I remember this time when I was walking home after a night out. It was about a mile from my ex-boyfriend’s house to mine and for some unknown reason I had decided to walk home by myself for once.
Shortly into my journey along the main road stretch, I walked past a bus shelter where there was a strange man who appeared to be sleeping. Probably alcohol induced I thought and continued along. About half the way along, I noticed there was a man following me some distance away. Okay I thought, someone else has been out and about tonight but then I realised it was the same man I had seen sleeping in the bus shelter.
I remained calm and walked briskly but did not run as I thought this may provoke him to chase after me. Besides he could have just be making his own journey home. I was a little anxious but felt comforted by the fact I was on a main road where there were loads of streetlights and cars frequently passing.
But then as I reached the roundabout that turned into my estate, I begun to panick. The distance to my house wasn’t far, just needed to go round a corner and 100 yards down the road but it was surrounded by darkness. I thought, if he is going to try anything this will be the time.
But just as I turned into my estate, there was a man walking his dog. I was so relieved. I had walked home at night many times and hardly ever saw anyone. After turning the corner, I managed to run down the 100 yards, fumbled with my keys and entered my house. Phew!
I began to think maybe I was being foolish, that I had been overly suspicious and it was all in my imagination. I peared out the window of the front door and saw the man reach the edge of my garden stop and turn around….Shivers ran up my spine.
The next day I heard rumours about town that people had complained of a suspicious character lurking around the streets. I felt so lucky and grateful to the man walking his dog who had possibly inadvertently saved my life. Infact, sometimes I wonder whether he was a guardian angel / spirit guide sent to protect me whilst alone.
My advice: Ladies, always ensure a gentleman escorts you home.
“There may be guardian angels out there but sometimes they are having cups of tea, having a chat with each other when they should be watching over you….so don’t bank on it. Bad people look for natural victims I would always assume the worst in that kind of situation that way you are prepared and often if they see that you are prepared then they will wait for an easier victim.
Having said all that, many years ago, when living in New York before it was cleaned up, I was riding the subway back from a party on a rainy mid-week evening. There were only about 5 other people in the carriage…man they looked mean and seed and I tensedup. Then I suddenly though, ‘Hey what do I look like.’ I had been drinking all evening, red-eyed, drenched by the rain and swiftly came to the conclusion that we were probably all sitting there freaking each other out.”
Michael Trup
http://www.interactiveideas.com
So you’re saying instead of relying on guardian angels, I should make sure I carry one of those “wailing banshee” alarms or just slap them around the chops with my hand bag?
Infact, I know another self-defence technique….Apparently you should step on the person’s foot, they double over and then you knee them in the family jewels….
“If you respect them they’ll respect you and help out –
gnomes, fairies, spirits and hidden people are everywhere”
Mario Marcolin
http://www.skrif.net
“I was driving my car down the road from Putney that leads to the A3 junction above the Robin Hood roundabout. I was with my American friend who was managing my band.
I was the first vehicle at the lights. I was driving a pretty fast powerful car (a 4.2 litre yankee AMC Eagle), anyway, I zoomed off the lights, round the bend and had got acouple of hundred metres when I saw a lorry in front of me had slammed on its brakes. I was literally a couple of metres behind it already, doing about 30mph, no chance of stopping.
We both shut our eyes. I prepared for serious injury if not death.
When we opened our eyes again the lorry HAD COMPLETELY DISAPPEARED. On a busy London dual carriageway with no turnings and a crash barrier, no where to go, dematerialised. We drove on slowly in a sort of trance. After a minute Candy said to me: did that just happen?
This stuff happens to me all the time, by the way.”
Rhiannon Hill
“Angels are sometimes around but you still need to take care of yourself. Actually, I think of angels as more like people. I think of them as resources of wisdom and kindness more than an interventionist being from another dimension. ”
Michael Trup
I guess we’ll all find out the truth after we’re dead! (What a cheery thought….) But then again, if you believe in reincarnation, our memories will be erased so we have to relearn everything all over again in the next lifetime! How frustrating!
“I believe in Angels but I seem them as resources which are available to us in times of need. They are often human beings who at other times we do not connect with, but who in a particular time of need for us appear and become available as a teacher, a moral support, a guide, a giver or something similar.
It is a bit like buying an unusual colour car. You think there are none around. You buy one and next thing you suddenly notice quite a few of them. Finding Angels is a question of awareness. I believe people find what they are looking for. If you have a negative attitude , you will find problems. A positive attitude and you will find solutions or at least a perspective that reduces the size of the problem. We are surrounded by Angels in human form. There are many people who will help us if we give them the opportunity. Of course there are people who will trip us up, spit on us and kick us in the goolies too. As a point of information, these people are not Angels. These people are w*nk ers. However, they merit a separate blog.
I know some people feel that angels are supernatural beings, I prefer to think of them as a positive energy resource that is manifested by the good side of people that is open to us.”
Michael Trup
I’m not sure what I believe for definite but I am open-minded and enjoy discussing thoughts and theories about life, death and everything else. I was thinking about what you have said about angels actually just being people and I think there is some truth there. Michael, I know you appreciate ‘The Celestine Prophecy” by James Redfield and in fact Penny Power founded ecademy based on being inspired by reading the book. It describes how when you meet a person and feel a connection, you have some information or insight to exchange with them which allows us to evolve as human beings and develop as a society. The whole “winning by sharing,” philosophy.
When we give freely we are operating from our higher selves, the part some may refer to as God. So when a person reacts to help another in a dangerous situation on pure instinct, they could be operating as an angel. Also, I like the thought that everything influences the mind. For example, in “Conversations with God,” by Neale Donald Walsch, there is the common question, “When I talk to God and ask him a question, he never answers? Why doesn’t he show himself or speak etc?” And the truth is he speaks all the time via human thoughts. Ideas are placed in the mind of the director of an inspiring film, or in the author of a book etc. And I think even though the man walking his dog, who potentially saved my life may not have been an actual angel, he may have been inspired to leave the house at that moment in time by a higher power within himself. Perhaps….
“I have a lot of sympahy for the view that there is no such thing as coincidences. Just believing that heightens your sensitivities to what the opportunity offers. On the other hand each time we meet some one who we have not met before we never say ‘What a BIG world it is.’
Michael Trup
“I only said that I prefer to think of them that way. If there is a god (an interventionist personality type of god) why create a situation which you then have to send an angel to try and get soeone out of? I know, I know…mysterious ways. My god (as an atheist) is the well of goodness, positive energies which you can either pour into or sap but does not have a will of its own.”
Michael Trup