Gimmah the evidence

[Little Rik]

Since you are so fond of teachers and that is my day job I've decided to assign you homework. You can see the use of the Einstein quote in this talk/animation by the psychologist Gilchrist. The quote comes in the end, you might skip to the start of the 11th minute and watch about 30 seconds to get to the quote right away. But if you then go back and watch it from the beginning, perhaps you can tell me what is wrong with a natural explanation such as he offers for understanding the nature of the self?

Gilchrist problem is that he is not taking in any consideration the fact that what is in the brain has been build up by the consciousness and therefore if there is a problem in the brain that can be in many cases fix by improving our consciousness.
No mention at all about consciousness in his talk except for Einstein quote.
He may be the best man to analyze the way the brain works but if he does not understand the cause of brain malfunctions then it is all a waste of time.

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So just because Einstein didn't tell us to reject a teacher, we shouldn't? What about bad teachers? Must we always accept their authority simply because another authority may or may not have told us to?

No, but after a while you should be able to understand if his-her teaching make sense or not.
Of course there is always a certain risk but the risk to go without a teacher may be a lot greatest then go alone.

You're confusing intuition with inspiration, but the funny thing about all this is creative people almost never get intuitive leaps about anything outside their own special field of interest and study. Einstein's songwriting career is perhaps thankfully lost to history, while McCartney's contributions to the sciences can be counted on the fingers of Abu Hamza's bad hand. Come to think of it, the same could be said of his contributions to music as well, but that's another thread.

That is quite normal.
You ask for a pizza and you get a pizza, you ask for the cannelloni and you get the cannelloni.
The mind of Einstein was interested in science and got science.
Why should he get music?
Your consciousness is very clever and will respond accordingly if your sincerity is good.

Sir Terry Pratchett once wrote about inspiration particles sleeting through the Universe and sparking ideas whenever they chance upon living minds. However, before you get too excited, he was writing satirically about the importance of being born in the right species at the right place and the right time; the frog living a million years ago who suddenly got the inspiration for making the perfect sitcom stood no chance, for instance.

The universe is just a transformation of mental thinking into vibrations from the cosmic consciousness and that at the end take a material form so if you want to understand where the inspiration come from and where these inspiration are directed to then the best thing to do is to go back to the source of everything to the matrix of the universe.
But you do not have to go too far because what is within the cosmic mind is also within your consciousness which is part and parcel of the same thing.

The entire purpose of teaching, beyond the basics and if you're doing it right, is to generate the desire for learning in the pupil, such that they will one day surpass the teacher.

It really depend what subject a teacher teach.
Within the material world there is almost always the possibility to go further and further but within the spiritual world that is not possible because when you as a drop of water merge into the ocean of consciousness then you become the ocean itself.
You possibly can not become any bigger.