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”If a spiritual teacher
is a door to go through, then a selfdevelopment-teacher is a mile-stone
to pass beyond. A teacher in selfdevelopment who understands himself
correctly is a signpost that shows the way to the ultimate door, the
final teacher.

Jes Bertelsen ,
Ph.D in philosophy, author of more than 20 books, is undoubtedly
an extremely knowledgeable erudite and a very broadspectred pioneer,
with a stunning encyclopedic philosophical, psychological and esoteric
knowledge. He has done very extensive studies on both western
thought in depth-psychology/transpersonal psychology ; Jung, Kierkegaard,
Steiner, Grof, et al as well as esoteric orientations such as Tibetan
buddhism, Christian mysticism, various mystics, etc.

He is a highly accomplished meditator, received intensive initiation
from Urgyen Tulku, wrote tirelessly about enlightenment, therapy, selfdevelopment,
esoterics and transpersonal psychology, choiceless awareness, transdual
stages, etc. Has extensively covered topics about higher consciousness
as well as meditation, tantra, karma, chakras, auras, bardostates,
terma, reincarnation, possibilities and limitations of various very
effective meditative practices, visualization and energetical exercises
(partially developed from a direct very high level of clairvoyant perception)

Bertelsen is ongoingly spearheading
a leading edge spiritual eco-village/ community in Denmark, a succesful
pilotproject in existential-meditative practice and held courses and
retreats since the beginning of the 80s, (many of the practitioners
are highly educated academics as well as rather outstanding people from
all walks of life).
He is furthermore arguably one of the best topclairvoyants in the world
and a highly accomplished pundit and mystic. Originally trained by Bob
Moore, Bertelsen is known for he is sober and grounded approach

Excerpts from various
books:

From “The heaven
of now” (Nuets Himmel)

”If a spiritual teacher
is a door to go through, then a selfdevelopment-teacher is a mile-stone
to pass beyond. A teacher in selfdevelopment who understands himself
correctly is a signpost that shows the way to the ultimate door, the
final teacher.

Much too often one sees people
establishing a camp around one of the great selfdevelopment-teachers
and settle down there permanently. In such way also are many of the
crucial religions crystalized around the final teachers´ open doors.
Often the organizations around teachers rather become hindrances than
a help to move on and go through.

The organizations become rigid and harden in dogmas and rules, and the
vibrating life that was in teacher, disappears behind walls and locks
and the inherent regulations/laws of the organizations.

One worships the milestone
instead of using its information. One worships the doorframe and decorate
the doors instead of going through them.

It is important to learn
to use spiritual teachers in an appropriate and mature way.

First and foremost it lies
very far away from the NorthEuropean incipient spirituality, to understand
altogether that there is a need for such a thing as a teacher.

Isnt it about being yourself,
be your own master, be selfresponsible?
Of course it is, in the highest degree, about being mature, independent
and selfresponsible. Especially in spiritual matters.

That is , among other things, why a deeply-going therapeutic adaption
of the biographical trace is so crucial in our time and culture. It
is central that a human being doesnt meet a spiritual teacher through
unadapted material that has to do with mother and father.

All too easy a teacher becomes
a loving father or a Jehovah-like divine authority for a immature or
therapeutically unadapted personality. Or the teacher becomes the good,
warm and encompassing mother or a distant mother that constantly must
be much courted with favours.

Our time shows a broadspectred phenomenology of pitfalls in relation
to so-called gurus. Naivety and abuse; seduction and misunderstood spirituality.
It seems to make up a high-explosive cocktail if therapy, self-development
and spirituality are knotted together on one person.
Shocks, traumas, neurosis´ and character-fixations, mother and father
mixed with selfdevelopment and unseparate from what ideally should be
mature, selfresponsible, spiritual exchange - it can almost only go
wrong. It can in very few, rare lucky cases be successful, but
usually it doesnt.

It seems appropriate (and
for most people, directly necessary) to distribute the different levels
on different teachers. Therapy at professional therapists. Selfdevelopment
at suitable and sober teachers in selfdevelopment. And as the most important;
the decisively consciousness-transforming training - nonverbal prayer
and meditative absorbtion - with an authentic and sober teacher, who
has got control over the transdual consciousness´ function.

In other contexts our time
and culture understands very precisely the necessity of using teachers.
Artists and scientists use teachers, especially at the advanced levels.
If one really wants to play a violin one doesnt go to Kremer or Menuhin.
Conversely you dont put Kempf to teach lullabies. And one travels after
teachers. One is not stuck in ones own country waiting. One seeks out
the environments and places where the great teachers are.

Also in science. It is very
common in the advanced scientific environments, that the teaching is
being taught in a master-like kind of form. Many years of intense cooperation
to train the new researchers.

It is this kind of culture
of teaching that is needed among mature human beings within the
spiritual practice. And because the spiritual is connected with the
personality and the psychological structure, therapeutic clarification
is an almost inevitable precondition to the fruition of a spiritual
exchange-relation.

How does one find a spiritual
teacher? It´s difficult to say. But something can be said about how
one shouldnt do it. It´s not to find a authentic teacher with one´s
head, with the intellect. One cannot think one´s way to it. Only the
heart can find a teacher. One cannot either follow the trend,
the rumour, the fame or the amount of students.

Again it turns out relevantly,
that the therapeutic part of the work is reasonably unwinded. If not,
many seekers will then have their psychological needs mixed with the
possible or real spiritual needs.

The lack of a ”proper”
father or mother, lack of a rational role-model will determine the choice
of teacher, and this can be fateful.

One should and must use one´s
critical sense, one´s scepticism and the intellect´s analytical sharpness
in the process of sorting out. However, the crucial positive undertaking
can only come from a unreserved open heart. ”Not to investigate the
teacher is like swallowing poison” says Padma.

The best or the most true
teacher for a human being at a certain stage in its development is of
course the teacher who can facilitate the next step. It is often not
the most advanced, that necessarily is the most appropriate from the
perspective of the one being taught. If the distance is too great, then
will communication be considered mostly difficult.

The 3 old well-tested experiences
are

An authentic teacher is a
door

A true teacher is found with
the heart

A correct teacher is the
next step.

From “The Liberation
of consciousness” (Bevidsthedens Befrielse s.36):

(Jes Bertelsen, is here
emphasizing some premises which, according to him, will enhance the
possibility of decreasing the amount of thoughts in meditation)

”…..The body;
a certain degree of relaxation, ease, healthy; no blocks or tensions;
therefore yoga, sport, body-therapy, massage, tai chi, etc.

The ego must first be unfolded
and function in a social satisfying exchange. Sufficient education,
meaningful work, reasonable home and economy and a living coherence
with other people and with society.

And self-insight,
knowledge about and freedom from neurosis, traumas, biographical knots.
Knowledge about the mind - in a broader sense; fx the shadow, the opposite
gender, the spiritual dimension. This is the fascinating selfdevelopment-work.

And balance. Either
balance in the chakrasystem, if this description-model is used. Or balance
between the different personality-aspects; feeling, emotion, intellect,
sexuality, creativity, intution and alike.

Finally the so-called
existential satiety which consists in lifeexperience; this is the
sum of lived life that now and then can lead people to a feeling of
satiety in relation to the world.

Satiety of lust, satiety
of travels, satiety of career, of succes, of sex, of solar plexus. Not
resignation or dying, but the feeling of having tried life and experienced
enough within such fields.

All these factors together,
considerably improve the chances that the consciousness in a relaxed
awakeness can become still and clear.

The unprepared consciousness
is more or less defenceless by the flood of impressions of any kind
that invades consciousness, when it tries to be calm.

When one is sufficiently
and maturely saturated and balanced in the different personality-aspects
or chakras, then the countless of the sources of distraction, which
the unprepared consciousness is moved by, of itself have become calm.
The childhood, the birth, the past is practically ended and emptied.
There are no more knots lying there, bombs, ”unfinishedness” in
the past.

The chakrasystem is in balance and unfolded. The myriades of impulses
which emerges from a normally imbalanced chakrasystem are considerably
reduced. Many desires and wishes are fulfilled.
Therapeutic material besides is clarified. The ego is saturated by life
and activity. In this luxury the mind can allow itself to become calm
and investigate the ego´s background in consciousness.

What is there around, under
and above the ego? What is the source of consciousness? What is consciousness
at all? Not awareness about something. Not anyones’ consciousness. The
consciousness itself in hovering equilibrium between the subjective
and the objective consciousness-pole.

The existential-meditative
question about higher consciouness is a luxury-need, which undoubtedly
first enters, when a broad spectrum of more basic needs have been
satisfied.

The genuine need to feel
coherence with and understanding for fellow-human beings on the globe
and its lifeforms, first arises when all the needs of the ego, in a
reasonable manner has been unfolded and satisfied. The one fighting
for his livelihood doesnt care about art and Kant. And the one who lives
the sweet western life does not care about both God and fellow-creature.
Only much much later in the proces of need-satisfaction with the help
of luck and karma and a little insight, arises the authentic need to
develop the consciousness to higher consciousness and the familylove
to brotherly human openness.”

From “Reality of
the self” (Selvets virkelighed s. 18)

“The ego-unfoldment is
the first step of spiritual development. An individual with a non-unfolded,
incomplete or imbalanced ego, will bring this imbalance into the ongoing
further process. The ego is the first center of identity. To let go
of this, without having experienced the joys and sorrows, which as such,
belongs to the ego´s center, - to let go of the ego´s center, is presumedly
possible and advisable only if one has tried and lived the ego´s possibilities
to a certain degree. The ego must have realized its talents and possibilities
in order to be mature for the next journey. In our time, one sees very
often that people with unfinished or frustrated egos seek spiritual
ways. But then they will bring much ambition and much illusion with
them into the process of development. If one is unsatisfied at the egolevel,
then this dissatisfaction will breed equivalent great ideas about who
one is into the spiritual…; a too small sense of ego compensated by
a similar exaggerated emotion of spiritual self-feeling. A fairly unfolded
and succesful ego is more capable of frequently stepping aside. The
ego with an inferiority complex, the non-unfolded ego, can in reality
never entirely see beyond itself. Only the satiated can let others have
the fruits ”

From “Inner tantra
- reestablished meditative directions” (Indre tantra - reetablerede
meditative anvisninger”

“Human beings back then
- from the beginning of our calendar to the 16^th Century
- were fundamentally different from the ones in our time.

The inner and outer pollution
in the West altogether on earth is obvious. This means, that the
techniques, which then could purify and structuralize the etheric-astral
energy, not nescessarily can do this now.
I´ve seen many people (hundreds) who have practiced the thousandyear
old meditations and exercises intensively and for many years. (For example
Patanjali´s techniques, Kriyayoga, Vipassana, Tibetan Buddhism, Japayoga,
Sahaja, TM, The heart prayer and Rosicrucians). And it is my clear impression
that the etheric and astral field of our time is not to be dealt with
and purified as it was possible back then.

Not that the old wisdoms and ways are not deep enough and to a certain
degree usable. Who doesn´t learn with the greatest respect and awe
from the old wisdomsources?

But after the world wars
and the nuclear bomb, chemical warfare, the food-pollution, and the
massmedias is neither man´s physical body or the etheric vitality-body
or the collective unconsciousness (the astral world) or the mental dimension,
like it was 1000 years ago or just 200 years ago.
Forces, which previously before slept in the collective unconsciousness,
has been lead to awake astral consciousness through for example the
second world war´s inhumaneness, continued in our time in Vietnam,
Afghanistan, the MiddleEast, Africa etc.
An innocence is lost. A sleep is disrupted. The means which today effectively
in a balanced but crucial way, are able to cope with the astral and
mental masschaos, those techniques are necessarily different from those
that previously were sufficient back then. Human beings who can see
energystructures, can observe this directly.

The reverence, with which
many maintain the old techniques from the eastern and western esoterics
is understandable, but the question is whether this is adequate in our
time. It shall not be denied that many people in our time still need
the dogmatically loyal ways of development. Many selves (his defintion
of the developmental stage succeding the ego-stage) are still moving
along the old ways. They have to make themselves ready by finishing
what they have worked on for centuries. But is is equally clear, that
the new time demands other means, new ways. Those new ways are being
reestablished by teachers, who finished themselves through the old ways,
but who now are trying to reestablish the techniques so they are adequate
for the human beings of our time…..

….The changes in human being´s segments (physical and etheric pollution
and astral-mental chaos and distortion); the changed goal of the development
(commonlization of the self); and the changed and expanded perspective
(global,transsectarian); these three complicated factors are the crucial
reasons that the progressive/onward-turned people not only criticlessly
can take over the old development-systems.
However, the most far-sighted of the old masters knew this; and this
knowledge is inlaid/embedded in certain consciousness-continua, which
our times´ selfrealized human beings can contact. The old wisdom could
see that changes would become necessary around the ending of the second
millenium. Some would therefore be trying to reestablish this knowledge
in a form adequate for our time”.