For those of you who have heard The Office of The Infinite Way say Joel did not want Practioners or Teachers. Here are his own words.
"Now, you who have been, and you see I'm not saying this out in a public lecture - this is being said in this room at Hope House for the benefit of you. Almost every one of you who have been in this work four, five years, six years probably - I'm saying this to you, that when you go out as a practitioner or as a teacher, or when you serve in that capacity, even though you may not name yourself publicly a practitioner or teacher - but when you serve in that capacity you're going to offend the very humans that you wish to bless. Because you will have to bring to them this same message of surrender. You'll not be able to cater to the grosser parts of human nature that all of us in some stage want catered to. You too will have to offend. You too will have to pluck out eyes and cut off hands and say, "The way is straight and narrow and you'll either follow it in the straight and narrow way or you will not enter." You'll make yourselves unpopular. Because this pathway is not the pathway of popularity, and anyone seeking popularity better stay away from it. Stay away from it. Because you are called upon to discipline. You are called upon to correct. You are called upon to teach rigid principles which the human mind never liked in the days of Jesus Christ. It never liked them in the days of Moses. That's why they had to have a golden calf even after Moses revealed the nature of God. Because human nature doesn't like to surrender its golden calves. And the biggest golden calf it has is self. Self indulgence. Self. Self. Self. Anything but self surrender.
from Tape #227 Side 1, 1958 London Open Class, Self Surrender
