3) Related to #2: different information is relevant at different points.
And more to the point, my experience is that a lot of people, even if you try to tell them about stuff earlier, will just gloss over it, ignore it, or otherwise be utterly baffled that you mention that you talked this through six months ago.
This is partly to do with the nature of learning things that aren't about intellectual knowledge, people need to be in a place where the mystery can be revealed to them, and that's not something under conscious control. It turns out that even talking about mystery work is a mystery, y'know?
So, my take (really, the most ethical one I can come up with) is to mention it early, as a thing to be aware of, and then to be really clear about having space and time to talk about it again when I get to a point where they can hear it and make sense of it and/or we're about to do that thing.
When is info relevant
And more to the point, my experience is that a lot of people, even if you try to tell them about stuff earlier, will just gloss over it, ignore it, or otherwise be utterly baffled that you mention that you talked this through six months ago.
This is partly to do with the nature of learning things that aren't about intellectual knowledge, people need to be in a place where the mystery can be revealed to them, and that's not something under conscious control. It turns out that even talking about mystery work is a mystery, y'know?
So, my take (really, the most ethical one I can come up with) is to mention it early, as a thing to be aware of, and then to be really clear about having space and time to talk about it again when I get to a point where they can hear it and make sense of it and/or we're about to do that thing.