Americans are talking about angels. More than ever, it seems, people entertain stories of the odd and remarkable:
• “The angels are opening to us as never before,” exult the authors of Ask Your Angels, a book published and promoted by Ballantine, one of New York’s biggest houses. “Something profound is on the move.” The authors present the channeled wisdom of Abigrael, a genderless being they claim was sent to instruct them. They also lead New Age-flavored workshops on getting in touch with “celestials” and aligning with “angelic energy fields.” Conversing with angels, they write, is another “divination tool.” Knowing that many readers face major decisions, the authors give instructions on making a deck of “Angel Oracle” cards.
• In the movie Grand Canyon, Kevin Kline plays a Los Angeles businessman on his way to a meeting on Wilshire Boulevard’s “Miracle Mile.” Worried, absorbed, he stepped off the curb when, he tells a friend, “a stranger grabbed me, yanked me back, just as a city bus went flying by my nose.” Turning around, he thanked the young woman who saved him from becoming “a wet bug stain on the front of the bus.” Then he noticed that she wore the cap of his favorite baseball team since childhood—the Pittsburgh Pirates. “Was that a real person,” Kline’s character muses, “or was that something else—you know, sent from somewhere else?”
• Angel artifacts have become big business with “heavenly profits,” asserts the Los Angeles Daily News. What with books, “angel catalogs, angel seminars, angel pins, angel newsletters and angel sightings, … it looks like the winged ones have left the cosmic back lot for the forefront of popular consciousness.”
A culture once prone to dismiss the supernatural as superstition is thinking ...
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