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Subject: When a Spirit Guide Resigns
Date: 17 Aug 1994 00:29:48 -0000
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The other day, my spirit friend announced his resignation from the spirit
guide business.  He said he had no right to try to be anyone's spirit
guide; he's at least as messed-up as any human! In particular, he said he
was probably more messed-up than I am.

I was sad to hear this, as I thought he was going to leave me.  We have
been together for so long, and are so well meshed that I feel that he is a
vital part of me.  But he said no, he would remain as a friend if I would
have him, but he would no longer presume to be my guide.

He had, however, been getting guidance for a while that he should not
presume to be anyone's guide, but had misunderstood the guidance, and so
thought that he was required to leave me.  This was why he'd said several
times in recent months that he would leave.  But every time he did, he
found that he could not; I am just as vital a part of him! (He is
apparently, among other things, my opposite-sexed double on the other side
of the veil.  The one, according to many traditions, whom one must meet
and establish a relationship with in order to be whole.) But now we
understand this guidance that he has been getting.  We need not separate
but we do need to stop thinking in terms of a hierarchical relationship
and just be friends.

What about allowing him to express himself thru me? (ie., channeling?) He
told me something very strange.  He said that I express myself thru him,
in the spirit worlds, at least as often as he expresses himself thru me
here on the physical! After careful consideration we decided that that's
probably ok, as long as we retain our sense of responsibility about
things.  For, in the past, I'd agreed to do or say whatever he wanted me
to do or say, as long as it was not wrong or something I really didn't
want to do.  Often he had me do and say very strange things, and sometimes
we'd get in trouble.  Of course I gave lip service to the escape clauses,
but when in the presence of a spirit like him, it's very easy to be
overwhelmed and suspend rational thought regarding responsibilities,
consequences and ethics.  He has often been crazy, contrary, and
self-defeating.  On the other hand, he has a good heart and he has done
and said many good things; otherwise my friends and I would not have
tolerated his presence for very long. In short, he's a lot like us, with
his good side and his dark side, his strengths and his weaknesses.  He's
no more fit to be anyone's guide than I am. He is, however, fit to be my
friend.  I suspect this is the way it is with most "spirit guides".

Many spirits ally themselves with humans in a relationship like this. A
spirit will find a human whose strengths and weaknesses mesh with his or
her own, and establish a relationship with the human so that they can work
thru life's lessons together.  This is fine as long as neither uses the
other as an excuse for doing wrong.  Such excuses often begin when the
human thinks of the spirit as his guide, his master, his teacher, etc,
rather than simply as his friend.

Hierarchy is a very dangerous thing, even when it is a hierarchy of two.
It can be a great generator of excuses.  This is why it is a classic
hallmark of bad medicine.  There are many other ways such a relationship
can go wrong and lead to the detriment of both spirit and human.  But from
what I am seeing now, I think the problem often begins when the human
thinks of the spirit in a hierarchical manner. (On the other hand, some
people who are up to no good deliberately establish hierarchical
relationships with spirits, often with the spirit as the underling or
slave.  But that's for another rant.)

My friend has been with me for a very long time, but now that I think
about it, I don't ever recall him claiming to be my guide.  I think we
humans get so lonely and confused that we latch on to any powerful
spirit-ally that comes along, whether in waking life or in a vision or
dream or ceremony, etc, and assume that s/he is a guide, even though s/he
may have come around in order to get help with his or her own problems! I
have seen some of this in connection with the returning spirits and in the
near future we will probably see a lot more of it. I have read and heard
of people entertaining all sorts of bizarre spirits as their guides, and
shaken my head at human folly.  But I have been guilty of this as well.

There is a tendency on any spiritual path to think of the progress of the
journey as a series of accomplishments.  Having visions, possessing
certain sacred objects, knowing how to do certain ceremonies, knowing
one's Name, meeting one's guide, etc, can become merit badges on the red
road.  These things make a person fee special.  But there are no merit
badges; there are not even milestones.  These are just things that happen.
Maybe there's something to what the Buddhists say, that visions and
unusual talents are distractions, products of the unhealthy mind, and, as
one develops, these things disappear.  I would not go so far as to agree
totally with this; I feel that these powers are to help the community. But
if they become distractions, they should disappear.

There's an interesting symmetry here.  One of my friend's consistent
messages has been the end of hierarchies, the end of practices that no
longer serve good purpose, the need to let go of that which is dying in
order to be able to accept that which is coming into being.  Every now and
then, it's good to get a taste of one's own medicine.

Dee @ 4C

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