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

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

I study A Course in Miracles and see that I have become tremendously in combination with all the other spiritual books and work I have already been doing. However, I see now that even my guru has some unlearning to do. The Course teaches us never put anyone on a platform and I see now acim podcasts. It has brought me annually and another dark night to note that I have put aside me realizing that there is another way to deal with my illness. It had been as a result of this guru that I postponed pursuing this. I believe the lesson maybe that we all have the power within us and when my guru speaks like some other in life I must discern the knowledge and go within for the last answer. Whenever I push away that urge I find obstacles within my path. So I'm confused, I visit a major change in me with this particular guru but at the same time I get 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- usually the one WITHIN. Please help me with see what else I might be missing.

Thanks for the heartfelt and sincere email. Role models (such as gurus or teachers or guides) are beneficial stepping stones while the ego is undone. They could be inspirational and very supportive witnesses to the mind's desire to Wake Up. They could offer beneficial and practical advice, teachings, and examples. Yet accepting the Atonement (Correction) is THE sole responsibility and this can be a decision of mind that transcends the thought of personhood. Persons don't become enlightened, for your head that believes itself to be always 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 maybe more expansive states of consciousness. A guru can be quite a symbol of the possibility of Enlightenment, yet the experience of Enlightenment is impersonal, unconditional, and abstract. The final dark night is obviously 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 is 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're feeling is usually the 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 guard or defend the ego, you will go through 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.

Whenever you think of the thought of guru consider this:

Gee YoU aRe YoU

Here is the gentle reminder: I'm as God created Me.

Here is the Power of Now.

Here is the simplicity of Being.

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

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