Spirit guide
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Description
In traditional African belief systems[
According to Western
Some early modern Spiritualists did not favor the idea of spirit guides. Spiritualist author and medium E.W. Wallis, writing in A Guide to Mediumship and Psychic Unfoldment, expressed the opinion that the notion of spirit guides is disempowering and disrespectful to both spirits and living people. Although he does not deny that seeking people may be helped by spirits here and there, he decries the idea that said spirits are appointed or assigned to do nothing but help the living. He advises would-be mediums to steer clear of the notion that they are being "guided" unless they have demonstrable proof that such is the case.[4]
Firsthand accounts
Theresa Caputo, the Long Island-based, Pigasus Award-winning "medium" of the reality TV series Long Island Medium, simply calls her guide "Spirit", claiming that it is an entity that she has been able to sense since she was four years old.[5]
See also
References
- ^ Mokgobi, M. Understanding traditional African healing. Originally published 2014. Ibadan, Nigeria : LAP Publications, 1995- Ibadan, Nigeria : LAP Publications. 1995. p.1-2.
- ^ Van Dyk, AC., Traditional African beliefs and customs: Implications for AIDS education and prevention in Africa, South African Journal of Psychology. 2001;31(2):60-66.
- ^ Berg, A., Transcult Psychiatry,2003 Jun; 40(2):p.194-207
- ^ Wallis, E.W. and M.H., A Guide to Mediumship and Psychic Unfoldment. Originally published 1901. Reprint edition by Health Research 1996, p. 162-3, 193.
- ^ Gilbert, Ryan (June 26, 2012). "Theresa Caputo Says Life As 'Long Island Medium' Is 'Bananas'". Hartford Courant.
- ^ Berry, Jason (November 1, 1995). The Spirit of Blackhawk: A Mystery of Africans and Indians. University Press of Mississippi.