Why Mentoring?

You don’t need a mentor, but you may want one.

It may seem a contradiction to offer mentoring to you when I know you don’t need it. Your Holy Spirit is your True Mentor. But there is a difference between needing a mentor in this world and wanting one. When I was a new student in the mid-80s I would have loved to have someone to help me who was focused on my particular needs. I did belong to a study group, but there were competing interests there. There were parts of the Course I got quickly and other areas where I was stuck. In a group, my particular questions did not always get answered. And while the leader of the group was great, I was never sure he would understand my experience of the holy relationship. No one there was talking about the experience I was having that was so clearly not of this world. I often felt I was just barely holding on to my own sanity!

It was a blessing that I had only my Holy Spirit to turn to, but it also took a long time for me to develop trust in this relationship. A mentor is not meant to replace your Holy Spirit, but a mentor would have helped me more quickly overcome my obstacles to hearing my Holy Spirit. Validation from a mentor would have made me trust my Holy Spirit faster. And when I was headed off Course, a mentor would have nudged me back. A mentor would have saved me not only effort but time. And isn’t that what the Course is for – saving time?

This is why I offer my experience to you.

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Carrie Genevachild said…
Miriam (Mary Magdalene) is my mentor. She is my personification of Holy Spirit.

Reading about your "evolving experience and deepening understanding" is most helpful.
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hannah said…
this is my current experience! i felt guilty for much of my help seeking, and for the feelings i was having at my group, but this just cleared it ALL AWAY!!!

i was also getting angry at my dear group leader for not being able to fulfil the mentor role i was seeking in her.. now ive cleared away some of the confusion around everything i have been feeling, i can focus on seeing and forgiving that which im projecting. i have been angry at her for things which im finally seeing as a wonderful gift she is offering me to let go of ego dynamics in me. she is still a wonderful mentor if i dont ask her to be where she is not, and if i accept responsibility for my own reactions.
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