Seeing Angels

'...before she could take another step, a hand from behind grabbed the shoulder of her coat and lifted her back onto the pavement. That same instant, a car which was travelling very fast and that she had neither seen nor heard, swept over the exact spot she had reached.' This is just one of the amazing stories that is featured in this book.

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Emma Heathcote-James has analysed over 800 such accounts for her PhD into Contemporary Experiences of Angels. Hundreds of people have claimed to have experienced visions of angels. These people are not crazy new-aged loonies, but ordinary people from all walks of life, from professionals to prisoners to children. This absorbing book, the product of painstaking research, gets to grips with the issues surrounding these strange manifestations. What do they mean? How do we know that we've seen one? When are they seen? The weight of the evidence may well lead you to adjust the way you have previously considered the supernatural...