Angels Are With Us
by Gary Quinn
If you had
even the slightest inkling how completely and
powerfully you are loved by the angels around
you, you would cry for joy -- and then quickly
become reassured that you had all the
resources, so many more than you ever dreamed
you had, to turn your life into the
magnificent adventure you want it to be.
The Soul Party
I resort to
using the word abundant so often in describing
angels because it suggests their great teeming
variety and energy -- but what word can really
capture how wild, light, infinite, joyful, and
expansive their presence is? Language is too
linear for this task; words tell you only how
"A" connects to "B" connects to "C". The realm of
angels is timeless, rich, multidimensional,
with levels of meaning you have to feel to
understand. The only way I know to begin to
understand the nature of this realm is simply
to allow ourselves to feel its impact and
influence and love. All any of us has to do is
give up our resistance to receiving this
influence. Angels have so much to tell us. And
we can benefit so profoundly from what they
want to teach us. The very world would heal
if, collectively, "it" -- we -- learned to
heed their call.
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How do I know this? What's my proof?
I have
never been bothered by the question of "proof"
with regard to spiritual phenomena. To me, if
something is true, it will eventually reveal
itself as true. You don't have to go
scrambling after it. If you have the human
optical ability to see color, and you are
taught the names of different colors, no one
will have to prove to you that (on clear June
days) the sky is blue. Truth is self-evident.
So it is with angels: if you allow them into
your heart, mind, and life, angels will help
you to transform your life. Ask them for help
with this transformation, and see what
happens.
If you truly have cleared the way for their
entry, you'll have more proof of their power,
love, and truth than any argument anyone could
pose. The proof is in the experience -- and
the experience awaits you whenever you want
it.
Not that we don't sometimes go to
extraordinary lengths to blind ourselves to
truth. Human history largely documents this
kind of willful blindness and denial --
blindness and denial fueled by fear, which is
perhaps truth's worst enemy. Eventually, with
your angels' help, you'll see that all fear is
illusion. In fact, you might want to start to
chant these four words to yourself -- "Fear is
a lie" -- even if you can't quite yet bring
yourself to believe it. Eventually the truth
of it will prove itself.
Spiritual or religious defensiveness has
always struck me as sad and self-defeating --
not only when people are determinedly closed
off from experiencing anything other than the
material world, but also when a proponent of a
particular spiritual "truth" attempts to cram
it down someone else's throat. There hasn't
been a religious pundit yet who through sheer
force of "logic" was able to sway any
nonbeliever one iota toward an alien belief.
Truth will out, if only we'll learn to get out
of its way. I don't have to lecture you on the
blueness of the sky. All you need to do is
look up at it.
So right off, please understand that this
book,
May the Angels Be with You,
neither defends nor attacks any particular
view (religious or otherwise) of angels. I
have no angelic "ax" to grind. I do only what
I know how to do: pass on "the news" that
these miraculous beings in various ways pass
on to me. Their truth -- or the truth of this
or that speculation I make based on what they
tell me -- will speak to you or it won't. If
it does, all the "proof" I'm interested in is
that it's helping you. If it doesn't, well --
there's always its entertainment value! (But
don't give up on it quite yet.)
Letting go of our defenses is frightening at
first -- but ultimately it is such a relief! I
urge you to try to release your fear and anger
every chance you get, especially any moment
you feel yourself clench and about to say,
"But . . ." Allow whatever feeling, thought,
or opinion occurs to you simply to be. Just
"hear" it. Don't argue or attempt to explain
it away. Don't do anything about it! Simply
make room for whatever thoughts come after it.
Entertain each of your thoughts, like guests.
Be courteous, withhold judgment, just keep the
flow going. Eventually it will become clear to
you which "guests" feel welcome (or "true").
You will be clearing your psychic airwaves --
not only to allow truth to reveal and prove
itself, but also to open up the path for your
angels.
Experiencing the presence of angels is
enlivening, abundant, rich, a little like
listening in on the spiritual radio waves of
the world: cliff-hanger stories, ringing
laughter, miraculous solutions, deeply loving
support. Perhaps this all sounds a bit
frantic, but it isn't at all. Angelic peace
proceeds from a perfect unconditional love --
a stillness somewhere mysteriously within the
angel -- that answers to something just as
deep in ourselves. There may well be joyous
and productive activity at the "surface" of
this peace, but there's always a stillness at
its heart.
What Angels Are -- And Aren't
Many people
envision angels as little pink winged
humanoids whose wan smiles too rarely engage
much interest or curiosity. As a result, even
if we profess to believe in them, we often
envision our "guardian angels" (and we do all
have guardian angels) as comfortingly
dependable icons, like caricatures of perfect
aunts, grandparents, uncles. We may also feel
-- or crave to believe -- that any angels who
may be helping us are the souls of recently
departed loved ones. The pain of loss often
induces the hope that they are by our side
spiritually now, as angels.
Departed souls can have a great, loving, and
beneficial impact on our lives: you may well
feel the presence of loved ones who've passed
on. But their gifts emanate from human souls
in transition from one state of being to
another. Their guidance is very personal,
invested with a lifetime of particular lessons
and caring, a focused attention we can receive
from no one else. Angels are not human -- and
therefore have no human past to distract or
prejudice them. They invite deep trust and
intimacy, but their primary function is to
convey whatever particular joyful messages we
need to thrive. They are infinitely adaptable
and full of quicksilver ingenuity and
transformations, and yet there is something
changeless in their being, in the constancy of
their unconditional love for us. They are what
and where they are meant to be: accessible to
human consciousness, and connected to
spiritual realms we cannot reach without their
help. Their place in both divine and human
realms is securely set.
I bring up the distinction between angels and
departed human souls for one very practical
reason. I had a number of (initially
bewildering) encounters with various spiritual
presences, not all of them (I learned) worth
embracing or listening to. In other words, I
learned that not every voice in my head is an
angel.
This doesn't mean that some sinister Addams
Family ghouls are out there to get you. Each
of us has the inborn capacity to tell "good"
spiritual influence from "bad." Distressing
spirits are almost always those of departed
souls who have not yet made the full
transition from the physical realm to the
spiritual; their anxiety and fear get passed
on to whoever is receptive to it. There is
always a note of despair or anger or
bitterness in our experience of these souls.
You feel more troubled than helped by your
encounter with them. But to disengage, you
have only to say and feel "no" to them. It's
that simple.
Angels, on the other hand, are infinitely
joyful and loving. While an encounter with an
angel may unnerve you a bit (indeed, it often
will), it's always because the angel is
beckoning you to achieve something more
joyful, rewarding, pleasurable, and/or
ambitious than you previously dared to
consider taking on. Feelings of love and
support with angels always increase, never
decrease. There isn't the barest touch of
negativity in any angelic presence: there is
only joy.
Each of us has the spiritual equivalent of
what Hemingway described as a writer's most
valuable tool: a "crap detector." If, down in
your gut or in your subtlest inner ear,
something you hear or think feels even a
little forced or fake, or in some other way
just "doesn't work," it's very likely "crap."
Ditto spiritual impressions, especially if
they're touched by anxiety or other distress.
Cut yourself off from the source of this
negative emanation quickly and completely.
(This is an instance where "Just say no"
really works.) Once again, if the spiritual or
psychic message or feeling is "true" or
angelic in origin, you'll know it. If it's
not, you'll know it, too: it will tend to claw
you in the gut.
Of course, if truth were always so easy to
perceive and acknowledge, a lot more would be
self-evident. Certainly if the truth about
angels came to us more frequently in
physically or conventionally identifiable
ways, we wouldn't have consigned them to
Christmas decorations or wishful sitcoms. We
would acknowledge them openly in our lives as
very real presences.
This article is
excerpted from the book:
May the Angels Be with You
by Gary
Quinn.
Copyright 2001. Excerpted by permission
of Harmony, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part
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About The
Author
In addition to working with Hollywood celebrities and
prominent figures in the fashion and magazine industries, Gary Quinn
draws large crowds to events around the country. He lives in Los
Angeles. Visit his website at http://www.garyquinn.tv/
