Jasmine Miller: The Angel Connection
23 September 2008
I am now an authorised teacher of Elisabeth Jensen's Angel Miracles course.
So what does that mean, you may ask. I think the more appropriate question is what does it mean to me?
The certificate that I now own can represent many things – a meal ticket, a medal of honour, a password that will open doors to people, places and, perhaps, situations which would otherwise be closed to me.
I know, because I've met some people who use similar "qualifications" for just those things.
For me, this teacher's certificate is a milestone – a tangible marker in my own spiritual journey.
It's taken me five years to get to where I am now. So much has happened to and for me since the angels first made me aware of them.
I attended Elisabeth's Angel Miracles Level 1 when she came to Singapore to teach it in June 2005.
Bewildered and frightened by the uncanny experiences that I had been having, I had been reading up on angels in an effort to find out what was happening to me. Some months later, I was surfing the Net when I chanced upon the website of the holistic centre where she was teaching in Singapore and read about Elisabeth and her angel course.
Intrigued, I signed up for Level 1.
I remember how I felt when I entered the class on the first day. I was still very much in sceptical journalist mode. I was a little angry with myself for even coming to a workshop like this, yet I also yearned to find some answers to the many questions and fears that I'd been struggling with for so long.
I felt lost, alone and a little defensive. I didn't know anyone there, and I promised myself that I would get out fast if it turned out to be a lot of nonsense.
I ended up continuing on to Level 3.
During the workshops, we practised seeing auras (although all I could see then was just the shadow of the person who was standing against a white wall for the rest of the class to detect colours around him).
We learned about mediumship (very reluctantly and quite fearfully on my part, I must admit, as I had no desire to get up close and personal with ghosts. Perversely, I also dreaded being the only one in class who wouldn't be able to see or sense anything).
We did visualizations and meditations (and I had a hard time following them because my logical mind kept getting in the way: "But if my soul angel enters my body from the front and then opens her wings behind me, does that mean she walks backwards and into me, or does she face me as she enters and then does a 180-degree turn inside of me before spreading her wings?").
But what grabbed me was the simple exercise of channelled writing that we did on the first day.
We were asked to invite Archangel Michael to write, through us, a message on either fear or love that was pertinent to us.
Blithely, I scrawled the word "Love" at the top of the page and added a couple of hearts for good measure. Then after a guided prayer to invite Michael to give us the words, we began to write.
I found myself scratching out "Love" and writing "Fear" instead. And in a strangely detached way, I watched my hand fly across the page as I filled it with words that seemed to flow directly from my head into my hand.
When I was done, I could barely grasp what had happened. Surely I must have had all that in my subconscious all the time?
But when I was asked to read aloud what I'd written, the words made such an impact on me that my voice broke and I had to blink away tears.
The passage described, with both understanding and compassion, the turmoil and confusion that I'd been caught up in for so long. It acknowledged my innermost fears yet promised that I had all the love, guidance and support I needed to overcome them. It confirmed I wasn't alone, that I was loved and protected always.
And it ended with Michael clearly identifying himself as the author of the message, and confirming that he came from God.
That clinched it for me.
For about a year and a half after the angels introduced themselves to me in August 2003, I kept getting so many strange signs and inexplicable experiences concerning them that I didn't know whether I was coming or going. Not knowing what to make of it all, I was filled with fear and became so stressed that I was on the verge of a breakdown... until Archangel Michael appeared to me one night.
He had identified himself with almost the exact same words as he had in my channelled message.
That message gave me the courage to continue on the path to which I'd been led. Since then, I have steadily read, researched and studied things spiritual and metaphysical. I continue to read books, Google the Net, attend talks, workshops, healing and channelling sessions.
Over the years, I have attended courses by and learned from the likes of Doreen Virtue, Lucy Cavendish and Margaret Birkin, as well as Elisabeth. I have benefited from healing meditations and messages channelled through Judy Satori and Tom Kenyon. Among the books I have read and learned greatly from are those by Brian L. Weiss, Sonia Choquette, Sanaya Roman, Ted Andrews, Gregg Braden and Joshua David Stone.
These powerful teachers gifted me with gems of insight and golden nuggets of information, and provided me not just with the tools for my journey of self-discovery, but instructions on how to use them as well.
Not all the teachers or spiritual modalities that I've come across resonated with me, but I came to realise that what worked for others might not necessarily work for me. So I learned to follow my heart.
If it felt right, I would continue. If I didn't feel comfortable, or if I felt that something wasn't for me, I'd simply thank the teacher and move on, for I still came away knowing more than when I'd begun.
And as my heart opened, so did my mind to the fact that there are many, many things both in and out of this world which I know nothing of, and which can – and do – take more than a lifetime to learn.
My long-held belief that God is omnipresent and omnipotent has become reality. Not only have I experienced the truth of this first-hand, but I continue to live it every day.
When I took the first few steps of my journey, I knew nothing about angels other than what I'd read in the Bible or learned in Sunday school.
Now I know, from personal experience, that angels aren't just characters in Bible stories. They are real. They are active. They are loving, powerful beings who are very much in our present and future.
Like everyone in this world – regardless of race or religion – I have a guardian angel who has loved and guided me since I was conceived, and who will continue to love and guide me till I draw my last breath.
And whether you believe it or not, there are angels, archangels, divinities and other beings from the stars and universes besides ours who lovingly offer us help in our search for truth, meaning and, ultimately, God in our lives – with no strings attached.
I say this because I have seen, channelled and worked with some of them. I still do, and I know that I will continue to do so until the end of my days.
We all have guides who help us grow and develop as spiritual beings. Some of us are more in touch with the elemental or fairy realm; some are priests and priestesses of goddesses and divinities; some channel and work with the ascended masters; while others are guided by star and universal energies.
It doesn't matter who they are or what form they take. All who come from the light work in the light for the common good of all.
I happen to be strongly connected to the angels, archangels and Mother Mary. I couldn't tell you why even if I tried.
It just is.
If I have learned anything these past five years, it is that whatever my finite mind can comprehend is but a fraction of a fraction of what God is all about.
As I look at this certificate that I hold, it humbles me to realise that while I may have made some progress, the road still ahead of me goes further than the eye can see, winding its way to eternity.
But if I can use the knowledge and the gifts that I have so far been blessed with to show the way to another seeker of truth, to shine some light on the path of a fellow traveller, then this little marker of mine would have served its purpose.
About the Columnist
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Jasmine Miller is a journalist with 23 years’ experience. In her 28-year career, she has written for newspapers and magazines, edited magazines and books, and done public relations work.
She has been “sensitive” to the spirit world ever since she was little, but never explored her gifts until the angels firmly introduced themselves to her five years ago, when she and her family were in Perth. It took her more than a year to overcome what she calls “the typical journalist’s scepticism” and accept that she had a divine calling, late though it came in her life. In one channelling session with Elisabeth Jensen, the angels called her “Jasmine of the Angels”. Now she derives joy from helping others to connect with their angels. She channels and works with Mother Mary, Archangel Gabriel and Archangel Michael, and does angel healing with Archangels Raphael and Uriel. She is a certified Angel Intuitive and teacher of Angel Miracles. She also teaches and conducts angel-related workshops and meditations. |