Mediums become familiar with their guardian angel, in Spiritualist circles often called the gatekeeper or doorkeeper. This is your main spiritual helper, who sees you into this life and guides you through the next. However, we also gather other spirit "guides" and "helpers" around us who can help with spirit communication and protect the medium from negative influences. In the medium's case these guides may help with specific tasks such as healing, work with child spirits, clearing negative energies, and so on. In my own work, I have an American Indian as my "guardian angel/gatekeeper," a Tibetan as my "trace control." and an Italian clown who helps me with my public demonstrations of mediumship. There are others, too, who work in the background of my awareness.

Guiding History

Non-mediumistic people may also have spirit guides and helpers working through them. These are often people you know who have gone over to the spirit and do the work--a dead relative or someone known very well in this life may serve as guide. Many great men and women have accredited their genius to the guidance received from spiritual influences. For example, the pianist Liberace believed that, at times, he was paranormally inspired. He owned the piano, which once belonged to the classical composer Liszt. "When I play his compositions on it, I have the most eerie feeling, as if I'd played that music before in another time." And just like Liberace, Lizst was a flamboyant dresser.

Lucille Ball believed that she received help from the dead actress Carole Lombard. Jayne Mansfield also received spirit guidance: "The woman I admire most, Ethel Barrymore," she said, "spoke to me. Then my Aunt Kathy, who had been dead these 15 years, talked to me and her voice was exactly as I remembered it. Aunt Kathy always had a great sense of humor. She still had." Jayne also held séances in Rudolph Valentino's former home, Falcon Lair, and received guidance from the "dead" silent-screen legend.

Sports men and women have also said that they sometimes feel guided by the spirits. Donald Campbell, the former British car and speedboat racer, believed in life after death. He spoke on a number of occasions of feeling the presence of his dead father, Sir Malcolm Campbell, with him in the cockpit of his boats and rocket cars. As he sat in the cockpit of the Bluebird and prepared to achieve his 648 kph (403 mph) land-speed record on Lake Eyre salt flats, Australia, he saw his father's spirit. "He was crystal clear and looked down at me with the half-smile on his face I knew so well," wrote Campbell.

Then he heard the spirit say, "Well, boy, now you know how I felt on the morning of September 2 at Utah in 1935"--the day his father burst a tire at over 480 kph (300 mph). His father's voice encouraged Donald Campbell. Like his father before him, Donald became holder of both the water- and land-speed records.

Perhaps one of the most intriguing comments about spirit guides was made by Sir Winston Churchill who said "I have a feeling that we have a guardian because we serve a great cause and that we shall have that guardian so long as we serve that cause faithfully."

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