Celebrated psychic Gary Quinn, whose readings and workshops have helped so many thousands and who has been embraced by celebrities, renowned athletes, and media leaders, now shares his unique wisdom in a book that will put you in touch with the ultimate power: the power of angels. In the inspirational and upbeat voice he has become famous for, Gary describes how he has guided so many people to contact the angelic guides who have always surrounded them -- but hadn't yet been acknowledged or let in. And the results are always incredible -- people's lives change, their goals are achieved, their relationships are healed, simply by letting in the angels who are always there waiting to help, full of joy and positive energy. Gary explains: * How you don't need to see angels -- or even fully believe in them -- to tap into their power. * How to tell the difference between the messages of departed souls and those of angels. And he answers questions like: * What are the seven types of angels, including archangels, whom you can call upon? * Why do certain angels come to us and how can we invoke them? And he provides concrete advice and techniques, including: * Prayers to help you gain access to your angels. * Seventeen questions that will invite angelic guidance. Gary also recounts the incredible story of how he first discovered his own angelic messenger in the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris at a crucial turning point in his life. And he tells the heartbreaking and ultimately inspiring story of how he struggled with his psychic gifts as a child and reconnected with them as an adult.

In addition to working with Hollywood celebrities and prominent figures in the fashion and magazine industries, Gary Quinn draws large crowds to events around the country. He lives in Los Angeles.

Introduction Expect Help

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Hang on for the Ride

11

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Clearing the Way: How to Tap into ``Angel Power'' (Even If You Don't Believe in Angels!)

28

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The Angel of Vision

45

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The Angel of Wisdom

61

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The Angel of Purity

75

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The Angel of Strength

87

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The Angel of Love

96

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The Angel of Peace

112

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The Angel of Victory

129

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Heaven on Earth: A Meditation

136

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Angels: A Quick Guide

142

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Acknowledgments

159

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Chapter One

These words from a half-remembered Carlos Santana song darted from somewhere into my groggy head and nudged me out of my nap on the plane from L.A., beckoned me to open my eyes, pulled at me to feast on the visual splendor of Sun Valley, Idaho, now dawning below. Like sentries on the road to a royal banquet, great jagged outcrops of boulder and rock framed the city's spread.

I began to sense the miracle from the moment the plane touched ground: the very air was magic. I knew this was someplace I was supposed to be. More words rang in my head: "A table has been prepared!"

I was clear about what I had been invited to provide at that "table": two presentations covering one topic, "How to Contact Your Angels." I had prepared for these talks in my usual way ? amassing notes, stories, anecdotes, and meditations, the joyful spillover from my lifelong absorption in the power and guidance of angels. I also looked forward to giving as many one-on-one "angel readings" as time and energy would permit. The venue was the Third Annual Sun Valley Wellness Festival at the Elkhorn Resort Lodge, whose organizer, Liz Caldwell, had known my work in L.A. as a psychic counselor and "angel channeler" and had invited me to share my experience with the large and varied group who had come to expand their spiritual lives.

Arriving at the resort, I felt embraced by both place and people; already my spirit was being fed. During the guided meditation with which I opened my first talk, I quickly sensed in the packed room the ebullient energy of many souls at various stages of receptivity "going with me," all of them eager to explore whatever opportunities this encounter might provide them. It was as if a joyful convocation of souls ? a "soul party" ? had spontaneously formed around me.

As I led my Sun Valley group in this meditation introducing them to the Seven Angels that we would investigate throughout our time together, beckoning them to let go of their fear and resistance, I sensed a softening, a collective opening of hearts in the room. I felt the imminent prospect of widespread healing and the certainty that it would be fostered here. An overpowering sense of the Universe's abundance flooded through me. I knew that all we ever needed to do was let that abundance in ? and shed as many of our assumptions and expectations as we could. I knew ? and I prayed to help every soul in the room also to realize ? that the rewards of letting go will always, always turn out to be incalculably greater than any of us dream.

All of my carefully compiled notes, all of the prep work I'd done for the seminar, probably had some subliminal benefit to me when I got up to speak for the several-hour sessions I conducted each day. But I can't remember looking at my notebook. Something magical and transcendent took over ? I spoke and listened without any hesitation or self-consciousness. The angels I channel privately in my practice now came fully, freely, abundantly to my aid. So many memories of faces at Sun Valley stay with me: the woman whose son had recently died ? his name (Michael) and nickname (Bo) came to me the moment I saw her ? and her stunned and grateful expression as I passed on his message of love and peace and hope to her is something I shall never forget. Other men and women began to sense the presence of their guardian angels, sometimes visually, more often registering them internally ? in a remembered dream, song, poem. So many connections were made within, between, and among everyone, all strengthening my understanding that I was not the source of any of them. I had simply enabled these people to connect with each other and with their own higher selves and at least some sense of angelic guidance. All I have been and can ever be is a conduit, a channel, through which information and guidance can flow. This gives my life its purpose ? at every moment I'm grateful for the gift of being able to provide this angelic "phone line." But it is a gift whose ultimate aim is to become unnecessary. My goal is to let everyone know that angelic love and guidance are available to all of us, right now. All you have to do is let it in. You don't need a channeler for this. (But I'll be here until you realize you don't.) My Sun Valley experience helped me to connect profoundly to this mission once again.

This goal is the book's mission, too: to help you let angelic wisdom into your life and heart. If you had even the slightest inkling how completely and powerfully you are loved by the angels around you, you would cry for joy ? and then quickly become reassured that you had all the resources, so many more than you ever dreamed you had, to turn your life into the magnificent adventure you want it to be.

The Soul Party

I resort to using the word abundant so often in describing angels because it suggests their great teeming variety and energy?but what word can really capture how wild, light, infinite, joyful, and expansive their presence is? Language is too linear for this task; words tell you only how A connects to B connects to C. The realm of angels is timeless, rich, multidimensional, with levels of meaning you have to feel to understand. The only way I know to begin to understand the nature of this realm is simply to allow ourselves to feel its impact and influence and love. All any of us has to do is give up our resistance to receiving this influence. Angels have so much to tell us. And we can benefit so profoundly from what they want to teach us. The very world would heal if, collectively, "it"?we?learned to heed their call.

But remember it's a "soul party"! At one point I tried to describe to my group what it's like to receive angelic help: "Think of it as a ride in Disneyland!" Angels are messengers of joy. They are not the washed-out, faintly smiling, dull little icons you see in clich? religious art. They are as delightful, ingenious, and exciting as they are infinitely loving. They are one with their happy, urgent messages. They are pure focused bursts of joy. In fact, you're not fully "hearing" an angel if something inside you doesn't feel like it's positively glowing.

How do I know this? What's my proof?

I have never been bothered by the question of "proof" with regard to spiritual phenomena. To me, if something is true, it will eventually reveal itself as true. You don't have to go scrambling after it. If you have the human optical ability to see color, and you are taught the names of different colors, no one will have to prove to you that (on clear June days) the sky is blue. Truth is self-evident. So it is with angels: if you allow them into your heart, mind, and life, angels will help you to transform your life. Ask them for help with this transformation, and see what happens.

If you truly have cleared the way for their entry, you'll have more proof of their power, love, and truth than any argument anyone could pose. The proof is in the experience ? and the experience awaits you whenever you want it.

Not that we don't sometimes go to extraordinary lengths to blind ourselves to truth. Human history largely documents this kind of willful blindness and denial?blindness and denial fueled by fear, which is perhaps truth's worst enemy. Eventually, with your angels' help, you'll see that all fear is illusion. In fact, you might want to start to chant these four words to yourself ? "Fear is a lie" ? even if you can't quite yet bring yourself to believe it. Eventually the truth of it will prove itself.

Spiritual or religious defensiveness has always struck me as sad and self-defeating ? not only when people are determinedly closed off from experiencing anything other than the material world, but also when a proponent of a particular spiritual "truth" attempts to cram it down someone else's throat. There hasn't been a religious pundit yet who through sheer force of "logic" was able to sway any nonbeliever one iota toward an alien belief. Truth will out, if only we'll learn to get out of its way. I don't have to lecture you on the blueness of the sky. All you need to do is look up at it.

So right off, please understand that this book neither defends nor attacks any particular view (religious or otherwise) of angels. I have no angelic "ax" to grind. I do only what I know how to do: pass on "the news" that these miraculous beings in various ways pass on to me. Their truth ? or the truth of this or that speculation I make based on what they tell me ? will speak to you or it won't. If it does, all the "proof" I'm interested in is that it's helping you. If it doesn't, well ? there's always its entertainment value! (But don't give up on it quite yet.)

Letting go of our defenses is frightening at first?but ultimately it is such a relief! I urge you to try to release your fear and anger every chance you get, especially any moment you feel yourself clench and about to say, "But . . ." Allow whatever feeling, thought, or opinion occurs to you simply to be. Just "hear" it. Don't argue or attempt to explain it away. Don't do anything about it! Simply make room for whatever thoughts come after it. Entertain each of your thoughts, like guests. Be courteous, withhold judgment, just keep the flow going. Eventually it will become clear to you which "guests" feel welcome (or "true"). You will be clearing your psychic airwaves ? not only to allow truth to reveal and prove itself, but also to open up the path for your angels.

Experiencing the presence of angels is enlivening, abundant, rich, a little like listening in on the spiritual radio waves of the world: cliff-hanger stories, ringing laughter, miraculous solutions, deeply loving support. Perhaps this all sounds a bit frantic, but it isn't at all. Angelic peace proceeds from a perfect unconditional love ? a stillness somewhere mysteriously within the angel ? that answers to something just as deep in ourselves. There may well be joyous and productive activity at the "surface" of this peace, but there's always a stillness at its heart.

What Angels Are ? And Aren't

Many people envision angels as little pink winged humanoids whose wan smiles too rarely engage much interest or curiosity. As a result, even if we profess to believe in them, we often envision our "guardian angels" (and we do all have guardian angels) as comfortingly dependable icons, like caricatures of perfect aunts, grandparents, uncles. We may also feel ? or crave to believe ? that any angels who may be helping us are the souls of recently departed loved ones. The pain of loss often induces the hope that they are by our side spiritually now, as angels.

Departed souls can have a great, loving, and beneficial impact on our lives: you may well feel the presence of loved ones who've passed on. But their gifts emanate from human souls in transition from one state of being to another. Their guidance is very personal, invested with a lifetime of particular lessons and caring, a focused attention we can receive from no one else. Angels are not human ? and therefore have no human past to distract or prejudice them. They invite deep trust and intimacy, but their primary function is to convey whatever particular joyful messages we need to thrive. They are infinitely adaptable and full of quicksilver ingenuity and transformations, and yet there is something changeless in their being, in the constancy of their unconditional love for us. They are what and where they are meant to be: accessible to human consciousness, and connected to spiritual realms we cannot reach without their help. Their place in both divine and human realms is securely set.

I bring up the distinction between angels and departed human souls for one very practical reason. I had a number of (initially bewildering) encounters with various spiritual presences, not all of them (I learned) worth embracing or listening to. In other words, I learned that not every voice in my head is an angel.

This doesn't mean that some sinister Addams Family ghouls are out there to get you. Each of us has the inborn capacity to tell "good" spiritual influence from "bad." Distressing spirits are almost always those of departed souls who have not yet made the full transition from the physical realm to the spiritual; their anxiety and fear get passed on to whoever is receptive to it. There is always a note of despair or anger or bitterness in our experience of these souls. You feel more troubled than helped by your encounter with them. But to disengage, you have only to say and feel no to them. It's that simple.

Angels, on the other hand, are infinitely joyful and loving. While an encounter with an angel may unnerve you a bit (indeed, it often will), it's always because the angel is beckoning you to achieve something more joyful, rewarding, pleasurable, and/or ambitious than you previously dared to consider taking on. Feelings of love and support with angels always increase, never decrease. There isn't the barest touch of negativity in any angelic presence: there is only joy.

Each of us has the spiritual equivalent of what Hemingway described as a writer's most valuable tool: a "crap detector." If, down in your gut or in your subtlest inner ear, something you hear or think feels even a little forced or fake, or in some other way just "doesn't work," it's very likely "crap." Ditto spiritual impressions, especially if they're touched by anxiety or other distress. Cut yourself off from the source of this negative emanation quickly and completely. (This is an instance where "Just say no" really works.) Once again, if the spiritual or psychic message or feeling is "true" or angelic in origin, you'll know it. If it's not, you'll know it, too: it will tend to claw you in the gut.

Of course, if truth were always so easy to perceive and acknowledge, a lot more would be self-evident. Certainly if the truth about angels came to us more frequently in physically or conventionally identifiable ways, we wouldn't have consigned them to Christmas decorations or wishful sitcoms. We would acknowledge them openly in our lives as very real presences.

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