A viewer asks: “A popular New Age author and therapist, Doreen Virtue, known for preaching the use of guardian angels as spiritual healing through her program Angel Therapy, denounced her own work in 2017, saying, “I was deceived by New Age teachings and by demons who were posing as angels. Not one person in the Bible calls upon angels. If God wants to send an angel to someone, He will send it.” Now she is a born-again Christian and has retracted her New Age books, teachings, and oracle cards and focuses only on the Bible. I purchased several of her books and especially found the book, Archangels and Ascended Masters, helpful to me in difficult times. Is corruption the basis for her turnaround?” What is Creator’s perspective?

There are many things we could say about her turnaround here and we think it is most fitting to leave much of that up to her and her words about the matter, as dissecting her life and her performance, as a spiritual leader, is a quite difficult and painful saga, much of it on a private level that would not benefit others to hear and would be hurtful for her, just as all humans who have failings at times would not benefit from a dissection of the gory details. What we can say, given that she has made this declaration, is that this is not a misdirection or a lack of alignment, in seeming to retreat back to the Bible after a period of greater enlightenment, as is assumed by the New Age followers they are a part of and contributing to in their efforts. This is a return to authenticity and she was driven to that choice by seeing through the deceptions that had crept in and were manipulating her, both the beings who she tuned into as well as some of the teachings of her own that had become corrupted in subtle ways, but in a meaningful fashion, to keep her work on a lower level of effectiveness than she herself believed. That is not to say her teachings were lies or even greatly faulty. Much of what she knew and came to believe, in working passionately to be a spiritual force for good, was based on the reality of the divine and many prior perspectives and teachings, including the Bible. The problem was she was doing this all on her own and lacked appropriate safeguards, thinking she was a lightworker and, assuming she was in divine alignment, could simply tune into lofty beings and receive insights and awarenesses that she could rely on. As you know, from your hard-won learning yourself, it is not so simple. People cannot truly defend themselves very effectively, that is simply the truth of the matter at its naked core. People will not want to hear that, but there is no better way to drive the point home than to make a sweeping declaration. You are vulnerable, all of you, and sitting ducks. To the extent you believe in the Almighty, and ask fervently for protection on a regular basis, that might well do the job but is never a guarantee because humans themselves will vary in their vibration and make themselves vulnerable without realizing it, and the interlopers will pounce each and every time to try and get a handhold and enter your energy to corrupt you further. It is like walking through a battlefield in the midst of a raging war with bullets flying to and fro; if you ask for protection, that might well be effective but eventually there will be a moment when you are in doubt or in a state of fear or anxiety about something and, in the doing, become more visible to the darkness and will have bullets aimed at you. She was astute enough to realize there had been some corruption of her intentions and perceptions and was brave enough to explain to her followers this dramatic change in her perspective in renouncing her prior teachings. In actuality, while that seems extreme, it is the unfortunate truth that work done in collaboration with the darkness will become tainted energetically through entanglements with dark plans, dark intentions, and dark beings themselves, such that when people engage with faulty work there will be a likelihood it gets noticed, and that connection will be traced to you and you will be inspected and worked on to engage in all kinds of mischief. So the safest course is to bring about a separation. That is not to say there is nothing she could do in the future that is original, if it is produced while truly in divine alignment and unencumbered by influences of the interlopers, but that is her place to ponder and decide. So we see this as a cautionary tale for all would-be lightworkers, to be extremely meticulous and rigorous in requesting divine protection before doing any intuitive work of any kind, and this includes as well, making oneself visible by making public declarations as an advocate for spiritual principles. These are treacherous times and the darkness is always watching. You can stand strong and walk tall, and even walk through the fire with sufficient belief in the divine, and in yourself to be worthy of divine support and protection, but that is usually always a work in progress, so it is prudent to proceed with care and work at things to build a fortress of faith before venturing forth.