Eckhart Tolle On the Ego – Did the Universe Make a Mistake With the Ego? [video]

Posted by clnews _Featured_, Conscious Evolution, Videos Thursday, October 11th, 2012

Question for Eckhart Tolle: My question has to do with the ego.  So much of what is discussed and you discuss is about the ego.  And, often times it feels like it is characterized as the enemy or someone that we are fighting against or some type of connotation like that.  And yet, it seems like the intelligence of the universe probably didn’t make a mistake with the ego.  I’m just trying to reconcile those ideas.

Eckhart Tolle: Although for a certain perspective the ego might seem insane, from a higher perspective it is no more than part of the evolutionary process of the species.  It’s a stage in the evolution.  As we are approaching the next stage in the evolution, we are beginning to see that the ego has completely outlived its usefulness.  But, it had its usefulness.  We’re only now beginning to see that it is insane because we are approaching the next stage in human evolution….