Question: This is about Eckhart Tolle's enlightenment experience, of falling into a void, having a state of no thought and being transformed to experiencing life so different.  So I'm asking what happened?  What agreements took place?  That seems like a very different experience from others.

From our perspective, it appears that a number of things are going on for this man in this lifetime.  The experience that he describes as  "falling into the void" was for him an ecstatic experience of pure emotion. Now, this is someone who is not overtly conscious of his emotions except through the processes  of his intellect.  What he was able to do was to bypass the intellect for a time and experience nothing but pure emotion.

Now, is this so different from what you have done and what others do on a routine basis?   In mechanics, no.  But what this caused for him was that it allowed him to begin to see himself and everything around him in a completely different way.  It was as if he really changed all the cells in his body in an instant.

Is this possible?  Of course!   Why would he do this?  What are the agreements going on here?  What is his purpose in this lifetime?  You understand, of course, that is a man with a great many agreements with a great number of people in order to provide them with the same "flash".

How they take that in to themselves will vary by the individual, and if it imbues him with an air of "specialness" so that other people take him more seriously, then that is all the better.  It is not theatrics or anything; what he experienced was very real and true.  The effect that it had on him physically, mentally, emotionally and psychically was of course very real and hugely transforming.  And again he has agreements with a great number of people to bring to them transformations that they are choosing in their lives and their transformations will not resemble his, but will be personal to their own experience in their own expectations.

Now would we say that in his experience was in line with what people term as "enlightenment".   Well, as you are aware that is a very subjective term and is imbued with many expectations of a "godliness" and we would say that divinity is not the same as enlightenment.  If we were to provide an explanation for our understanding of enlightenment we would simply say that enlightenment is state of enhanced awareness.   Which means it's accessible to anyone, at least some point in their lives.

Overleaves

These are Eckhart's overleaves in terms of the Michael Teachings overleaf system as channeled by Karen.

Soul Age/Level:  Old  3, manifesting same
Role:  Scholar
Casting:  Priest
ET:  Server, incarnate female
TC:  Artisan, discarnate
Cadence/ Greater Cadence:  Scholar/Server
Goal:  Submission
Mode:  Observation
Attitude:  Pragmatist
Centering:  Intellectual, Emotional part
Chief Feature:  Arrogance, Greed
Body Type(s):  Lunar/ Solar/Neptunian  45/35/20
Frequency:  42
Male / Female Ratio:  22/78
Grand Cycles: 15
Number of Lifetimes:  147
Cadre/ Entity:  4/6