[Erin Pavlina]

I think you guys might be missing one point. Your guides don't drop you in the maze, you drop yourself. Your higher self preselected these guides to help you. You don't want to be in the maze without some help do you?

You can ignore their help. You can actively seek out their help. Or you can just tool along, occasionally checking in to see what advice they have for you. They are not sadistic.

Think of it more like a wake up call. you call the hotel operator and say, 'I need to be up at 6am or I'll miss an important business opportunity/meeting." The operator calls you at 6am. Are you mad at her? What if she didn't call you and said, "Oh sorry, I didn't think you actually wanted to be woken up so early, so I decided it would be more comfortable for you if you slept in. I hope that was alright."

If you decide the lesson is stupid, ignore it. We are all responsible for our own lives, our own choices, etc. I personally enjoy the nudgings I get from the guides. They've saved me a lot of heartache. But if you want to rough it and enter the maze without a compass, canteen, and a map, that's your choice too.