Inner Awareness Do guardian angels exist? By Jaime T.

Licauco Philippine Daily Inquirer 11:37 pm | Monday, August 12th, 2013 100 385 63 Reader Honey Reyes wrote to share with me her two encounters with what she belie ves to be her spirit guides. One time, I woke up screaming because of a pain in my ear. It m asked a neighbor to call an ambulance, since we did not have ime. I was crying; with my eyes closed, I felt a cold but very ch my ear. I thought it was my mom. Then the pain was suddenly was bleeding. My mo a phone at that t soothing hand tou gone.

When my mom came back, my family found me sleeping so peacefully as if nothing ha ppened. I woke up in the morning with lots of blood in my ear, but the doctor fo und nothing wrong with it. I believe it was a woman who touched me, could be my late grandmother or Mama Mar y, since I come from a Catholic upbringing. Honey s second story about spirit guides is scarier and more dramatic. I was waiting for a jeepney ride across Glorietta around 7 p.m. on Sunday to go t o my condo on Yakal Street. I waited for probably 10 to 15 minutes and was alrea dy losing patience. There were only three of us waiting then. When the jeepney c ame, people went rushing to it but I stood frozen. I didn t move, as if I was in a trance; my mind was blank. Only one seat was left right behind the driver. People and the driver were calling me to get in, but I didn t move, as if I didn t he ar them. As I stood transfixed there, a young guy carrying a white rose and a li ttle teddy bear came running toward the jeepney and sat behind the driver. I got mad at myself for being so tanga. After a few more minutes, another jeepney came and I was able to board. Shortly afterwards we passed by the previous jeep ney which had tumbled across the street in an accident, killing instantly both t he driver and the young guy behind him. The other passengers inside the jeep I was riding were surprised to see me crying . I told them I was supposed to be on that jeep seated behind the driver. If I d id, I would be the one lying dead over there. I knew instantly that someone protected me from that terrible accident. Guardian angels or spirit guides? Although there is a difference between these t wo terms, we shall use them interchangeably in this article. The question of whether guardian angels exist was investigated for two years by French journalist Pierre Jovanovic because of an incredible incident that happen ed to him in Los Angeles. At the end of two years research, he came up with the unshakable conclusion that guardian angels really exist. He wrote a fascinating book with the intriguing ti tle, An Inquiry into the Existence of Guardian Angels (A Journalist s Investigative Report), published in 1995 by M. Evans and Co. Inc. in New York. Why did this French journalist who ran the French Press Agency in Los Angeles em bark on this seemingly unorthodox study? The front-cover flap provided the follo wing answer:

Jovanovic was driving home on a Silicon Valley freeway when he was hurled to the side of the car by a mysterious force. Seconds later, a bullet crashed through t he windshield and buried itself in the back of the passenger s seat. Highway patro lmen told him that if he hadn t moved he would have been killed. Shaken and curious, he began to compare notes with other journalists, many of who m were war zone survivors. Most had some kind of comparable experience of being snatched from death by an unseen hand. During his investigations, odd things began to happen. During an out-of-the-blue discussion about guardian angels during dinner, a feather fell from nowhere into his guest s soup; a friend felt moved to bring him a tape of sermons for no reaso n at all, except when they played it in the car, they discovered it was an expla nation of guardian angels. The book contains numerous documented and detailed examples of spirit interventi on into human affairs which are difficult to deny or to regard merely as coincid ences or products of fertile imaginations. The two experiences of Honey Reyes of being healed of a sickness and being saved from a fatal accident are therefore not unique, nor uncommon. For personal consultancy and paranormal services, please call tel. 8107245 or 0 908-3537885. Attend the next Soulmates, Karma and Reincarnation seminar on Aug. 17, 1 to 7 p.m., at Rm. 308 Prince Plaza I, 106 Legaspi St., Greenbelt, Makati. Read more: http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/119715/do-guardian-angels-exist#ixzz2hh e7zmje Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter | inquirerdotnet on Facebook