Could it be helpful to truly have a guru in your lifetime, especially if 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 comes in or a Guru with preferably a lineage that shows they've done this kind of work through the generation of their family. Everything has to do with the energy of this individual and the group they travel with in spirit.a course in miracles twitter

I study A Course in Miracles and see 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. The Course teaches us never put anyone on a platform and I see now. It has taken me annually and another dark night to see that I've put aside me understanding that there is another way to handle my illness. It was due to this guru that I postponed pursuing this. I believe the lesson maybe that we all have the energy within us and when my guru speaks like every other in life I must discern the data and go within for the final answer. Whenever I push away that urge I find obstacles in my own path. So I'm confused, I see a major change in me with this particular guru but at the same time I find 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- the main 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 beneficial stepping stones because the ego is undone. They could be inspirational and very supportive witnesses to the mind's need to Wake Up. They could offer beneficial 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 thought of personhood. Persons don't 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 that occurs in stages. Throughout the seeming "process" of Awakening, symbols are employed by the Holy Spirit as stepping stones that reflect higher or more expansive states of consciousness. A guru could be a symbol of the potential for Enlightenment, yet the knowledge of Enlightenment is impersonal, unconditional, and abstract. The ultimate dark night is definitely 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're 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's 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 created to hide. Love simply Is, and when the obstacles to the awareness of Love's Presence have now been removed only Love remains.

When you consider the thought 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.

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

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