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Spirit Guides & Angel Guardians: Contact Your Invisible Helpers

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"Basically, we are magnets who attract to ourselves whatever we think about," Richard Webster writes in his latest book, Spirit Guides & Guardian Angels: Contact Your Invisible Helpers. The good news is that we have helpers waiting to assist us in attracting abundance, radiance, and happiness to our lives. Webster says that "we all have a veritable army of special beings who are working all the time to help us achieve our goals and become successful." His book is a guide to recognizing and welcoming those special beings into our lives.

Webster traces the history of angels and spirit guides from antiquity forward, citing several references to angels in the Bible. He explains that, although angels can appear in human form if they want to, "they are not the souls of people who have died, unlike spirit guides, who are "people who have passed over into the next life."

The book is filled with specific tips on how to contact your invisible helpers. He also details what you should say and do once you've made contact. It is possible to contact "mischievous" spirits, and he recommends asking if the spirit you've contacted is from God before listening to it.

Webster emphasizes that learning to listen to and heed the small voice inside is of primary importance.

He provides guidelines for starting a "psychic circle," whereby a group of people interested in spiritual growth can practice contacting spirit guides.

Webster lectures and conducts workshops internationally in addition to writing magazine columns and more than 35 books. Readers searching for spiritual help will find Spirit Guides and Angel Guardians invaluable.

Having had an intense interest in angels and spirit guides, and having done considerable work with them over the past 5 years, I eagerly picked up Webster's book. Sad to say, I couldn't even finish his section on the angel guardians - it was so poorly written and lacking in substance. The subject is not one which lends itself to a "Cliff Notes" treatment - the reader would be better served by picking up Silver Raven Wolf's "Angels - Companions in Magic," from which Webster quotes in his own book! Ms. Raven Wolf is a true angelologist and her working knowledge of angels is second to none. Webster's treatment of the subject of spirit guides fares no better. He begins this section with an abidged history of the spiritualist movement in the 19th century. Webster focuses on the events surrounding the notorious Fox sisters of New York, but conveniently omits one very crucial fact about them: they recanted their so-called spirit guides and admitted to creating a hoax from the beginning! It is appalling that an author would so manipulate facts to bolster his theories and present them as gospel truth. Frankly, I found his treatment of seances, spirit contact, and the like to be outright dangerous - Webster apparently has been lucky and has never encountered truly malevolent spirits - READER BEWARE! This is not a parlor game - nor should contact with the spirit world be undertaken with such a capricious manner. I will credit Webster with some nice, easy relaxation techniques - but I would seriously discourage anyone from indulging in past life regressions unless they are firmly grounded in their metaphysical beliefs and have control of their psychic powers. Those wishing to seriously study the phenomena of spirit guides should consult "Spirit Guides" by Iris Belhayes - a much better and safer treatment of the subject. Webster may be an expert on feng shui and other occult subjects, but I could not, with good conscience, recommend this book to any one.

i enjoyed this book tremendously. i read it straight thru..
Webster explains a lot about Angels (especially the Archangels) and spirit guides. He goes into the differences between Angelic helpers and spirit guides and gives meditation exercises to help put you into contact with both. There is one particular ritual in the book for invoking all 4 Archangels that was absolutely wonderful! It was my first experience in working with the Archangels and i definately felt their presence. It was a pure blessing.

i have read many books on Angels and Spirit Guides and do highly reccommend this one, but if you are a beginner, it may be best to read another book first or familiarize yourself (research) the Archangels first.........

Definately a welcomed source to the Angel section of my library..

I like this book, it's a big book all devoted to spirit guides and guardian angels, LOTS of usefull information is covered in this book, I read it 4 times so far and it's not boring yet, it's the type of book you want to look over when times are tough. It's a good buy for the price.

Interesting, if not somewhat boring. It's like a lot of books of this type. As always, the reader must put up with someone else's ideas, beliefs and opinions hoping that eventually you'll come across something that is actually helpful. Anyone who takes a good hard look at life knows that a lot of newage type people including mediums and other so called spiritual people are wrong about a whole lot of stuff, especially when relating to what they think life is about. Sure, there's life after death, angels and demons, as well as spirit people....but trying to contact them is almost a impossibility, unless your a psychic medium yourself. Even then, spirit seems to answer in cryptic responses and isn't very forth coming. Why some people/animals are helped and others are not, or understanding why there's atrocities....this book doesn't help, unless the reader is willing to believe any lame excuse. The only thing I found helpful in this book, was that as I read it, it suggested other books to read. Unless your one of millions of people who might be living the good life, who are lucky and have a somewhat closet view point on life....this book actually might work for you. For the rest of us, keep dreaming. Its in evitable, that one day you'll hit that big lottery up in the sky....and then, it really won't matter. At the very least....if you run-out of bathroom tissue....hopefully you'll have this book on hand!!

I TOTALLY AGREE with the review above "BY A CUSTOMER". To practice what Mr. Webster suggests on how to contact spirit guides is downright DANGEROUS!!!! He talks about using an ouija board to contact your spirit guides!!! NOTHING good has ever came from using ouija boards. Negative enitities love to come through ouija boards and will LIE to you about what they are and can cause absolute havoc in your life. And he also talks about using automatic writing which is another way to bring in negative enitities into your life if you do not know what you are doing. Like the reviewer said above READER BEWARE, look else where for the subject of spirit guides and how to contact them. I wish I would have read this review before, or looked through the book a little harder before I purchased it. The book will be going in the trash, as I wouldnt feel good about reselling this book to someone who might try some of these dangerous practices to contact their spirit guides.

I was not able to put this book down. This was one of the best purchases I made. I have made changes in my life, my way of thinking and how I look at people and the world. I recommend this book to anyone trying to make a change in their life for the better. I have yet to actually speak with my Spirit Guide but it's very relaxing going through the process of trying. I am going to get more books by Richard Webster!!!

I noticed some reviews recommended a different book by an author who wrote a similar book. I ordered both and admit that this book has a similar set up to another book that was published two years prior to this publication. However, the books are presented in different ways. This book is written from a man's experience. He includes personal situations and how the topics relate to his life. My guess, is that if there are angel guides out there as the books suggest, perhaps two or more people can receive the same inspiration and in this case, around the same time. At first glance, I would agree that the author used the previous book as his outline, but then, as I read both books, I concluded the author of this book had similar inspiration but interpreted his message in a different way.

Maybe for the first time in " new age culture " a great spirit and angel book is here for us. This is an easy guide for your life, life situations and relationships. Find your spirit guides, holy guardian angel and communicate wisely. Your benefits:
1. Banish negative forces.
2. Find your guides.
3. Relieve emotional stress.
4. Find your life purpose.
5. Learn about your past lives...Much more.

Again this is a great book.

A very easy read ,informative,seems to have real research and personal thought put into these beliefs.I would recommend to this book to any one with an open mind and who is truly willing to listen.