Alma Daniel - Ask Your Angels: A Practical Guide to Working with the Messengers of Heaven to Empower and Enrich Your Life

ALSO BY THE AUTHORS

Andrew Ramer
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Timothy Wyllie
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Dolphins, Telepathy and Underwater Birthing

A Ballantine Book
Published by The Random House Publishing Group

Copyright 1992 by Alma Daniel, Timothy Wyllie, and Andrew Ramer
Illustrations copyright 1992 by Yanni Posnakoff

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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 92-72772
Ebook ISBN: 9780307777331

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N o book is ever written by the author, or in this case three authors, alone. Were indebted to many whose names may not be mentioned, most especially the people who have come to our workshops and helped to refine the techniques that we offer in Ask Your Angels. We want to express our heartfelt appreciation to each of you as well as to all the angels, named and unnamed, who have participated in this work.

Two angels who most certainly deserve recognition up front are Barbara Bowen, who provided invaluable structural advice, and Barbara Shor, who gave us clarity on the flow and feeling of this book and helped to weave it all together.

Many thanks also to Jeff Doctoroff, who coordinated the intricate dance between editor, authors, production, and angels.

For the whimsical and joyful illustrations that grace these pages, we are deeply grateful to Yanni Posnakoff. We are indebted to Malachi McCormick for permission to use his drawing of the angel that announces each of the exercises.

A special expression of thanks goes to Mona Brookes of Monart Schools. She inspired her art students to produce delightful renditions of angels that, regrettably, we were unable to use. And to Christopher Castle, William Giese, June Atkin Sanders, and all the other artists who shared their angel drawings, our deep appreciation.

Many individuals provided the anecdotal material used throughout Ask Your Angels. In some cases, names and identifying details have been changed.

For their contributions through angelic transmissions, experiences, and expertise that were generously shared with us, we want to especially acknowledge Hilda Brown, Mimi DeMirjian, Lee Ellis, Carolina Ely, Anne Entus, Deborah Hicks, Dorothy Maclean, Mercury, Sara Michaels-Smith, Monte Morris, Patricia Powell, Joe Rodriguez, Gail San Filippo, Michael Schwager, Paul Selig, Carolyn Short, Solara, David Spangler, Betsy Stang, Elsita Sterling, Felicia Telsey, LiLi Townsend, Martha Wakefield, and Paul Waterman.

For providing the gracious hideaway that incubated and nurtured a substantial part of this book, our deep appreciation to Jackie Sideli and John Sideli.

Weve been blessed by the friendship and faith of individuals who arranged angel workshops or assisted us with them in the United States, Canada, and Europe: Mary Bohaychuk, Carmel Bouzane, Andy Cox, Cathy Deutsch, Mary Donker, Elana Freeman, Glenn of Trees, Liane Haynes, Carol Home, Karen Malcolm, Cynthia ONeal, Ralph, Pittman, Ann Seamster, Ellen Sokolow, Emerald Star, Jill Steiner, John Stowe, David Tenerowicz, Ruth Terry, Laura Watts, and Mindy Yanish.

For their guidance in angel research, we thank Abil-Khayr, Rabbi Steve Blumberg, Elder Eldon Cooley, David Gitomer, Menachem Kallush, Herman Mills, Dr. Abdel-Rahman Osman, and the reference librarians in the religion section of the Brooklyn Public Library at Grand Army Plaza.

There are many others who have helped and encouraged us along the way: Elli Bambridge, Jean Barrett, Teza Bates, Nelson Bloncourt, Judith Borg, Gail Brudny, Ivan Chelnick, Jyori Chrystal, Connie Costa, Valerie de Montvallon, Anjani DiBello, P. R. DOr, Ruth Drayer, Annette and Ed Eckart, Robert Faust, Marilyn Ferguson, John Fletcher Harris, Kamala Hope-Campbell, Cher Jung, Samuel Kirschner, Linda and Rob Leahy, Frederic Lehrman, Susan Lorette, Susan Meadowcroft, Steve Milkis, Rita Maloney, Michael Morrison, Rosie Murray, Tom Patrick, Maryanne Quinones, Richard Ramer, Gerard Rizza, Lilith Rochas, Prudence See, Joan Sexton, Don Shewey, Peter Sonnenberg, Marty Spiegel, Anya Sprinkle, Starheart, Ruth Strassberg, Linda Tellington-Jones, Simon Vinkenoog, Teddy Vitchell, Jeff Wad-lington, Ingrid Wagner, Anne Walsh, Bill Walsh, Robert Windslow, Ora Yemini, and the Women of Poweryou know who you are.

For the gift of life, and their loving support and confidence in us, we acknowledge and thank our mothers, Rita Sachs, Gerry Shields, and Diana Wyllie.

Finally, Ask Your Angels would not be in your hands if it werent for one womans vision of a book that could teach people to talk to their angels. For her unwavering determination in shaping this book, and, most of all, for believing that three people and four angels could write it, we gratefully acknowledge our devoted editor, Cheryl Woodruff.

Y ou are driving on the interstate across the great southwestern desert. Its night. In the focused beams of your headlights you see a large metal tire iron falling from the tow truck thirty yards ahead of you. It bounces once and hurtles straight for your windshield. Feet away, it simply disappears.

It happened to Carolina.

Youre traveling in your station wagon with a friend beside you. Its late, youre tired, and youve been driving hard for hours. The snow has stopped falling, but there are slippery patches of ice on the road. Suddenly, while you both watch, frozen in horror, the eighteen-wheeler in front of you jackknifes. Then everything seems to be happening in slow motion. You, your dumbstruck companion, and your heavily laden station wagon are sailing out over the median, right over the two opposite lanes of oncoming traffic. Youre deposited on the other side of the freeway, so gently that nothing and no one is damaged, facing back in the direction from which you came.

It happened to Sara and her friend.

Joe never could explain it, however many times hed run it through his mind afterward. Something about the entire event made him feel acutely uncomfortable, as if hed been wholly, unreasonably privileged. Saved for an unspecified destiny.