Can it be Helpful to Have a Guru: Teachings from A Course in Miracles

Can it be helpful to really have a guru in your life, especially when you have a black night of the soul to proceed through? I have read that individuals all need some sort of help to undo all that individuals have learned. That's where Intercessory prayer comes in or perhaps a Guru with preferably a lineage that shows they've done this type of work through the generation of their family. Everything has related to the power with this individual and the group they travel with in spirit.

I study A Course in Miracles and see that I have cultivated tremendously in combination with all the other spiritual books and work I have already been doing. However, I see since even my guru has some unlearning to do. The Course teaches us never put anyone on a platform and I see nowacim youtube. It has taken me annually and another dark night to observe that I have put aside me knowing that there is another way to handle my illness. It was as a result of this guru that I postponed pursuing this. I believe the lesson maybe that individuals all have the power within us and when my guru speaks like any other in life I must discern the data and go within for the last 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 guru but at the same time frame 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: Pay attention to the REAL SOURCE- the one WITHIN. Please help me with see what else I might 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 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 can be a decision of mind that transcends the thought of personhood. Persons don't become enlightened, for the mind that believes itself to be a person is asleep and dreaming of exile from the Oneness of Spirit. As the deceived mind believes in linear time, Awakening will seem to occur in stages. Through 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 potential for Enlightenment, yet the knowledge of Enlightenment is impersonal, unconditional, and abstract. The ultimate dark night is always 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 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 protect or defend the ego, you will feel the Love the ego was made 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 consider the thought of guru contemplate 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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