Hi Turtle, Thanks for your question. Yes of course in "spiritual" circles there's lots of discussion around angels, ascended masters, guides and the like. Some people seem to get really invested in the whole idea - do they exist? if so, how so? The answer to any question (at all) rests in going right back to the source of all things. There is only one moment. Both space and time are illusions. The universe itself arises out of nothing and therefore IS nothing. A dynamic equilibrium exists between nothing (which is everything) and all that we experience. So separation (any separation) is an illusion and therefore all experience is an illusion. Yet to truly know anything - in other words to know ourself - we have to have experience. In order to have experience we have to allow the separation to happen and therefore we have to allow multiplicity of form. Every experience has but one purpose. To know ourselves as what we are, which is infinite potential. So here is the divine paradox....how can you know infinite potential? Well of course in truth you can't! However you can get extremely close to infinite potential - its being extremely close to absolute stillness in all things. This means that all experience is a distortion. It is all just a mirror. Yet once more arises the divine paradox - the absolute (infinite potential) can be known as a total LACK of experience...

"To be and not to be....that is the answer!"

So what does this mean in relation to archangels? Well since ALL experience is a distortion then archangels are distortions of truth also. The way to consider this is that we are each being the seer and we project aspects of ourselves outwards to see what we are being. In other words we create mirrors of an aspect of beingness we now choose to experience. So in my experience with Archangel Michael, my higher self was choosing to experience something symbolised by an angel with a sword. However I'm under no illusion that this projection is merely a part of me. It does still serve a purpose - a very valuable one. It adds colour joy and fun to life. It provides a beautiful multi dimensional, multi faceted experience to this existence. It helps build up waves of joy and love from the depths of our being. So "vive la difference!"