{"id":454,"date":"2010-07-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2010\/07\/interview-with-doreen-virtue-part-1.html"},"modified":"2010-07-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T00:00:00","slug":"interview-with-doreen-virtue-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/angelsonyourshoulder\/2010\/07\/interview-with-doreen-virtue-part-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Doreen Virtue: part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I had the privilege to interview Doreen Virtue last week. What a wonderful woman. Here is the first part of that interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Susan:<span>&nbsp; <\/span>How did angels<br \/>\ncome into your life?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Doreen Virtue:<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Well,<br \/>\nI actually have memories as a child of the angles coming to me, and it would<br \/>\nhappen when I feel either lonely or in any way, sad or afraid, that the angles<br \/>\nwould be there.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>And they would appear<br \/>\ndifferent to me, then, as a child than they do now; it was more like these<br \/>\ndancing, big Christmas lights accompanied by this sense of an air pressure<br \/>\nchange and a dimensional change, a feeling like I was in a different dimension.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>And then these sounds that were other-worldly,<br \/>\nand it was just all very comforting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I remember Arch-Angle Michael talking to me and coming into<br \/>\nmy dreams and showing me my purpose and talking to me about my purpose but I didn&#8217;t<br \/>\nunderstand any of it; some of it I still don&#8217;t even understand to this day.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>But I remember all of it like it was<br \/>\nyesterday.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>So it was very other-worldly<br \/>\nexperiences.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>And then, also, I would see<br \/>\nthese people who were not my friends or my relatives but just people who I now know<br \/>\nwere dead people, just staring at me all the time. <span>&nbsp;<\/span>As a child, it was all very frightening and<br \/>\nnot fun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Susan:<span>&nbsp; <\/span>What was your<br \/>\nmost profound experience with angels?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Doreen Virtue:<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Well,<br \/>\nit has got to be when my life was saved, and that was on July 15<sup>th<\/sup>,<br \/>\n1995.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>I was driving to an appointment<br \/>\nand before I got in the car I heard this male voice outside my right ear, so<br \/>\nnot in my head but outside, as if someone was talking to me, and he said,<br \/>\n&#8220;Doreen, you&#8217;d better put the top up on your car or it will be stolen.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I had a car that was a convertible but the motor that<br \/>\ncontrolled the top was broken at the time so there was just no way to put the<br \/>\ntop up.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>And so for some reason, instead<br \/>\nof questioning that there was this voice, I argued with it and said, &#8220;Well, I<br \/>\ncan&#8217;t put the top up&#8221; and it just simply repeated this same message over and<br \/>\nover again.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>And then finally, it said,<br \/>\n&#8220;Well, have Grant do it.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Grant is my youngest son who was home at that time.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>At the time, he was kind of, maybe eleven or twelve,<br \/>\nso it was not his voice; this was a full grown man&#8217;s voice, and he was the only<br \/>\nother person in their house, and he was in another room.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>And this voice just continued to warn me and<br \/>\nI just couldn&#8217;t put the top up.<span>&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">So instead, as I was driving to the appointment, I was praying<br \/>\nfor protection and when I got to my appointment I was jumped by two armed man<br \/>\nand they were demanding my purse and my car keys.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>I was being car jacked.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>And what was remarkable to me was that even<br \/>\nthough I had argued with this voice and hadn&#8217;t listened with putting the top up,<br \/>\nwhich would&#8217;ve prevented the whole thing, because the top of my car was just<br \/>\nvery ugly and no one would&#8217;ve wanted to car jack an ugly car.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>So with the top down it was white upholstery,<br \/>\nwhite car, and so it was very flashy.<span>&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Even though I had kind of, ignored their warning the voice<br \/>\nwas still there to protect me and the voice said, this time, &#8220;Scream with all<br \/>\nyour might, Doreen&#8221; really clear in my right ear and I just didn&#8217;t even<br \/>\nhesitate.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>I just screamed from my gut<br \/>\nand the man&#8217;s eyes, even though he had a gun, got really big.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>I was taller than him and I was wearing high heels,<br \/>\nso I think, partly, my height and my screams were like a cave woman&#8217;s scream.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>I didn&#8217;t even realize we had a cave woman in us<br \/>\nuntil this experience.<span>&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He backed away but he was still pointing this gun at me and<br \/>\nhe was motioning for me to give him my car keys and my purse. I just wasn&#8217;t;<br \/>\npartly, because I didn&#8217;t have theft insurance on my car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I&#8217;m thinking really fast during this.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>&#8220;God, if he takes this car I don&#8217;t have the<br \/>\nmoney to get a new car.&#8221;<span>&nbsp; <\/span>So when the<br \/>\nangels told me to scream that is what I did and the screams attracted the<br \/>\nattention of a woman who&#8230; and I always just say, &#8220;she just happened to be&#8221;<br \/>\nbecause it was no coincidence. She was sitting in her car in the parking lot, eating<br \/>\nher lunch and she looked up, saw what was happening and she leaned on her car<br \/>\nhorn to help.<span>&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The car horn attracted people inside this who came out and<br \/>\njust the presence of all these people the man just got in their car and ran<br \/>\naway.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>I just fell to my knees because it<br \/>\nwas it was so shocking on all these levels: I had almost lost my life&#8230; my car, at<br \/>\nthe very least.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>And the other shocking<br \/>\nthing was that this voice had known my future an hour before it happened and<br \/>\nthat the voice got me out of it.<span>&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It was just so big. I just started praying again.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>I just said, &#8220;God, thank you for saving my<br \/>\nlife.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>And what can I do?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I was already an author.<span>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/span>I was writing about eating disorders.<span>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/span>In fact, I was scheduled to fly to Las Vegas the next day, to go talk at<br \/>\nsome sort of healthy food convention about food cravings, about a book called<br \/>\n&#8220;Constant Cravings&#8221; that had just come out and I was just told to teach about<br \/>\nangels.<span>&nbsp; <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I came straight out of the closet.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>The next day, when I flew to Las Vegas, I was<br \/>\nwearing a goddess gown, my crystals, I talked about angels publicly for the<br \/>\nfirst time, and because I had almost died the day before I was still in shock.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>I just quit caring what people think and then<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve just been doing it ever since; ever since July 16<sup>th<\/sup>, 1995.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Susan:<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Dramatic way<br \/>\nto get into it that is for sure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Susan:<span>&nbsp; <\/span>What questions<br \/>\ndo people ask you most often?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Doreen Virtue:<span>&nbsp; <\/span>&#8220;Is<br \/>\nthat your real name?&#8221; and yes, it is.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>That<br \/>\nis actually the number one question.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Susan:<span>&nbsp; <\/span>That&#8217;s funny. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Doreen Virtue:<span>&nbsp; <\/span>The<br \/>\nquestions are pretty basic; &#8220;Do I have angels?&#8221; and the answer is yes, every<br \/>\nsingle person has angels.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>&#8220;Can I hear my<br \/>\nangels?&#8221; There is an implication that only specially trained or somehow,<br \/>\nespecially deserving people can hear angels, and so my whole mission is to<br \/>\nteach that everyone has angels and everyone can and should talk to angels.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>That, especially as we&#8217;re shifting the world,<br \/>\nwe need to be talking to angels and really trusting that inner voice because<br \/>\nthere is going to be a day when the phone and the internet go down, and I don&#8217;t<br \/>\nhow long they&#8217;ll be down for but it&#8217;s going to be the only means of<br \/>\ncommunication.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>So we need to be practicing<br \/>\nright now because that&#8217;s how you&#8217;ll get in touch with your kids and your loved<br \/>\nones.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>And they&#8217;re like the emergency<br \/>\nbroadcast system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">More to come&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">With love and aloha,<br \/>\n<i><a href=\"http:\/\/susangregg.com\/\">Susan<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Angels are everywhere just open your mind and your heart to the signs.<\/p>\n<p>Make <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/angelsonyourshoulder\/\">Angels on Your Shoulder<\/a>  part of your daily routine and share it with a friend! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the privilege to interview Doreen Virtue last week. 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