MEET SAM
GUIDANCE
by Dixie Yeterian

If you are already familiar with my work, you will know that I am best known for my involvement with law enforcement. Now if you’re thinking it would be “cool” to be a psychic detective, first I ask you to imagine having to feel all of the suffering of the victims. Then I will tell you that you are going to do it for free. Law enforcement work (if you’re lucky) pays your expenses and little or nothing more. Even when I was solicited by the families of the victims, I could never bring myself to command more than my expenses in recompense. I believed deeply that my gift must be offered to humanity, and for many years my participation in law enforcement work was the predominant way in which I expressed this belief. Because of this work, I was shot, pistol-whipped, stabbed, and left for dead by a paid hit man hired by someone who was threatened by my work.

Prior to being attacked by the gunman, I had been seriously reevaluating all of the Spiritual concepts that had been my teachings. For approximately two years, I had “shut down” intuitively. I felt unsure of most of my perceptions and began to doubt the validity of any of my previously held beliefs. Meditation got me nowhere. It seemed that my prayers were bouncing off a brick wall. I felt Spiritually disconnected. I had begun to have great concern that I might be guilty of self-delusion and as a result, might have misled my students. I experienced the proverbial “dark night of the soul.”

After I was shot and in a coma, although I’d read many other accounts of near-death experiences in which people talk about meeting Jesus or seeing angels or their loved ones, I didn’t see anything at first. I just drifted through a warm, dark space for what seemed to be a very long time. I felt surrounded by an enormously Loving Presence and filled with an amazing sense of peace. Then, gradually, I came out into a Light that grew brighter and brighter until finally it was so brilliant that it should have been blinding. But it wasn’t. I was aware of music, an indescribably beautiful sound that I’d never heard in this dimension, and a fragrance that can only be likened to night-blooming jasmine. I still didn’t see anything except the Light. But I wasn’t alone, I was palpably aware of being surrounded by the most Loving, Joyful Presence. It was beyond description. I don’t know how long I stayed in the Light - it could have been minutes, hours or days, when suddenly I found myself walking down a path.

There were green rolling hills, trees and flowers, and some distance off to my right I could see a white structure. Somehow I knew my mother was in that building and I wanted to get to her. A man appeared on the path, walking toward me. He seemed familiar, but I didn’t know how I knew him.

“Can I help you?” he said to me.
“Yes, I think I’m supposed to go to that white building. Will this path take me there?” I replied.
“I recommend you turn around and go back where you came from.”

Somehow he spun me around and I took two or three involuntary steps down the path away from him. I turned back and asked, “Don’t I know you from somewhere?”
He smiled and said, “You can call me Sam if you want to.”

As a child, Sam is the name that I’d given to my “guardian angel”. I even named my teddy bear Sam. Throughout my younger life, whenever anything approaching miraculous happened to me, I habitually said, “Thanks, Sam.” Then later, as I began to perceive what I considered to be profoundly Spiritual information through my meditations, I ascribed this information to my “Guidance”, whom I called Sam.

After being turned around by Sam, the next thing I knew, I had the realization that I was lying in a bed. There were Light forms on either side of me. I could hear voices coming from those Light forms, saying “She’s coming around” and “Get the doctor.” At the foot of my bed was Sam, and believe it or not, he was singing, “Keep shining, keep smiling, knowing you can always count on me for sure.” I felt like laughing, thinking “My Guidance knows contemporary music!” Then gradually, Sam became less solid and faded into a Light form.

The Light forms beside my bed became more solid and recognizable as nurses, my daughter Shannon, my friend Ava, and a doctor. The doctor greeted me with the words, “God wanted you alive for something.” My body hurt, but I felt immensely happy. I can’t say exactly how or why, but I now KNEW something that I hadn’t really known before. I wanted to shout these Knowings to the world.

It’s hard to describe, but things that I had believed before, I now absolutely KNEW to be true. I KNEW that nothing in this dimension matters except us in our relationship with each other, and our ability to learn to live with Compassion and Integrity. I now absolutely KNEW that there is a Spiritual Force (call it God if you want to) that is far Greater than we have the capacity to comprehend, and that is intimately involved in our life experiences. I absolutely KNEW that everything in this dimension IS Life, and that Life is Spirit….is Divinity. I KNEW that there are no small “sins”, that a “white lie” or a small transgression is just as harmful to the soul as a big one, because it’s about Integrity. I KNEW that it is our task in this dimension to first become conscious, then to understand that of which we are conscious, and then to realize that we are the responsible creators of all of our experiences.

Out of these Knowings came an entirely new way of teaching. Out of my “near-death experience” came a deep and ongoing respect for and attunement to my Guidance, Sam. Most of my teachings come from this source. I offer them now not because I believe them, but because in the very deepest parts of my being, I KNOW them to be true. In fact, I bless the man who shot me. He made it possible for me to go to that place, to commune with Spirit, and to thereby bring my Knowings and my teachings to a powerful new level. My students and the profound benefits evidenced in their lives are a testament to this.

That shooting was an incredible blessing. During the long recuperation from my injuries, I came to realize that my teachings had previously been intended to affirm the value of our intuitive beings. Now, I realized that I needed to teach about our need to come into alignment with our Spiritual being. I came out of my coma with a powerful realization that my life was continuing, not so that I could teach people to accept their intuitive selves, but to reunite with their Spiritual selves.

As a result of this “terrible experience”, I have a closer relationship with Guidance and a true knowing of the realities of Spirit that goes far beyond the beliefs and suppositions I previously held. I also have an absolute requirement to share the knowledge that flows through me. I have been through the portals. I now deeply Know so much and I am compelled by my soul to share this Knowing with you.