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Spirit Guides
Now in its 16th printing, this best-seller has become a metaphysical classic. Iris Belhayes delivers an inspirational and uplifting We are not alone. We are surrounded at all times by the love and support of our spirit guides. The author shares what she has learned from her guide, Enid, explaining the role of our spirit guides and how our spirit families support and assist us in living out the "game plan" we chose for this lifetime. Besides offering a sense of meaning and purpose, Iris shares her technique for getting in touch with your own spirit guides so that you, too, can experience a sense of hope, reassurance and joy.
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1000 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 1986
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August 7, 2020
Summary: I would recommend this to those that are really new to the idea of spirit guides. The back half is slightly better if you're familiar with the concept and perhaps a little further along in your understanding of it.
Belhayes describes life a as a game and it takes a bit of time for me to get use to her form of communication. But as I read further, I realized why she was describing things this way and I can see how that can be very helpful if someone is quite new to thinking about life in the context of the earth school. Overall, the ideas that resonated most with me had to do with the idea that while many look for spirit guides outside of themselves, in that classic ghost sense, you can also look for them living within other people and also within yourself, because you are a spirit. That was cool.
Some quotes:
p. 12 - "...there is no need to learn compassion outside the physical universe because there is no lack of compassion there...The only way w can experience the blossoming of our enlightenment is to come to a world that admits the possibility of un-enlightenment."
p. 24 (as relates to karma) "However, and this is a very big however, no debt owed can ever really be cleanly paid back at the expense of either party, but must be paid easily and lovingly. In truth such 'debts' are not real and exist only in the mind. Only if one thinks there is a debt, does it exist at all." She then goes on to a lesson I think is very important. We are not here to help or save others that do not extend their hand out to receive that help.
p. 74 - She's talking about one's connection to the spirit world and how that just exists. We are a part of it whenever we use the mind to think about things that aren't lodged in the physical world, like daydreaming or just imaging. Then she says: "To deny the spirit world is to deny one's own beingness... one's own existence... one's own reality. To deny one's own imagination and the scope of one's own realities serves only to postpone one's own awakening. Also to deny t he spirituality of others, the reality of the existence of others --whether in or out of the body -- is again denying one's own spiritual possibilities." This to me is a very unique way to think about spirituality and open-mindedness that is become a really vital part of globalism.
Belhayes describes life a as a game and it takes a bit of time for me to get use to her form of communication. But as I read further, I realized why she was describing things this way and I can see how that can be very helpful if someone is quite new to thinking about life in the context of the earth school. Overall, the ideas that resonated most with me had to do with the idea that while many look for spirit guides outside of themselves, in that classic ghost sense, you can also look for them living within other people and also within yourself, because you are a spirit. That was cool.
Some quotes:
p. 12 - "...there is no need to learn compassion outside the physical universe because there is no lack of compassion there...The only way w can experience the blossoming of our enlightenment is to come to a world that admits the possibility of un-enlightenment."
p. 24 (as relates to karma) "However, and this is a very big however, no debt owed can ever really be cleanly paid back at the expense of either party, but must be paid easily and lovingly. In truth such 'debts' are not real and exist only in the mind. Only if one thinks there is a debt, does it exist at all." She then goes on to a lesson I think is very important. We are not here to help or save others that do not extend their hand out to receive that help.
p. 74 - She's talking about one's connection to the spirit world and how that just exists. We are a part of it whenever we use the mind to think about things that aren't lodged in the physical world, like daydreaming or just imaging. Then she says: "To deny the spirit world is to deny one's own beingness... one's own existence... one's own reality. To deny one's own imagination and the scope of one's own realities serves only to postpone one's own awakening. Also to deny t he spirituality of others, the reality of the existence of others --whether in or out of the body -- is again denying one's own spiritual possibilities." This to me is a very unique way to think about spirituality and open-mindedness that is become a really vital part of globalism.
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May 5, 2015Really good book on understanding spirit guides; our connections to them, and them to us.
I am often asked many of the questions that are addressed by Belhayes. I have recommended this book to a number of clients, who have found it very helpful.
It is written in acccessible language. And doesn't hit ya over the head with preachy talk, as so often many books do.
I am often asked many of the questions that are addressed by Belhayes. I have recommended this book to a number of clients, who have found it very helpful.
It is written in acccessible language. And doesn't hit ya over the head with preachy talk, as so often many books do.
August 4, 2016
I found this book somewhere amidst the ever-growing flood of recommendations given at the back of books on Wicca and pseudo-shamanic practices. It was keyed as a particularly thorough assortment of ideas and activities to stir up the knowledge of and communication with spirits. I read it in conjunction with Ted Andrews' book on the same subject, and it turned out to be a good combination.
Belhayes certainly seems to now her subject, and her treatment of it is exhaustive. I personally have no definite evidence that I have ever communicated with a "spirit guide," although there have been plenty of vision-mind-dream communications that could certainly have been such. Belhayes' ideas are interesting because they suggest that these latter communications could certainly be the real thing. (In fact, her book opens up the possibilities for "real things" to the point of bewilderment, or even confusion.)
By the end of the book, the reader may well get the idea that anything is possible when it comes to spirit communication--communication with any object or being conceivable by the imagination. I actually like this idea very much, but unless one is ready to practice in discipline, it can never really become a part of psychic experience.
I'm all for infinite possibilities, and I recommend this book as such. Perhaps it will find a stronger hold on your own psyche than it did on mine.
Belhayes certainly seems to now her subject, and her treatment of it is exhaustive. I personally have no definite evidence that I have ever communicated with a "spirit guide," although there have been plenty of vision-mind-dream communications that could certainly have been such. Belhayes' ideas are interesting because they suggest that these latter communications could certainly be the real thing. (In fact, her book opens up the possibilities for "real things" to the point of bewilderment, or even confusion.)
By the end of the book, the reader may well get the idea that anything is possible when it comes to spirit communication--communication with any object or being conceivable by the imagination. I actually like this idea very much, but unless one is ready to practice in discipline, it can never really become a part of psychic experience.
I'm all for infinite possibilities, and I recommend this book as such. Perhaps it will find a stronger hold on your own psyche than it did on mine.
April 17, 2014
This book is very detailed, very extensive, well-written. I'm able to relate to much but not all of it. It is evident that the author definitely has extrasensory perception.
September 1, 2015
i didnt really enjoy this one, there was some good information but overall the writing seemed closed minded
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