Andy,
you asked about my personal experience with my spirit guides.
First, I want to point you to an older post. I wrote something about guidance here,
http://eckhart-tolle-forum.inner-growth ... 10&t=12728
Guidance doesn’t need to come only as contact with an entity. It can come in many forms. Dreams, recurring events, songs in the head, visions.
The first time, I tried to receive a message from my wise inner voice, I sat down with an urgent question about how to behave in a conflict situation. I wrote it down, then cleared my mind and waited for the answer. Then I wrote down whatever appeared in my mind. At that time there was a wise answer, but no entity with a face as a guide.
Several years later, I had a time where I felt a strong feeling of remorse or sadness. It manifested as a very unpleasant drawing feeling in the stomach. I asked before sleep where that sensation in the stomach came from since there was no apparent reason for it. As answer, I had a dream where some guy was standing behind me , putting both arms around my stomach from behind. He was tall, in jeans and T-shirt, with short blond curly hair. He wanted to lift me up in order to help me pass over a small abyss or gap in front of me. I turned back and looked at him. He looked kind of unhappy . I saw that he had a hard time lifting me over that abyss. So , I said politely, “Oh, I think you don’t need to help me. I can do it alone.” And then I woke up.
The same entity appeared in later dreams. Fortunately, then he had a happier look on his face.
When I read the Raj material, it said that we all have guides and that we can even ask their names. I though that was cool and asked that my guide reveal his name to me ( before falling asleep) . Then, in the phase between sleep and waking up, his name appeared spelled out, in typewritten letters.
I googled the name and found that there are several people who channel an entity with this name. But “my” guide didn’t appear to me like the ones on the internet. Neither did he talk about the same kind of stuff as the other channeled ones. Therefore, I think it is probably a different entity even though the name is the same.
Later, I had visions of my guide also during the day. For example, usually he appears dressed casually, in jeans and T-shirt. But one day, he appeared with a nice shirt with collar. I asked him, “Why are you dressed so business-like today? “ He smiled and replied, “Yeah, because I really mean business.” Oh! That was a hint that he meant that I needed to get my act together and start writing and sharing and stop procrastinating.
There were dreams, where I saw two guides, but only as shadows. I could not discern any faces.
And lately I have the impression that I shift from the former guide to a new one.
At one point during the journey, I fell into the pit of the void. I was hanging out in transcendent land for 3 months or so. It was a phase of low energy and almost DP/DR like symptoms.
Afterwards, I returned to life again. The important point I want to share is that since that phase the communication with the guides has changed. I can still get blocks of thought as messages. But I don’t see faces anymore.
When I read the account of Pam Kribbe ( she channels Jeshua) , I found it impressive that she can feel it when he is near:
http://themagicofbeing.squarespace.com/ ... ribbe.html
I asked, “I would like to feel it physically if my guide is there.”
As an answer I get a tingling sensation down one leg .
So, if you want to experiment with communcation, the important steps are: Ask. Become still. Listen. Expect an answer.