It is all about using that gift to help others selflessly. It is in truth often a bitter curse as it leads you down difficult roads and into dire straits. There is a tireless dedication, I term 'the tempering of the blade' that takes decades to wander through. It is this phase of the initiation that the selfish ego cannot tolerate. It wants everything as easy as possible, and as quickly as possible. Those who have the true gift are patient, and tireless and accepting of all that is thrown in their path. Very few of those driven by the ego can make it to the grade of the minerval student. Those who rush into this field we term those of the 'Icarus grade' ...