Contacting your Spirit Guide

This might seems a strange book to review on these pages, but many readers are aware of an invisible spiritual dimension that influences our own. Moreover, the notion of guardian angels belongs to mainstream Christianity even if it is seldom discussed. In this book, Sylvia draws on her own experience of guides within her overall understanding of life. She sees each of us creating a life chart with the help of more advanced beings and then trying to remember and fulfil this in physical life. In neo-Platonic terms the fall is a fall into forgetfulness of our divine nature and origin. In her experience, guides transmit 20 to 30 messages a day, which most of us probably miss. The first part of the book makes suggestions on how to contact your spirit guide, while the second gives an impression of life in dimensions of the spiritual world. It seems that our immersion in time is responsible for a great deal of stress - some of the most interesting pages in the book are reflections on the nature of time. There is an intriguing analogy that the Now is like a needle on a gramophone record that keeps moving from groove to groove. In addition, we are in a sense living all our lives at once, which of course is a very hard concept to grasp from our perspective, but perhaps there is a hint in the sentence that 'everything is rotating in a circle'. So far as the Akashic record is concerned, it seems that events can either be fully experienced or viewed on the kind of scanner. This is certainly a mind-stretching read.