Could it be helpful to truly have a guru in your life, especially if you have a dark nights the soul to undergo? I have read that people all need some type of help to undo all that people have learned. That’s where Intercessory prayer comes in or perhaps a Guru with preferably a lineage that shows they’ve done this type of sort out the generation of their family. All of it has regarding the vitality of this individual and the group they travel with in spirit.

I study A Course in Miracles and discover that I have grown tremendously in combination with all the other spiritual books and work I have already been doing. However, I see given that even my guru has some unlearning to do. The Course teaches us never put anyone on a platform and I see now a course in miracles podcast. It has brought me annually and another dark night to note that I have put aside me comprehending that there is another way to handle my illness. It had been as a result of this guru that I postponed pursuing this. I believe the lesson maybe that people all have the vitality within us and when my guru speaks like any other in life I must discern the knowledge and go within for the final answer. Whenever I push away that urge I find obstacles within my path. So I’m confused, I view a major change in me with this guru but at once I discover the advice can conflict with my most inner beliefs and am forced to listen. I thought I must listen for this is the lesson: Pay attention to the REAL SOURCE- the main one WITHIN. Please help me with see what else I might be missing.

Thanks for your heartfelt and sincere email. Role models (such as gurus or teachers or guides) are beneficial stepping stones because the ego is undone. They could be inspirational and very supportive witnesses to the mind’s desire to Wake Up. They can offer beneficial and practical advice, teachings, and examples. Yet accepting the Atonement (Correction) is THE sole responsibility and this is a decision of mind that transcends the concept of personhood. Persons do not become enlightened, for the mind that believes itself to become a person is asleep and dreaming of exile from the Oneness of Spirit. As the deceived mind believes in linear time, Awakening will seem to occur in stages. Through the seeming “process” of Awakening, symbols are used by the Holy Spirit as stepping stones that reflect higher or more expansive states of consciousness. A guru can be a symbol of the possibility of Enlightenment, yet the experience of Enlightenment is impersonal, unconditional, and abstract. The last dark night is definitely the temptation to retain an expression of individuality, privacy, autonomy, and uniqueness. All perceived darkness reflects the belief in private minds with private thoughts. Mind is one in forgiveness and One in Truth.

It’s wonderful that you will be seeing that the lesson of discernment always rests with the perceiver. Use your feelings as a barometer in this discernment, for how you feel is the main one right use of judgment until it’s apparent that any judgment is entirely impossible. Follow the Joy! Follow the Bliss! As you look within and make no attempt to protect or defend the ego, you’ll experience the Love the ego was made to hide. Love simply Is, and when the obstacles to the awareness of Love’s Presence have already been removed only Love remains.

Once you consider the concept of guru consider this:

Gee YoU aRe YoU

This is actually the gentle reminder: I am as God created Me.

This is actually the Power of Now.

This is actually the simplicity of Being.

Truth is simple. The ego was the illusion of confusion and complexity.

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