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

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Could it be helpful to really have a guru in your lifetime, especially when you yourself have a black night of the soul to undergo? I have read that individuals all need some type of help undo all that individuals have learned. That's where Intercessory prayer comes in or even a Guru with preferably a lineage that shows they have done this kind of sort out 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 realize that I have become tremendously in combination with all the current other spiritual books and work I have 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. It has taken me a year and another dark night to note that I have put aside me understanding that there was another way to handle my illness. It had been due to this guru that I postponed pursuing this. I think the lesson maybe that individuals all have the power within us and when my guru speaks like any in life I must discern the info and go within for the final answer. Whenever I push away that urge I find obstacles in my path. So I'm confused, I visit a major change in me with this guru but at the same time I discover the advice can conflict with my most inner beliefs and am forced to listen. I believed I must listen for this is the lesson: Tune in to the REAL SOURCE- the one WITHIN. Please help me with see what else I may be missing.

Thanks for your heartfelt and sincere email. Role models (such as gurus or teachers or guides) are very useful stepping stones as the ego is undone. They can be inspirational and very supportive witnesses to the mind's want to Wake Up. They could offer very useful 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 your head that believes itself to be a person is asleep and dreaming of exile from the Oneness of Spirit. While the deceived mind believes in linear time, Awakening will seem to happen in stages. Through the seeming "process" of Awakening, symbols are employed 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 potential for Enlightenment, yet the experience of Enlightenment is impersonal, unconditional, and abstract. The final dark night is always the temptation to retain a sense 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 will be simply because 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 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'll 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 been removed only Love remains.best acim podcast

Once you think of the concept of guru consider this:
Gee YoU aRe YoU
This is the gentle reminder: I am as God created Me.
This is the Power of Now.
This is the simplicity of Being.

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

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