Guides & Spiritual Planes
DEAR JEANETTE: I realize that there are several spiritual planes, but what allows a spirit guide from a very high plane to guide someone on this side? And why do some people have guides on a lower plane?
DEAR : First, let me explain that guides are spirits (excarnates) who have already experienced earth living (been incarnate). We also have guardian angels but that’s another story.
Also let me say (since everyone doesn’t use these words exactly the same) that the personality is only a part of the soul. It is that part of the soul which has been selected to experience the earth at this time while using a physical body as its vehicle. The earth is the first “school” which the personality encounters regardless of the age of the soul.
After the death of the body, the excarnate personality goes on to many other cosmic schools before returning to integration with the soul. (All the time it is “sending letters home” so the soul learns everything the personality learns. Nice, eh?) One of those schools that the personality will attend is to learn the art of guiding incarnate personalities as they begin this great adventure in living.
The first time a personality acts as a guide it will probably be responsible for only a relatively minor part of the incarnate’s experience, but as the guide becomes more adept, its assignments will become more difficult. Between assignments as a guide it will be going on to other schools and therefore becoming more advanced in many ways. As it progresses the spirit (personality) will indeed move onto higher planes or levels as some express it.
When a new personality is being formed it is 'tailor-made' for the life it is expected to have. The proper environment for the things that the soul wants to experience or learn during this earth-life is carefully planned. This environment (parents, culture, physical conditions, etc.,) is found or created. The situations or experiences through which this person will learn are outlined just as a third-grade teacher outlines the lesson plans and tests through which the students will be taught.
Various guides are selected to help this personality make the right decisions, learn the lessons, pass the tests, etc. They might compare with resource persons in a classroom. The home-room teacher would be the principal guide, present more or less all of the time, while student aides, art teachers, music consultants, etc. come and go as needed. The principal guide may or may not be the personality’s own soul.
Most persons have several guides and the number will vary from time to time as you can see from the above illustration. Thus the several guides may all be from one level or plane but they are more apt to be from various planes depending on the services needed from them.
You may have from two to a dozen or so guides more or less permanently assigned to you although many of them may be more or less “on call” for those times when you have need of their particular knowledge. Probably very few people become “acquainted with” all of their guides. But when you become aware that guides exist, and begin to study how you get messages from your guides, their work becomes much easier even if you never find out what they look like or what their names are. So listen to that “still, small voice within”, to your hunches, and to those things that you 'just know' that you are supposed to do. You will get ever more and better guidance, plus a real “thank you” from those who are attempting to help you.