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Can a spirit guide change during your lifetime?

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Mimic

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If there's anywhere to ask this question it is here.

I have had some strange dreams recently, with an familiar figure who is not my usual hands-off spiritual guide who calls me champ and shrugs a lot.

Most recently a dream that was lucid, and I am usually able to change my dreams by walking through doors and this dream-narrator literally was preventing me from doing so telling me it would only bring me pain and that "Oh yes, he is very hands off. I am not."

He did show me two my my past life selves though. Which was interesting. I guess it's possible it's a second guide as well. I know his name, I didn't have to be told.
 
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I have no answers for you. It might be that this new one is helping the old one out... Good question though. Mine is kinda hands offish, except when something is about to go really wrong.
 
My belief system stems from Ten Sufi Thoughts... My answer will be given from my own biases.

"2. There is One Master, the Guiding Spirit of all Souls, Who constantly leads followers towards the light."

If you aren't happy with the word master, replace it with teacher. Being in the presence of a master isn't always pleasant, but that doesn't mean we aren't being lead towards the light. You would be surprised how many of us are comfortable in the shadows. In the good, bad and ugly- it is One God, and as one who believes in a divine romance with consciousness... I would say the information relayed to you is just as valuable no matter the form expressing it.

Because you already have the answer to your question- I don't think I need to say much more... If you find yourself interested in the ten sufi thoughts, you can read them here... Whether you agree with these thoughts or disagree, is of little consequence to me.
https://inayatiyya.org/teachings/ten-sufi-thoughts/

I am happy you've shared your experiences with us! It sounds like you have a rewarding inner life.
Kind regards ~CP = )
 
Yes. I have some new Spirit Guides who recently came forward who were very close friends of mine during my lifetime across the American Civil War. At first they came with my main Guide, but now they come on their own..

Nothing to be afraid of. We have different guides for different ‘states’ of our past life explorations. My guides I had for healing my WWII lifetime have faded into the background (ie. I don’t see them anymore) and now I’m exploring and healing my American Civil War lifetime, I have different guides.

so yes, your guides ‘change’ and take turns :)

Eva x
 
I've had guides come and go -- it seems to be related to what I need at any given phase of my life. I wasn't aware of any spirit guides before my "dark night of the soul," when they stormed into my life out of dire necessity. I'm better now, though, and being guided to heal by quieting and centering myself -- consequently, my current "main guide" is very hard to hear. This is in strong contrast with some others, who have been so wildly chatty and obvious that I had no choice but to accept that I was either channeling or utterly insane. I even had a famous person's ghost attach itself to me (as a guide, not like a poltergeist! He was nothing but sweet!) -- that was when I realized that I wasn't crazy. He told me things about himself that I could not have possibly known (I knew nothing about him before he showed up) that I later confirmed in a 900 page biography about him -- something I never would've read without him telling me to 😅 He was one of the chattier ones, but he rarely comes around anymore, despite how close we once were. At present, I wouldn't even know I was working with a guide if I hadn't been primed for it by the loud-mouths.

The one guide I've found I can always "call" no matter what is my past life father. It's pretty cute how available he is. He knows I need real parenting in this life, and like any good parent, he always picks up the phone. What more, if I ever doubt my past life memories too much, he'll come in like "what am I joke to you?" It's nice to have him 👍
 
melon04 said:
May I ask who it was?
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Marcel Proust 😳 He asked me to read his book(s) and I still haven't 😅 I'm into literary fiction, but not THAT into it. He's a gem of a spirit guide, though. Possibly the sweetest ghost I've ever met 😊 What I learned about him from that gigantic biography (which is considerably easier to read than "In Search of Lost Time") matches quite well with what he was trying to help me with -- heightened aesthetic appreciation, attention to detail, and a gentle, embodied mindfulness. And the dreams I had when I was hanging out with him were NEXT LEVEL, just gorgeous and vivid. I miss those dreams! I miss that spirit!

I can't remember exactly why he showed up, but I was having a lot of powerful spiritual experiences for several years there (including spontaneously remembering my entire last life); my life had kind of fallen apart and a lot of old trauma surfaced, so these (typically NOT famous) "guides" started showing up to help me regroup. One of my friends read Proust, so I had heard of him, but I never gave him much though until he borderline took over my thoughts! We do/did have some strange things in common, though, so I imagine that's part of it. Like attracts like (though I readily admit there's only one creative genius between the two of us, and it ain't me). He got me focusing on my senses, butting in if I was eating mindlessly or playing music without fully, deeply listening to it. Essentially, he taught me a form of meditation.

And he helped me untangle from some narcissists by cracking jokes about Robert de Montesquiou 😂
 
WOW, I've had someone with me for several years like that, but not in a philosophical way, he cheered me up with silliness and friendship during a difficult period in my life.
 
fireflydancing said:
WOW, I've had someone with me for several years like that, but not in a philosophical way, he cheered me up with silliness and friendship during a difficult period in my life.
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I've had two like that. One was only with me a couple days -- he was a complete comedian, I was laughing out loud at thin air everywhere I went! It was exactly what I needed at that time. The other was just pure love, and he was with me for several years. He was the closest thing I've had to a spirit friend -- I could talk to him about anything. He didn't always have advice, but he was endlessly comforting. One cool thing about him was that other people could sense him, too -- at least three people I randomly met could feel him, and those are just the ones who told me! When he went away, he told me he planned to incarnate as a person, too, but I wouldn't be surprised if he just took his disembodied services elsewhere. It seems many people were receptive to his vibe.

My husband tries to use me like a psychic-for-hire sometimes, having me ask the spirits what lottery numbers to choose or what stocks to invest in. He knows better, and respects my experiences enough to believe in them, but I think he hopes to do something "practical" with my quirks. One time, he had me ask the love-spirit who was going to win a basketball game, and I got a SUPER detailed run down on the private lives and emotional states of multiple players on both teams. I had to guess who would win based on the state of their hearts 😇 . . . it didn't really work out 🤣 Spirits offer what they offer and that's what they offer!

The philosophical stuff is sort of new, just these past few years. I hope to someday resume just "hanging out" but for the moment I seem to be enrolled in the International Anti-Anxiety Academy of Meditation Sciences. Not that I don't need it! I'm certainly not ungrateful! The spirit stuff and the past life recall thing have both been very strange indeed, but more helpful than anything else I've tried 👍
 
An update - the change in guide seems to be... personally and creatively productive. I am having more insight into my present and my past, I wake up understanding things... I am forced to reprocess things and have the gift and curse of seeing my role clearly and how I "failed". Or how I misstepped... and why I ended up here. And seeing parts of situations I couldn't see at the time. And I guess it's an opportunity to adjust course in this part of my life (mid-30s) before I get any older.

This guide is not big on distractions clearly, but on me "getting work done" and... well what feels like "catching up" with who? Who the hell knows.

I do kind of miss the old guide, but the most memorable dream of him he was telling me a soulmate had gotten stuck (somewhere in a relationship she wasn't supposed to be stuck in long term) and it was my job to get her unstuck (I disagreed). Or he wanted to use me to get her unstuck. Which didn't really work. But I guess we have multiple guides.

I have had an older woman appear more recently as well, and she was kind, but very straight-foward.
 
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Mimic said:
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I believe that when we decide to incarnate we do it working with a guide that is adequately skilled to handle the current level of evolvement of our entity / soul, a guide whom we trust. Although it might be possible that there might be unexpected developments while incarnated, exceeding our current guide's competence, I doubt that this happens.

From your description, I am tempted to believe that you misinterpret some of your experiences, and seemingly you're unaware of that possibility.

When awake, and when dreaming too (including lucid dreaming), we perceive reality through the filters of our level of evolvement, and of our beliefs (conscious beliefs a.k.a. our assumptions, and unconscious beliefs a.k.a. our truths).

To more accurately perceive our experiences and reduce distortions, we need to intentionally put aside our beliefs and expectations.

In the beginning, I wondered too about the need for multiple guides to assist me, and my inner-guide "said" that it can be done if I wanted it, but over time, as I deepened my understanding of reality, of what I am, of my purpose, I believe that it is better to adopt the pupil attitude, who knows that his knowledge and understanding are limited, and who accepts that he needs to be guided. This being said, I also believe that the best way to learn is to work with your own inner guide, and to ignore all the external gurus and dogmas.

All of us, to some degree, accept as truths all kind of ideas about reality (both about the physical-reality, and about the wider-reality), not even suspecting that some / most / all of them are distorted.
 
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