Spirit Space: Inner Space - Spirit Guides and other spiritual helper

The term spirit guide and mediumship seem to be synonymous. Renowned mediums like Arthur Ford and his guide Fletcher, Eileen Garrett and her guide Uvani, lead us to believe that we must surrender control of our consciousness to allow our guides to speak through us in a channeling session. This is not true, everyone has a spirit guide, several to be exact and you need not display mediumistic abilities to communicate with your own guidance. You need not give up your conscious control for they will speak to you with a thought that drifts through your mind like a feather in the wind. They will lead you with an inner prompting along the path that you agreed to travel and yes, they will act as a go-between in mediumistic activities. They are your best friends if you will but strive to accept them..

Many of us believe that we only have one Spirit Guide. I believe this to be a misconception. We do have one Spirit Guide that remains with us for all of our lives but we have many others as well. Lets take a look at them:

Common Spirit Guide

The general characteristic that separates a Spirit Guide from other types of spiritual beings is that they have lived a physical life and return to aide others in working through the same lessons they have been through. Common Spirit Guide is a term I will use to differentiate the various types of guidance and it is not meant to imply any lesser value than any other guide. The Common Spirit Guide is here to help with problem solving. They can often appear in groups as well as singular. These guides are learning just as we are and although their perspective is much broader than ours is they often remain in the background watching to see how we solve our problems. They give insight through dreams or meditation and at times a sudden realization of a situation that is developing and our role in that. The proverbial " light bulb going off". They can remain with us our whole lifetime or stay only for a set amount of time. They are prearranged prior to incarnation.

Master Teacher Guide

I like to refer to our Master Guide as the main one. This is guide that we would call the one in charge. It is the one that we identify with when asked to name our guide. Master Teachers are with us from birth to death and we can have several working with us at the same time. The purpose of the Master Teacher Guide is to inspire us and help us inspire others. They are also referred to as the protector as they are there to help us keep on track. Known also as a "Gatekeeper" or "Door Keeper", they tend to only allow guidance of the purest and most beneficial intent to aid you. They will also stand guard during mediumship, allowing only the spirits you are seeking contact with into your consciousness.

Teacher Guide

We have Teacher Guides that flit in and out dealing only with the subjects they came to guide us in. Imagine a college setting, you have one teacher for math, one for English, one for biology etc. So it is with the Teacher Guides. They aid us in matters of health, science, biology, relationship skills, and any and all topics you can think of. The Master Teacher is then in comparison the dean of the school, overseeing the curriculum of all the other Teacher Guides. The Teacher Guides are here to help us develop principles regarding our morals, compassion, and ethics. They work hand in hand with the Common Spirit Guides.

These seem to be the three main groupings of Spirit Guides but we will cover a few other entities that make up the "Celestial Realm of Guidance."

Saints

Saints are those that lived a life devoted to serving God. They have performed miracles thereby demonstrating their mastery of the spiritual principles. When they make the transition they are given the right to pass on their knowledge to others. Actual communication with a Saint is very rare, as they tend to pass on their knowledge when you focus on the name or life of the saint. St Germain has been known to communicate with individuals when he wished to pass on information for the awakening of humankind as a whole. Please be aware those many that purport to be channeling a Saint are misinterpreting the identity of the spirit.

Ascended Masters

Ascended Masters are those beings that have lived a physical life and became master of that life. For example, Jesus, Buddha, and Krishna. The difference between Saints and Ascended Masters is that Saints spent their lives serving God as a separate entity, while Ascended Masters spent their lives with the understanding they are one with God that God is not separate but a part of us. Ascended Masters seldom work with individuals although it is not unknown, they tend to work on a broader scale for the good of the whole planetary consciousness. They will work with collective groups of souls whose primary mission in this life was to improve humankind as a whole ad lead to a spiritual transformation.

Angels

Despite popular belief Angels are not reincarnated loved ones. Angels have never led a physical life and were created as divine beings. They were created to serve as messengers from the Divine.

Today we are seeing a renaissance of angelic presence. Angels have been with humankind since the beginning of time. Today we see television shows about them, multitudes of books on the market about them and personal accounts in the thousands of angelic intervention.

Angels can appear in any form they wish. They seldom talk to us in the manner of spirit guides but it is not unknown for it to happen. Anyone can have an encounter with an Angel. Their purpose is to stir within each of us the knowledge that we are not alone, that we are divine by nature and that divinity has our best interests in mind. They rescue us from danger, inspire us to create beautiful music prod us towards living a spiritual life. They make the most beautiful synchronistic event happen in your life but understand this…They interact with us in their own timeframe, not subject to our beck and call unless the need is very great. They do not give you winning lottery numbers or predict the future. They are of the soul and concerned with the soul not the mundane aspects of physical life, that is the Spirit Guide's job.

Guardian Angels

Much has been said about each of us having a Guardian Angel, implying one angel that watches over us. I think that we have many guardian angels, all of the angelic realm so to speak. All angels are guardians, but you may feel the male or female presence associated with your Master Teacher Guide and suppose that it is a Guardian Angel.

Archangels

Archangels come from a different realm than Angels. Some people believe that Archangels incarnated in the very beginning of humankind’s inception. They then returned to their dimension almost never needing to incarnate again while others believe that they have never incarnated nor have they the ability to do so. Although we can not seem to determine their origin or their defining characteristics we can be assured that if there were a hierarchy in Heaven they would be close to the top. Archangels do not communicate with humans, despite popular belief. They are divine in nature, their purpose is to handle matters in other dimensions, not ours here on earth.

How Do We Get To Know Our Guides?

Guides contact us in very subtle ways. They provoke a thought in our heads much like angels, they visit us in our dreams and appear in our meditations. Like all concepts in spiritual growth, intent is everything and if you desire to make contact with guidance, dedication and perseverance will enable you to do so.

Some guides appear as physical beings in meditation and dreams while at other times they appear as beings of light, pure light of different colors. You can ask your guidance to appear in dreams, but better still is to make a conscious attempt to meditate to meet them.

It is not important to get a name for your guide, they often prefer not to give their physical names as you tend to emulate the name and not listen to their advice.

They are our very best friend. They keep our secrets and share our pain and joy. They are our teachers, leading us down paths that will aid us in defining our focus. They are our muse providing us with inspiration when we are searching for just the exact way to convey a creative or artistic idea.

Like all spiritual beings, Spirit Guides seldom predict the future. While they will give you some hints as to what may occur if you continue on your current path, there seems to be a prime directive that will not allow them to tell us what to do. In life threatening situations they will attempt to warn us but they will not give us the lottery numbers.

Getting to know your Spirit Guides and establishing communication with them is one of the most important things you can do to enhance your own intuitive ability.

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