CONVERSATIONS THAT MATTER
We are Vacationing Angels: A conversation with Heidi Connolly
Heidi writes
Heidi writes
Many spiritual traditions assume that human life is not a singular event. Only the materialistic worldview makes us believe that, after our so-called death, there is nothing and therefore we need to make the most out of these few decades on earth…take everything we can get with no concern for the earth after we are gone. This has led us to the present disasters, extinction of species, pollution, overconsumption of resources, and, last but not least, new illnesses born from the lack of balance in our existence and of a deeper understanding of the earth and the cosmos as a whole. Just look at Covid, which targets the third chakra, affecting the lungs—our breath!—and the place from which we speak, or don’t speak, our truth.
In Christian culture we talk about a heaven populated with angels. This is an easy-to-grasp image promoted to our children to provide a basis of perception before the thinking mind kicks in: The world is a “magical” place where many things happen that adults just cannot see or understand. On the other hand, we make sure they know that it is also a place where nothing good happens and nothing we can’t see, hear, smell, taste, or touch with our human senses is real.
There have always been grown up people who haven’t lost this connection to the whole, who still can see the unseeable or hear the unhearable. In the materialistic world they were considered ill, mad, crazy…even witches. With ever more people experiencing events of spiritual openings, we are finally starting to admit that there might be, “out there,” things we cannot tackle with the scientific method. When even hard-core scientists change their attitude and admit that there is “more between heaven and earth” than we might chose to believe, some of us may be tempted to follow their example. To at least test the theory that those who tell their unusual stories might be speaking their truth with authenticity, credibility, and 100% sanity.
There are scientific attempts to describe the “paranormal,” which claim such events are not only commonplace, but available to everyone. That everybody has a certain degree of capacity within themselves. Rupert Sheldrake has shown that telepathy does not happen by chance and that it is an ability which bodies, humans and animal, have naturally. When average people experience it, they normally dismiss it as a meaningless coincidence. But what if it were more a synchronicity, a meaningful event, instead of a random one?
Jumping over to angels: the Catholic Church claims their existence and there are many people who have seen and met them in one way or another. Are they all just crazy, believing in illusions, or do angels really exist? As always, it depends on what you mean by the word. The entities we might refer to as “angels” have many names in different cultures. Generally they are considered spiritual beings in the non-material, “other” world who work for the wellbeing of us humans. But who are they really?
What if angels were humans who have passed into the “other world”? What if they want to guide and help us who we are still living on earth? They come from the broader perspective of life in the “Up There”? What if we, here on earth, are “Vacationing Angels”? Many spiritual traditions claim that humans are spiritual beings who are having a human experience. That fits the idea that we were angels before coming into a human body, angels who take a vacation from the continuous onslaught of feelings, emotions, and senses of our human experience. A vacation from the All-Oneness, the designated goal of spiritual practice, which might get quite boring over time. I remember a quote from Ken Wilber saying that God created the manifest Universe because he got bored to stay with himself alone all the time….
As “angels on vacation” we are able to be in contact with those on the other side. My guest Heidi—her name is not the only similarity between us—shares her direct experience with this phenomena, one she started to experience after the death of her husband. Having been more realistically oriented, like myself, and not having the slightest confidence that she had any capacity for a spiritual connection, she was convinced their partnership was over. That is, until it happened to her when her dead husband reached out to her. Together, one night, they wrote an entire book, Crossing the Rubicon—a conversation in poetry and prose outlining the conversation they never got to have while he was dying. Not only had Heidi never written poetry before—it was Randy’s preferred mode of expression, but she now fully understood the process of grief: How to develop a whole new kind of relationship with loved ones on the Other Side. Magically, she learned how to do this through putting pen to paper.
This was the beginning of a completely new life for Heidi, where she discovered her abilities to help and guide others in their quest for meaning and purpose. She is a professionally trained classical musician—again, like myself—who has come to integrate her own music in the process of transmitting information and healing, especially to people lost in grief and victimhood.
Heidi and I passed a wonderful hour together in this interview. At a certain point she channeled to me messages from Mark, my late husband, and played improvisationally guided music for me. It was very touching, I felt tears rolling down my cheeks. I am very grateful to have met her. She feels like a soul sister to me—a concept of the “Archetypes of soul” I had discussed lately with Marion Lockert.
Heidi Connolly can be reached at vacationingangel.com. She is busily finishing production of her first novel, The Gateway Café: A Vacationing Angel Novel, now available for pre-order, also at vacationingangel.com.
Videopost for December 2nd, 2020
About Heidi Connolli
When her husband Randy transitioned in 2012, Heidi’s life took a dramatic turn. All the usual challenges—how to live without a beloved spouse, to go about daily life when suddenly you are one, not a partnership of two, and so on—were enormous, but the emergent, deep-seated truth was much more revelatory.
Owner of Harvard Girl Word Services for over 20 years, Heidi has focused on the work of others and praised for “channeling the messages” of the authors she works with. Now, she understands just how valid that descriptor is. In her award-winning book Crossing the Rubicon, written with Randy after his passing, Randy informs Heidi says that the grieving process can act like a filter to block out spiritual messages—the very messages people crave to hear after a loved one’s death.
Learning this truth led Heidi to understand that she was capable of much more than she’d ever given herself credit, including her ability to communicate with the Other Side. Shortly after Crossing the Rubicon was published, Randy encouraged Heidi to play the flute again after a 25-year hiatus from her classical music career. Shocked but willing, Heidi soon began channeling what he called “inspirationally guided flute music.”
Currently, her multidimensional compass is aligned with a practice of intuitive coaching of High Sensitives, musical connection, and living life as a “Vacationing Angel.” See: https://www.vacationingangel.com/
