GUIDES: The Guardian Angel or the Threshold Guardian. The expression Threshold Guardian is especially used in connection with mediums, where this guardian is responsible for who is allowed to come through. Every human soul has one such guardian or threshold angel, who remains with the human throughout his life. Guardian Angels / Spiritual Helpers / Spiritual Guides or just Guides or Helpers Our loved ones have many names. In this case we are talking about helpers who stay with the individual (the human) for longer or shorter periods of time, perhaps in connection with work on a certain matter. Some helpers are connected to us, when something creative is to be manifested. There can be many or just a few, depending on the needs and the type of task. Often they are deceased family members, but also souls on the other side, who are able to achieve a development through this co-operation. The Guardian Angel / Threshold Guardian / Spiritual Helpers / Spiritual Guides For some people, spiritual guides are entities we consciously get in touch with, and for others they are guides on the inner planes, who just are there, or a combination of both. It is possible to get in touch with these "helpers" through meditation, fantasy travelling, silence, daydreams and visualisations / active imagination. This makes it possible for us to achieve direct access to our own inner wisdom, instead of becoming dependent on external people such as therapists, teachers, priests or gurus. The spiritual understanding, which is supported by Edgar Cayce’s writings and other channelled messages, is that our guides are independent spiritual entities, human spirits, whose job is to help us as individuals to follow our own spiritual path. It has also been mentioned, that the possibility exists, that we have at one time incarnated at the same time as our guides, that we have a karmic connection with them, and that our roles can be exchanged in future incarnations. A person, who in this lifetime is a healer, may have had a previous incarnation as a doctor with a partner, who now is this person’s healer guide. When a person has more than one guide, the most common understanding is that each one has a specific area of responsibility, such as healing or teaching. These guides can come and go, some stay with the individual for a long time, others only for short periods of time. People sometimes ask themselves, whether their spiritual guides could be other personalities they have been in other incarnations. But then the question arises: why should a personality we have had several incarnations ago be able to give us advice now? It would seem that we would have regressed instead of developing spiritually. On the other hand, some feel that our Higher Self could take the form of one of our previous incarnations in order to establish a contact with our present awareness level. After all, many spiritual guides have said, that it is of minor importance what we call them or how we see them; their names and personalities are only for the sake of our comfort, because it makes it easier for us to relate to them. With a small adjustment of this understanding, we could consider a guide as both a product of, and a channel for the communication between the conscious self and the Higher Self. Back