Is it helpful to really have a guru in your lifetime, especially if you have a black night of the soul to undergo? I have read that we all need some type of help to undo all that we have learned. That's where Intercessory prayer is available in or even a Guru with preferably a lineage that shows they've done this type of work through the generation of these family. It all has regarding the energy of the 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 already been doing acim youtube. However, I see given 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 annually and another dark night to see that I have put aside me comprehending that there is another way to handle my illness. It had been as a result of 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 info 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 view 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 thought I must listen for this is the lesson: Listen to the REAL SOURCE- the main one WITHIN. Please help me with see what else I may 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 may be inspirational and very supportive witnesses to the mind's want 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 idea of personhood. Persons don't become enlightened, for your brain 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 that occurs in stages. Throughout 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 possibility of Enlightenment, yet the experience of Enlightenment is impersonal, unconditional, and abstract. The last dark night is always 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 are since 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 main 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 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 already been removed only Love remains.

When you consider the idea of guru consider this:
Gee YoU aRe YoU
This is the gentle reminder: I'm 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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