Thankhs + Love Empress!
Brother SonofMan, I apprecilove the reasoning. I agree that we all get ideas from each other and we all learn things from various people we come into contact with along the way. As well as teaching people that we cross paths with. But I do think there is a huge difference between learning from someone and taking that person as a guru. I have known people who follow a guru. They take that person not as a teacher, but as their only teacher. They follow every word that their guru says, don't question any of it, and if anyone says anything contrary they ignore it. When we learn from people, we hear their ideas, we judge their words against our inner sense of truth, and we decide for ourselves if that statement is correct or not. We can learn several things from one person while disregarding other things that person says as untrue. But if we follow a guru, we don't ask ourselves if their statements are true or not, we don't reject some ideas while accepting others, we let them think for us and accept every instruction that comes from them. This is a huge difference and to me it is the reason why not to follow a guru. But definitely I agree there's nothing wrong with learning from others, finding inspiration in others, and having role models.
I agree that the path to self actualization is longer for some than it is for others. But this is alright. However long it takes, however many lifetimes, the soul will eventually make it to source self. And source enjoys the journey. That's why it manifested into existential form as us. So no worry if the journey is long.
I overstand what the I is saying, that these ideas are essential to Rastas (and non Rastas) who are stuck in a Judeochristian mindset. In that context the book is probably very useful for breaking out of those paradigms. Thankhs again for sharing.
Oneness
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