False Idols

It is hard for some people, most people, to get outside of themselves and do the work of transformation. This instance is when they either embrace defeat or search for a person from whom they can learn the skills they wish to grow into. A guru can play this role as a teacher of technique of a certain way of belief and impart upon his students the wisdom and knowledge he has retained over his life and through his specialization of concentrated energies.
Here is the dangerous line that people begin to tow. They start to worship and idolized their teacher/guides and impart to them some super human ability that defines a distinction between the two of them. This usually is out of a place of respect where the student is overwhelmed with the insight that they have gained and do not internalize their embetterment as a process that they themselves have created. This feeling transfers the real into something holy as a form that is beyond them and it is simply not justified.
Some leaders, the one’s who can only see the power of the information and do not embody on its principles, selfishly take and inappropriately ask for compensation (whether material or bodily favors) then relishing in them. When this is in the picture it should be clear that this is a show for a business and that you are not revered as an exceptional and worthy being, but as a customer. Any real leader would explain how little they actually had to do with each person’s transformation of sprit and mind instead of capitalizing upon it. They would abstain from and allow there to be no monetary or sexual exchange, the soaking up of skewed compliments or the false endowment of fictional powers. In other words there would be no fantasy and in its stead honesty and an accuracy to reality.