In the Company of Sages by Bogart, Greg -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Image Title Page Epigraph Acknowledgments Table of Contents Preface Introduction: The Catalyzing Role of Teachers

SPIRITUAL APPRENTICESHIP IN ADULT DEVELOPMENT DISCIPLESHIP AND SPIRITUAL APPRENTICESHIP A PATH WITH MANY LINEAGES PROBLEMS OF DISCIPLESHIP AND SEPARATION IMAGES OF SPIRITUAL TEACHERS IN WORLD RELIGIONS CULTS, CHARLATANS, AND SPIRITUAL TEACHERS CRITICS OF AUTHORITARIAN POWER DYNAMICS

Stage 1: Choosing a Teacher

SPIRITUAL TEACHERS IN HINDUISM ILLUMINATION AND SKILLFUL INSTRUCTION TYPES OF TEACHERS ATTRIBUTES OF THE SPIRITUAL GUIDE AND THE QUALIFIED STUDENT BEING GUIDED TO A TEACHER MY SEARCH FOR A TEACHER HOW WE KNOW WE’VE FOUND A TEACHER THE GURU PRINCIPLE SPIRITUAL TEACHERS IN BUDDHISM EXERCISING DISCERNMENT SPIRITUAL TEACHERS IN JUDAISM

Stage 2: Initiation

SUFI INITIATION THE SPIRITUAL POWER OF LINEAGE PROGRESSIVE INITIATIONS SHAKTIPAT INITIATION MY INITIATION STAGES OF INITIATION AND DISCIPLESHIP

Stage 3: Discipleship

THE PHASE OF INSTRUCTION ESTABLISHING A SPIRITUAL PRACTICE OBSTACLES AND PITFALLS LEARNING ONE THING WELL MY EARLY EXPERIENCES OF MEDITATION LIFE GUIDANCE PERSONAL CONTACT WITH THE TEACHER GREAT ANSWERS TO DEEP QUESTIONS SILENT TRANSMISSION DARSHAN TAPASYA THE DARK NIGHT GRATITUDE AND DEVOTION FINDING A COMMUNITY OF PRACTITIONERS POSSIBLE RISKS OF INVOLVEMENT ANOTHER FALSE MESSIAH SIGNS OF MIND CONTROL

Stage 4: Testing

THE SHEIKH AND THE LAMB’S BLADDER TESTS OF FAITH IN THE TEACHER FIERCE TEACHERS CRAZY WISDOM OR ABUSIVE CONDUCT? TESTS OF THE STUDENT’S CHARACTER RESTING THE EGO AND ABIDING IN THE SELF SELF-SURRENDER SURRENDER, NOT SUBMISSION

Stage 5: Grace and Guru Yoga

GIFTS OF SPIRIT UNFATHOMABLE GRACE GRACE AND SELF-EFFORT THE GURU IS ONE’S OWN MIND PSYCHIC ATTUNEMENT OF TEACHER AND STUDENT MEDITATION ON THE TEACHER’S FORM PERILS AND PROMISE OF GURU YOGA TIBETAN GURU YOGA

Stage 6: At the Threshold of Awakening

EQUALITY VISION AND CONTENTMENT MOMENTS IN THE LIGHT INTENSIFICATION OF PRACTICE THE GOAL IS ALREADY ATTAINED A PATH OF SPIRITUAL SCHOLARSHIP AND EROTIC MYSTICISM

Stage 7: Separating from a Spiritual Teacher

EMOTIONAL CONFLICTS IN SPIRITUAL APPRENTICESHIP THE CASE OF OTTO RANK DEVELOPMENTAL ISSUES AND DISCIPLESHIP DISCIPLESHIP AND PSYCHOTHERAPY TRANSFERENCE IN THE STUDENT-TEACHER RELATIONSHIP MIRRORING TRANSFERENCE AND DISCIPLESHIP IDEALIZATION AND THE SHADOW IN DISCIPLESHIP AN ARCHETYPAL PERSPECTIVE ON SPIRITUAL APPRENTICESHIP SEPARATION, GUILT, AND SELF-APPOINTMENT DISTORTIONS OF DISCIPLESHIP HEALING THE WOUNDS OF SEPARATION DREAMS ABOUT THE PROCESS OF SEPARATION DISCIPLESHIP AS A CULTURE OF EMBEDDEDNESS HOW I LEFT THE ASHRAM SAYING GOOD-BYE WHEN TEACHERS FALL HOLY MADNESS AND A TEACHER’S SHADOW TRANSCENDENTAL DENIAL THE NEED FOR OPEN DISCUSSION CONFRONTING MISCONDUCT CONTINUING OUR PRACTICES WORKING THROUGH ANGER

Stage 8: Finding the Teacher Within

MERGING AND SEPARATING FINDING NEW TEACHERS CREATING OUR OWN SYNTHESIS SELF-LIBERATION THROUGH YOGA, PRANAYAMA, MEDITATION DREAMWORK INNER GUIDANCE THROUGH ASTROLOGY EXPERIENCING THE POWER OF SACRED IMAGES DISEMBODIED TEACHERS THE FORMLESS GURU, GNOSIS, AND THE INVISIBLE GUIDE SACRAMENTAL PLANTS RELATIONSHIP PARTNER AS GURU

Stage 9: Teaching Others

BASIC GUIDELINES FOR TEACHERS TESTS OF CHARACTER MONEY EXPECT COMPLICATIONS AVOID SEXUAL MISCONDUCT AN ARROGANT TEACHER’S DOWNFALL THE ART OF SPIRITUAL DIRECTION

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