"The truth toward which the myths of angels point is the truth of the absolute unity of all reality in, with, and as God. Actively engaging with myths of angels tilts our thinking and opens our minds to more holistic ways of knowing and living in the world. In Campbell's words, 'It's important to live life with the experience, and therefore the knowledge, of its mystery and your own mystery. This gives life a new radiance, a new harmony, a new splendor. Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears. You learn to recognize the positive values in what appear to be the negative moments and aspects of your life. The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure . . . the adventure of the hero — the adventure of being alive.'
"Angels, or more accurately our myths of angels, call us to the adventure of life, the hero's journey from bounded ego-centered consciousness to unbounded divine consciousness. Angels are our mythic guides to this greater reality. They point toward a truth greater than themselves and show us how to realize that truth in and as our truest selves. In some of the myths the hero becomes the angel and returns to guide us to the place he or she has been to. In others the angel speaks to the hero as 'other' and yet is internal — what Rabbi Joseph Karo (1488-1575), the great master of Jewish jurisprudence who said he was visited by an angel he called the Maggid (the Proclaimer), called an 'echo' of our deepest thoughts."
