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NOTE: This
answer was given on September 29, 2007
Answer from Jesus:
As Maitreya
has explained, there are a number of people and disembodied beings
who form a hierarchy that tries to present itself as the true teachers
of humankind. These are the false prophets that I warned people about
2,000 years ago.
These beings do not have spiritual wisdom, but they are highly intelligent
in a dualistic way. So they know very well the situation that people
are in after they have become blinded by the duality consciousness.
Thus, they know how to prevent people from escaping duality.
These false teachers know two things that are relevant to this topic:
The conclusion is that you
need a teacher, and that is the entire reason behind me coming to Earth.
I came, as have all other true teachers, to give people an outer guiding
rod that they could grasp with their current state of consciousness.
If you applied my true teachings, you would gradually increase your
discernment and attain contact with the spirit within, in the form of
your Christ self.
The false teachers know this, so they seek to sabotage my mission. They
do this in many ways, but one of the more successful is that they set
themselves up as "true" teachers on Earth by taking over the
Christian religion and stating that people either follow them blindly
or will go to hell.
Now, many people who are blinded by duality do sense that they need
outside help, and this makes them vulnerable to following these blind
leaders, which of course does not lead them to a higher state of consciousness
or salvation. How do people overcome this tendency?
Well, some people are willing to think for themselves and thus they
begin to attain the wisdom that makes them see that they should not
blindly follow any leader on earth or any spirit that claims it can
lead them. in other words, a true teacher will never ask you to follow
him blindly, but will seek to make you self-sufficient. Yet the problem
is that in order for this to work, you must be willing to take progressively
greater responsibility for yourself until you can take full and final
responsibility.
Some people are not willing to do this, and this makes them vulnerable
to following the blind leaders for many lifetimes. This can finally
lead to these people becoming so hurt that they see the fallacy of following
an outer teacher blindly. Yet instead of taking responsibility for themselves,
they feel betrayed by the teacher, blame this on the outer teacher and
vow never to be fooled again. Some reject all spiritual growth while
others decide only to follow their own inner promptings.
The problem is that if people do not take full responsibility for themselves,
they are very vulnerable to the next layer of deception, which says,
“The only way to avoid being fooled by an outer teacher is to
never again follow ANY teacher.” So, don‘t trust anyone,
don’t listen to anyone, only listen to yourself—meaning
the ego or the false spirit that has managed to convince you that it
is a true spirit.
Do you see the real dynamic here:
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The end goal is that
a lifestream takes responsibility for itself and therefore works
on developing inner discernment.
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This requires a constant
effort, and in the beginning, the student will make mistakes. Yet
if the lifestream is willing to learn from those mistakes, it will
make progress.
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If a lifestream is not
willing to work on increasing its discernment – often because
it is afraid to make a mistake – it is susceptible to following
an outer leader who claims that if you follow him blindly, he will
lead you to the kingdom.
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The less willing a lifestream
is in terms of taking responsibility for itself, the longer it will
follow the blind leaders. And the more severe will be the wound
and the sense of betrayal when the illusion is finally shattered.
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The depth of the wound
now makes the soul prone to responding as I described by vowing
never again to follow any teacher.
- Yet precisely because
the lifestream has not taken responsibility for itself (if it had,
it would not have followed the false teachers for so long and would
not feel betrayed by anyone—how can you feel betrayed by someone
else if you take full responsibility for yourself) it is not yet ready
to discern by itself. Thus, it will be very difficult – though
not impossible – for such a lifestream to make progress without
following a true teacher.
If the lifestream holds on
to the resentment against any teacher, it will either enter a blind
alley or make very slow and very painful progress. It will take a long
time to escape the school of hard knocks.
Do you see that the false teachers will win either way? As long as a
lifestream is following them blindly, they can keep it out of the kingdom.
And when the lifestream finally stops following the blind leaders, it
has been wounded so deeply that it cannot follow a true teacher, thus
cannot follow the true path to the kingdom.
There are few things the
false teachers love more than destroying someone’s belief in any
teacher. The reason is that the God-ordained way for lifestreams to
escape duality is the master-disciple, or student-teacher, relationship.
Thus, the primary goal of the false teachers is to destroy people's
trust in this most sacred of all relationships.
So you now see that
the people who seem unreachable to you are that way because they have
a very deep inner wound, a division
or split in their souls. I understand that it can be frustrating
for more mature students on the spiritual path to encounter such people,
for they desire to help them but they will not respond. They are, as
you said, unreachable for other people and also for a spiritual teacher
such as myself.
Yet you need to see that they are not actually rejecting you. They are
simply acting based on their interior wounds and thus you should feel
compassion. Yet in some cases, you can legitimately leave them alone
and focus on the people that do respond to you. However, this must be
an individual evaluation.
It must be added here that there are some people who see through the
false teachers and now fall prey to the ego’s illusion that this
has made them smarter than other people, even made them enlightened.
They then fall for the temptation of pride, which makes them believe
they actually know better than others and thus do not need to listen
to any teacher. These people may be harder to treat with compassion,
but the underlying cause is still the split in the soul.
Is there a way out for such people? Of course there is, but quite frankly,
few there be that find it!
You see, the underlying issue is that the lifestream has not been willing
to take responsibility for itself. It used to blindly follow a false,
exterior teacher, but now it is blindly following an interior teacher.
And if that teacher is the ego or a false spirit, well, then how can
the soul escape this catch-22 as long as it is not willing to listen
to a true teacher outside itself and cannot discern the true teacher
inside?
The only way out is that the lifestream realizes two things:
Yes, these are the points
I made earlier, where I said that the false teachers know two things
and use them to keep lifestreams trapped in duality. Once the lifestream
begins to realize and acknowledge this, it can begin to reach for a
true teacher. The reality of spiritual law is that when the student
is ready, the teacher will appear. In fact, there is always a teacher
with any student. The problem is that some people continually reject
the teacher.
So the only way out is that a student begins to reach for the true teacher
and decides to follow the teacher’s instructions until it begins
to develop better inner discernment.
Do you see what I am saying here? It is unbalanced to blindly follow
an external teacher. Yet it is equally unbalanced to jump into the opposite
extreme and blindly follow an inner voice without being willing to listen
to anyone outside yourself. The balanced approach is to realize the
truth behind the statement, “If the teacher be an ant, heed him.”
A true teacher often appears in a humble disguise, whereas the false
teacher – external or internal – often takes on the appearance
of absolute authority. So as with everything else on the spiritual path,
balance is the key.
Balance can be achieved only by having discernment between what is real
and what is unreal. Discernment can be achieved only by taking responsibility
for oneself, being willing to experiment and being willing to learn
from one’s mistakes—which means one must be willing to acknowledge
one’s mistakes by seeing the beam in one’s own eye.
Another way to describe this is to refer to Mother Mary’s teaching
of the two
basic aspects of God. The Alpha aspect is that you listen to the
true spirit within yourself. The Omega aspect is that you listen to
a true teacher outside yourself. Maximum progress can be attained only
when the two aspects are balanced. And this can happen only when you
decide to take responsibility for yourself and are willing to become
the Christ—as opposed to following anyone – interior or
exterior – who claims to be the Christ or be able to take you
where you need to go.
In the final stages of the spiritual path, you need to walk on your
own. Yet you cannot get to the final stages on your own, only by following
a true teacher. Thinking you can do it by yourself is pride and it does
not lead to the kingdom of God.
The value of a true spiritual community is that you have people who
communicate openly and lovingly, so they can help each other see the
blind spots. In a sense all members of such a community will serve as
true teachers – disguised as ants – for each other. All
are teaching and all are learning, thus all are spiraling upwards together.
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