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Channeling Spirit Guides
By Bob Makransky
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There are lots of different kinds of spirits in the world. We are
spirits, for that matter. Some spirits are entirely useless to humans
– we cannot even communicate with such entities. Others are
nasty little things which are best avoided altogether. And still
others can be quite helpful to humans, for a multitude of purposes.
The use of nature spirits, such as water spirits, to wash away
our self-importance and help us tune in to our true feelings of
joy and peace with the world, will be described in a later essay.
There are also spirits which oversee particular human activities
such as agriculture, art, construction, cooking, healing, mathematics,
mining, etc. etc. Every human endeavor has a cadre of spirits proper
to it, which guides individual practitioners and also helps humanity
as a whole expand its knowledge of the various arts, crafts, and
sciences. A competent, inspired professional in any field is constantly
receiving inspiration and new ideas from the spirits who oversee
his or her field. However, as is the case also with thought forms,
most people believe that any inspiration they receive in this fashion
is “their” idea, when in fact it’s being passed
to them by spirits. To be a competent professional in any field
is to be a clear channel for the spirits who oversee that field.
Finally, we come to personal spirit guides – what some people
call angels. These are spirits who are assigned to individual human
beings, who tend them as wards. Everybody has at least one personal
spirit guide at any one time, but most people have several or lots
of them, which may come and go in the course of a lifetime.
Although both thought forms and spirit guides can be channeled
in the same ways (as can other spirits: Jesus and Mary, Krishna,
nature spirits, demons, recently deceased people, etc.), thought
forms and spirit guides are completely different kinds of entities.
Thought forms are created by us: they stand in the same relation
to us that we stand to God. Guides, on the other hand, are a bit
above us in the sense of being wiser, possessing broader viewpoints
and more loving hearts, but they aren’t that far above us.
Many spirit guides have had human incarnations. Sometimes deceased
friends, relatives, ancestors, or even aborted fetuses become one’s
spirit guides; and one of my own guides has told me that there are
lives / realities in which I am her spirit guide. I presume that
similar relationships between people and their guides obtain for
everyone.
Up until recently in human history (last few thousand years) magical
knowledge – the practical application of intuition –
was handed down from generation to generation, as agricultural or
mathematical knowledge is. However, because of the nature of the
times, most of that knowledge was lost as skilled practitioners
died off without leaving heirs. In the interim, the White Brotherhood,
the “guild” of spirit guides, came in to fill the gap
– to steer humanity in more or less the right direction during
its sleep-walking (rationalist-materialist) phase.
There’s a great network spread out across the world now,
a linking up of groups of spirits and human channels, sending out
filaments of light around the earth to love it and heal it. To learn
to consciously channel your spirit guides is to join this fraternity
of light. As long as there is light, no evil can overcome the earth.
Now we will describe how to channel spirit guides by automatic
writing. But it must be pointed out that automatic writing is just
a way of making channeling deliberate or special, of endowing it
with an aura of mystery. By distinguishing the process of channeling
in this way it is easier to understand and learn – to learn
in the sense of separating it out of normal thinking and feeling,
and to understand when “our” thoughts and feelings indeed
arise within ourselves, and when they are being passed to us by
a spirit. Channeling can be done via normal thinking and feeling;
in trance; in dreams; and by automatic writing. Automatic writing,
albeit not as clear as trance channeling (more admixture of the
person channeling in the final product), has the advantage of providing
a written record of a spirit’s messages – something
which is often useful for future reference. A lot of things spirits
say to us make more sense in retrospect.
I’ve personally taught some hundred people to channel their
spirit guides, and of that number only half a dozen or so have blocked
so badly that they couldn’t do it. But nobody needs a teacher
to learn something as easy and basic as channeling. The only function
my presence as a teacher serves is to prop up my students’
faith, to put their noses down to it: I have a rather overbearing
personality that expects and assumes that people will channel successfully
– which doesn’t offer my students much margin for doubt
or failure. But this is just a didactic device – I’m
convinced that anyone who wants to channel can channel, with no
need for a teacher.
It’s best to tackle automatic writing when you have some
pressing personal question to ask, or when you are moved by a burning
curiosity to communicate with your spirit guides. Idle curiosity
may not have enough oomph behind it to forge a clear communications
link. The reason some people block conscious channeling (or reject
the idea altogether) is that they don’t want to face up to
the fact that they are not solid, continuing, individual beings,
but rather are a flux of thought forms (images, opinions, beliefs,
and expectations learned from parents and society) being urged this
way and that by spirit forces.
In other words, to open to channel means to lay aside a lot of
common assumptions about the nature of personal existence; and some
people find this frightening. If you find yourself blocking, just
set the project aside until you have a dire need to question your
guides – that need will be sufficient motivation to break
the block. Like everything else in life, channeling comes more easily
to some people than to others; but anyone can do it if they just
keep plugging away at it.
Next
(excerpted from Bob Makransky’s
book Magical Living)
More of Bob Makransky’s
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