| But that doesn't stop me from
being fascinated with beings I can't see--and even more fascinated with
those humans who are passionate about subtle-realm phenomena.
Timothy Wyllie looks like an angel. The photo on the back of his book--Adventures
Among Spiritual Intelligences: Angels, Aliens, Dolphins and Shamans (Wisdom
Editions, $16.95)--captures him peering over his reading glasses, his
longish gray hair flowing over his shoulders. The way he looks back at
you is other-worldly, in a sense. His hold is inexplicable. I was enthralled
just talking with him for an hour on the phone from his New Mexico high
desert home.
Maybe that's what it's like to communicate telepathically with angels.
"They can see us, but we can't see them," Wyllie explains when
I ask what they look like. "But they sound so familiar. You know
them and yet you don't."
His latest book is a newly named version of his1992 spiritual memoir and
follows his classic 1984 work, Dolphins, ETs and Angels. Along with Alma
Daniel and Andrew Ramer, he penned what's considered the most effective
manual for coalescing that cosmic "family" reunion, Ask Your
Angels.
"People like me are seen as woo-woo," admits Wyllie. "Those
blinkers of materialism and the bombardment of science are hard to overcome."
The first thing Wyllie asked me when we spoke was whether I was cynical
about all this stuff. When I said no, he asked if I was at least skeptical.
"It's good and healthy to be skeptical," he responded after
I owned up to it. Then he queried if I believed in reincarnation.
"I can't not." I hoped he could make his way through the double
negative.
After his infectious laughter trailed off, we set to talking about how
to include those extra-species relationships into your life.
Wyllie hails from England and was born at the height of World War II,
endured English boarding schools and trained as an architect. He lived
for many years in New York City, and in the '70s, founded a spiritual
community, traveling to Europe and the United States on its behalf. By
1980, he devoted himself full-time to researching spiritual intelligences
and interspecies communication.
"I don't regard myself as a changer," says Wyllie of his work.
"People push things they don't want to deal with to the side. Oddly
enough, they'll come up to me after a reading and out it will spill."
He adds, "What amazes me is how little skepticism there is out there
towards this work. I would think I'd get more of it. But maybe it's that
I'm not fanatical about it. I merely say, 'This is what I see, take it
or leave it."
It took a long time, apparently, for Wyllie to tune in the angels.
"I lived at 181st Street, at the very top of Manhattan. The river
is close by there--an important element for spiritual and psychic work.
Then I moved down to 89th Street, a very noisy part of town, I could hardly
hear myself think. It took about two to three years to really tune myself
in."
After an experience in Montreal where angels broke through to a medium
channeling them, Wyllie says, he found he could just do it himself.
"Angels are just another species, like dolphins or aliens,"
Wyllie explains. "I have an angel who works with me on my books.
He's not doing dictation or channeling or even ghostwriting. He's more
like a counselor or a seer."
OK, I want one of those.
Actually, Wyllie says we can have a bunch.
"We all have companion angels, there's plenty to go around. They're
there to help. The angel universe is enormous."
But with six billion inhabitants on this planet, isn't that getting kind
of crowded?
"We don't have to deal with each and every one of those six billion
people," Wyllie offers, not to mention other beings on distant planets.
"Most of us find it's enough to deal with our families and friends.
But if you can't fit in angels, well that's just your loss."
Here's what it takes, plain and simple, to have an extra-human relationship:
quiet. Wyllie says you have to ground, align and then release yourself.
Follow the breath and the chakras, especially the fifth one that is the
open door to angelic form.
"Listen with your ears and your throat. You'll know them when you
hear them."
So why is the world so screwed up if all these angels are flitting about
looking out for us?
"Believing is a heart-beat away. And these are kick-ass angels. They
won't let you escape. They do not tolerate lies."
Does that mean I shouldn't be too worried that George W. Bush is running
for re-election?
"If it amuses you to worry about that, go ahead," Wyllie assured
me. "Karma comes back. There will be much egg on many faces."
Timothy Wyllie comes to Tucson on Wednesday, June 4, at 7 p.m., at Reader's
Oasis, located at 3400 E. Speedway Blvd. Call 319-7887 for all the details.
--Joan Schuman |
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