Forthcoming Book Title:
Excerpts from the 300 page book Angel's Whispers
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Copyright © 2011
Terry Ray Johnson and Phyllis Ann Stuart
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Excerpts from the 300 page book Angel's Whispers
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Copyright © 2011
Terry Ray Johnson and Phyllis Ann Stuart
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Painting from http://www.marioduguay.com
Chapter 1 A Gift of Seeing
We all have gifts. Some are large and great, and others are less noticeable and slip the view of the casual observer. I have one of those. I do not stand out in a crowd, and you certainly would not remember me from the dance floor.I can see energy around all things, whether I look at a tree, a person, an animal, airplane or angel. When I was little I called this energy ‘the sparkles’, as it was shining and sparkling everywhere. The word today probably would be prana, chi or life force. Close your eyes, and imagine how a snow filled path looks like as it scintillates when lit by the sun. This is as visually close as I can to the experience of the sparkles which are found everywhere: the air and around and inside of all things. This book is my story about the experiences that take place within the elemental and angelic kingdoms which exist in these finer fabrics of this pranic energy. I have kept this mostly to myself over the past 55 years, but now I want to tell their story. This story is not about me, but about the many great beings of light that coexist with us in creation, and who help us on our life paths and share both our trials and tribulations, and joys in this life. They are our companions, guides and guardians.
I will share what I know of what you can do to open your awareness to begin to develop your own relationship with these members of a realm that overlaps into our realm. To do so, you will need to learn a few new tricks, and unlearn a lot more as this seeing I am talking about is not usually accomplished from our outer-directed eyes alone. I want you to be not only aware of their presence, but how to pay attention to the information that they wish to share with you, and at the end of the day, have regular communication with you.
As we grow up, we begin to be aware of a little voice that whispers to us from somewhere deep inside of ourselves. At first, we are quite surprised to hear this voice, and actually wonder if other people can hear it, too. After we get over the initial surprise and find that our feet are still squarely planted upon the ground, we begin to explore the contact and information which rises from deep within us. For me, somewhere along the line I realized that this inner voice was the voice of my own soul, and on a deeper level I was quite sure that this was how God could speak directly to my soul. Some call this intuition, but I do not experience much intuition, I believe my gift is one of directed consciousness or inner sight.
Chapter 7: The Inner Hierarchies of Nature and the Elemental Beings of the Earth, Water, Fire and Sky
At the beginning of each night’s rest for many more years, these inner processes spoken of earlier would just start up each time I closed my sleep-filled eyes. Just like starting up a motor with the turn of a key. That is just how it worked for me.
On many occasions I saw environments and cities just like I was watching a 3D movie jumping off the screen. The weird thing is that in my travels as an adult, I have found myself standing in exactly those same places that were revealed to me during the night-light as a child. I can remember one in particular. Ever since I was little I was fascinated with the night-time stars. In one night’s experience, I was looking up into the night sky and all of a sudden realized that I did not recognize any of the star patterns. I was stunned and felt naked under this new sky. You can imagine my wonder I felt the first time I looked up and saw the Southern sky constellations later in my travels. The pattern memory from the child vision rose up and blended with what my adult eyes were transfixed on as I was bathed in a warm tropical night with stars that were on fire in the heavens. This is what I understand as ‘déjà vue’. These experiences both when they happened as a child, and when they were discovered again as an adult connected me to that same timeless place inside of me that I have come to know as the depths of my soul.
As a young man, I was quite idealistic and felt that good would always come to me if I had put the proper work into a project or relationship. Life had other plans for me and showed me to how to never take anything for granted! This inner or spiritual space that was always with me did not prevent the great and terrible events from coming into my life. I had adopted a ‘taking life easy and as it comes’ sort of attitude, and did not realize that for me that this encouraged me to be too trusting and accepting in dealing with relationships, no matter how beautiful or enticing, and the world. I became too accepting and passive without the excuse, or even fun of the drugs my ‘stoner’ friends of the late 1960’s had used to create a similar life style. This accepting attitude took me down some very rocky paths. I now understand that every moment and every decision and especially every non-decision, is designed to wake myself up and help me learn to choose with eyes lit by the soul. Without being dynamically discerning, these choices move like random guesses which lead to life being mishandled and robbing the moment of its greatness by adding mistakes to the life experience that could have been avoided entirely, or at least mitigated to a large degree. For those of us who live in glass houses, resist picking up the stones.
As life unfolds, the intelligence within nature itself brings situations which support or demand growth and change with as much power as is needed to grab our attention so that we will choose responsibility and truth. Living in Hawaii was some of the best times, and most certainly the worst times of my life. During these terrible times, I never wailed and gnashed my teeth on the ‘why’ this was happening to me. The ‘why’ question always made me feel worse when I asked it and the feeling it created inside of me only seemed to support the feeling that I was not capable, worthy or good enough. I learned to choose to not add that suffering to my life. Still, I compounded my stupidity by supporting and only choosing to see the good in an unfaithful partner when I should have placed her and her actions in courts of law. Strange how it took all of this to burn out of me a weakness that had festered inside of my all of my life. Blessings come wrapped up in the most unusual wrappings. Gratitude is the ray of light after really dark storms.
My teacher once told me to look for the circumstances in my life that I could change and do my utmost to constructively do so. For those events or circumstances, or karmas he would call them that just arrived on my doorstep in spite of, or probably through my best efforts, they were the necessary lessons to bring completion to unfinished events that I had either been ignoring, or was being blessed with situations I had long forgotten about, but were now demanding completion and justice. He said to be gracious and accept them as blessings from the Divine. And, still do your best to direct them to a constructive end.
In both cases he said the action to take is one’s best. Nothing less! Do not give up, but do not fight an unnecessary fight. Retreat if you have to but not because you are running from something or afraid to fail. Fall not into doubt and fear. Without these aforementioned events, I never would have had my courage or faith tested to the degree that has subsequently added depth and dimension and understanding stretching from my fingertips down to the depths of my soul. I do not know about you, but have you even had the feeling that you just might be one of the most stupid or naïve people that walked the earth? Well, join the club, but only if you understand that this is not as exclusive club as you once thought. Most of us were card-carrying members of this blind love club at one time or another. It is humbling to walk this path. Perhaps God had to shorten the suffering of my life by grabbing my attention to those things I had been ignoring or was choosing to not see.
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It was during a late spring thunderstorm in Indiana in 1957 that my life changed. I was in second grade and was out on the playground for afternoon recess playing dodge ball with some classmates. The sky had been darkening all day into a collecting storm, when all of a sudden the sky just darkened and became turbulent. In this moment the sky was filled with those gigantic members of the elemental kingdoms who often presage a storm of this magnitude. I stood transfixed with the dodge ball held in my hands, staring up into the sky. At first my friends were quiet, wondering if something was wrong with me. When I looked from the sky to them, I just blurted out, “don’t you see them, too?” By the look not in their eyes, I realized at that moment I was different than the rest of them. I had just assumed other people saw these things, too, but like me, just took it for granted and did not talk about it. When I described what was happening in the sky to my friends, that is when they began making fun of me in all of the ways the young are really too good at!
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These earth elementals appear to harness the light and energy of the sun and release it slowly into the soil and earth. Their work in the soil is one of preparation as it becomes the womb and nursery of all of the seed bearing plants growing on Earth, and home to many living creatures. Their work is coordinated with the elves and fairies as they take care of all growing things as they leave the nurturing density of the Earth and require the next refined elemental force to complete the growth process. Nature’s factory advances from one step to another and from one department to another department. That is just how it all works.
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I have had many of my clients ask me whether or not their animals could see auras and the beings of nature, and to this question I give a resounding ‘yes’! Some animals are sensitive, just like some humans are, while others, in both species, have the clarity of a worn-out leather shoe.
Chapter 10: So, What about the Angels?
What do angels look like? Imagine facial features which exhibit perfect symmetry and beauty. Their faces have a simple majesty to them. Often I am reminded of the ancient Greek features perfectly molded over a classic bone structure. When they work and present themselves on our plane, so far they have been between 5 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 8 or 9 inches, or approximately 1.6 to 2.03 meters. They seem a bit taller due to the fact that I do not see them actually standing on the ground. They always seem to float a couple of inches above our ground surface. They wear their hair in a variety of styles just like we do. Some of the angel guardians wear it short, others shoulder length and some wear the hair long like the women of Hawaii or the orient. They have hair colors similar to what we would see in the marketplaces. I have never seen a guardian with no hair, but that certainly does not mean this is not possible. Many of the male angels have longer hair, often to the shoulders, than what is commonly seen in the modern world. I have never seen an angel wearing any sort to glasses. When I asked my guardian about this, she said:
“Our bodies are suppler than yours, not only in a yogic sense, but in life in general. We not only live life in a more flowing way than humanity and therefore do not collect stress as you generally do, but our bodies have a marvelous self-regenerating mechanism active within it. Imbalances are automatically repaired before they have a chance to corrupt the memory of health in the cells and turn into an illness or disease. We sometimes need to retire to special retreats to restore our balance, but this comes only after very extenuating circumstances. It is easy for us to keep the outer and inner sides of our life in balance in every flowing moment. ”
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More importantly and on a personal level, it is important to not feel so very alone in this world, especially after grievous disasters or losses to relationships. For some reason, we as human beings have merited having one of the angel orders assigned to us to guide and inspire us as we navigate the long and winding road of life. These are the angel guardians. The term ‘guardian angel’ refers to a level of training a member of the various angelic orders has completed in order to work intimately with the unfolding destiny of every human being on earth.
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The closer a being gets to the physical octaves of life, the nature of free will changes. You would think that a gift this precious would be entrusted to beings that have not only proven themselves over the Aeons, but in them this gift would be held in wisdom and proper fiduciary care. How could such a gift be given to imperfect creatures like human beings? Well, for some reason, that is not the nature of the game plan in the present age of mankind. We are the imperfect ones and we have free will to do good or bad as we see fit. I hope at our depths, humanity can pull some magic out of the hat and redeem itself before going over the edge of the cliff. In contrast, angels have not lost themselves on the journey. They have refused to lose contact with the kingdom of heaven within.
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Angels do not only come to offer assistance or healing to a person. Sometimes they come to family or community celebrations to simply share in the expression of joy or gratitude for events that have happened. Angels, too enjoy the celebration of life as this gives honor to both the outer and inner principles which rise to join these halves of life in order to create something larger than the parts. They revel in the same principle as we do when “two or three who gather in My name, there I Am.” An angel’s presence just naturally inspires our very thoughts and our understandings to be more broad and compassionate and more purposeful to secure happiness in life. They commonly live what we are inspired on our best days to enjoy for a few fleeting moments.
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This is a sampling of the 16 chapters of the Angel's Whispers book. I hope you have enjoyed some of these stories.
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Web-Sites to Review on the Subject of Angels
http://www.appleblossomart.org/angeldesk.htm [angel graphic art]
http://www.art.com/asp/display-asp/ [http://www.art.com/asp/search/ProductSearch-
asp/_/search_String- -angels/posters.htm?filteroptions=0&isSearch=Y&
ui=9793EB72F82041C9A76A7E18ED425963] Exhaustive collection of angel pictures
http://www.cafpress.com [artistic illustrations of chakras on various media]
http://www.geoffreyhodson.iinet.net.au/ [Geoffrey Hodson]
http://www.godsheavenlyangels.com/ [general inspiration]
http://www.joyfulheart.com/christmas/artwork_angels.htm [classical artists]
http://www.mariusfineart.com [beautiful renditions of Angels and Masters!]
http://northstargallery.com/pages/AngelsHomePage01.htm
[Angel statuary from around the world]
http://www.questhaven.org/retreat_fan.htm [Flower A. Newhouse]
http://www.visionsofangels.com/main/gallery.htm [Ronald Horne’s gallery…stunning]
http://www.xmission.com/~tssphoto/vt/angel.html [Vintage angel pictures]