«A Mundane View on Guiding Spirits» - cosmichistory @ ウィキ

It is obvious you can not take a full responsibility for everything. If you need electricity, you usually pay some money and count on those boys taking care of power plants. You could take more responsibility by buiding your own generator, but you still rely on those who deliver you the fuel.

You normally do not take a full responsibility for every decision you make. You vote for politicians to make political decisions for you. You may consult your advisors when you have to decide what sort of insurance you should buy.

Avoidance of responsibility for one thing often lets you afford to take responsibility for something else that is more important for you for the moment. Leaning on a guide is not necessarily bad.

If you are in communication with a guiding spirit, you have an option of asking him for advice, besides asking someone in a meat body.

A guiding spirit, bodiless, does not have body-related charges in restimulation. In some areas, he will be smarter than a person in meat. On the other hand, because of the lack of a body, a guiding spirit does not lives in our daily cycles and you may have to make them remember what it is like to be, ah, human.

A guiding spirit used to be much more handily contacted than a meat body. 200 years ago, it was definitely wise to have a few guiding spirits around. Nowadays, because of mobile phones and internet connections, a person in meat is just as handy.

A guiding spirit does not have a reputation. You yourself have to judge how good they are based on your observation alone. On the other hand, you can ask someone else how good your guide in meat is. In some areas of life, you may even be able to make use of a rating system.

Whether your guide is a bodiless spirit or a human being, you can keep a track record of how accurate their pieces of advice have been. Ask them a question specific enough to let you judge them later. Do not just ask them whether you should take up music professionally. Ask them how successful you will be and how soon. Do not just ask them if a stock will be up on down. Ask them which direction the price will have moved a month later, for example.