But how does one find and feel God for real? All the wisdom traditions of humankind point to a single answer: we locate God through the Transmission of a Spiritual Master. So the "how" of Realizing God actually has a simple answer: find a genuine Spiritual Master and become a devotee of His or Her Spiritual Transmission. To Realize God most perfectly — to awaken completely from the dream of limited existence, rather than moving to a somewhat better "realm" within the dream — requires linking up with the Transmission of a Divinely Realized Spiritual Master.

• The Need For a Spiritual Teacher and Teaching — There are so many ways to misinterpret what we are experiencing, and to get stuck at some point, and fail to grow further for lack of an accurate and complete roadmap.
  
  
• "There but for the Grace of God go I": The Need for a Spiritual Transmission Master to liberate man the machine — Are we machines? If not altogether mechanical, to what degree are we "machine", and to what degree, "free being"? Many wisdom traditions suggest that increasing spiritual maturity is what moves us along the spectrum from the "machine" end toward the "free being" end. But how does one mature spiritually? Grace — tangible help from the Spiritual Reality — is what makes the difference. The genuine process of Spiritual practice has been so carefully guarded by the esoteric circles in which it was practiced, that few people are aware nowadays that the primary function of the Spiritual Master is not to "rap out" a Teaching or philosophy, but to Transmit Grace, to Transmit the Revelation of the Divine, to literally communicate the Nature of Reality via the vessel of their own body-mind.