The first question you may have is, "How can I grow spiritually by meeting my ascended soul guides?" Questions are only good if they are properly designed, and this is a good question! There are several ways our guides will help us grow spiritually.

The three most important ways our ascended soul guides will help us grow spiritually are as follows: (1) our guides will improve our emotional health and self-concept, (2) our guides will help us to understand the oneness of the universe, and (3) our guides will help us achieve reunion with the Universal Spirit by awakening our universal consciousness.

The Spirit of the Universe is not a blind force, but is a Creative Spirit or Mind that unfolds itself in many ways. Everything in the universe lives and acts, and also discloses its spirit. The Spirit manifests in playful creativity. It is this creative, Universal Spirit that sends forth the stars to illuminate the sky, decorates the spring with flowers, dresses autumn in gold, and instills consciousness in mankind.

A precursory look around at our world and the universe at large will show how creative the Spirit of the Universe actually is. Have you ever taken the time to see the diversity around us on an every day basis? Everything is unique in its own way, and at the same time, intrinsically part of the Universal Spirit as the Source of all that exists.

The Spirit is artistic in its living and manifesting. It creates all that exists as an expression of itself, as growth sprouting up from the roots of its very own character. We cannot look at something and say of it, "That is ugly or bad," for nothing is ugly or bad or good or anything else but pure Spirit. Differentiation is an exercise in futility.

Everyone can have direct experience of universal consciousness within the universal Self. It is this interconnected Self of which all life is a part. There is no individual self in reality, but only the whole Self, which is the manifestation of the Spirit. By losing the self, and uniting with the universal Self, we become aware of our true relationship with all other things in the universe.

Enlightened beings know that life is not a bare, mechanical motion or a dead series of events. Life is a spiritual, purposive, and self-directing force. This is not to discount physical evolution. On the contrary, it is to give physical evolution purpose. Aware beings also experience that there exists some Power unifying intellectual and emotional activities so as to make life uniform and rational. We sense that there lies within us a universal consciousness or unifying Mind.