About Me

Here is the intro to my book The Clear and Simple Way: A Book of 24 Angel Lessons but it also tells about me.

PROLOGUE
But the angel said, “Do not be afraid; peace be with you. Bless God forever. As far as I was concerned, when I was with you,my presence was not by any decision of mine, but by the will of God. God is the one whom you must bless as long as you live. God is the one you must praise.”—Tobit: xi: The Revelation

In 1981 I survived what is today commonly known as a near-death experience or NDE, when I was the victim of a violent crime. What happened during and after this experience was completely out of my ordinary reality. While out of my body, I encountered the Light of all encompassing love, wisdom, and compassion. I chose to go to the Light, but an angel sent me back to my life on earth. Angels and beings of light intervened to protect and guide me, not only while I was out of my body, but also after I returned to it. Although I had never before seen the Light, angels, or Beings of Light, I knew them all when I met them. There was no question in my mind, and I needed no introduction. My encounter with the Light and the angels profoundly transformed my way of thinking and living—and changed the course of my career.
Prior to this, angels had not been part of my life or thinking. I had always thought that truth was ancient and eternal—not something new to be created, but present to be discovered. I could remember a time in my childhood when I had felt one with everything. I could remember when that changed. And I could remember sitting quietly, at about four or five years old, willing myself to go back to when I was not separate from God—meditating before I had ever heard the word—and just when I was almost there, almost touching truth, I would dissolve into vast space. When I returned, there I would be, in my little body that was separate from everything, wondering what had happened and where God was.
And so I had been searching for the deeper meaning of life for so long as I could remember, a search that led me to explore many teachers, religions, philosophies, and paths. At the time of this NDE, I had spent time in India, studying Eastern philosophy, meditation, and yoga, but I had never met anyone who claimed to have had a near-death experience or to have seen angels.
Without the intervention of the angels, the outcome of my story would have been much different. However, I was not meant to die that night—at least my body was not meant to cease to function upon the face of the earth with “me” in it. Death is another concept altogether. Clearly, the “I” is never born and never dies.
If you fear death or have lost someone to a violent or painful death, perhaps you will find solace in my experience that we do not make our passage into the next world alone. Angels and beings of light arrive in the moment of need. Our life force continues; hence, there is no real death; there is only change. Furthermore, once the life force departs the body, there is no physical pain, even if the process of dying was painful. The spiritual body is light and free, unconstrained by the limits of physical existence. We “die” here, take birth in a new body, and begin a new journey. What that precise journey is for each soul, I cannot say; however, I am certain there is nothing to fear and that our true essence is eternal.
Following this near-death experience, my natural empathic abilities, always very keen, began to deepen and expand. I sensed the angels around me and was able to intuit their messages. Amazed and astounded by this, I questioned deeply what was happening. I had always thought of myself as a very pragmatic, down-to-earth person—perhaps even more so since my contact with the angels, because angels, in spite of the many myths human beings have created about them, are among the most down-to-earth beings one could ever encounter.
One day, I sat at my typewriter (this was 1981, remember, before laptops were everywhere) intending to type a letter, and instead found myself writing messages from the angels. I did not know it then, but these were the rudimentary beginnings of these angel lessons. At the time, it was as if I was translating another language—the language of angels, which came to me as a high-pitched vibration, not really pleasant for my ears. The writing itself held a certain primitive beauty, as if I was a not very good translator of a foreign language.
Nevertheless, I continued to write and to talk about my experiences, mostly because I could not not do so—my everyday reality had been shattered in so many ways. Not only was I still overcoming the emotional and physical trauma of that night, I was trying to understand and deal with the near-death experience itself—the fact that I could have survived—that such cold-blooded violence existed in another human being—that I had clearly floated up and out of a body that had ceased to live—that there were planes of existence with beings of light, angels, and most incredibly, a beautiful Light of all love, wisdom, and compassion. My experience with the Light and the angels was more vivid and real than anything I had ever known; it touched and transformed me deeply and profoundly.
Unbeknownst to me, my experiences were also touching the lives of the people around me. Soon friends and acquaintances began to approach me, asking if I could do angel writings for them, as I did for myself. My first reaction was, absolutely not! I could not imagine how this would work and had no context in which to put it.
I cannot remember, now, how that no changed to yes—but soon I found myself sitting down at my typewriter, watching my fingers type answers to people’s questions. I do remember clearly the first time someone asked me if, instead of giving her an angel writing I could give her an angel reading—just sit down and talk with her. Again, my first reaction was no, but she persisted and finally, hesitantly, I sat down with her. Hence, I gave the first angel reading in 1981.
A reading is a deeply transformative counseling experience that enables us to better understand and deal with our lives and relationships. It offers both spiritual and practical guidance. The blocks that keep us from living our true magnificence are revealed, as we are ready to see them. These blocks are primarily unconscious thought patterns of lack, loss, fear, and limitation. What we are not aware of controls us. As we become aware of unhealthy habits, they begin to lose control over us. We move from the darkness of ignorance into the light of awareness.
I contend, however, that there is no instant magic formula—each of us must live our own life—performing daily the actions that take us closer to inner contentment and peace of mind. We must each make our own decisions and commit to moving with integrity toward the fulfillment of our own life. Angels assist us in this effort; they do not do it for us.
Some years later, when I was once again in India, attending an seminar on Advaita with Ramesh Balsekar, I was honored to give a reading to Dr. Henning von der Osten, a well-loved and prominent psychotherapist who has helped transform the lives of countless people over the years. He invited me to give readings at his seminars in Europe. With the support of Dr. Henning and Elke von der Osten, my work expanded to include seminars and lectures throughout Germany and Switzerland, where I have toured for the last sixteen years.
Around 1995, I started writing a correspondence course, which I called, The Clear and Simple Way. I was living on Maui at the time, having moved several times since 1981. My backyard was the ocean; my neighbors were the guava and banana trees that grew around my home. One day, I woke up in a strangely despondent mood that I could not shake, despite the beauty of my surroundings. It lifted on the fourth morning when I awoke with the unshakeable conviction that I was meant to write down the teachings of the angels in the form of a correspondence course that would ultimately benefit many people.
Filled with the kind of glorious inspiration that gives incredible energy, I jumped out of bed and ran to the ocean to watch the sun rise. As I strolled along the shore, the first lesson came to me in its entirety. I went home and wrote it down. I continued to write, one lesson every month. Each lesson was equally inspired. All I had to do was “show up”—that is, sit down at my laptop and place my fingers on the keys. The lessons have, of course, since evolved and transformed, although the essential message of each lesson remains the same.
Over the next two years, I authored twenty-four lessons. The first students were those people who had been coming to me for guidance over the years. I sent each student one lesson a month and maintained the course for three years. I am grateful for the trust they placed in me when they readily subscribed to the angel course. They inspired me to keep showing up each month to write yet another lesson and were instrumental in helping this book come into existence.
The lessons were also translated into German as, Der Klar und Einfach Weg, and distributed in German-speaking countries. The first translators were Lutzie, Grace, and Claus, to whom I am also grateful.
I stopped writing the course soon after my only sister passed away from a long illness. She had been taking care of the business side of the lessons for me. It seemed an appropriate end to that phase of the work. Lessons 19 and 20 were written in the last months of my sister’s life, while I was staying with her and her family, in our hometown in rural upstate New York. Following her death, I did not return to Maui; instead, I moved to Los Angeles, the city of angels, where the final lessons were composed.
I completed Lesson 24, followed through with my commitments to the remaining students, and then put the lessons away and forgot about them. One day, I took them all out, put them together, and realized I was holding a book in my hands. I had never thought of the lessons as anything more than a monthly correspondence course. I made copies of the lessons, bound them together, and made them available in both German and English—and so the first book of angel lessons was born.
The lessons have evolved over the years, to become the book you now hold in your hands. This book is the expanded, revised edition, the only edition legally available and authorized for sale in English. For information about the German version, Der Klar und Einfach Weg, translated in its final form by Annie Baumhardt, you may e-mail indiraparsons@gmail.com.
The Light and the angels have a magnificent transforming power. You have the opportunity to experience this for yourself by simply “showing up” and reading your lessons on a consistent basis. It really is that clear. And simple. The Clear and Simple Way.

Comments

Ilka

Friday, January 4th, 2008 9:20 PM

Hello Indira,

It's very nice to meet you. We have a couple of things in common...one of which is the movie Dr. Zhivago, which is my all-time favorite movie. Can't count anymore how many times I've watched it ;o)

Wishing you the best year ever. May 2008 be "twothousandgreat!"

Ilka ;o)

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