Why do you listen more deeply and fully to one spiritual teaching than to another?  It usually means for the average seeker that he or she listens in accordance with some prejudice or fixed opinion.  Such a mind will filter out and discard teachings that do not reinforce and enlarge an already existing pattern of knowledge and belief in the brain.  A Jewish Hassid in New York may avidly study the Kabbalah, but want nothing to do with the teachings of the Sufis; a Muslim Sufi in Turkey may endlessly dive into the depths of the Mathnavi of Rumi, but utterly ignore the writings of Sri Aurobindo about Integral Yoga.  The Western followers of Idries Shah do not want to understand the writings and lectures of J Krishnamurti; and those who still cling to J Krishnamurti cannot enter the Way of Zen.  So there are all these prejudicial and limited traditions, schools and great spiritual influencers.  It all makes Spiritual Truth appear to be a sociological competition for exclusive adherents.  But there are also mature listeners who will without prejudice find more in some teachings than in others.  This is about a certain quality of resonance with the stage of inner development of the mature individual, which gives a discernment that is irreplaceable at the time of its occurrence.  Thus the issue is not directly prejudice versus non-prejudice, but immaturity versus maturity.  Hence your access to Spiritual Truth is a direct function of your evolutionary maturity.  If you are unconsciously prejudiced and immature, there are some things you cannot be told or develop in yourself.  And, in actual fact, such a person will probably be having a ridiculous reaction to all this if they have even bothered to read this article to this point.

There is another issue here that is far more important.  It has to do with the fact that even though it is relatively mature to go beyond prejudice and look into all sorts of teachings with keen interest, this universality in no way guarantees that certain necessary higher experiences are taking place or superhuman capacities activated and developed.  Universal Truth gives great intellectual achievement, but is only the raw beginning of Spiritual realization.  One can be genuinely open-minded and widely interested but still sadly lack real direction, development and realization.  The Western Universalist with an over-heated, argumentative and proud brain can easily produce a kind of hodge-podge of various traditions and teachings that gives no unfoldment of extradimensional experience and capacity.  Such a person can be suffering from spiritual indigestion without registering what the malady actually is.  The very achievement of unprejudiced “truth” can become a blockage to Realization of even that “truth” that has been put together.  Spiritual Truth is not a prejudicial authority, but it implies the Truth of Spirit beyond that intellectual achievement level.  Vast regions of experiential development await the awakening of the Superhuman Realizer hidden deeply for long ages within the Truth-finder.  That you have gone beyond prejudicial authorities does not mean you do not need the Sadguru, the Superhuman Siddha or Complete Man to help you.