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Can 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've 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 of 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 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 per year and another dark night to see that I've put aside me comprehending that there clearly was another way to take care of my illness. It absolutely was due to 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 some other in life I must discern the knowledge and go within for the final answer. Whenever I push away that urge I find obstacles in my path. So I'm confused, I see a major change in me with this guru but at the same time frame I discover 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 may be missing.
Thanks for your heartfelt and sincere email. Role models (such as gurus or teachers or guides) are very useful stepping stones as the ego is undone. They can 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 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. Whilst the deceived mind believes in linear time, Awakening will seem that occurs in stages. During the seeming "process" of Awakening, symbols are used by the Holy Spirit as stepping stones that reflect higher or maybe more expansive states of consciousness. A guru can be quite a symbol of the potential for Enlightenment, yet the ability of Enlightenment is impersonal, unconditional, and abstract. The last dark night is obviously the temptation to retain a feeling 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 are 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 usually the 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 been removed only Love remains.
Whenever you consider the thought 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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