Comments on: You must be an angel

By: lil

lil — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:09:40 +0000

heaven only knows what they put in cigarettes(!) never thought about varieties of tobacco. it occurred to me, tho, an increase in focus could be put to use in a number of circumstances.

re. the visions: didn’t have enough sense as a child to be scared of ghosts. or bears. LOL. thank goodness i wasn’t also inclined to give chase.

sounds like sing and your mom had the relationship of companions. it’s a deep question, impossibly personal, what it’s like to be what one is not - for in catholicism, the body is intrinsic to who and what human beings are. the soul can’t take it off and run around “free and naked.” this business of the soul going to heaven when we die is a lot like blood bypass surgery.

got to wonder now if angels have anything analogous to blood bypass surgery in their realm…

By: Selkie

Selkie — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:42:31 +0000

I’m pretty sure the tobacco they use in cigarettes is not the same tobacco they use in sacred ritual. At least that’s what I’ve been told. But even if it was, by the time the tobacco companies get through with adding stuff to it, it’s thoroughly polluted.

Cool visions you had! Were you scared when you saw either of them?

I got the feeling that when Sing asked her that, it was more his not understanding why she wanted to be here, more than anything else. His perspective was angelic, hers was human.

By: lil

lil — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:21:29 +0000

when i was little i used to think my grandparents house had a hallway it didn’t have. my grandfather was bedridden and his invalid room was at the head of this “hallway.” i have a memory of seeing this person standing outside of the room, at this juncture, looking out the window. she wore a long white dress and had white-gold hair, flowing like a river of fire down her back. and i do mean it FLOWED, literally. it moved.

i told a confessor this, and he declared, “that was an angel! your guardian angel!” she wasn’t my guardian angel, but you know, whatever. interesting response. hadn’t ever thought of that. so then i said to him, that i’d also seen a panther walk across the hearth. this he dismissed as optical illusion, which i also thought interesting in comparison. i should add my grandparents and this confessor were old-world catholics. not your new-brand, american, virtually fungelical catholics. so maybe they, ahem, had a dash of popular religiosity. the man was very clear in his distinctions in any case.

re. the tobacco: interesting thought about it shutting down the third eye, since it’s one of those sacred ritual herbs. i’ve read that it’s a substance, scientifically, that seem to enhance focus for certain kinds of tasks.

the brain takes in a lot more data than it bothers to pass on, and when it does, it does so differently for everyone. we all have our own sense of things. some people hear colour. so like, seeing things that aren’t there doesn’t mean there isn’t anything to be noticed. that’s my opinion.

btw, that’s a really strange thing to ask, “why do you want to stay tied to this body?” as a sincere question, intended to prompt thought, it’s ok. as a suggestion, it’s not quite the thing. your mother would be right to be irate. you’re right that’s not harmless.

i go with the idea that guardians and guides are real. but i also think there’s only one perfectly all-knowing, all-encompassing perfection. angels can have unseemly moments, esp in the face of human beings. so there’s that to think about.