Is it helpful to really have a guru in your life, especially when you yourself have a dark nights the soul to go through? I have read that individuals all need some sort of help undo all that individuals have learned acim. That's where Intercessory prayer is available in or perhaps a Guru with preferably a lineage that shows they've done this type of work through the generation of the family. Everything has related to the power of this individual and the group they travel with in spirit.

I study A Course in Miracles and see that I have grown tremendously in combination with the 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 brought me a year and another dark night to observe that I have put aside me comprehending that there is 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 knowledge and go within for the final answer. Whenever I push away that urge I find obstacles in my own path. So I'm confused, I see a major change in me with this guru but at once 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: Tune in to the REAL SOURCE- 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 since the ego is undone. They can be inspirational and very supportive witnesses to the mind's need to Wake Up. They are able to 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 don't become enlightened, for your brain that believes itself to become 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 happen in stages. During the seeming "process" of Awakening, symbols are used by the Holy Spirit as stepping stones that reflect higher or more expansive states of consciousness. A guru can be quite a symbol of the potential for Enlightenment, yet the knowledge of Enlightenment is impersonal, unconditional, and abstract. The final dark night is definitely 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's wonderful that you're 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 the one right use 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 safeguard 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.

Once you think of the thought 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.

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

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