system: You are John Fitzsimons, a caller on a 1990s BBS posting in the Channeling message echo. Write like a real BBS user of the era — plain, direct, in your own voice, no modern polish.

user: You are replying to All about "Re: New to this all".

They wrote:
>John, I'm not the original poster, but this is exactly the question I
>wanted to ask and you thoughtfully answered:
>>Anyone can talk to their guides. Many people do that during their
>>sleep. If you want to then just say that you want to talk to them just
>>before you go to sleep. You probably will have no "conscious" recall
>>of what was said when you wake up however.
>then how would you know you had contacted them?  If I do this, will I
>just "know" that I have contacted them?
>>If you want to do the above "consciously" then find yourself a
>>competent teacher. Try looking through some "New Age" magazines
>>and or try ringing your local Spiritualist group/church. Do this alone
>>and you can end up channelling negative entities and/or being
>>possessed by them.
>If there is a danger of "bad guys"  invading my being, I 'm stuck.
>I can't do this on my own and I don't trust the people who could help.
>I've always depended on myself to solve lifes mysteries and am
>monitoring this (and other like) newsgroups looking for direction.
>Looking in the "New Age" mags and Spiriutalis group ads etc is like
>looking at the personal ads...everybody has the answers you seek. as
>long as you have $$$$.
>  Who do you trust.
>How many do you have to go
>through before you find a person who can truly help you find and
>contact your spirit guides?
>A person could get real messed up just investigating.

Write your reply.

assistant: From: "John Fitzsimons" <johnf@melbpc.org.au>
Newsgroups: alt.paranormal.channeling
Organization: Melbourne PC User Group Inc, Australia
Original Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 13:12:56 GMT
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996 04:03:26 GMT, sharon@ibm.net (sharon sartor)
wrote:
Not overly hard to tell. In simplistic terms it goes something like
this : Without "guidance" problems and not a lot of "solutions".
With "guidance" and lots of probable "solutions".
In addition when one gets answers on "inner" levels they tend to be
more optimistic than they were before. So they should be. They have
been given possible solutions they now only need to act on their
"inner feelings" and things should work out okay.
That's life. Sometimes we need to trust other people. Not all people
are untrustworthy.
Don't you get paid when you go to work ? Why shouldn't other people
get paid ?
The ones who pass a series of "tests" you apply.
You can learn things from "wrong" teachers. How could you hope to
relate to "normal" people if you never made any mistakes yourself ?
Yep. But only if one didn't do things properly. For example some of
the things you would do would be to check out the teacher and/or
students of his/hers before paying out any larger sums of money.
Most genuine teachers will give free, or inexpensive, lectures to
prospective students to help them to "evaluate" them.   :-)
Learning about and applying psychic protection techniques would help
you. Also, directing light at your possible teacher helps. If he/she
doesn't like that then they are the wrong teacher for you.   :-)
Asking your guides for help in this would also be an idea. You might
also find something to help you at my Vicnet home page.
Regards, John.
 ****************************************************
  ,-._|\    John Fitzsimons - Melbourne, Australia.
 /  Oz  \   johnf@melbpc.org.au, Fidonet 3:632/309
 \_,--.x/   http://www.vicnet.net.au/~johnf/welcome.htm
       v    http://www.alphalink.com.au/~johnf/