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Guides

A guide is someone that knows the way ahead of you that can direct you on how to reach your intended destination. A guide is a ruler that defines the quickest path between two points. A guide is a book that details the journey of exploration that you want to embark on. A guide is a boundary that keeps the parts from straying from the edges of its universe.

Understanding the term "guide" makes it easier to understand what role a guide takes on in our spiritual growth. Typically, guides often are teachers but in the "New Age" sense they are not physical. They are like the ruler above the dimension of the paper that is defining the path of the two points on the paper. Guides do not inhabit the space of the paper, but can oversee all paths from above and choose the most appropriate path for growth. Guides typically are like non-physical companions that walk our path with us wherever we go, being slightly in a different dimension waiting for an opportune moment to help us expand our consciousness.

We can have more than one guide in our lifetimes, although it appears there is one that remains with us as our "main" guide for the majority of our stay here on earth. This is my experience, your experience may differ. There are many people who will try and sell you services for getting "in contact" with your guide. The truth is, you are never out of contact, you just may not be open to this experience on a physical level.

I contact my guide through by dreams and meditations. Others are clairaudient and can hear their guides. Sometimes our "intuition" is nothing more than our guide speaking with us on a non-physical level. There are many ways to contact your own guide, but the most important element is our willingness to be open to the experience.

For example, in a particularly active period in my life when I was exploring my lucid dreaming at night, I noticed a beautiful blonde women in many of my dreams. She seemed so ethereal and out of place and I often wondered why she would show up. She became such a fixture, and her image seemed so mysterious and mystical, that I laughingly called her "Barbie Goddess." She would often come forward to try and speak with me, during my dream experiences, and I would just stare at her unbelieving that anything that beautiful could be real. I passed her off as a figment of my imagination, a bizarre abberation in my lucid dreams.

Much later, a show called "Xena: Warrior Princess" show up on TV. I adored the character of Xena who was so passionate and "real" to me. She had such incredible integrity and yet she came from a past where she had broken all the rules. She represented some basic sense of adventure and drama I was missing in my life, I think. For someone who hated watching tv, I followed the show faithfully. "Xena" was "mommie's show" and everyone knew not to disturb me when the show was on.

Then, one night, Xena showed up in my lucid dream. She wanted to go on an adventure with me! It was a total riot! I didn't care if she was real or not, she was definitely fun! Now, some people would suggest it's not too smart to follow a guide without invoking some protection. If this makes you feel better, by all means, say a prayer of protection. At any rate, after many such adventures and teachings, I came to realize that my Xena guide was none other than Barbie Goddess! She had just changed forms to get my attention. Much later, the same energy would turn into Mother Mary, which totally shocked my sense of stability. It proves that energy is fluid and just when we think we have the answers, our whole reality changes and we are back to staring unbelievingly at the new world in front of us. However, as I become more and more open to other aspects of my inner life, I begin to be less judgemental of the energies that are personified before me and other interesting characters appear to teach me the width and breadth of my multidimensional realities.

So, what are my views on guides? It is such a complicated subject, really. To understand guides is to peer into the nature of our own souls. We are multidimensional beings. Our primary guide, to my limited understanding, is a part of our oversoul. It is our twin flame, the subconscious part of us that remained behind to anchor us to God should we by chance get lost in this reality. Just as everything in a dream represents different aspects of ourselves, so does a guide represent some basic aspect of us. When we start to embrace those aspects, instead of ignoring or denigrating them, then we begin to integrate into our Divinity. Soon, we get used to hearing our guide's voice and understanding that this is a basic part of us. A bond of trust is formed and a larger journey begins: The journey of energy dancing within archetypes of self with each other, the journey of Unity.