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I chose the title of this article because it filled me with impish glee to write it. But before we go too much further perhaps I should explain why. The reason that it gave me such a tickle is that some of my most vital teachers could easily have fit under the bad & ugly categories…yet I look back on them with such appreciation that they have become to me…very good. Most of you who read this site have probably figured out by now that I love perspective shifts…they fill me with energy, expand my mind and set my soul free. So the title is all about perspective.
Psychic Experiences
I have never had a negative psychic experience. From my early childhood visits from a departed grandfather who liked to watch me sleep (which I never did for long due to the hissing that his presence always produced in my cat); a mischievous ghost named George who enjoyed pulling our covers off at night and tickling our feet to my adult experiences of having a conversation with my deceased grandfather, a grandmother who is currently suffering from Alzheimer’s and various spiritual figures such as angels, archangels, Jesus, the three forms of the Goddess; the maiden, the mother and the crone and her counter part the Sun Child and the Horned God. Yet, I do not consider myself a medium (I think a part of me is scared to see dead people) and I do not consider myself a psychic. So what am I? I’m just a spiritual adventurer…out there having cool experiences, seeing what I can learn and then sharing it with all of you 
Angels
Seeing angels was not really what I expected. I was not sure how they would appear and I wondered if they would come in wings and robes but for me they did not. I could not see very many details at all…instead my first sighting of them was simply as beings of light.
My first contact was with my guardian angels. I could instantly distinguish their energy as such because it had a very different feel. They seemed beautiful to me in a very nondescript way…in fact the way they felt was their most distinct feature. These are the angels that cleanse my aura during my chakra meditations, they also help me connect to different parts of myself and other entities as well. They are never far…in fact, I am always aware of them…they seem to hover around the left and right sides of my head so I now know how it is that people began to think of them as being on their shoulders 
Then not too long ago I was visited by Archangels. They too came over as beings of light…but towering in stature. Their energy felt immense and it was reflected in how they seemed so much larger than myself in my spiritual vision. They identified themselves as Michael and Gabriel. They accompanied Jesus, whom I embraced warmly when he arrived, we had at one time been very close but had a falling out over the years which had finally been healed. It was a momentous occasion to say the least! Here’s the funny thing though…these same archangels also accompany the Goddess (lately she appears in her three forms at the same time) and the Horned God when I communicate with them. I don’t know if this happens to anyone else but the archangels for me, now always herald the appearance of god energy.
Gods & Goddesses
I need to make a distinction here between Gods & Goddesses and Source. Source energy, Higher Self, Angels, Archangels, Jesus, Gods & Goddesses all have very distinct energy. When the Goddess appears to me she is immensely majestic. Beautiful, divine and full of feminine power she is quite the figure to behold in any of her three aspects. Her quiet power pervades my very being, her mere presence demands respect…she is the stately queen of all queens whom no man alive could resist.
The Horned God and Sun Child appear in the same majesty yet their energy is very different. It is the same in regards to its immensity but it has a very male feel. They are the two different sides of desire. He appears behind her…always in the background, on the hunt or as a glorious child on her lap. He is the part of us that seeks life and moves toward it…he is a match to the life force within us. I feel a kinship with him, he is very comfortable, familiar, loyal and safe. Yet a great power lies within him, like a pulse, just under the surface…it reminds me of the smell of the spring air when the world is just about to burst forth into bloom. That is his power.
Jesus
Jesus comes through as immeasurable love and kindness. He warms my heart and my spirits. He also has a safe and familiar energy…a bond of kinship and of life. Like the Horned God, he serves life with his own…so it is not surprising that their energy would be similar in some ways, but in others completely different. The Horned God feels a bit wild…Jesus does not…he feels like peace.
When I healed my relationship with Christianity, Jesus came through with the Archangels at his side. He gave me a warm embrace and encouraged me to continue to encircle all faiths. He then placed his hands on my stomach and it expanded beneath his fingers, his hands began to glow as his body took on a transparent quality. Then like smoke in a vacuum, he entered my body through my belly button, reforming as a full term fetus in my expanded belly symbolizing the expansion of my Christ Consciousness. I know what you’re thinking…the birth motif has been big with me lately…but what can I say…I just tell it like I experience it!
Spiritual Teachers
The most spiritual man I ever met, identified me as being a significant contact through a phone call. We were each working jobs that miraculously orchestrated our unlikely paths to cross. I immediately sensed he was a spiritual teacher although I’m not sure how conscious of it I was. I loved his energy…enjoyed talking with him…and could feel something awaken within me every time we had contact. He stated that a meeting like this, was never an accident, and as if to prove it, he selflessly helped me gain in consciousness for several years. People like this seem rare but they are out there. When the student is ready, the teacher will appear…
Psychic Vampires
One of the most important lessons I learned about energy was taught to me by a psychic vampire. Now, don’t get me wrong…most of us could be accused of having been a psychic vampire at one time or another…but this man made it his chief form of existence. You could literally watch him target someone, walk up to them and sink in his teeth. When he was done…a traumatized shell of the person remained until they got a chance to recharge their batteries and then he was back again, ready for more.
This experience taught me to take charge of my own energy, to learn how and where I could heal from such attacks and how not to make myself a victim. Like I said in the beginning…even the bad & the ugly can be good
