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Do Angels exist?

Do Angels exist? If you're asking me about Angels of the spiritual kind, my honest answer is I am not sure. But somehow deep inside me, I believe they exist. Before I explore the issue of whether Angels exist, I like to talk about my encounter with Angels of the human kind - right here on Squidoo - and how the encounters have prompted me to attempt to find out whether Angels of the spiritual kind exist.

My first encounter with an Angel

My first encounter with an Angel - of the Squidoo kind - took place in August last year. She, SemperFidelis, landed on and left her mark on my lens, How (Not) To Write A Squidoo Lens, with this praise: "Excellent lens Roving". I felt elated when I read the comment. Just three words from a Squid Angel and it really made my day. If praises from an Angel of a human kind could touch a person's heart, what more if the words came from an Angel of a spiritual kind, I told myself. I was then determined to write a lens on Angels of a spiritual kind but somehow forgot all about it until...Read the next module (section) to find out.

My second encounter with an Angel

As I said in the preceding module (section), my first encounter with a Squidoo Angel gave me the idea to write a lens about Angels of the spiritual kind. But I forgot about the whole matter until recently when I had my second encounter with a Squidoo Angel - of a male kind - and in the form of Rajays, who blessed my Tricks of Parallel Parking lens with this comment: "Good tutorial on parallel parking. Blessed by a Squid Angel". It really made my day and reminded me about the lens I wanted to write on Angels of the spiritual kind.
P/S I've become fans of SemperFidelis and Rajays and am following them on Twitter as well.

More about Squid Angels

I don't want to digress too much but for those who want to know more about Squid Angels, here is a great lens from SemperFidelis: Squid Angel. Among other things, she tells you what Squid Angels are, who the current and reitired Squid Angels are and how a lens gets blessed.

All about Angels

What are Angels and do people believe in them?

According to Wikipedia, "Angels are usually viewed as messengers of a supreme divine being, sent to do the tasks of that being. Traditions vary as to whether angels have free will or are merely extensions of the supreme being's will. While the appearance of angels also varies, many views of angels give them a human shape. Despite a common popular belief - or at least metaphor - that angels are former human beings, most major religious groups deny such a view".
The Wikipedia article, Angel, also said: "A 2002 study based on interviews with 350 people, mainly in the UK, who said they have had an experience of an angel, describes several types of such experiences: visions, sometimes with multiple witnesses present; auditions, e.g. to convey a warning; a sense of being touched, pushed, or lifted, typically to avert a dangerous situation; and pleasant fragrance, generally in the context of somebody's death. In the visual experiences, the angels described appear in various forms, either the "classical" one (human countenance with wings), in the form of extraordinarily beautiful or radiant human beings, or as beings of light.

"In the US, a 2008 survey by Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion , which polled 1,700 respondents, found that 55 per cent of Americans, including one in five of those who say they are not religious, believe that they have been protected by a guardian angel during their life. An August 2007 Pew poll found that 68 per cent of Americans believe that 'angels and demons are active in the world'."

"In Canada, a 2008 survey of over 1000 Canadians found 67 per cent believe in angels".

Here is another view of Angels

An article in catholic-pages.com, What Are Angels, said: "Among those unseen things that God has created are what we call "angels". That angels exist is clear from Scripture as well as Sacred Tradition. Angels are purely spiritual creatures, they do not have bodies, and are not constrained by bodies as we are. They are personal and immortal, just as we are. They have intellects and free will, just as we do. Because an angel's mind does not depend on a body, an angel cannot forget or get confused and his will is much stronger than ours.

It isn't right that we become angels when (...if!...) we go to heaven. Angels are different from humans. Our souls will be in heaven with the angels until the last day when our bodies will be raised and join our souls again."

Angel sighting stories

One website which I discovered have many stories on angel sightings is: Stories of Angels. The website also allows you to submit your own Angel stories. If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video should be worth millions of words I guess. So we should watch beliefs of angel sightings on videos instead. So here goes...

Videos on Angel sightings

Angel Spotted While Filming for TV: by leslieuk100 | video info

1,524 ratings | 1,837,294 views

curated content from YouTube

Tell us your Angel experience

Tell us your Angel experience - whether of the human or spiritual kind. And please give this lens a good rating if you like it. Thanks for your visit and your invaluable time.

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bloomingrose Apr 6, 2012 @ 1:43 pm | delete

I have had experience with seeing angels - and it has really increased my faith. And I love being a Squidoo Angel and cohorting with them! Heaven on Earth.

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jordanmilesbasketballstuff Mar 28, 2012 @ 6:43 pm | delete

I believe in Angels and its a great experience..

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weddingchecklist Mar 1, 2012 @ 12:46 am | delete

Nice encounters.

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goo2eyes Nov 4, 2011 @ 12:58 pm | delete

i encountered an angel in a little child. she was pointing at my direction. i thought that someone was behind me but nobody was standing nearby. maybe she saw my aura. i was not feeling well that time.

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jaredsgirl Nov 1, 2011 @ 2:20 pm | delete

Love your lens on Angels! So beautiful and inspiring. I do believe in angels and my son and I just had a talk about guardian angels the other night, so this is very fitting. Thanks for sharing!
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Encounter with Angels

Do Angels exist?

My first encounter with an Angel

My second encounter with an Angel

More about Squid Angels

All about Angels

What are Angels and do people believe in them?

Here is another view of Angels

Angel sighting stories

Videos on Angel sightings

Tell us your Angel experience

Angel photos

Beautiful Angel

Angels of a movie kind

Lenses on Angels

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