Are Teachers Necessary?
I think it is dangerous to not accept the fact that there are valuable teachers. It can bring your progression to a snail’s pace. Where in the world do some readers get the idea that a teacher is in a “better than others” position. I have never got that impression from anyone who really taught me anything.
Do you read books?
Then you are letting the author be your teacher. You are certainly teaching him nothing. Is that bad? Of course not.
This prevalent belief that teachers are to be discounted is a New Age illusion that is hampering many.
I don’t see a lot of difference between learning from a book written by a human or learning from the book that is in the human, but not written down.
If one is teaching me and I am a student receiving, then there is merely knowledge dispersed human to human. One is the teacher and one is the student. Two cannot be teaching each other at the same time. The teacher often stimulates himself and learns while he is teaching however.
All of the masters taught with some hints and vagueness. Jesus said that the true meaning of his parables were hidden so the people would think they understood them, but in reality did not. This allows for contemplation so he who meditates and contemplates can have the inner meaning dawn on him in a way that would not happen if the full meaning was to be written out.
To be honest with you I have learned more from books than I have learned from living individuals. The basic reason is that one can find more intelligent people in books than one can find in the normal daily experience.
With live people there is interaction which is helpful. Otherwise, learning is learning.
Jesus himself knew that different people had different levels of understanding so he spoke in parables that required different levels of understanding. Here he explains from the book of Matthew:
10 And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
15 For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
16 But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
17 For verily I say unto you, That many prophets and righteous men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them. Matthew 13:10-17
Those who stayed with Jesus and sought the deeper meaning found it through interaction similar to the method used in teaching The Keys of Knowledge. To those who were not willing to contemplate and interact, the parables were vague and they saw only the surface meaning.
Correspondingly, They Keys of Knowledge has different levels of understanding.
The first key has a surface meaning so the average person will think he understands exactly what Decision is. In other words, he will think he sees, but sees not. (See Verse 13 above.) But just like the parables there is a deeper meaning that can be gained through interaction and contemplation.
I know that I have received a number of levels of understanding about the parables of Jesus through contemplation.
You say that you believe that when you are interacting with another you are both teaching and receiving at the same time in relation to him. I’ll bet that you cannot isolate an incident when such a thing happened because such an event is impossible. In any point in time you are either sending, receiving or neutral to another. You cannot do both at once. Now in an honest exchange the two take turns sending and receiving, but often during a heated argument both are sending and neither is receiving. You cannot send and receive at the same time.
A reader asked several questions about vibrations.
“What exactly is it that vibrates? Atoms? How fast do they vibrate.”
Atoms and molecules above the temperature of Absolute Zero do have vibration as do all objects of form. Atoms contain no solid matter and ultimately are created from wavelengths that are in vibration at just below the speed of light. There is other matter created from wavelengths vibrating beyond the speed of light that is beyond our detection.
The whole universe is created from connected wavelengths.
“How can we change vibration?”
The idea of changing vibration is largely illusion. When a person says something like: “My vibration has been raised.” what has really happened is that his consciousness has tuned into a higher vibration that has been there all along, but which he is now merely aware.
The key to shifting from one vibration to another is to use the power of consciousness to tune in as you do with a radio. Your favorite station is playing even if you have not tuned it in. The internet is here even if you have not logged on.
Science will make a quantum leap toward the discovery of spiritual energy in the next 100 years.
“Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.” — Brendan Gill
May 27, 2009
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