Disillusioned on Angels

[Rockchick26]

I've always blindly just believed in angels without needing any proof. But now that i'm into learning about this stuff,i'm starting to become skeptical,or dillusioned.

I just read one of Doreen Virtue's angel books (I forget the exact title and now i lent it to someone) and it all sounds interesting and cool and all that,but to me it feels kinda like The Law of Attraction,how if it isnt working for you,the answer is you're just doing it wrong. And i don't like that answer. That's just a cop out.

For example,it says to use crystals,breathe,and mentally ask your angels for guidance/messages,whatever. So i did that the last 3 nights in a row,and i had bad dreams,and recieved no messages or guidance about the question i asked. So it just takes practice then? Just having blind faith and an open mind isn't enough? In the book she says you "should" feel an "immediate" reaction.

And my biggest question is: Bad things happen to people ALL the time,so why didn't their Angels help them then? I just can't believe that Angels are there to protect us,when clearly people are getting killed or hurt every day. And i know that life isn't perfect and accidents will happen,but then the Angels aren't needed then,if these things are supposed to happen to us.

The whole idea of something being there to help us kinda loses it's meaning for me when it only helps some people some of the time.

Does anyone have a better answer for me other than "Well you just have to believe harder!"?

[Erin Pavlina]

If Angels were meant to rescue everyone from death there would be no death.

I am the opposite from you. I didn't believe in angels at all. Then I met Doreen, and during her workshop I felt them, got messages from them, all kinds of things. Then I started seeing angels during my readings... not all readings, usually only when someone was in deep emotional crisis, suicidal, or sometimes I see angels holding babies (on their way in or out).

As for asking for messages... I think sometimes you have to be patient. I wouldn't expect an immediate reaction if you're closed in some way. But you have to plug in. Imagine it this way... what if you tune your radio to the right station and you have the volume knob turned way up but you still hear nothing. Check the plug. Maybe you're not plugged in.

Messages come in many forms. Bad dreams are usually messages becuase it sometimes takes a bad dream to get your attention if you're not used to remembering your dreams.

I wouldn't throw the angels out just becuase you don't feel them. Keep working at it.

[Rockchick26]

Thanks for replying Erin! I will keep practicing and trying,i was just under the impression that changes will happen immediately (according to some things Doreen says in her book). But i'm glad you like her,that helps me to trust her too.

I have read your blogs about how to hear messages from your Angels too,i think i have the problem where i spend more time reading than i do actually practicing the stuff i read,and i'm sure that doesn't help! It would just be nice if i was given SOMETHING to keep me going. When i asked to be shown a path to take regarding my career,i got a dream where a girl store my purse and i was really upset i lost my cellphone So i felt like,ugh,well that doesn't answer my question!

[Bliss Sage]

Originally Posted by Erin Pavlina

I am the opposite from you. I didn't believe in angels at all. Then I met Doreen, and during her workshop I felt them, got messages from them, all kinds of things. Then I started seeing angels during my readings...

How do you distinguish an angel from an other other-worldly entity? Wings?

I have wondered this for a long time when reading or hearing someone has seen or communicated with angels. How specifically do you know it's an angel? We don't have "World of Spirits 101" or undergraduate courses to educate us definitively in the variety of "races" of spiritual beings.

[Erin Pavlina]

Ah, come to my workshop

Angels appear as white light beings to me. They are filled with light. They have less form than when I see spirit guides or higher selves. Their energy is beautiful, and otherwordly. Spirit guides feel more personable to me, in other words, they have more personality, quirks, identities. Angels have essence.

[amixa]

Originally Posted by Erin Pavlina

Ah, come to my workshop

Angels appear as white light beings to me. They are filled with light. They have less form than when I see spirit guides or higher selves. Their energy is beautiful, and otherwordly. Spirit guides feel more personable to me, in other words, they have more personality, quirks, identities. Angels have essence.

do angels for you tend to have a 'tail' that tapers their essence at the bottom? that's what i've noticed.. if they're just travelling or something...
but they definitely don't have feet right? just some sort of 'gown'?

[Erin Pavlina]

Yeah I don't see feet. When I'm tuned in to their energy it's just luminescence and emotions and energy, with maybe a sense of white flowing light.

however, when I imagine them, they are more formed. So that's interesting... My imagination wants to make them look like people, but when I see them clairvoyantly they are energy.