I do believe these are spirit guides, especially given the focus which they maintain in almost all interactions. I usually press them to relax a bit, and quit being so serious. I ask my main voice, whom I call Charles, to get some jokes going and make it fun. Charles has a great sense of humor
but I am not sure everyone else who shows up does. Not bad humor, just not as prone to levity. Charles always stands back and keeps fairly quiet
during these sessions. I am not sure why, but I do get the distinct impression that he is off to the side and extremely proud of his "student/accomplishment" or whatever. Charles in particular, different from the "chat" voices communicates through, impression, smell, voice (behind right ear), circumstantial cues in real life (like words and well placed sentences and images), visual imagery when my eyes are closed...and sometimes audible voice and insistent urging.
When I was in Naval Intelligence, he saved my life by urging me to do something extraordinarily strange under a tight circumstance where I was being pursued by enemies. This extraordinarily strange act caused me to confuse and evade my pursuers, and I was able to escape.
Recently, I was shoved up stageside in front of a group of a couple hundred people unexpectedly to give a speech.
I speak often (30 times a year), however have battled stage fright since I was a child. I was not prepared for this sudden request to speak and had an adrenaline reaction and began to shake uncontrollably. No one around me had noticed, but before I went out on stage, I just whispered to the host that the sudden nature of the event had given me a slight stomach upset and that I had to bow out.
I went back to my hotel room and felt devastated for at least an hour. I sat very defeated feeling and saying to myself that I would never speak again, and would give up battling this weakness as a lost cause. Charles came through verbally, visually (with my eyes closed) and spoke right to my face with his mouth right in front of my eyes so that I could lip read. He said over and over
"No, no, no, no, no, no." "What You Think, is What You Live." "What You Think, is What You Live."
What Charles has taught me is this: that, the material world is not the principal focus for our lives. Nor are we to focus on a list of good deeds and bad deeds we commit. While these are important, they are not as important as the progress we make in changing our minds and ourselves. Facing down an abusive person, putting away alcohol if it is a problem, changing the way you regard and treat others, turning lethargy into a love of learning and working hard cheerfully. Making progress in these things is more important than attaining the religious good-deeds-outweight-the-bad-deeds deception.
In order for us to safely and securely operate in the spirit world, it is incumbent that we learn to discipline our thoughts and our regard of others. What we think, becomes reality; in part here, but very much so on the other side. If we think of ill things often, then others of the spirit world will not be able to tolerate us in their realm. They cannot afford to, even if they wanted to.
We are like recruits who have been handed a very powerful weapon. We learn to clean it, break it down, load the clip, and fire off a round. Yet, it is not in the knowing how to use the weapon that we qualify to use it. It is in the knowing how NOT to use the weapon where we earn our right to carry it.
There is nothing more dangerous than a room full of new recruits who have just learned their M-16's usage for the first two weeks. If you flipped off the lights and yelled "There he is get him!" They would all be dead within 40 seconds, shooting each other.
In a way, we are the same. We are here where the physical largess prevents our thoughts from killing each other within 40 seconds. A mind, with training wheels, and we are responsible, not to be perfect, not to weigh rights and wrongs on a judgement scale; but to progress and learn. Learn how to exist with others, whose minds can also create their reality and affect ours as well.
Just a hunch, but I've got that feeling. hehe
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