Witches, Angels & The Law Of Attraction
I’ve had three clients give me gifts featuring Guan Yin, the Buddhist goddess of compassion. These people don’t know each other and they could not have coordinated their gifts. Yet when they made them, each told me the same thing: “You are Guan Yin.”
There’s a clear and obvious reason why this happened, but if you’re an empath who is just now coming to terms with your gifts, it might not seem clear or obvious, so let me teach you about yourself by showing you what I mean.
Empaths Through History
The word “empath” is brand new. It’s only been gaining popularity since the 2000s, and it’s been very useful. A portion of our population is always looking for respectful and inclusive ways to describe different types of people, and I think “empath” is intended to be respectful and inclusive.
It’s also a vast improvement. Throughout most of history, people like us were called “psychics,” “clairvoyants,” “mediums” or, most dangerously, “witches.”
All “witches,” men and women, had strange powers that others did not possess and that they could not understand. Sometimes, it was believed that “witches” spoke to angels, like when St. Bernadette of Lourdes had visions of the Virgin Mary that led to the creation of the Shrine of Lourdes. Most of the time, it was believed that witches spoke to the devil. This was especially true under puritanical dictatorships. When any woman taught any other woman how to control her own menstrual cycle or otherwise take charge of her life, she was a witch in league with the devil. I have an ancestor who was burned at the stake in France for just this reason.
Throughout most of modern history, empaths found it much safer to live in secrecy. Most empaths alive now went through a long phase of secrecy in their childhood. By the time you were four, you had already figured out that you were significantly different from the people around you, and you hid it. You had a profound life in secret, often involving mysterious rituals, magical tools and enchanted altars.
There was something instinctive in that. If you look at Jungian archetypes throughout history, humanity has always had a love/hate, angel/devil relationship with empaths. We always elicit a strong reaction because we have access to sources of information that are far deeper and far more “true” than anything based in just the human realm. We are so sensitive to other people’s pain that sometimes what is actually simple logic to us seems to them like we’re reading their minds.
The way people reacted to you when you pulled off feats like that changed your whole life. Most of us are met with suspicion and we quickly learn to keep our “powers” to ourselves on pain of rejection and even outright danger. I’ve been in situations where a person became aware of my empathic powers and then latched onto me far too fiercely. We can be like drugs to some people, and they’ll leech off of us to the point of death, if we let them. More often, we’re just regarded as freaks and we’re attacked unthinkingly, the way gay people used to be beaten to death with no warning or reason.
Empaths in the Universe
We freak out the powerful because we can see straight through them. We can access a deeper source of truth, and we will know it with such certainty that, St. Bernadette-like, we can become more powerful than they are. Ekhart Tolle was homeless in Germany for years, only to suddenly, one day, influence millions. If you’re a fraud clinging to power because your base believes your lies, assumptions, and prejudices, an empath like that is extremely dangerous.
Being an emotional, sensitive, and caring person, who also happens to be really dangerous to people in power, presents empaths with a lot of unique challenges. The negative energies are immense and intense and well-known. A lot of them have been directed at you, and if you’re like most empaths today, you spent a good part of your life protecting yourself. Empath children born to people who are not well, they will take on all of that “yuck,” and, for a long time, make it theirs.
But now, you’ve found me, and that’s not an accident. You’re ready to repair the damage the negativity did to you. As soon as you understand what the bad is, it simply drifts away, I assure you. You’re ready to own what belongs to you so you can spread the good through the world.
More people believe in the goodness, but they are terrified of saying that they do, because the negative dominates the community. You have a role to play in that, and you’re ready to make your debut.
Angels & The Law of Attraction
There was a place and time when you were completely connected, when your heart was not infected by anything ugly. There’s that place in every empath, and the ones who long for it are the empaths who look for me, because I know how to get you back to that place.
People use me as a touchstone to realize who they truly are. When they get that, and when they trust in that, an angel steps in and shows you the light. As soon as you’ve seen it once, you can never unsee it. The Law of Attraction opens up for you.
We think of the Law of Attraction and angels and our psychic abilities as separate things, but they are all aspects of one thing. Our experience of reality is different because we have these extra dimensions attached to our perception. Angels are as real as sunlight, and the energies flowing from the earth are as real as water, and the caressing of other’s minds with our own is as real as the animals who come to us for love.
All three patients who gave me Guan Yin are empaths. They all saw the same thing, in dimensions beyond normal reality. They described what they saw by means of a Buddhist goddess, and since what they were seeing is real, they all picked the same goddess.
This is the glorious way an empath leads their life. The next understanding on the path is for them to realize that they are Guan Yin just as much as I am, and to realize that Guan Yin and all the other gods and goddesses are ready to come into the world through us.
If there was ever a time when they would burn witches at the stake again, it is now. We have a crucial role to play in history. We will find a way to guide people who are not empaths onto a more righteous and beautiful path. And we will do it without weapons and without war.
