Could it be Useful to Have a Guru: Teachings from A Course in Miracles from jhnner's blog

Could it be helpful to really have a guru in your lifetime, especially if you have a black nights the soul to go through? I have read that people all need some sort of help 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 type of sort out the generation of these family. It all has regarding the power of this individual and the group they travel with in spirit.

I study A Course in Miracles and realize that I have cultivated tremendously in combination with the other spiritual books and work I have now been doing. However, I see given that even my guru has some unlearning to do. The Course teaches us never put anyone on a platform and I see now acim twitter. It has brought me per year and another dark night to note that I have put aside me realizing that there was another way to take care of my illness. It absolutely was for this reason 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 every 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 own 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 believed I must listen for this is the lesson: Pay attention to the REAL SOURCE- the main 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 while the ego is undone. They may be inspirational and very supportive witnesses to the mind's need to Wake Up. They are able to 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 don't become enlightened, for your head that believes itself to be a person is asleep and dreaming of exile from the Oneness of Spirit. Whilst the deceived mind believes in linear time, Awakening will seem to happen in stages. Throughout the seeming "process" of Awakening, symbols are used by the Holy Spirit as stepping stones that reflect higher or even more expansive states of consciousness. A guru could be a symbol of the possibility of Enlightenment, yet the experience of Enlightenment is impersonal, unconditional, and abstract. The final 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 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 feel 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 appear within and make no attempt to guard or defend the ego, you will go through 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 idea of guru think of this:
Gee YoU aRe YoU
Here is the gentle reminder: I am as God created Me.
Here is the Power of Now.
Here is the simplicity of Being.

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

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