome back to the Rubin Report. |
| 0:29.6 | Thank you, Dave. Nice to see you again. |
| 0:33.0 | It's great to talk to you. |
| 0:34.8 | As my audience knows, we are at the beginning of August right now and I am technically off |
| 0:39.4 | the grid. |
| 0:40.4 | I am in an undisclosed location with no technology, no phone, no computer, no news, no |
| 0:47.0 | nothing. |
| 0:48.0 | So we're taping this at the end of July and I thought you would be the right person to |
| 0:51.8 | sort of kick this month off with. |
| 0:54.3 | So before we get to sort of the off the grid stuff and digital detox, I wanted to ask |
| 0:59.4 | you just sort of what do you make of the spiritual health of the planet in this last year and |
| 1:07.0 | a half, this sort of crazy year and a half that we've all had to deal with? |
| 1:11.8 | Yes, I believe crazy is quite a good word to describe it in many ways. |
| 1:21.9 | There's been many collective challenges. The main one is the virus and the lockdowns |
| 1:31.8 | and various other challenges. |
| 1:35.6 | I've had this strange feeling idea in the past few months that a certain segment of humanity |
| 1:45.0 | is losing the ability to think rationally. There's a decrease in whether I call it IQ or |
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