Can it be helpful to have a guru in your lifetime, especially when you yourself have a black night of the soul to proceed through? I’ve read that people all need some kind of help undo all that people have learned. That’s where Intercessory prayer is available in or perhaps a Guru with preferably a lineage that shows they have done this sort of work through the generation of these family. It all has to do with the energy of this individual and the group they travel with in spirit.
I study A Course in Miracles and find that I have grown tremendously in combination with all the current other spiritual books and work I have already 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 a course in miracles podcast. It has brought me annually and another dark night to observe that I’ve put aside me knowing that there clearly was another way to handle my illness. It was for this reason 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 any in life I must discern the info and go within for the ultimate 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 guru but at the same time frame I get the advice can conflict with my most inner beliefs and am forced to listen. I thought I must listen for here is the lesson: Listen to the REAL SOURCE- the one WITHIN. Please help me with see what else I may be missing.
Thanks for the heartfelt and sincere email. Role models (such as gurus or teachers or guides) are very useful stepping stones whilst the ego is undone. They may be inspirational and very supportive witnesses to the mind’s want 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 can be a decision of mind that transcends the concept of personhood. Persons do not become enlightened, for your head that believes itself to become 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 utilized by the Holy Spirit as stepping stones that reflect higher or maybe more expansive states of consciousness. A guru can be a symbol of the prospect of Enlightenment, yet the experience 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 simply because the lesson of discernment always rests with the perceiver. Use your feelings as a barometer in this discernment, for how you are feeling is the one right usage 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 already been removed only Love remains.
When you think of the concept of guru contemplate this:
Gee YoU aRe YoU
Here is the gentle reminder: I’m 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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