We need autistic teachers who carve up the contemplative landscape into a million sub-techniques, like Shinzen Young, and poetic teachers who tell you to just relax and wake up, like Adyashanti. Sometimes, I hear complaints about the overabundance of professional spiritual types. Well, I’m in Berkeley, the white hot center of it, and I can tell you that we are nowhere near saturation on effective meditation teachers, or spiritual workers generally. I don’t have enough good people in my referral network.