Spirit Guides

Spiritual Guides A Spirit is a being that has crossed over to the spiritual plane of existence. This can be a person or animal. Don't assume by "person" we're just talking about human beings. Metaphysics also believes that live exists on other planets, and they are governed by the same spiritual law we are here on earth. On the ethereal plane, or spiritual plane, a spirit decides how spend it's time. It continues to evolve spiritually, but it chooses how to do this. Some spirits decide to provide service to incarnated souls, in other words to us. In this capacity they provide us with guidance and support, as we need it to continue our own spiritual evolution.   During our lives, thankfully, we don't have to go through the emotional, physical and spiritual lessons of this life alone. We can gain insight into our karmic lessons or the trials and tribulations that cross our paths by raising above the physical path and looking at our spiritual path.   Other than the Great Spirits and the people we've chosen to interact with in this embodiment, we also have a few spiritual friends to help us look at these lessons from a higher level. These spiritual friends on the other side can ‘see’ more of what's happening from the spiritual perspective and help give us gain insight and find guidance along the way.   We have several different types of guides depending on the culture you come from. Metaphysically speaking there are 5 basic categories or types of guides that the individual person: 1. The Relative Guide. This is usually a person who knew you in this lifetime. They are the relative who helps you through the day to day grind and nitty gritty processes of life. They are the soul who greets you at the door when it come your time to transition from life to death.   2. The Spirit Guide. This is usually a person you knew in a past life. Someone who is on the same spiritual level as yourself. This soul helps you with your higher purpose or mission in this embodiment. The karmic issues, the spiritual lessons, the gifts and talents you brought from the past into this life and so on. Their main purpose is to help you evolve your soul during this incarnation.   3. The Angels. Everyone has a Guardian Angel watching over them, protecting them and providing a connection to the higher divine force. Angels were never incarnated beings. The are the messengers of the Divine.   4. The Master Teacher. If you are destined to be a spiritual leader (it doesn't matter if it's a Catholic Pope, a Metaphysical Minister or a Spiritual Healer), you will have with you, at the appropriate time, a Master Teacher. This soul is someone who is on a higher spiritual plane than yourself. They help you with the responsibility of ‘leadership’, the dissemination, the higher more advanced spiritual evolutionary issues that a leader will need to be aware of.   5. Animal Spirit Guides Animal guides come in two forms. Physical messengers and personal spirit guides. Animals in the physical world are here to bring us messages, or show us which direction to take upon our current path. Animal guides in the spiritual world teach us a little more intimate detail about our personality, character traits and even our spirit and spiritual gifts. They help guide us along our spiritual path, and can even protect us on the spiritual as well as the physical. You can learn more about animals on the Animal Guide article.   With the exception of animal spirits, spirits do not appear to us in head-to-toe form. Rather we can see them from the torso up. This has more to do with the energy vortexes or chakra centers of the soul than anything else. It's also important to note here that a ghost is not the same thing as a spiritual being.   If you'd like to meet your spirit guides, you might try the special meditation I've created just for this purpose. I have outlined 2 meditations that might be beneficial for you, the first is set with the intent of meeting you spirit guide, the second is designed to guide you to your animal guide.

Source: 1, b1, b9, o14, b15, b18 Created: 10/14/1996       Updated: 03/07/2008