How to get a Guide to talk....  Well thats the thing, you can't really unless they want to talk.  My feeling is that some of the more advanced incarnated people have made prior agreements not to have much overt guidance, and "coddling/attention"...because they want to test themselves, and the more grown up you are, the less advice you need from the "adults" so to speak.

  Maybe you are one of these?  More practically, sometimes i meditate and think of a blank screen which can have visuals, feelings, words, symbols, etc. on it...

  I went to the A.R.E headquarters in Virginia Beach a while ago, and they were having a ESP demonstration class.  One of the last things we did, was that we had this envelope which had a picture in it, and we tried to "get" what the picture was...

  I quieted my mind, took some deep breaths, and asked my Guides to help out.  I approached it with very little desire to be "accurate", more as a game.  Well, i was sitting next to my Twin Soul/Fiance and at first i get getting this impression of a round ovalish symbol, and i got "Blue!" really strongly...but i kept shaking my head, and knew that wasn't it..  So i repeated the process and pictured the blank screen like i told you about, then i got what looked like waving wheat, and i got the impression of speed so i wrote "cars". 

  When Becky and I opened up our pictures, i was kind of surprised as what i got was actually a blend of the two!   Her pic was of a single blue eye, all surrounded in blue, and my pic was of a closeup of horses tightly packed together, with the necks and manes most noticable, and they were all galloping...

  I was like Score!  Cause i never had really seriously tried anything like this, except through doing astrology charts--but that is more an instant knowingness from connection to Total Self... and i think the important part was my detachment and fun attitude about the whole thing.

Hope this helps

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Sound or clairaudience (sp?) isn't all it is cracked up to be. It sufferes from the same symbol translation that the images do. So what you "hear" is not necessarily what was said. "X is dead" may actually mean "The person Y who reminds you of X no longer wants to talk with you".

I hear vast amounts of stuff and it is FAR harder to bring back to physical memory than visual imagery. Just as hard as printed text after trying to read it on the other side. And don't even ask about cursive writing.

The other issue, of course, is that it opens you to M-band noise and passing F23 spirits. While trying to concentrate on a difficult problem at work, there is nothing like hearing "It will never work". Or becoming aware that a person with a Scots accent is haranging you.

There is no way to even know if your guides will use "speach" or sound. And it takes awhile to get used to hearing a sound like a 2x4 being swung as hard as possible against a wood floor in the middle of the night. Of course having them touch the hairs on your arm will bring you bolt upright out of a sound sleep as well.

If your guides want you to know something, they will get it across to you somehow. If they don't want you to know, they won't tell you however much you ask. My guides never speak to me as such. They always use visual imagery. Considering that all you will use on the other side will be NVC anyway sound might as well get as much practice as possible.

Richard, thanks so much for your input here.  I have to imagine that you are right about the accuracy of auditory information.  I know that in dreams I receive all kinds of interesting auditory info, including written word documents, and I simply can't bring them back into awareness.  During the dream I might be fascinated but it slips away so easily.

I agree that I must trust in the process in order to explore and learn, but in Bruce's books and cds there is evidence for and encouragement for auditory input.  I was just wondering why this part of the process seemed so much more difficult to me.  The cds encourage gathering of information from the retrievee, and I just get very little from that, at least so far.  Maybe it's just practice and I'm impatient.

I consider myself both a visual and auditory person, meaning that both are equally stimulating to me.  Well, onward thru the fog....and thanks all.

love, blink

Last night while meditating, I suddenly saw a clear image of a women smiling at me. Her face had a really nice vibe to it, and I could feel good vibes. She also looked really familiar.

Later on, while watching TV, I wondered if she looked familiar because I knew her before I was born.

During my second nightly meditation, I was kinda of hoping to see her again and start up a conversation, but it didn't work out that way.

After going to bed, I thought about it a bit before I fell asleep. The guidance I've been receiving hasn't come in the form of extended conversations with a spirit I see. It's come in dreams, images during meditation, intuitions, an occasional voice I'll hear, or occasional phrase or word that will come into my mind, that clearly comes from a place other than my ego mind.

It seems that it's better that I've received guidance in this way, because I've learned more this way than I would have learned if I received information in the form of an extended lecture.

I agree with comments about hearing voices. After a phrase or two things start to get muddled. Also, sometimes I'll see and hear people talking while I'm meditating, but it's hard to figure out what they're saying.

One time I was sent a phrase which told me that I'm being communicated to with "elegant allegories." The images I see, the dreams I have. They do say a lot, even if it takes some effort at times to figure out their meaning. They definitely seem to say more, than words alone.

I totally agree that it is good to be open to guidance in whatever form it appears, Recoverer.  It really is all around us, and I appreciate your frequent reminders to everyone to be open to this, as you are...

love, blink

Hi Alysia.  A Maltese is a dog, one of those little things that don't shed and that's why everyone likes them.  As far as maltese meaning anything else, I've never heard of it.

How about the country Malta. The people from there are Maltese?