Self-Realization and Other Awakenings

clearly. So frightened are many that they need a
savior to take away their human mortality and
vulnerability.
Thus you find all the comments that Ed Muzika is
all-too-human, versus legends like Ramana or Robert,
because many have to believe in a divine or demigod
savior.
Even exceptionally brilliant people needed to
worship gurus, such as Ken Wilber and his fixation on
Da Free John, and oh so many on Osho or Ramana.
Guru worship starts from such an idealization
viewpoint. One thinks of the guru as savior and God
incarnate because one projects that salvation need
into a guru or series of gurus.
Then you gradually get to know what the teacher is
really like, and with that a progressive disillusionment
of the need to idealize and project. If while seeing
the guru ever more clearly as both human and
something else, by being with him or her, having
projections and idealizations broken; if then you still
can accept and love your teacher; you will find you
also see yourself ever more clearly, and accept
yourself as he or she accepts you, and gradually you
will love yourself as much or more than you ever loved
the guru.