Your Five Guides

Joy Guide: With a winning personality and an infectious sense of humor, your joy guide makes life meaningful by reminding you to be happy. Most joy guides appear as children or teens because young people have not forgotten how to be lighthearted.

Protector Guide: Protector guides understand that the earth is a dangerous place, both for the physical body and to the aura, the energetic field that surrounds all living things. Protectors keep us from dangerous situations and chase away negative energies that can adversely affect us.

Doctor Teacher (also called Doctor of Philosophy) Guide: Remember that teacher from school that you always liked and worked hard to impress? Doctor teacher guides help us to sort out our spiritual paths and the life lessons we have agreed to take on in this lifetime.

Doctor Chemist Guide: We all need help taking care of our health and making our well being a priority. Doctor chemist guides influence us to make good decisions regarding our physical bodies. They can also prepare us to become more open to the world of spirit if we wish.

Master Teacher Guide: Like the principal of a school, our master teacher guides oversee the other guides in our band of helpers and touch in with us when great spiritual knowledge is needed or desired.

Our Relationship to Our Guides;

So why do these guides become associated with us? Our guides become interested in us through the Natural Law of attraction, which states that like attracts like. In my Posse of girlfriends, all of us share an interest in the theatre, which is where we all met. Our spirit guides may share certain affinities with us as well, sometimes connected through past lives and common situations we have shared. For instance, my doctor teacher guide lived around the turn of the twentieth century, and he tells me he was a devout Spiritualist during his lifetime. He helps me in my life now when I lecture or write about Spiritualism and mediumship. Your guides may also be connected to you because of certain interests that you share.

Many people ask me if our loved ones who pass away become our spirit guides. For the most part, this is not the case. The five guides in your band come in with you when you are born and are waiting for you on the Other Side when you make your transition. With the exception of your master teacher guide (who may work with others), your guides work exclusively with you. Our guides have also been “trained�?in the spirit world for their roles as guides. When our loved ones pass, many become aware over time that they are able to communicate with those in the physical world, and some may check in more often than others to monitor our life progress. Although Grandma Sue or Uncle Fred may send us messages about our lives, they do not fill the same role as the spirit guides in our band do.

Common Questions About Guides;

Some folks become confused when trying to differentiate between spirit guides and angels. Although angels can communicate with us, nurture us, and send us protection from their places in the spirit realms, they are completely different energies than spirit guides. We can all work with angelic energies as easily as we can work with guides, if we so choose. What separates guides from angels is the fact that guides have lived a physical experience at some point. Angels are not human beings, and they have never been human beings at any phase of their existence. Our guides relate well to us because they understand the human experience and can lend advice from a “been there, done that�?point of view if the situation warrants it. We have a great deal of help available to us if we seek it, but angels and guides are definitely different.

Some people also question the title “doctor�?that chemist and teacher guides have in their names. This is an honorary title bestowed upon some guides while they are in the spirit world and does not denote any type of medical training that the guide may have had while she inhabited the physical body during any of her incarnations. Although your doctor chemist is concerned about your well-being, you should always seek the professional medical opinion of a doctor in the physical world if you suspect that you need such attention. Guides may give advice about health, but most of the time, they will recommend you see someone in a professional capacity as well.

Working with Guides;