Since I mentioned my experience with Aswana in my Past Life memories I wanted to share my views when it comes to Spirit Guides and the Higher Self. There is some confusion when it comes to Spirit Guides and contacting the Higher Self.
There is a large majority of people that believe that any entity that is not incarnated is automatically evil and a 'demon.' This is part of that dense negative 'literal' mindset of the Dark Ages when even dreams were considered evil. I dismiss that idea and argument out of hand. The more scientific skeptics would say these people are merely interacting with a part of their own consciousness. When you consider the all of creation is a single consciousnesses (the consciousnesses of creation has many layers) this is not entirely untrue. The idea that it is a false figment of the imagination or fantasy, however, I dismiss completely. Even if a Guide or Higherself is a part of our subconscious mind it is still a valid aspect of ourselves. All of this is purely based on my own experience although I have had it validated by concepts other people have talked about. Specifically, Jamie Sams and Bashar have validated conclusions that I came to prior to encountering their material. Proper Intentions First, and foremost, we have to examine why we are trying to gain information. Why are we seeking Spirit Guides in the first place? If someone is reaching out to Spirit Guides for the purpose of self-glorification or to dominate others it is not going to end well. This will lead, at the very least, to an imbalanced experience where information can be misunderstood and very possibly cause a mischievous Spirit to respond. If we seek spirit guides out of some conception of being powerless it can go awry. That is why people who are in a state of crises or acting in a sense of powerlessness should go to a medium or psychic to work out these issues and to get closure with a loved one that has crossed over. I don't think they should attempt it on their own. Even when we are traveling through the spirit world like attracts like. If we are in a negative state of mind we will attract a negative experience (and likely equally negative spirit/entity). If we are in a positive state of mind we are more likely to attract a positive entity or spirit to interact with us. I personally never felt the need to reach out to a spiritual guide. A lot of spiritual or metaphysical teachers seem to feel this is an important step. I don't believe that it is and that there is too much opportunity, especially if a person is in crises psychological and emotionally, that a mischievous entity will respond. In the Native American tradition, I would say that this is like asking Coyote, the Trickster, to come and play. You can't quite trust a Trickster spirit and so we cannot blindly believe or follow the advice of just any incorporal spirit. Guides Are Our Equals My experience with Guides in spirit is that they are our equals. Aswana was the most powerful interaction that I have had with a 'spirit guide.' One of the main lessons I learned with Aswana is that we were equals. For whatever reason she did not choose to incarnate in this lifetime. So, she popped up at pivotal points in my life. Often, she did show up uninvited when I was in crisis. Some of my most poignant dreams had Aswana in them. However, I was not able to really be clear in receiving her messages until I did a lot of personal work. Prior to my last moment of crisis when Aswana really came through to offer me encouragement ethrough them I had dealt with a lot of my own issues. I had worked through a lot of feelings and emotions that I had disowned. This work, prior to being in crisis, allowed me to experience dreams where the messages come through more clearly. Prior to that I might have blocked or projected meanings onto certain images and I was not very open to communication. I know that Aswana is a positive being because the dreams with her in them are always uplifting. As I described in my past life blog, she and I were in a previous life together. So, she may be someone from my soul group helping me in this life. She offers guidance, simply in the form of understanding a situation and she never tells me what to do. Instead, she helps me gain perspective. These are all of the aspects I would expect out of a positive Spirit Guide. Just as with spiritual teachers the experience should always be uplifting. The Higher Self The Higher Self is a concept that is also bandied around quite a bit in metaphysical and spiritual circles. The idea, as far as I know, originated with Buddhist teachings. The Higher Self, I have come to believe, is the aspect of ourselves that remains in spirit. I believe it is often the opposite sex than that which we incarnate on Earth, although Spirit is not naturally dualistic, but we do take on and reflect our experiences that we have in the material world in the spiritual world. A Soul may represent itself primarily as male or female even though they are known to express themselves in both forms. Either way, when we are reaching out to and accessing the Higher Self we are reaching out to the portion of ourselves that is not incarnate. This portion has the Eagle point of view of our life. That aspect is able to see clearly when we are coming up on a pot hole and it does try to give us warnings in the form of intuition to guide us to where we really want to go. Bashar has a marvelous description of the Higher Self and actually encourages people to reach out to that aspect of themselves as opposed to Spirit Guides. However, the Higher Self is not meant to control our lives, it can give us hints and nudges towards the direction we want to go but no more. An argument could be mind that the Higher Self is no more than a construct of our consciousnesses, perhaps the Super-Consciousness, and that is why when we can contact that portion of ourselves that has an Eagle Point of View. The Higher Self is like an eagle flying above the river of our lives. The Eagle can see the tributaries, the water falls, and the rocky parts. So, more or less the Higher Self can give us perspective. I have met my Higher Self in a personified form in a dream. While it conveyed a great deal of meaning and comfort to me in this realm it did not affect my day to day living very much. Although, it did, again, give me a great deal of perspective in my own life and the approach I can take in daily tasks. I also got a received a key to understanding certain meanings in my own dreams. I have discussed this before but my Higher Self sees the experience of a life on Earth as equal to a visit to Disneyland. Every new experience that I embark on are "rides". That's why I know when I have a Disneyland Dream it is describing the next 'ride' I'm about to embark on. Certain elements of that dream can give me and indication of what to expect. Usually, I don't actually get on the ride. I may be in line for the ride and know what the 'ride' is and so in a way the dreams are prophetic but they don't give away the content of the experience before I get to have it! Conclusion I highly do not recommend going outside of oneself for spiritual information. I do not recommend reaching out to 'guides' because that invites mischievous spirits to answers. Actual guides will intervene when necessary in very non-intrusive ways and usually in an uplifting experience. There is no hard or fast rule that requires you to meet a guide to gain spiritual wisdom. I have not, other than gaining a different perspective in a difficult time, received any indication that Guides are meant to influence or 'give us' power of some sort. Any spirit claiming to be a Guide that also claims that can give you a 'power' of some sort is false and should be warded off (Sage helps drive off unwanted Spirit by manifesting a conscious choice in the physical world). Guides are non-material beings that choose to help us in our life journey but we alone must do the footwork. We alone can apply simple spiritual principals in our lives, so openly offered in many traditions, to see the results that we want. The Higher Self is also a sort of Guide. In this case, it is 100% our own consciousness. I believe that it is far more healthy to work with this aspect of ourselves to grow spiritually than relying on a Spirit Guide. Again, this working is very natural and very subtle. The purpose is not to gain power or prestige in the life we lead on Earth and to gain material wealth in a self-indulgent manner. As I said, Spirit finds very little value in self-indulgent behavior. In my own experience, it is grounding this incredibly powerful perspective of the Higher Self (not in a physically powerful sense but a powerful conscious/ psychological sense) into this reality that is helping to create a new world and awaken other people to their Innate Authentic Self. I have, in the past, felt my aura become altered when I enter this state of being and seen how just encountering my energy field has altered other peoples behavior. Sustaining that amount of energy for long periods of times, however, has proven difficult. Sometimes it becomes very unbalanced which causes all sorts of issues. Yet, I am finding that I am able to 'hold that frequency' or that frame of mind for longer periods of time and that it is more pleasurable. At first it felt entirely foreign and unnatural. As I have done the personal work to clear out old emotional and psychological wounds, not just from this life but from my previous lives as well, I am becoming a more 'clear' vessel for my Higher Self. In this way I can bring more and more of that pure divine consciousness into being on this level of reality. This, in turn, has led to a feeling of Wholeness. So, don't seek outside yourself. Don't look to any human or spirit as your 'master' or your better. We are all divine sparks of creation endowed with the gift of being creators and all of us possess the same knowledge of the Source/All That IS/ Great Spirit. Not all spirits have the incarnation experience, those who don't, including Angels, cannot really give us advice. We must learn to rely on our own inner intuitive knowing to grow because the answer is within us and not outside of us.
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