January 27, 2014 by SBrinkmann
AB writes:
A friend asked me to listen to The Healing Miracles of Archangel Raphael by Doreen Virtue. This is an audio CD series and our two 15
year old daughters were in the vehicle with me when we began to listen. I was struck by their questions shortly after
we began to listen to the book. We did
not listen further. THEY asked if this
person was a ‘new ager’. I had to admit
I was not comfortable with some of the comments that were being read. Do you have some research on this author?”
You have good
reason to be concerned about Doreen Virtue’s CD series. She’s an “angel
intuitive” who believes she can contact a person’s guardian angel to get
information about how to “heal and harmonize every aspect of their lives.”
Virtue’s
background explains a lot. A highly educated woman with a doctorate in
counseling psychology, she worked in all-women psychiatric facilities in
Nashville and San Francisco before branching out into the field of intuitive
counseling which she claims was a natural offshoot of her lifelong clairvoyant
“gifts”.
Apparently,
she has been able to see and converse with “invisible friends” since childhood
but fought off this “gift” until her “friends” saved her from a carjacking on
July 15, 1995. From then on, she decided to start listening to these “friends”
who she believes are “angels” and is now calling herself a “spiritual doctor of
psychology and a fourth-generation metaphysician” who works with “angelic,
elemental and ascended master realms”.
She has
written more than 50 books on these subjects, including Healing with the Angels
and Messages from Your Angels, and actively teaches people how to communicate
with these beings that she thinks are “angels”. She conducts workshops around
the world on spiritual psychological issues and claims that many of her
students are medical and psychological professionals, including M.D.’s, R.N.’s,
psychologists, and social workers.
If this is
true, it’s indeed frightening, because any reasonably catechized Catholic knows
that Doreen Virtue’s “invisible friends” are angels alright, but not the good
kind. She’s consorting with demons who are masquerading as angels of light.
Even worse, she’s teaching this dangerous skill to others as well.
God has
clearly condemned all forms of clairvoyance (see Deuteronomy 18: 10-12);
therefore, He would never contradict Himself by allowing His angels to consort
with a clairvoyant. And because disembodied souls are also under His command,
that leaves only one other preternatural being who could be responsible for posing
as Dr. Virtue’s “friends” – the devil.
As we all know, he certainly has the motive and the power to pull off
such a ruse.
Even though
it was not your intention to expose your daughters to Dr. Virtue’s occult
activities, you could turn this into a valuable teaching moment by explaining
the facts about angels and the dangers of practices such as clairvoyance. This
blog about other angel intuitives might also be of help to you.
If I were
you, I’d toss those CD’s into the trash to prevent anyone from being harmed by
them!
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