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| Category: Shamanic Studies |
Date published: June 23, 2004 |
 There have been spirit guides since before there were human beings. Dealing with spirit guides is dealing with antiquity itself. We can take ourselves back to the time of the Egyptians and delve into the spirit guides of the pyramids if we choose.
The Shamanic world of spirit guides is wide and diffuse. There are those who can barter with the spirit guides to get a task accomplished by trading what is usually some form of energy. you can learn more about Shamanic healing by visiting www.shamanelder.com
There are spirit guides for trees and mushrooms and grass and each animal has a spirit guide. They are all available for you as you walk the Innerworlds.
Spirit guides may change their appearances at any time. You may see a fox and a bluebird and an agate stone and they are all the same spirit guide.
We call upon our spirit guides to help us traverse the Inner world, to find something that is lost there, to do soul retrieval for example, to help with a healing or to help us find information we may need. But remember that to call on a spirit guide always requires some kind of compensation. Remember that their sense of time is not like ours. Be ready to travel in their dimensionbut keep yourself from becoming unglued from this reality. I suggest tying a cord around your waste in this reality that you can follow back from inside the Inner Worlds or travel with your totem animal who will bring you back itself if you intend.
Your own guardian spirits never work against your higher self. They cannot give you what you do not want so of course free will is everything here. And your intent is what they will follow. You must work with your spirit guides. They are not there just to do your bidding. You must be working with them. You must also be very specific in what you ask for. Right down to the color, size and location. It is good to learn this teaching in connection with a Shaman Elder like myself to hold your hand and teach you these old ways.
We always get what we wish for, be it good or bad. Intent is what brings thought into manifestation. Guard your thoughts carefully. As you progress in your practice you will find that you are able to manifest things more quickly than before. Eventually you will be manifesting on a daily basis as I do and then you will clearly see that each thought can become a manifestation. I have to watch all my thoughts constantly because an unkind thought toward another person becomes an arrow immediately. If I wish for a rainy day, it clouds up and rains. If I wish I didn't have to get out of bed, I wake up the next morning so sick and tired that I cannot get out of bed. If I wish for something to eat, I am hungry for the next three days! This kind of power quickly makes you aware of what you are doing with the power of intent.
Some people say that we only get what is good for us because God doesn't let bad things happens to us. Or if it is bad for us, God will not let us have it. You have heard these saying before. I say it is good that people believe in this. If we cannot control our good intentions and our bad intentions ourselves, then it is good to let someone else "God" have that control. Some use their "higher selves" as the control mechanism. That is good too. Otherwise you yourself must be responsible for everything that happens to you either good or bad and that is a big responsibility. That means you would have no one else to blame when the car breaks down or a friend gets angry at you or you lose your job or you win a car that you can't afford the insurance for. Who wants that kind of responsibility? Not many of us.
Spirit guides are here to help us make the right choices and to manifest those choices. I use spirit guides to help me travel in the Inner World. They live there and know their way around and I can more quickly get to where I need to be with their assistance. I also use spirit guides to help protect me when I am travelling through life either in this world or in others. They watch my back for me and alert me when danger is around. Some may call this a guardian angel. Yes, it is the same idea.
I have known my spirit helpers all my life as I was taught about them as a very small child. They were given to me in bedtime stories and pictures of spirit helpers were hung on my bedroom walls so I would be comfortable with them. I rely on my spirit helpers to do those things I may not know how to do or to get to places I have never been.
There is a mutual respect and a system of honor that passes between my self and my spirit helpers.
So be very truthful with yourself and with your spirit helpers. Ask for exactly what you really want and in a way that is very clear. Do not even consider things that are bad for you or for others. You will learn to eat better foods, to sleep better at night, to take care of your body because every imbalance in your life will be manifested 100 times as you think about them. I once realized I was getting a bit overweight and the next thing I knew I was over 20 pounds overwieght! I once thought I would like some ice cream and then I ate 2 containers full! Now I think about fruits and how much I like them and about greens and eating healthy.
I once looked at a bottle of wine and got tipsy. You may think I am mad but this is not at all unusual for a person who has been practicing as long as I have. Shamans can go weeks without food or water using the same mindset. Mystics in the middle ages lived for years on only the Eucharist. My point is simply to be careful what you wish for...you will get it.
Aho!
Shaman Elder Maggie Wahls
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