Guide
A Guide is a disincarnate Spiritual Ego that has agreed to guide and assist you with tasks related to The Work and The Great Work.
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Related LP Terms
Guide > Dream Experience, Emotional Semaphore, Guide Network, Intramonadic Communication, Synchronicity
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Notes
Guides attach to you and your life based on mutual agreement. You and your guides choose each other based on your connection, special requirements you may have, special interests you share, etc.
A guide is a part of your Guide Network.
The idea that we have spiritual guides is a common theme in indigenous and traditional religions, though they go by different names (e.g., the ancestors).
Typically, your guide network consists of five or six monads with an interest in you. They could be former family members (from this life or previous lifetimes), "angels," or even "subject matter experts" assisting you with special creative tasks you may have decided to try and accomplish.
Guides attach to you and your life based on mutual agreement. You and your guides choose each other based on your connection, special requirements you may have, special interests you share, etc.
Your guide network itself is not static and changes throughout the course of your life.
Grof has some awareness of the existence of inner guides. "Holotropic states tend to engage something like an 'inner radar', bringing into consciousness automatically the contents from the unconscious that have the strongest emotional charge, are most psychodynamically relevant at the time, and are available for processing at that particular time."[1] Grof notes that this represents a "great advantage in comparison with verbal psychotherapy, where the client presents a broad array of information of various kind and the therapist has to decide what is important, what is irrelevant, where the client is blocking, etc.[2]
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Footnotes
- ↑ Grof, Stanislav. “Psychology For the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research.” Spirituality Studies 2, no. 1 (2016): 3–36. p. 13. https://www.spirituality-studies.org/dp-volume2-issue1-spring2016/#2.
- ↑ Grof, Stanislav. “Psychology For the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research.” Spirituality Studies 2, no. 1 (2016): 3–36. p. 13. https://www.spirituality-studies.org/dp-volume2-issue1-spring2016/#2.
