There was no particular teacher or leader that inspired Tony but there was Teachings like Christian mysticism and Lao Tsu and Zen and Buddhism, William Blake, Aldous Huxley, etc, that inspired him but he always knew that something with missing Because they would direct it towards a person as a teaching.
I met some Christian Mystics who had this message as well as people like Lao Tsu etc Who seemed to have the message perfectly but then they turned it into a teaching And that brought dualism into the picture. That’s where it all falls apart for me. This message is contained in all sorts of religions etc but when they teach it that’s where It ends for me. This message is found more in the East but as soon as it ends up as a teaching it’s not this message anymore.
Another guy as Tony a question about after having listen to Tony for quite a long time every night before going to sleep he began to encounter a lot of fear and wondered what that was all about. Tony said that was simple the body mind doesn’t want to give up it doesn’t want to die. “Me” will do whatever it can to survive including stopping listening to the message.
” What we’re talking about can’t be understood. It can’t be taken home and re used To get anywhere because there isn’t any place to get to and the reason there isn’t any place to get to is What you long for constantly is all there is so you can’t get it. There’s no place to get to. Me will decide to check it out “deeply” but there’s no it. They say it’s living in the Now but that’s rubbish – it’s just a way of avoiding its demise. It misleads because It wants to protect the habtation in which it is living which is called me, protect it from dying as a “me”.