Can it be Useful to Have a Guru: Teachings from A Course in Miracles

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Can it be helpful to really have a guru in your lifetime, especially when you yourself have a dark night of the soul to go through? I've read that people all need some kind of help to undo all that people have learned. That's where Intercessory prayer is available in or a Guru with preferably a lineage that shows they have done this kind of work through the generation of their family. All of it has regarding the power with 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 now that even my guru has some unlearning to do. acim youtube The Course teaches us never put anyone on a platform and I see now. It has brought me per year and another dark night to observe that I've put aside me understanding that there was another way to deal with my illness. It absolutely 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 some other in life I must discern the knowledge and go within for the last 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 particular guru but at once 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: Tune in to the REAL SOURCE- usually 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 whilst the ego is undone. They can be inspirational and very supportive witnesses to the mind's desire to Wake Up. They could 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. While the deceived mind believes in linear time, Awakening will seem to happen in stages. During 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 can be 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 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 is wonderful that you will be simply because the lesson of discernment always rests with the perceiver. Use your feelings as a barometer in this discernment, for how you're feeling is usually the one right usage 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 protect or defend the ego, you'll feel the Love the ego was made to hide. Love simply Is, and once the obstacles to the awareness of Love's Presence have now been removed only Love remains.



When you think of 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.

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

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