Tuesday, November 11, 2008

How to contact one’s spirit guide

MANILA, Philippines—“I’m Vince Punzal of Taguig City. I always read your column because I’m very interested in paranormal things. I hope you can explain to me the following:

“Do all people have guide spirits? My classmate in college told me that when he was in high school, he had a teacher who was very mysterious. He told him and two other classmates that they had guide spirits, but they can’t see them because they needed to do something first. He told my classmate he needed to climb three mountains and to the other he said he had to see three white birds at night.”

Thank you Vince, for your interest in my works. According to people who can see spirits, we all have at least one spirit guide. A spirit guide is different from the Christian concept of a guardian angel, which most of us are familiar with.

According to Christian doctrine, if I remember my high school catechism class, when a person is born, God assigns a guardian angel to protect and guide him in his lifetime. An angel is a pure spirit and has not been human before. A spirit guide may have been human before and now chooses, while in the spirit form, to help others by being a guide to them. It is usually by mutual consent between the guide and his ward that the former will guide him or her. A person may have several spirit guides but only one guardian angel. Also, a spirit guide may change in the course of a person’s lifetime depending on the person’s needs and development of his consciousness. A guardian angel, by my understanding, remains the same throughout a person’s lifetime.

I do not know how the teacher of your classmate got the idea that to see one’s spirit guide, he has to climb three mountains and to see three white birds in the night. It is just saying that one can never see or contact one’s spirit guide. In my Inner Mind Development seminar, I teach people how to contact their inner advisor but I do not define it as a spirit. The inner advisor is defined as a symbolic representation of one’s subconscious mind. It acts as a bridge between one’s higher self and that part of our mind that thinks in pictures or images.

Automatic writing
According to one young American spiritual medium, Sarah Christine Lalonde, in the April 2008 issues of FATE Magazine, the best and safe way to contact one’s spirit guide is through automatic writing, which I also teach in my class. Sarah gave useful guidelines, which I summarized here:

1. “Never ask if ‘anyone’ is there.” This opens you up to possible negative spirits hovering around.2. “Always protect yourself with prayer, grounding or the white light before going any further.”3. “Be respectful. Always say ‘please’ and ‘thank you.’ Your spirit guide will love you for it and would want to help you more.”4. “Do not expect your guide to predict the future or tell you everything you want to know.”5. “Do not drink alcohol or take drugs before doing automatic writing.”6. “Do not ask for famous people that you are not related to or know on a personal level. Calling spirits is a serious thing, not a game.”7. “Relax and enjoy yourself.”

When attempting to contact spirits, whether through automatic writing or some other method, be sure you are in touch only with highly evolved beings or masters and not with lower spirits or negative ones. When you feel afraid or apprehensive, stop. Or when the spirit starts building your ego or promising you power or riches, stop. These are usually the work of lower discarnate spirits or negative and evil forces.

As the well-known psychic prophet Edgar Cayce has always admonished, when doing spiritual work, always attune yourself to “your highest ideal,” and you won’t go wrong. The highest ideal is, of course, God.

Psychic surgery
A third-year medical student who is doing research on body-mind connection asked me the following question which he said has puzzled him:

“Why is it that psychic surgery is so popular among foreigners but locally, nobody really takes it seriously?”

Well, it is not exactly true that “locally nobody takes psychic surgery seriously” because I do. I have devoted over 15 years of serious research on this subject and have written three books on it.

One reason it is not taken seriously, especially by educated urban Filipinos as compared to foreigners, is because all we ever hear about this subject are highly negative and critical. Can you cite me any single news item, television episode, or magazine article that is positive or at least impartial and objective in its discussion of psychic surgery?

Another reason is this: Because of the incredible nature of the process—the reported ability of a psychic surgeon to open up a patient’s body with his bare hands, take out diseased tissues and close the incision without a trace at all—our rational scientific minds cannot accept it. So we at once suspect trickery or sleight-of-hand.

All our psychic surgeons are “espiritistas” or spirit mediums and they all claim they have spirit guides that do the healing, not themselves.

Source: http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/lifestyle/lifestyle/view/20081111-171412/How-to-contact-ones-spirit-guide

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