Diary of a Psychic Healer

Over the years, I've had many takes on this question. Are spirit guides figments of our unconscious or our imagination? I think it's important to be open to being wrong, and not to become too attached to our beliefs.  But first, what are spirit guides?  The idea is that when we ask our intuition for answers, the answer can come from several places - I cover these options in my book, Chakra Healing & Magick , but basically, our intuition brings messages from the angels, spirit guides, your higher self and some would say, from God.   I didn't include the last one in my book, but basically, spirit guides are humans who lived on Earth and that have wisdom or special experience to share with us. Growing up Catholic, this didn't feel like a stretch because I was used to asking a particular saint for help. Like St Francis of Assisi. Asking an ancestor for guidance is common in Mexico too. But after a few months in psychic school, my guides became a lot more colorful than t...

Years ago, I was meditating and the message that came through was to connect with my infinite self. I was surprised and pleased by the thought. In hindsight, the message was that we have one.  That feeling is awesome too; it takes you out of your everyday life and makes your problems seem manageable. What can't your infinite self handle? It gives us a wonderful change in perspective.  On a practical level, I wasn't sure how to get there - how  do I have to change or evolve as a human to get there? Again, my intuition has been pointing me towards the theme of personal power and how we have to accept our full human selves first, including the shadow. The shadow isn't always bad - it's what we reject, and  that rejection is often based on cultural conditioning or childhood traumas and misinterpretations. We might think somethin g is not acceptable because of an offhand comment heard in our youth. Basically, the shadow is what we don’t love about ourselves,  rejecti...