Is it helpful to have a guru in your life, especially when you yourself have a black nights the soul to undergo? I have read that people all need some kind of help undo all that people have learned. That's where Intercessory prayer will come in or perhaps a Guru with preferably a lineage that shows they've done this sort of work through the generation of their family. It all has related to 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 all the 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. It has taken me annually and another dark night to note that I have put aside me understanding that there was another way to handle my illness. It had been as a result of this guru that I postponed pursuing this. I believe the lesson maybe that people 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 ultimate 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 specific guru but at once 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: Tune in to the REAL SOURCE- 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 helpful stepping stones since the ego is undone. They can be inspirational and very supportive witnesses to the mind's need to Wake Up. They could offer very helpful 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 do not become enlightened, for the mind 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. 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 quite a symbol of the possibility of Enlightenment, yet the ability of Enlightenment is impersonal, unconditional, and abstract. The ultimate dark night is definitely 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 is 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're 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 look within and make no attempt to safeguard or defend the ego, you will go through the Love the ego was made to hide. Love simply Is, and when the obstacles to the awareness of Love's Presence have been removed only Love remains.

When you think of the concept of guru think of 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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