Are Spirit Guides Real?

I've been to quite a few medium presentations, read quite a few books on spirituality and watched a lot of YouTube videos regarding this topic. But at the end of the day, I still ask myself, are spirit guides real? I guess it would be a nice thought to know for certain, that there is one particular spiritual being that is watching over you.

The drawing of 'Chi' I received.

When I attended a Body, Mind and Soul Festival, I had a drawing done of my spirit guide. The artist told me that he said that his name was 'Chi'. Don't get me wrong, I love the drawing, but is it my spirit guide? Maybe she's just a really good artist who can draw a set of images freehand, and churns the same images out over and over again.... I have no idea?

A friend of mine, someone that I have known for a long time has recently become quite spiritual. She has embarked on a number of courses and has begun doing her own research, as one day she remembered that when she was a child, she had an imaginary friend..... She's trying to find out, if her 'imaginary friend' is/was in fact her spirit guide. Personally I never had an imaginary friend as a child, I did however see two spirits/ghosts in one house we lived in and heard another in the next house we lived in.

The video above was made by Steve Huff, it's almost 18 minutes long. He talks about spirit guides. If you just want to get to the bit where he talks about how to contact you're own spirit guide, skip the video along to 7.30 minutes. The technique he describes is very similar to those that I have read about in books. I've not done this exercise personally, so I cannot comment on that. What I can say is that, Steve records a lot of EVP's and will often ask if his spirit guide is present.... Either a 'yes' will be heard, or her name.

I guess one of the reasons I've never tried this exercise is that, I'm partially concerned that if a name does pop into my head, it'll just be my mind generating some random name that I've perhaps heard on TV or it's the name of someone I know or is from my past.... I don't know.    

Whoa! What An Amazing Day!

On Friday my wife and I went to the Health, Harmony and Soul Expo and the Food and Wine Expo in Newcastle. I had been looking forward to these expo's since we purchased our tickets online a couple of weeks ago. It's funny, I thought that I would walk out with a bunch of soy candles, because that's typical of me. . . As it turned out, I didn't buy a single candle! I did however buy a bunch of other stuff, of course none of it was stuff that I 'needed'. 

I'll start by showing you some of the goodies we got from the food section of the expo. There were so many chocolates to choose from, but we stopped at two types of chocolate and two types of nougat. . . Thank god! lol We tried a sample of the Bondi Chai and it was yummo and will be available in supermarkets soon, so keep your eyes open for that one.

We also bought some chilli chocolate powder and two spice mixes that can be used in any type of cooking, as well as being mixed with sour cream or yoghurt to make dips. . . I tried a sample of the dip and it was amazing!

Lunch consisted of a bunch of tastings from lots of little stalls, we had Vietnamese spring rolls, Mexican style soft tacos - which tasted like nothing I have ever eaten before!

We also had vegetarian food from govindas and gozmeles. We were stuffed! If I had room I would have kept buying and trying different foods lol

I bought a number of books, which I wasn't expecting to do, as I already have a number of books on my 'to read' list. lol There were two guest speakers in particular that I really wanted to see, and they were Mitchell Coombes and Michael Wheeler.

Mitchell Coombes is very similar to Lisa Williams personality wise, he was quite funny. At one point he was reading the woman sitting right beside me, then he stopped and said "the man sitting next to you has really nice energy". He then continued on with her reading!!! I was like... What?!?! Wow!!! lol I met him after the show and he signed both books and a cd that I had purchased. 

The next speaker was Michael Wheeler, I had purchased his book and met him before his show. He was very good and will be hosting his own show near where we live in a couple of weeks, which we hope to attend :o)

We also purchased these pieces, my wife liked the glass infused mineral necklace and I liked the Buddhist beads and labradorite crystal.

This crystal has some fantastic colours! Unfortunately because of the rounded shape, I can't capture them properly with a camera. As soon as I saw it sitting amongst all the other crystals, I knew it had to come home with me. I've yet to decide where I'm going to put it, I also had no intention of purchasing any crystals, that was until this one jumped out at me.

Now this drawing blew me away, I was so close to not having it done as it was quite expensive. There were two women reading and drawing spirit guides. We must have walked past their stall four or five times, and each time I was in awe of their drawings. Every time we walked past, my wife kept telling me to go for it. Eventually, I caved in lol The drawing is about one metre high and about seventy centimeters wide. 

The reader held my hands for maybe 30 seconds before she let go, as though she had received a shock! She asked me if anyone had ever commented on my energy before? I laughed and told her what had happened when Mitchell Coombes was reading a woman who was sitting bedside me and how he had commented on my energy. She shook her head and said that she could understand why he said what he did. She said that I have amazing energy! 

She continued to tell me that my spirit guide was Tibetan and he told her that his name was Chi. The reader went on to say that there was a very strong dragon influence and that I should be aware of dragon symbolism and signs. The reader spoke more about both Chi and the dragon, before drawing the image above...... What was so amazing was, that so much of this image she drew with her eyes closed!!!