Calling All AngelsAn Interview with Doreen Virtue, Ph.D.
The angels can help you build a life you love.
by Ray Hemachandra,
www.hemachandra.com
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Doreen Virtue, Ph.D., acknowledging her life’s work — teaching people to communicate with angels — required an encounter with death.
A psychologist, Virtue avoided talking about angels so people wouldn’t think she was crazy. Despite being a fourth-generation metaphysician who has heard the voices of angels all her life, Virtue felt fitting in was more important than speaking out. But an encounter at gunpoint changed all that.
On July 15, 1995, an angel warned Virtue to put up the top on her car or else her car would be stolen. Virtue ignored the angel’s advice. As she was parking, two armed men, carrying a gun and a knife, accosted her and tried to grab her keys and purse.
The angel told Virtue to scream. This time she heeded his words, and with people happening upon the scene, the carjackers backed away.
The angels had told Virtue she should teach people about them for many years. But not until she almost died from not listening to her angels did Virtue finally come out of the spiritual closet, in gratitude and acknowledgment. She determined to dedicate the rest of her life to doing the angels’ work — supporting their efforts to help human beings by teaching people to hear angelic messages.
Virtue also has trained 6,000 angel healers across the globe. Angel healers combine psychic readings, where answers come from the subject’s angels, and energy feng shui on the person’s body, cutting etheric cords and entanglements that can attach and imprison. Learn all about her work at
http://www.angeltherapy.com/.
Can the angels support you in your life, with matters big and small? Can they ease your burdens, bring you feelings of strength and comfort, and help you make good decisions and take the right actions?
All you have to do, Virtue says, is ask. In our talk, this generous, warm teacher and healer describes who the angels are, how to ask them for help, and why they want to help you today and every day.
Ray Hemachandra: Doreen, what is an angel?
Doreen Virtue, Ph.D.: An angel is a nonphysical being who has no ego — so we know angels are not human. An angel is a pure essence of the Creator’s desire to connect with human beings.
“Angel” means messenger of God. But angels are nondenominational. The word “God” sometimes implies a Judeo-Christian orientation, yet angels are universal and ancient archetypes. Angels can unite people across religious and spiritual divides.
Some of my students have had really bad experiences with religion. Some also have had bad past-life experiences — for example, a church putting them to death in an inquisition.
They moved away from talking to God. For a lot of people, angels are a gentle route back to the Creator.
Ray: How many angels are there?
Doreen: There are unlimited numbers of angels, beyond the human ability to count. A new angel is created every time God has a thought of love.
Ray: What do the angels have to offer?
Doreen: They are life coaches, physicians, psychologists, and mechanics, and they make house calls free of charge 24 hours a day, seven days a week, with no strings attached.
Angels are assigned to different specialties, just like people have specialties. You and I are writers. Some people do mechanics or music or baby-sitting or art, and we’re all needed. The angels’ different vibrations are according to their specialties.
Ray: Are there different types of angels, beyond the specialties?
Doreen: Most people have heard of the nine choirs of angels. The author John Milton wrote about them in Paradise Lost, which wasn’t necessarily intended to be a spiritual book. It was more like what people today call visionary fiction.
The Bible touches upon the seraphim and the cherubim, but let me make sure I mention all nine choirs. Counting them sometimes is like naming the seven dwarfs. You always forget Doc and Happy. (Laughs.)
There are the seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominations, principalities, powers, virtues — which are why a lot of people think I made up my last name, although I didn’t — archangels, and angels. These categories are more theoretical than practical for human purposes.
Ray: So let’s get to the practical, Doreen: Which angels do human beings engage?
Doreen: On Earth, we really only deal with two types of angels: the angels, or guardian angels, who are closest to us, and the archangels, who are the managers of the guardian angels. Archangel Michael is a well-known example of an archangel.
Guardian angels are assigned to each and every one of us at or before conception. As a soul getting ready to incarnate, you actually talk with your angels and set up a lot of your life.
The pact you have with your angels is they will stay with you throughout your life for protection. If you get off your path and start to live out of fear instead of love, they are with you to nudge you back to center.
You also have other angels that come and go during different life issues. When you are expecting a child, when you’re moving, or when you have a health crisis, extra angels come and help. They are needed, and they are provided.
Ray: Do you have to ask for help from the angels to receive it?
Doreen: One thing I’ve learned that is basic but bears repeating constantly: You are created with free will. Not even the Creator can help you unless you ask for help.
It is up to you to be asking for help continuously, whether you want to talk directly to God or to the angels or the ascended masters, like Jesus or Kuan Yin. It really doesn’t matter who you ask. What matters is that you ask for help.
Similarly, how you ask for help is secondary to the fact that you ask for help. Some people say, “I am going to command God for help.” Some people say, “I want to affirm that God help.” Other people prefer prayers of supplication, in which they implore, “Please, God, help me.”
It all works. It doesn’t matter whether you say the prayer out loud, think it, yell it, scream it, write it, sing it — it’s all the same.
Ray: And what if you do nothing? Are angels still there helping you?
Doreen: If you don’t ask for their help, your angels still are with you and continuously sending you pure, unconditional love. If there’s a situation where your life is endangered before it’s your time to go, they will do their very best to warn and protect you.
Still, usually your free will is involved. They will scream at you, “Change lanes right now!” or “Go check on the baby!” But you have to participate in the dance of having your prayers answered.
Ray: How can you first connect with the angels?
Doreen: To have conscious communication with the angels — and I emphasize the word “conscious” because I firmly believe we all are continuously and unconsciously connecting with our angels, whether we are aware of it or not — you would start in a place you feel comfortable, all by yourself, so you don’t feel self-conscious. Then, just think of something you would like help with.
For example, say, “Angels, I want a wonderful new job that exercises all my talents and everything I’ve learned — so I will wake up on Monday mornings and say ‘Yippee!’ — and that comfortably pays all my bills, plus some.”
You ask, and then the next step is to let go. You can’t worry about how the thing is going to come about. Ruminating about trying to make something happen, or worrying about the how, actually slows down the prayer being answered, because the way prayers are answered exceeds human third-dimensional thinking.
Asking for help from the angels is like going to the post office. You have to let go of the envelope in order for it to be mailed. If that’s difficult for you, also ask the angels for help in surrendering and releasing.
The third step is to notice the impressions that come to you. These impressions are divine guidance. You will get strong feelings, ideas, or even visions. Listen for things you hear and overhear, including what people say around you and on TV, repeated over and over again.
Messages from the angels will come with a feeling of certainty and peace, even if the messages are intimidating because they are pushing you past your comfort zone. You have to follow the road maps the angels give you, or else your prayer may not be fully answered.
Sometimes people will say to me they think God and the angels are ignoring them, but when I talk to them and the angels, I find it’s the person ignoring God and the angels.
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