Could I Really Be Talking with Angels?
Chapters 5 and 6: Sea of Miracles
Chapter 5: Intuition
The angels showed me:
We want to engage in conscious, active relationship with you, and we send signs and guidance to make contact. You will feel, sense, and know us through your intuition. You will understand our messages through your imagination.
It’s the middle of the night, and a weary college student is driving down a dark, empty highway. His head nods. He yawns. He snaps awake.
I can’t keep my eyes open, he realizes. I need to sleep.
Just then, a small, well-lit motel appears by the side of the road. Longing for a warm bed and a hot shower, he sighs. I have no money for that.
Stop anyway, an inner voice urges.
Without understanding why, he obeys the nudge. He pulls into the lot, parks, and walks inside.
The desk clerk—a kind-looking older man—glances up. There’s something oddly familiar about him.
Tell him, the inner voice returns.
Even though he would normally be too shy, the young man finds himself speaking.
“Um . . .” he begins. Then, it pours out. He explains his situation—exhausted, no money—expecting nothing.
He’s surprised when the man slides a room key across the counter.
“Go get some sleep,” he says. “You can pay me on your way back.”
Grateful, the student collapses into bed. In the morning, he grabs the motel’s business card on his way out, tucks it into the glove compartment, and drives on—determined to return and repay the kindness.
Weeks later, on his next college break, he drives back to the town. But when he pulls into the lot, the motel is boarded up—abandoned.
Confused, he stops at a nearby convenience store.
“The motel?” the store clerk repeats. “That place has been closed for over ten years.”
Nudges. Inklings. Hunches. Gut feelings.
Often, the first conscious awareness of guidance arrives this way: a quiet inner pull, a sudden sense of urgency, a direction that feels unmistakably right.
Something invisible moves you—and you just know.
This inner movement is guidance. It’s part of a living conversation. A response to a question, a prayer, or even a silent yearning you didn’t know you voiced.
It may arrive as a flash of inspiration, a clear idea, or a rush of knowing: If I follow this, something good will happen.
This is the pulse of spiritual experience—what makes it feel alive, real, charged with mystery. It opens the door. It invites you to wonder:
Could I really be talking with angels?
Yes, the answer comes.
You can. You are.
And so is everyone else.
Intuition is not rare or mystical—it’s your inborn way of sensing what’s true. It’s always working in the background, reading the energy of people, places, and possibilities. Guidance flows through all your senses, including those subtle ways of knowing that don’t have words.
The angels call these The Ways of Reception.
Chapter 6: The Ways of Reception
Once you begin listening, another question naturally arises:
How do I know what’s guidance and what’s just my own mind?
The angels answer softly:
There are many ways to receive guidance. None is better, ‘higher,’ or more spiritual than any other. We send you messages in the way that is easiest for you to receive, trust, and understand.
This chapter opens the doors to the many channels through which messages arrive.
You might be surprised to discover—you’ve already been receiving them.
How Does Guidance Come to You?
People who are more visual—artists, for example—may see imagery, receive visions, dreams, and signs.
Others receive downloads of sensory information: gut feelings, intuitive flashes, a deep sense of knowing.
Dreamers may receive technicolor dreams with a full cast of characters and elaborate settings.
Scientists may feel guided through an experiment or research project, gathering evidence for what begins as a hunch.
Musicians and sound-sensitive people may hear guidance: a meaningful song on the radio, a disembodied voice, or the echo of a truth in conversation.
Guidance may come through any (or all of) your physical senses—sight, sound, scent, taste, or touch: a tingling at the back of the neck, chills up the spine, the brush of something against your skin. Some people feel the touch of unseen hands that tap their shoulder, brush their cheek, or even catch them as they fall.
You may experience a sudden rush of sensation, a prickling all over that signals the presence of someone nearby. Or a gut feeling, followed by an image or thought that simply knows.
The Four Primary Ways of Reception
Seeing / Thinking
Do you ‘see’ guidance—through dreams, imagery, or visions? Do you receive downloads of patterns or meaning through images, symbols, nature, or visual art?
Feeling / Sensing
Do you ‘feel’ guidance—through your body, emotions, or subtle energy? Can you sense the mood of a room? Do you read the ‘vibe’ of people or places?
Hearing
Do you ‘hear’ guidance—through conversations, music, or subtle voices? Do lyrics feel like messages? Does the world speak to you through sound?
Knowing
Do you just know things sometimes? Are you a natural problem-solver, a pattern-seer, someone others trust to see the truth?
Messages Are Everywhere
Guidance can come through:
TV, radio, songs, emails, text messages
License plates, street signs, overheard conversations
Animals, birds, bees - most anything in the natural world
Sudden opportunities, chance meetings, or perfect timing
Dreams, synchronicities, or the internal whisper of knowing
You may miss many signs before realizing: Hey, maybe all of this means something.
Don’t worry. The angels will keep sending messages until you ‘get it.’
You can ask for more. You can ask again.
Begin Noticing the Invisible
What if your next instinct, your next nudge, your next chill up the spine—
wasn’t random?
What if it was the beginning of a conversation?
Intuition doesn’t have to be dramatic or perfect.
It’s often just a quiet pull toward the next good step.
The key is this: trust the nudge.
Listen to the shift inside.
Follow it—even when you don’t know why.
You don’t have to explain it to anyone.
Just begin.
Let yourself be surprised - and even, delighted.
Journal Prompts
When was the last time I had a “gut feeling” that turned out to be true?
Have I ever been guided by a voice, a feeling, or an unseen presence?
What does intuition feel like in my body? Where does it speak from?
Of the four ways of reception—seeing, feeling, hearing, knowing—which feels most natural to me?
What would change if I believed I was always being gently guided?
I hope that you’re enjoying this unfolding process. It is a great joy to open the pages of this book with you and to share my reflections along the way.
To read along, you’ll find all the Chapters in the Index.
I welcome your reflections - how it’s landing with you.
I welcome, also, your questions, your puzzlements.
Ask me anything. I will always respond.
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xxoo
Amy
The guidance I get is out of wack with reality. Reality is so discouraging and difficult that I'm just giving up on struggling with it. I don't see the point in pursuing my goals when the world is so bad.