Spirit guides messages
Part II
I want to take a minute to share two of my experiences with my spirit guides and how I get messages from them and what those very precise, distinct messages have been. Back when my spiritual awakening journey started, I started meditating and through a guided meditation, I was put in touch with my spirit guides who I have been told are St. Paul and St. Anthony. I am not Catholic, although I was raised Christian. But as you know, your guides present to you in the manner they want you to see them. Not your choice. So, I was like okay. I read up on them a bit and it made sense. That said, I have been going through a lot of spiritual work, shadow work if you will, and have been directed to focus my energies in certain directions, i.e., writing down and sharing the knowledge they are giving me. But I felt so tired of it all. Sometimes it feels like I am in 24/7 therapy, and although I’ve grown, I just felt so tired. So, I said, “I quit, for now.” I’m tired of writing, I’m tired of pushing myself, I’m just tired. So, in the middle of the night one night, I woke up with the words, 1 Corinthians 12:19 in my head. So, I get up and looked it up. Please understand, I have not read The Bible ever in its entirety, and really do not pay any attention to it. I am not a Bible thumper by any means. I will admit, even though I was confirmed Lutheran, I know nothing about The Bible. Who wrote what, etc. etc. etc.? Nothing, Nada, Nothing. Here is the verse.
16And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? 17If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? 18But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him. 19And if they were all one member, where were the body? 20But now are they many members, yet but one body. 21And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you. 22Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
Basically, saying YOU are part of the body and you have a job to do, and one part cannot quit, so basically or nothing works, gasically if I quit, the whole body doesn’t function because we are ALL important parts. Basically, I was told “Buck it up buttercup. You can’t quit, you are part of the body and necessary for the message”. And the kicker here is, guess who wrote 1 Corinthians’? Paul the Apostle wrote it so basically, my spirit guide, St. Paul was making sure I knew it was him and what the message was. He was using his OWN words to get a message to me. That's powerful and signficiant.
The second significant message I received. I have received others, but they are of a more personal nature about diet and other personal issues. I woke up in the middle of the night with the words, Post the Elijah song with your poem. A few days earlier. I had been channeled a poem (I am attaching it here) and the Elijah song is linked at the bottom. It’s a very significant message and clearly sent to me because I, again, have no biblical knowledge. My twin flame is also one of my guides and he was VERY spiritual in a strongly Catholic mysticism way and heavily into Buddhism. He has channeled a lot of things to me also. I have had so much Buddhist/Tantric dogma downloaded into my brain since this started…. Again, I am open to respectful intelligent discourse. Also, I have gotten some ridiculous pushback from people who seem to feel the need to attack whenever they do not like something. I meditated on it last night, and again, the message came back clear and strong that it is okay to remove these toxic low vibration people from your life, block them if you have to because the world is going through an upward surge in vibration, and people who are stuck in low vibrations will try vdry hard to bring others to their level. They must not be acknowledged because until they are ready to advance, learn, listen and progress, they will do nothing but lower your vibration as well as the planets and that is not the goal. Not everyone is going to ascend or progress, and that has been the plan all along. I think that is good advice for anyone dealing with toxic people. That said, I have NO problem with someone disagreeing with me, but if you are not even willing to entertain or open your mind to another perspective, and choose to lash out at me, and if you think you knowledge is superior to mine or someone else’s, you are existing on a low vibrational plane and are not progressing in your own journey. I will not engage, and I will block .. I don’t want to need your energy attached to me.
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