Proof of Angels by Ptolemy Tompkins

Author:Ptolemy Tompkins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Howard Books

CHAPTER 6

A Voice from Somewhere Else

[Lying on her bed crying and alone, she suddenly felt the touch of a hand on her arm.]

It startled me a bit but I just kept on crying. And then this voice said, “What’s the matter? Why are you crying? What is it? Tell me.”

And I just said, “I’m sorry. I’m really, really sorry.”

And she said, “What are you sorry for?”

And I said, “I’m sorry for my reaction to my mother when I was young.”

She then said, “Is that all? Anyone in your family would have reacted in the same way.”

At that I opened my eyes to look at her. And standing there was this huge being in a brilliant white light. It was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen in my whole life.

—FROM SPIRITUAL ENCOUNTERS WITH UNUSUAL LIGHT PHENOMENA BY MARK FOX

ANGELS DO NOT, of course, manifest only by sight. At Angels on Earth, I spoke regularly to people who had been nudged by angels, whispered to by angels, and presented with hints by ­angels. The hints, in particular, weren’t always totally convincing, though they clearly were to the people who had experienced them. Say your husband dies. For years he’d been trying to make a tree in your backyard blossom in spring, and it never has. Yet the spring after his death, lo and behold, the tree he had worked so hard to make flourish has exploded into blossom. What does this mean? It all depends on whom you ask. A daughter is visiting the grave of a grandparent who collected butterflies. Out of the blue, as she is sitting by the graveside, a butterfly lands on the gravestone. When the young woman rises to leave, the butterfly rises from the gravestone and follows her all the way back to her car. What does this mean? Once again, arguing about the answer is fruitless. To the person who has experienced it, it means volumes. To someone not disposed to the reality of angels, it means nothing. All one can say in regard to stories of this nature is: to each his own.

All five senses can play a part in angel encounters, as is witnessed by the number of saints who have had mysterious, heavenly scents associated with them, especially with their bodies after death, which the Catholic church maintains have remained incorruptible for days, weeks, or even years. Angels also heal people who are hopelessly beyond healing, at least according to their doctors. People at death’s door have been brought back to glowing health after an encounter with what they say is an angel. One can doubt the reason such people give for their miraculous recovery, but the recoveries themselves number in the thousands. Here, for example, is a story from the French investigative reporter Pierre Jovanovic’s An Inquiry into the Existence of Guardian Angels, which I have edited for length.

I remember hearing the doctors talk at my bedside, and they were saying, No hope for this one. We’ll try to stabilize him to make him comfortable and then send him home.

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