No comments about Working with Angels and Nature Spirits.

3 comments about Walking With the Angels: A Path of Service.

1. When Walking With The Angels was published in 1998 it was a welcome addition to the host of "angel" material that flooded the markets during the nineties. White Eagle had informed us that we would become more aware of the angelic kingdom as we moved further into the Age of Aquarius, so this influx of books and media programs was altogether not unexpected. The popular perception of angelic beings, however, was confusing, as they were presented as anything from supernatural beings to helpful humans in the right place at the right time. There was a great need for clarification.
   Walking With The Angels is White Eagle's teachings about angels, their work and their relationship with humanity.Although it contains some previously published material, it is essentially composed of unpublished teachings given by White Eagle. It also includes a commentary by Anna Hayward designed to help the reader develop "those qualities to which the angels are most attuned." White Eagle teaches that angelic and human life-forms cannot work without each other. "Make no mistake! The human race, whether it knows it or not, lives through all time under the guardianship of God's angels."
   Divided into two parts, Walking With The Angels explores in Part One the angelic qualities of dispassion, humility, simplicity, harmony and beauty and examines the angels' intimate connection with all creation. Part Two explores the vast structure of the angelic kingdom, the varied roles of angels, the importance of ritual and ceremonnial performed by angels at sacred sites, and the powerful influence of the great planetary angels.
   Our curiosity demands that we learn something about the appearance of angels. They are "beings twice, thrice your own stature, beings with great auras radiant and limitless. The emanation of light pouring from these beings takes the form of wings--rays of power and strength, that enfold and protect."
   Walking With The Angels beautifully encapsulates all of White Eagle's teachings about angels, reassuring us that life has far greater meaning and purpose than we can imagine. It satisfies our curiosity and mental need to "know" more about angels, at the same time as it gently teaches us how we may have a satisfying relationship with these beings of compassion and loving wisdom and work with them to serve all life.



2. Do angels exist? This book tells us in no uncertain terms that they do. "Walking with the Angels" is a book of White Eagle's teaching about angels, their work and how to work with them. This book helps us to develop qualities to which angles are most attuned and to live our lives in appreciation of a greater beauty, wisdom and love.

   Do angels play an important role for humanity? Yes, throughout history angels have been very influential in our development and progress. Angels work unceasingly to uplift humanity, to prepare humanity for the coming of the Lord of this earth. They help us to seek balance and create harmonious conditions, reassuring us that life has far greater meaning and purpose than we know and opening our mind to the invisible worlds which surround the earth. When angels are present in our life they can bring us inspiration and guidance.

   Are angles still around today? Yes, they are as active today as ever. Do you and I have guardian angels? Most certainly yes. Are angels active in our life? Perhaps yes. Perhaps no. It depends upon a number of things. Angels are there by our side waiting to help us but we have to ask; they will not just come and interfere. Then after we have asked our guardian angles to come into our life we need to learn how to communicate with them. As with all things there is a learning curve. There may be some people in our life who have made the effort and they are reaping the benefits. Others may have shown no interest in developing the necessary communication skills and may well be missing out on life-enriching experiences.

   How would our life change if we made the effort to communicate with our angels? If we have ever wondered why we were born into this world and what our work should really be, our angels have the answer and will tell us provided we have progressed enough spiritually. If we have wondered about the deeper meaning of life - beyond making money, buying a house and all those material things - then our angels are there waiting to help us find the answers. However, we have to understand that our angles would do us a disservice if they simply gave us the answers on a platter. Life does not work like that as our growth comes from our working on this part of our life just as we work to earn money.

   What if we don't make the effort to communicate with our angels? There is no judgement in this. Everyone has completely free choice and we are not good or bad if we do or we don't. We are simply at a certain stage of our personal development. But eventually we will want to reach home even though it may take many lives. It is up to us whether we take our time or whether we move along more rapidly. But home is such a lovely place that our angels are telling us that it is worth making the effort sooner rather than later. This book tells us all we need to know to decide whether or not we should embark on this path and how to make progress by calling on the guidance of our angels.

   White eagle explains that angels are intimately connected to the world of nature and the animal kingdom in ways which we cannot conceive with our limited earthly mind and teaches us to develop contact with nature if we wish to work with angelic beings, as did ancient peoples. All of this is not to say that the materialist does not have his or place in the grand scheme of evolution. Such people bring to humanity a driving force which eventually opens up the higher mind and the urge of love is born. There is an urge to make contact with something not previously understood, but which a person feels, through a slow awakening of intuition. The mind tells them when they view a glorious sunset or the brilliance of a starlit night or when they listen to a beautiful piece of music that there must be a power behind, an intellect which has caused all which brings harmony to the soul.

   While we must not decry the intellect because it is through the intellect that we will come to comprehend these wonderful forms and states of life, we must nevertheless become simple as children. It is only then that we will see the inner life of rocks, plants, air, water, the sea, and fire. Of all the animal kingdom, it is the birds that are closest to the angels. It will be the growing understanding and the inner knowledge of our true relationship with nature and the angels that will bring the greatest scientific discoveries and inventions. As you grow in awareness the flowers talk to you. White eagle urges us to do all we can to alleviate suffering of animals for until humanity refrains from cruelty to the animal kingdom and to the earth and to his fellow man, human beings will suffer. Love of animals can help us in our awareness of the angels. Love and compassion for animals and birds is itself a route to contact with the angels, as it so obviously was for Brother Francis.




3. I've read a great deal of White Eagle's work, and I find it lucid and filled with wisdom. However, "Walking with the Angels" is not so much White Eagle speaking as it is Anna Hayward. The overall format of the book involves Hayward introducing an upcoming excerpt of White Eagle's words followed by Hayword's personal interpretation of what she believes White Eagle's intention is in the preceding passage.
   
   White Eagle is easy to understand and needs no interpretation. I found Hawyard's commentaries pedantic and unnecessary, definitely irritating. She was basically speaking to the choir. At least half the book contains Hayward's words, and a good bit is White Eagle's words already published in another work. I recognized many passages from the Spiritual Unfoldment books.
   
   Much of this book was NOT about angels, although Hayward attempted to relate each of White Eagle's passages somehow to angels. I'd highly recommend any of White Eagle's works that are not "co-written" with someone else. If you're truly interested in angels, read Spiritual Unfoldment II. I found this book went much more in depth regarding angels and other spirits than this book...and I didn't have to sift through someone else's opinion of what she thought White Eagle was trying to tell me.

No comments about The Book of Fallen Angels.

No comments about The Gift of Angels (MINIATURE EDITION).

No comments about Your Guardian Angels: Use the Power of Angelic Messengers to Enrich and Empower Your Life.

3 comments about The Complete Idiot's Guide to Angels.

1. Jay Stevenson, Ph.D., M.A. says that "everyone wants to know if angels are real." His book, The Complete Idiot's Guide To Angels, answers every imaginable question about angels, except whether they're real. He says he isn't psychic nor has he had direct experience with angels--he simply finds angels to be "a fascinating and uplifting subject." He adds that "angel stories and angel theology include some of the most beautiful and profound notions around." Dr. Stevenson starts with an overview of what people think about angels in general. He then discusses the Jewish angels, citing references from the Old Testament and related writings. From there, he moves to the Christian angels and the angels of Islam. He also discusses the role of angels in many other religions and philosophies. He finishes with "New Age" concepts of angels and their function in contemporary society. Artists have long portrayed angels in their work. Dr. Stevenson has chosen the angel art of William Blake, Gustave Dore, and Albrecht Durer to illustrate his book. Appendices include a reading list for those wanting more information, a list of movies about angels, a glossary of angelic terms, and a "Who's Who in Heaven," which provides a brief description of each angel. As Dr. Stevenson says, "angels have been, and still are, a part of all faiths and cultures." The Complete Idiot's Guide To Angels is an excellent reference for readers interested in the origins of angel lore and the interactions between angels and humans, whether historical or contemporary.

   Sandra I. Smith Reviewer




2. Jay Stevenson, Ph.D., M.A. says that "everyone wants to know if angels are real." His book, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Angels, answers every imaginable question about angels, except whether they're real. He says he isn't psychic nor has he had direct experience with angels--he simply finds angels to be "a fascinating and uplifting subject." He adds that "angel stories and angel theology include some of the most beautiful and profound notions around."

   Dr. Stevenson starts with an overview of what people think about angels in general. He then discusses the Jewish angels, citing references from the Old Testament and related writings. From there, he moves to the Christian angels and the angels of Islam. He also discusses the role of angels in many other religions and philosophies. He finishes with "New Age" concepts of angels and their function in contemporary society.

   Artists have long portrayed angels in their work. Dr. Stevenson has chosen the angel art of William Blake, Gustave Dore, and Albrecht Durer to illustrate his book.

   Appendices include a reading list for those wanting more information, a list of movies about angels, a glossary of angelic terms, and a "Who's Who in Heaven," which provides a brief description of each angel.

   As Dr. Stevenson says, "angels have been, and still are, a part of all faiths and cultures." The Complete Idiot's Guide to Angels is an excellent reference for readers interested in the origins of angel lore and the interactions between angels and humans, whether historical or contemporary.




3. This book is strange. So much work has gone into making such a comical, irreverent guide to religion that nonetheless seems to want to be earnest and informative. I love it. It's better than "The Life of Brian."
   My favourite bits have to be the "The Devil Makes You Do It" sections, in which the reader is told not to do quite obviously offensive and blasphemous things. At times one gets the impression that the humour is intended eg. page 198 "When you get to heaven, leave your irritation with your eartly co-workers at the pearly gates before entering. No one wants to hear about it!". Quite. But then you get to page 233 and are warned to "Be careful what you say about the Satanic Verses of the Koran. Novelist Salmon (sic!!) Rushdie wrote a book about them that elicited death threats from fundamentalist Muslims!" It is both shocking and hilarious that the political, cultural and personal crises causes by the fatwah on Salman Rushdie are turned into a little aside about not offending those naughty Muslims. Who is this man writing for?
   The false, pathetic "erudition" is also amusing eg. "Don't be fooled by the Biblical subject matter and literary treatment of the early 19th-century angel tales by Byron and the others. In her book "England's Amorous Angels" (Atlanta-Maryland University Press of America, 1990), scholar Gayle Shadduck claims that this literature represents the first "pulp fiction" written in English!" So, this woman is a scholar, hence we should respect her opinion without any evidence for doing so whatsoever and no knowledge of what her arguments were. If this is Stevenson's opinion, too, why does he not just say so instead of trying to fit in a thoroughly needless reference?
   I had a good laugh with this book although at the end of the day, it does disturb me a little that it is ultimately so soulless. It reduces religion and mysticism into disconnected, pointless snippets that lose any genuine power or meaning. Surely a belief in or sense of Angels is not anything one should have to swot up for (unless you are doing a theological study, in which case you would hardly need a simplistic book like this).

2 comments about Myths of the Dog-Man.

1. David White's "Myths of the Dog Men" is a fascinating read. It is a non-fiction work about past Eurasian fictional notions, specifically about the way dogs and dog-headed men appear in myths in China, India, and Europe. Our oldest companion, dogs naturally play important roles in human culture and were/are a source of fertile imaginings, but White is interested in a specific myth-complex that he sees as having common origins and mutually influencing relationships.

   White's collection of dog-man myths, motifs, and images are not collected in a scattered, Frazerian way; he translates his rather unusual topic into a fascinating, insightful, and satisfyingly comprehensive book that does not fall prey to "patchwork" problems so often encountered in works that analyse recurrent myths in different societies. White covers issues of Orientalism and other ethnocentric bigotries about liminal ethnic groups from the earliest times as well as covering religious and romantic/entertainment motivations for constructing and repeating these myths. He also suggests a possible origin of these myths in that cauldron of ethnic crossways, Central Asia (what is sometimes called Serindia or the Silk Road region).

   All in all, Myths of the Dog Men is a valuable and interesting work. It is a valuable scholarly book that provides the reader with information, theory, AND entertainment, and for that reason I highly recommend it for both specialist and interested layperson. Talk about a great resource for the fiction writer ...




2. I am so disappointed with White's scholarship, that I would not recommend this book.

No comments about Angels: Selected Lectures.

2 comments about Traditional Thai Medicine: Buddhism, Animism, Ayurveda.

1. I have a bookshelf full of esoteric books on Thai healing, culture and spirituality. Most of them are written in the language of academia to such an extent as to render fascinating subject matter into brain numbing boredom. Pierce Salguero successfully manges to be an adademic without losing his passion for his subject, and without forgetting that someone might actually want to enjoy reading about it.



2. I refer to this book often, as I have a great interest in the subject of Traditional Thai Medicine. It is well written and ultimately gives the reader a sense of the true depth of history behind the medicine that preceded Western culture in Thailand. The tradition that shaped medicine in Thailand exists today and this book opens the reader's eyes to its history, culture, and spirituality. That is what makes Thailand and its traditional medicine so unique.

5 comments about An Inquiry Into the Existence of Guardian Angels.

1. This book is so real and well written that I would recommend it to all, whether they be skeptics or well on their spiritual path. The author who was admittedly a skeptic himself, has left no stone unturned as he presents both his personal experiences and those well researched. I found his chapter on Georgette Faniel, the present day bride of christ, particularly inspiring.



2. This book is written with humor, eloquence, journalistic perspective/restraint, and passion. After an inexplicable escape from what might have been a fatal shooting on the L.A. freeway, Mr. Jovanovic began on a journey to investigate whether angels do in fact exist. He approaches it with the experience and restraint of a professional journalist, which he is. He looks at Near Death Experiences (the famous tunnel with light at the end etc.), interviews the woman who made famous the 'stages of dying', and Georgette Faniel, a stigmatist who some believe is a living saint; the book explores such diverse topics as Medjugorje, Padre Pio, apparitions of angels and The Virgin Mary; and yet never gets syrupy or precious. In fact, it manages to be all the more powerful reading due to its step back from the topics. Friends gave me a copy of this book and I was amazed by it; it's very quiet in tone, yet not without humor, and explains itself very well. The reader goes on the journey to discover whether angels exist, right along with the author, yet at the end you don't feel pushed toward any conclusion but your own. I highly recommend this book to everyone, not just those who already believe in such things as these. (Oh ! PS, if you net-search on this book title you will find its author's own website, which has more about the book, including a the first chapter available to read online for free).



3. This book is more than I ever expected; the honest, investigative research style of Pierre will turn any "skeptic" into a believer in the existence of angels. His bibliography and "permissions list" were also worth the price of the book; they opened up a new world for me. I sincerely hope he will write another book. Thanks to Amazon for making these 5 star books available used.



4. This book seem to focus far more on two other topics, NDEs (near death experiences) and saints, than it does on its title subject of angels. The whole angel theme seems in fact to be kind of an incidental inclusion, like a thread of only secondary importance. The tenuous angel theme thread ties the other two themes together, themes which form the actual substance of the book.
   I would recommend this book to those interested in NDEs; I would also recommend this book to those who are interested in the mortification, stigmatic, and pain aspects of Catholicism, which are dwelled on quite extensively in this book. I'd also recommend this book to anyone interested in saints. But to someone purely interested in angels, I regret I have to advise you to look elsewhere for real substance on that subject.



5. I have to completely agree with one of the earlier reviewers: this book is not really any meaningful work concerning guardian angels, but rather a tale of the author's progressive (and somewhat chaotic) search for the paranormal, in general. Most of the book examines Near Death Experiences, stigmatics, saints, "synchronicities" (unexplainable coincidences read as signs from guardian angles); very little of it actually tries to examine what world's religions have to say about angles, what their (possible) names are, where in holy texts they are mentioned, or what their nature might be. For example, the book will (indirectly) state that "[one's relationship with his or her guardian angel] can be modified by prayer", but will not elaborate on that very interesting thought at all in the remaining 300 pages, giving the reader somebody's yet another paranormal experience tale, instead. It is almost as if the work was a really a forced attempt to find guardian angels wherever they could possibly be found (doesn't matter whether the tale comes from Padre Pio or Mr. Schmoe, M.D. - they are both granted the same importance), rather than a disciplined treatise of where information about angles CAN be found, all the while jumping from MDEs, through tarot references, through out-of-body experiences on LSD, to weird psychological experiments of "isolation chambers", all intertwined with author's personal philosophical musings. If you are looking for "Soul-Searching and the Paranormal 101" - it is an excellent and thoughtful work, but if you are looking for a serious, organized, impartial book about angels, look somewhere else.