How to see angels

Angelic beings seem to appear in liminal times and places, when individuals are in crisis or at the turn of the year and Christmas. In this talk, I explore how we might be more aware than we usually think of what our forebears routinely called angels. Think of Socrates, who was well known to have been accompanied by an daemon, or angel, that guided him through uncertainty and co-worked with him. Or there’s the angelology of antiquity and the medieval world that seems a lot like modern psychology, only it describes the interior life of the cosmos as well as of human beings. And then there’s modern psychotherapy that thinks of individuals as full of personalities and part personalities shaping experience and speaking to us. Might seeing angels actually be the norm rather than the exception?