They carry energies and memories of this land and thus can assist us to learn optimally. Spirit guides often are advanced souls who have worked with members of our soul group on the other side. Michael Newton, Ph.D., states, our personal teachers are beings who have incarnated in physical form long before graduating to the level of guides. Different teaching guides are available for special needs, for example, persons who committed suicide or who return to the spirit world after significant physical and emotional damage. Our guides direct the counseling and healing sessions before souls are able to rejoin their soul cluster.
Sensitive individuals can sometimes see or otherwise sense spirit guides.
Several years ago, a psychic told me I had several angels and guides surrounding me. In the following year, I did intense spiritual practices and made life-work changes that the psychic did not know about. In our next reading, he described a great increase in the number of helping spirits hovering about me. These heavenly helpers exist to serve and teach us. They are our friends and do not judge, condemn, or give up on us.