How to Meet & Work With Spirit Guides (Llewellyn's Practical Guide to Personal Power)

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Summary: Helpful for those who are openminded.
Review: I am saddened to see this type of spirituality so misunderstood and then put down by those who refuse to open their minds. It is important to be informed about spirituality before expressing an opinion so that your opinion can be an informed one. I highly recommend books by Doreen Virtue and, most importantly, the Conversations With God series by Neale Donald Walsch to those who are openminded enough to take the time to learn more about spirituality as opposed to strict religion (and to Seeking Answers specifically). When one does this, a person can better understand their own religion and see that it is all subject to interpretation. What "Seeking Answers" does not understand is that angels are not bound by time or space. They are an extension of God because they are created from God's energy and, since God isn't limited by space and time because She/He is omnipresent (that means God can be everywhere at once, for those who don't already know), so can God's angels. And, just because the Bible doesn't go into the fact that angels are gifts to us from God and were created to help us and guide us, doesn't mean that is not the case. The Bible left a lot out and included things that are strictly interpretation and opinion so is to be taken with a grain of salt. Angels are so much more than messengers (even the Bible displays that). They are guides and helpers and they love us just as God loves us. The fact that angels (like God) are onmipresent, allows them to be channeled by more than one person at a time and can be helping more than one person at a time. Whenever you call on an Archangel or even your own personal guardian angels, NEVER fear that you are taking away help from someone else or that you are, in some way, bothering the angels. This is what they do! They WANT you to talk to them and ask them for help! Remember, angels are extensions of God, like Her arm. They are one with God and are a part of Him so when you talk to angels, you are also talking to God! Neither God nor angels are human and yet too many times people give them human limitations and attributes (like anger and jealousy). Arch Angel Michael is not at war and neither is God. To believe that we are fighting a war with evil implies that there is a chance of losing if we don't fight to win. How can God lose anything? God is all-powerful and all-knowing! To say God has to fight to win over evil implies that God is imperfect and that, my Christian friends, is blasphemy. Bad things happen because angels cannot help us directly without our direct consent. That is to say, unless we ask them to help, they cannot interfere because they would make free-will null and void if they did. There is one exception to this rule however, and that is if we are about to die before our time. They can interfere to save us from crossing over before we have completed what we were meant to do. I can hear many of you now... "then how come babies die and children die?" Well, have you ever considered these two things? One, they were only supposed to live that long so as to provide a certain experience for the people involved? Like the parents? Second, NO ONE CAN EVER DIE EVER! Einstein said that matter cannot be destroyed, it merely changes form. That is EXACTLY what happens to us when we "die". Out bodies decompose and become one with the earth and our souls and minds remain fully intact to have more experiences without the limitations of a body (like experiencing heaven, but you really need to read Conversations With God book 3 because there is A LOT more to this than I can explain here). When we are done doing that, our minds remember who we really are (creations of God from God's own energy and are therefore, one with God), and our souls go back to The Source (The Creator, God, Allah, etc.) and we can choose to live another life or stay fully aware. Yes, Earth is a learning ground and that is why both good and bad things happen (how could we know what "good" was if we didn't have "bad" to compare it to?). Everything is relative. You can't know light without also knowing dark, up/down, left/right, black/white, young/old, protons/electrons, love/hate, etc. You can't truly know and comprehend one without the other. If it was only always light out, you wouldn't be able to say, well I know this is light because it isn't dark. You can't know what something is unless you also know what it isn't. Throughout our lives, we have experiences that allow us to learn and know who we truly are based on how we view the world (I know that I am spiritual because I am not religious, that is who I am. I know I am a girl, because I am not a boy, etc. These experiences help us to grow! Having babies, getting into an accident, etc. All experiences, both good and bad, help us to grow and learn spiritually! This is also why "good" and "bad" (depending on your personal definition) things happen to us! Keep in mind that things may happen to the body that we may see as being absolutely terrible, but keep in mind that the body is just a medium (like clay or a canvas is for an artist) through which we have experiences but our soul can never be damaged. Sprit Guides and angels are most certainly at our every beck and call because that is why they exist! They exist for us! They are a gift from God to us to serve that very purpose and they want nothing more than to have you ask them to help you and guide you every day to help you do what your soul was inteded to do while living this life. This is how you ask to do God's will, because God's will is your own. God loves you soooooo much, that He wants for you what you want for you. Well, I have gone on long enough. If you just read the Conversations With God series and books like Healing With the Angels by Doreen Virtue, you will get a better understanding. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this. I hope this helped those who are seeking deeper spirituality while still struggling with the teachings of organized religion and the many contradictions between the two. You are on a Divine path. This may not be the direction you are meant to go at this time or even in this life. So, if what I have said doesn't sit well with you, it simply means that you need to continue seeking until you find what feels right for you. No religion or spirituality is ever wrong. It might just be wrong for you. God bless you on your journey to find what is right for you!

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Summary: A Lot Of Jabbering.......
Review: I bought this book and Sylvia Brownes book and was disappointed in both. To start with no where in history, nor in the Bible are angels doucumented as standing around just waiting on our every command. If they were then answer me some questions Ted. Why are children molested? Why are women raped? Why are innocent people murdered on this planet on the second of every minute of every day? Why would an angel allow that? They wouldn't.

Angels are commissioned by God to obey God. They serve God by delivering his messages (Jesus birth, The Book of Revelations, .....), carrying out his punishments (Sodom & Gomorra), defending (The Arch Angel Michael is currently at war. Sorry he is not being channeled by the 25,000 people claiming to channel him on the net), and so on......... If I have to sit through one more new age seminar where some "Crack Pot" is claiming to channel either an "Arch Angel" or "The Council" I think I am going to throw up.

He does have some decent meditation tips in here so for that he gets 3 stars. Don't get me wrong I TOTALLY belive in Spirit Guides, Angels, and such. I just don't belive they are at our beck and call 24/7 as this book would lead you. The earth is a learning ground and learn we must.

What this book does not tell you to do is to pray and ask God for discernment of spirit. If you do that before you go into reading and any meditations hopefully you will find what you are seeking.

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Summary: Read with an open mind
Review: I wish people would read books like these with an open mind or not at all. Quoting the Bible to knock a book like this is pointless. If the Bible is your one and only spiritual guidebook in life, then why are you reading this book in the first place?

Spirit guides aren't evil spirits. If people can't tell the difference between a spiritual being who wants to help you from a spiritual being that wants you to do bad things, then how spiritual are you in the first place? Spiritual guides are meant to help us spiritually progress towards greater unconditional love, to keep us on the path we agreed to take with God's blessing. An evil spirit wants to distract us from that goal, to have us commit sin and do things that aren't in keeping with spiritual progress. Contacting your spirit guide is not for the spiritual newbie and should be handled with care. This book is a good intro for people wanting to do that. If you aren't interested in getting to know your spiritual guide, then by all means, read your Bible and don't even buy or review a book like this. No one's forcing you to read something that goes against your beliefs.

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Summary: Gain great spiritual help and advice from your Guides.
Review: I've read this book more than once and refer to it often. It contains an exercise for "The Mystical Marriage" which I think is a simple, excellent way to meditate and engage the help of our spirit Guides; understanding the spirit world; a simple guide to fragrances and colors; meeting our Guardian Angels, and so much more jam packed into a small easy to read/understand book.

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Summary: Gain great spiritual help and advice from your Guides.
Review: I've read this book more than once and refer to it often. It contains an exercise for "The Mystical Marriage" which I think is a simple, excellent way to meditate and engage the help of our spirit Guides; understanding the spirit world; a simple guide to fragrances and colors; meeting our Guardian Angels, and so much more jam packed into a small easy to read/understand book.

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Summary: Great Read; Very Informative
Review: Ted Andrew's book, the first I've read by the author, has a lot to offer a reader. It deals extensively with different types of spirit guides, including angels, and how to contact them. Andrews offers tips on how to facilitate contact, such as using incense and bathing in sea salts. I haven't attempted to contact my spirit guide yet, but I plan to soon. The only drawback to the book is that it doesn't explain meditation fully and left me somewhat confused. Andrews also discussed crystal ball gazing which was very interesting. I plan to research it further.

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Summary: Great!
Review: There are a lot of books on finding your spirit guides, but this is my personal favorite, and the one that makes most sense to me. He gets right to the point, and doesent jabber on like a lot of the books do :) Ver informative. Tells you the stones, herbs, colors, and astrology to help you, and he also shows you many ways to meet your spirit guide. i.e: Astral-Projection, meditation, and just to pay attention to the signs around you. I highly reccommend this book to anyone!

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Summary: Spiritual Connection
Review: This book basically explains the natural connection we have with our spiritual guides and angels. It informs us of how if we only take the time to pay attention to the clues... we are being contacted and surrounded by our guides and deceased love ones all the time.

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Summary: a great read
Review: this book gave me alot of info and insight about spirit guides

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Summary: Not that impressed
Review: This book is ok if you have no background working with spirit guides, otherwise choose another book. This is for entry level only.