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 It’s difficult to generalize about spirit guides – each is different, as people are different.  They will speak to us in a manner we are capable of understanding:  they address us according to where we are coming from, in terms we are capable of receiving.  If there’s something we just don’t want to hear, it’s easy enough to block it, just as we tend to block out what we don’t want to hear from other people.    Sometimes my own guides have had to wait until I was in a particularly relaxed or unguarded frame of mind to sock something to me that I didn’t want to hear.  And at times I’ve remonstrated, “Why didn’t you tell me this before?”; to which their usual rejoinder is, “We were telling you all along, but you refused to listen!”

Once you’ve got the technique of automatic writing down pat, you can use it to channel any spirits, not just your personal guides.  This means nature spirits, recently deceased people, even Jesus, Mary, Krishna, Buddha, saints, etc.  God can’t be channeled this way, however, because God doesn’t “talk”.  If you get a message purporting to come from God, it’s some wise-guy spirit putting you on.   Automatic writing can also be used as part of Active Imagination (a technique devised by Carl Jung for conversing with your own thought forms – see my book Thought Forms for details). 

You may wonder how you can tell if you’re channeling evil spirits.  All I can say is that all of the evil spirits which I’ve run across in my channeling made no bones about who they were or what they were up to.  Evil spirits seek willing accomplices – they need a decision on your part to commit evil, they can’t trick you against your will.  However, they can come up with some pretty tempting offers sometimes.  I would say, though, that if the messages you are channeling are full of fulsome praise at how marvelous you are, and pity at how misunderstood you are, and how much you have to suffer, then probably you’re channeling demons.   Real spirit guides will buck you up when you are feeling low; but they’ll also kick you in the butt if you indulge in self-pity.  Their actual goal is to get you to a place where you have your own true feelings working, so that you don’t need them anymore.

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