Can it be helpful to truly have a guru in your life, especially when you have a black nights the soul to proceed through? 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 a Guru with preferably a lineage that shows they have done this sort of sort out the generation of their family. Everything has regarding the power with 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 the other spiritual books and work I have now 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. It has taken me annually and another dark night to note that I have put aside me knowing that there is another way to take care of my illness. It absolutely was as a result of this guru that I postponed pursuing this. I think 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 info and go within for the ultimate 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 specific 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 actually the lesson: Pay attention to the REAL SOURCE- the main 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 because the ego is undone. They can be inspirational and very supportive witnesses to the mind's need to Wake Up. acim They are able to 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 thought 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. As the deceived mind believes in linear time, Awakening will seem to happen 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 a symbol of the prospect of Enlightenment, yet the ability of Enlightenment is impersonal, unconditional, and abstract. The last 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 feel is the main one right utilization 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 safeguard or defend the ego, you'll feel the Love the ego was created to hide. Love simply Is, and when the obstacles to the awareness of Love's Presence have now been removed only Love remains.

Once you consider the thought of guru think of 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 truth is simple. The ego was the illusion of confusion and complexity.

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