Have you contacted spirit guides who present names — or otherwise claim to be — higher dimensional beings known from sacred history?
- Named Angels | Archangels
- Ascended Masters
- Saints | Prophets
- Gods and Goddesses from Major Faiths
- Elementals | Devas | Faerie Personae
- Archetypes
- Famous Historical Figures
A significant portion of my clients seek Spirit Guide Readings to affirm, confirm, clarify, or expand upon the information they’ve received on their own. They’ve had notable success working with Jeff Lilly’s Guided Meditation or employing some other means of contacting and establishing relationships with their spirit guides.
The experiences and effort you bring to the table greatly enhances the reading experience — the amount of information and the quality of the detail is much richer.
Frequently, I receive background information or focus questions concerning contact with one of the rock star religious figures:
“I’ve been using the Meet A Guide meditation. I’ve met a guide who looks like/says s/he is…”
[insert famous religious icon here -- Moses, Jesus, Mary, Gabriel, Joan of Arc, Athena, Ganesha, Quan Yin, White Buffalo Woman… ] The fill-in-the-blank examples here vary greatly, but there are a few that appear with more frequency than any other.
Archangel Michael is the hands-down winner for Most Numerous Presentations as a Spirit Guide.
“My spirit guide insists his name is Michael — is it possible that this is THE Michael, the Archangel?”
Yes and No — My answer is a little complicated
Over the past few years, I’ve encountered this phenomenon (especially among lightworkers) with greater and greater frequency. In May 2007, I wrote a post about what I described as an A-team God Posse, but that was almost a year — and many, many readings — ago. For about six months or so, I’ve been offering an updated, more developed, explanation on a case-by-case basis; I feel it’s time I put it out there for those of you who are wondering about this…
This post assumes that the entities you are communicating with are indeed your guides and not some trickster spirit that’s just trying to mess with you… That’s a separate issue altogether, outside the scope of what I’m describing, here and now.
Emissaries
Your personal spirit guides are unique to you. Spirit guides are technically human souls — angels are a different species of spiritual critter altogether. Although you can talk to angels and they respond to your prayers, requests, and petitions, even your personal guardian angels are highly unlikely to communicate with you in the same way your spirit guides do.
You have multiple spirit guides, and some of them may present as Emissaries – representatives of, or surrogates for, higher dimensional beings.
Named Angels, Archangels, Ascended Masters, etc, may be many places at once and work with any number of incarnate human beings or other souls. You might think of these types of entities as Directors of Large Organizations or High Level Managers of a group of souls with a specific, shared agenda.
Your personal spirit guides may present to you with the characteristics of the Organization they work for. They are essentially a kind of Middle Management — but please hear this as a feeble analogy or my best attempt to describe something that defies language or concepts like hierarchies. I don’t like to enforce the linear notion of “above” or “below.” This kind of language comes dangerously close to elitism and exclusion and implies that some souls are more important than others — which is not the case. However, even on the physical plane, in corporate hierarchies, the CEOs and higher level Leadership Positions are worthless without the foot soldiers, cashiers, and manual laborers, etc.
Emissaries may present with their own unique names and identities, or they may borrow the names, titles, or uniform of the being they represent. They may wear the same colors, bear the same weaponry or tools, run around with a special identifying symbol across their chest or foreheads… Hell, they may come riding the same pink unicorn, if it applies.
For further exploration of this, check out Where Your Spirit Guides Get Their Looks.
Each of us is a clone — a spark, a chunk, an ember — of the Creator.
- God as Human
- God as You
Similarly, the Emissary is a chip off the big block of a higher dimensional Entity.
- Archangel Michael as Guide
- Your spirit guide Michael represents The Michael
Think about how you use this kind of expression in everyday experience:
“Work called — I have to go in early today.”
The Company you work for didn’t call you — an individual person, like your boss, actually made the call. The Building didn’t call you — someone working in that building called you.
If you’re following Presidential Campaign Politics, you hear a lot of talk about Candidates and their Surrogates – former President Bill Clinton appears at rallies as a surrogate for his wife, Hillary. He speaks on her behalf, as a stand-in.
Department Store Santa’s
Another (really terrible) example, but it makes the point. How do we explain all the department store Santa’s to little kids who believe in Santa? We tell them that The Santa can’t be everywhere all at once, so he sends out special Santa surrogates in his place. (No offense to Santa or any Religious Figure is intended by the lame comparison.)
You may indeed have a calling to work with, or in service to, a famous spiritual icon. You may engage that guide as an official Emissary of the Archangel or Teacher they represent. Your life’s work or spiritual mission may include a relationship with this greater energies and their agendas.
Spiritual Mission Details
It’s not impossible — it’s actually highly likely. Research the Archangel or Ascended Master and see if the information you discover about them deeply resonates with you — you may share the special work, powers, or talents they are known for, or you may be greatly in need of development in those areas. If nothing else, this may be a prompt to explore and to learn.
Confirmation
One way to confirm the authenticity, the identity, and the goal of a spirit guide who presents as an Emissary is simply to compare the information you receive from communicating with the guide with what others have written or recorded about that particular persona.
- Is the literature, history, or art work depicting this persona consistent with what you’re getting on your own?
- Is the intuitive information uplifting, empowering, positive, and in line with the highest possible intentions, not only for yourself, but for everyone?
Spirit guides may challenge you to step outside your comfort zone, but they will not ask you to go against your ethics/values system.
To use Archangel Michael again, as an example:
In the context of the people I read for, Michael’s particular agenda or healing energies tend toward cutting through lingering cords of unhealthy attachment and breaking through self-imposed blocks that are keeping them from manifesting. Procrastination is also a general specialty of Michael’s mission — a lot of writers and artists approach me about Michael Messages.
Healers and Lightworkers may be answering a Call to participate in the same kind of work that Michael manages. You may even develop the ability to channel this energy and information for other people.
If in doubt, ask the guide to confirm whether or not he/she is an Emissary in the way that I describe. My theories about Emissaries are just that — potential explanations, based on patterns of observations. There are also no absolutes here — you have access to just as much authority as I do, especially regarding an entity who is communicating with you.
Have you encountered an Emissary? Does my theory resonate with you?
Please share your thoughts…
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Slade,
It has always sounded very obvious to me that beings such as archangels are not bound by the same physical laws as us.
Being in one place exclusively at any given time is something typically human. Our life experiences are defined through the structures we impose on reality: Time, 3 dimensional space, etc. It comes as no surprise that beings which are pure essence and don’t ac0utally have a body (in our sense of the word, at least), would behave in such fundamentally different ways.
Slade, once again you’ve posted exactly the right thing at exactly the right time. Just this morning I posted about my first encounter with Odin over at my blog! When gods first contacted me, as you remember, I had plenty of doubts about their reality, and I wondered how on earth I could be worthy of their personal attention. Back then, you held my hand through the process and encouraged me; I’ll always be grateful for that. Wow, those were long emails!
As you say, spirits can be in many places at once, interacting with millions of people at the same time. I think of it like a bestselling book. There’s only one set of words in the book, only one set of ideas and feelings, but at the same time there are millions of separate instances of it, all in different peoples’ hands. No one’s copy is any better or worse than anyone else’s, or more authentic, or anything like that. There’s no “Master Book” that’s in charge of all the others. They’re all identical, and in a very real sense, they’re all the same book.
Similarly, the energies of these great spirits are available to all of us, simultaneously if need be. The only thing that restricts our access to them is ourselves — if we push them away, consciously or subconsciously; or if we are too distracted by our egos or our daily lives or our fears to hear them calling.
Slade,
Nice article! I always thought and knew that each of angels and ascended masters had his/her own identity, within the hierarchy (I agree that there is no hierarchy, but cannot convey meaning without using it). Having transcended space and time, they communicate with several humans separated by long distances (in this 3D world) simultaneously, and even appear to them simultaneously.
I agree that they will never mislead you or prompt you to do anything against your value system.
Thanks for a nice article.
- Desika
Slade – thank you for sharing more information on our Emissaries of the Archangels and Ascended Masters. The information comes at a good time when I’m learning more about my Spirit Guides and the higher dimensional beings. I just listened to Andrea Hess’ tape on the teleclass “Managing Your Spirit Guides” where you co-hosted giving your personal experiences. It seems the time for me to be learning about this. I’ve had the feelings and experiences and just now am learning what part I play in all of it. Thank you to both you and Andrea for being such good resources.
About ten years ago THE Michael came to me in a dream. I knew who he was… he didn’t have to tell me. He was kinda suprized. I was amazed at his curiosity and childlikeness. His skin was almost a metallic gold and his garments were very rich looking…with deep swirling designs of many colors. He grew serious and told me he had a message to give me…. and I don’t know what it was he said. The next thing I knew I was waking up (in my dream) and I was lying face down on the floor. When I stood up I was wearing a brilliant white gown… pure white. My skin was even glowing! Back then I was walking the Christian path… and I always felt I had some kind of calling to do spiritual work of some sort but more inline with the path I was on. Now that I have walked away from that path and am still seeking ‘truth’ and my purpose in life, I know I am still on a spiritual path where I will do some kind of work of some sort. It took me a few years to dechurch and to get some bearing of direction. But now, I”m still wondering what Michael had to say… I guess I will find out one of these days! I am presently trying to find out ‘who’ my Guide is….
Vitor,
It’s very difficult to describe the indescribable — the Mysteries defy absolute illustration, but as you must know from the art work you do, we can attempt to capture that energy and pin it down, a little bit, here and there…
Jeff,
Your Master Book analogy is killer — love that! Yes…
I’m glad that our correspondence (wow, so long ago, it seems) helped you with some working sense of what you experience. It absolutely helped me in my own investigations, as well, as established a line of thought that I’ve been sharing in readings since then… You (inadvertently) collaborated with me on this concept.
Desika,
Thanks for sharing how these thoughts resonate with your own understanding or feeling. That’s a great affirmation.
Fedelmia,
Love the verb de-church! I don’t know that I’ve ever heard that word before, but it’s a good one.
Unlike you, my experiences with spirit guides and angelics was never based in Christianity. But, perhaps similarly to you, I did have to adjust my path and my beliefs to accommodate the undeniable presence of these energies at work in my life. I was very hard pressed to go dipping into Christianity anymore than I had to, but I learned that I could be close-minded, even coming from a neo-pagan, alternative tradition.
Keep what works, throw out what doesn’t, and pursue the path that works for you. Some customized is required.
Pat R,
I truly believe in the timeliness of information — that we are led to more of exactly what we most need to explore, at any given time. It’s always the “perfect time.”
You’re very welcome for whatever I have to share. Your kind words about Andrea and myself means the world to me. I’m so grateful to Andrea for hosting and recording that teleclass and inviting me to be a part of it. Discovering Andrea has been like sitting down in a class and discovering the person sitting beside you is a member of your soul family. I’m learning so much and creating so much through these online relationships with like-minded souls. Thank you for being one of them!
Regarding the matter of names of spirits, I highly recommend the book, “The Spirits’ Book,” by Alan Kardec, the great french pioneer in scientific psychic investigation which resulted in the movement called “Spiritism”, as distinct from spiritualism. It is a fascinating book chock full of enlightening information. You can view the book online here.
He also wrote books on mediumship (in the broadest meaning of the word), and other books with what today would be termed channeled information on the real meaning of the Gospels. Anyone with an interest in guides, spirits, mediumship, and the like should read The Spirits’ Book.
Spiritism is huge in Brazil, of all places, where I had the opportunity to witness first hand the remarkable effect in the lives of people which Spiritism has. Wonderful, kind, charitable, open and evolving people. Do a search for John of God, or for Chico Xavier, and you will begin to get a glimpse into the world of Brazilian spiritism.
[...] So many people living in North and South America report experiences with the spirits of Native Americans, or “Indians.” My clients often include background information about what they know of their spirit guides and guardian angels, or have been told by other mediums; I generally receive tons of correspondence with questions about archangelic emissaries and Native American spirits. [...]
About 9 yrs ago, after reluctantly purchasing and reading a book called The Messengers, I found myself repeatedly waking up at 4:00 AM. Finally in frustration I asked aloud what is this all about? That night I had an extraordinary dream? It was so vivid and real, there is simply no way in words I can adequately convey it. I found myself suddenly in an area (space, room?) with four other beings dressed in white robes.They were all focused on me and laughing??, celebrating something. The atomosphere that surrounded them was very informal. It seemed like one of them was seated in a reclined position while the rest were milling around in a real party mode. They did not have wings that I recall, but an incredible energy , excitement ,and joy about them. They were all looking at me expectantly with big smiles and eyes that were sooo alive and luminous with energy. I became aware of myself, and felt acutely uncomfortable and somewhat embaressed at finding myself in the presence of these incredible beings who were waiting expectantly for a response from me! Unfortunately, I was completely dumbfounded and and all I could manage was, “Why am I here? I’m nobody special.” They found this to be totally hillarious!!!! Then one of them stepped foward to me and said ” You understand the importance of Jesus.” My my mind was still mush, and so he prompted, “You understand the true meaning of forgiveness and why it is so important to forgive not just others, but yourself in order to keep moving forward. We count the WINS, not sins”!!! Yes! I had finally learned this truth, and found it very freeing, but I still did’nt understand what I was doing there.. He continued, ” Do you know what love is”? Inside my head I was thinking ,(Of course I know what love is, almost everbody does). He read my mind and firmly said ” That’s not what I mean. Do you understand that love is a physical measurable force”? What??? No, I had no idea what he was talking about. He placed his hands in front of me next to each other palms down and slighly cupped, and asked me to put my hand beneath his hands. I felt a gentle but very noticeable resistance or density when i did this, and it absolutely amazed me! Then he said, “This is how you heal with love”. “I WANT TO DO THIS” jumped ouy of my mouth so fast that I shocked myself and was mortified at my own presumption!! Instantly, they were all around me trying to reassure me and telling me that this is why I was there. Then the one who had been explaining showing me all this said, “We want you to tell everyone that this ( cupping his hands again) is how you heal with love!!! I woke up immediately wired and fully energized, with my face soaking wet with tears, and my clock read 4:44. They were not quite through. Two songs played in my head as if there were a radio inside it. The first one was “Oh Happy Day”, then right after that came “Somethings Coming”. I started laughing so hard as tears continued to stream, and physically I had so much energy I could’nt keep still and did’nt know what to do with myself. To this day I don’t know who they were, as I didn’t have the presence of mind to ask. I wish I had. The one who spoke with me is the one I’m able to recall. He appeared to be tall and fair (light hair and eyes,ect.) beautiful , strong, and more alive than anything or anyone I”ve ever seen. Extremely friendly and engaging, and sooo happy, as they all seemed to be. Can you tell me who or what they might be??? I always wonder and hope I can see them again. Thanks for letting me tell you my experience.
Nina,
Thanks for sharing your incredible story. I’m somewhat limited in what I can tell you just by responding to your comment — there are definitely many indications of higher level entities, at the level of the Archangels and Ascended Masters; also some details that point to the Divine Father and the Principalities phylum…
I’d certainly love to do read for you if you are interested. Please click here to schedule a reading.
Nina,
Your description is stunningly similar to what Reiki is like. I can’t help but notice.
Vitor
My first encounter was with an asian woman I call her Lady Mu, I haven’t seen her for awhile. Next was a different kind she called herself Anu, and she has taken me to different realms in understanding, leading me to information I had never known about before. Now I see her more vividly her skin is blue and she wears a feather headdress, living in an area that is all rock and I see like two moons above her. Then there is Douglas, he is a gaurdian, and sometimes looks like Will Smith lol. He often tells me that he will help me. His true appearance is pretty scary and I only get glimpes. He comforts me. Another is Samatha Sari, she is brilliant white light with brilliant light blue eyes, and that is all I can see of her. I aske the question about who is of truth, light and love and she jumped right up and said I am, wow it was increidable. I have spoken to an elemental, she was a rose lady, older very smart. Now I’m speaking to one called Jennifer she is my financial guide. Ok long winded but this is what I’m experincing.