Learning to Remember What We Already Know
It often surprises or perplexes students when I tell them that, as their Teacher, I'm not going to teach them anything. Then I tell them my aim is to remind them and help them to remember what they already know, and they get really perplexed!
But that has been my experience as a student of metaphysics and esoteric subjects for the past 9 years and a teacher for the past 5 years. When you hear authentic spiritual and metaphysical teachings, you often feel them. And while the information or the words may be new to you on a mental or intellectual level, you feel it to be true in your heart, in your gut, in your bones and in your body.
You recognize the frequency of the teaching.
And with no clear, logical explanation for it, it's like you're remembering what you're being taught. Similar to deja vu, but different. And something clicks within you in a way that it hasn't before, creating deeper understanding that goes beyond the surface.
This is the experience that was offered to me in my travels all over the world to study with master teachers. Mentors who helped me remember what I already knew. And it is the same experience that I now offer to my private students as I uphold and preserve these ancient oral traditions. Reminding them of the authentic principles that form the fabric of life and reality. And how we as Humans are meant to master them and fulfill our FULL potential by living our lives from a higher perspective, a higher mind and for a higher good.
To me, that is the higher purpose of studying and applying metaphysics. To elevate our consciousness of who we are so we can maximize the contribution of our lives to positively impact Humanity and the future of our World.
Now to be transparent, it's a very different paradigm of education than what most of us were raised in. Our programming - to learn by rote, to color within the lines, to base our value and worth on what we know and to not question - will not only not help, but it will actively interfere with our remembering.
As a former PhD student, this academic, logical mindset definitely got in the way more often than not in the early years of my studies. I was plenty smart and filled with knowledge, but I lacked understanding and was poor in my ability to think outside the box. But luckily, I had the support of mentors who had gone through the same process I was going through, and they empowered me with tools, meditation techniques and guidance to disable my ego and deprogram myself and healings as I shed the many layers of who I was not so my true self could emerge.
Because if we don't do that inner work to clear the blocks, confront our ego, heal our inner child, and clean up the inner shadows, the deeper teachings will be staring us right in the face but we won't have the eyes to see them or recognize them for what they are. Instead, they will get lost in translation and filed away as random trivia facts and intellectual fluff that have no connection to real life.