Movie star Jim Carrey is teaming up with Eckhart Tolle to start a new spiritual movement.
This may sound like the start of a joke, but it's actually true.
Personally I have mixed feelings about Tolle and the mystical teachings he draws on, but Carrey is clearly on board. If we take him at his word, he has experienced what Richard Bucke called "cosmic consciousness" (today more commonly called "unity consciousness"):
Carrey described his spiritual awakening to his flock: “Suddenly I was thrown into this expansive, amazing feeling of freedom—from myself, from my problems. I saw that I was bigger than what I do. I was bigger than my body. I was everything and everyone. I was no longer a fragment of the universe—I was the universe.”
The first person to comment on the story has apparently not experienced cosmic consciousness:
Jim Carrey has lost his mind he said he is the universe. To much ego what a nut
Some of the comments are more supportive. It's an interesting cross section of responses.