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Angels' Wings and Human Prayer | New Age Retailer
By
Ray Hemachandra
July 20, 2005
Angels' Wings and Human Prayer
An interview with Doreen Virtue by Ray Hemachandra
Doreen Virtue, Ph.D., is a vibrant, committed, and passionate author and thinker. Virtue travels around the world sharing the messages of the angels and teaching people how to hear the angels’ messages for themselves.
A doctor of psychology, Virtue is the founder and former director of WomanKind Psychiatric Hospital at Cumberland Hall Hospital in Nashville, Tenn. She was an administrator at Woodside Women’s Hospital in the San Francisco Bay area, and she also directed three outpatient psychiatric centers, including a center for adolescent drug and alcohol abuse.
Married to fellow Hay House author Steven Farmer, Virtue has authored dozens of books,
audio sets, and card decks on topics ranging from angel therapy and angel communication to food cravings and Indigo children. She is one of the most widely admired and highly regarded New Age teachers, and her releases are among the most popular titles in the marketplace.
Learn more about Virtue at www.angeltherapy.com.
Doreen Virtue also is a tall woman, a fact that is important because it saved her life — with the help of her angels.
Ray Hemachandra: Your work is enormously diverse. Some of your readers and fans associate you with angels, fairies, or gemstones, others with Indigo children or even magical unicorns. How do you describe your work to people unfamiliar with it?
Doreen Virtue: My mission is to teach as many people as possible as quickly as possible that the angels are real and with each and every one of us. They want to connect with each of us to help us have peace — peace on Earth, one
person at a time. My work is all about bringing forth the messages of the unseen world.
I also am kind of standing up for the underdogs. In the United States, there is a belief that fairies, unicorns, and mermaids are mythology. In Europe and Australia, people believe these beings are real.
Hemachandra: What are some of the consequences of our disbelief?
Virtue: The lack of belief in the United States is connected with how we deal with the environment. The elementals, including the crystals, mermaids, fairies, and unicorns, are the environmentalist parts of the spirit world. They protect the plants, the animals, the air,
and the oceans — all the things we care about but may not be taking action to protect.
I call the elementals nature angels. When you work with the nature angels, your life becomes more magical. You get in touch with your inner child, and you can heal your inner child. Anyone who starts to work with the fairies automatically cares more about Mother Nature, because the fairies really compel us to do important things like recycle, spend extra money to get Earth-friendly cleaning supplies, and treat animals with respect. I am here to introduce people to the elementals, as well as the angels.
Hemachandra: What is an angel?
Virtue: An angel is a messenger of light and love — the embodiment of a thought of light and love God sends to Earth. Angels do not have bodies in the traditional sense, but they have etheric forms that we can feel. Most of us are feeling the angels more than any other connection. Each of us has guardian angels. They are nondenominational. The angels are here to help us remember who we are — that we are holy, perfect children of God — and that anything we need for our life’s purpose is given to us for the asking.
Hemachandra: Why has awareness about angels undergone such an increase in recent years?
Virtue: I think there are more angels here because we are praying harder. Everyone is praying for the planet and the people on the planet these days, and when we pray, angels are sent here. There always has been an awareness of angels. If you look at Victorian architecture and furniture, you see all these cherubs. The television show Touched by an Angel, which was so big in the 1990s, was huge in bringing out an awareness of angels. We live in a time when there are religious wars in the Middle East and around the world. Angels are completely nondenominational.
Every religion, Eastern and Western, has the same archetype of benevolent guides in Heaven helping us, whether they are called bodhisattvas, deities, devas, or angels, as they are called by the monotheistic religions of the West. Angels are something we all agree on. Nobody fights about angels.
Hemachandra: What are signs angels give to let people know they are present?
Virtue: The No. 1 sign is that feeling that comes when you feel safe, secure, and loved. Many of the signs angels give us are in the form of repetitive things we keep seeing, suchas coins we find all over.Numbers are one of the biggest ways the angels communicate with us. When we see the same numbers on clocks, televisions, telephone numbers, and license plates, the angels are communicating with us energetically. Do you see any numbers?
Hemachandra: Yes, I do.
Virtue: Which numbers do you tend to see?
Hemachandra: I see 711 a lot.
Virtue: That is an important number. Seven means you are on the right path, so keep it up. But 11 means you have to watch your thoughts about the path you are on, because you are comanifesting with the divine as you go along. If you get into negativity, it is going to slow down your progress or even block you. So, 711 is a reminder, like, “Atta-boy, Ray, now keep positive.” Eleven also is an interesting path. It means you need creative expression, and I imagine you have it through writing. If you don’t have creative expression, and you bottle your creativity
up, people who are 11 vibrations can sometimes get into addictions. For a lot of people, 11 also can be a sign the angels are telling you to go get some exercise.
Hemachandra: Thank you for the reading,Doreen. In what ways is contacting departed loved ones different from contacting angels,and should certain questions be addressed to one group rather than the other?
Virtue: Angels have no egos, which is the main difference between them and deceased loved ones. Even when they are dead, people have egos. Egos mean their opinions are tainted by fear. I always call deceased people the spirit guides, and angels are the celestial beings,
who are nonhuman. If the angels are the metamanagers, the deceased loved ones can be the micromanagers. I teach mediumship, and I am a medium. In my opinion, the only reason to contact the dead is to continue a relationship, not to get advice. Why go to kindergartners when you
can go to the president or the Ph.D.s — God and Holy Spirit and the archangels and ascended masters? They are like air-traffic controllers. They can see where you are going, what is on either side of you, and what is behind you. We love grandma, and she is sweet. We can ask grandma’s advice on how to bake great chocolate-chip cookies or how to get the kids to go to sleep at night — the kind of things
grandma was good at when she was living. Or, if your uncle Eddie was good with stock markets, fine to ask him for stock-market tips. But don’t ask them about what your life’s purpose is, or should you move here, or should you marry this person or that person. Save those questions for higher up.
Hemachandra: Please tell me about your work with magical unicorns.
Virtue: The unicorn work has to do with children. To me, Indigo Children and Crystal Children are the key to the survival of this planet. Indigo Children are highly sensitive people who have a powerful leadership quality — very much a Joan of Arc kind of personality.
The Indigo Children I have spoken with around the world tend to be people who were born between 1975 and 1995, and they are very angry right now. They are angry about the war, and they are angry about what they perceive to be corruption in government. They are angry that the medical, educational, and legal communities need serious revamping they are not receiving. The Indigo Children do not know what to do with their anger. A lot of them are so angry they are not fitting into normal places. They
are being misdiagnosed as ADHD and put on Ritalin, which is a very dangerous move, because we are medicating into submission these driven potential leaders. All they really need to do is to learn how to channel their anger, instead of imploding like some of them do. Some of them become violent or addicted. What they need is for us to teach them how to be activists in constructive ways.
Hemachandra: How are Crystal Children different from Indigo Children?
Virtue: The Crystal Children tend to have been born after 1995. I think your son, Nicholas,is one, Ray. These children are very peaceloving, very forgiving, and very affectionate people. They are even more sensitive than the Indigo Children. The Crystal Children often do not communicate in normal ways. They often do not use words. They tend to be very musically or artistically oriented.
These children will populate the planet around 2015 — that is when they are going to be adults — and I am so excited about that, because the children are so compassionate and forgiving. They are like little saints and buddhas. What we need to do right now is ensure that this population of children does not lose its spiritual focus and gifts along the way. When I see Crystal Children and Indigo Children, I see unicorns around them. Unicorns are the purest, most creative beings in the spirit world of the elemental kingdom. Unicorns are magical, and the Crystal Children and the Indigo Children just love unicorns. The children see the unicorns, and they know unicorns are real.In fact, I have a unicorn in every one of my oracle-card decks to give them that magical energy. In every angel deck, fairy deck,
mermaid deck, you name it, there always is at least one unicorn, because unicorns elevate the energy of everything they touch. My Magical Unicorns Oracle Cards deck is made for children and also for the inner child. I made the words in the deck and booklet very easy to read and relevant to children’s lives. I address issues like how to deal with your brother and your sister, how to deal with
bullies with love, how to deal with peer pressure — all the things kids go through. I had a lot of help from children, who told me what artwork to pick out.
Hemachandra: My son, Nicholas, is 4 and has been diagnosed with autism. Crystal Children often are diagnosed as autistics, aren’t they?
Virtue: Yes, but they do not fit into autism. I am a former psychotherapist, and autism exists. Autistic people are in their own little world, and they do not connect. That is why they do not talk, and that is why they are not affectionate. No medical diagnosis fits the Crystal Children. The best that science has right now is Asperger’s syndrome and autism, because these children are late talkers. They do not talk until they are 3 or 4, and sometimes they do not even talk much after that. But they do not fit into autism, because they are affectionate to the point of being clingy. They are like koala bears hanging onto parents like trees, right?
Hemachandra: Nicholas cuddles and climbs on top of our heads all the time.
Virtue: Yes, so that is not autism. These children talk less, because they are telepathic. Every parent of a Crystal Child tells me the same thing: “I understand what my child is saying, but when I take my child to school or out into the world the child doesn’t talk.” That’s a problem socially, and it is why some special programs, like Waldorf schools and some Montessori classes, can help these children learn how to live life on this planet — learn the ropes of living on Earth, if you will.
Hemachandra: An explosion of work around Indigo Children and Crystal Children is occurring, but a large part of the population still is unfamiliar with these concepts. What are the consequences of that gap?
Virtue: One of my big concerns is that these children are being born at the same time we have fast food being served for lunch in schools. Cuts in school budgets mean physical education, arts, and music are being cut out. These children have brain chemistry that is so sensitive
that they need to have daily physical exercise, or they get depressed and moody. They also need to have an absolutely clean diet. My company has just started a nonprofit branch called SchoolLunchAngels.org that won’t even have my name on it, because it is going to be completely mainstream. SchoolLunchAngels.org has scientific charts, which anyone can download for free in PDF format, that show why fast food is detrimental to our kids’ scholastic, emotional, and physical health. School-board members tell me that if
parents bring charts in with real scientific data — and we get our data from JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association and other mainstream sources — they will have no choice but to listen. Parents in school districts in Los Angeles, New York, and other places now have launched effective campaigns to get fast food and soda pop off school campuses.
Hemachandra: I find it interesting you are not going to have your name on the organization because you want it to function effectively in the mainstream. You have written about coming out of the spiritual closet. Some of our retailer subscribers sell all the books, giftware, and music of the New Age marketplace,
but they do not call themselves New Age retailers. They do not want the association. In your work and your life, do you still encounter places where, to get important information out to the mainstream, you package it differently or remove part of the —
Virtue: — the woo-woo?
Hemachandra: Yes, exactly.
Virtue: There still is that stigma out there. Some people are very afraid of New Age, and I do not see that diminishing in the near future. The fear-based religions still campaign against New Age. But unless I am told by my angels otherwise, I am open with everybody I meet, whether they are taxi drivers, hotel clerks, or dry cleaners. Most everybody knows I talk to angels for a living, and I dress in goddess gowns and wear crystals everywhere I go. I have to be authentic about who I am. But my name is not on the School LunchAngels.org website, because I am associated
with New Age, and I do not want that association to interfere with the mission of getting into schools and showing them scientifically that it is not healthy to serve McDonald’s at school.
Hemachandra: Is there other work you are doing to reach out to general populations by 6 New Age Retailer
not putting the Doreen Virtue and New Age branding on it?
Virtue: No, that organization is the only thing, and I did it in that way because I was told to by my angels. I also am very involved with environmentalist causes. I donate a portion of my income to Oceana.org, a very reliable charity, because I am very concerned about the ocean’s health.
Hemachandra: Do you have any coaching for New Age people — lightworkers and retailers — who fear talking about their life’s work?
Virtue: If you look at many of the top-selling books, such as Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, and even some popular movies, many are about New Age topics. Retailers should be proud of their New Age work rather than fearing the association. From a marketing standpoint,
there is a reason why the big chain bookstores are carrying so many New Age materials these days, and that is because they sell. Just because your customers are in the closet does not mean you need to be. We do not have to go around pushing New Age in people’s faces. We do not have to wear tie-dye clothing, pyramids on our heads, or anything outrageous. But I would like to see the shame lifted. I really do encourage people to come out of the spiritual closet subtly, perhaps by wearing an angel pin or a very tasteful crystal around the neck. Maybe wear purple! (Laughs.) The brick-and-mortar stores best define themselves, and set themselves apart from Internet stores, by becoming more event driven. I love this trend. Spas now are offering chakra treatments. A spa in California offers
angel therapy. In Las Vegas, the hotel Excalibur has an on-site psychic. Deep down, everybody is curious about their future. We have had presidents get psychic
readings and astrological readings. Doing so is nothing new. The Bible talks about divination, casting lots, and such. A lot of mainstream people — doctors, lawyers, and accountants — are in my audiences. A lot of people who are interested in New Age just aren’t admitting it publicly. If we would all have the conversation and admit it, we would be shocked to find how many people read their horoscope or work with oracle cards.
Hemachandra:Another challenge for the New Age marketplace is the gender divide:
Women make up the overwhelming majorityof the New Age population. Are there ways to package New Age information to make it more appealing to men?
Virtue: I think angels are considered feminine. My audience is roughly 80 to 85 percent women. My friend Gregg Braden, whose work is more scientifically oriented than mine, draws a lot of men. I do notice male speakers often draw more men. Men tend to be a little more left-brained. I
find that men are a little afraid of doing anything about the psychic work because — well, there is that old joke about men not liking to ask for directions, and I think there is a little bit of truth there. Also, I find a lot of men afraid to open up their hearts to what their true calling is, because then they would have to quit the jobs they are at right now. So, if men do get more involved with the New Age, I think women are going to have to be prepared to support their men financially while they go through temporary job shifts. I am seeing that men really want to escape the corporate jungle. I really would like to see New Age brickand-mortar stores do a lot more book-study
groups and other events that are more leftbrain-oriented. A study group for The Da Vinci Code, for example, would appeal to men, because men like that book. A lot of gay men are very interested in my work, and gay men make wonderful psychics. But, as for straight men, many of them are what I call “drag-alongs” at my events. They come to accompany their wives or girlfriends, and then they end up having a good time. But it almost is like they need an incentive to come.
Hemachandra: How about New Age Couples’ Night as outreach? Women bring their male partners to stores, and stores emphasize materials and speakers that men find compelling. Doreen, does your background in psychology impact your work?
Virtue: A lot of medical doctors and psychologists come to my workshops, because they trust my degrees. I feel good that I am able to reach the medical and psychological communities as a peer. A lot of psychologists tell me they would like to come out of the closet, so I give them my book The Lightworker’s Way, in which I write about how I came out. Psychotherapy’s basic premise is you should
talk about your problems. We know as New Agers that if you talk about your problems, they grow. I would like to see psychology flip its model around and have patients talk about what they want, instead of what they hear.
Hemachandra: What does your own daily spiritual path look like?
Virtue: It is pretty intensive. When I wake up in the morning my husband, Steven Farmer, and I read from a spiritually based book. We currently are rereading Initiation by Elisabeth Haich. Also, I have been reading The Abundance Book by John Randolph Price since the early 1990s. I read it daily. I love it. It works. We hold hands and say prayers. We get centered, and then we get out of bed. We do not read or listen to the news at all. If the news pops up on the Internet, we do our best not to go into fear but to send light and love that way. When I exercise indoors because of inclement weather, I watch spiritually based movies, such as DVDs from Spiritual Cinema Circle (www.spiritualcinemacircle.com). I also love movies based on the Old Testament, which really fascinates me. All of my friends are New Agers. My family is made up of New Agers, with the exception of my brother, who is a born-again Christian. He and I have an agreement not to talk about it. So, most everybody in my life, including my husband and my children, are New Agers, and I am out of the closet all day long. I live in a spiritually-based community, Laguna Beach, which is really New Age, too. Then, at night, before I fall asleep, I surround the planet with white light. If I have any personal concerns, I make sure I give them to the angels before I sleep. One otherthing that I do — and retailers can do this, too, because it works very well — is put light into all my products that are in their stores, and then the products can glow. Retailers can do this with all their products.
Hemachandra: How did you begin to incorporate spirituality into your psychotherapy practice, and did you lose clients as a result?
Virtue: No, actually I got so many clients had to start the angel-therapy practitioner course. I experienced a complete shift after the carjacking that happened to me on July 15, 1995. Prior to then, the angels had been telling me to go teach about them and about life after death, and I had been completely resistant to the idea. I still was in the closet. I saved my New Age beliefs and talk for friends and people close to my family. I had a real walking-in-two-worlds life, like I know a lot of people do. I was a traditional psychotherapist specializing in eating disorders. I had books out on the topic, including The Yo-Yo Diet Syndrome, which now has been
revised and New Aged-up. The first version was very mainstream. My angels had been telling me to teach about them, and I had been saying “No way! You guys don’t have bills to pay. You don’t know what it is like here on Earth. Go away, angels!”
Hemachandra: And a carjacking changed your response — and the course of your life.
Virtue: On that July 15th, the angels warned me that my car would be stolen if I didn’t put the top up on it. But the motor of my electric top was broken, so I couldn’t put it up, and I was in a hurry to get to my appointment. I was running late, so I ignored my angels, bottom line. I got held up by two armed men with a gun and a knife. I almost died by not listening to my angels. It was very humbling. It was almost as if my angels had to stick a gun to my head to get me to listen to them. Even though I had not listened to them, the angels did not go away, thank you, and they told me to scream with all my might. The carjackers were lurching toward me, trying to grab my car key and my purse, and my angels just said, “Scream.” I am a tall woman, and the carjackers were shorter than me. I could tell as I was screaming that they were getting frightened of me, of my bigness, even though they were armed. They started backing away. Then, God had placed in the parking lot a woman who leaned on the horn of her car — that was so perfect of God to do that — and her horn attracted the attention of people coming out of a church. The men were scared away. The very next day I came out of the closet. I spoke in Las Vegas at a health convention for my eating-disorder book, Constant Craving. That was the day I first wore my goddess gowns in public, I wore my crystals in public, and I began talking about angels. Yes, I was completely afraid of what people would think, but I almost died by not listening to my angels. To me, the rest of my life is a freebie on God, and I am paying back and just following orders now. I am a Taurus, so I still get caught up in ego, like we all do. I get stubborn. But I feel I am a really good listener now, and when the angels tell me things, even when I don’t think they are logical, I do them, and it always works out.
Hemachandra: Do some of the angels’ messages still stop you a little bit — give you pause or prompt you to say, “Wait a minute”?
Virtue: When the angels told me I was going to teach about fairies, I said, “What?!?” I mean, already here I am a psychotherapist going around talking about angels, and people are thinking I am nuts. So, fairies? It took a lot of convincing before I would do that. So, yes, I still argue with them, but they win all the time. Sometimes I delay a little bit in doing what they are asking of me, but I am a good listener and that is why they keep giving me assignments. People ask me, “How have you had this worldly success?” I tell them it is because, like them, I get these messages. The difference between us is I listen to and follow the messages, and so I keep getting cool assignments. I want to see more people listen to and follow the messages of their angels. If people feel stuck, it is because they are not following the guidance they are getting.
Hemachandra: From the time you were a little girl in school until the carjacking happened,you were psychic, angels were talking to you, and yet you were in the closet. Were you not listening? Were you in denial? What was it like for you during that period of time?
Virtue: There is just no way to tune the voices out. When the movie The Sixth Sense came out, I thought, “Oh, thank God.” Obviously the director is psychic himself, although dead people do not look gory. But my life was very much like what is portrayed in the movie. I thought I was going crazy half the time. I was depressed, almost to the point of considering suicide as a teenager. My parents are New Agers. I actually am a fourth-generation metaphysician. My parents came from the New Thought movement — Religious Science, Christian Science, the Unity Church — and I was raised in that way.I don’t know any other way to be. I was born in 1958. Growing up in the ’60s, New Age was not popular. It was one of those periods in Earth’s history when people were very concrete and left-brain in their thinking. I remember the kids in the neighborhood would laugh at me when I would talk like I
talk. My family did not go to doctors. We would use prayers and affirmations to heal, and I would see people everywhere who other people would say they did not see. I became pretty shy and reclusive. I learned not to talk much and definitely not to talk about what I saw. My mother is super psychic, but she is not clairvoyant like me. She is more clairsentient, or feelings-based. I would tell mom about all these people, and even my mom could not see them. At first, she thought I was seeing reflections from the family TV set. To her credit, she never told me I was lying or that it was evil, like a lot of kids hear from their parents. But there was no movie The Sixth Sense. I did not have any books on psychic work. I did not understand what was happening, really, until I was much older. The book that helped me understand myself more than anything — and it is a pretty recent book, which shows how long I struggled with this — was Rosemary Altea’s The Eagle and the Rose. I was a psychotherapist when I read it, and that book hit me like a ton of bricks. I said, “That’s why.” It explained so much about my life.
Hemachandra: When did you read the book?
Virtue: In the mid 1990s. I was raised in Christian Science in a religious sense, so I knew all about affirmations, but Christian Scientists do not talk much about life after death or angels.
Hemachandra: Do you see doctors now?
Virtue: Physical doctors? I see a dermatologist to get facials, and that is it. I do not get sick. I do not take any medicines. I am completely chemical-free.
Hemachandra: You already have mentioned a few titles, Doreen, but what books continue to inspire you?
Virtue: The big book that inspires me is A Course in Miracles. It is by far the most important book to me. I am not known for that, even though I write about it in every book. But, obviously, I am not supposed to be known as an A Course in Miracles writer. I really am excited about Gary Renard’s The Disappearance of the Universe. To me, the book is like the Cliffs Notes to A Course in
Miracles, if you can get past the humor and not let it offend you. The book is about the importance of noticing our ego projections. I just recorded the voice of the female spirit guide for The Disappearance of the Universe on tape for Hay House. The female spirit guide, Pursah, told Gary to have me do the voice.
Hemachandra: What is your favorite card deck to work with?
Virtue: I work with my Archangels Oracle Cards deck consistently. When I give readings, that is the deck I find most accurate. It goes right to the heart of the matter. When I do my radio show — two hours of readings every Wednesday on www.hayhouseradio.com — I use those cards religiously.
Hemachandra: What gemstone are you using most now?
Virtue: I love smoky quartz. It is known as a vacuum cleaner. One of the reasons I work with smoky quartz is because I am around so much energy, and I am so sensitive. I think many people are becoming more sensitive, and smoky quartz is like having an air filter with you. It just
takes care of all the lower energies. I highly recommend anyone working with the public — like your retailers do — to have smoky quartz on their counters. If they can wear it on their person, it is even better.
Hemachandra: Working so many events with the public must be incredibly taxing for you, given your psychic and energetic abilities.What other measures do you take to protect
yourself?
Virtue: I exercise every single day. I take no chemicals in my body, not even sugar. I am as detoxed as a person can get. That is what keeps me going. If I were to put any chemicals in my body, my energy would go up and down. I would get tired, and I can’t afford to be tired, because I travel through all different time zones. Steven and I leave for Europe this Wednesday, and this fall we will go back to Australia, as we do every year. I am doing it all caffeine-free, too. When I used to drink coffee, I would get very tired.
Hemachandra: How does music affect consciousness, and what are your favorite pieces of music?
Virtue: When I was writing the book The Lightworker’s Way, the angels specifically told me to listen to Vivaldi, Beethoven, and Mozart. I now have learned that these composers themselves channeled. The angels have told me that music acts like a psychic protector. It bounces negative energy away from us. Clearly, some music has got some negative energy in it, but I like music that is really positive. I love Celine Dion’s song “A New Day Has Come.” It brings me to tears. I love the band Train’s song “Calling All Angels.” I tend to make custom CDs with positive, light-affirming songs. I like rock ’n’ roll and some hip-hop. I like all kinds of music, but I want it to have words that empower me, lift me up, and inspire me.
Hemachandra: What is the focus of your work right now?
Virtue: Lately, the angels have shifted me back to doing more basic teaching. I was getting into teaching very advanced material, including a lot about Atlantis, which I am very passionate about. I am reading a lot of books, like Colin Wilson’s From Atlantis to the Sphinx
and books by Graham Hancock, because I love anything having to do with Egypt and Atlantis. But that is my personal interest. The angels have told me, “Whoa! You have to teach the basics,” because there still are people out there who do not know they have angels, who do not know angels are real, and who do not know the basics of how to talk to angels. So, what I am excited about now is reaching new people — traveling around the world and teaching about angels, goddesses, and the spirit world.
Hemachandra: In what ways do you personally support New Age retailers?
Virtue: When I travel, because I am a true New Ager, I haunt metaphysical stores. If I am in town, I love to go into stores and sign books. The authors and the stores need to be working in partnership, and we need to communicate more. We answer every letter we get, whether by snail mail or email, and we find that people who like angels are a very nice group of people. So, New Age retailers should have angel events if they want to have these great, nice customers! My angel-therapy practitioners — I say mine because they are graduates of my program — love to give angel workshops or angel talks or do free demos of my Archangel Oracle Cards. They would, of course, promote their own private practice, but they all are really good, well-behaved people. New Age retailers can go to my www.angeltherapy.com website and find a list of angel-therapy practitioners all over the world.
Hemachandra: Do the angels have any messages for our retailers?
Virtue: Yes! Yes! You are not asking them for help enough, the angels say. They are sitting in your stores, bored and unemployed, and they would like to help you more, especially around abundance issues. Right now, the angels would like to help you release any fears about scarcity, any fears about money, and to bring to life the energy of your store and bring in more customers automatically. Particularly Archangel Michael — you can call on him by saying, “Archangel Michael, I ask that you help to bring all the customers who will receive blessings by coming into my store today.” I wrote about this in Angel Medicine. When
I was in a little town south of Dublin a couple of years ago, I walked into a health-food store, and I looked over to the left, and all of my angel products were for sale — in a healthfood store in Ireland! No customers were in the store. I started talking to the woman who ran it. I told her who I was, and she got excited and said, “I just said a prayer to the angels to bring in wonderful customers, because we have had no business today.” Then I came in, and I was the one who taught her to make that prayer through my books, so she was blown away. Within the next half-hour, while I was standing there, the store got so packed you could not walk. Now, she says that prayer every day. The stores I go into that are doing well say prayers. They set the intentions every day. We need these New Age retailers. We need them to succeed. When they succeed it helps everyone, so they need to know it is not selfish
to ask for help. It is service.
Ray Hemachandra is editor in chief of New Age Retailer. Email your angel stories to him at
letters@newageretailer.com.
Reprinted with permission from New Age Retailer (2005) |
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