Could it be helpful to really have a guru in your life, especially when you have a black night of the soul to go through? I have read that people all need some type of help undo all that people have learned. That's where Intercessory prayer will come in or even a Guru with preferably a lineage that shows they've done this type of sort out the generation of the family. It all has to do with 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 all the other spiritual books and work I have been doing. However, I see since even my guru has some unlearning to do a course in miracles podcast. 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 realizing that there is another way to deal with my illness. It was because of this guru that I postponed pursuing this. I think the lesson maybe that people all have the power within us and when my guru speaks like every other 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 particular guru but at once I discover 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- usually 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 because the ego is undone. They can be inspirational and very supportive witnesses to the mind's need to Wake Up. They can 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 idea of personhood. Persons do not become enlightened, for your brain that believes itself to be always 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 occur in stages. Through the seeming "process" of Awakening, symbols are utilized 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 prospect of Enlightenment, yet the experience of Enlightenment is impersonal, unconditional, and abstract. The ultimate 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 are 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 usually the one right utilization 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 protect or defend the ego, you will experience the Love the ego was made to hide. Love simply Is, and once the obstacles to the awareness of Love's Presence have been removed only Love remains.

Whenever you consider the idea of guru contemplate this:
Gee YoU aRe YoU
This is actually the gentle reminder: I am as God created Me.
This is actually the Power of Now.
This is actually the simplicity of Being.

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

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