Teaching, A personnal experience of teaching Options

"When the pupil is ready a teacher appears", this quote has been said so many times that I can't even count
The point is that actually I'm at a point where many persons came to me asking me to be teached in magick
Well personnally I don't mind but why are all these guys so venal? I mean, there is nothing wrong with wanting to get powers
To converse with beings from other dimensions (from spirits to elementals) but It seems that they just do not understand that there is a little bit more behind the works. Am I somekind of a idealist thinking that the main aim for magicians is to search higher truths?
Is this stupid to think that magick is much more about expanding consciousness, that occult powers are onely a side effect that sould not distract from our personnal questing?
I mean I once found a web site where they told me I would be allmighty, it was the soul hunting site and the understandings I found during this periode are so different from what I percieve in most of members of the community as if they thought that magick is just about selling goodies
Sorry if I seem so desperate, I'm certainly not an (IMG:style_emoticons/default/angel.gif) but MAN if I only deserve that kind of pupils, I think I'm gonna change country for real!

You aren't the only one to have students like that. Just tell them that you teach a discipline for the purpose of spiritual evolution-- or words to that effect-- and that any supernatural abilities are side effects or distractions. There enough people catering to those sorts of goals teaching New Age workshops. But you have to keep your self-respect.

I avoid any talk of supernatural abilities all together. Usually they don't inquire any further after that. If interested parties make a serious attempt to get me talking, I talk about awareness, and control over the self, and healing. Connecting to yourself and world around you. As soon as talks of mind-reading, magickal powers, etc., come up, I like to just sidetrack the issue into something practical - reading minds becomes a talk about sensitivity to the subtle dimensions of our own consciousness; soothsaying or precognizance becomes understanding the fluctuation of possibility emanating from one's personal choices; talking to spirits becomes conversing with your own inner selves.

But if someone comes to you wanting to learn magick (I get requests for teaching energy work mostly, but that can go all sorts of directions, too often towards the insane), give it to them straight, I suppose. It takes serious dedication, hard work, personal transformation. Also really consider whether you are qualified to teach at all. If you don't think you are, don't touch it. Just being able to do something, doesn't mean you can teach it. Teaching is just something some people can do, or can learn to do. Some people are stuck strictly in the abstract research department, leaving the teaching to anyone who can benefit from what ever you give them on their own juice alone.

When most people learn they have to change in order to master something, they will either give up, or try to do it without making those changes.

I personally prefer to be more of a consultant while the individual works it out for themselves.

peace