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

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Summary: Re: Deception (listed on a
Review: This is an elaboration in regard to the person who wrote the review on a different page, the one with the Deuteronomy quotes. Many of you, like me initially, might been discouraged confused by it. Watch the documentary video "Kingdom of David". About half way through the video, it hints that something like that many of the leading bible scholars believe that (from various sources of evidence) the book of Deuteronomy may have been a hoax written by king Jonah's priests (pretty sure it said king Jonah's priests...) so that his kingdom could gain total religious power over the area (and thus get greatly increased economic power) by forcing everyone to worship in their temple alone, and only in the manner which they dictated..Because it said so in the book of Deuteronomy. According to the video "Kingdom of David", the book of Deuteronomy illegedly was "mysteriously" found in a temple cellar or something during that king's reign, and they then adopted it into cannonical scripture. It indicated that the likely reason for King Jonah commissioning it's writing (if he did) was to stop people from worshipping and making sacrifices out in the wilderness away from the city or at home and at home-made alters and in front of trees and such (even if they were for the benefit of God), because the city wouldn't benefit from them lodging there, and merchants wouldn't benefit from their stay, nor would his the temple in the city. Another point of it was to unify his people and boost morale, and provide a good formulaic framework of living values, though perhaps a little harsh and sexist in places. It's a great video. It also talks about a little farther back in history to when most people worshipped Asherah (thought to be the Wife of God) and A.E. (whoever that is..possibly Enki?), in addition to Yahweh. Anyway, even though there is a lot of good wisdom in Deuteronomy, the video presented evidence that made it seem a little bit hokey and contrived for a power agenda. I don't want to lead anyone astray here, but want to remind everyone to trace back all sources of information as much as possible before believing something you read on the internet or that was written by individuals and/or powerful groups of people, with a less than perfect record. Let's hope that our dealings in the Middle East don't turn into a modern version of the crusades. When this older generation of people around the world dies off lets see that their unloving, selfishly bitter and unforgiving hatred towards oneandother leaves the planet with them. No more territory wars, no more resource wars (including oil wars), no more war OR hatred alltogether. We need to work together and invent lots of new environmentally friendly, people-friendly industries, namely ones that help our neighbors, those that suffer, and especially poor people the wide world over; and bring virtue and humbleness and communities back into style. A good way to start is through building and living in collaborative "intentionional communities". Each of us must take great care in all things. In case you're wondering, I'm a non-denominational Christian (leaning most towards AGAPE), and I believe in many things, especially patient, openminded, explorative discussion of good intent. Not everybody is ready for psychic/spiritual abilities, and thus there is still much doubt. Oh, and read this book. You'll learn a lot and probably love it.

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Summary: ENGROSSING READ, SIMPLE AND PRACTICAL
Review: What an addictive read, straightforward and easy to understand, dealing with the types of spirit guides, the middle pillar and mystic marriage exercises, fragrances that attract guides, a fascinating section on the guardian angels with their symbols, sounds and colours plus sections on nature spirits (those gorgeous little sprites, sylphs, salamanders & gnomes) and animal totems. I happened to be reading Robert Anton Wilson's Cosmic Trigger Vol. 1 at the same time and found full confirmation there of at least one type of nature spirit. I found the book so engrossing that I didn't stop long enough to properly do the exercises so I cannot at this stage confirm whether they really work in establishing communication - once or twice I did get a feeling of otherwordliness though, when doing the mystic marriage. But merely reading it certainly raises one's awareness. This volume is well illustrated to explain the exercises, energy bodies plus the aforementioned symbols of the archangels. Includes a bibliography for further reading. I recommend the book strongly since it encapsulates all the necessary information in one place, whereas other self-help books carry only bits and pieces.