I just entered Miraaks temple and encountered him for the first time in Hermaeus's realm.

After his speech he tells me I can await with the rest of Tamriel.

Two seekers comes over and starts shooting at you for a good 3-4 minutes with nothing happening, Miraak just standing in the background. After that time they stop, but nothing really happens. I just sit there on my knees.

Edit: Also those Telvanni lifts arent working either. Could this be related to my bugs in Dawnguard? Like "cant enter soul cairn" had to use console. Moth priest wont finnish reading, etc.

Judas what's up?
What have you done? All these things work okay; they are not 'bugged' (well they are in your game...)
But with those problems, man that can take all the fun out of things.
So what's wrong with your game?
It isn't... heavily modded is it?
In tech support (where you should have posted) there are PS2, 360 and PC sections - so we can tell which you're running.
But if you consoled into the Soul Cairn, heheh, I guess you're on PC.

All that you said was supposed to happen, except, after they finish with you, you are supposed to be trnasported back out of the book. Try a re-load.

How much spell absorption do you have? It took me quite some time to die as well, almost a ridiculous amount. I've started thinking that may be due to a mixture of magic absorption and magic resistance. IOW, it may not be scripted, but rather you may be taking spell damage during that time. Just a thought.