Group work with a teacher, is fun at times, interesting at others, but also, just a hobby, until a person has a direct, personal relationship with someone from whom he can learn, someone who can teach him. At that point, he may have to leave, or he may have to stay - but, he can't know either way until he knows.
Some people require years to become such a person - one who can recognize, in reality, another he can learn from, and someone who can teach him what he needs to know. Some never get to that point, though they may remain "connected" to some "organization" for many years, ultimately achieving nothing, or very little.
When a person can, almost impartially, hear what another is saying, and understand, almost objectively, what he is doing, he can learn from him. How long a person stays in physical proximity to such a person, is very variable - depending on the people involved. There probably can't be categorical statements about whether or not a person should find a group, join a group, cozy up to a teacher, and stay for a lifetime... or just hang in there, alone and vigilant, and try to remain as alert and aware of oneself and the world around them as they possibly can... and "come what may". But, there certainly are cases when someone was ready to meet an another person who could teach him - by words and deeds - more in months, than most ever get in a lifetime. This is not a theory.
What a person needs - to increase his ordinary slow pace of living, and start learning from just breathing, and just being alive on Earth among other people - is Information which is not in the common trough where other people are rooting around for such. That trough includes religions, philosophies, psychologies, systems of all kinds, science, and mysticism, etc. Call them "A" or "B" influences, it really doesn't matter. That common information, which is "freely" available in libraries, bookstores and websites, is too common and too readily dismissed even by supposedly otherwise ready individuals to do them any real good. You might "believe" that people associated with "recognized" groups studying their "authorized" texts and led by "self-styled" teachers often charging large fees and special payments, are a cut above the normal folks who are not so associated, but that's incorrect. They're not. They are identical to everybody else.
Even the Fourth Way has become so controversial, even among the tens of thousands calling themselves "followers/students/adherents", and joining groups, email lists, study circles, that the maps and tools are almost empty in nutritional content - as energy, it's just too slow, to be effective - like, it has bounced off too many heads by the time it gets to you. Most groups spend most of their time in trivialities - having descended into arguments, discussions, debates, chit-chat and mostly meaningless opinions and theories about the organization, about the ideas (what they mean, where they came from, how to implement them), about the leaders (were they actually conscious, actually ascended, actually a hasnamuss, or just an ordinary, everyday sleeping IDIOT...etc?) and so, no one achieves the instant, almost immediate Realization of the deeper meanings of the Information. Some people actually believe that it requires decades to understand things. That's just untrue. It's takes as long as it takes, based upon the potency of the Information, and the capacity of the receiver. Better information can sometimes be instantly realized as True and Correct (for all intents and purposes), while lesser information will many times never be verified at all. This is not a theory.
For example: "self remembering", "self observation", "mindfulness", and many other such similar terms. These are interesting restatements of ideas which have been around for many centuries, further clarified today, because they had to be, in order to remain effective. Realize this: "Count your breaths", or "Watch your hands", or "Say the name of God over and over", or "Chant Hari Krishna rhythmically while drumming and dancing", is just as good a method, as "Jesus Saves", or "Remember yourself", or "Meditate on your left buttock", but they don't work the way they once may have... when they were still Fresh and New concepts. There is a reason for this, and it's the same as why, "Don't worry, Be happy" doesn't work. It sounds good - many people still preach about it, and sing songs about it - but people are too astute today... their intellects too complex and sophisticated (they've "heard it all before!") to be pulled into such simplistic statements once they've Realized there truly IS A Mystery, and they've only just touched it.
That is, a person can know he is on the verge of touching the Real, but only when he realizes that there is available NO SUCH INFORMATION for what he wants and needs, and NO SUCH PERSON available to impart it (so far as he knows), can the SEARCH for Real Information truly begin. The issue to consider, is Not, that he hasn't found it yet; Not, that he needs to go to the East or Middle East or Near East, or Philadelphia, or some silly bookstore, or crazy Facebook group to find it. It's not available, EXCEPT inside the head(s) of some person(s) alive today that he either hasn't met yet, or BECOME YET. At that point, armed with the firm Realization that the Information he needs to do what he wants and needs to do, simply does not exist "out-there" in bookstores, libraries, websites, coffee-houses, or chat-rooms, but only inside the head(s) of some - probably very few - people who very likely aren't advertising in any typical, expected, grandiose way, can he start to move from where he is right now - the past, which is dead and gone... toward the Future, which is Alive and Real.
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ps- believe it or don't believe it (you can't verify it either way) there are people alive today living in the state of consciousness proper for Men of the Future. How FAR in the future is unknown, but definitely in the future.
pps- as if you haven't already intuited it yet... The Real Potent Information of which humans are capable of receiving, exists there - in the Future - not "here" and "now" in the virtual past.
ppps- the last 9 posts here were simply a "lead up" to this one.
The Single Driver
Plain and simple
The Source
Terms and Opinions
The Unbearable Truth
Apex Predator Syndrome
Fantasy World-views
All News Is Fake News
Teachers and Groups
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