How to contact one s spirit guide MANILA, Philippines I m Vince Punzal of Taguig City.

I always read your column becaus e I m very interested in paranormal things. I hope you can explain to me the follo wing: Do all people have guide spirits? My classmate in college told me that when he wa s in high school, he had a teacher who was very mysterious. He told him and two other classmates that they had guide spirits, but they can t see them because they needed to do something first. He told my classmate he needed to climb three mou ntains and to the other he said he had to see three white birds at night. Thank you Vince, for your interest in my works. According to people who can see spirits, we all have at least one spirit guide. A spirit guide is different from the Christian concept of a guardian angel, which most of us are familiar with. According to Christian doctrine, if I remember my high school catechism class, w hen a person is born, God assigns a guardian angel to protect and guide him in h is lifetime. An angel is a pure spirit and has not been human before. A spirit g uide may have been human before and now chooses, while in the spirit form, to he lp others by being a guide to them. It is usually by mutual consent between the guide and his ward that the former will guide him or her. A person may have seve ral spirit guides but only one guardian angel. Also, a spirit guide may change i n the course of a person s lifetime depending on the person s needs and development of his consciousness. A guardian angel, by my understanding, remains the same th roughout a person s lifetime. I do not know how the teacher of your classmate got the idea that to see one s spi rit guide, he has to climb three mountains and to see three white birds in the n ight. It is just saying that one can never see or contact one s spirit guide. In m y Inner Mind Development seminar, I teach people how to contact their inner advi sor but I do not define it as a spirit. The inner advisor is defined as a symbol ic representation of one s subconscious mind. It acts as a bridge between one s high er self and that part of our mind that thinks in pictures or images. Automatic writing According to one young American spiritual medium, Sarah Christine Lalonde, in th e April 2008 issues of FATE Magazine, the best and safe way to contact one s spiri t guide is through automatic writing, which I also teach in my class. Sarah gave useful guidelines, which I summarized here: 1. Never ask if anyone is there. This opens you up to possible negative spirits hove ring around.2. Always protect yourself with prayer, grounding or the white light before going any further. 3. Be respectful. Always say please and thank you. Your spiri t guide will love you for it and would want to help you more. 4. Do not expect your guide to predict the future or tell you everything you want to know. 5. Do not dri nk alcohol or take drugs before doing automatic writing. 6. Do not ask for famous p eople that you are not related to or know on a personal level. Calling spirits i s a serious thing, not a game. 7. Relax and enjoy yourself. When attempting to contact spirits, whether through automatic writing or some ot her method, be sure you are in touch only with highly evolved beings or masters and not with lower spirits or negative ones. When you feel afraid or apprehensiv e, stop. Or when the spirit starts building your ego or promising you power or r iches, stop. These are usually the work of lower discarnate spirits or negative and evil forces. As the well-known psychic prophet Edgar Cayce has always admonished, when doing spiritual work, always attune yourself to your highest ideal, and you won t go wrong . The highest ideal is, of course, God.

Psychic surgery A third-year medical student who is doing research on body-mind connection asked me the following question which he said has puzzled him: Why is it that psychic surgery is so popular among foreigners but locally, nobody really takes it seriously? Well, it is not exactly true that locally nobody takes psychic surgery seriously ecause I do. I have devoted over 15 years of serious research on this subject an d have written three books on it. One reason it is not taken seriously, especially by compared to foreigners, is because all we ever hear y negative and critical. Can you cite me any single e, or magazine article that is positive or at least ts discussion of psychic surgery? educated urban Filipinos as about this subject are highl news item, television episod impartial and objective in i b

Another reason is this: Because of the incredible nature of the process the report ed ability of a psychic surgeon to open up a patient s body with his bare hands, t ake out diseased tissues and close the incision without a trace at all our rationa l scientific minds cannot accept it. So we at once suspect trickery or sleight-o f-hand. All our psychic surgeons are espiritistas or spirit mediums and they all claim the y have spirit guides that do the healing, not themselves.