Caring and Compassion

This is the first of a two-part article about meeting your spirit guides through an intuitive reading or psychic reading (or whatever your preferred terminology) performed by somebody else.

Have you ever considered having an intuitive reading, of one sort or another? The kind where you meet your spirit guides, indirectly, and receive input from them regarding your soul. Would you consider doing this?

If you had asked me a few years ago, I would have said ’NO!’ emphatically. In spite of the fact that I considered myself open to ideas regarding the spiritual realm that would not be clasified as ’mainstream’.

But the other day I booked just such a reading – for the first time ever. Earlier today, the idea came to me to write an article reflecting exactly this moment in time – between booking the reading, and the reading actually taking place, followed by a second part immediately after the reading, where I can reflect on the experience when it is freshest in my thoughts.

Making the decision to book a reading
You see, after years of considering and developing my beliefs regarding these ’spriitual’ and ’soul’ issues – including confronting many varying beliefs that required detailed scrutiny (and an acknowledgment that mainstream thinking was even farther of the mark than I had previously concluded) – one of the things that I had to acknowledge is that if I wasn’t willing to give such an intuitive reading a try (on the basis that there could be some validity in the information these could provide), then I might as well allow the entire edifice of my beliefs surrounding these issues and many others to crumble to pieces. In fact, I’d best (metaphorically) stick the dynamite charge in them myself to clear them out immediately. Then start again on a different track.

Not only this, I would also have reject nearly wholesale the entire premise of numerous individuals (amateur, professional and semi-professional) working directly and indirectly with many of these non-mainstream areas and ideas, whom I have come to deeply respect. And this struck me as highly improbable – though not impossible, of course, since there is the chance that these people are (whether wittingly or unwittingly) full of baloney.

And so I booked a reading with someone who does such intuitive readings.

It took me some time to select this person as the right one for me, as there are no shortage of people offering such readings that can be found on the web. Among other things, I learned that different intuitives or psychics have different specialities – some are better at certain things then others. From reading through her website and blog in some detail, including noting a not-at-all-easy to obtain testamonial that itself went a long way to convincing me this was a person to take seriously – I was able to ascertain that in the aspects that I considered crucial, her beliefs were in line with mine. Furthermore, it was possible to loosely correlate the claims she was making with statements from other sources that I had previously read (and deeply respect) on these sort of ’spiritual’ topics.

On top of all of this, she was very open about where she received her training, how many readings she had done and for how long. Thus, by visiting the website of this ’sould realignment’ course, I could decide for myself what I thought of the approach. In some respects it seemed quite rigid for my tastes, but in other respects it was much like an open and welcoming academic community. That appealed to me. In fact, I must admit that all of this did spark an interest in pursuing such training myself in the future. But one step at a time.

So a few words about this training, as a brief digression.

I have to admit that visiting this training website and sifting through some of the material there – including downloading the first two lessons of the soul realignment practioner course which my chosen intuitive reader had completed – presented me with quite a lot infomation that wasn’t always the easiest to swallow. Some of it looked like it best belonged in a Harry Potter movie, to be quite honest. Yet, a good deal of it, even the stuff that was hardest to swallow for me, nonetheless directly or indirectly correlated with what I had previously read (much to my surprise).

I’ve always believed that when looking into matters of spirituality (as most other areas of life) it is important not to get hung up on terminology, since everyone has their own, and instead try to examine how various viewpoints and claims correlate (or don’t!) with each other.

But seriously, why book such a reading? Isn’t there another way to get this information directly?
The answer is ’yes’, there is. Several ways, in fact. And I believe they are within reach of anybody and everybody, including myself.

Researching precisely this question, I have come to accept that there is no information that such a reading can fish out that myself (or anybody else looking for such information about themselves) couldn’t directly themselves on their own. Incidently, this point is one that most intuitives or psychics stress.

However, this is not to say that there are not people with specific ’skills’ or ’gifts’ that they have developed to a level of proficiency that, for others to achieve, would require a level of dedication and motivation that few are willing to offer.

So what information do I expect to receive?
That is naturally a fair question. The short answer is I am open to whatever information is presented. I expect there will be plenty to digest, spanning virtually all aspects of my soul and my (earthly) life.

However, I should also note what I do not expect to receive – and which would make me deeply skeptical should this be what I am told.

I do not expect to receive specific indications of the dates and details events that will happen in my life in the future. And I do not expect to receive instructions that I should do this or that. To receive such instructions would be entirely out of line with my core beliefs on these matters – that we are all subject to freewill, and all have the power to make the choices in our lives, which themselves create the events we experience. To suggest the exist fixed events is the same as saying we don’t have free will. And that, for me, just doesn’t add up.

However, I do expect to receive an indication of why I have chosen the path I have, and what decisions or considerations would help put me on the highest path, the one that will lead to fulfilling the higher purpose (that I have chosen for myself) before I was born. This is bound to cover both personal and professional issues, since in my view these two should essentially not be separated (although for my they still are to a highly unsatisfactory degree)

I also expect I will receive some information about various relationships in my life, including my girlfriend and daughter, and some input regarding how to improve these, and how they are correlated with my highest path.

Telling the world…Unsurprisingly, I have been hesitant to reveal the fact that I have booked this little session with anybody – even my girlfriend, who most certainly does not share the same views I do on these matters. But I will, and I take comfort in the fact that I am hardly the first person to feel this way, or find myself in such a situation. Taking a step into the unknown always takes a shot of courage.

How will it all turn out? That remains to be seen. But I am excited to have chosen this path for myself.