Seeking the teacher

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One of the biggest traps one can get caught in, is their own mind. Particularly when it comes to Spiritual growth. We often find a religion or group of people that seem to have the Truth and attach ourselves, become disciples and devout followers.

The trap is unless this group or teaching is expanding and growing, moving forward with its belief system and teachings, unless it continues to grow into Christ consciousness, it becomes trapped in it's own ego. And you become trapped along with it. There are many examples of this taking place today even in the major religions and the so called enlightened teachings.

The basis of the Dancing with God course is that it requires continual expansion, growth and practice. It is not the end, it is only the beginning. There will come a time when even you will be drawn to other teachers and in fact may teach others yourself.

Here is a quote that supports what I am saying, and is from an excellent source -



If you are a sincere spiritual seeker, you need to realize that there might come a point when you need to leave a certain teaching behind. You have now risen to a level of consciousness where you are ready for the next teacher. At that point, the next teacher is already waiting for you, but if you remain attached to a particular teaching, you might not recognize the new teacher or be willing to follow the new teaching.

This would indeed be a tragedy, and many spiritual seekers have slowed down their growth, or aborted it completely, by becoming attached to a specific teaching. My point here is that there are many people who have been helped by the teachings brought forth through various channelers.

There are certain teachings from the mental realm that can help many people in today's rational, scientific age gain a deeper understanding of spiritual ideas. Yet when you mature on the spiritual path, you also need to be aware that the beings who release channeled material from the mental realm are stuck in that realm because they have not been able to free themselves from the subtle perversions of the mental faculties.

The most important of these perversions is intellectual or spiritual pride. You will see many people in embodiment who suffer from intellectual or spiritual pride, and they literally believe they know everything there is to know about the spiritual side of life. You will see from the scriptures that the scribes and the Pharisees belonged to this category of people. That is why they were not open to the Living Truth that I came to bring. And that is why I said that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees (Matthew 5:20), you cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven, meaning the spiritual realm. The simple fact is that even though the scribes and Pharisees thought they knew everything about God, their intellectual knowledge could not give them Christ consciousness, and without Christ consciousness you cannot enter the spiritual realm.

The teachings channeled from the mental realm can take you to a certain level, but unless you transcend the teachings, you will begin to take in the subtle spiritual pride that is woven through the teachings. And gradually you can become so enveloped in this pride that you can no longer see the need to go beyond the teaching that has given you the feeling that you understand everything there is to understand about God. In fact, many of today’s spiritual seekers were attracted to such channeled teachings precisely because they need to overcome the consciousness of mental pride. This pride is a product of the rational, scientific age which has glorified the intellect for centuries.

So even though a particular channeled teaching might have given you many insights, the greater lesson is that you need to transcend the mental approach to spirituality and truly adopt the intuitive approach that puts you in direct contact with the inner teacher of your Christ self. You need to replace the intellectual understanding of truth with the Living Spirit of truth.

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here is the source of the quote -

http://www.askrealjesus.com/K_JESUS_ANSWERS/N1_CHANNELING_REVEL/sethmaterial.html
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