right your first problem is the land spirits. Ill give you a small run down on the spirit system.

Right off the bat i can tell that D is not the kind of spirit that i usually work with these spirits are some what limited in strength. They do yes, have to power to climb the spiritual ladder, however this will happen at the same time as you progress you skill.

What you are looking for is spirit recognition, he has a fear that any spirit that is larger than him, will trick and mislead in order to null the impact that he is having on your life. How this is done is by what i would call sentinel spirits, or as i have said a land spirit.

I live in New Zealand and we have many land spirits, or gaurdians, some of which motives are not as you would like them to be their powers are that of creating mental illnesses, physical objects to cease to work etc.

I have had expirences of them pretending to be people that i know that i can telepathicly communicate with.\

The problem that you will have is that they are much larger than you and i but they sometimes forget that we can become strong enough to be able to see for ourselves and reach a point of clarity and understanding that allows us to overcome their illusions.

A small beastary will help let you discern and begin to see the spirits that are plagueing your communications with D

From the Top, God, ArchAngels & Deva, Objects like the Sun, Moon and Earth, Demons, The 4 Elements, Children of the 4 elements ie dragons, spirit of the water falls etc, Souls, passed loved ones, pet souls.

It is all about finding a honest spirit that is high enough and that has the focus of helping the human race insteed of trying to influence it via illusion, misconcetions and such.

When you begin to uderstand the size of beings that are arround, you will understand the limitations of spirits.

How to see, wow now one would think that this is a difficult thing to teach but it isnt really, just think along these line whats the nearest mountian arround? ok, now if a spirit live in that mountian being that mountian would that not be the physical size of the spirit in question? Now we all have Auras how big would that aura be? What things could that mountian manipulate?  We send energy world wide, yet we are just human.

What to look for is the person inside the voice, behind the writing. You just see it!

When you look at the human shape of a spirit you see it in human size. When you look at the source of the projected human image you get an understanding of the scope of the spirit as a whole. How big is the lake you take the dog to, if we take all the potential energy stored in that lake and place our own image of a human over it we begin to understand that the ladder to the spiritual system is huge.

What you now have to learn is that when you speak to a spirit speak to its image see its face, that way you know that your messages is being recieved. With out seeing the face of that which you are communicating to what are you really talking to? Who out there is really listening. It is a tried and true telepathic communication method.

Next thing you need to do is find out where you stand in your spirit and its potential agains other spirits. This is called energetic develpment. What you need to learn is how to see an aura, how to guage a spirits size.

To see an aura you zero in of a person, and then expand a ball out of them. What it looks like at first is a grey sphere surrounding the subject. You then watch and you begin to see the colours of that person within that orb. These colour relate to what the person is thinking and feeling at that time.

Next is being able to read a persons colours. You open your third eye and you just look at the chakras quiet similar to seeing auras.


You need to meditate more often, meditations that you should look into are merkaba, the merkabs is called the vehical of asscenscion and that is just what it is, the merkaba is strong enough of a meditation to clean and clear your chakras, and one that i like to call batting for the fence.

Sit in a light trance or meditation state and feel you energy expand out of your body, much like feeling your mind expand.
Then begin trying to force that energy sphere larger and larger untioll it cant get any bigger.

That meditation is good for occasional checks to see how far you have come in your energy development. It shows your you full energy size and give you a yardstick to compare yourself to other spirits.

If you have any questions ill be glad to help

DK

Thanks so much, DragonKnight! That was really helpful in a number of ways.

Again, my purpose here wasn't so much to talk about D.; I just believe that my desire to see him and talk to him was what led me to the other stuff (in other words, I believe that, in order to see him at all, my "eyes" had to be opened up to a lot of other things as well).  Whatever his role is in my life, he's staying, so that's not a question.  So far, he's never let me down.  There have been a number of occasions on which he's said or predicted something that, I thought, didn't make any sense, but later turned out to make HUGE sense, and helped me a lot.  He also agreed with what you said--as I make progress, he gets stronger (and can therefore be even more help in my progress).  First lesson?  Love myself (he's always consistent on that point).  So simple, but not always so easy...

In any case, as I said, I'm open to hearing from any spirit or non-spirit who can help me figure out what all of this means...if they've got something useful to say, I'm not too worried about "rank" (same as in my day-to-day dealings with people)!

Trying to visualize the person/spirit speaking to me sounds like a very good idea.  When I talk to D. in the dark (easiest to see like that), I do see his face, or at least his eyes, which were very distinctive (you could see his Ojibwe Indian ancestry in them--beautiful!).  And I see his, and others', colors.  Most often he looks like a red cloud that sometimes turns to an ocean-green if I reach out to touch him, and sometimes there are beautiful sparks of deep blue.

There are other faces, and lots of eyes, in the dark (and sometimes in the light) as well.  One thing that really threw me when I first realized it was that sometimes I'll see my own face reflected in front of me (and once or twice--this sounds so crazy, but I'm not crazy!--I saw it in the sky).  I also see a lot of symbols--mostly, again, having to do with eyes (I posted about it elsewhere here).

So yes, colors and faces already play a big part in what I see.  By following some of your advice, maybe I can get a better idea of what they mean, and how they can help me get more clarity.

Sorry for the long posts--there's so much that I haven't even begun to talk about!

Reading through the mediumship lessons will help you see some of this heirarchy and some of the work needed by self for spirit attunement at the best level.

Spiritalk, while I appreciate your taking the time to "talk" to me about some of the things I brought up at first, I feel that this is devolving into something more argumentative than I was hoping to find here.  While I'm sure that many of the things you say have validity, and I'm giving thought to them, I'm also pretty sure that 100 other people would have 100 other ways of seeing things (and that's fine, because I believe that spirituality is, and should be, a very individual thing)--all of which may be just as valid.  You give no indication (at least not that I've seen) of how you came to believe/know the things that you believe/know, or what makes you speak with such certainty about things that (I would think) are beyond people's ability to know with absolute certainty.  My impression is that your belief system leaves little room for differences in other people's experiences/beliefs, and I believe that that can be dangerous too.

What I hoped to find here was--yes--guidance, but guidance based more on a sharing of experiences and discussions, rather than a "my way or the highway" approach.  You advise that one shouldn't just take any and all advice (even if it's been loving and positive) from spirits without question, but I feel that you expect people here to do that, or be lectured.  I see that people on these boards have a lot of respect for you, and that's a good sign.  However (and I REALLY don't mean to be rude), I'm not likely to assume that one person on one website has all the answers.  I don't believe that anyone can.  We're all learning; I'm sure that you still are too.

Doe

Work with the spirit realms on a constant and continuing basis has brought many lessons of spirituality as well as spirit communication.  While I am not perfect, God knows, and can come across too strongly on ocassion, I have also seen the down side to ignoring some of the pitfalls.  I must learn to remember that all have to find their own path and have the pitfalls to reinforce the message.  As stated, I suggested each to their own.  You will do as you please anyway.

While I don't always have books to back up the thoughts I have gained, I have also written 2 books to outline some of what the spirit realms have taught me.  It then is still just personal experience.  And we all have our own personal experiences to lead us.  God bless your journey.