Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
different than the people in the room, and he views those people as
his equal. For example, the Wizard here, I always call him my
friend and mentor because he was my friend for a number of
years, and then when I had the ears for hearing he suddenly
became my mentor, and it was like, oh my God, here's this guy
who has this wealth of spiritual knowledge if you will, I don't know
if he'd call it that. But I wouldn't have been willing to accept any
of it, or have benefited from any of it if he wasn't demonstrating
the Truth of who he is through his equality of vision. So I do think
that your stand on being a non-teacher is in fact an important
aspect of you being a teacher, an authentic teacher, you don't say?
JEFF FOSTER: [Laughing]
WIZARD: It is what it is.
TRIP: [Laughs] You’ve got a funny way, I never know whether
you're laughing at me or with me. [Laughing] Hey, you've got a
new book coming out next year, and I don't remember the title.
What's the title?
JEFF FOSTER: Well at the moment it's called The Deepest
Acceptance, but that might evolve.
WIZARD: I like that.
TRIP: There's something useful in the passing out here between
the deep acceptance that you've now come into a fuller
appreciation of, and acceptance as it's generally understood and
practiced by people, or maybe still going down that idea of being
on a spiritual path. So can you tell us the difference between deep
acceptance, and acceptance as it's generally understood and
practiced?
JEFF FOSTER: Oh, that's a juicy question, that's a beautiful
question. Yes. So I know when I was a really intense obsessed
spiritual seeker desperate for enlightenment, one of the things that
I used to do was to try to accept everything, because I used to
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