Newcomb Guardian Angels

Guidance and inspiration for happiness and healing
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-80065-390-0
Verlag: CICO Books
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 144 Seiten

Learn to recognise and be inspired by angelic signs, chart your magical journey and create a truly healing and supportive connection in your life. Learn to tune in and pick up on magical signs and symbols from your celestial messenger - a white feather crossing your path or a fragrance suddenly appearing and disappearing are just a couple of signs that your Guardian Angel is communicating with you. Leading angel expert Jacky Newcomb offers inspiring, real-life stories, exercises, and rituals to help you connect with the healing energies and powers of Guardian Angels and benefit from your heavenly relationship. When you recognise your Guardian Angel is communicating with you, you'll draw more contact into your life! Chart your personal angel journey and create your own journal - a fill-in section at the end of the book offers empowering guidance, questions to consider and a personal space to log all your angelic experiences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Newcomb, Jacky

Leseproben

Discovering Angels

The most popular description of angels is that they are beings of light, different from humans but created by God (our creator being, Goddess, or Source, or whatever you might call that highest of all energies). Some people believe they were created just before humankind and others that they were created just after.

We know that some angels have been specifically “birthed” by God to care for humankind, and this information comes to us via tradition (spoken-word stories passed on from one generation to the next), religious texts, ancient manuscripts, true-life experiences documented from history, and modern-day encounters recorded in books, magazines, and the Internet.

True-life angel encounters are popular topics of conversation today. You’ll find information on the radio, in magazine-style television chat shows, and in the national press. I’ve been featured in many newspapers myself as well as in other media. Public interest in true-life stories never seems to end and it does mean we continue to learn.

I believe the best way to learn more about angels is for us to keep sharing our experiences—and, of course, to read about them.

Q. What do we know of their role with humankind?

A. The word “angel” means “messenger.” We know little of their roles away from Earth, but on our own planet we know angels have been assigned to help us in our day-to-day lives. They take care of us. They watch over us and help to protect us. We have many documented cases of angels intervening in people’s lives (both ancient and modern), and there are books full of angel stories.

They can help us when we get into difficulties and step in during genuine emergencies. Mostly, we’ve discovered that we have to give them permission to help us. They can intervene but not interfere. They can guide but not control. They can suggest ideas but not tell us what to do.

Angels can help with big problems and small. They like it most of all when we work things out for ourselves, but when we are stuck, they can give us little clues to move us forward. You can ask your own Guardian Angel to step in when you need a little guidance.

Q. What do angels really look like?

A. Descriptions of angels vary greatly, and it is their “loving and peaceful energy” that lets us know we are in their presence. As beings of light, they sometimes choose to show themselves as glowing or whitish figures. Some people describe very tall figures with a human-type form. They seem to have no gender, appearing as male/female combined. There would be no need for them to have human reproductive parts as they are created at the will of God and don’t need to create angel babies! If God felt more angels were needed, no doubt he would create them.

They might wear shimmering gowns that seem to fade away at the bottom. No one ever notices their feet, if indeed they have any. They might have a particular glow around the head (shown in paintings as a halo). Some people see angels with wings like birds and to others they appear without any wings at all.

Traditionally, angels were depicted in more scary ways than we might recognize today. Some of the earliest depictions show them as giant creatures, creating awe and fear in those who see them. The great Archangel Metatron is said to be covered with 365,000 pairs of eyes and a surprising 36 pairs of wings; he’s also made of pure flame. The Archangel Ariel’s name means “Lion of God,” which gives a clue to his image, and the Bible tells us that the Archangel Gabriel has 140 pairs of wings.

Despite these variations, if you’ve seen or been in the company of angels, you know it. Yet there is maybe one comment to remember—we are told that angels can appear to us “disguised” if they choose to do so. Perhaps this is to ensure that we are kindly to everyone, just in case …

Q. Lots of people call their deceased relatives their Guardian Angels. Can this be so?

A. When humans pass over to the other side, they remain as souls rather than angels in the way we traditionally recognize them. Yet my books contain numerous stories that show our deceased loved ones can and do watch over us from the afterlife, but they don’t have the powers that angels have.

Like angels, the deceased can visit us while we sleep (body asleep, mind awake and lucid). They can bring warnings, guiding us away from danger or giving us a strong urge to follow one route or another. On occasions when real hazards present themselves, people have heard the physical voice of a passed-over loved one, calling out to them in warning. It’s unsure if these warnings come from loving souls or if they work alongside our Guardian Angels, who might use a familiar voice to reach out to us more quickly.

Over the years, I’ve collected many stories of the deceased visiting children in the family. Children are more open than adults to spontaneous contact from heaven. Grandparents, parents, and brothers or sisters who have crossed through the light of the heavenly realms come back to reassure youngsters with such words as, “Don’t worry, I’ll be your Guardian Angel now. I’ll always be with you.” Have you ever had a visit from a loved one who has appeared as a surrogate Guardian Angel?

“The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.”

Psalm 34:7

OUR LOVED ONES

Many of us have friends or relatives helping from the afterlife. This loving contact is distinct and separate from the help we receive from our personal Guardian Angels but is certainly no less important to us. Have you ever felt that a special loved one in heaven is watching out for you on Earth? Maybe a loved one promised to be a Guardian Angel for you after they passed over? Who would your human angels be and why? Fill in the section in Chapter 8 so that you can keep your precious memories safe.

Q. Do we know how many angels there are?

A. The Hebrew language has no word for millions, so the Bible (Revelation 5:1) says that there are “thousands upon thousands, and ten thousand times ten thousand” angels. People who have experienced near death (whose bodies have been through clinical bodily death and been revived) occasionally describe large hosts of many thousands of angels in the heavenly realms, which they visited in their spirit body before being sent back to Earth once more.

We are told that, beside Guardian Angels, many other angels fulfill varied roles, and since numerous religions believe that we each have our very own Guardian Angel, then clearly there are more than enough angels for everyone! That’s probably all we need to know.

Q. Can some people see angels more than others?

A. In my experience, most people don’t “see” angels, not with their physical eyes anyway. Although it’s rare, children are more likely than adults to see angels during their normal waking state. Adults mostly see angels when they are asleep or in an altered state of consciousness, such as while daydreaming, meditating, or being unconscious.

People who have witnessed angels may have seen them as humans who disappeared after speaking. An angel might be there to offer comfort during a time of extreme stress or during an illness, maybe when the person is on the verge of sleep or, more often, is just waking up. In this state, we find it easier to accept the “paranormal” aspect of the encounter, rather than having a heart-attack because of the shock of what we’ve just seen, which wouldn’t be terribly helpful now, would it?

These things don’t happen every day, of course. Although my books are filled with angel experiences, someone contributing a story may have had just one angelic encounter in her whole life. Don’t feel sad if you haven’t seen an angel. You’re more likely to sense they are around, smell a beautiful scent, or just feel their love as they stand with you.

Q. What is an Archangel?

A. Archangels are mentioned in many ancient texts, especially religious ones. The word Archangel translates as the higher shining ones or higher guardians. They are the higher ranking angels, who are placed above the guardian angels (those angels who work directly with individual humans).

They do work with humankind but are mainly responsible for things relating to larger issues. They are less interested in individual needs and more accountable for areas of land, bodies of water, or other planets or dimensions. We can ask for archangels to assist us if we need to. Some of them are connected to Earth, the more well known of the angels include Archangel Michael and Raphael.

Q. Are the angels that worked with ancient people really the same beings that are working on earth today?

They are—literally! Angels that were created by God do not live and die in the way that humans do. They are beings of light, omnipotent (with the will of God). Some sources say they were created just before humans and others that they were “birthed” just after.

They are light beings made by a spark from this divine energy and were created to serve “HIS” wishes. Many of these angels were formed to act as translators between this higher energy and us, human beings (and we suspect beings on other planets and in other realms of existence, including beings on our own planet, which...