Consciousness Known by Rhonda O'Brien

We (each and every one of us) all have spirit guides whose life purpose is to guide and protect us. Use your spirit guides as often as possible.

How do you make contact with your spirit guides?

I strongly recommend reading Sonia Choquette's Ask Your Guides. She has many hints, exercises and meditations that will help you contact your guides on a regular basis.


How do you know which spirit guide you are talking to?

I often talk to my grandpa and grandma so I am already fairly familiar with their energy. My grandpa was not very talkative in real life so when he is around I either feel his hands on my shoulders and/or hear "chiropractor" (he was a chiropractor) and then I know that it is him. With my grandma I either hear the word "grandma" or I hear her voice.

I also see flashes of white lights or subtle energy patterns which make me aware that my guides are trying to talk to me.

Your guides might develop their own, individual ways of getting your attention as well.

PLEASE NOTE: it is very important to know the source of the information that you are getting. I also check the information that I get before I act on most information especially information that prompts me to "go out on a limb." I either draw from my divination cards or I ask for signs.

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows. ~St. Francis of Assisi

This is the easiest and most critical piece of advice that I can give anyone who communicates with the spirit realm: surround yourself in white light. Darkness is repelled by the light. It is the perfect antidote to darkness and it is so easy.

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Martin Luther King Jr.

My journey as a psychic began with much fear and paranoia. In retrospect, I can see that I have been intuitive all of my life however, my journey to discovering this began at the age of 21 when I got really sick and couldn’t really eat for a month. People talk about the “cleansing” affects of fasting; I think that my non-voluntary fast opened me up a little too quickly for my comfort level.

I remember feeling as though I had walked through a vortex and that my life experience(s) had forever changed. I was instantly aware that there were spirits around me and I could see their energy in a way that I could not describe to others, but I could see that they were around me (it is much like an energy pattern).

I started to meditate and had visions of all sorts. The most profound vision that I had was of an eagle eating my heart out. This experience was so real: I actually felt the eagle sweep down out of the sky and felt the physical pain of having my heart eaten out by an eagle. Yeah…I was a little bit freaked out about this experience.

My fear was exacerbated by the fact that I saw my psychologist write the word “delusional” as I was pouring my heart out to him about my recent experiences. From this point forward I was truly convinced that I was crazy and was often times paralyzed with this fear as I would lay in the fetal position in my bed terrified of being carried away in a straight jacket.

To deal with my fear I started smoking pot 24/7. In my mind it was easier to justify my “craziness” as being “high” rather than be crazy.

Luckily fate intervened and I realized with the help of some amazing teachers that my “delusions” were actually part of being psychic, a gift; not some demoralizing sentence to the madhouse. And then there was...
The moment that I realized that I was psychic I started my mission to help people realize that their visions/experiences were gifts not an assured sentence to the “nuthouse.”

I have remained relatively quiet about my mission up to this point in time. I try to educate as many people as possible about ornery spirits and how to protect themselves from their “trickery.”

I have decided, though, that being a quiet, though diligent messenger is not enough after meeting/doing a reading for a woman whose doctors and herself are convinced that she is crazy because she talks to spirits.

When she asked me about the voices and what they told her all that I could hear was that she wasn’t crazy and that she just didn’t know some basic steps to protect her from the menacing spirits.

I told her that she had a spirit guide that was there to protect her and that she was only to speak to this one guardian spirit. If the other, menacing spirits wanted to talk to her I told her that they were to talk to her guardian angel, not her.

I also told her to protect herself with “white light” as the darker spirits are afraid of the light.

Seeing her pain, seeing how lost she was made me want to reach deeper into hers and other worlds of pain and show people that there are simple tools accessible to all that can and do protect one from the suffering caused by these ornery spirits.

You see, the spirit world, just like this world is filled with confused beings who like to play and mess with us. They are no different than the confused beings that fill the jails and create chaos in our day-to-day lives.

Please continue visiting my blog for a few, simple, straight forward tools that can help you safely navigate through the spirit world without fear.

I get so excited when I talk about guardian angels because I don't think people realize how real they are and how much they really love, guard and protect us.

I have many stories but this one happened yesterday and my mind is still reeling about it.

I went to visit my aunt and uncle and my uncle was telling me about how concerned he was about money. He is in one of the hardest hit occupations (construction) and recently had to pull money from his retirement to pay bills.

My grandma (who passed in 2007) talks to me all of the time, but she rarely has me relay messages. Yesterday she waited until my uncle and I were alone and then she made her presence known by giving me chills and she told me to tell my uncle "Tell him money will be okay."

That was all that my uncle needed to hear. Although a cynic he did tell my aunt and they both wanted me to hear the details of the conversation. When I retold the story there were tears in my uncle's eyes.

I love how my grandma chose the right time (when my uncle and I were alone) and the right words (not too many, not to few) to reach out and give my uncle a hand. Thank you grandma! I love you...and Dave loves you too!

In efforts to conserve money I have gone back to crafting as a way of making gifts. I forgot how fun it is...I hope that my neighbor's girls enjoy...I sure enjoyed making them and they all cost $2.14 to make. Yay!

Hello Spring! I am so glad you are finally here!

One of my favorite things about spring is the return of the birds. I have recently started running and hiking as opposed to working out in a gym due to the richness of being in nature and talking to the animals and the plants.

My favorite jogging companions are the birds because they talk to me non-stop. They are the most communicative of all the animals that I encounter on my path (and that includes prairies dogs, dogs and rabbits). I think that it is no coincidence that they talk so much and the fact that they are referred to as “messengers” by Sonia Choquette and carrier pigeons actually did carry letters/messages for humans in ancient civilizations.

I wonder what makes birds to akin to humans. I also wonder if we have always had a strong connection with our feathered friends? I suspect that we have had a strong connection with birds and that is why they constantly try to talk to us.

Most birds do try to talk to me (when I am tapped in). It doesn’t matter if the bird is alone or in a school/group they always want to talk. What is most fascinating, though, is the fact that the birds can and do tap into what is on my mind and they give me guidance about whatever is on my mind. I don’t have to ask the question; they just seem to know my question and answer it. And it doesn’t matter what bird or birds I talk to on any given day; they all tell me the same message (in almost the exact same words).

This ability to tap into me must be what makes birds so good at predicting the weather and so able to flawlessly travel in schools. It also must be what makes birds such wonderful companions.

I don’t want to take a bird home and cage it up but I do always want birds to be on my path so that they may lead me on my way. Thank you birds for being such wonderful messengers!

Sonia Choquette is one of my greatest mentors. First of all I love her energy and her books on growing your intuition are great. For me, she embodies what being a psychic is about: working from your heart to help the world by looking into people's souls and helping them to be more of who they are by making the most of their world and their relationships.

In her books Sonia talks about how you can pay attention to the details of your life to grow your intuition because being intuitive is an exercise in paying attention to the subtleties.

We are constantly surrounded by spirit beings who are trying to communicate with us all of the time. While we would prefer their messages to be loud shouts, sometimes they are nearly silent whispers. Learning to listen is an exercise in believing that we are constantly surrounded by loving, guiding spirits who want to reach out and touch our lives.

Paying attention helps us to see this. I have provided a couple of details of how I have learned that spirits are talking to me to show you how subtle their signs are at times.

When my intuition started to come out really strong I started to notice that doors and objects on doors looked like they moved but I could not tell whether or not they moved. Over time I began to recognize that this subtle movement or energy movement was spirits way of getting my attention. I have learned to slow down and listen at these moments and, indeed, spirit usually is trying to tell me something when this happens. I just have to stop and listen.

Another example of spirit trying to communicate with me is a little bit more subtle. I see energy patterns (almost like the dark fuzz of television static) when spirits (especially spirits that have crossed over) try to communicate with me. I suspect that other people might see this same energy pattern but not recognize it as spirit trying to communicate with them.

I was telling my friend about this and relayed a story that I had heard about how many large ships had passed by this Native American Tribe on the Floridian shores during the time of Columbus. The Natives did not "see" the ships until a shaman had a vision of a ship and then identified the ships at sea. Is it possible that many of us are seeing spirit in its various forms but we are not recognizing their signs just as the Native Americans could not recognize the ships until the ships were pointed out to them?

Pay attention to the details. Notice the subtleties and assume that you are constantly surrounded by spirit guides and that they want and try to talk to you all the time.

Thank you for listening. I hope that you are listening to your spirit guides as well.