subject: Psychic Development - Why It Frustrates And What To Seek In A Teacher [print this page] Psychic Development is an incredibly fast growing industry. Many people want to get in touch with their Spirit Guides, a higher source or develop their intuition, yet so many seem to end up lost and frustrated on their journey to working with Spirit. Why does this happen and what should you look for in a Spiritual Teacher?
There are three things to investigate in a teacher if you wish to psychically develop: how and why a teacher learned their craft; a teacher's level of capability and experience; a teacher's non-esoteric teachings and learnings.
These factors will shape a teacher's views, capacity, teaching contents, teaching style and outcome for you as a student. It will also shape whether you will develop and grow your psychic ability or simply linger in a fixed learning curve for years.
How and why a teacher learns their craft has a big impact on their teaching and is fundamental for you to know if you want to psychically develop. The psychic arena is inundated with people who discovered or were indentured into being psychic through trauma and angst. I am not saying that because of this introduction to their skill base they are not capable teachers, but what I have noticed is that these teachers tend to instruct from the perspective that we are all fortunate to be able to contact Spirit and that we must work from an almost subservient position to Spirit rather than a cohesive and developmental one. The outcome from being taught with this view is that students are not taught that Spirit is as active in its commitment and desire to work with us as we are with it.
A teacher's level of capability and experience is an obvious area to research before you embark on any psychic development. I believe that an extraordinarily high number of teachers within the psychic development arena are simply people who have discovered, or been led to learn, that they're psychic and therefore they want to show you how to do it.
This enthusiasm and motivation is fine as a generalization - but is a potentially limited and dangerous view for teachers to share with students. It is limited for you as a student if the knowledge passed down to you is surrounded by dogma and superstition. It's also dangerous because much of the indoctrinated dogma that gets taught in psychic development contains an imposed mysticism that creates a fear of Spirit through awe, rather than a realistic view of Spirit and the practical capabilities it has.
The capability and experience of a teacher is also reflected in their teaching style. Those who have not had a lot of life experience (irrespective of age) and have not worked within other non-psychic fields (or used the psychic tool within them) tend to be very limited in the realms in which they can accurately psychically read. Teachers who have had a wealth of psychic and non-psychic experience tend to teach their students within a structured and cultured yet flexible model.
The final thing for you to check is a teacher's non-esoteric teachings and learnings. Many psychic development teachers are only defined in their area of psychic interest and do not seek to learn outside of this. I constantly hear about psychic development classes that explore chakras, meridians, angels and other Spiritual-related topics, which is fine - but what about other human forms of study?
What about how we communicate, think, define ourselves and ultimately choose our life format as humans? The impact of not incorporating performance psychologies and other learned aspects into psychic development teaching means that as a student you become limited in your fundamental understanding of yourself and your internal communication style. How then will you understand Spirit's communication style?
To find the best teacher for you, you must choose who you will and will not be taught by. Demand that the industry lifts its benchmarks by seeking out teachers who are long-standing and hold many genres of teaching material and styles that are not just esoteric or psychic-based.
Research whom the most appropriate teacher is for you:
1.Ask the teacher about their life background. Who and what were they before they became psychic? If they have always been psychic, ask how they learned to develop and harness their capacity and in what format they use it now.
2.Ask about the format of their teaching. Do they have a structured course that will be flexible in its application so that they allow everyone to psychically develop within their own style and capabilities?
3.Seek their application screening process. Does the teacher have an open day to discuss the body of work and explain what their and your expectations are and who this process will and won't work for?
4.Ask the teacher to describe themselves in four words. Why? Because when you are answered you will instinctively know if this sits comfortably with you. The way a person describes themselves is the verbalizing of their value sets and beliefs - how they see themselves to be as people and why they do what they do.
If you are comfortable with the answers then move forward. If you are not then pay attention and keep researching other psychic development people, areas or organizations.
Psychic development will always have its skeptics and will always be criticized for the lack of tangibility it delivers in terms of learning, just by the sheer nature of what is taught. However, if you seek more learned people and more balanced styles of teaching and demand that you are treated professionally throughout the learning process, you will find that the profession will grow and mature along with its pupils.
Ask the above questions, research the people you seek to teach you and be discretionary in your approach to teachers so that you find the most professional, experienced and applicable model to learn from for your Psychic Development. The outcome for you will be a rewarding, engaging and stimulating relationship with Spirit that will surround you consciously throughout your lifetime.
