Eckhart Tolle’s international bestsellers, The Power of Now and Stillness Speaks, continue to touch new chords of awakeness in a wide range of people. What is it about this humble guy that has so many seeking his guidance? “They don’t come to be with me,” he says. “They come to be with themselves, to be themselves more fully.”

On this new release in the Power of Now teaching series, Eckhart invites listeners into “presence,” our original way of being that is free from the relentless thoughts, fears, and ambitions created by the ego. From using the “inner body” to put an end to stress and suffering… to insights into the nature of the “pain-body” and its role in relationship… to accessing a creativity and intelligence far greater than the mind… here is Eckhart Tolle’s depiction of “a new world” that awaits us as we take the next step in our collective evolution, The Flowering of Human Consciousness.

Recorded in La Jolla, California at the Inner Directions gathering, this is the audio program of a session also available in video (with the same title). In clear, simple language (the man speaks naturally in coherent and complete sentences), Tolle explains the process of entering this “miraculous” state of presence that is always available to us. We are lost, he says, in the maze of our own compulsive thoughts. Only by ceasing this “mental noise” can we dissolve our egos, and enable the “flowering of a new consciousness” to proceed—a transformation that cannot be understood by the mind. From guidance about stress and career to insights into the nature of the ego and the delusion of time, desire and how it operates, and where freedom truly comes from, here is a far-reaching session that documents the vision of this modern spiritual teacher, and the truth he both articulates and embodies.

Included is a question-and-answer session as well.