From: brook@crl.com (Brook Schoenfield)
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
Subject: Re: spirit guide
Date: 14 Jul 1994 10:15:46 -0700



> petra <jspence@brewich.com> wrote:
> would someone be kind enough to explain to me how i can find a
> spirit guide. i'm not aware if this is a direct part of paganism,
> but any suggestions?

litch@bga.com (R. Michael Litchfield) writes:
>the consensus is that one must undertake a harrowing rite of some sort

Yikes! while 'harrowing rites' may be quite effective, please do not
believe that this is the only way!

<snip>

Like anything else, patience and practice are useful, though some
connect with their guide(s) almost immediately and without any trouble
whatsoever.  For a shamanistic/animal approach, try Michael Harner's
excellent "Way of the Shaman".

I have also done it like this: (the same guides came to me, and now I
have many ways to reach them...)

You do chakra cleaning/balancing by running energy through yourself
for a while until cleaned (a month, week, ???).  Then do a meditation
like the following:

Ground and center.  Run energy through your body from the earth.  Run
energy down from the sky until it fills you.  Go to the crown of your
head (that is, your attention).  See if anything/anyone is there.  If
not, call your guide to you.  See it/he/she coming from a long way
off.  As it/he/she get's closer, identify it.  Thank it for coming.
Ask it for anything thing that you want.  Ask it if it has anything to
tell you.  When finished, thank it and bid it goodbye.  See it go
away.

It can be that simple.

Good Luck,

Brook Schoenfield: brook@innosys.com brook@crl.com
"..desire cracks open the gates. If you're ready it will take you through.
But nothing lasts forever, time is the destroyer, the wheel turns again and
again, watch out it will take you through." - Starhawk