Again - interesting response, Sanat. Thank You
I agree with your thoughts on Guru status. Bless 'em
I feel those I have known have started in an innocent way - perhaps the clouds cleared for them and their only wish was to help others, too. Where it seemed to go a bit haywire was that they perhaps saw others as being in need of their teaching on a longer-term or more all-encompassing basis than was in fact the case. And vice-versa. How best to explain this without sounding a might high-handed myself?
One day, whilst with a friend who was speaking to a teacher, I had a notion pop into my mind - I don't know where from so won't lay claim to it.
The teacher was kind and doing a good job but I sort of sensed that she saw her place as being an all-round spiritual teacher (as opposed to a Reiki teacher) perhaps more spiritually advanced than those she was teaching. She wasn't necessarily considering the possibility that the pupils who came to her were doing so to fulfill one aspect of their path - not all of it. And that in other respects, they might be able to teach her. She only had to listen.
Does that make sense?