spiritual guides
Teachers of faith
Spiritual guides are beings—whether conceived as angels, ancestors, spirits, or higher selves—believed to offer wisdom, protection, or direction from a non-physical realm.
The term appears across religious traditions and New Age spirituality, where practitioners may seek to contact or channel their guides through meditation, prayer, or ritual: She asked her spiritual guides for clarity on the decision.
- shamanIndigenous spiritual healer
- wise womanFemale with profound understanding
- angelDivine winged messenger
- guruRevered authority figure
- divine messengerSacred emissary from above
mystics · ancestral spirits · power animals · higher self · inner voice · third eye · higher power · saints · teacher · celestial being · bodhisattvas · archetype · dream interpretation · soul journey · elder · counselor · oracle · mythological figure
- Christian materialsBible, gospel tracts, Bible tracts, tract, devotional
- devotional literaturedevotionals, devotions, prayer books, meditations, spiritual exercises
- wisdom keeperssages, elders, gurus, mentors, wise women
- Sufismtariqa, fana, sufi, Sufism, dervish
- Italian Religious LiteratureDivine Comedy, Dante, Inferno, Paradiso, Saint Francis
- Orthodox Liturgytypikon, lectionary, psalter, gospel book, hours
spiritual guidesfinancial advisors
Professionals counseling on money matters
life coaches · technical experts · investment bankers · financial planners · accountants
spiritual guidescorrupters
Those who debase others
tempters · deceivers · false prophets · manipulators · misleaders
spiritual guidesdemons
Malevolent supernatural beings
evil spirits · devils · fallen angels · Satan · tempters