How do I get a spirit Guide?

There are many dimensions and many entities in the Uni-verse all of varied frequencies. Personally, I'm a sucker for love and always play with loving beings. If some funky energy does come around, I know it's a reflection of something going on inside of me. I thank it for the message, send it on it's way and do my inner work. There is really nothing "outside" of you. Your strongest focus will always be reflected back.

 

End of the day though, who isn't a sucker for love

 

has anybody tried communicating with their guide on a high dose of acid?

 

I stopped doing acid and etc years before I had conscious contact with a spirit guide--I tried imagining what it would be like, and the bottom line is, I don't really see the point. Maybe I would get insights quicker and more frequently that way--it probably depends on the individual person and their place on the path. But I wouldn't recommend acid for insights anyway--peyote is much, much better for that, if you want an artificial booster. If that's what you need on your path, the spirits will supply it--if not, you won't be able to get it, no matter how hard you try, and the spirits will supply what insights you need at the pace you need them.

 

I think I'm trying to work faster than what my guides want me to? OFCOURSE I DON'T KNOW CAUSE THEY WON'T TALK TO ME!!!!

 

Frustrating, huh? You're a goal-oriented kinda guy, and you want results, right? The thing is, you're just not ready to hear what they have to say.

You might have seen this Zen story:

A university professor visited the Zen master Nan-in to learn about Zen. Nan-in served tea. He poured the tea into the professor's cup until it overflowed, and he kept pouring. The professor cried out, "The cup is over-full! No more tea will go in!" Nan-in replied, "So it is with you. You are so full of your own ideas that no more will go in. How can I tell you about Zen if you will not empty your cup?"

 

One of these days I'm headed for Tibet,but what should I expect in the way of a spiritual encounter? Exactly what is the significance of Tibet to spirituality?I am one lazy dood right now and don't want to read up on it, so I'm relying on one of you to tell me.... poleeze. I was a Buddhist once but the other Buddhists pissed me off with their hypocracy so I gave up on the practice.

 

You can go to Tibet if it strikes your fancy, Rick, but if you're genuinely looking for spiritual encounters, you don't need to go anywhere in particular. When I got serious about spiritual progress, I suddenly discovered that there were gurus right where I lived and worked. But you need to follow your own heart--if you feel an intense desire to go to Tibet, then do it.

If you go to Tibet, you might enter into a monastery for years, or you might encounter a peasant on the road who says or does something that unlocks a revelation inside you. There's no point in having expectations of any sort, because the universe tends to go out of its way to surprise us.

Furthermore, you don't need to be a Buddhist to do any of this. And furthermore again, the most important point for YOU right now is: Spiritual growth is something between you and the universe. Other people's perceived hypocrisy is not the issue. The question is: Where are YOU going, and what do YOU need to get there? Maybe organized religion is not your path at this point. Ask yourself what you want, and when you have the answer, and you have a feeling of calm certainty that it's truly your soul's desire, the universe will fall into place to take you there.

 

Tibet was a powerful seat of spirituality for thousands of years. Since nothing goes away, one can still access that sacred vibration by meditating there. Unfortunately, on the surface, when the Chinese took over they destroyed most of the beautiful temples and the spirituality is under heavy suppression.

I have found that people will be attracted to places they have lived in before in former lives if there is still something there for them pertinent to their current focus; if not, the experience will leave them flat. When I went to Bear Butte in South Dakota, my Lakota track opened up and I had an intense experience. I just had an urge to go there but didn't know why. Like Zenzigmo says, Spirit loves to give us surprises, perfectly timed that our minds can't fathom. So if you have a strong urge to go to Tibet but your mind doesn't know why, I'd go and read it as a prompting from Spirit. But if you think you "should" go because you've read what a spiritual place it is, I wouldn't waste my money.

The most valuable skill to me is, in meditation, observing Mind as opposed to your Higher Power/God/All That Is/The Uni-verse, whatever you want to call it - getting a handle on the difference to be able to receive guidance from Source. The thinking mind is always in the past, it doesn't know what our higher self has in store for us next; the higher self is always in the Now. You can read about other's journeys and be enriched by their experience but yours is the most important. Why did you come to planet earth at this time? To me, personally, it always comes down to the same thing - to bring in more light to shift this planet to a higher frequency.

I have studied Buddhism for years and it keyed me into past lives. I have explored this philosophy for a long time and I know what you mean about the dogma. Some of it is quite depressive. What has been fun for me is to see the common thread running through Buddhism, Christianity, Scientology, Psychology, Native philosophies, Bonn religion, Yoga, Rosicrucianism, Hermetic Science, Sacred Geometry, Masonic philosophy, channelings, etc. There are so many people saying that their religion is the only way - but our Source has been expressing itself everywhere, in all ages and has been picked up in many different ways by tuned in entities. The slogan used to be "turn on, tune in, drop out". I think we need to evolve it to "turn on, tune in, and drop in" - the planet needs us more than ever. Happy exploring

 

this question was originally about how i can contact my spiritual guide, but after reading a thread by riesay, it made me think about something. Sometimes i just get that feeling you know, like right now, that there is someone around me...my body goes cold and tingly full of goosebumps...can you tell me, is this a sign that my spiritual guide is with me right now?

 

When I get sensings like that, I always say "Hi", acknowledging the energy's presence. Then I ask "what's up?" and listen/pay attention to an answer. Don't invalidate what you get - it could be as subtle as a shimmer in the energy field but the more you pay attention the clearer it should get. It's very personal to each individual and their contacts so others can only give you hints and clues to help in your explorations. I've had a lot of success with a Ouija Board but you have to do it with someone who is mentally clean, can get their mind out of the way and open to receive. Cards can work, I-Ching but by and far the best way is direct communication and learning to receive. I hope this was helpful.

 

very helpful, do you have an email that i could contact you with if i ever have any questions or need help?

mine is

moopher1@hotmail.com

thank you very much

 

Hello,
I am at a point in my life where I am seeking my spirit guide. In the past couple of month Ive been getting these intuitions before bad things happen and lately they have become more and more correct and specific... and it is not until now that I realize it was my spirit guide is responisble for those intuitions. Ive been trying to meditate and talk to him/her but I cant help but feel I am answering my own questions. I was wondering if anyone can help me, try and ask their own spirit guide or something?

THanks

 

I just spoke to my spirit guides and asked them, "Anything to say to Sapphirea?" They just laughed. Tell you what, you can have my spirit guides, if you want them - they do stuff like this to piss me off a LOT. Since verbal answers from the stinkin' spirits are not forthcoming, I'll make my own suggestions: Don't sweat it. If they don't want to talk, they won't, and they have their reasons. We each have our own path, and this is yours. However it occurs to me that they might be trying to get you to delve deeper inside yourself before they give you gratification. I spent months examining my own thought patterns and attitudes in detail before I started to "hear" my first ummm "spirit's" telepathic voice. I had to immerse myself in my own mind and attain a certain state of awareness in order to "hear." So keep trying, if you're really interested, and be patient.

 

pay really close attention to reality

you know there is an opposite to paranoia, it's called metanoia which is when you believe everything is helping you.

 

I always thought spirit guides were animal-like....are they persons, or used to be persons?

 

The difficulty here is that your beliefs become your reality to an extent that would surprise most people - and this isn't merely in a mental/experiential sense; we're co-creators with God, and our beliefs affect the physical world. I could show you examples, if you're interested.

The hard thing is that when we're dealing in the spiritual realm, our power becomes amplified, so mental health or lack of it has a profound effect on our experience - and the experience of those we come in contact with. For me, a few years ago I was accomplishing miracles, but I had to back down from it because I didn't have the mental balance to maintain it - I uncovered subconscious fears that started to manifest in my physical reality. So it was back to lower awareness and hard labor for me, to work those fears to the surface and learn to handle them. If I make enough progress, I'll have another go at it someday.

 

My personal experience is different from most people's, as far as spirit guides go.

Most people who have spirit guides are led by disembodied spirits. This could be the spirits of people who once lived and attained a high level of spiritual advancement, or it could be spirits who have never incarnated into a physical body.

In my case, my spirit guides - at least, the ones who interface with me, though I think there are others behind the scene - are living people with profound psychic and spiritual powers. I think this is because I started out so blind that I had to be hit over the head before I acknowledged the unseen or barely seeable. I was put in a situation where I was intensely motivated to delve deeply into my psyche and learn to "hear" the spirits in my mind.

There's a spiritual hierarchy - or maybe a network - that extends from the unseen spirits all the way through living Buddhas and you and me. Our own spirits are interacting at a level largely beyond our awareness, but as we learn more we gain more awareness and become increasingly unified with our spiritual selves.

So someday YOU may be a spirit guide yourself.

I should add: What you're thinking of - animal spirits - sounds more like totem animals, or power animals, in the shamanistic tradition. This is also a valid view and another path. I'm not into this much, but I know there are others here who are, and maybe they could elaborate. Windy, anything to say about this?

 

Zengizmo, my life in general has been shit lately. I mean, I've been feeling alienated from my family. it doesn't help that I've gotten in too much trouble to be able to regularly talk to people. I can't really "feel" people, it could me or them. I've gotten kicked out, and I just so constircted in life in the sense of freedom. I could go on.
the thing is, stuff seems to happen in cycles, and it always ends but begins again.

it just doesn't to me that this is meaningless, I guess it's what we call intuition.

but would you mind doing a reading on me? do I have a guide, or the lack therof?
either way, an answer would explain a lot. thanks in advance.

 

Well I know only too well what it's like for one's life to be shit, and to get into trouble. But yes, stuff does happen in cycles.

I need to tell you up front that the spirits haven't been very accommodating to me when I try to do "readings." A couple times they gave me info that was exactly opposite of reality. Right now my primary spirit guide is giving me all kinds of hell. She just tweaked my dick as if to taunt me, "It's all about you showing off." Now she just did it again. And just now she gave me an intense feeling of sadness for about half a second, as if to say sarcastically, "Oh you poor baby." In short, she's just being a total asshole to me - which is nothing new - quite common, in fact.

So here's what I'm going to do. I'm asking for guidance from a higher spirit, to see if I can learn anything that might help you. I'll see what comes to me and pass it on to you, and I'll just try to ignore all the shit my primary spirit is doing to me to distract me. And we'll see what we get.

Wow. This has been a struggle, but I think I've got things more stabilized now.

Number one, and most important: Yes, you have spirit guides. A bunch of them. They're willing to talk to you if can develop your awareness enough to hear them.

You're in a state of relative isolation (ha - that's a bit of a pun ). You can USE this isolation, to find yourself, and to explore the spirit realm. Meditate, like this: Go deep into the silence of your true self. Work on cutting off your constant mental dialogue, and try to just listen. You are the universe, and the universe is in you - it's all there, somewhere, if you can find it. Be certain of this, and wait in peace and silence for it to come to you. Any time a thought arises, make note of it, and then just let it go.

Meditate like this as much as you can.

Think about the things you did that got you "in trouble." What motivated you to do these things? Were you TRYING to make trouble, or were you trying to express yourself in some way, to find fulfillment for some inner need or drive? What do people's reactions to you say about THEM? What are their inner beliefs and motivations that cause them to react to you the way they do?

I discovered something ironic and counterintuitive because of my own isolation. I thought that I should hang out with other people MORE to develop social skills - not LESS. What I discovered, to my surprise, is that by spending time alone, learning who I am and becoming more comfortable and accepting of that - including my "trouble-making" tendencies - and becoming more confident that who I am is who I'm meant to be, whatever others might think about it - I become freer to express my true self when I'm with other people, and that makes me a more interesting and attractive companion.

This is what I'm getting about you, killuminati. Yes, your current shitty situation IS for a reason, and this is it - to help you find more of yourself. Use this situation to your advantage.

Reminds me of the words of a very old song by Peter, Paul, and Mary:

...pack up your troubles,
and give them all to me.
You will lose them.
I know how to use them -
give them all to me.

I hope this helps.