Meet my guides: Larry, Curley and Moe

If you are a healer or consciousness pioneer, you’ve no doubt encountered the notion of a spiritual guide.   For years, I’ve heard others say things like, “My guides told me to do this” or “My guides told me that.”    I’ve never had inner advice from anyone recognizable yet, so for years, I thought I maybe I didn’t have any guides.   But in recent years, I’ve come to realize that perhaps I was wrong.   It seems that I may have been missing the presence of my guides (or ‘hallucinations’, as Richard Bartlett of Matrix Energetics likes to call them) because they aren’t the type to give advice or tell me what to do.

In fact, if I had to make a comparison, I’d say that my guides are the spiritual equivalent of the pranksters known as the Three Stooges – Larry, Curley and Moe.    And that realization made what used to be confusing, a whole lot of fun.

Now I don’t mean that my guides are like the Three Stooges in that they are foolish.     Rather, the similarity is in the fact that that they are utterly oblivious to the seriousness with which we humans tend to approach life.  And without that, they are free to simply be silly and entertain themselves.

Beyond their playfulness, my inner Larry, Curly and Moe have an unwavering attitude that I, on my own, am doing just fine and don’t need them to oversee my decisions or steer me through life.   They’d laugh heartily at me if I ever asked them to.  It seems that, most of the time, they just hang around, aware of me from the periphery while they goof around poking each other in the eye and having a whoop-whoop-whoop good time.

Occasionally these characters will stop their antics long enough to pay attention to something specific that I am focussed upon.  At those rare times, mostly what they seem to convey is that I am doing fine, and that I should just hold steady.   If I doubt myself, that’s when they stop pulling each others’ hair and let me know they are sure of me, even if I’m temporarily not.   At those times, I sense their greater depth and wisdom.  And I find it reassuring.

The challenge of having this light-hearted tom-foolery going on all the time within me is that it rarely stops.  That means that during my coaching sessions and ‘work’, I simultaneously experience a situation from my client’s often-somber perspective AND my guides – who are not taking it seriously at all.   I used to find this contrast a challenge but over the years I’ve discovered that if I let myself be more like them in the presence of problems, most people are relieved to meet me there.   And on the heels of that initial willingness, they soon start seeing things from a lighter, freer perspective as well.

A woman who used to work down the hall from my office would sometimes say rather wistfully, “It sure sounds like you are having a lot more fun in there than we are having out here.”

I believe I can speak for Larry, Curley, Moe in saying, whoop-whoop-whoop, “We definitely agree“.