How Do Your Spirit Guides Respond to You?
How do you sense the presence of entities like spirit guides or attending angels? What are the patterns and forms your guides take that indicate they are responding to you?
The key to developing your sense of their presence is to make a mental note of how you feel and then look for a pattern. Each spirit entity feels different from another. Also, the general patterns of feelings, thoughts, or other phenomena may be unique to you — don’t expect your personal experiences to necessarily resemble what another person reports.
Communicating with Spirit
You may inititiate divine communication as a form of prayer, meditation, dreaming, or a common everyday activity.
This shouldn’t be a “one time” activity — you don’t maintain relationships with a single introduction… You will benefit tremendously from integrating your dialog with spirit as an on-going component of your daily life.
Keep in mind, you are not praying to any of these entities — spirit guides are messengers, direct go-betweens with God / the Source / the Creator. You are God, so on a very basic level, I believe you are always soul-searching — connecting to your highest Self.
Call on your guides by name, ask questions, and pay attention to the way you feel immediately or soon after.
Angels seem to be more likely to manifest in some physical way: an all-over emotion, or it could even be a particular physical sensation. Sometimes, you may experience something external in your physical environment — such as a faint white flash of light, an “orb” caught out of the corner of your eye, or you suddenly notice a change in temperature or the quality of light…
Many people report inexplicable smells — like a sudden whiff of a flower or perfume that has no obvious source. (It’s my personal opinion that many of the manifestations associated with ghosts are actually the presence of angels. How do you tell the difference? Again — I’m being redundant — it’s about how it makes you feel.)
Don’t limit yourself to expectations of “super-natural” or extraordinary experiences — if you ask your perception of God, your Higher Self, your personal guardian angels, or your spirit guides to help you with a particular question or situation, the answer you receive can take an almost infinite number of forms in your daily life — from a “gut feeling” to something like a book that you are drawn to in a store, a channel that you flip to on the radio or television that seems timely, an email from someone you know, an interaction with a total stranger, a billboard you pass while driving, a song lyric that comes out of nowhere and sticks in your head… A number sequence that pops up again and again…
Pay attention to your emotional response to anything that seems like “meaningful coincidence” — the form that the message may take can vary so greatly, and can “look” like a coincidence. The best way to tell the difference is ask yourself about the feeling it gives you and the timing — does it FEEL like you just received an answer to your question?
Your spirit guides are slightly different in the way they communicate — they are more likely to feel like parts of your own thoughts, the “still small voice” inside you, a whispering or sudden flash of inspiration, dreams, gut feelings, intuition, hunches, or instincts.
Spirit guides also put information in your path in the form of books or the discovery of web sites — even something you see on TV, a song on the radio — or a lyric that’s stuck in your head.
Note feelings; look for patterns.
Care to share?
I’d love to hear about some of the ways YOU identify how and when your guides are responding to you. Can you describe some of the patterns, sensations, emotions, or physical phenomena you’ve come to associate with divine communication?
Please leave a comment below.
Seek Wisdom — Practice Love
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98 Responses to “How Do Your Spirit Guides Respond to You?”
Slade, the article that I just posted on Forgiveness was so full of “coincidences” that I even mentioned them in the post. I “knew” what topic that article was going to be able. I waited to write it to see where my focus was going to be and even that was guided. As I said in the article, every where I looked I ran into something on forgiveness for 3 weeks. I don’t believe in coincidence any more. Each of these instances I was guided to at the appropriate time and place for the pieces to fall into place. Even after I thought I had finished the article and was proofing it, then a final paragraph came through for me to add. This was a guided experience, all the way.
Slade,
I first struck up a conversation with my primary Guide via mediation. As our rapport developes, I communicate with her outside of meditation in everyday life. I feel her like a cloak wrapping around my shoulders when I simply ask “[Name of Guide], are you there?” The answer is always yes. I check in this way several times a day - in the car, waiting in line at the bank, etc. She speaks subtley, most often as the thoughts in my head that address me as “You” instead of “I”.
Another Guide has emerged that seems angelic. He imparts nuggets of wisdom in a voice that resonates through me like the ringing of a great golden bell. While teasing out the words of my primary Guide from my chattering thoughts can be a challenge, there is never any question when this Guy speaks! Sometimes I wake up in the morning with one of his shining sentences in my head, such as:
“Improvement is more important than achievement”
Good point, Angel Guy.
-Sarah
Not too long ago I saw a show on the Discovery channel that documented the deliberate sinking of a de-commissioned aircraft carrier in order to create a marine habitat in the Gulf of Mexico. It was quite interesting, all the work involved in preparing the carrier for sinking; removing everything that could be, the obliteration of all toxic substances, the intricate planning of the timing of the explosives. The crew mounted cameras throughout the carrier and filmed the actual explosions and the water filling the cavities of the carrier. (It was apparently extremely important to achieve a “level” sink). What an incredible sight to see the explosions then the ocean rushing in and filling every inner space. A wall of frothy water, engulfing everything in its path.
That’s what I imagine and what I feel when I am in meditative and deliberate contact with my guides. A complete rush of filling, of sensation, that starts at my head and extends to the tips of my fingers and toes. Not a running through, but a filling up. With this signal, I know I’ve established a clear connection.
Additionally, sometimes I get the scent of roses, which I always associated with the presence of my grandma’s spirit and which you pointed out is known as a sign of the Mother Mary. I don’t get roses as often and it’s not something I have yet to summon at will. But I pay very close attention to what’s happening in my life when I do.
Uh, okay, I’ll go first.
I’m not sure how I’d define “Spirit Guide”, for one. The beings/subpersonalities/Spirit Guides I interact with do not feel as if they originate from outside of me, so I tend to take the Jungian view of things and assume they are part of me. Divine, yes, because I am Pagan/Wiccan and I believe everything is Divine. But the skeptic in me is strong and so I lean towards the psychological explanation. But it’s probably all the same thing, really.
That said, I know exactly what they look like, being a strongly visual person (as an artist); most of them are their own persons and don’t look like anyone else in the world, but have certain colors they wear or looks to their faces. I could probably paint portraits of them, I see them so clearly. But the one I talk to the most, the Animus/God Within/Indwelling Glory (to borrow a phrase from Qabala) is very specific, because he’s always borrowing the form of an actual human, actor, musician, whatever. So with him I know very very specifically what he looks like, sounds like, haircut, height, color of his eyes, the plaid shirt he’s wearing, if he bites his fingernails, &c.
I read your descriptions above and actually felt kind of bad. I guess I’m lucky in that I see them so clearly, and don’t have to rely on half-guesses or vague intuitions. I use automatic writing a lot, and when I have a question, I just ask. And I get an answer, usually a pretty clear one that doesn’t require a lot of interpretation, though there are always many layers to it, and the wisdom and simplicity of it is sometimes stunning. It is, very literally, a dialogue, with questions and answers and interruptions and jokes and tangents. I don’t know. Like I said, maybe this isn’t a proper Spirit Guide experience? But I’ll take it.
Boy, this is the first time I have told anyone this outside of a very close circle of friends, but it seems very appropriate to describe this experience here.
Several years ago, when I was a single parent and a member of a cult that did not respect me, and judged me relentlessly, I was thrown into a deep dark depression. I needed to reach out for help, but I was discouraged from it because I was suppose to get everything I needed from my religious leaders at the time. And when I did reach out, all they said was that I was not praying hard enough.
My depression was so bad I could barely move. One day after praying each leg out of bed, getting the girls over to a neighbor to play (a big no-no by the way according to my religion at the time) I collapsed on my couch in tears. I felt like I was lying under a thousand pound rock. I prayed, I cried out from the depths of my soul for God to make me feel like I was being held in some way. I needed to feel cherished, cared for by someone; anyone. I needed so much to be held. Suddenly as I lay there with my eyes closed, I felt a rising up. I could physically feel my body being pulled up and suddenly I was in the arms of some all-loving being; being cradled like a small child. (I know it was just my spirit being lifted up, but all the feelings manifested in my physical body as well.) The tears poured out and I was held through all of them till I stopped and then a flow of love swept in to replace what the tears had washed away. I don’t remember any dialogue, but I remember being held until my need was filled, and then I was gently placed back on my sofa in my living room.
I am writing this because I feel a deep need for support right now. I am no longer in this cult, but I live alone and have so much to face, alone.
This article is helping me to get in touch with that loving support around me. I am the type that gets the heebee-jeebees when anything supernatural happens around me, but I want to get over that. I believe that I am… This experience above reminds me that there is nothing to be afraid of and only loving support to gain from this spiritual communication.
Thank you
I agree with Patricia - no such thing as “coincidence.” When I ask for guidance or assistance, it shows up, like a theme song running through my life.
My Guides often communicate with me through inspiration, or total lack thereof, which I just blogged about the other day (no coincidences, right? Here’s the link: http://www.empoweredsoul.com/blog/?p=125). I also have a Guide who impulses me with a tingling on my left elbow. That’s my little signal to stop and pay attention.
I never used to communicate with angels much - I was actually taught that they couldn’t lower their vibration enough for contact, which I have found to be untrue. Hey, we all know when it’s time to question our teachers … anyway, my angel and I have been on speaking terms for a while now. He keeps me from taking myself too seriously. Here’s some angelic sense of humor for you - he gave me the name “Bob.” That’s about as un-angelic a name as I can think of, and it always makes me laugh.
When an upper-dimensional being tries to get my attention, that’s when I usually get a strong visual. It used to freak me out, but now it’s just part of my life. These beings pop in with a lot of energy, and make themselves known very explicitly. I welcome it now, because I always learn something of tremendous value from these masters and teachers. My client’s Guides also come in with strong visuals.
I am always awed and deeply grateful for the depth and wealth of assistance that we are given. Thanks for giving us all the opportunity to share our experiences of this, Slade!
Blessings,
Andrea
Thanks for all the great personal examples (so far) — they do seem to follow known patterns — and I too experience many of the same things:
Patricia — repetition of information, extreme “meaningful coincidence.”
Sarah — the feeling of being enfolded; the subtle “you” instead of “I” is a great detail… The clear, loud, unmistakable proclamations that come through, particularly upon waking — that is one of my most powerful experiences. I love the phrase “shining sentences” — yes, I know those!
Lola — the rush of filling/feeling; the scent of roses — this may be more widespread than we realize.
Thalia — your experiences are much more clairvoyant in nature; the internal versus external — I agree that the distinction is greatly blurred, and perhaps ultimately the same at some level.
I’d love to see portraits of your guides — I create these myself, usually altered photography; the act of creating the visual aspect often triggers or opens a powerful channel for them, too.
Rosie — a special thank you for sharing such a personal, heart-wrenching moment. I have known my own version of that despair and also the feeling of being lifted, comforted, saved. You are loved; you are never alone. That connection is available to you — it is yours — and it can not be proscribed or controlled or directed by another person.
After reading all of these replies, I am almost envious. I don’t do visuals very often so when I do I pay attention. Mine is voices in my head. They usually sound like me or my pesky, wonderful friend Carol who died about a year and a half ago and visits me periodically with information she thinks I need. I really do love her. She makes me laugh and loans her support when I need it. Anyway, I want to share the 2 visuals of my guides that I have gotten in meditation years ago. By the way, the message that I received when thinking of writing this was, “You don’t meditate enough or maybe you would get more visuals.” After laughing, I thought, “Ok, Ok, I will do better.”
Salde has heard about these 2 guides already in our emails back and forth last year when we first “met” over the internet.
My first experience of a guide was in the quiet space of a guided meditation. She was suddenly sitting in front of me, facing me. We were both sitting with legs crossed. She didn’t talk to me. I wasn’t ready for that. She has visited me many times since.
I call her my Lady In Blue. She is dressed totally in an irridescent blue gown and the air around her that I am looking through is also that same but lighter shade of irridescent blue. After about 2 years, she did start to talk to me but I still couldn’t hear her. I have actually heard her a few times since. Right this minute, I can’t remember what she said, but it was appropriate for th time that she spoke.
My second guide is very tall, dressed as a eunoch from Arabian nights time. When I say very tall, I mean maybe 7 feet or more tall, very imposing in stature. He doesn’t speak to me. Am I too stuborn and they know this???? He did tell me that his name is Manoah, once.
One my first trip to India, I had an experience in meditation where I was suddenly enveloped in a black swirling clock of warmth. A figure that I didn’t recognise was there swirling the black cloak around me and himself, dancing here and there. With my American brain, I immediately decided that this was a sign of doom and gloom to come. I said a prayer to God and asked for His support for whatever was to come. I didn’t tell anyone about this vision.
I was staying in a house with about 6 other people next door to Sai Baba’s house where he goes in the summer months to get away from the heat. One of these 6 people was a wise and wonderful older Indian woman that we all called “Ma”. One afternoon, we were all sitting in the living room talking and she started sharing her experiences as a Krishna devotee. I knew very little about Krisna. For those of you who may have seen pictures of him, he has dark blue skin. (The Bhagavad Gita is about the story of Krishna and Arjuna and the road to self-realization. Needless to say, I came home and found the copy of this book in our library and read it. The odd thing is, I understood it.) Ma talked about the “black” energy that people experienced who were Krishna devotees. Then I had to share my meditation experience. Ma told me that I was just being visited by Krishna and not to fear it. She said that I was obviously a Krishna devotee in a past life. For the next 2 years, I would be visited by Krishna and his black swirling cloak when I would meditate. I learned to see and appreciate the beauty and depth of the color black. It has always been one of my favorite colors. Now I knew why.
To add two more things and then I will quit talking. A few days later, I was sitting near the special place that the elderly ladies were sitting when Sai Baba came walking by close enough that I could hear his words. A lady 2 rows behind me had an encounter with a bee that morning. Baba talked to her asking what color the bee was. What he asked was, “Bee black?” What I heard was, “Be black.”, an affirmation that I should enjoy the experience with Krishna and go where ever it took me.
Just a few months ago, the Library Group here in Hot Springs, Arkansas asked me to talk about my India experiences at their meeting. I agreed. One of the ladies is a psychic that I don’t know very well. Afterwards, she approached me and told me that I was a devotee in a past life in India because He (She said she didn’t see whether it was Krishna or Sai Baba that she was talking about.) had saved my life. She said when I was a little girl that I was very, very sick and dying and He saved my life by healing me. When she said it, I “knew” that he was Krishna. I knew that was why I feel such love in his black energy cloak.
Ok, I am done. Hope I haven’t talked too much.
Many, many times throughout my life, I’ve had in pics a strange light of blue, many times I’d smell a wonderful scent bywhich I can’t discribe though it was a most pleasant scent. I have had since very young a drop of water fall on me, I’ve asked for guidance for which I’d found direction, I’ve wished to take on half if not most of physical pain for others to only have experienced for a short while as for only certain pain to have left them. I have a very special person in my life inflicted with MS, this person for almost a year was having a like burning sensation mostly at night before bed, a discomfort which was keeping them from getting proper rest, nightly this pain from the back of their neck all the way down their left side of arm as with back. Anyway, I wished and prayed to take atleast half of this persons pain away or atleast the burning, he shortly there after hasn’t since had any further problems, I about a week later along my spine had the most burning sensation mostly at night which lasted about 2 weeks, I’ve not nor has he had any further problems since then and it’s been now 2 years. It’s more likely that this was just wishful thinking that I merely brought onto myself for the great need to take their pain away.
(Whoops; comment moderation. It just looked like I was first!)
Slade–great. More art for me to do.
I’ve got quite a backlog already! Talk to Athena Nike, Athena Polias, young Britomartis the Bee Goddess, Banba Eriu and Fotla, and Skadi the Norse Goddess of Winter and Skiing (that one was in thanks for not breaking my leg the first time I got on a ski slope in decades, and it’s been half done for a couple years now.) –Seriously, though, I’ll see what I can do. I have a couple of sketches of some of them. Have you put any of the photography of yours up? Is it something you’d like to share? I’d love to see yours!
Another amazing conversation. My main Guide is almost always present with me these days, if I just look around for him. (He’s sitting here smiling at this conversation right now.) A lot of times, though, I can feel him by a warmth on my lower back, like he’s got his hand there in support.
Sarah, I love your description of your Angel Guy, his voice like “the ringing of a great golden bell”. Wow. I know some of those “shining sentences” too, like: “There is no ‘backsliding’, or ground lost; it is impossible, like time running in reverse. It is always and only forwards.”
Rosie: I once did a meditation on the Tarot card the Lovers. I learned then that there were four kinds of Love: the Love others have for you, the Love you have for others, the Love you have for yourself, and the Love the Universe has for you. Now, the Love others have for you, well, no, that one is not your call, it’s true. But the Love you have for others and your Love for yourself are things you can do something about. And on top of that the Love the Universe has for you is a great and abiding constant, and is always there, if you can find a way to trust in it. I don’t know if it helps you to think of it that way; I know it did help me to realize that three quarters of the Love out there is something that is either a given, or something you have the power to cultivate and grow.
And I know what you mean about the heebie-jeebies; I live in a house that’s a couple centuries old and I have to will myself not to even think about the concept of ghosts if I’m to get any sleep. I have to just push it away.
Patricia: My main guide didn’t talk at first either. The key for me was not to sit there asking him stuff, but to tell him that I was listening, and that I heard him.
And Andrea/Bob: I am all too familiar with that sense of humor! I think the Universe is powered by laughter sometimes!
This has been such an awesome thread/discussion — so many amazing stories, piled up into a banquet of laughter and tears.
Just recently I made contact with a new guide. The first inkling or “message” I had from this guide was last summer, when our family was visiting the Badlands of South Dakota; I found myself deeply moved by the herds of bison there, and in particular one painting of a bison in snow in a gift shop, whose eyes seemed incredibly human, and were absolutely searing.
A few weeks ago I was going through a box of oddments and stumbled on a stone carving of a bison given to us by my in-laws; I remember them saying something about it being a good-luck charm. Holding this carving, I was suddenly struck with a profound feeling of longing that I couldn’t put my finger on.
Lately, I started thinking more and more about the bison in the picture. A few days ago while driving, thinking about the bison, I realized I had slipped into a meditative state without realizing it, and the bison was speaking to me about strength, slow power, careful, deliberate action, and most especially an odd sort of joyful longing/sadness. It was then that I realized I had myself a new guide! I feel like I’ve found a new friend — what an amazing gift.
What a fun discussion! We communicate in lots of different ways at my house, depending on who came calling that day. My Angels usually give me a high sound in my ear one side or the other usually with a feeling of pressure on that side of my body to let me know the day is starting out with them. At night I get a light show in my room, especially if they brought someone with them. Lots of light sparkles around the room. If someone new shows up, my husband can usually sense it too. If a person- recently crossed over- (or not recently) comes around I usually feel them leaning on me, like one of my kids leaning over my shoulder to see what I am doing. I ask what or who they need and I can get them on their way fairly quickly. When I am meditating I sometimes get complete lectures downloaded. I guess I should be writing them down! If there is an urgent matter, I will hear my guides or Angels speak to me. I hear them just as someone standing next to me. In this case I can usually feel them too. Sometimes when I let my mind wander, the images in the room go dark and fuzzy and I begin to see other shapes and energy fields, but that is too cool and it snaps me out of lala land where I can see them! DARN! Have a lovely week….
I was always rather secretive about my belief in Spirit Guides and the like, because most people around me would think I’ve gone loonie, but last year at school a friend of mine and I got on the topic of this stuff, and she was telling me about her two guides who she calls “Ri” and “John”– Anglisized versions of their more “ethnic” names.
I asked her about mine- I would talk out loud, but to no one in particular. She told me about my main one, Marcy, a girl who comes in the form of someone my age and what she looked like in her most recent life as a Habitant in Quebec during the 1600s, and three other male guides. The male ones, she said, would become more involved later on in my life, sharing similar experiences to what I’m supposed to go through. Now, I hate how I cannot see them, and formulate vague images in my mind based on her descriptions- I feel more so Marcy and the rests’ presences, but don’t really see them, and talk telepathically with them, hearing their thoughts and slight variations in tones rather than actually hearing their voices.
One time when I was little, playing with toy cars alone in my basement, I felt the breath of someone along my left ear, and make a gasping noise that sounded kind of like “hye”. I was scared shitless!! I sometimes see streaks of light in the corner of my eye, or zoom past infront of me, and one time a few months ago, I was trying to sleep drifting in and out of consciousness, and had a quick dream where I was racing on a wooden dock with a girl with long brown-blonde hair, brown eyes, and loose, poor/peasaent looking white robe/gowne and the wind was going against us, and she was pushing and pushing me and laughing, and suddenly pushed me really hard- I felt like I fell off the dock(on the left side of it), and zoomed through nothingness and suddenly jumped and opened my eyes, finding myself back in my room. I was really bewildered, and what was even more amazing, was the zipper handles on my back-pack (which was to my right in my bedroom) was making the noise of clicking and clanging as though someone has bumbed into it.
The thought of Marcy’s playful “voice” was in my head saying “That was you!”
Sometimes, to get my attention, they play with my hair (I feel an itchy, tingling feeling) and did that to me as I was reading this thread, usually to point out something of spiritual significance. They also yak with me, correct my grammar when I speak (which kind of gets annoying), and ask me what I’m doing if being silly and play around with me. They also give me confidence when I ask for it, tell me jokes when I’m sad (and pop-in funny, graphic imagry and noises- all complete without me having previously thought of it) and keep me company when I’m deep in thought- tell me not to think negatively about myself or others and always tell me to keep going. One example, during Valentines Day at my old part-time job, my coworker and I had to melt chocolate and dip strawberries in it, and sell it in heart-shaped containers, and this one man was asking us all these details on how to do it etc, and suddenly one of my male guides said to me, making me almost laugh in this guy’s face, “Looks like someone’s gettin’ laid tonight!!” Other times when they do funny but dumb things of the like, and laugh and say “what is your problem?”
Marcy says that this is my forth life here in Canada, having lived here thousands of years ago amongst the first generations of Aboriginals to have migrated here, and later on with other peoples, one about a few thousand years ago, and another a few hundred years before the “explorers” arrived. Plus many other places as well- just like all of us- Neolithic England, Czar-era Russia, Archaic Greece, pre-Indus Valley India, etc etc . Its really fascinating what they can tell you.
I’ve observed that the more I take notice of the kinds of things you mention, the more of them I keep noticing. Some might say “It happens more,” but I’m not convinced that anything has changed other than the eyes through which I see.
As for how it manifests in my life… it seems almost every day in a different way. Last week I had a dream that came true the following day.
Or there’s the fact that we recently bought a home and have been having a lot of work done on it. We had been considering replacing all the closet doors, but only had one replaced in the office since it didn’t have a door yet at all.
The handyman was going to buy a cheaper door, but realized that for $20 more he could get us a much nicer one and he was willing to pay the difference.
I paid him for the difference, and the door looked so good I thought how nice it would be to do all the rest of them. I asked him where he got them (Home Depot), how much he paid, and how much he would charge to put them all in.
Then today I check my mail at the new property and there is a 10% off coupon to Home Depot.
Some might call it coincidence, but I’m pretty sure you and I both would agree it’s communication.
I could go on and on… I get the sense my guides are trying to get my attention since I was a little unbelieving and not paying attention for a large part of my life.
Thalia,
Yes, I have shared a few (a very few) of my portraits of my guides:
If you check out Visualizing the Invisible you’ll see a sample of a few of my original graphics depicting spirit guides. In that post:
– a personal simplified “aura map”
– a portrait of my primary guardian Jane Throne (an angelic entity)
– and if you scroll down to the comments on that post you’ll see my original portrait of Jeff Lilly’s Apollo (as I envision him)
Also, the older post Thank You for Calling Heaven features an original portrait of a transit guide named Angela who assisted me with my earliest Readings, immediately following the launch of SYS.
Chris,
Yes! I think you’ve summed it up quite well. You also mentioned speaking “out loud” to no one in particular — I do think that there are two factors that greatly impact the communication you receive from your guides:
1. Addressing them as individuals
2. Speaking to them out loud. For some reason, this makes a huge difference, and I’ve recently discovered there are physiological reasons why this is so…
There are physical phenomena associated with clairaudience that involves the temporal lobes, the vocal chords, and generally the throat chakra. I was recently contacted by a neuro-scientist to participate in ESP profile studies. I’m learning SO MUCH about the practical, physical, non-spiritual factors concerning biological extra sensory perception.
The body as antenna… Those who we would call Audients essentially perform a human version of sonar or “pinging” — not unlike bats, dolphins, whales, etc.
I have tons to share about this in the near future, but for now let me tell you that physically speaking out loud is a component in clairaudient “sonar.”
Yeah. Me, too.
Would that be like hearing an inexplicable tone in your ear? There was a discussion about this on Steve Pavlina’s forum recently. I get occasional tones but haven’t yet determined what sort of message they are attached to or notifying me of. I’d love to hear more about this.
Jeff,
I too am loving all these delicious personal stories (and considering my vacation, they couldn’t have come at a better time to provide some captivating reading during my semi-absence).
You should know that I’ve received a veritable onslaught of private emails in response to this post (typically, I receive about 5 private replies for every public comment). I encourage everyone — who’s willing — to post these kinds of stories as public comments — they deserve a wider audience than just me…
But, I just had to mention that the overwhelming response to this post has been about animal guides, in the exact sense that you speak of.
One of the stories I received about an animal guide even came from my own dad.
I’m personally seeing so many butterflies that I’m beginning to feel like there’s a hidden camera somewhere or at least a prankster ornithologist…
Slade — butterflies?? Are you kidding with me??
In my morning meditation — which you can read about here — I had a lot of trouble making out what the woman was trying to hand to me… I very nearly decided it was a butterfly, but then I backed away and settled on something similar, but more abstract: a tesseract in motion.
Jeff,
Yes, I’ve been seeing butterflies everywhere for about a month now, which may simply be a completely natural, seasonal phenomenon, I honestly don’t know. But of course I’m reading them and experiencing them as confirmations of new ideas.
When Jason was here visiting me in Tennessee a few weeks ago, I took him to two places where butterflies gather in mind-boggling numbers:
1. The Butterfly Aviary at the Aquarium (an in-door man-managed butterfly safari)
2. The Butterfly Moss-Lick — which is near a secret swimming hole very few people know about, in a canyon a few miles from where I currently live. The place is super-populated with fairies. I take special people there to baptize themselves in elemental energy. There is a moss-covered rock shelf that hangs over the stream and extends like a sidewalk for about fifty yards and butterflies gather there in massive numbers to feed on something…
Have you ever seen an enormous cloud of butterflies grounded and grazing on wet moss? I’ve never seen anything like it. I took Jason there to impress upon him the difference between the butterflies in captivity and the butterflies in the wild, and ultimately to communicate with them.
I would never have made the connection between a butterfly and a tesseract in motion…
Now that I’ve read about your meditation and seen this tesseract… What do you think it means?
A tesseract? Basically stands for the 4th dimension (in it’s primary and most simple form). The animation you link to would be a projection of one into 2 dimensions, the “shadow” of a hypercube.
I’ve been fascinated with the 4th dimension since I was old enough to understand the concept. The idea that there might be another dimension of space — another whole direction in which to travel — is mind boggling. Mystics in the 19th century were especially fond of equating the 4th dimension with the realm of spirit, since any 4th dimensional beings would have many powers that ghosts and such are supposed to have — walking through walls, seeing the whole 3d world inside and out simultaneously, changing their shape (or at least their appearance)… Abbot’s “Flatland” is a great example.
For me, the butterfly represents beauty that seems transient and delicate, but has unexpected endurance (like the migration of the monarchs) and influence (the “butterfly-that-causes-a-hurricane” example). I don’t know how that’s related to the 4th dimension, though…
Vitor, one quick point: the animation is intended to represent a 3-d object, rather than a projection into 2 dimensions. This 3-d object is the shape a tesseract would make if it were rotating, with part of it dipping into 3-d space.
Jeff,
I got you on the concept, I think I just used a different “visual” approach. I actually share that same fascination of higher dimensions.
The butterfly that causes a hurricane is the prime example of chaos theory. A simple set of rules which form complex and highly unpredictable interactions. I use this same concept to create intricate fractal flames based on very simple parameters.
The connection to the 4th dimension could be that these mathematical areas describe a potential explanation for the whole structure of the universe. A core set of “rules” which create an endless self-similarity projecting into infinite dimensions.
The tools that show us the way are finally technology and science. Let’s see… mechanical bees, butterflies that are simultaneously geometrically perfect shapes, throw in the Singularity for good measure, and I start to see some sort of pattern.
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Slade, I know that you and I have discussed my angel that calls himself Manoah. My friend tells me that is a name of someone in the Bible. I don’t think I have heard the name before I was told by Manoah that it was his name. Telling me his name was the only time that Manoah ever communicated with me until my second week in India. One night around 11:00 p.m., I woke up with a migraine. Instead of taking medication for it, I had a voice talking in my ear and a presence that I had felt earlier in the evening when he was doing a healing treatment on my lungs. Earlier in the evening, my friend was doing a Reiki treatment on my kidneys. At the same time, I became aware of a being standing beside my friend and putting his enormous hands on my shoulder blades and moving the energy of my lungs. At 11:00 p.m., this being started talking to me and told me that, yes, he had done energy work on my lungs earlier. Manoah told me that he was one of Archangel Raphael’s Legions of Healing Angels. He said that he hasn’t talked to me before because I wasn’t ready to listen. I wasn’t ready to learn the healing techniques that he is here to teach me. So far, what I have learned includes the use of Reiki that I had a Level II Degree in. I had already planned to get the other 3 degrees starting with Level III sometime this year. Each level increases your healing abilities. What I learned from Manoah was that my body is out of balance and that I need to learn to stay in balance. I already knew that I would be learning to work more with my chakras when I got back home. Waiting for me when I got home was a set of CD’s and a book that I won from Evolving Times just before I left for my India trip. The CD’s and book are full of information that will be useful for my healing education that began while I was in India.
I have enjoyed reading all of the comments that were posted while I was away. What a wonderful community that we are all a part of.
Patricia,
Manoah was Samson’s father.
His name means rest, introspection, quiet, inner stillness
Slade, thank you. I did all of those, “rest, introspection, quiet, inner stillness” when in India because of my illness. I don’t do any of those easily. I know that is the reason that I got sick, to force me to be still and quiet so that I could “hear” all of the things that I was told. I know that I can be so stubborn sometimes. I am working on it.
Hi there!
I found your website out of a few tries to get answers. I live in Alaska where it is snowing and nothing in bloom. I had just walked outside to let my dogs out, and I smelt a strong scent of perfum, more like a citrus scent. At first I thought someone had been on my back porch just seconds before (thought it was a man) but it was sweet and sour like citrus. Anyway the scent went away and I walked down the stairs into the yard and moments later walked up smelt it again, so strong through out the whole stairwell. It made me feel calm and sweet. It was strange since it was outside and in cold weather. I believe in spirits and feel that I have the ability in being more than I am. I’ve been told that I am special in some sense, and also have had many dreams that had came true in differant ways. For one example, I had a dream years ago, when i was working with someone they had died in my dreams, about a couple of weeks later they died. Thats not the first time. There are so many unexplainable things that happen, some big some so small they onlyy make since later on. My question is, how can I learn more and expand my mind with out being scared?
Bridgett,
Thanks for sharing your story. A scent such as you describe — especially combined with the emotional sense that went along with it — is something a lot of people experience in this context.
Your question about being scared is a great one, and something I will have to address at more length. But a few points to keep in mind:
What are you afraid of? Think about why you want to expand your mind — identify what you specifically wish to accomplish — what does “expand your mind” mean to you? Whom will it serve?
Say a prayer or meditate and imagine yourself wrapped in a protective light.
Ask — your guides, your personal guardian angels, your higher power — to help you expand in the way you wish; ask them also to protect you.
Remember the feeling you described here today — the experience with the scent — that doesn’t sound scary at all. That emotion is a tool for you to work with.
As a child I would dream of a man, always the same man, not someone I knew, just someone I felt was familiar.
As a teenager my mother brought us to a psychic, she said she couldn’t give me a reading because of a strong male presence that was with me.
As I grew older people that have lived with me all have seen an unexplainable man, they say he has a muted green glow, although I have never seen him outside of my dreams, my husband and children swear that someone stands in the shadows.
Now I am almost 40, and many years of strange incidents have come and gone. I have noticed a strong flower scent,(th smell is so strong it gets in my mouth and throat, and then is gone as quickly as it comes) and then I feel a presence, but I cannot see him. I am not even sure if he is a spirit guide. I decided to finally talk about him to my husband (who has talked about seeing a man in the house near me… out of the corner of his eye, and in a flash it would be gone). After talking about him he came to me in my dreams again, and he answered my worried question, and told me it would be alright. But he whispered something more to me, but I can’t recall what else he said.
Is this a spirit guide, or is it something else?
Lori,
Honestly, to me, the entity you describe sounds much more like an earth-bound spirit than a guide. I also feel that the man in your dream could very well be a spirit guide, but these are two distinctly different beings.
Spirit guides do not physically manifest the way that a ghost, ancestor, or earthbound spirit who has attached to you might — the fact that other people are literally seeing him almost entirely precludes his being a guide. Guides do not behave that way.
I can’t tell you without doing a reading who or what the entity is that other people report seeing around you, but it is most likely a spirit who has attached to you for some reason — probably an older male relative who has already passed.
(for above) or someone you knew in a past life that hasn’t let go of you, and still wants to be around you and protect you.
Lori, I’m with Slade on this one. This is an earthbound spirit or other entity. And Nicholas may be right, this may be something left over from a past life. But either way, if this is a Soul that is attached to you, this is most likely not in your or its highest path and purpose … after all, if this Soul is shadowing you, it is not moving on with its own path.
Have you ever considered asking it to leave? Or perhaps asking it the reason for its presence, validating that reason, and then assuring it that it can go on its way?
Most importantly, you might want to ask it whether its Soul is in alignment with Divine Love, Light, and Truth. A positive answer will confirm that this is a positive Soul … if you don’t get an answer, you should seriously consider sending this Soul away. You have the power to do that.
Blessings,
Andrea
I have been told by a psychic that the person shadowing me is angry. That he is so strong she could not read me, I have never been able to have a reading because he appears to block my energy somehow. But I do not feel it is angry at me. After reading some of the responses on this site, I asked the spirit to tell me how I can help. But that night I dreamt of a spirit that I couldn’t see and it told me everything was o.k., but I do not think that the spirit I dream of is the same as the soul that shadows me (and after reading the responses on this site I find that they are probably very different.)
I found that there are times the spirit makes himself more known than others; ie: when I argue with my husband, after I go to bed my husband swears that he sees the man standing over me in my bed, my husband said that when we argue the man appears stronger and his green glow is even more present. I would hate to think that this is someone that needs to move on and for some reason cannot.
How can I help him, he has always been with me, but I would rather he went onto a better place and let go of whatever is holding him here.
I am not speaking as an expert here. These statements are from my own experience with a rather nasty, spiteful spirit that attached itself to me during a past life in which we were both Russian soldiers together. We were on a battlefield. He died. I didn’t. He was angry and felt that I was abandoning him so he attached himself to me through however many lifetimes there were between then and my present lifetime.
I had a friend who helped me talk to him and find out the details.
His name was Sergei. Because he was cold on that battlefield in Russia, he caused our home heating system to die so that I would experience the same cold that he did. I don’t know of what other things he might have done. He laughed when he told us about the heating system dying.
After the above conversation with him, my friend and I directed him to leave. He refused. We asked the Archangels and his angels to help him leave. My friend said it was very important to fill the hole left in my aura from where he left so we filled it with light and love so that no other spirit could come and attach itself to me in that empty space.
I have seen my friend do this process with others. I have participated and helped remove other spirits from friends twice. I can’t swear to you that it worked. I do know that I felt different and so does my house after Sergei was gone. I would be interested in how others do this.
Lori,
I am also barely an expert, but could it be that this spirit is not clinging to you, but things are actually the other way around?
The implications of this should be self-explanatory, but I would rather not comment any further here. I do recommend that you work through this issue directly with the help of someone you trust.
Vitor,
Wow — I think that’s a very valuable insight… I’m not sure that perspective would have occurred to me. Good call.
I wouldn’t say I am clinging to an earthbound soul, especially since it has been with me for so long. I can however say that I am very comfortable with it, and in no way does it scare me. At times it’s presence actually comforts me. (even though I can’t see it, I can feel it)
My real problem is that it scares those around me, and as I get older it seems to get more aggressive to those around me.
I know it is time to let him go, (and for him to let me go) but I don’t know how.
Other than telling him to move on, which doesn’t seem to work, how can I help him to move on. I need some tools to help me help him.
Dont know if I should be scared or curious?
CURRENTLY= EXTREMELY SCARED!
So I have always been a bit on the “in tuned” way of life… Honestly my whole life I have always been able to kinda feel things and know things- but never did I have an expieriance like this one…
I was sleeping home alone on the couch with the tv on- about 2:30am a orange and yellow cat crawled next to me on the couch and just stared at me… I asked it how it got into my house then suddenly a woman in a wheel chair came around the corner and didn’t leave my house all night long… at one time she was standing with no wheel chair and she had her two children on both sides of her.
She told me that she was friends of my dads (which I don’t belive, although I know he speaks with spirits from time to time) maybe she has visited him before?
She told me she was just passing by looking for her mom and that she got a new job…
I didn’t feel frightend until she lied to me about setting up christmas decorations on the kitchen counter top… (i figured she wouldn’t lie to me if she was a good spirit)
The next night around 6:45pm I saw a bug fly onto my cabinet (i wasnt sleeping)
This really scared me because at one point the night before the woman filled my kitchen with grapes and when i asked her what they were for she said her children had to eat but then the kitchen immediately filled with fruit flies…
I HOPE THIS IS MAKING SENCE
Anyway Naturally I didn’t want to sleep alone the next night so I slept and my brothers house…
Well I was visited again I felt pretty scared all night
the tv even turned off at 2;15am and turned back on after i started praying with all my might to protect me…
The next morning I asked my brother if he had his tv on a sleep timer and he said he has never used that feature before… He also said that something visited him as well and he felt like he couldnt move and the spirit sang over and over in a manly voice “were always watching you”
***FUN FACT TO KNOW***
I have been seening the numbers 111 just like that for about 10 years or more….
ANY ANSWERS OUT THERE???
how can you have someone who passed away recently and you still feel there presence come to you and let you see them one last time?
Annie,
One of the best ways I know to connect with the presence of someone recently passed is to “sit in his chair” — that is most often literal — or think in more broad terms about a physical place where he and she was known to spend a lot of time in privacy and in comfort.
I can’t guarantee that you will see the person in astral form (unless you have that ability and see spirits generally) — but you will likely feel the presence.
Well I just finished reading your article. I beleieve some one is trying to tell me something. The number 11 has been very prevelent in my life in 2007. I see it everywhere. I look at the clock it’s 11 is on the minutes. I’ll be shopping and my total will have 11 cents in it. I see it on license plates, phone numbers adn eighthteen wheeler trucks. I have question others about it and they say someone is trying to tell me something and I am not paying attention. The next thing that has been prevelent in my life is a green volks wagen bug. yes the car. I have been seeing this for 2 years now. I see it everywhere. One day I saw one 6 times. It has always been going in the opposite direction. The car will be places where I show up. I even seen them when I’m in another state. Only within the last few months have one been going in the same direction I am traveling. At my company’s christmas party I had a friend take my photo by a christmas tree. It was very lowly lit in the area. She took a few shots so that I can pick which one i liked. After I printed the photo I liked there was a orb of light above my head to the left. It was in only one of the photos she took out of several. I checked my digital camera to make sure it wasn’t dust or something. It was an orb of light. It had a little bit of light blue in it. I zoom in to the max which is 8times and I see another orb but this one is very transparent and can’t really be seen without zooming in. In Nov. i was reading an email about asking your guardian angels to give you a sign. So I decided to ask my guardian angel to give me a sign. I got one the next morning. I was walking out to my car and lying next to it was a set of plastic id cards. I looked closer and the guardian angel prayer was faced up. I was in awe. The person on the id name was Erika. So I’m not sure if that is teh name of my guardian angel. I made sure that the girl got her id back. I know someone is trying to tell me something, but what I do not know.
In response to Ashley Michelle post, I recently learned that my 10 year old cousin sees spirits in his house on a daily basis. This has been going on since he was 5 years old. He says they are walking around in present day clothes. He says he sees all nationalities and all ages and sexes. He says they talk to him in dreams. I asked him what about and he was very tight lipped about it. All he said as they talked about television shows. Anyways he sais one day he was taking a shower and someone grabbed his arm and he started screaming. His mom came in and told him he had to sleep with her.
I think as long as they don’t try to do harm to you then that is fine. How did you know this lady with her 2 kids was lying about decorations on the kitchen counter. Maybe a long time ago she did put decorations on the kitchen counter. That cat could very well have died in that house or have been that lady’s pets.
That feeling your brother had about not being able to move is what we call in teh south teh witch riding on your back. The scientific reason behind it is that yourbrain doesn’t realize your body is awake. So therefore u can be awake and not be able to move no matter how much you strain to do so. I notice it happens to me when I am very tired.
What Ashley Michelle describe feels to me like an encounter with Earthbound spirits — ghosts. I just want to state for the record that hauntings and interactions with earthbound spirits are not the same thing as communication from spirit guides.
Hopefully, an awareness of any/all spirit entities serves as an awareness that they are among us.
I had a friend who was constantly plagued by ghosts and negative shadowy entities, yet did not feel protected or believe in the benevolent guardians available to him.
He insisted that there were no “good guys” — I was like “Come on, man! You believe in the Shadows but not the Light? You can’t have it that way. Either you believe in the presence of spirits or you don’t…”
If you do believe, if you do have experiences — even negative ones — then let that be an opportunity to call on the spirit guides and guardian angels to help you out. Don’t waste your breath communicating with shadowy critters, except to tell them to leave you alone, or for the sheer intellectual curiosity of it…
Ask your spirit guides and guardian angels to step in and handle the ghosts for you — delegate!
Check out my article on Spirit Guide Etiquette
The night before I was visited by something. It was dark ,I could see a shape but no face and it was leaning over me to give me a kiss. I got scared and put my hand out . I could bearly move. I turned over to my other side. I was questioning myself if I put my hand out to stop it. I know I tried but I felt like I couldn’t move. I have had other thing happen but those were dreams. I have been give the 3 digit lottery number and they did come in that day.Some I played some I didn’t. I haven’t had it happen it a long time. All together I have won about $5000.00
This is my first time posting on this website. Reading through all that I can in the amount of time that I have in my day has intrigued me to tell some of my stories. I have never told anyone but my spouse. I must say that we are all lucky to have a website such as this one to communicate through! Thank you, Slade!
I want to tell you how my spirit guide responds through me. I recently started communication to my spirit guide a few months ago. My spouse started communicating with his with the use of some tools so I tried it one night with him and instantly got a response. Okay, I’m ahead of myself. Let me start at the beginning…
The one day back in late October, I was really upset about something, as of right now I’m not sure what that was, but I said out loud to myself as I was leaving work, “What am I going to do?” I push open the door to my work that leads out to the parking lot and in the ivy was a praying mantis. That hit me like a ton of brick, I NEED TO PRAY. So I did. That praying mantis was there everyday in the same spot, never moved once. I thought, that’s weird. This is why I thought about joining my spouse and maybe get to speak with my guide. Okay, so the communication began and I asked my guide if he ever gave me any signs. He said “praying mantis”. I was so in awe about that…how did he know about my praying mantis? Okay, so days after knowing this the praying mantis was still welcoming me and saying bye to me at work and I smiled everytime I saw him. November 12th the mantis was gone. November 13th it was replaced by a big pink flower. Okay, first of all, it’s the middle of November and second of all, nothing ever grows in the ivy. The ivy barely grows anymore! I couldn’t believe it! Every day for about a week I walked by that flower sometimes by myself, and sometimes with people and no one ever once said anything about a big pink flower growing in the cold in ivy. That flower was for me. Okay, so the one night we went to visit a family member and his wife was named by my guide once that I could talk to her. That night I got her alone and went over all that I know. She said, “You mean pink flower like these?” She took me to her front door and there were 5 wooden pink flowers exactly like mine in a vase. Synchronicity!
Okay, one more….it’s been a while since the mantis and the flower, but I’m still communicating on a weekly basis with my guide. He kept saying PROM to me. I wasn’t sure what this meant. I went looking through my PROM pictures, just curious and in one of my pictures is an orb! The next time communicating with my guide, before I even got a hello in he said “orb”. I have that picture framed in my bedroom.
I wanted to share my story with you all because of how beautifully our spirit guides work to communicate with us!
Bronya,
Bravo! This is exactly the kind of personal experience I hope people keep sharing in the comments here.
I must say that your interpretations of the signs, symbols you receive — such as your translation of the visual sighting of the praying mantis as a directive to pray, or the way the word prom led you to explore those photographs for clues…
Your examples display a real talent for intuitive Reading. Are you a practicing medium, or do you feel called to read for others? Because you seem to have a grasp on the detective aspect of Reading — unraveling and exploring the cues and clues — some call these impulses.
I must tell you this is a personal synchronicity for me right now — my next planned post is about how to develop and use a Magical Worldview… Most people are familiar with the concept of dream interpretation — my lesson will be about what happens when you explore your waking life with the same premises about signs and symbols…
I’m really encouraged by your sharing for another reason — I plan to train others in my intuitive process and I’ve been having some worries that maybe my process is too personal, or that others might not be able to get what I’m describing or relate to the details enough to adapt my intuitive style to their own process…
Basically, I’ve been asking my guides the last few weeks “Is it just me, or is it something I could actually coach another person to do too?”
So thank you very much for obeying the impulse to comment — you just delivered a message I very much hoped to receive soon…
Honestly, Slade…I have never in a million year thought that I could be a practicing medium for others. I watch Sylvia Brown if I’m home sick or some of the paranormal shows if nothing else is on. It’s never been an interest to me because I never thought that I would be here where I am now, just about prepared to say “Yes, I’m ready.” to the question that you know was asked of me. Another word that is said to me often is COPE and I began asking questions leading me to the answer, I am to help people cope. Will I be a practicing medium? I SURE HOPE SO! Wow, my spirit is uplifted just thinking about it. I believe that maybe I do have a calling now, certainly one that I have never thought possible. Actually, I asked my guide last night a few questions. Did you lead me to Slade? YES. Why did I get this gift? Why now? BECAUSE YOU ARE OPEN. A little while back I asked a series of question to receive this answer…Your purpose is to use this gift to help others cope. I will speak to others guides and communicate it to you
I’m going to take a moment to thank you again for this website. I’m sitting here in my chair at work (my office job) not paying any attention to what I SHOULD be doing and just so happy that I can let this all out and talk to this community about this. As I’m typing out these words I just can’t grasp yet that I can say this “stuff” to someone and they won’t think I’m crazy. It’s beautiful!
Anyway, I would like to explore this gift that I have received and see where it can take me. Do you give lessons or are your synchronicity signs leading you to possible start? Where do I sign up? Can you explain to me what you mean by your process being too personal? I’m not following you there.
Dream interpretation is awesome as well. I haven’t studied much on that. My spouse does. However, I can tell you one thing…my guide visited me in my dream a few nights ago. First dream that I remembered every detail and was able to write it down in my journal and ask him about it. I was right on…
Bronya,
You’re a new reader and we just met, but there are several people here who have “been with me” for months and months and I’ve discussed my intentions to not only teach other people how to generally develop their relationships with spirit guides, but to “eventually” train and coach others to do readings for other people, as I do.
This is a big “Coming Soon” tease, buried here in a little comment.
:-)
Realistically, it will be a few more months before I have a training course online. So, stay tuned! Your interest is a kick in the pants — for me!
See, one of the coolest things about this blog is that, while I definitely believe your guides led you here, and as much as I’m thrilled with what you’ve found here in my articles for your development, it goes both ways — YOU guys are sent to me with insights and nudges from spirit that I don’t get “on my own.”
My “personal process” — what I mean by this is just “the way I personally connect, interpret, and translate intuitive information for other people.” Of course, it just feels like something I’ve discovered and taught myself and muddled through, trial and error — but how much of it is more universal than I assume? How much of what I do, as a medium, could be learned and applied?
My guides insist that becoming a practicing psychic is teachable. Just as you may be born with an ear for music, but still benefit from a teacher, with lessons, structure, and tons of practice…
I didn’t just arrive on earth ready to give readings, you know?
:-)
I do see myself in how you describe “opening” to your gift. If you want to keep developing, ask your guides to keep presenting you with the next step — to a certain degree, that’s the basic requirement — it really is that obvious.
Bronya, can you tell me how I can communicate with my spirit guide? I know someone is trying to tell me something but what I am not sure. Thanks
Dreams can be a wonderful way to heal and teach us more about ourselves. I have actually healed some of my incest issues in a dream when I didn’t know how to do the healing in my “awake” state of mind. When I woke up, I knew exactly what the dream was telling me.
I could give you my input if you would like…I’m no Slade but I would love to try to help ya. Why do you feel like someone is trying to tell you something? What’s your story?
Never mind Tuwanda…I read your story, please don’t retype it
Okay, for me, I see the number 33 everywhere I go. I always thought is was something say, and this sounds stupid, that I was going to die at that age. My guide informed me that every time I see that number I should pray. That’s it! A reminder to pray. And considering you asked for a sign, and you got an ID card with nothing more than the guardian angel prayer, sure seems to me that your guide is trying to communicate with you. As for the green beetle, I will have to think about that one. That baffles my mind. Start talking out loud to your guide, name them if you want. My guide loves when I talk to him, OUT LOUD. Not in your head. Ask for more signs, start looking (not too hard). Don’t just walk out your front door straight to your car and get in. Take in everything around you. That’s how I started. And don’t get upset if you feel you are getting nothing. You will.
Bronya, Thanks for the reply! I have started paying closer attention to things around me and myself. I’ll keep you posted!
Actually, I have a question. I was wondering if there is a book out there that lines up smells with spirit guides and or messages. I have been smelling burnt plastic twice now - once in the bathroom of my business and the other time in my bedroom at my home. Or, if anyone can tell me “who” this is and “what” the message is….?
Thanks,
Wendi
Hi Slade,
My spirit guides sent me to your site. Thanks for your great insights. I have mentioned you on my blog at the following link: http://www.desikanadadur.com/blog/2008/01/18/how-i-contacted-siddhar-thirumoolar/
Thank you for this great article and others! I am going to be lurking around in your blog from now.
Thanks,
-Desika
Desika,
Your blog looks great — I like the blog concept and tagline a lot!
Thanks for sharing the link.
Slade,
Thanks a lot for your appreciation. It means a lot to me.
Thanks,
-Desika
I communicate with my spirit guide by feeling a sensation in my forehead or behind my eyes. allot of pressure one day it got to strong and my head started hurting. I have tried to listen to him but i find it difficult. I don’t know if they’re my own thoughts or his. I have started the automatic writing tactic, that seems to work really well. I have also found a way to tell what he is saying to me. I ask a question, and place my finger on the key that would spell the answer for example “yes” or “no”. if its not that kind of question, I’ll run my finger on each key, waiting for the pressure in my head then I’ll slowly type the words he wants.
I have found it works on my cell phone too. lol
Melissa,
WOW — I love your technique!
It’s like the best of automatic writing, combined with some of the “muscle testing” associated with dowsing or even spirit boards.
I whole-heartedly believe that spirit energy is highly conducive to electronic devices. Your technique for keyboarding and texting is VERY cool.
I shall experiment with this…
Tuwanda,
I wanted to inform you that I found a brief “description” of the number 11. The number 11 carries psychic vibrations. It’s said to be the key to unlock the subconscious mind. Perhaps your guide is trying to tell you something here
Have you contacted your guide yet since we last chatted?
I just opened up spiritually and opened my psychic ability this past year when contacting my guide. Since then I see 11:11 every day on the clock. I haven’t missed it yet. Hmmm……how can I not believe this is clearly a sign from my guide?
Keep me posted!
Bronya
I have been able to feel tingling sensations on my skin for as long as I can remember…on my head, arms, face, legs–at any given time…sometimes it’s persistant, other times it’s not. I’ve come to the conclusion it’s someone letting me know they are there…when I was a child I’d wake up in the middle of the night because I could feel someone trying to pick me up around the middle…after a while it would happen so much that I stopped being scared of it. I’ve also always had dreams that happened later in life, and still have dreams now that are the kind where an event is happening right at that moment and I’m witnessing it. I can see it on the news the next day. I’ve also had a vision before.
I came across this site while looking for answers to a particular dream I had 4 years ago about a woman. In this dream, I was in no particular place…there were no real surroundings…no space, no time. A somewhat elderly, grey, slender black woman was there, and deep down inside, I knew I knew this lady. Without physically saying it, she told me her name…Bessie. I remember hugging her. She hugged me back, and I distinctly remember her patting me on my head while she said, “You have seven.”
I desperately wanted to know what she meant by that. I knew she meant it in the sense of time, but I guess with us being in an environment of no time and no space, it had no bearing–OR she didn’t want me to know. Without asking her physically, I inquired what she meant…but she refused to tell me. I woke up after that, knowing that was not a frivolous dream.
To this day, I’m still not real clear on what she meant, but I’m thinking she meant seven times, which can be interpreted as seven years. That seven year mark from that dream will be 2011. I was born on the 11th day of the 1st month of the year…and from my meager findings, maybe 2011 is supposed to be a year of importance having to do with lightworks.
One other thing I wanted to mention: Someone who is watching you does let you know they are with you. They let me know, when not touching me, by sending dandylion seeds on the wind. Everytime I see a dandylion seed cross my path and there are no dandylion flowers anywhere in sight, I know someone’s near me. And sometimes, every once in a blue moon, I will also smell this indescribable smell…it’s like a cross between sweet and acrid, and it takes over your entire nasal passage for only a few seconds. I always thought it was something from birth that I was unconciously remembering. Who knows.
Just thought I’d share.
Jonnae,
I’m really glad you shared this comment — thank you!
Dandelions
Dandelion seeds are a powerful personal symbol for me — definitely part of my magical, visual vocabulary. I chose to include a dandelion image as the header on Spiritual Blogging because they represent Manifestation, Broadcasting Intentions, Creativity, Projects, etc.
So this a really cool signal that resonates with me. It reminds me of the little stray feathers you find from time to time, which many associate with confirmation from angels or totem bird spirits…
Jonnae,
Thanks for sharing.
I come from a yoga background. You may already know that in yoga system, 7 signifies 7 most important chakras (wheels or vortices of energy) in our energy body along our physical spine starting at the genital area and going all the way up to the crown.
I read that year 2012 is supposed to be year in which earth’s ascension/transformation becomes rapid and all lightworkers are supposed to be working to increase the vibratory rate of all beings on this planet so that they can handle intense spiritual energy that is being bombarding the planet..
-Desika
Lately I haven’t been getting as many (or any) dreams or visions of my guides, with just their thoughts and feelings of their presence. I want to know if that is a good thing or bad thing. I guess, in a way, it helps to solidify my belief in them if I have no hard proof of them (and with even less) though think of them as a much more integral part of my life than before. I seem to be told things now a few seconds or even minutes before they happen and I get myself into a strange or irrelevant conversation or situation, and then another mind in my head would point out to me an important correlation between what ever is being discussed or revealed, and something that I have thought of or heard of before. It is hard to explain, because it is such a vague description of such a broad range of events.
They still give me the silly and funny thoughts.
Thanks very much for reading my comment…. any thing be it a comment or some advise would be appreciated. =D
Nicholas,
If it makes you feel any more confident, I have close to zero conscious awareness of my dreams. Clairvoyance, visions, intuitive imagery is not my strong suit at all. I tend to see auras more than anything else you might categorize as visually psychic…
Feelings and vibes are perhaps the most likely, most powerful, but most overlooked response most people claim to have. Whether it’s “bad” or “good” is not quite the right question, I feel… Your experiences will be unique to you, stronger in some intuitive formats than others (usually a few types will stand out); the forms may also be stronger in certain areas at different times; you will likely grow or develop in some abilities…
Work with developing what you get the most of — or, request information in a particular way, if you require it.
Fully expect that your spirit guides do indeed have a sense of humor.
Oh my gosh, yes…I too have trouble remembering my dreams a lot…though I usually remember the just of them and then forget it soon afterwards. I only remember very vivid or remarkable or ….wonderful dreams.
Yeah, I usually have to try some what hard to be able to have a quick conversation with my guides in my head, and like you, I too don’t see anything like guides, angels, spirits, etc…just sometimes I see lights flash, or “splurges” of colour and light swim past me or on the walls. It all kind of angers me in a way, I feel very impatient and wish and pray that I was like some people whom you hear about: who, if anything, pray that they did not see these things.
But, I am growing/developing in certain areas like you suggest, in that I can better differentiate what is my thoughts and someone else’s. And, what makes me very excited, is that I sometimes see things happen (or get my guides’ thoughts telling me it will and so forth) a few minutes or seconds before it does, or I think of something, and who ever I’m talking with/to will say exactly what I was thinking, and exactly how I thought of it.
And like always, they give me confidence in myself … they do not seem to mind me not being able to see them as much as I do, and like what you have suggested, they say I should work with what I got. Other things I ask for “will come later”.
Thankyou very much!
Jonnae–
11+1+2011 = 1+1+1+2+1+1 = 7.
To this day, I’m still not real clear on what she meant, but I’m thinking she meant seven times, which can be interpreted as seven years. That seven year mark from that dream will be 2011. I was born on the 11th day of the 1st month of the year…and from my meager findings, maybe 2011 is supposed to be a year of importance having to do with lightworks.
Nicholas and Slade, if you are interested in remembering more of your dreams, I learned in a dream class a few years ago to state the intention that you want to remember your dreams when you wake up the next morning. State this intention just before going to sleep each night. Also, put a notebook and pen by your bed so that you can get it as soon as you wake up. Many dreams we forget because we get up to fast in the mornings. If you have the pen and notebook close you can write your first thoughts down when you wake up before you have a chance to forget the dreams. Do this before you get out of bed.
I have read somewhere that we all dream. Not remembering them doesn’t mean you aren’t dreaming. I go for long stretches of time where I don’t remember any of my dreams. Then I will have a period of time where I remember 1-3 dreams every night. I will occasionally have a dream that lasts all night long. I will wake up and go back to sleep and go back into the same dream again. Those are rare. I have a lot of classroom dreams where I don’t remember what I learned but I wake up aware that I was in a classroom all night long.
I wonder how much of our astral traveling is remembered as dreams?
ATTENTION - someone please tell me the meaning of this . Im 17 and ive had a crush , but it feels like love . On someone , i dont know if they fell the same . So the other night i was laying in bed thinking about the one i love and my alarm goes off at twelve o clock and starts playing time after time by eva cassidy . It was weird cause the lyrics were coincideing with what i was doing - thinking about my love . The beginning of the song is like ( I lay in bed and the clock ticks and i think of you , flashback memories of a time almost left behind ) it was weird help was this a hint or something?
Jillian,
“Meaningful coincidences” are usually apparent, undeniable in their context, and the significance feels obvious to you, doesn’t it?
Re: Bronya’s seeing 11:11 all the time.. :l. I see it as wel, have for the last year or so… it’s gotten to be a bit ridiculous! I mean, coincidence I can see but it’s too much at this point.
It DOES coincide with my more diligent research on spiritual matters so who is to say it isn’t connected somehow?
Out of sheer curiosity I googled (agh! It’s a verb now!) “I see 11:11 ..” something phrased like that and found a myriad of sites regarding this… if it’s ok with Slade I will post those 2 I found here (I am big on not visiting someone else’s blog merely to promote another..)
http://www.greatdreams.com/11coin.htm
then this one : http://www.nvisible.com/
What I like- or one thing I could surmise from quick read overs of these sites is that 11:11, or seeing these numbers- seems to be more common than you might think. I listened to Coast to Coast once and it was mentioned as well by a guest. It does seem to have a universal link somehow, perhaps a raised consciousness people are experiencing. I will admit that even speaking to people about some of my personal experiences (finally) and not fearing people thinking I am ‘nuts’ or ‘deluded’, etc… instead of receiving a negative backlash I find a lot of people interested and eagerly sharing their own stories and spiritual moments. Pretty cool! I am not sure if these experiences have been around all along or just that we are entering a climate that allows us to share more freely- regardless it seems like more people are sharing raised consciousness and that’s what counts!
I feel compelled to seek out other people’s stories (i.e. reading comments on here; I rarely read comments on most boards:) not only to learn but take comfort, too. We’re connected. It’s all too easy to forget that in the daily grind of things.
Anyway, a leisurely Sunday reading some of these great entries and comments. I am glad to have found this place!
thalia…wow. thanks for that. i never noticed. might i also mention that my first, mid and last names are each 7 letters long (jonnae is my nickname)?
sometimes i wonder what the Creator had planned for me.
ever since my grandfather died in 1985 i have been ableto feel his spirit every so often and even being able to fee; other spirits i would like to know more about spirits and why i can feel my grandather,grandma,uncle even one of our cats we had before she got sick and passed away.
On a number of occasions over the past 20 years I’ve seen orbs of flashing light. I’m not sure if it’s just one entity, or if it’s different ones at different times. The only way I can think to try describe them is to say that If you’ve ever held a coin on its edge, then flicked it and watched it spin, they have a similar blurry motion. However, it’s more like what would happen if the coin wasn’t made of silver, but instead its faces consisted of the black and white yin/yang symbols. They seem to quickly flash from white to black to white, almost too fast to distinguish each color.
They’ve always appeared unasked, usually at times of great stress in my life, and they’ve always instantly brought me a peace beyond measure. I never tried addressing them directly, assuming they came of their own accord when they sensed I needed their help. However, I was recently at a crossroads in my spiritual development, and decided to ask them explicitly for direction. The following day I came across “Who Am I? The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi” online. That single document has since led me to greatest period of spiritual growth that I’ve had in the past twenty years.
I don’t know if the entities have names. However, what I’m sure they do have is my eternal gratitude, not just for the times they’ve brought me peace when I so needed it, but for leading me to a source of such deep spiritual insight.
It is interesting to come across this site. I am in my late 40s, and since my early 20s have had conversations with what I now believe are my spirit friends/guides. When I ask for guidance or understanding it comes my way, but also, it is just like me having a conversation with myself. It took me many years…and growing faith….to believe and realise…it wasn’t myself when I initiated these conversations. My feedback is not directive, but is often reassuring……words I frequently here are ‘all will be well’. I have never once been ‘let down’….and it is this which has further consolidated by faith over the years.
I was with my mother when she died recently, and in the hours before her death, I saw a bright flash go across the ceiling above her bed. I wasn’t sure how to explain this, but information on this site would suggest an angel?
Thank you for the interesting information you have provided.
Hi, I’m glad I found this site becuase I’ve been trying to figure out what to do since I’ve become clairaudient. At first I thought it was just a crazy dream but that’s how it started. I heard a beautiful voice of a man he said “This is John”. I’m assuming that he’s my spirit guide, his voice was like that of a professional voice over. Since then I’ve heard a variety of voices just saying such things as “Hello” in a variety of tones some sounding like Alvin & the Chipmunks, one voice even sounded like he had larengitis, with other voices saying “Good Night” and “We Near”. I’m also seeing a slice of beautiful blue light by my collar bone which I’m assuming is my aura and could this is verification that I’m opening up to hear spirit. I usually hear spirit jvoices just before, and during sleep or early waking. I’m trying to figure out how to be more consistent and build my trust in these occurences. They kind of freaked me out buy I’m trying to let it come which is why I’m glad I found this site. If anybody has any direction or tips to help this be a great adventure I thank you.
Pam,
I’m so glad that you found us too and that you’ve decided to share your personal experience.
The Professional Voice Over - very interesting. Now that you mention it, this is exactly how I would describe some of my earliest clairaudient experiences as a kid.
The Squeaky Voices - I have also heard of other people who experience these “chipmunk” voices; that description seems to particularly appear in association with angels and spirit guides.
The times when you seem to have the experiences - such as just prior to sleep and immediately upon waking - are also consistent with other clairaudients.
Of course this can “freak you out” when it first happens - absolutely anyone can startle you when you’re not prepared for it. So push past that initial discomfort and proceed on faith that your experiences are shared and corroborated by other people.
Begin keeping a journal of these experiences to help you establish patterns and explore potential meaning and significance.
Hopefully, you will find a lot of great support, encouragement, tips, etc, here at Shift Your Spirits.
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Hi Everyone,
I would love your input on something. I was dating a guy for a few months and we broke up two months ago. I can’t help thinking that he was the one for me, but at this point I’m not sure what I can do to fix it. Anyway, since the beginning of the end for us, I have been getting weird “sign-like” occurrences on a regular basis. Weird things, such as looking for his address on my computer to mail something, then shutting it down…the following week when I went to look for something else, the page came up with his name and address already in it…but I never typed it in there. Also, songs on the radio that they don’t normally play on the radio…weird commercials with words written across the screen that have significance to him and me…including one that said “just believe in it” . One time, I had gone to the movies with my friend and looked up to see just two cars parked on the street, in a strange area (many parking spaces in plazas and no businesses or housing near where they were parked); one of the cars was exactly like his and one was exactly like mine…same colors, same models, same everything.
Anyway, one of the ones that sticks with me happened last week. I’ll cut to the chase…I had a dream of being in a restaurant alone…I was talking to some people and in the background was a girl in her late teens/very early 20s…she had bright blonde hair and bright blonde eyelashes. her hair was straight and pulled back in a ponytail. She didn’t belong in the restaurant…she wasn’t eating, wasn’t at a table, wasn’t with anyone. Anyway, someone asked me about the guy I was dating and I replied. Just then, the blonde girl said (with her head bowed…all I saw was the top of her head and eyelashes) “He’s the one” I said “what did you say?” she raised her head and looked me square in the eye and said “You know he’s the one, right?” I got rattled and said “yeah, um I don’t know…” There was more to the dream, but that is the part that really sticks out to me…could this have been a guide giving me a message? Or, is it just my mind trying to believe something? If it was a guide, she didn’t tell me how to fix it, although I’ve asked each night since then…Does anyone have any input???
Wow. What amazing comments! I keep revisiting this thread. Slade, I love everything you write. I appreciate you taking the time to do this so much. I am not so effusive but just thanking you yet again. The readers here add so much in the way of personal experiences, too. It’s just so much fun to read.
Jonnae- I really appreciated that comment as well. How fascinating. I have had a few dreams too where I just *knew* the ’stranger’ before me i.e. had a comfort and familiarity with them. I suspect they were either guides or ancestor spirits.
Either way it’s amazing how we can connect to them in our dream state.
Desika- ah! THANK YOU! I have been so overwhelmed with reading about various ominous doomsday type scenarios for 2012 that your explanation truly makes me feel better. And it’s rather something I look forward to seeing. What an exciting time to live in..tenuous in many ways (i.e. the economy, the disastrous War machine chugging along, etc..) but this gives so much hope. That’s something we all need.
Finally - Slade, WOW! Re: the feathers. So funny. I regularly hike and spend much time outdoors. I walk pretty much everywhere so it seems I notice a lot of feathers in my path. Even in the city where I spend much of my time; for some reason I just always looked at them, smile and think ‘oh, cool’ and then later think well, it’s just a feather. So perhaps this is just a way of my angels or guides saying ‘hi!’? I never heard that theory. I learn something new here all the time:)
Ah! back .. one more thing. I noticed Steve mentioning the orbs.. I have seen them but not all the time. I WISH I had clauraudient ability like Slade and Pam and some others here (ahh! how neat that would be) but I am happy that I have been able to see some orbs. The first time was @ 5 years ago. I found an old driver’s license of my grandfather near the washer/dryer in the basement when I was packing my parents’ stuff to move. I was there alone. My mom came home and told me “your clothes are done from the dryer- the buzzer went of’ I said great, but I would never put my suit from work in there (I changed into my own work clothes and laid it on a chair) Sure enough, the suit was in there. No idea how. Anyway, later that night I was locking up and saw a large blue orb come towards me. It was so unexpected as it was my first time seeing it and I screamed! I am mad now but I was scared, I’ll admit. I saw a white one near it.. I ran out of there fast.
Anyway, I have seen blue ‘lights’ almost dance playfully near where my infant was sleeping. I was not scared then, though (this was recently). I very frequently see almost a flashing ’strobe’ light just out of the corner of my eye. This happens in places where other light sources have been ruled out or just not possible (i.e. a passing car, etc..) and it’s very sudden and very bright. Kinda neat- I’m not sure what that is, probably not the same as an orb though.
hi
one thing i have noticed over the years when i think about my guides or angels is a sensation of something playing with my hair which can sometime be quite a strong sensation, could you comment on this
thanx
sue
Hi,
Slade thanks for your suggestions. I’m keeping track of my interactions to see patterns and any value to what has been said. I also spoke to an intuitive friend who’s been teaching classes at the local spiritual book store. She made recommendations about opening chakras when you want to receive communication and when to close them to help with getting a quiet night of rest. My communications have still only been one or two words that are audible or maybe there’s more and I have to build my concentration. But the thing I want to make sure is that who I’m hearing from is of the highest vibration. I ask for the white light and ask that only the highest and best to come thru. I don’t sense anything negative. I’ve asked for identification but no names yet. Is this something that takes time to get names or some kind of identification? Any more helpful hints from any one would be useful. Thanks!
Hi, i think i have met my spirit guide. i feel someone touching my hair alot, and especially my leg alot too. my right one especially.
i used to be frightend, because i didn’t understand, i thought i was being attacked. but now i feel no fear, and feel him around me often. i heard the name angelo, but don’t really know. so i assume this is his name.
If he wants to talk or say something, i will be jolted awake while trying to sleep.
i am still learning with him.
Lauren,
Have you followed through on any of these signs? Have you contacted this guy you were dating?
The Universe and your spirit guides can communicate with you, but if you don’t DO something — take action — to follow the signs and messages you’re receiving you can never know.
Start with the simple, obvious actions you can take. It may only require an email or a phone call to discover that he feels the same as you.
Pam,
Your protective work with the white light and your intention to establish communication with only the most benevolent entities is fine. As you said, you don’t feel anything negative — a “negative” entity requires negative vibes like breath. PLEASE don’t spend too much energy worrying about negative entities — I don’t speak about them here because I offer them little to no attention — follow my example.
Also, know that names are not something that all mediums necessarily “get.” I always get names, but I know many powerful clairvoyants who do not receive language at all and identify spirit guides by other details, such as feelings.
Sue & Veronica,
The sensation of having your hair played with is reported a lot, particularly by women.
Sabine,
I generally lump the strobes and the orbs together as similar phenomena, or a variation on the same kind of experience. This is just my experience, but if I had to separate the two as distinct types of entities, I’d have to say that orbs are more likely to be angels, strobes or bright sparks are “lower” spirits.
I often see what I would describe as “air colored lightning bugs.”
Hi Slade,
Thank you for the input. It has been on my mind recently. In fact, I went to see a “famous psychic” about it today, who told me that he isn’t the one and that I am “making” these signs happen. I don’t understand this. Can you shed some light on this for me?
As far as doing anything about these signs…I did do one thing. I had asked my friend (who recently passed away) for guidance with this issue, figuring she would appear in my sleep with some message for me. When I woke, I had no message. Then, I checked my email and there was one email in my box…for a concert for a band who he and I both like. Turns out, the concert is being held in the hometow