May the Angels Be with You: A Psychic Helps You Find Your Spirit Guides and Your True Purpose

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 ? atQuinn, Gary is the author of 'May the Angels Be with You: A Psychic Helps You Find Your Spirit Guides and Your True Purpose' with ISBN 9780609608043 and ISBN 0609608045.