your spirit guides

[Horuseus]

which involved entering a special meeting room, my male guide was sitting there staring at me, and said telepathically something like "Well, it took you long enough." And he showed me all sorts of things.

This is what I do to converse with my Guides at this time as well; BrownEye told me about the technique (thanks). I visualize a room via the Imaginative faculty which I understand 'bypasses' the Veil and allows an environment to be created in the Astral, allowing Guides to pop in. First time I did this I was introduced to three different Guides; One came to me with Blond Hair and wearing Pink which I later understood by the aid of a Channeler/Psychic to be Pleiadian with a Pink Aura. It's usually all about allowing and accepting the first thing you see, thereafter the Ego construct tends to take over with the analysing/controlling and distorts what is coming through.

or they continually doubt the information they are given (not that I don't encourage discernment of ANY information received).

I still have issues with this I find, though not as much as I may have done in the beginning. For me It's more to do with 'trusting' that it is coming from a Source not of Ego/Mind or something I have made up. Though these days I usually figure that if the Information is constructive and positive what have I to lose by taking action upon regardless of the source. As one does this more you tend to find certain nuances/traits with the information given which 'hints' at the source being 'external'.

My 'Higher' Self presents himself as an old wise hooded figure in brown robes. Sort of like a slightly younger Gandalf with shorter hair .