Where are the Native American and Chinese Spirit Guides?

An amazing number of people would confidently assert to me that they had a Chinese or Native American Spirit guide – a spiritualist had told them. I was baffled, as I could never see anything like this. When I had the confidence, I asked several spiritualists, and they confirmed what I suspected – they were a Victorian fantasy that still survives. Now, that is not to say there are not spirit guides, because spirit guides do exist. Furthermore, rather than having one spirit guide, it is better to have a number of them, the more the better. However, spirit guides are rarely the idealised, in much the same way that is impossible for Marilyn Monroe to be the previous incarnation of so many people. In infant schools it is possible for a teacher to teach all the subjects to children, but this of course changes at Junior and Senior school, where the teachers are invariably a specialist in one subject. People have seen my Guides standing behind me as I do readings.

Spiritualism and Belief

Sometimes the person having the reading has had a bereavement, which is why she is there, and I have not noticed. It took me a long time to understand what was going. I had not noticed anyone over their left shoulder. It turned out that the problem was to do with belief, or rather the lack of belief. Understanding the nature and role of belief is the key to being a spiritualist, for we all have the ability. The fact that you are reading this suggests that you have the ability, even if you do not know how to be a spiritualist. Read on, and you will find how to be a spiritualist yourself.

Death and Clairvoyancy

When a person is recently bereaved (recent can mean a few days, weeks, months, or sometimes years), and they come for a reading, they expect the reader to see the death, and they want the reader to say something about the deceased person. You know the secret – the spirits on the left hand shoulder.

Sometimes these spirits are not present, and consequently I do not realise anything is amiss. This does not impress the client quite frankly, and so I resolved to find out what the problem is – is it me? Or is it something to do with the client?

Sometimes it is my fault. None of us are perfect. However, if it is not down to me, that leaves the client. The fault lies not with the client, but usually with the client’s belief system, or lack of it. Spiritualism evolved largely to ‘prove’ survival after death, particularly after the horrors of the First World War where whole generations of men perished in the mud of the trenches. People back home in the UK wanted some reassurance of what had happened, and where their men were now. To my mind, Spiritualism has not provided ‘proof’, not that I am looking for proof, for I have direct experience of spirits who have passed over. However, there is a nagging doubt in the back of my mind – what is the point of Spiritualism? I asked a well-known Spiritualist this question once and she confirmed to me what I had guessed at – there is no point. For if you believe, you believe. If you have experience, then that is another kind of proof, and you do not need a Spiritualist Church to tell you.

The problem is for those who are bereaved, who do not believe in a Hereafter, but they still feel that aching emptiness. Still, people need reassurance, and it is one of the unspoken roles of the palmist or tarot reader to provide that reassurance. You see, people might be too scared to go to a Spiritualist Church, but they are more comfortable having their fortune told, and it is during that reading they can be helped.