Who Needs A School?

Who Needs A School?

Schools are for ordinary people, Ouspensky tells us. Schools are for people who need them and who know they need them.

How does one ‘know’ that one needs a school?

‘Knowing’ is a deep, emotional realization or understanding. To come to this, is part of one’s own individual path, a result of personal experience that leads one slowly to a certainty that cannot come in any other way.

For myself, at a certain point it became undeniably clear that my own subjectivity could not be entirely overcome by my own efforts or will. I realized that there was no way for ‘I’ to entirely escape the prison of ‘I’ without some kind of outside help.

I was very lucky. After deciding to actively look for a school, I found a phone number that someone had left in a book.

That was more than 20 years ago. Through work with others and work for the school, 'school' has taken on cosmic proportions, beyond the scale of personal development. Even for those very advanced in the work, it becomes a channel or means through which both humanity and higher forces are served, and have always been served, for as long as schools have existed.

Today, the ‘phone number in a book’ has taken the form of this private group on Facebook.

This group is not a school, but an invitation, a small but open door.

Stepping through is not mandatory. But it is available for those who need it and who know they need it.

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Image: Arhat 16 Elders: Pantaka (detail), Tibet