By Alisha Das | Source
Angels honor us as brave souls navigating a human experience. We may also have been angels before we came into human form. The heavens are leaning close to remind us.
Living in this world is not easy. That’s why even the angels bend a knee to you.
They honor you for persevering through the beautiful, bewildering challenges of life in a body: a mind that won’t let you rest; heartbreak, loss, and disappointment; habits that keep you small. And yet you look up beyond the din—toward angels, toward God, toward serving others. They celebrate your courage to sail past the world’s siren song and listen instead for the still, small voice of Spirit.
After three decades of guiding seekers to the angelic realm, I suspect that many of us are what I call archangelic immigrants: souls who lived as angels and archangels long before donning the denser garment of human form. The blooming of interest in angels is no accident. We are crossing a threshold. The angelic and human realms are beginning to merge, and your angelic nature is rising to meet you.
Why Now?
Angels unite us where so much divides us. Faiths that agree on almost nothing else agree on this. The Bible names angels 297 times. Kabbalah, Islam, the Sufi poets, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Indigenous traditions all describe luminous intermediaries between Spirit and human life. A 2023 poll from the AP/NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found 69 percent of U.S. adults believe in angels.
Modern science is beginning to reflect these ideas as well. As Nobel Peace Prize nominee Ervin László, Ph.D., observed, awareness of the archangelic consciousness arises naturally from the coherent field that underlies all reality—the same field we share. So believing in angels is no longer the question. The question is whether you will let yourself experience these intermediaries to the Divine.
Your Spiritual Lineage
You did not arrive here without a lineage. Let’s meet some of your kin:
Guardian angels are assigned to you as benevolent protectors of your physical, emotional, and mental well-being. They respect your free will and only directly intervene when it’s crucial—like when you’re about to launch from a rooftop in inflatable pool-floatie wings. To tangibly experience the celestial, connect with your guardian angel. It is closer than your next breath.
Archangels are angels who have risen out of the collective to become individual souls, just as humans have individual souls. However, unlike you, archangels never forget they are one with God. Your work is to remember what they have never forgotten.
Great archangels are the rarest of the rare. There are septillions of angels, trillions of archangels, yet only about 144 great archangels. Some are familiar—Michael, Gabriel, Raphael—though far loftier than commonly understood. Other magnificent ones are waiting to be introduced. Angels bring us comfort; great archangels bring the Comforter (the Holy Spirit).
Beyond them are the Silent Ones: seven beings indistinguishable from Source, holding creation itself.
A Vision That Saved a Life
I’ve experienced and heard many true, miraculous stories involving angels. The following one shows how angels become purveyors of the Christ consciousness, a Presence that transcends religion.
I met Robert Hoffstot at a retreat for civilians and ex-convicts. He had just been freed after 25 years in a maximum-security prison, six of those spent in solitary. Under a desert night sky, he told me his story.
Certain that another inmate was about to kill him, he decided to strike first. His mentor, whom he met through a prison ministry program, told him to meditate first. An angel showed him a vision: Stabbed repeatedly, Robert would stretch out his arms like Jesus on the cross and surrender—filled with light, redemption, and Christlike love.
After the vision, Robert vowed never to take a life again. When the threatening inmate came to his cell, Robert surrendered. Grace, as if waiting and watching, unfolded its wings. The two resolved their differences without the violence that would shackle Robert to an eternal cell. He was miraculously paroled. Now he serves men behind bars, counseling them to find what he found: the freedom to transform, forgive, and choose—the inner freedom that no cell can take.
Angels lift us into our higher nature so we may make loving choices and receive grace in return. Whatever your tradition calls the Presence behind such forgiveness and love—God, Christ consciousness, Krishna, or simply grace—angels are its messengers and amplifiers.
In her book Everyday Grace, Marianne Williamson describes angels as thoughts of God. Connecting with them, she writes, is how we grow closer to God. In my experience and that of every student I’ve taught, angels make Spirit tangible and help us make higher choices, turning us toward the Divine.
How to Commune with Angels
Angels are formless yet knowable, perceived through what mystics called spiritual senses, which are subtler than the physical. You probably already sense angels in the same way you know God or love.
First, invoke them, call upon them. It’s your openness and intention that matters, not the words you use. They can be simple, such as “Angels, help!” or “Archangel Michael, show me the highest good in this situation.”
Then surrender and trust. Take a divine pause—what do you sense? A flash of color, a fragment of celestial music, the scent of jasmine where no flower blooms, a hand on your shoulder when no one is there? Watch what your body does when quiet; mine tilts slightly to the right, as if listening. The mind will dismiss it as imagination, but imagination can be the doorway your soul uses.
Try Angel Moments: Five to 10 times a day, take 10 to 60 seconds to pause and breathe in love and breathe out anything less. Ask, simply, for angels and the light, for the highest good.
Then watch your life. Notice the near miss, the unexpected kindness, the song that arrived when you needed its lyrics. These are the brushstrokes of a Presence that has loved you across realms.
The point is not to long for the gauzy robes of your angelic origin; it is to remember, reclaim, and reintegrate your archangelic attributes in this body and this life so Earth itself begins to feel a little more like heaven.
As Rumi sang, “We have been the friends of the angels, and now we will go back there, for there is our country.” You may well be one of those friends—an archangelic immigrant—learning bravely what it is to wear a body. As you remember your winged ancestry, the heavens lean close.
You were never separated from Spirit. You only forgot.
Listen. That fluttering you sometimes hear at the edge of silence? That is the sound of angels trilling your name, calling you homeward.