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From that day forward, I never was fooled by the would-be guru, with their fierce looks and demands. I knew that any real teacher would reflect me and help me to better know myself.

This is what I am trying to say here, when I say that higher centers mirror or reveal to us, reflect our own self, and do not themselves exhibit a greater intrinsic attractiveness or gravity than we (ourselves) already have. In other words, inquiry into centers reveals to us our own essential sense of attractiveness or gravity, not of some “other.”

In fact, it is the nature of centers, higher centers, to be “non”-material or non-physical, by definition. Our inquiry into this realm of centers is limited only by our fear or reluctance to see our self in this mirror, and seeing through the back of the mirror has always been a sign of Initiation. To sum this up:

Greater centers mirror or reflect our own self and nature, revealing to us our essential identity as already a part of a larger whole, and enlightening us of (or from) our “grave-ness” and the burden of an apparent loneliness or imagined separation from that whole.

These centers are our personal welcoming committee, helping us identify ourselves as already belonging to a line or lineage, stretching back as far as life itself.