Chrissie Astell - Gifts from Angels: An Uplifting Collection of Real-life Angel Encounters

Chrissie is a genuine, unassuming lady whose work I admire and respect. She spreads her angelic wisdom with compassion and humility, and is one to watch on the spiritual scene.

Katy Evans, Editor of Soul & Spirit

One of the most highly qualified angel teachers I know, sharing well-researched information and spiritual practices in a holistic, loving and well-grounded way [she] writes with a lovely easy style that is a pleasure to read.

William Bloom, author of The Endorphin Effect and The Power of Modern Spirituality

Chrissie has a genuine spiritual connection and shows great integrity in her work with the higher realms. Her amazing angelic knowledge has brought angels into the lives of many thousands of people around the world.

Jacky Newcomb, Sunday Times best-selling author and paranormal experiences expert

Chrissie Astell is one of the most inspiring angel authorities writing at the present time. She wears her considerable erudition lightly and her teaching comes from the heart and from her direct experience of angels. Reading her books leaves one feeling uplifted, so a new one from her pen is always a delight.

Ishvara dAngelo, artist and author of Angels in Our Time

Christine Astell is a true light worker in a very real sense. Her commitment to helping others reach angels, as she has, shines from every word she writes. Her words are capable of fanning the flames of belief, no matter how tiny the initial spark, in anyone who is troubled and seeking help. Some people have the gift to inspire joy, hope and serenity with every word, and the author is one of them.

Jenny Smedley, best-selling author of Soul Angels

Chrissie Astell is one of the most authoritative speakers on angels that I know. Her knowledge of the angels and the gifts they bring us is brought out beautifully through her books, talks and seminars, but particularly in her meditations. It is so easy to connect with the angels with Chrissies guidance and support and gentle encouragement.

Mairead Conlon, Spirit One Seminars (Dublin)

It gives me real pleasure to say a few words about Chrissie Astell. I believe her to be one of the crystal children now emerging, a free-spirited, energetic teacher in the wisdom tradition of the Essenes, a leading light. She has marvellous energy and will accomplish all that she sets her heart upon, although most of us quail at the amount she undertakes. I wish her every success.

Anne MacEwen, co-founder and President of the Essene Network International

An uplifting collection of real-life angel encounters

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Dedicated to my mother, Sylvia Moss, and to my father, Fred Astell, with a heart full of love and gratitude to them both for sharing the many blessed gifts of life with me, in amazing and mysterious ways.

I have long been interested in worlds beyond the everyday one in which we work, relate to our friends and family and go about our daily routine. As a boy I experienced strange phenomena that convinced me there is a spirit world actively watching over our own a world where those we have lost may be contacted, a world where forces of love and kindness are powerfully present. For me, angels are a part of this world. I experience them as a very real energy in my life.

Chrissie Astells Gifts from Angels is the definitive book about angels. Chrissie shares with us her own personal experiences of interacting with angels as well as recounting wonderful stories from the many people she has met through her angel workshops and teaching. It is a beautifully written book that tells you everything you need to know about these amazing beings of light and how they manifest in our lives. Whether you believe in angels or not, this book is a joy to read. However downhearted or unhappy you are, Gifts from Angels will fill you with hope and the realization of just how much each one of us is loved.

I was moved to tears by some of the stories in this book. Chrissies knowledge and expertise enables her to write about these glorious heavenly beings in a simple, easy-to-read way that is both fascinating and informative.

For myself I know that angels are real and that we are all capable of seeing or experiencing them. Reading this book will bring their loving energy closer to you.

William Roache, MBE

February 2011

In the name of I am that I am I detach and let go of all energy in truth that is not mine.

I call back to myself all energy in truth that is mine and I ask that as it comes back to me it may be dissolved in the Love and the Light.

I call to the seven archangels and their Legions of Light.
I call to beloved Archangel Zadkiel and the Angels of Joy.

To Archangel Gabriel and the Angels of Wisdom,

to Archangel Michael and the Angels of Protection,

to Archangel Jophiel and the Angels of Illumination,

to Archangel Raphael and the Angels of Healing,

to Archangel Uriel and the Angels of Peace and

to Archangel Chamuel and the Angels of Love.

With gratitude in my heart I ask you to enter my earthly affairs and bring me your wonderful heavenly qualities.

Give me, please, the freedom from fear and self-doubt, that I may find in my mind your wisdom and illumination, understanding, inspiration, creativity, knowledge and clearness of sight.

Help me to fully appreciate and enjoy the qualities of giving and receiving unconditional love; to feel compassion, mercy and forgiveness.

Show me how to dissolve the feelings of selfishness, self-condemnation and low self-esteem.

Give me the guidance I need to create inner peace and tranquillity in my heart and mind, and a truly spiritual balance in my humanness.

I ask that with the love and guidance of God, the source of all life, and with the help of the angels, I will grow to reach the understanding of true Christ consciousness.

As I ask, with honest intent, so may it be.

Amen

T he word angel, as we understand it, means messenger. Angels are Gods messengers, spiritual beings of light, acting as conduits between heaven and earth, carrying our prayers and petitions, hopes and fears, and returning on the instant with constant reassurance, guidance, healing and untold gifts of abundance in so many forms if we choose to accept them.