Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
happened for me was after A Course in Miracles as you
mentioned, what felt like inner guidance came to read the New
Testament and let it be interpreted for me. And through that
process I went beyond where I went with the Course, and then
after that, after a year or so after that, I felt like it was time for me
to go a next step. I could just feel that intuitively, but of course I
had no idea what that next step was. I said another prayer, saying
it to the Holy Spirit, because that was still my tradition. I asked
the Holy Spirit to please send me something that would take me to
the next step, and that's when I felt guidance to go over to the
computer and order a book from Ramana Maharshi.
Now I didn't know anything about Ramana Maharshi, and in fact
up until this time I was from a Christian type background, so I
had, you could say, a prejudice or a judgment against Indian
gurus. But I always followed the guidance of this inner prompting
that I called the Holy Spirit. I ordered the book, and when the
book came, I thought that I would open it and just love it, because
it came through guidance. But when I opened it, I didn't
understand it at all, partly because it uses so many Hindu words
and concepts that were completely alien to what I knew.
WIZARD: Which book was that?
REGINA AKERS: It was called The Teachings of Ramana
Maharshi.
WIZARD: Yes.
REGINA AKERS: It's a small thin book.
WIZARD: Yes.
REGINA AKERS: But I ended up just throwing the book down,
because it meant nothing to me. And a couple of weeks later when
I was sitting near the table where I had thrown it down, in my
stillness time, the picture on the cover of the book, which now is
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