How Does One Find Their Spirit Guide?

[painted wolf]

I'm actually reading this book on how to find and communicate with your spirit guide. I'm not sure if it's legit, but I think it's worth looking at.

"Animal Spirit Guides" by Chris Luttichau. He's a modern practicing shaman who apparently has many students spread out. I hope that helps

Just don't expect anything Native American out of this... it's new age "shamanism" all the way.
Always remember... "Never Pay To Pray".

wa:do

ps... I just wanted to add that the focus on animal spirits is unhealthy. Traditionally spirits could be from plants, rocks, weather, whatever ... I'll never understand the new age focus on animal spirits and their supposed list of attributes.

[painted wolf]

For anyone with a Bible perspective, Jesus spoke of the Comforter/Holy Spirit and Paul spoke of the Holy Spirit being our teacher ... why would we have the need to look for some other "entity" fto guide us???

Some of us are not Christian... For us, Creator has given sources of wisdom through all of nature.
How do you know your "holy spirit" is the same one for everyone? Conversely how do you know your "holy spirit" is the same as my 'spirit guide'?

wa:do

[Comicaze247]

Originally Posted by painted wolf

Just don't expect anything Native American out of this... it's new age "shamanism" all the way.
Always remember... "Never Pay To Pray".

wa:do

ps... I just wanted to add that the focus on animal spirits is unhealthy. Traditionally spirits could be from plants, rocks, weather, whatever ... I'll never understand the new age focus on animal spirits and their supposed list of attributes.

Alrighty, I'll keep that in mind. So what advice do you have for us? How would we find our spirit guides?

[painted wolf]

You don't...

If you get one, it finds you.... when you least expect it... if you want it or not.
You have no control over what the spirits do, that is the biggest ego issue people need to let go of.

wa:do

[YmirGF]

Originally Posted by painted wolf

You don't...

If you get one, it finds you.... when you least expect it... if you want it or not.
You have no control over what the spirits do, that is the biggest ego issue people need to let go of.

wa:do

Exactly. This was precisely what I was alluding to when I talked about "if you are powerful enough" comment. The point is, you don't get a great deal of personal power prior to having a spirit guide seek you out. The simple fact that folks still want to "find" their spirit guide is indicative of the fact that they are not ready for it quite yet.

[steadysetfire]

My 16 year old sister Amy, has a friend that believes that all living things are spirit guides. He will not eat meat, and refuses to kill flies or mosquitos. He claims that there was an ancient tribe of wise men and women who had great faith in the spiritual wisdom of all living things, even the mosquitos. According to her friend, this ancient tribe claimed that mosquitos came from a wise bear that endowed them with great wisdom and guidance. To kill one, they believed, was to destroy a sacred spiritual guide. When my sister asked her friend what happened to this tribe of wise people, he said that from all historical accounts, they seemed to have dissapeared. My sister then asked her friend, if he had ever heard of malaria, which is a deadly disease spread by the wisdom of the ancient mosquito, which is still here on this planet spreading it's spiritual wisdom.

[painted wolf]

Well... that's the silliest "ancient tribe" I've ever heard of.

wa:do

[Azakel]

Originally Posted by painted wolf

You don't...

If you get one, it finds you.... when you least expect it... if you want it or not.
You have no control over what the spirits do, that is the biggest ego issue people need to let go of.

wa:do

What she said. I wanted to add this earlier but didn't know how right it really was(but this is what I found out throw my own personal experiences, it finds you).

[Comicaze247]

Originally Posted by painted wolf

You don't...

If you get one, it finds you.... when you least expect it... if you want it or not.
You have no control over what the spirits do, that is the biggest ego issue people need to let go of.

wa:do

Well, if that's the case, is there any way to spiritually prepare yourself or strengthen yourself in order to be deemed worthy enough for a spirit guide to seek you out?

[painted wolf]

Well, if that's the case, is there any way to spiritually prepare yourself or strengthen yourself in order to be deemed worthy enough for a spirit guide to seek you out?

Nope.
I don't know what they look for in people... just that they are the ones who make the choice.
So don't worry about it. You will either get one or you won't... nothing you can do will change that.

And don't mistake any spirit for a spirit guide... Don't expect them to anything you want, don't expect them to even hang around, they can and will leave you when they decide it's time to.

wa:do