spirit guides
Invisible spiritual helpers
Spirit guides are supernatural beings believed to offer wisdom, protection, or direction to individuals during life or spiritual practice.
The concept spans many traditions—from indigenous ancestral spirits to New Age guardian entities.
People may seek contact through meditation, dreams, or ritual: She asked her spirit guides for clarity.
The guides are often imagined as deceased relatives, animals, angels, or ascended beings.
- channelingDirecting flow or energy
- mediumshipCommunicating with the dead
- other sideContrary position or location
- divinationForetelling through mystical means
- ancestral spiritsSouls of deceased kin
guardian angels · protection · animal spirits · shamanism · synchronicities · power animals · visions · meditation · clairvoyance · third eye · dreams · totem animals · animism · sacred space · animal totems · intuition · energy healing · trance
- spiritualitysacred, enlightened, divine, holy, spiritual growth
- supernaturalghosts, ghost, witches, spirits, vampire
- Dia de los Muertosofrenda, calavera, sugar skull, sugar skulls, marigolds
- divinationdivination, fortune telling, fortune-telling, fortune teller, tarot
- African traditionsinitiation ceremonies, naming ceremony, ancestral worship, rites of passage, tribal chiefs
- folk medicinefolk medicine, herbalism, herbal remedies, folk healer, herbal medicine
spirit guidesdemons
Malevolent supernatural beings
evil spirits · demonic possession · tempters · deceivers · the devil
spirit guidesempirical evidence
Proof from measurable observation
scientific method · physical world · atheism · materialism · physicalism
spirit guidestherapists
Mental health professionals
counselors · logic · scientific method · empirical evidence · rational mind