A book review of sorts.

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Karen Forrest is a woman who believes her life's purpose is to act as a spiritual conduit. She contacted me last week in order to promote her recently released book Angels of the Maritimes: By Your Side.

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From her website, the author asks "Do you believe in Angels?" Because if you do, the book promises to bring together an array of uplifting Maritime angel tales from people, just like you and me!

Then, the author promises to begin the process of teaching the average individual how to connect with their angels. She states that you can invoke Archangel Michael and others to heal your pets or for "even small things, like getting that perfect new outfit or finding a downtown parking spot." Now far be it for me to set up an Archangel's daily schedule, but my need for just the right outfit for a night of binging about town or my need to get a parking spot three metres closer to the grocery store, just doesn't seem to be top priority. I'm just throwing it out there.

I could think of other things angels should focus on, like the need for a retraction of recent changes to the French immersion program or a cure for my hangover from binging about town in just the right outfit.

But everything I knew, or thought I knew about these creatures, was apparently wrong.

If you haven't gotten wind of it yet, I'm a bit of a skeptic. Not in a malevolent way, if someone likes to ask angels or angles for favours, I say good for you. (I choose angle worship because I have a particular issue with parallel parking. Oh Mighty Pythagoras, do help me calculate the proper trajectory for my right tire now set on a collision course with the curb, I beseech thee...) All this to say that I thought I wouldn't be able to do an honest review of the Forrest's work without sounding a bit well...like the kind of person that really isn't 'into' angels.

But according to Karen, my interest or lack of belief in angels doesn't matter, because apparently they're into me.

So I contacted the author for an over the phone reading. She regularly does this sort of thing, and offered to guide me. Karen is very sincere in her beliefs and sounds utterly convincing.

She opens with a prayer and states the messages she receives are for me. That they don't mean anything to her, she would ask, "I'm seeing X, does this mean anything to you?" If it didn't she'd ask me to note it, that it might mean something later. And we carried on. There were some things that she did now, a few personal issues that have been clouding my focus.

So throughout the 45 minute discussion of my life's path, I found myself becoming an avid participant. Karen was on some levels very accurate about the state of my life, though the rational aspects of my nature question whether or not this is the result of picking up angelic signals, or just the fact that most young women my age would have very similar problems.

I've had a lot of bad 'psychic' readers in the past. "There's a man in your life. His name starts with P...no T...it was R...sorry." You know the drill.

Unlike other clairvoyant/medium/psychic readers, Karen was at a distinct disadvantage, because being over the phone meant she had no visual cues to go by. She could only ask or make a statement and await a reply.

For hours after my reading had concluded, I had a sense that my world had been tilted off its axis, if only just a little.

Whether I believe or no, she does and that might make her a bit happier than me. There might be something to it for you too.

Karen is hosting a workshop to anyone interested in learning more about contacting their own angels. Held May 10, at the Oneness Health and Wisdom Centre located at 100 Botsford Street in Moncton from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.

The cost is $50.85 including GST. You can find more information on the author and events like these at www.karenforrest.com.