Could it be helpful to have a guru in your life, especially if you have a black nights the soul to proceed through? I have read that we all need some sort of help to undo all that we have learned. That's where Intercessory prayer comes in or a Guru with preferably a lineage that shows they've done this type of work through the generation of these family. Everything has regarding the energy with this individual and the group they travel with in spirit.

I study A Course in Miracles and see that I have cultivated tremendously in combination with the other spiritual books and work I have been doing. However, I see since even my guru has some unlearning to do. The Course teaches us never put anyone on a platform and I see now best a course in miracles podcast. It has taken me per year and another dark night to note that I have put aside me comprehending that there clearly was another way to deal with my illness. It absolutely was due to this guru that I postponed pursuing this. I think the lesson maybe that we all have the energy within us and when my guru speaks like any in life I must discern the data and go within for the ultimate answer. Whenever I push away that urge I find obstacles in my own path. So I'm confused, I visit a major change in me with this guru but at the same time frame I find the advice can conflict with my most inner beliefs and am forced to listen. I believed I must listen for this is the lesson: Pay attention to the REAL SOURCE- usually the one WITHIN. Please help me with see what else I could be missing.

Thanks for the heartfelt and sincere email. Role models (such as gurus or teachers or guides) are very helpful stepping stones while the ego is undone. They can 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 can be a decision of mind that transcends the thought of personhood. Persons do not become enlightened, for your head that believes itself to become 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. Throughout the seeming "process" of Awakening, symbols are employed by the Holy Spirit as stepping stones that reflect higher or more expansive states of consciousness. A guru could be 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 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 is 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 are feeling is usually the one right usage of judgment until it's 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 thought of guru contemplate 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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