The Transcendental: The Church Project

'I think, I feel, I find.'

March 10, 2024

'The greatest of teachers won't hesitate to leave you there by yourself chained to fate.'

Why do teachers ask questions they know the answer to? I was gonna write something in line with this but I didn't. Personally, I like providing input more than leaving something to ponder on, a question for people to ask themselves. 'Cause I think statements work the same way anyway, it doesn't necessarily need to be a question to get somebody to have his personal reflection on it. He could just write a comment. I also try not to be prescriptive and that's why I use the words 'I think', 'I feel', 'I find', or 'I suppose' just to emphasize that these are my personal takes on the thing. Because then, that leaves room for the person to go: Well, I think...

And that is how the 'guiding the person to go within himself' works.

But I do see how it could help the student to be given or left a question for him to answer without much interference or guidance and for the student to feel like it's stupid to be asked a question the teacher could just provide an answer to right away after asking it - like cutting to the chase. The student could go like: Why ask me a question about something you haven't even discussed? It's like hiding a coin or a ping pong ball under a cup and asking me where it is. I could see how that could be a good spiritual teaching method, putting it into that perspective.

Not that the teacher wants to make it harder for you, to trick you, but I could see this approach working as a way to purge things and for the student to later on look at and find interesting, revealing bits about his way of feeling and thinking, where he could go like: Why did I think this? Why did I feel this way about this? And that's also going within himself.

I mean, it's true that when left to answer questions by yourself, you would come up with at least two probable answers backed up with reasons where one could be right and the other wrong. And not only that, the person could also have an emotional reaction to the probable answers, and I suppose, that's where people start saying: Well, you're getting paranoid, you're creating things out of nothing and they might not even be a thing. So, how could that be good? How could getting worked up over nothing or having misconceptions help a student of spirituality?

It's the purging that happens that could be helpful.

'Cause the person might not even be aware he has an issue and it is only when he has an emotional reaction to a probability or a thought that that comes to the surface. For example, what is this person getting paranoid about? A follow up question: Why would he get paranoid about something like that? These questions won't even come up without the purging.

People talk like paranoia is something rare, but it is more common than people would like to admit. It is common, people just don't like talking about it. They prefer to investigate and find out than just ask questions.

Paranoia is very revealing. Madness is revealing. And that's why you have all these memes on spiritual purging and ascension where they say it is just tripping. A little astrology bit to go with that, spirituality is actually a 12th house thing and that house is ruled by Neptune with the sign Pisces. And it's actually a new moon in Pisces tomorrow. Tripping is associated with Pisces. Developing spirituality via spiritual purging, it's just common knowledge in the spiritual community, how it could feel like that.

What is it that the person is getting paranoid about? Why is he getting paranoid about that?

If you are to use these questions as a student, then you just go: Alright, why am I getting paranoid about this?

That's how you could identify areas for growth. But first is the release. When people have emotional reactions or responses, they're purging. It's just that when that happens, people don't take the time to ask the question. 'Cause it's a difficult question to ask. But growth requires asking yourself difficult questions.