A teacher does not enter your scope of awareness at key stages of your awakening. You are the teacher who is awakening to your own true power. Thus, an external teacher does not empower you to trigger "ah-ha" moments. Instead, a pre-ordained awakening within draws attention to shifting self-perception.
Asking higher energies for guidance helps you to recognize you are a transmitter and vehicle travelling through dimensions. The use of symbols, shapes, dreams and crystals brings you closer to knowing higher self consciousness. A given situation in 3-D, physical worlds does not reveal the truth of what is beyond.