Can it be helpful to have a guru in your lifetime, especially when you have a dark night of the soul to proceed through? I’ve read that people all need some type of help undo all that people have learned. That’s where Intercessory prayer comes in or even a Guru with preferably a lineage that shows they’ve done this sort of work through the generation of these family. All of it has regarding the power of this individual and the group they travel with in spirit.

I study A Course in Miracles and find that I have grown tremendously in combination with the other spiritual books and work I have now been doing. 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 a course in miracles podcast. It has brought me per year and another dark night to note that I’ve put aside me comprehending that there was another way to handle my illness. It was because of this guru that I postponed pursuing this. I believe the lesson maybe that people all have the power within us and when my guru speaks like any other 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 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 here is the lesson: Listen 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 useful stepping stones since the ego is undone. They may be inspirational and very supportive witnesses to the mind’s desire 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 can be a decision of mind that transcends the idea of personhood. Persons do not become enlightened, for your brain 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 occur in stages. Throughout the seeming “process” of Awakening, symbols are employed by the Holy Spirit as stepping stones that reflect higher or even more expansive states of consciousness. A guru could be a symbol of the prospect of Enlightenment, yet the ability of Enlightenment is impersonal, unconditional, and abstract. The final dark night is always the temptation to retain a sense 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 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 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 go through 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.

Whenever you think of the idea of guru consider 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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