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

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

I study A Course in Miracles and find that I have cultivated tremendously in combination with all the current 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 best a course in miracles podcast. It has brought me annually and another dark night to note that I've put aside me knowing that there is another way to handle my illness. It had been because of this guru that I postponed pursuing this. I believe the lesson maybe that we all have the power within us and when my guru speaks like any other in life I must discern the data and go within for the last 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 the same time 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: Pay attention to the REAL SOURCE- usually the one WITHIN. Please help me with see what else I might be missing.

Thanks for the heartfelt and sincere email. Role models (such as gurus or teachers or guides) are very useful stepping stones because the ego is undone. They may be inspirational and very supportive witnesses to the mind's want 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 concept of personhood. Persons don't become enlightened, for your head 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 occur in stages. Through 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 a symbol of the potential for Enlightenment, yet the experience of Enlightenment is impersonal, unconditional, and abstract. The last dark night is definitely 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 feel is usually the 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 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 think of the concept 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.

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

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