Eckhart Tolle reminds the listener that even in the worst stretches of collective unconsciousness — what we now call the Dark Ages — individual awakening was always possible, often preserved in monastic communities that kept reading, writing and consciousness alive.
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Even within the dark ages there were individuals who were very conscious. We call it the dark age when uh all the philosophies disappeared. People lost the ability even reading and writing. Very very few people could still read and write. Only mostly they lived in monasteries, monks. There was a lot of violence, a lot of lowering of consciousness, a lot of very dark superstitions and and and yet religious people were quite awake, quite enlightened, although the the majority of the population was a fairly low level of consciousness. us.