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Expect help from the Angels
by Elizabeth Stephens

I knew that I just had to interview him. No, I had not heard of Gary Quinn or his book, May the Angels Be With You (Rider/Random House), and, to be honest, I had not had much to do with angels. However, a little 'something' inside just leaped at the opportunity to meet for breakfast on the waterside at Sydney. There were four of us, and also an African American waiter hanging around in the background. He cleaned every glass and piece of cutlery a dozen times as he eavesdropped on the interview. Eventually Gary's partner, Annie, invited him to speak with as we could see that he'd been fascinated with the topic.

Gary told us how he'd first seen angels. He's always been psychic, and was confused as a kid that others couldn't see what he could. He went to Paris to pursue a business venture that had been offered to him but, when he got there, the opportunity dried up. He had little money left, could only stay at his current abode for a very limited time, and, to top it off, spoke almost no French. So, every day for two weeks he went to pray at Notre Dame. One day a column of angels appeared to him. They advised him what to do next, and of course he stayed in Paris and learnt heaps. The angels' blessings started straight away with the offer of house-sitting.

Gary has had runaway success with his book, and he puts it all down to help from the angels, starting with envisioning the end result. He said, 'The book sells itself - it's widely distributed in Canada, USA, UK, Australia and Germany.'

Gary's message is clear and simple - we need to state our end result and then trust and listen. He is quite clear also that he could see his book as a winner before he'd even finished writing it.

When he was in the process of finding a publisher, he had written only one chapter, but attended meetings arranged by his literary agent as though the whole manuscript was already written. He had several two to three hour meetings that were exhausting, and was made offers that did not feel right. He knew ultimately when he'd found the right people.

'I just showed up, being in that intention.'

He stresses that we have to be clear to say what things we DON'T want - don't get desperate and accept any old thing. When he wanted to do a TV program, the TV producers offered him to do something different. They wanted a psychic on camera who performed 'parlour games'. Gary told them that was silly and he had no intention of doing a program like that and simply got up and walked out. After some months the TV producers could not find anyone for what they wanted to do and so they came back to Gary on his terms.

I was trying to work out what this guy had that I didn't. He said that most people do not get what they want in life because they are not clear on what it is they want. Guides and angels are helpers along the way - but we choose the end result. People are frightened to ask for help from their angels as they think it may be a bad thing, and they feel guilty for asking, but if you don't ask, you're not likely to get help, according to Gary.

He says that people who lack prosperity are those that live in fear and don't trust. They think that a company or a bank is the source of their finances. Their belief system needs work. It is because they lack love and trust, that they lack money.

I asked him if he could sum up for us a plan of action:

Start to get clarity. Ask for whatever you want.
Take action and trust - do everything as if I told you you already had it. Act as if.
Expect it, and expect to have your guides at your side helping you.
Remember that the sun shines on everyone alike - so, if you don't see results, don't get angry or envious. Those emotions set you apart from the results.

It was a beautiful morning by the Harbour and Gary seemed happy to continue talking - so I asked him if I could go further into this topic. I know that my readers and I at times get confused about how much to just allow Spirit to organise and how much to 'take the bull by the horns'.

I told Gary that years ago a wise person had told me a story about Polynesian mariners who set out for faraway islands with no maps. They had nothing but the stars to guide them. They observed what the future brought to them over the waves, and, as they reacted with the future, it turned into the present and ultimately the past. The storyteller told me that there were two models on which one could base life - to plan your goal and all the points in between and check on your progress toward the goals, or to aim for a grand life goal and throw yourself onto the ocean with nothing much to guide you. He said that there could be no hybrid plan. One had to embark upon one or the other. This confused me. So what did Gary think?

Gary felt that, if the mariners had started off without an intention, they would not have achieved their destination. They had to have an island in mind. In his case, with the book, from the beginning he was on the island. When he was having the interviews with publishers, he was exhausted, but knew he'd be on the island within one week

So I asked him what he thought about the idea of not being able to follow a hybrid plan. His view was that hybrid in this case meant not committing.

I wrote these notes down at the time and still didn't really get it. I have since had the need to pick up his book and read it. I was going through a period when things were going really badly for me, and, feeling desperate, I looked up the book and read it. At first I resisted and my mind wandered. However, after a few pages, I got so that I could barely put it down. There is a rank order in which one contacts angels for help, and it seemed to me that, as each day passed, the next angel was just the perfect one for what had been going down that day.

I have now read it through twice completely and marked it all over, and picked up bits and pieces again and again as I needed them. My life has been turned around, mostly as a result of this book. It is so simple that it is almost too simple to think that it is going to work - but I somehow now know the difference between a life planned and plotted and one like the journey of the Polynesian mariners. Previously I could not see that the sailors could envision a land of plenty or an island of beauty before they set sail. Now I know that I can see the end result for me and then act. I can prepare my boat, gather provisions, ask friends to sail with me, fix clothing and tackle. I can then set sail at an auspicious moment according to the stars and the weather, and rely on my experience and the expertise of my friends to make the right decisions, and trust that Spirit will bring what we need to reach the destination.

It sounds so simple now. Somehow previously I was thinking that I just had to trust in Spirit and jump into the boat and make the most of what I was given - arriving wherever at whenever. It's so simple that I'm embarrassed to write about it, but I know I'm not the only one in the same boat! [Oops - sorry!]

What of the future for Gary? He does not want to stay stuck in the psychic world. He's observed that people like him forget what they're here for and start to become ego-maniacs and move into being famous. Gary's here to serve. Serve he does.

Elizabeth Stephens is editor and publisher of Living NOW!, Australia's largest holistic magazine, available free in 1000 outlets on Australia's east coast, or by subscription. 1800 803 714, www.livingnow.com.au

Expect help from the Angels by Elizabeth Stephens

Expect help from the Angels
by Elizabeth Stephens