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

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Can it be helpful to have a guru in your life, especially when you yourself have a dark nights the soul to undergo? I've read that people all need some type of help to undo all that people have learned. That's where Intercessory prayer comes in or even a Guru with preferably a lineage that shows they've done this type of sort out the generation of the family. It all has to do with the power with this individual and the group they travel with in spirit.a course in miracles twitter

I study A Course in Miracles and discover that I have cultivated tremendously in combination with 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. It has brought me a year and another dark night to observe that I've put aside me knowing that there clearly was another way to deal with my illness. It absolutely was as a result of this guru that I postponed pursuing this. I think the lesson maybe that people all have the power within us and when my guru speaks like any other in life I must discern the data and go within for the final answer. Whenever I push away that urge I find obstacles in my path. So I'm confused, I see a major change in me with this particular guru but at the same time I find the advice can conflict with my most inner beliefs and am forced to listen. I thought I must listen for here is the lesson: Pay attention to the REAL SOURCE- the main one WITHIN. Please help me with see what else I could be missing.

Thanks for your heartfelt and sincere email. Role models (such as gurus or teachers or guides) are very helpful stepping stones as the ego is undone. They may be inspirational and very supportive witnesses to the mind's need to Wake Up. They can offer very helpful 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 be a person is asleep and dreaming of exile from the Oneness of Spirit. Whilst the deceived mind believes in linear time, Awakening will seem to occur in stages. Throughout 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 can be a symbol of the potential for Enlightenment, yet the experience of Enlightenment is impersonal, unconditional, and abstract. The final dark night is always the temptation to retain a feeling 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 use of judgment until it is 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 feel the Love the ego was created to hide. Love simply Is, and once the obstacles to the awareness of Love's Presence have already been removed only Love remains.

Whenever you think of the concept of guru consider this:
Gee YoU aRe YoU
This is actually the gentle reminder: I'm 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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