Databases of Teachers

List of teachers, gurus and realizers A comprehensive list, from which most other lists on the web derive. It provides a link to each teacher listed together with their location and a quotation from their teaching.

The Gate Keeper - A comprehensive list, alphabetically organised, of links to websites of past and present spiritual teachers of various disciplines.

Sarlo's Guru Rating Service is excellent. There are many entries, though some of the descriptions appear to be somewhat disrespectful!

In The Light - This New Zealand site has brief biographies, pictures etc. of 'world teachers', both current and throughout history. The list is now very comprehensive indeed.

Strictly Spiritual is Shawn Nevins' site, containing some valuable guidelines on how to choose a teacher as well as some personal ratings of a number of teachers, past and present. There are also reviews of films and books with a non-dual slant and a message board.

Clearly views from one who is not him/herself enlightened are bound to be subjective and liable to error. Since a Sage does not discard the nature of the body-mind entity upon Realisation, a guru may exhibit all manners of idiosyncrasies. Rick Ross' site contains news articles about cults and dubious teachers, though these too must be treated with care.

There is a book, called 'Coming Home, An Invitation to Rediscover our True Nature' by Jan Kersschot, that includes interviews with a number of teachers. Extracts may be read at the site.

See also the book by Paula Marvelly - The Teachers of One.

Another book, called 'The Awakening West' by Lynn Marie Lumiere has interviews with Adyashanti, Peter Fenner, Gangaji, Douglas Harding, Catherine Ingram, Kenny Johnson, Francis Lucille, Satyam Nadeen, Mira Pagal, Robert Rabbin, Byron Katie, Rolle, Isaac Shapiro, Lama Surya Das, Christopher Titmus and Eckhart Tolle. This is a newly published version of the book.