What exactly are spirt guides?

Question

i have seen so many questions with something to do with spirt guides but i have no clue what they are!

Answer 1

A spirit guide is someone assigned to you by God to protect you and guide you through your life. Everyone has one. Just think of him/her as your invisible friend.

Answer 2

A spirit guide is a contact on the other side, a spirit whose purpose it is to watch over the medium, protect them, teach them, guide them in developing and using their gifts (clairvoyance, clairaudience, etc), usually fairly highly evolved spirits.

Answer 3

spirits that tell mediums all that the mediums ask

Answer 4

See the link below for a basic explanation.

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Answer 5

spirit guides are beings that are helping us go through our lives or are helping us out. they can be souls of dead ppl, or beings from another dimension or ven the big guy himself.. God

Answer 6

Spirit guides come from American Indian spirituality. Your spirit guide (you can have more than one as well) is an animal that represents things that you need to work on to make yourself a better person. For instance my spirit guide is the eagle and I should follow the example of the eagle to better learn how I should be. Do a little bit of searching on the net under American Indian spirit guides and you will easily find more detailed info on this subject including how to find out what your spirit guide is and what each animal represents as an example for you to follow. Spirit guides are basically a personal teacher appointed to you to learn the things from that you are lacking in spiritually.

Answer 7

Here they are a new age version of imaginary friends.In American Indian culture they were spirits usually in animal form.They revealed themselves to young men entering manhood.They also looked out for warriors often warning them of danger.It usually took drugs or some kind of body deprivation to summon them.In short they were religious symbols.This is a short,simple description,there's a lot more to it.

Answer 8

It seems that if one is religious or open to new age spirituality, they are the ones claiming to have "spirit guides" or "guardian angels."

However, if you're not into religion, then "spirit guide" has no relevance.

I'm not religious, so my "spirit guide" is just plain old common sense.

Answer 9

Actually, there are 2 categories:  1.  Spirit Guides, which are,  beings who are in soul, or spirit form and not in physical form.

2. Guardian Angels, which are, direct expressions of the loving thoughts of God sent to us to watch over us and help us.