Higher Self Guides

Conversations with Other Lives

Do you ever wish you could give your younger yourself some advice? Maybe you went through a rough period in your life and looking back now you wish you could pick up the phone and call your younger self with some words of wisdom gained from hindsight that could have made your life easier. That's the process I attempted this morning by trying to access a former lifetime.

I sat at my keyboard and invited a conversation with whichever of my other selves wanted to come through. Contact came almost immediately and we conversed for approximately 20 minutes. The results were somewhat mixed, but certainly worth sharing.

Below is a transcript of the conversation. The style is similar to that which my friend Frank DeMarco uses (see The Challenge of Our Times), but you may notice some other similarities as well. For instance, the first name I get is Bertram, which is the name of one of Frank's contacts. Similarly the contact is from 13th century Britain, while Frank's Bertram is from medieval England as well. I think that is suspect and it is discussed below. Nonetheless, some fresh messages come through and for me they resonate with a certain sense of truth and accuracy. So here's the conversation.

The Challenge of Our Times

Today's post is a reprint of an email message I received from my friend and colleague Frank DeMarco. For years Frank has enjoyed clear and cogent conversations with his spiritual guides, whom he refers to as The Guides Upstairs, or TGU for short. Frank often shares notes from these conversations by email. This one I found striking enough that I asked his permission to reprint it here. As you may have gathered from the post title the subject is the fundamental nature of the challenge of our times as seen from a spiritual perspective. Note: Frank's words are in italics. Those of TGU are in plain text.

Friday, February 17, 2006

All right. It is 8 a.m., nearly, the start of a cloud-heavy morning. If you're ready to answer [my brother] Paul's question – what is the real challenge of our time, what is the equivalent of the Civil War to us – I'm ready to hear it.

You have heard it many times, each time in a slightly different context. You have expressed it many times, enough that it is just another of your beliefs.

Parallel Evolution

I’ve been thinking about human evolution lately. Not where we come from, but where we headed. To better understand this I ventured to Focus 35, a realm where it’s possible to connect with nonphysical beings that have gathered to observe and aid humanity as we enter an important phase of our development.

When I arrived I asked for guidance by someone who could show me an example of another world in which evolution paralleled what is going on here on Earth. There I met Xan.

Another Brave Soul – Dori Alsop Paden

It takes courage to explore the unknown, as it does to publicly tell others about personal experiences that are contrary to prevailing conventional ideas. Another Brave Soul is a periodic column that highlights the efforts of individuals who are exploring spirituality and the boundaries of human potential—and helping others to do the same. If you or someone you know are having such experiences, let us know and we’ll consider profiling them in this column. Click here to submit your suggestion.

Everyone has a spirit guide, according to the New Age axiom. Dori Alsop Paden of Richfield, MN has more than a dozen. And she’s on a first name basis with all of them.

While most people settle for one-way prayers for assistance or whispered flashes of insight during moments of quiet repose, Dori engages with her spirit guides on a daily basis. Fortunately for those people whose lines of spiritual communication are less developed, Dori shares the advice, guidance, and messages she channels with the general public on her blog.
 

Suffering

Suffering is enduring your falsely perceived separation from the Divine.

God: What's In a Name

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. So starts the Book of John in the Bible. The Word has long been central to our concept of God. But perhaps the words we use to describe God say as much or more about us than they do about the Divine.