Friday, December 18, 2015

Laura Newbury on How Angels Help Us Heal Ourselves and the World

Laura Newbury talks to Alexander “The Engineer” Lim, host of AuthorStory by alvinwriter.com about his latest book, An Angels' Guide to Working with the Power of Light.



“It is important for us to ASK the Angels for help as they have no free will to intervene in our lives (unless exceptional circumstances) without being invited. They need us to ask and we must not feel greedy or selfish to ask.” ~Laura Newbury

Laura lives in Stirling, Scotland and grew up in the Quaker faith, where the practice is for a group of people to gather in a circle and for anyone within who feels inspired to take charge of the meeting. Angels weren’t particularly emphasized when Laura was growing up, and she had believed that angels communicate only with mystics and the like, but one day, when Laura was out with her four-year-old twin sons, one of them got lost while they were in a park, and Laura then began to frantically look for him. It was then that she called out to the angels to surround and protect her missing son, and she heard a reply, like a clear echo, that told her “twenty minutes,” and she just knew that everything would be fine by then. Laura then returned to her friend’s house, at the latter’s suggestion, and while there, she experienced a connection between herself and her then-lost son as well as a feeling of peace, despite her frantic feeling. As expected, after 20 minutes, her friend returned to the house with her missing son, and told her that, when the boy had been found, there were several young children standing around him, as if protecting him.

Laura didn’t think much about that incident until, eight years later, the same son got ill, which came at a time when she was experiencing terrible headaches, and one night, while she was feeling tired and in despair, she was “inspired” to write a letter to the angels. She received a reply in the form of a voice that said all would be well, and when Laura asked who was speaking the voice said that he was her son’s guardian angel, a red angel. Laura began writing “thank you” letters to the angels after that, which she placed in various locations around her house, and as she wrote those letters, she realized she was receiving replies from the angels, and one of the messages was, “Write a book… write a book.

Schutzengel by Bernhard Plockhorst
According to Laura, the word “angel” comes from the Greek word aggelos, which means “messenger.” Laura noted that angels are a part of just about every faith on Earth, and while angels do act as messengers, they also have other functions, such as protection and healing. The angels themselves have told Laura that they are manifestations, or the loving arms, of God, and that they carry out God’s will, abiding in the dimensions between the physical realm, which is where humans live, and the heavenly realm. They can appear as a physical being, but not necessarily in the stereotypical form of them being winged and human-like. She gave an example where, before she had all her extensive angelic experiences, she saw a large figure at the top of a mountain bathed in light, a being which had light strands radiating out from it, but she didn’t recognize it as an angel until much later.

Colors have a huge significance where angels are concerned, as these relate to the vibrations associated with the colors, and which seem to be associated with the various chakras of the human bodies. Red, for example, is the color of the archangel Metatron (an archangel in Judaism, known as the Recording Angel or the Chancellor of Heaven - Wikipedia), who guarded her son and who brought her to her present path of angelic communication. Laura explained that Metatron is the archangel who looks after gifted children and is also the archangel of sacred maths and geometries, which, given her sons’ penchant for mathematics, seems to make sense. Deep emerald green with a pinkish hue at the edge of the green is the color of the archangel Raphael, who is the archangel related to healing. Where chakras are concerned, the color green is associated with the heart, and given that most healing takes place in the heart it follows that Raphael also be associated with the color green.

Abraham and the Three Angels by Ludovico Carracci
Laura communicates with the angels visually, such as when she sees colors associated with a person’s angel, but she also hears voices and words that she describes as “loud thoughts” which she knows are from angels because they are different from how she would normally think or how she would normally write. When she wrote the book, she saw the words appear in front of her, as if on a screen. She said the angels gave the book’s contents word by word and phrase by phrase, so that she never did know the entire sentence she was writing before she actually finished them.

Laura notes that finding a quiet place is very important when enabling angelic communication. Quieting one’s mind and taking four big, deep breaths, breathing in through the nose and then exhaling through the mouth, creates a physiological state that’s receptive to talking to angels. That said, the angels can still send people messages even in the loudest of environments, if necessary. Being in nature also helps, as Laura states that the angels have told her that all life is sacred and appreciating the beauty of Nature and of the Earth creates a state of gratitude wherein the connection is made that much easier.

Laura notes that a lot of people are seeking spiritual guidance in today’s troubled times, and that the messages of angels are full of love and guidance on how to send light out into the world. She notes that the consistent message from the angels is that, if people can get in tune and follow their gifts, they can send out peace which radiates and helps others. It is the perpetuation of this that will create peace throughout the world.

An excerpt from the book, An Angels' Guide to Working with the Power of Light, as quoted by Laura:

They say the universe is in support of life and founded on love. Fear and negative happenings come from misalignment in some way. It happens when thoughts turn from love to fear. Events occur as a result and things get worse until someone comes along to change the pattern. This creates a knock-on effect and other effects come back into their natural alignment. Your prayers go out, and even if you do not know exactly where they will go, they will arrive and help change events. You’re all connected and your consciousness is connected with all that is happening in your world. Prayers, therefore, affect everything, and the world is saved, heart by heart and soul by soul, and the power comes from the individual and the power is love. Love is the only power and love does not coerce.

It was while she was writing the book that the headaches that Laura had been experiencing for so long finally disappeared, and this she attributes to her connection with the angels. After that, she was given methods on how to heal pain and was told to go out and teach these, which is the new path that she is now presently on. Laura remarks that she now has the strength and courage to walk this path due to her healing and angelic support. Laura notes that it doesn’t matter if you believe in angels or not, but if you is true to yourself and follow one’s own gifts and heart, and also be inspired by that which makes one feel joy and happiness, you will radiate a lot of the universal energy and will help others as well.

Laura is in the process of writing a book in conjunction with the angels of the Earth, which she says is about the environment and how we humans can cooperate with the spiritual guides of the environment to save our planet. At present, the rough title is A Devas’ Guide to Earth Healing: Messages for Our Times.

A special message from angels to people as delivered to Laura:

"We love you all and take great delight in communicating on things both great and apparently small. But nothing is too small for us angels and we urge you to keep asking, for our power to help is unlimited and you are not being greedy or taking another person's share by asking us. This is limited human thinking. As long as you keep a loving heart and have the good of all the world as your aspiration, then nothing can be too big or too small to ask." ~Angels' Message to People

Laura Newbury’s book, An Angels' Guide to Working with the Power of Light, can be found on www.lauranewbury.co.uk and other major online bookstores. She also has a Facebook page for the book, www.facebook.com/AnAngelsGuide. Here is the publisher's (6th Books) page for the book.

READ: Stirling Observer article (May 20, 2012) Angel Experience Sparks New Book

Purchase the on Amazon: An Angels' Guide to Working with the Power of Light by Laura Newbury

Saturday, December 12, 2015

Tony Fairfax: US Presidential Election Trend Analysis

Tony Fairfax talks to Alexander “The Engineer” Lim, host of AuthorStory by alvinwriter.com about his book, The Presidential Trend: The Remarkable Voting Predictability of the Office of President (Includes: 2016 Election Analysis).



“I was forced to, compelled, to come up with my own theory on this because no one had written about it.” ~Tony Fairfax, on writing The Presidential Trend

Tony started out as an electrical engineer who worked for a manufacturing company and an engineering consulting firm, and then became an entrepreneur, starting a business with a few other people during a recession period in the US economy. After the business closed down, Tony, as a consultant, connected with a local university and was involved with a redistricting project, which is one wherein political boundaries are redrawn throughout the United States. This began his career as a mapping and demographic consultant, which is what he is doing up until today as an expert whose testimony on demographics is recognized in federal courts.

Tony’s interest in the presidential trend he writes about began when he read a census report that had a graph that led to his investigating the topic. The major trend he talks about is the increasingly linear trend of popular votes for the Democratic presidential candidate from 1972 to 2000, despite the voter turnout percentage differing from election to election, while during that period, the popular votes for the Republicans and independents combined fluctuated. Tony remarks that, after investigation, the trend actually began in 1968, when the electorate "fractured" between Democrats and non-Democrats, and that the trend makes sense when core base voters - voters who would vote Democrat, Republican or for their candidate, no matter what - are considered. This increasing linear trend, according to Tony, is due to the increasing population of Democratic core base voters and generational perpetuation of loyalty to the Democratic party.

In 1968, a certain section of Democratic voters peeled away from voting for a Democratic president, and this section never came back to vote for a Democratic candidate except during 1976, which is a year that doesn’t fit the 1972 - 2000 trend.

Where the Republicans and independents are concerned, a trend doesn’t exist but a mirroring type of voting pattern does. Mirroring occurs when, say, a hundred people vote for two candidates, and if all of them vote, and if one person gets 70 votes, the other person will get 30 votes. This mirroring comes from the non-Democratic party voters and means that, if a Republican candidate gets a lot of votes, the independent candidate will get fewer votes, and vice versa. The only time this mirroring didn’t happen was in the 1992 election, due to then-candidate Ross Perot being unable to make inroads into the Republican core base voters.

Tony notes that the linear trend might have stopped at 2000, but he says that there is still a trend in the form of the Democratic popular vote percentage, which deviates only around 2.6% from the trend line. The trends are more visible at the national level, and while these exist at the state and local levels, these aren’t as visible because people change locations, from city to city or from state to state, throughout the year. The Democrats, because they have most of the so-called minority vote, have an advantage in the coming decades because of the increasing percentage of the minority population in the United States.

To a Republican candidate, Tony would advise him or her to attract voters from the Democratic electorate, particularly given that the Democratic electorate is larger than the non-Democratic electorate. To a Democratic candidate, Tony would advise him to go after progressive policy issues.

The journey Tony took while writing the book was one wherein his original hypothesis, that the trend was disrupted by the war that took place in 2000, was proven mistaken and made him focus on the role of demographics and base voters where the trend is concerned. He also notes that the journey is still ongoing, which could be the potential topic for another book. He had actually came up with a companion book to The Presidential Trend which is a condensed version for individuals to be able to grasp all of the features of the trend in one or two reading sessions.

Tony Fairfax’s book, The Presidential Trend: The Remarkable Voting Predictability of the Office of President (Includes: 2016 Election Analysis), can be found on amazon.com and other major online bookstores.

Purchase on Amazon: The Presidential Trend: The Remarkable Voting Predictability of the Office of the President (Includes: 2016 Election Analysis),