mystery revives
interest in angels

HAVE YOU noticed the
recent flurry of media inter-
est in angels? Angels are hot,
though how long. it will last is
aINyORe’s LUESS,

Time and Newsweek have done
cover stories on our ethereal
friends, as has The United Chareh
Observer, Scores of peaple arc

“coming out of the closet” with
caccounts of uagel sightings,

_ As someone who saw tiny
angels on her bedspread around the
soatge of six, Edon't discount these
“close encounters of the angelic

kind, ;

Infact, benvy the people who"
have had them. [can think of sever-
il times over the last year when |
:wouid have welcomed a glowing
presence ultering comforting words
dike: “It's OR, Catherine, your life
may appear to be one gigantic

“Tess, but things will improve.”

“2 The obvious question is, why
this interest in angels now?

It's quite simple, say the theolo-
plans. We've “resurrected” angels

2 because we lack mystery in this

‘relentlessli* concrete, materialistic /

orld. . : of
“The experience of angels and
pirits is deeply rooted in the
‘human psyche,” says Rev. Bill:
Crockett, professor of systemic the-
ology. at the Vancouver School of
‘Theology. “You can’t eradicate ,
that. The scientific world-view tried
‘0 cradicate mystery from the
orld. But the things we know
‘through science are just models.
here is a mystery beyond that.”
Ina world that increasingly
defines mystery aS a Kansas house-
-wife'who meets space aliens from
enus in search of Elvis (see any
te of the National Inquirer), i's
0 wonder «t portion of the popula-
on is looking for. say, a more
ethereal Kind of mystery.
“The. problem is, | ihink most of
us could miss out'on a mecting with
“an atigel (ffom ‘angelos, the Greek
: word meaning messenger) because
ofthe way we lead our lives.
Short of an angel’s visiting us
on our deathbed (which seems to be

common viewing locale), individ-.

iials like’me are probably too busy
acking with friends on the phone
or watching Seinfeld to permit a
isil froma spiritual messenger.
To put it bluntly, sometimes to
ave pivotal highly. iNuminating
piritual experiences, you have to
be quict. Ba
I was reminded of this recently
whena friend said that, while visit-
ing the Antarctic, she was frustrat-
ed in her attempts to have spiritual

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because of all the tourists chattering
around her.

We are a society of frantic
beings who rush in to fill up what
could be interludes of wonderful

-silence with a cacophony of voices
/ (many of them from “the box” in
our living room).

Peace and tranquility make a lot
of us nervous — instead of secing
them as an opportunity to be spiri-
tual, we see them as a cause fora

- panic because we might actually

have to think about our lives!

If a society hooked on talking
makes it hard for angels to get a
message through, so.does one
where individuals are afraid of
being alone.

When you read about individu-
als’ encounters with angels, these
inevitably occur when people arc
alone (and watching Letterman by
yourself doesn’t count).

If'we are horrified of being
alone for more than 10 minutes, it
makes it difficult for angels to visit
us.

‘When was the last time you
were physically atone in anything .
resembling a quiet state?

So many of us book up our days
to the point where, if we had one,
our guardian angel would have tc
make an appointment lo see us.

In addition to the lack of mys-
tery, many of us must yearn for
angels, simply as a relief from what
passes for value and integrity in the
late 20th century.

' Whether it’s Michael Jackson
trying to buy his way out of a scan-
dal or Prince Charles* truc contes-
sions to Camilla Parker Bowles,
you start tell yourself there have
got to be beings operating on a
higher level than this.

[think there are — just try to be
alone and wait fora visitor. .

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Do You INTEND To
KEEP THis UP?

Dear Editor: . /

The letter from Peter Ferris
(Mailbox, Jan. 5) does much to sup-
port Doug Collins’ columns on
Canada’s immigration policies.

When Ferris immigrated to
Canada 25 years ago, he was one of
a comparatively small group, all of
whan had to have some designated
skill or ability which Canada need-
ed, and he also had to be in good
health, and not the carrier of com-
municable desease.

That he met these conditions,
and has since made a success of his
life -in Canada, is to his, and
Canada’s, benefit.

Compare this. with today's
immigration policies, both regular
and refugee, and we find thousands,
even hundreds of thousands of
immigrants, with ao skits or train-
ing, no ability to speak either of
Canada's official languages, and.
by decree, not allowed. to be

checked for the HIV virus, or other
disease, and you can only be sur-

prised at the moderation shown by :

Collins.

Ferris forgets that his ancestors,
some 200 years ago, imported hun-
dreds and thousands of Irishmen to
work in the factories, mills and
mines of England and southern
Scotland.

These people had no skills,
spoke a foreign language (Gaelic),
and brought with them whatever
disease they might be suffering. ©

This “blackleg” labor: was
roundly condemned by many citi-
zens, writers, and the press, but no

one termed their comments offen-

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sive or racist, though some were
certainly inflammatory, © ||.
Do we perhaps have a case of’:

the pot calling the kettle black? >|
' Tf Ferris feels unwelcome'in

Canada because ‘of Collins’
columns, it might be well for him to
emigrate to some country which -
censors its press, thereby ensuring’.
that only the official government |
line will be printed. Lr
I find it ironic that Collins, an
invmigrant from Britain, enjoys the :
freedom Canada gives, while
Ferris, an immigrant froin Britain,
deplores the freedom Canada gives.
Donald M. Currie :
North Vancouver

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