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GUIDES AND HELPERS
What
do you know of this subject?
We
understand through the communications from the spirit world that these beings
are old souls of a very evolved state, whose purpose now is to help other
spirits who have, a) chosen to re-enter the world of the physical [us] and b)
other interested parties in the spirit world, [perhaps family and friends.]
I
often see these assistants grouped behind the guide/s.
Remember,
the spirit people all need, yearn even, to progress just as we do in order to achieve
that more advanced evolved state, and to assist this completion they give all
the assistance they possibly can to the spirits who are just now carrying out
their own personal tasks.
Why?
In order to fulfil the path of progression, that yearning to ‘get home again’
i.e. back to our Creator.
For
many people, in all walks of life, wherever they are on this beautiful
planet we call Earth, these spirit guides have become essential to the
navigation of the twists and turns of the spiritual path. They willingly
provide advice as we search for knowledge and enlightenment, as well as comfort
us when we look into the deep and painful crevices of our earthly lives.
Basically, they are very good to have around!
For these reasons and more, guides have become very popular in the last 30 or
40 years. As the New Age bloomed, we often gave them the responsibility of
leading us in the right direction (yes, even into the next available parking
space ... me too!)
Spiritual
meetings were and still are peppered with sharing that begins: ‘My guide says…’
or ‘My guide suggests that I…’ I hear this from students, and the confidence by
which these sayings are given speaks plenty about our progression in accepting
this way of thinking.
This
is fine, as long as we have not given away our own power, our personal
responsibility, by becoming wholly reliant on ‘heavenly counsel’, what we see
as a wise but is still an outside influence.
We
also need to be sure of this source, and that what we’re receiving is in our
highest interests. It is not unheard of to find that spirits of a lowly
intellectual capacity [some call them 'lost souls'] link in and are
still liking too much the sound of their own unenlightened repetitive
voices! As it says in the Bible “By their fruits may they be known.”
Many
warnings have I given on this subject!
Assuming we’ve checked out the guide’s authenticity, we walk hand-in-hand in
the contentment that comes with all good companionship, in the physical or
otherwise. We talk and listen to our guides in meditation, perhaps when we’re
lying in bed a night. It just seems natural to share our innermost thoughts and
concerns with these very special spirit friends, and quite often these gentle
communications are the beginning of the clairvoyant awareness for so many
folks.
When
my long-term relationship began with my own personal guide, some people say
guardian angel, I saw him from that perspective – a wonderful friend and spirit
that lived in the etheric world and upon whom I could call at any time. I
should add that I’m talking here of the personal guide to whom we feel a
powerful and intimate connection, our ‘door keeper’.
We
all have helpers and guides that come and go as their help is needed, a whole
entourage of guides supplying specialist advice on a multitude of matters. But
that’s not the same and the one and only doorkeeper. This relationship is built
up over time; just as any other friendship, learning to trust is not achieved
quickly, but built up over consistent communications, so keep it up!
Can we take in another concept here? Perhaps a startling piece of revelation.
Our door keeper and ourselves are one and the same person. The term of our
‘higher self’ might be familiar to you here.
If we can accept that The Great White Spirit / God is part
of us and that we are part of Him, then it becomes more understandable that our
soul groups, guides and helpers also are part of us, indeed actually within us,
and [take that a little bit further] actually are us, just temporarily divided
till we all return to God.
In other words, as we develop spiritually and expanded our boundaries beyond
any present limitations, we begin to merge first with those nearest and dearest
to us, with our guides, in that final process of ‘oneness’. You know this
feeling of oneness when you fall in love, when you have an affinity with
another soul; a good example is seeing your baby for the first time. They are a
part of you, of us, of the spirit family, of the eternal Great Spirit.
To
a mediumistic person this also can be felt now, particularly when channeling,
because it is a love connection. This is what happens when ‘overshadowing’ is
taking place, during clairvoyance, an address or healing – it’s loving
guidance.
Where
would we be without them?
In all this, the important thing to know is that we exist beyond the limited
concepts of our present state. The more we humans evolve, the more will we be
able to let go of the rigid inhibitors of our earthly minds, and understand how
much we really can know, and how much we really can be.
Many
times we have used the gifts of our human potential without recognizing them
and in so doing have taken them for granted.
The
voice of the higher self is one of those gifts we have taken for granted. It is
our soft and subtle voice that comes to alert us to potential dangers or calmly
helps us find our keys after we have madly searched the house.
Higher
self is also the voice of our higher reason and our creative inspiration. When
we hear our own subtle voice of inspiration, it becomes our choice to listen
and follow through with the message or deny it. Denying it usually produces the
consequence of us regretting the outcome, knowing we could have altered it by
taking the suggested prudent action.
When
we afford ourselves a moment to stop the mind's constant mental chatter, it
reverts to a state of quiet calmness or inactivity. This calmness or inactivity
has a benefit that promotes receptivity. When we recognize the moment we attain
this mentally quiet state and how we ventured into it, it can be refined into a
heightened state of receptivity that becomes more familiar and easier to
access.
Our
guides and helpers are always there to assist us in this.
I
look forward to the day we can all say, “I knew that!”
FromThe Clairvoyant Section: Guides Controls and Helpers
A guide
is a teacher whose function is to assist in a period of your life when
a particular purpose is in hand; Beginners need special help, whereas
the confident person may need others kinds of help, they come and go
according to the purpose served.
A helper
is an assistant to both the guide and medium, whose function is to add
strength to the energies needed by all parties at any given time; they
need to learn in order to progress too, a sort of ‘apprentice’.
Controls.
Did you see the trick in the title? There are NO 'controls'! Your must
understand that. Nobody, wherever they are, either spirit world or
this, can control you. You are always in control of what ever you do.
This paragraph was not put in for a joke - it is a serious subject, the
Personal Responsibility Principle is always uppermost in the mind of
the spirit Guides and Helpers.
We pray before every meeting
for protection from the unwanted simple spirits that would cause any
nuisance to us, and thank the guides and helpers for their protection
at the end, for a good reason.
Yes, there are spirits of very 'low'
understanding, who are also on the road to progression, that might like
to influence the gullible into believing that they are speaking to a
famous king or queen, but we use our common sense and test the spirits
for genuineness at all times.
Any
spirit cannot harm you ever; only YOU can give up yourself to the
control of another. Remember 'like attracts like'. There is no such
thing as 'possession' only obsession! The film industry has a lot to
answer for in that department, so please do not take sensationalism
seriously...OK?
I digressed a bit there...back to the main issue ...
Different functions and guides are matched. Whilst healing one group of qualified helpers may assist.
A personal note here; I have watched
nurses and doctors walk around the hospital with spirit guides in
attendance, and then - just to re-assure myself that what I am seeing
is so - I once told a nurse who was there with her and she explained
who it was, actually a relative of hers also a nurse!
Whist giving communications another
group is needed. Usually the friends of the peoople trying to get
through, this is because it takes a lot of energy to build up - for the
opening of the 'doors' between the two worlds.
In Philosophy yet another group may be
in attendance, this is why we feel changes in our abilities and senses
through various phases of life.
On one occasion there were two mediums
in a congregation who described to me what they had seen when I was
giving the address. Afterwards at home I thought "That's nice!" And
then remembered I had asked my spirit friends if what I felt myself was
actually so - and of course they had confirmed it all.
BUT
Your doorkeeper who is a special friend
s/he stays with you throughout your whole earthly incarnation. Another
name for a doorkeeper is a guardian angel.
Ways of communicating to these special
people is through the 'Clairs'; other ways are the use of symbolic
pictures, memories of other things you might have seen [films] read
[books].
We use the ‘silver screen’ [on Articles
- Lessons] to hold the action of thought in neutral gear, as it were,
this is in order that the spirit entity may put onto that screen what
they are trying to communicate.
Energy is needed to do this, so power is
built up on the psychic level for both parties to use. This is the main
purpose of psychic energy; it is in itself only a means to an end.
One way we do this is to build up our
own energy, join with our neighbor and make a circle, which we then
fill it with the energy generated; this is then used by us all, in
both the worlds Spirit and Physical. It's beautiful to watch. All the
colours of the rainbow are there around us!
The importance of love and comradeship
is essential because the energies will not be compatible otherwise.
Love and emotions are also energies in themselves that help in other
ways too, HEALING is one of these, and INSPIRED SPEECH is another, not
just MESSAGES with the ‘Clairs’.
Inspired speech is when we are moved by
the spirit to communicate using the thoughts and/or words they provide,
another term for this is in the Spiritualist movement is Philosophy
which is given in the Sunday Service, in other churches it might be
called ‘preaching’, but a sermon is different because it is mans
thoughts that have made it.
Whereas a sermon is usually written and
then read, Philosophy is Mediumship directly from spirit most often
using the method of ‘overshadowing’, here different depths of
‘impression’ are used.
To be IMPRESSED with a communication is
when you feel an overwhelming urge to do a thing that you might not
normally do, for example, knock on a neighbours door and ask if all is
well, phone a friend, give a hug, etc… This is almost always
spontaneously acted on and afterwards then considered!
How many opportunities have we missed
not following our instincts? I know that I have lost things because I
didn't listen to that 'inner' voice of caution - perhaps spirit
inspired....
Overshadowing is where the spirit guide
or helper is allowed - with permission from the medium - to enter
his/her aura and influence the thought, and so the words spoken
spontaneously.
It is quite common for the medium to be
unaware after the communication of what has been said. At one time i
realised this and then asked to please be made more aware what was
being, said so now I remember most of it!
For an article about 'Guidance' see under 'Lessons'
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