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- Angels, higher spirits, messengers

from the invisible spirit world have been known

by many cultures for thousands of years.

Today, people around the globe are still sighting angels

and reporting what they have witnessed to others,

further expounding on legends of divine spirits

sent by god.

Sightings of angels have been documented in recent times.

An angel sighting can be a bit different

than most might suspect.

Many sightings of angels are actually mysterious visitors

who show up, provide assistance of some sort

and then vanish as quickly as they appeared.

Usually, the person who experiences this type

of spirit intervention will not necessarily see the angel

appear or disappear but will later realize

that the benevolent, human looking stranger

that vanished had to be an angel.

Typically, this type of angel sighting

takes the person by complete surprise

and occurs during a time of need.

Other angel sightings are quite dramatic

and describe a light being of some sort

who provides a word of guidance or caution.

This type of angelic sighting is often described

as life changing with the angel presence

being full of love and peace.

Although having an angel sighting such as this

can be intimidating, often the people who have been

fortunate enough to have such an experience

describe having felt calm and not frightened.

Sometimes, people may have angel sightings

through a vision.

Perhaps while dreaming or during near death experiences.

The word angel means messenger

and throughout biblical writings, there are various accounts

of angel sightings and visitations.

Most every account found within the Bible

describe angels as being human in appearance

and without wings.

For example, three angels appearing to Abraham

who looked like men, Jacob wrestling with an angel

and the two angels who visited lot and looked like men.

Angels were not described as having wings until artists

began painting them that way after orthodox Christianity

was officially formed in 325 a.D.

Earlier Christian art did not represent angels very often

and when they did, they appeared in frescoes.

Angels were often represented as other things.

For example, in some paintings an angel was indicated

by doves.

In another painting, an angel or messenger

is depicted as the hand of god.

Roman emperor, Constantine, changed things

when he formed Christianity into a state religion

through his council of Nicaea in 325.

It would be after this that angels would eventually

be depicted in paintings and art with wings and halos.

If an angel is seen, they are typically described

one of two ways.

Either they are human in appearance or they are described

as spirit bodies of light.

Many appear as humans for they are human spirits.

Many times, angels help and assist people

and the ones they help are completely unaware

of who they are.

For example, there are numerous accounts of angels

rescuing people, coming out of nowhere

then disappearing as quickly as they manifested.

The people rescued never knew they were saved by an angel

until they think about the experience later.

An example of this is found within the new testament.

Do not forget to entertain strangers

for by so doing, some people have entertained angels

without knowing it.

Sometimes people have described seeing a glowing messenger

through dreams or visions and these visitors

are often enveloped in a bright light.

They emanate peace and love which can be tangibly felt,

bringing a message of importance.

There are multiple stories of angelic encounters

in modern times.

Rose Benvenuto swerved to avoid hitting a dog

and ended up in a severe accident.

Amazingly, she survived but what was captured

in a photo near the wreckage was also fascinating.

Benvenuto saw her angel and said the proof

is in the photographs.

Only my guardian angel could've saved me

from such an accident,

she related to her story to ABC news in 2013.

Dr. frank Oski was in residency when he saw an angel

appear as bright as the sun in a dying patient's room.

The angel, I don't know what else to call her,

said that life is an endless cycle of improvements

and that humans are not perfect yet.

She said that most people have this secret

revealed to them when they die but that handicapped children

often know this and endure their problems

without complaining because they know that their burdens

will pass.

Some of these children, she said, have been given

the challenge of teaching the rest of us how to love.

Oski wrote about his experience

in a major pediatric journal.

Lilly Lunardi was an FBI agent,

retired from post traumatic stress disorder after 9/11

and refrained to tell her story in fear of being ostracized.

According to a 2012 report in the Blaze,

Lunardi told her inner circle that she began to see a light

that was blinding.

All at once, the mist took full shape

and I saw what appeared to be angels.

There were angels standing in the open area

to the left of the crash site.

There were hundreds of them standing in columns.

There was a field of angels emerging from the rims

of the mist.

They were archangels with their wings arched up

towards the sky.

Dr. Ron Phillip was driving in Alabama

to a church event when it stated snowing

and his car skidded towards the edge of an embankment,

losing control of his car.

He told charisma magazine, he prayed to god

and the lord commanded Phillip to tell his angel

to help him.

Seeing a faint glow, the angel was sitting

in the passenger seat.

Later, a state trooper wondered how Phillip

made it through the dangerous road,

wishing him and his passenger a safe ride home.

Phillip was the only person in the vehicle.

Erin Potter was battling with cancer

since first diagnosed with leukemia in 2007.

After her cancer returned for a third time,

she was preparing for a second bone marrow transplant.

On a normal day, Erin was playing out in the backyard

one day with her sparklers when her mom took a photo.

Nothing seemed out of the ordinary but when she looked

at the photo, she was shocked to see an angelic figure

watching over the child.

Just after the picture was taken, Erin successfully

received her transplant and is now completely cancer free.

Fourteen year old Chelsea Banton was suffering from multiple

development disabilities and has been in and out

of the hospital countless times.

As pneumonia was taking over her life,

her mother had to make an unthinkable decision.

She asked the doctor to pull the plug

on Chelsea's life machine to end her years

of pain and suffering.

As she was praying by her side, the doctor pulled the plug.

Remarkably, hours after the plug was pulled,

Chelsea remained alive.

The nurse at the station glanced at the monitor

and noticed a man standing at her door.

Thinking it was odd, she went out to see what he wanted

but he was nowhere in sight.

She went back to the monitor and saw him again.

She was so confused by this so she called over

other hospital staff and they confirmed

they saw the same thing.

So amazed by what they had seen, they indisputably agreed,

what they saw was an angel that saved Chelsea's life.

While heading home one evening, Mr. Wooton

was involved in a gruesome accident

that should have taken his life.

Nearby, pastor Michael clearly witnessed the accident

and ran to help.

He recalls seeing his SUV starting to roll over

before launching into the air and slamming into a tree.

He then saw something propelled out

of the passenger side window.

Michael said, when I got to where it was,

I was shocked to see a young man curled in a ball.

The whole time this was happening,

I was in prayer mode asking god to protect this person.

After first responders showed up,

Michael began taking pictures.

To his shock, he saw an angelic figure watching over

the young man as he was being treated.

Miraculously, he survived and he and his family

truly believe it was his guardian angel

captured in the photo.

If angels exist, do demons also exist?

Two thirds of all Americans believe not only

that angels and demons exist but also that they are active

in the world.

Skeptics are dumbfounded by such archaic nonsense.

To believe in non-physical beings, souls or spirits

without bodies, in today's world may seem delusional

but there are serious scholars who take angels

and demons seriously.

Why?

Certainly non-physical beings would challenge

the scientific overview of only the physical is real.

Certainly, angels and demons in one form or another

populate most of the world's religions.

But, do angels and demons really exist?

Speaking in a religious sense, demons are usually depicted

as agents of evil.

They're supernatural beings that come from the spirit realm,

forms of darkness that lurk in the shadows.

Some say they're fallen angels, banished forever

from god's light.

These are demons in the traditional Judeo-Christian model

and there are plenty of alleged accounts of such creatures

throughout history.

Sometimes they are said to haunt homes,

intending suffering for the people who reside there.

Other times they may actually possess a person.

A terrified mother claims she watched in horror

as her demon possessed nine year old son

walked backwards up a wall and ceiling.

Her claims would be easy to dismiss

if a child's service caseworker and a nurse

were reportedly there to witness it all.

Latoya Ammons claims all three of her children

showed signs of being possessed, including evil smiles

and strangely deep voices.

The Indianapolis star reports the mother says

she was witnessing her 12 year old daughter levitating

in their Gary, Indiana home.

Strangely enough, the scary sounding incident

is outlined in official documents.

Further, Gary police captain, Charles Austin

told the star that he is a believer

after making several visits to the home

and interviewing witnesses.

He first thought the family was making stories up

as part of a get rich quick scheme.

Ammons home was exorcised by a catholic priest

in a number of ceremonies that were reportedly authorized

by the diocese of Gary.

The story apparently became so believable

that officers with the police department

said they were too scared to stay at the house

and some city officials wouldn't even step foot

on the property.

The 32 year old mother says the spirits

that haunted her family's house were only vanquished

after she moved away and underwent several exorcisms.

The unbelievable story has come to light

after the Indianapolis star obtained hundreds of pages

of official documents related to the case.

William Friedkin sent theater goers running

for their rosaries with his 1973 classic

about a little girl possessed by a sadistic spirit.

The exorcist is fiction of course,

but the film's terror is based on

an actual demonic happening that plagued a 14 year old boy

named Robbie Mannheim.

Dubbed Roland Doe at the time to protect his privacy,

Roland reportedly became possessed by a malevolent entity

in cottage city, Maryland in the late 1940's

after trying to contact his late aunt

with the help of a Ouija board.

Once under the influence, the boy levitated

and spoke in tongues.

Priests were summoned.

After more than 30 rituals and a move to Missouri,

Doe was finally relieved of his otherworldly visitors.

He eventually returned to normal life.

The Smurl family case represents one of the most

highly publicized and scrutinized exorcism cases to date.

In 1974, Jack and Janet Smurl says a malevolent presence

possessed their west Pittston, Pennsylvania home,

emitting foul smelling odors.

It also threw the family dog against the wall,

pushed the Smurl children down the stairs

and sexually and physically assaulted Jack.

Their story caught the attention

of paranormal investigators, ed and Lorraine Warren,

who deemed the house disturbed by a very powerful demon.

While exorcisms were performed, none seemed to work.

Janet claimed the demon moved through the walls

of her double block home during such procedures.

In 1986, after several holy blessings and prayers

on the part of the Smurls, the forces finally subsided.

Although Janet would still allege spirit encounters

by 1987.

Michael and Christine Taylor were a religious couple

from the quiet, English town of Ossett.

In 1974, Christine accused her husband of having an affair

with the leader of their prayer group.

The accusation enraged Michael.

He yelled obscenities and acted erratic.

When his behavior intensified, angelic priests

decided to purge the man of his demons.

The exorcism lasted all night long,

exhausting the priests.

While they claimed to have freed Michael

from more than 40 demons, they also believed

that some forces remained within him.

Perhaps they were right.

Soon after the exorcism was over, Michael returned home

and murdered his wife and poodle then roamed the streets

soaked in blood until he was arrested.

If you've seen the conjuring, then you're familiar

with the freaky case of the Perron family.

Their real life horror story began in 1970

when they moved into a quaint, Rhode Island house

they thought would be their dream home.

The family encountered eerie activity

soon after settling in.

They heard strange sounds, were pulled from their beds

at night and witnessed the ghost of a woman

who hanged herself from the bedroom ceiling.

Carolyn received the harshest treatment.

The mother was poked and prodded by what she described

as a needle.

When the family still wouldn't leave, Carolyn was possessed.

Distraught, the parents contacted paranormal investigators,

ed and Lorraine Warren, who claimed to uncover

the home's sinister secrets.

The property had reportedly seen its fair share

of crimes and suicides, including a supposed witch

who had sacrificed her child to the devil.

While spiritual cleansing was performed,

they did little to curb the activity.

In 1980, the family sold the house and fled to Georgia.

The evil reportedly followed the Perrons southward,

though it was less severe than what they had encountered

in Rhode Island.

Demonic possession continues to this day

with reports yearly of satanic visitations.

Many also believe that ufo alien reports

are actually demons roaming the earth and in the skies.

The aliens of our time match the demons

and fallen angels mentioned in the Bible

in terms of their behavior.

Like the Bible predicts, aliens never affirmed

the deity of Christ.

Nor do they claim to come in his name.

Aliens change their stories to delude man

into believing their lies.

One example of this is that before man had ever been

to outer space or sent satellites there,

aliens would claim to be from planets

such as Venus in our solar system.

As time went on and man learned more about our planets,

we realized that no one could live on a planet like Venus

so aliens changed their story.

Now they claim to be from other star systems

and star clusters such as Andromeda and the Pleiades.

Though aliens are said to be advanced,

it seems they need us for their survival

just as fallen angels need human beings to prey on.

There are various accounts of aliens

taking tissue samples from humans, probing them,

or impregnating women.

This is the origin of the entities known as incubus

and succubus.

It is said that alien abductions are stopped

by invoking the name of Jesus.

Aliens bring ideas to earth that will help man

unite worldwide for a new era of consciousness.

This uniting prepares the way for their leader,

who is possibly the antichrist by making mankind

forget their religion and loyalty to their country.

Aliens often contact new agers and occultists

as opposed to Christians.

This is not always the case since people

from all walks of life have been contacted by aliens.

However, these space brothers are not too interested

in contacting Christians.

Perhaps because Christians will be able to see through

aliens disguise and know them for what they are, demons.

Aliens are not opposed to being worshiped by humans.

They also deny their creator, god, claiming instead

that they are creators.

This serves to draw man away from god.

Aliens often emit horrible odors such as sulfur.

Some call this smell the stench of hell

since it is a sign of the eternal fire.

Aliens give man technology but these advancements

are usually destructive.

There are secret projects that many governments

have in their budget which are usually for creating

new weapons of war.

Much of the technology for such weaponry

is said to come from extra terrestrials.

Why don't aliens ever give us life saving technology?

Angels and demons not only exist in Christian lore.

Many new age religions also support the idea

that angels watch over people.

New agers believe they can contact angels directly

via channeling or spiritism.

One representative, new age channeler

offers clients angel listenings.

A typical listening lasts somewhere

between 20 and 30 minutes and is really nothing more

than a conversation between the counselee

and his, her channeler through whom the counselee's angel

is supposedly speaking.

After going into a trance, the channeler writes down

everything the angel relays to him or her

using a pencil and pad.

The counselee never actually hears the angel speaking

though some have claimed to see a glow of light

or to sense a presence in the room.

Meditation and visualization, both used to induce

an altered state of consciousness, are popular means

of making angel contact.

As we practice withdrawing our attention

from the physical world and focusing it on the spiritual,

our perception becomes less limited to materiality.

The non-physical realm becomes more real to us

and we develop the mental habit of attentiveness to it.

The tendency of material concerns interferes

with our receptivity to the angelic realm.

Many who meditate on a regular basis

claim to have made contact with inner guides and angels.

Assuming one is successful in using one of these methods

to make angelic contact, what form might that contact take?

New agers tell us angels can appear as animals

and humans, male or female, visions or voices,

and with wings or without.

They can take the form of nudgings, intuition,

or coincidence.

They can appear as light on the water

or in clouds and rainbows.

It's also possible for an angel's appearance

to be disguised in everyday events.

You're therefore urged to pay attention

to the subtleties in life.

For example, a child may spontaneously blurt out

a statement for which only you know the meaning.

While thumbing through a book, a page may fall open

with a clear message in the print.

Headlines in the newspaper taken out of context

might contain your message.

New agers believe angels have a mission to help us

grow in wisdom and love, not just so that we will survive

as a race but so we will be able grow into what

we were always intended to be,

perfected beings capable of incredible energies

and immense, transforming love.

These angels seem similar to what new agers call

ascended masters, formerly historical persons

including Jesus, Buddha, and Mohammad

who have allegedly super evolved and ascended

to a higher plane of existence from which they now assist

other humans to evolve.

New agers tell us we can make a declaration to the angels

who will help bring about what we desire in life.

Making a declaration to the angels means that

you are openly announcing what you want known to heaven.

Declaring your goals and statements of things to come

will establish a plan of action with the angels.

The angels will bless the declaration

and add higher inspiration and aspirations to it.

The new age can be viewed as a successor movement

to the counter culture of the 1960's.

As observers of the new age vision have pointed out,

a significant portion of new agers are baby boomers.

People who, for several decades earlier,

were probably participating at some level

in the phenomenon known as the counter culture.

And, as the counter culture faded away in the early 70's,

many former hippies found themselves embarking

on a spiritual question that in many cases

departed from the Judeo-Christian mainstream.

Attracted to the idea of guardians and angels,

they became more aware and thus angels are seen

more frequently now.

However, conservative Christians believed

the new age movement is the most deceptive

and damaging philosophy around today.

It is entwined not only in witchcraft and satanism,

it is prevalent in all denominations of what the world

calls Christianity.

The belief system is deeply rooted in eastern mysticism

and the occult.

Followers are told to awaken their god consciousness

through transcendental meditation.

Yoga, hypnosis, visualization, and more.

What most do not understand is this is the same thing

Satan said in the garden of Eden to Eve.

You will be as gods.

Angels have always been involved in bringing revelation

to mankind.

They have also been involved in bringing false information.

It all depends on which spirit you have made contact with.

42% of Americans believe they have been

in contact with someone who has died

and almost 15% endorsed the work of spirit mediums.

How can one know if an angel is good or bad?

Perhaps only the individual experiencing the angel

can know this.

Despite its highly eclectic nature,

a number of beliefs commonly found

within the new age movement have been identified.

Theologically, the movement typically adopts a belief

in a holistic form of divinity which imbues

all of the universe including human beings themselves.

There's thus a strong emphasis on the spiritual authority

of the self.

This is accompanied by a common belief in a wide variety

of semi-divine, non-human entities such as angels

and masters with who humans can communicate,

particularly through the form of channeling.

Typically viewing human history as being divided

into a series of distinct ages,

a common new age belief is that whereas once humanity

lived in an age of great technological advancement

and spiritual wisdom, it has entered a period

of spiritual degeneracy which will be remedied

through the establishment of a coming age of Aquarius

from which the movement gets its name.

There is also a strong focus on healing,

particularly using forms of alternative medicine

and an emphasis on new age science

which seeks to unite science and spirituality.

A number of mid 20th century influences

such as the ufo religions of the 1950's,

the counter culture of the 1960's,

and the human potential movement

also exerted a strong influence on the early development

of the new age movement.

Indigenous American spiritual leaders

such as elders council of the Lakota, Cheyenne, Navajo,

creek, Hopi, and Chippewa have denounced new age

misappropriation of their sacred ceremonies

and other intellectual property,

stating that the value of these instructions and ceremonies

when led by unauthorized people are questionable,

maybe meaningless, and hurtful to the individual

carrying false messages.

Traditional leaders of the Lakota, Dakota,

and Nakota peoples have reached consensus to reject

the exploitation of ceremonial ways by non-Indians.

They see the new age movement

as either not fully understanding,

deliberately trivializing, or distorting their way of life

and have declared war on all such plastic medicine people

who are appropriating their spiritual ways.

This includes the often misused appropriation

of spirit animals as angels and, or demons

and claiming some native association of these beings

into their religion.

Spirit animals are said to be messengers

and have the ability to help you make decisions.

They appear as an animal in a dream or even in the physical.

The message itself can be spiritual in nature

or it can be a warning.

The message may deal with a seemingly mundane aspect

of your life or it may be a wake up call

for some important action you must make.

Sometimes the animal messenger will come during

an unusual event and make a powerful statement

and others come on the wind as a whisper.

A messenger guide can cause you delays

or some unforeseen help in your life.

They can be both negative and positive in nature

for they are totally impartial.

When a decision is made to follow a certain path in life,

the animal guide is there to serve as a guide along the way.

It represents a path that may take months or years

to complete.

It can be a friendly, traveling companion

if the path is right.

If you become lost along the way, this spirit animal guide

is there to help lead you back.

American Indians call the process of connecting

with animal guides and other parts of creation

as being one with nature.

Connecting with your animal guide

will make you a better person.

You will be healthier, physically, mentally, emotionally,

and spiritually.

You will see the world and all things in it

with more clarity and understanding.

Natives believe the new age white man revolution

is highly hijacking portions of their beliefs

in trying to use them as spiritual wisdom.

Psychic websites say that spirit guides

are often attributed to giving gut feelings

or intuition about people or situations

and the way to connect with a spirit guide

is through some meditation sessions.

This will allow your body and mind

to become receptive and open to communication channels.

To a native, this is pure new age mumbo jumbo.

First, the psychic website fails to acknowledge

and accept the omnipotence of god in the process

of creating and empowering the spirit guide.

Second, they give all the power to humans

who will invent and control the spirit

through psychic gut feelings and intuition.

A true spirit guide is divine and sacred.

Its power, wisdom, and actions stem solely

from the holy spirit of god or the creator.

To believe otherwise is an exercise in vanity,

narcissism, and a grievous error.

The error is allowing oneself to be guided,

not by the spirit of god but by human flawed supposition

usually spawned by vanity or other emotional responses.

Purveyors of so-called birth totems combine native American

belief in animal spirits with astrology

and assign various animal spirit guides

to a particular birth date of the individual.

Animal spirit cards also assign an animal spirit

to the individual by a chance shuffle of the cards.

Both of these practices have no basis

in American Indian religious beliefs.

Some messages from an animal spirit guide

may be confusing, if not impossible to understand,

without considerable practice and Patience.

Spiritual wisdom from angels will come when necessary

and when you are ready for the message.

The four horsemen of the apocalypse, often seen

as angels or fallen angels, are described in the last book

of the new testament of the Bible,

called the book of revelation

of Jesus Christ to John the apostle.

The chapter tells of a book or scroll in god's right hand

that is sealed with seven seals.

The lamb of god opens the first four of the seven seals

which summons four beings that ride out on white,

red, black, and green horses.

Though theologians popular culture differ

on the first horsemen, the four riders are often seen

as symbolizing conquest or pestilence,

the Christ or the antichrist, war, famine,

and death, respectively.

The Christian apocalypse vision is that the four horsemen

are to set a divine apocalypse upon the world

as harbingers of the last judgment.

Some Christians interpret the horsemen

as a prophecy of a future tribulation

during which many on earth will die as a result

of multiple catastrophes.

The four horsemen are the first in a series

of sealed judgements.

This is when god will judge the earth

and has given the world a chance to repent before they die.

American protestant Evangelical interpreters

regularly see ways in which the horsemen

and revelation in general speak to contemporary events.

Some who believe revelation applies to modern times

can interpret the horses based on various ways

their colors are used.

Red, for example, often represents communism.

The white horse and rider were the crown

representing Catholicism.

Black has been used as a symbol of capitalism.

While green represents the rise of Islam.

Some equate the four horsemen with the angels

of the four winds.

They are described as angels patrolling the earth

and keeping it peaceful.

It may be assumed that when the tribulation began,

the peace is taken away so their job is to terrify

the places in which they patrol.

Seven trumpets are sounded, one at a time,

to cue apocalyptic events that were seen in the vision

of the revelation of Christ Jesus by John of Patmos

as written in book of revelation in the new testament.

The seven trumpets are sounding by seven angels

and the events that follow are described in detail

from revelation chapters eight to 11.

According to revelation, the angels sound these trumpets

after the breaking of the seventh seal.

These seals secured the apocalyptic document

that was in the right hand of he who sits

on the main throne, god.

Upon the first trumpet sound, hell and fire mixed with blood

is thrown to the earth, burning of a third of the trees

on the planet and all green grass.

By the second trumpet sounding, it cues something

like a great burning mountain that plunges into the sea

and wipes out a third of all sea life and ships.

A third of the oceans will become blood.

By the sound of the third trumpet, a great star

called wormwood falls to the earth, poisoning

a third of the planet's fresh water sources

such as river and Springs.

Man will die from drinking its bitter taste.

Following this sounding of the fourth trumpet,

a third of the light that shines from the sun, moon,

and stars becomes dark with these celestial bodies

being struck.

This catastrophe causes complete darkness for a third

of the day, during the day and even through night hours.

The fifth trumpet sound is the first woe of three.

Before this trumpet sounds, an angel, translated

as an eagle in some versions, appears flying in mid heaven

and warns, woe, woe, woe, to those who dwell on the earth

because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet

of the three angels who were about to sound.

The fifth trumpet prompts a personified star

to fall from heaven.

This star is given the key to the bottomless pit.

After opening it, the smoke that rises out

darkens the air and blocks the sunlight.

Then, from out of the smoke, the locusts are unleashed.

Five months after the fifth trumpet blasts,

the sixth one sounds.

This is the second woe where four angels

are released from their binds to the great river Euphrates.

They command a brute force of 200 million mounted troops

whose horses dissipate plague from out of their mouths.

Most notably, fire, smoke, and brimstone.

They are responsible for the deaths of a third of mankind

who are stricken by the plague that emanates

from these armies.

The sound of the seventh trumpet signals the third woe.

The final trumpet sound and the final woe.

Loud voices in heaven proclaim Christ

as ruler forever and ever under the kingdom of our lord.

Thanks is given to god the almighty and prays

for the wrath that came, the dead who were judged,

and the bond servants rewarded.

The temple of god in heaven then opened

and the arch of the covenant appeared in his temple.

Then, lightning and peals of thunder occur

followed by an earthquake and a great hell storm.

Apparently, angels can be messengers of both good and doom

unlike their demon counterparts who bring only illness,

fear, and death.

Everyday things that we cannot explain happen.

When people are cured from a terminally ill diagnosis,

survive near death experiences, or triumph

through insurmountable circumstances,

angels are the only explanation that we can derive.

As human beings, we crave an answer for everything.

We do not accept the shear ideas of things happening

just because.

Instead, the research, theorize, and brainstorm

ways the unexplainable can be explained.

Angels are the answer to the unexplainable blessings

we experience in life.

The messengers of god are watching over us

and are performing miracles that in many cases

save lives or renew hope in the hopeless.

A near death experience is a personal experience

associated with death or impending death,

encompassing multiple possible sensations,

including detachment from the body,

feelings of levitation, total Serenity, security,

warmth, the experience of absolute dissolution,

and the presence of a light.

Researchers have identified the common elements

that define near death experiences.

The general features of the experience

include impressions of being outside one's physical body,

visions of deceased relatives, and religious figures,

angels and transcendence of ego

and spatial, temporal boundaries.

Many common elements have been reported

although the person's interpretation of these events

often corresponds to the cultural, philosophical,

or religious beliefs of the person experiencing it.

Individuals report encountering people

which are generally identified

according to the person's individual faith.

For instance, in the Usa where 46% of the population

believes in guardian angels, they will often be identified

as angels or the deceased love.

While Hindus will often identify them as messengers

of the god of death.

Reports include a tunnel experience or entering a darkness,

a sense of moving up or through a passageway

or staircase, a rapid movement towards

and or sudden immersion in a powerful light

or a beam of light which communicates with the person.

An intense feeling of unconditional love and acceptance

is experienced.

Encountering beings of light, being dressed in white

or similar.

Also the possibility of being reunited

with deceased loved ones plus receiving a life review,

commonly referred to as seeing one's life flash

before one's eyes.

Some near death experiences have elements

that bear little resemblance

to the typical near death experience.

Anywhere from one percent, according to a 1982 Gallup poll,

to 20% of subjects may have distressing experiences

and feel terrified or uneasy as various parts

of the near death experience occur.

They visit or view dark and depressing areas

or are accosted by what seem to be hostile

or oppositional forces or presences such as demons.

Another argument made by several near death experience

researchers, such as Parnia and Fenwick,

for the transcendental model is that the occurrence

of anecdotal reports of patients being able to see

and recall detailed events occurring during cardiac arrest

that are afterwards verified by hospital staff

support the argument that such perception sometimes do occur

during periods of clinical death.

Near death experience researcher, Janice minor Holden,

found 107 such anecdotal reports

in the near death experience literature as of 2009,

out of which approximately 91% were accurate.

Near death experiences are also associated

with changes in personality and outlook on life.

Kenneth ream, a professor of psychology,

has identified a consistent set of value and belief changes

associated with people who have had a near death experience.

Among these changes, one finds a great appreciation

for life, higher self esteem, greater compassion for others,

less concern for acquiring material wealth,

a heightened sense of purpose and self understanding,

a desire to learn, elevated spirituality,

greater ecological sensitivity and planetary concern,

and a feeling of being more intuitive.

Changes may also include increased physical sensitivity,

diminished tolerance of light, alcohol and drugs,

a feeling that the brain has been altered

to encompass more, and a feeling that one is now using

the whole brain rather than a small part.

Many individuals who experience a near death experience

see it as a verification of the existence

of an after life and some researchers in the field

of near death studies sees the near death experience

as evidence that human consciousness may continue

to exist after death.

The transcendental or survivalist interpretations

of the near death experience contends that the experience

is exactly what it appears to be to the persons

having the experience.

According to this interpretation, consciousness

can become separated from the brain under certain conditions

and glimpse this spiritual angelic realm

to which souls travel after death.

Perhaps, we can become angels ourselves.

Is it possible that we can become angels ourselves?

Can we leave the physical body and travel about

in a spiritual, angelic body?

Can we visit angelic realms before we die?

As an alternative to belief centric labels

such as astral projection, soul travel, or spirit walking,

out of body experiences can be induced by brain traumas,

sensory deprivation, near death experiences,

dissociative and psychedelic drugs, dehydration,

sleep, and electrical stimulation of the brain

among others.

It can also be deliberately induced by some.

One in 10 people have an out of body experience once,

or more commonly, several times in their life.

Those experiencing out of body experiences

sometimes report among other types of immediate

and spontaneous experience, a preceding and initiating

lucid dream state.

In many cases, people who claim to have had

an out of body experience report being on the verge of sleep

or being already asleep shortly before the experience.

A large percentage of these cases refer to situations

where the sleep was not particularly deep

due to illness, noises in other rooms, emotional stress,

exhaustion from over working, frequent reawakening,

and et cetera.

In most of these cases, subjects perceived themselves

as being awake.

About half of the note a feeling of sleep paralysis.

Writes within the fields of parapsychology

and occultism have written that out of body experiences

are not psychological and that a soul, spirit,

or subtle body can detach itself out of the body

and visit distant locations.

Out of body experiences were known

during the Victorian period in spiritualist literature

as traveling clairvoyance.

In April 1977, a patient from harbor view medical center,

known as Maria, claimed to have experienced

an out of body experience.

During her out of body experience,

she claimed to have floated outside her body

and outside of the hospital.

Maria would later tell her social worker,

Kimberly Clark, that during the out of body experience,

she had observed a tennis shoe

on the third floor window ledge to the north side

of the building.

Clark went to the north wing of the building

and by looking out of the window,

she could see a tennis shoe on one of the ledges.

Clark published the account in 1985.

The story has since been used in many paranormal books

as evidence a spirit can leave the body.

Astral projection is a paranormal interpretation

of out of body experiences that assumes the existence

of one or more non-physical planes of existence

and an associated body beyond the physical.

Commonly, such planes are called astral, ethereal,

or spiritual.

Astral projection is often experienced

as the spirit or astral body leaving the physical body

to travel in the spirit world, or astral plane

as an angel would.

This assumes the existence of a soul

or consciousness called an astral body

that is separate from the physical body

and capable of traveling outside of it

throughout the universe where it interacts

with other astral bodies and is capable

of implanting ideas into other people's minds.

The idea of astral travel is rooted in esotericism

and occultism.

It was promoted by philosophers who explored the mystical

and pre-natural origins of the natural world.

It is sometimes reported in association with dreams

and forms of meditation.

Some individuals have reported perceptions

similar to descriptions of astral projection

that were induced through various hallucinogenic

and hypnotic means including self-hypnosis.

There is no scientific evidence that there is

a consciousness or soul which is separate

from normal, neural activity or that one can consciously

leave the body and make observations.

Claims of scientific evidence of astral projection

are considered pseudo-scientific.

Similar concepts of out of body experiences

appear in various other religious traditions.

For example, ancient Egyptian teachings

present the soul, Ba, as having the ability

to hover outside the physical body in the ka,

our subtle body.

The soul's ability to leave the body at will

or while sleeping and visit the various planes

of heaven is also known as soul travel.

The practice is taught in Surat Shabd yoga

where the experience is achieved mostly

by meditation techniques and mantra repetition.

All sant mat gurus widely spoke about this kind

of out of body experience such as Karpil seen.

The religion of Eckankar describes soul travel

broadly as a movement of the true spiritual self,

or soul, closer to the heart of god.

While the contemplative may perceive the experience

as travel, soul itself is said not to move

but to come into an agreement with fixed states

and conditions that already exist in some world

of time and space.

There are cases of patients having experiences

suggestive of astral projection

from brain stimulation treatments and hallucinogenic drugs.

In the Bible, Paul's second epistle to the Corinthians

is more generally agreed to refer to the astral planes

where he said, I know a man in Christ 14 years ago.

Whether in the body, I know not, or out of the body,

I know not, god knows such as one caught up

in the third heaven.

This passage appears to confirm out of body travel

as well as other planes of existence.

According to classical, medieval and renaissance

hermeticism, neoplatonism, and later theosophists

and Rosicrucian thought, the astral body

is an intermediate body of light linking the rational soul

to the physical body while the astral plane

is an intermediate world of light

between heaven and earth, composed of the spheres

of the planets and stars.

These astral spheres were held to be populated

by angels, demons, and spirits.

Other experiencers may describe a domain

that has no parallel to any known physical setting.

Environments may be populated or unpopulated.

Artificial, natural, or abstract.

And the experience may be beautiful, horrific,

or neutral.

A common belief is that one may access

a compendium of mystical knowledge

called the akashic records.

In many accounts, the experiencer correlates

the astral world with the world of dreams.

Some even report seeing other dreamers

enacting dream scenarios,

unaware of their wider environment,

while many report seeing guides or angels.

The astral environment may also be divided

into levels or sub-planes but there are many different views

and various traditions concerning the overall structure

of the astral planes.

They may include heavens and hells

and other after death spheres, transcended environments,

or other less easily characterized states.

If out of body travel, or soul travel, does exist

as many have reported,

is it possible that we ourselves are angels?

Christians believe that after we're finished on earth

we are laid to rest and are reunited with our loved ones,

our angels.

If you believe in heaven then you believe

in the greater powers that come along with it,

angels and demons.

While we cannot confirm that it exists, we still believe.

Death cannot be the end to relationships we have

with the ones we love.

Knowing that heaven exists and angels live there

waiting for their loved ones is comforting.

Ultimately, heaven is more than a place

where god exists because it is also a place

where our angels are waiting for us to join them.

Faith is believing in the unknown,

despite the good and bad that comes with it.

There is no doubt that faith has the power

to aid us in persevering through great challenges

and everyday happenings.

Angels are part of that faith.

If you believe in a higher being,

then you believe in angels.

No matter what angels are, they are there to stand

at the forefront and answer our prayers.

When you're praying to god,

you're also praying to the angels that stand next to him

and serve him as messengers.

Everyday things that we cannot explain do happen.

When people are cured from a terminally ill diagnosis,

survive near death experiences or triumph

through insurmountable circumstances,

angels are the only explanation that we can derive.

As human beings, we crave an answer for everything.

Nothing happens just because.

Everything happens for a reason.

Angels are the divine guiding us through life's errors

and happiness.

Perhaps making contact and acknowledging the angels

that surround us is the best way to cope with life.

Spiritual awareness is the key and love is the answer

beyond all doors.

Never be afraid to explore because angels

are there to guide and support you.

And perhaps, a single act of kindness daily

does indeed mean we are angels too.