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Guides of the Three Great Ways

The next week was filled with thoughts and questions about the Three Great Ways. I was astonished to discover that I could easily identify people based on their Soul path. I gazed at my co workers at the non-profit organization where I worked and grouped them according to the River’s explanation. I understood more clearly how conflicts at work and at home develop because of different soul paths. My ex-husband was Earth Way, although he had some Water Way tendencies, still his basic insistence on production, survival and appearance in the hierarchy where he worked was troublesome to me.

The development of chaotic, inexplicable world events suddenly became more comprehensible to me. With the preponderance of Earth and Aire Way people in the world presently, big picture issues like managing climate change, developing sustainable energy sources, protecting the biosphere and social justice, are obviously too difficult for them to understand because of their short sighted view of the world, life and other existential questions of interconnectiveness, purpose, and leaving a legacy to the future for those who follow behind us.

The sudden arising of destructive, false leaders and corrupt political systems was easier to understand in the context of the Earth Way people not being able to discern between true and false guides. Putting charismatic tyrants in control of political systems is a way that the both Earth and Aire Way people turn towards the past and try to enforce old values, hierarchies, to maintain power and control of a few over many. I wondered how we could find true guides in the corrupt systems in our outer world, as well as overthrowing the inner false guides that command us to follow tyrants, and paths of power, control and material wealth.

It was with great excitement and enthusiasm that I arrived for our next session.

 

River: Each of the Water Way, Earth Way and Aire Ways have guides and strengths and which need to be explored for whoever reads this manuscript and desires to contact their own guides. For each Way there are different techniques that will facilitate not only reaching guides, but also an inner knowledge which facilitates external growth and ways of developing inner identity. The mirrors without, in each case, are their opposites. So, the next discussion will be guides of the three Ways.

For all three ways, there is a similarity of spiritual guides which we have spoken up. We would like to move on to the residue my past lives which lead into the present causing great discomfort for those who begin on an intermediary part of their path, when sensitivity is in discriminate, when openness is vaguely touching of discrimination.

It is the fact of many people, since each individual has life lived many lifetimes, as many different entities, passing through plant and animal entities, passing through many phases, the theme of an individual essence is carried from one part of another period into present circumstances. However, the emotional intensities, the dramas because the multiplicities and complexities, tend to be repeated as each individual struggles again and again with his questions and his purpose.

Therefore, when the individual begins the final phases of his spiritual development, they must turn backwards and reflect on the past so that they may let the past go. In these final phases and the beginning steps to these final phases, the opening to the past is a dangerous phase. For in the opening, of view of the past is a view of themes, and these themes appear to be pertinent to behavior in this lifetime. Where in fact they are nothing but the shrill voices of pain, anguish and suffering of past lifetimes.

They must be viewed, they must be acknowledged. They must not be given too much importance except as acknowledgment.  You can say to yourself, “That is the theme of many of my lifetimes and I'm working it out in this lifetime also. I am free to choose, however. I have the freedom to choose and I have the discrimination to realize that the voices I hear inside are not necessarily my true self, my essence and my path. Those voices are all the individuals that were my former selves, clamoring for resolution, clamoring for some definite growth, clamoring for release.”

 

 

It is therefore good practice to go back at this stage and quickly survey the voices to find the thread within them, the question that the lifetimes have imparted and still remain as echoes in this lifetime. Knowing the echoes and the trends, it is far easier than to say: “This voice that I hear is not necessarily my own true quiet voice, but the voices of past lifetimes.”

The next part is in two parts. First, sitting quietly, listen to the true voice inside. Quickly giving the voice and image is the first step for uncovering the true guides from the false gods. If the image becomes quickly as a physical body, with physical features with personality, then this is a signal that one should be cautious.

So, for example, if you are making a decision- listen to the quiet voice within that says, “I should do this, I want to do this.” Take those thoughts and give them a human image. If the human image comes quickly, for example, a male sitting at a desk, hand poised over paper, any such image, if it quickly becomes a human image, be cautious. This is perhaps a figure from another lifetime.

If there is a figure in the mind, a quickly formed figure, find out the details, look at it carefully. See what the figure looks like. Ask them its name, and if the name comes back quickly and with a tone of determination, this is another signal that this guide is not a true guide. But perhaps an echo and residue of the past.

The next step is very important. Within your mind with the figure in front of you, who has now given you a name, reach out with your hand and touch the individual. If the first feeling and experience is one of great love and compassion, you have a true guide. If on reaching out, there are other feeling tones, such as fear, dread, anger, any negative emotion, this is a further indication that you do not have a true guide, but echo or residue of an unresolved past life.

At this point you would be better to bow carefully, and with love and compassion flowing through you to release the image, say inside, I've heard you I love who you were and with all honor I will go forward having listened to you.” And release!

The true inner self guides will reveal themselves first, not a completely formulated figure but more a luminosity of lightness. However, they do sometimes appear in individual form, so that is not always a good indication. For people who want further step to find true guides, with practice it becomes far easier to contact them.

We must state here that guides have also had past lives, but we are not speaking up your past lives, but of the individual who has been through many past lives and at this point have dedicated themselves to guidance and protection of others This is now their goa. They have gone beyond their own earthly growth into other realms. Seeing their image is part of what they feel is necessary to communicate with you and shows both of you, your receptivity of the communication. So, seeing an individual, a person as an image is not always an indication that you have reached a past life residue of your own.

Naming, all through history has been important. “Tell me your name!” The name is power. In the name also is power. Giving an individual your name is also a control between both of you. Ease of control in some very subtle way of you by giving you, his name. It is a subtle thing. If the name comes quickly with power, this is another indicator that perhaps you have reached another past lifetime, an unresolved issue that threads through your life, for the control of the past into your future. So be cautious with quick names, the two guys, the true inner self essences, are not so quick to give names, for on the higher levels there is no separation of essences as we know it. True guides have no sense of names, or control.

The third test, touching is of course self-evident. For in touching we know the other. Touching tells much, tells all. Touching a past lifetime will feel like an electric shock, a spinning chaos of needs and emotions. Power, yes, however true guides are not so much transmitting a sense of power but an objective vision of rightness and passion.

Guides are also useful for general meditative process as speaking with, being with, having guides within through a daily practice. Therefore, knowing what a guide is also important. It would of course be very disruptive and confusing to be in the meditative state with a past lifetime. It would be a clamor of past needs, demands, a theme instead of inspiration.

There are also the guides of plant and animal worlds, however these rarely become a problem. First, very few people are aware of them, and second, it is almost impossible to corrupt a plant or animal essence guide. They are implacable in themselves. Since they have not lived through many lifetimes, they become more of themselves. It is possible to have individual guides of plant and animal worlds who have residues from past lifetimes that are not positive and demand more than they should. In the past it was far more common, but the Great Net has been raised in some ways since then.

Julia: Do you want to say anything about my guide?

River: The guides that you are going to get or the guides that you have now?

Julia: The guide that I have now.

River: No, they are busy looking after you.

Julia: Sometimes they don't feel very real to me.

River: Maybe you need one guide. Perhaps it is time for them to choose among themselves one individual or perhaps a new guide definitely. Yes, we sense they're not real. They have a loose substance.

Julia: Ariel seems to be the strongest one.

River: Yes, but definitely you need a new guide.

Julia: I felt that I need a new guide that could look after my health more.

River: Guides disappear in strange ways, they do not disappear so much as they become a part of you and lose their own identity and become you. Then it is time for a new guide to evolve. It is as if you eat your guides (laughs). And there are always more of course. We suggest that you ask us next week to help you with a new guide, and during this week before going to sleep open to the appearance of a guide within your dreams.

Julia: Should I ask for a new guide while I'm falling asleep?

River: You may ask, not so much for a new guide. But the appearance of some guide. Therefore, you give an opportunity to happen. However, there is also the possibility that it is not time for you to have a guide. And that is a good sign because at this time a new guide is not necessary. Sometimes within lives there are periods of time where the individual does not have a guide. However, we do not think that this is the case with you at this time, unless you so will it.

Yes, there is one developing perhaps you should delay this until next week.

Julia: Alright.

River: Unfortunately, you have a lot to do next week.

Julia:  At sometimes I would like to go over some of my past lives. I know that you think I'm sort of a past junkie...

River: it is a way of knowing this self also. Yes, next week we will work on the guides work and on the death meditations. The guides that have become so integrated that you do not have them anymore. As time goes on, you will find this escalates. It is then that we hope to give you a guide from the River who will be such a guide and will not be integrated but will be wholly separate from you. This is a different type of guide, not so much a protector but as a companion. This is where you were moving.

Our hesitation then is that, wondering if it is wise to give you another guide before a companion. However, it is always wise to have guides and they are there. Some aspects of guides don't ever remain integrated within you, and they are the animal and plant guides and they remain with you for life. The guides that are integrated within the Sell, come and go, and come and go, not only with you but with all beings.

They are the memory tracers, the essences of your past lives and others who are there for you and become integrated as you too grow and change. However, it is the companion guide that you are yearning for., as more substantial. For in reality your needs for gods have diminished. Is that not true?

Juliet: Yes, there was a time I relied on guides much more.

River:  It was not so necessary now. Knowing your own part in the Great Net, your own aspects through time, guides are not so important. Protectors, yes, teachers, yes, but that aspect is not so necessary anymore, and this is a healthy sign. You, yourself are becoming a guide. So, you have much more work this week! Concentrate on death, and we will ask you what death means.

From our aspect this is very interesting period we greet you in all love and joy.

Julia: Greetings.

River: Death and life