Angel experiences

Recently I had an e-mail about Angel courses inviting me to go along. Angels are something I have contemplated and read about in one of Diana Cooper’s books, and there have been occasions driving a car when I have felt safe and protected, as if a guardian angel is looking out for me.
I'm wondering if anyone has had any personal experience of Angels in their everyday lives.

Best wishes,

AndyC

I tried to explain what love is. Words don't come easily to me. Victor Hugo (from Les Miserables fame) descibes so closely to how I understand it. I shall leave you with this:-

Love partakes of the soul itself.
It is of the same nature.
Like the soul, it is a divine spark; it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable.
It is a point of fire within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish.
We feel it burning even in the marrow of our bones, and we see it radiate even to the depths of the sky.

If you feel that everything goes wrong and your prayers are never heard, you might appreciate this -

"Let me ask you something.
If someone prays for patience, you think God gives them patience?
Or does he give them the opportunity to be patient?
If he prays for courage, does God give him courage, or does he give him opportunities to be courageous?
If someone prayed for the family to be closer, do you think God zaps them with warm fuzzy feelings, or does he give them opportunities to love each other?"

From the movie: Evan Almighty
by Steve Oedekerk

"A buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. Such is his power that karma can't hold him. No matter what kind of karma, a buddha transforms it. Heaven and hell are nothing to him."

Bodhidharma (440 AD - 528 AD)

Not into the doctrine side of Buddhism although this quote I think is powerful and makes an interesting point. What do you make of it?

I'm continuing this topic from another thread...

soul_express wrote: "I am working at stepping away from using words as pointers.

I have been very humbled of late as I have realised more and more where the essence of anothers expression is coming from..."

I like your point Kristian and resonate with what you are saying. I feel that as we unfold further we are invited to explore profound ways of communicating that offer more of an authentic untainted expression. Often that which we feel moved to share that which seems to defy all words and hence words may muddy the waters.

I recently re-discovered a website dealing with the Gnostic Teachings:
www.gnosticteachings.org

What I read somewhat shocked me. The teacher- Samael Aun Weor states on this site that to reach Ultimate Self Realisation, one must practice what he calls sexual transmutation, that is- follow the "White Tantric" path..

He seems to be saying that without practicing tantra, one cannot reach the final ascension. He also states that the majority of people seem to be unknowingly practicing "Black tantra" and 'involuting' or going backwards in the evolutionary scheme.

He states that one must have a partner to complete the spiritual path.

What is the most effective way to begin expanding and raising our consciousness?
Is this best done individually or in a group? How important is it to be in a calm environment? Can I experience an expanded consciousness all the time or is this just for the lucky few?

I sometimes go to meditation/healing circles and workshops where the vibration is high. As long as I am in that heightened uplifted space I feel expanded and supported with the power of the universe holding me up.

Why then does it all come crashing down again when I go home, take the bus home etc? In the few times expansion has happened it was always temporary for me. Does it have to be so hard? What can I do in a practical sense to raise my consciousness?

There is much discussion "out there" at the moment about "Ascension". What exactly is it? Are we ascending? What is the process we follow? These questions and more are addressed here...

If you presented someone a fuji apple and asked them what colour it was, the likelihood is that they would tell you it was red.

Many years ago I recall hearing a teacher ask a young child the very same thing 'what colour is this apple?'.

Much to the bemusement of the teacher the child replied "It is white"!

In an attempt to educate the child the teacher promptly replied "No you are wrong, look here it's red".

The child looked puzzled. After carefully examination of the apple he took a swift bite and said "No, look here, it's white"!

The teacher realised that in fact she'd overlooked the fact that the red skin only forms a very tiny part of the overall colour of the apple, which indeed beneath the surface is mainly white.

Hello Openhand!

It's a while since I've written on your forum but I felt the urge to write something about how I have been feeling lately. Just a tad odd, to be honest. Bearing in mind, all the wierd and wonderful things that happen when one can awaken, feeling a tad odd (compared to other people I mean) isn't that strange.

But recently, I have felt somewhat detached from the idle chatter of life and have felt a strong urge to 'touch base' with home. It's a bit like wanting to stick your fingers into an electric plug socket to get a refreshing charge of pure energy I guess.

I recognise that I've just moved from quite a rural spiritual place to a much bigger city environment, but that doesn't seem to be it. I now live by the sea which is such a blessing. But I do sometimes just seem to be getting a pull to wade into that sea and let all the concerns of the day just dissolve into the water as I wade deeper and deeper and deeper in.