Esoteric Schools are for Those Who Need Them

Esoteric Schools are for Those Who Need Them According to my Teacher, “The principal reason man does not awaken is that he does not realize he needs outside help." P.D. Ouspensky, one of the Teachers who is responsible for bringing the Fourth Way tradition into modern times, once said, “Schools are for people who know they need them.” Schools are not for everybody and are often hard to find. I am lucky that I encountered a real School in the Fourth Way tradition, because I have verified that the guidance and encouragement of a conscious Teacher was paramount to my inner development. I could not do this Work alone. The Teacher is the vital force, the conduit of conscious influence. Most influences in our lives revolve around career, money, family, and other external factors, and from the standpoint of awakening are superficial or at least tangential to higher aims. In contrast to these external forces, a Teacher in a School serves to wake up its participants to new insights and deeper understandings—higher levels of consciousness or Presence. Influences that focus on inner work and the pursuit of true wisdom are the purview of Schools. A conscious School provides practical access to esoteric knowledge that has been passed down from one generation to the next under the direction of a Master. In addition to my own interest and drive for something higher in my life, the members of the school themselves who I met and worked with were also pivotal to making my way on the journey of journeys. A little bell may be ringing in you as you read this, because something in you may recognize without even knowing it that Schools are special places and unique opportunities. From one perspective, the history of Man is the history of conscious schools, for the evidence suggests that they date way back through ancient times and even into prehistoric times and have been major forces directly or indirectly in human undertakings. On the scale of a human, Schools are a vehicle for personal self-discovery and deep learning. On the scale of humankind, Schools play large roles in the course of history, as expressed in the development of religion, art, culture, and wisdom.

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