Can it be Beneficial to Have a Guru: Teachings from A Course in Miracles

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Can it be helpful to really have a guru in your lifetime, especially when you have a black night of the soul to undergo? I have read that people all need some sort of help undo all that people have learned. That's where Intercessory prayer will come in or even a Guru with preferably a lineage that shows they've done this sort of work through the generation of their family. It all has to do with the energy of the individual and the group they travel with in spirit.best acim podcast

 

I study A Course in Miracles and realize that I have grown tremendously in combination with all the other spiritual books and work I have 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. It has brought me per year and another dark night to observe that I have put aside me realizing that there was another way to deal with my illness. It was for this reason guru that I postponed pursuing this. I think the lesson maybe that people all have the energy within us and when my guru speaks like some other in life I must discern the knowledge and go within for the ultimate answer. Whenever I push away that urge I find obstacles in my path. So I'm confused, I view a major change in me with this guru but at the same time I find the advice can conflict with my most inner beliefs and am forced to listen. I believed I must listen for this is actually the lesson: Listen to the REAL SOURCE- the main one WITHIN. Please help me with see what else I may be missing.


Thanks for the heartfelt and sincere email. Role models (such as gurus or teachers or guides) are beneficial stepping stones since the ego is undone. They can be inspirational and very supportive witnesses to the mind's desire to Wake Up. They are able to 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 idea of personhood. Persons don't become enlightened, for your brain that believes itself to become a person is asleep and dreaming of exile from the Oneness of Spirit. Whilst the deceived mind believes in linear time, Awakening will seem that occurs in stages. Through the seeming "process" of Awakening, symbols are utilized by the Holy Spirit as stepping stones that reflect higher or maybe more expansive states of consciousness. A guru could be a symbol of the prospect of Enlightenment, yet the ability of Enlightenment is impersonal, unconditional, and abstract. The final 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 are seeing that the lesson of discernment always rests with the perceiver. Use your feelings as a barometer in this discernment, for how you are feeling is the main one right utilization of judgment until it is apparent that any judgment is entirely impossible. Follow the Joy! Follow the Bliss! As you appear within and make no attempt to guard or defend the ego, you will feel the Love the ego was created to hide. Love simply Is, and once the obstacles to the awareness of Love's Presence have been removed only Love remains.


When you consider the idea of guru contemplate 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.

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

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