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In the Company of Sages - The Journey of the Spiritual Seeker (Paperback, 2nd Edition, New Edition of The Nine Stages of Spiritual Apprenticeship)
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In the Company of Sages - The Journey of the Spiritual Seeker (Paperback, 2nd Edition, New Edition of The Nine Stages of Spiritual Apprenticeship)
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Explains how to successfully navigate each of the nine stages of
spiritual apprenticeship, from choosing a teacher to teaching
others
- Explores how to approach a teacher for initiation, including
gauging your inner response for trust and resonance with the
teacher
- Reveals how most students eventually need to separate from their
teacher and how to negotiate the emotional conflicts that can arise
at this stage
- Shares his encounters with several provocative spiritual mentors
and details spiritual lessons learned through confronting doubts
and fears
In the search for inner awakening and self-realization, a spiritual
mentor can be key to advancement. Yet the process of finding an
authentic spiritual teacher who resonates with you can be daunting,
especially for anyone who has had a negative experience with a
guide. Exploring the emotional nuances of mentoring relationships,
Greg Bogart details the nine stages of spiritual apprenticeship,
from choosing a teacher to teaching others, and explains how to
successfully navigate each.
The author explores how to gauge your inner response for trust and
resonance with a teacher and then how to approach them for
initiation. He explains how the teacher-student relationship
affects the student's state of consciousness over time and how most
students eventually need to become independent from their teacher.
Describing emotional conflicts that can arise at this stage, he
shows how wise teachers accept our need to separate and graduate
while immature teachers try to thwart and control us.
Openly sharing his own interior journey, the author illustrates the
lasting resonance of his encounters with several provocative
spiritual mentors, including Swami Muktananda and Dane Rudhyar. He
shares stories showing how unpredictable "crazy wisdom" teachers
cause us to confront doubts and sharpen our commitments and how
"fierce" teachers expose our fears and lack of confidence, rousing
dormant energies and expanded states. Examining practices in Hindu
and Tibetan Buddhist Yoga, Sufism, and Jewish and Christian
mysticism, he also explores the deeper mystical aspects of the
guru-student relationship.
The author shows how, ultimately, initiation leads the spiritual
seeker to find the teacher within and how this can naturally lead
to teaching others. Describing nine stages of the spiritual
seeker's journey, the author affirms that a direct path to
self-liberation is still attainable through initiation in the
company of sages.
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