At the beginning of your spiritual path you probably heard about getting messages from your guides and angels. Many people connect with religious guides, such as Mother Mary, Saint Germaine, or Archangels Michael and Gabriel. I believe guides and angels are aspects of ourselves existing in other realities or vibrations.

If you recognized a guide as an aspect of yourself, would you take it seriously? Wouldn't you listen and pay closer attention to a guide that appeared in a form you regarded highly? Is it easier for you to trust an outside form or idea more than one of your own?

To communicate with guides and angels you must understand how you perceive information. Most of us are kinesthetic -- we receive information through whole body feeling. Messages from guides, angels, or other aspects of ourselves are so gentle, so pure, that sometimes they're difficult to feel when our minds are busy.

An effective way to quiet a busy mind is to be physically active and then relax. Afterwards, you will feel more connected and quiet in your mind and it will be easier to hear messages from your guides and angels.

Some of us hear our guides and angels very clearly and have even made major life changes based on these messages; the messages received were powerful, beneficial, life affirming, and felt right, even though the whole picture may not always have been understood.

Some people, however, have also made changes in their lives based on what their angels told them and the information they received did not feel right or make sense. They believed the information was from a higher source than themselves and must be right. Such information was not from their guides or angels; it was from an aspect of their fears and ideas. Many times my clients have described angelic beings and these beings proved to be something entirely different when we looked more closely. Your angels would not tell you to hurt yourself, put yourself in danger or hardship, or do something destructive. You have many choices about the actions you take with information you receive. You must always be discerning.

I tell a story in my book, The End of Time, about a girlfriend of mine who got a message from a "spiritual guide." She had gone to a new massage therapist and had a profound spiritual experience. She wanted me to have a massage the next day with the same woman. Although she did not tell me the details of her experience, I agreed to go. As I was having the massage, a strange energy came into the room and really frightened the massage therapist. This same energy had come in the day before and taken on the illusion of what my girlfriend believed was a high spiritual being. The being mirrored this illusion back to her, thus disguising its destructive nature. It took on the appearance of Jesus and told her to let me go romantically, and "give me" to the massage therapist. She listened to this message even though it felt wrong--we were very much in love -- because she thought the message came from "Jesus." The energy being was really evil and I ended up energetically clearing the evil energy enveloping this "Jesus" being.

I had many guides and angles at the beginning of my spiritual path and they were enormously valuable to me. Amy, a wonderful psychic friend from São Paulo, Brazil, helped me contact them. I asked her who my guides were and after she meditated for seven days she told me I had twelve guides. She gave me their names, when and where they had lived, and why they had come to assist me.

Moses was one of my first guides. Wow, I couldn't believe it! Everyone in my metaphysical community at that time believed a guide like Moses could only be with one person at a time. Now, of course, I know this isn't true. Over the next year my guides, and new ones who came in, showed themselves to me. They represented many different paths of healing. I had guides from the Hawaiian kahuna tradition. Saint George, the dragon slayer, was one of my guides. I also had many holy guides from India, several from the American Indian path, and some sophisticated psychic guides from England.

I made a detailed chart depicting my guides in teams depending upon how I thought they should be balanced. After completing the chart I felt a pulling. Did another guide want to come in? I went to Amy and talked with her. She also felt another guide and helped me to make contact. It was the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II. I was very confused. I had Moses already, why would I want Ramses II, considering the energy the two had created when they battled over the release of the Hebrew slaves? I said to Ramses, "Just give me one good reason why I would allow you to be my guide when I have Moses here already?" The answer came in very clearly. "We want you to help us heal what we started a long time ago in Egypt."

His answer overwhelmed me. I realized then my guides were using me as I was using them. There was an equal exchange of experiences, feelings, and emotions between my guides and myself. Until then I thought my guides and angels knew everything and I knew nothing. Guides need to experience and understand, just as we do, to continue evolving.

I continued working with my guides and angels in different situations. The war in the Middle East broke out at this time and I was told how to help using my guides. After completing my job, I realized I did not need my guides and angels in the same way. I set them free to be with others. I told them to come back anytime there was new information or they needed my assistance. I would always enjoy communicating with them.

When I released my guides and angels, I started getting a different kind of communication--one from my Higher Self, the angelic God part of me. I then realized my guides and angels were all aspects of myself. I also realized there was no separation and I had the information inside me all along.

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