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Most of what he teaches is not new and can found throughout history, but you sound like you think that means everybody is aware of what he teaches and uses it in there lives. 99.99% of people do not though and are not aware of what he teaches.

As for the world and mind trying to keep people people's eyes closed, that is exactly right, but that is the exact thing Eckhart teaches how to keep from happening.

The problems that we have, feelings of being inadequate and all the other stuff, that's not really our problems. Its what the mind tells us is true. If youve had some tough things in the past like bad family relationships or whatever, the mind tells us that all of that stuff is legitimate and it should apply to right now.
My parents always told me I was a peice of @@*+ and so my mind tells me that is true right now. It tells me that Im a peice of @@*+ right now, at least alot of the time it does. But then theres another part of me that beleives that all that is not true, but no matter how hard I try theres still that part of me
that says Im a peice of @@*+ and so I question whether I am or actually beleive I am and so I lose confidence.
The thing is though it is only the mind that tells me that, as a result of the past. Eckhart shows us how to realize and experience that we are not our minds. Who we are is the one that experiences the mind. So this is what I have been able to do and now all those thoughts that are a result of the past have lost there power over me. If I have a thought that says Im a peice of @@*+ I completely know that it is not true because Eckhart has shown me how to realize who I am. Anyways all those negative thoughts, which are attached to negative feelings, have lost their power and also come up much less frequently.

Another thing I had problems with is a sense of identity. Well if I was believing everything the mind tells me and I beleive I am the mind then I
will be whatever my state of mind is, whatever my thoughts are, and becasue of my chaotic past, my thoughts, which are a result of the past, are also
chaotic and therefore my sense of self is chaotic. Now I have been able to realize that I am not my mind and that my mind is only a tool for me to use. So now my mind can have whatever thoughts, but that dosnt affect how I feel about myself.

All this stuff that I am talking about is only a breif summary of basically just the first chapter of his book "The Power of Now" and the effect it has had on me.