Looking for Mr. Good Guide

by Susan Davies

    How many of us have looked up at the sky or gone to church looking for spiritual guidance only to come away feeling that God or the angels were too far away from our earth bound existence. That spirit reality was too hard to comprehend or even to see? Yet, how many people still believe they have a guardian angel watching over them or that they have felt God talking in their ear?

    I propose that we are not alone in this world even when we think we are. That, in fact, there are many spirit beings who exist solely for the purpose of guiding and protecting us who are at our side from the moment we are born. These higher spiritual entities are our spirit guides, our own spiritual coaches in life who help us fulfill our personal goals and purposes. Your spirit guides are right next to you, concerned about you, watching you, helping you and assisting you with your everyday problems and challenges.

    In this article, I want to show how I came to know my guides and one guide in particular. To me, the guides signs are clear and recognizable and all you have to do is be open to them and you’ll be able to recognize their presence in your lives as well.
    Several years back, I kept hearing from friends about how they were "in touch" with and communicating to their spiritual guides. At the same time, I kept coming into contact with books that described guides, angels and ascended masters. All this information was very new and exciting to me and I was very curious.

    What exactly is a guide? Do they have names? And their own lives? Are they angels? Balls of light? Shadows of aware-ized consciousness? Do I have guides? And if I do, where were they when my car broke down on the highway in the pouring rain? And where were they when I lost my keys, overslept, got a sunburn or worse? Was it one of them at my side when I was pushed out of the way by a gust of wind before a Mack truck whizzed by me on the highway?
    These burning questions seared their way into my brain as I was coming up from a dream ridden sleep, one January morning and the insistent sunshine dug into my sleepy eyes demanding an answer. "O.K., O.K., I give up! Show yourselves to me, pronto!", I shouted into the air, upon fully awakening.

    Expecting an immediate response, I waited for their reply. I heard nothing. I saw nothing!` Deciding to experiment, I took one long deep breath and announced in solemn earnest, "O.K. gals, guys, guides, whoever you are, whatever you are, I am ready to see you, ready to hear you, everyday and in every way. I really want to meet you and so I am asking you to please show yourselves, (angels, ascended masters, guides), to me!"

    I put my request out, speaking with great gusto, fully expecting a reply to be returned to me in some form. I thought that hints would come my way now in one way or another. I was truly convinced that my job now was to make sense of them when (and if) they came! "I can do that!", I thought to myself.

    My first clue arrived several days later. Like an alarm clock, the same song would wake me up every morning, for about a week! The song played over and over in my head until I decided to find out what it was. Was it old or new? Rock n’ Roll? Pop? I thought it might be one of those "run of the mill but "Oh ‘god, I can’t get it out of my head" type songs. The song kept singing... "If you don’t know me by now.... you will never, never, never know me, oo ooh!.."

    I think it was the fifth morning when I finally guessed who sent me this music via voice mail. It was my guides! A chord of knowing-ness struck my heart. It was THEM! My guides were speaking to me through the music, through the lyrics of that particular song! But what were they singing? If you don’t know me by now....Wait a minute", I thought, If I don’t know them by now, I will never, never know them! Do they mean me?" Come on! Private jokers in the room! Well, I guess they had been around me a long time or could be or will be! O.K. So the laugh was on me. I got their clue. Hurray! The eagle has landed! Contact has been made! My sister Beth and I set a date to enjoy post holiday shopping in cozy Chestnut Hill, Pa. and she was late to meet me. Fortunately, I remembered where her apartment key was and let myself into her place to wait for her there. My attention span for the Glamour magazine on the coffee table lasted about two minutes and so I wandered around, occasionally looking up at the clock. Another ten minutes went by and still no sign of Beth.

    Suddenly, I hear a voice in my head. "Hurry!", it says. Hurry? "Do you mean me?", I mentally respond. "Hey, I’m the one who’s waiting for her, remember?" The inner voice answers, "You have to find something you need here and then she will come." "Oh good," I thought, "another (guided) game!" "Hmm, what could I be looking for? A magazine? Nah. Something in the kitchen? No! THINK! Someone wants to send a message. How about ...a book?! I run over to the bookshelf and peruse through Beth’s books. "Well, well what have we here?" "How to Build Your Own Parachute", Huh? "How to Teach Your Kitten to Read" Uh, No! "The Love You Make; Story of the Beatles," "Hmm, cool!", I page through the book. "I’d like to borrow this book from Beth anyway", I think to myself. Suddenly, Beth walks through the front door.....My boyfriend and I made plans to go to Casa Maria in nearby King of Prussia for our Valentine’s Day celebration. After driving through drenching rain, we arrive only to wait a half an hour more for our table. Stationed at the cocktail table next to the bar, we order drinks and wait.

    I realize I’m not alone when I mentally hear a voice say to me "Move your chair!" Still argumentative from the long car journey, I mentally retort, "Not a chance, bub, I’m staying right here!" With that, I close my ears. Soon after, I start to feel real uncomfortable, like I can’t sit with my chair against the wall anymore. I’ve got to move! It becomes an absolute necessity!

    I quickly slide into another seat near the table and upon straightening up , I see a picture of the Beatles staring at me from across the way. It was the funniest picture of them I’d ever seen, John, Paul George and Ringo dressed up in ponchos and sombreros! The picture totally cracked me up. Oh, please, I thought, not those guys again! So I remarked to my date, "Looks like the Beatles are following me!"

    It was the second time I was guided to see a picture of the Beatles. First, the book at Beth’s house and now this, so things were starting to look a little coincidental. Having gathered these several clues, I knew there had to be something coming up that would tie everything together!
    I guessed the really big hint would show up soon and indeed it did. I started having dreams about white limousines, not daydreams but night dreams, and every night for about one week! Limos, limos everywhere. By the seventh day, I thought, "Oh boy, tonight must be the seventh limo, Well, you get what you focus on!

    That night I had a dream of a really big , white limousine and this time I was sitting in it and talking to a man in a very white suit who told me that he was a Jewish entertainment lawyer. We rode for a very long time and conversed about art, politics peace and music. Just before I got out of the car, I asked him what his name was. He told me it was "Zenithofsky". "Zenithofsky, I thought, "What kind of name is that?" "Hmm, sounds Jewish, but is it?"

    The pieces of the puzzle came together the following week when I went to a channeling session with the entity Ascordia, a Seraphic Angel (and close friend of mine). During the session, I asked her about the strange set of coincidences concerning the Beatles book and picture and did they have anything to do with my dreams about the white limousines and Mr. Zenithofsky? Well, yes, she said, it does!" Ah-hah! Answers at last! Ascordia continued, "It seems that the Beatles were very catalytic in stimulating the world in such a way that you want to be and they were a driving force in the planetary transition that begun in the 1960’s. They, in essence, became the "zenith of the sky" in music and we say that John Lennon is guiding you at this time to help with your music and you will be channeling his inspiration." Silence.... Phew! What was that she said? John Lennon! Musical genius and mastermind behind the Beatles, my guide? Wow! Extra, double wow! John Lennon, wow! It’s been three short years since that Spring of 1990. I have been communicating with my guides and John Lennon ever since! I have developed an awareness of them, I can hear them and I can feel them. They seem to be right here in this time/space but somehow they are also located in a dimension that is distinctly separate from my own.

    I sense John Lennon not as the "rock star John", but as a man. A simple man; a common man who is quite "down to earth"! Painting him as a rock star is just too one dimensional for he is much, much more than that. He came to the earth plane already highly evolved with a purpose to enlighten people and he did so with his music. He continues to guide and enlighten many "earth bound beings’, such as myself, who have similar purposes. These purposes are generally to be of service to humanity by teaching them through lyrics and song about their spiritual origins and to remind them of their spiritual heritage and love filled natures!  When my guides are around me, I feel a great peace but I can also sense other moods, at times, including silliness and hilarity. For the guides and John Lennon have a great sense of humor! Just recently a coworker was talking about someone in her family who had just passed away, My boss broke into the conversation saying "You shouldn’t talk about dead people!" And my guides immediately responded by whispering to me "Yeah, because they could be hanging around!" Their response and the general situation made me roar with laughter and nobody knew why! I have given you my story about how I met my guides and Guide (John Lennon). There is more to be said but generally guides are always there for you to consult with, to plan your day and future with, to ask advise and opinions about your personal problems and challenges. There are many ways to get in touch with them. The key is to be open to their presence, to listen and to be aware of their answers and to accept what comes as the next step on the way to a closer relationship.

    This can be achieved by meditation, prayer, automatic writing or channeling. Just be open to the possibility that they are there even when you don’t think so, even when you least expect it.
    Just last summer, I went out to the Hard Rock Cafe in New York City with my Japanese friend, Nao, who calls himself Jim. He’s really into Jim Morrison of the Doors and feels like he’s Jim reincarnated. However, Nao was alive when Jim was still living, so we just laugh about dead rock stars and such. At this museum-burger joint-bar- tourist hangout, we took our time combing through all the rock-n-roll memorabilia, combing through all the guitars, poster and signed photographs.

   Later, after our food arrived, I realized something was amiss! I hadn’t seen any Beatles stuff! Where in the world was John? Then I had to giggle, for as I turned around to look at the wall behind me, I heard a "Guess who?!" in my ear and hanging behind me was a huge five by four foot picture of John Lennon himself dressed in a white ice cream suit! Taking everything into consideration, these happenings don’t seem so strange anymore, they just make me laugh!