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Hiring the Heavens: A Practical Guide to Developing Working Relationships with the Spirits of Creation

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"Do you feel connected to Spirit? I'm not talking about whether or not you have a religious background or affiliation. I'm talking about being connected to the power of the Heavens-and bringing it right down here to Earth to use in your everyday life." - Jean Slatter

The idea of enlisting help from angels, saints, or spiritual helpers is not a new one. For example, some Christian denominations teach that angels or saints are more than willing to help humans in their everyday lives as they navigate the twists and turns of earthly living.

However, many are disillusioned with formal religion in the new millennium and one result is the sense of being alone in the Universe. Yet, there remains a desire to connect with something bigger than the self-to believe that someone or something is looking out for us and is willing to help manage our lives.

With war, terroristic acts, cruelty and suffering flooding 24-hour news channels and other media, it's not uncommon to hear jaded folks wondering "If there is a God, then why in the world is he asleep on the job?!"

What hasn't been considered is that we are the proverbial hands, feet, eyes, and mouth of the Divine. Could it be that we "have not because we ask not", as Jesus taught? Violating free will is not in the plan of the Heavens, so then could it be that we must engage the spirits of creation on our behalf?

In the book Hiring the Heavens - A Practical Guide to Developing Working Relationships with the Spirits of Creation author Jean Slatter makes a convincing case that not only are the spirits of creation ready to help us with the "real stuff" of life, but that it is our birthright and mission as extensions of God to joyfully wield the creative power of the Universe.

To be sure, some are not ready to assume the posture of a creator because this in turn implies responsibility. But as Slatter states:

"When we see ourselves as divinely sanctioned creatures, something quite amazing happens. The transformation is unmistakable. We live life from a different vantage point. We recognize our authority to summon the vast resources of the Heavens and all of the eager spiritual assistance that's available for everything we do. We discover that all conceivable problems can be solved by our connection to this incredible power. With this new awareness we can shape our lives purposefully, creating joy and fulfillment with such ease that it feels like a miracle. From now on our lives can be deliberate, joyful expressions of the infinite Source of all creation and possibilities. Heaven can finally be brought down to Earth."
Hiring the Heavens conveys a simple message that is found in other books and teachings, but is packaged in a fresh, accessible way. Slatter approaches enlisting help from the Heavens as a hiring process. Just as you might hire an interior decorator, a chef, a babysitter or an accountant, you can do the same with the spirit helpers. In fact, Slatter asserts that for every earthly "job" there is a spiritual counterpart waiting in the wings.

For example, let's say your house is a disaster, the kids need to be taken to different extra-curricular activities and bills are sitting on your desk. You feel overwhelmed. The first thing you may choose to do is "hire" a spiritual organizer! Ask for organizational aid for accomplishing what you need to do (preferably with joy and grace intact!). You can even create a spirit committee with your Organizer at the helm. Invoke a spiritual accountant to help you deal with the bills, a spiritual housecleaner to help you de-clutter and tidy up, and a spiritual chauffeur to get the kids where they need to go on time. Hold "staff meetings" and delegate tasks to the spirits of creation.

Sounds too good to be true? All I can say is get Hiring the Heavens and try the process yourself! I've tried it several times (from a skeptical viewpoint) and I was amazed at how it worked. For example, I was looking through my media center trying to find a particular CD-ROM. After looking through several rows of CD's and CD-ROM's for some time, I remembered the concept of hiring the Heavens. I decided to try it out and said under my breath "I need a spiritual detective to help me find this software!" I no more got the words out and my eyes alighted upon the CD-ROM I needed.

I couldn't believe it.

I've tried it several times already, with amazing success. I'm building up my "hiring muscles" as it were, because I had lost faith in angels or spirit helpers over the years-mostly as a result of extreme difficulty (such as my first husband contracting leukemia, suffering for a year, and then dying.) We were both Charismatic Christian pastors at the time, and actually *taught* the concept of sending angels out on assignment. To experience what we did left me disappointed and wary of any "help" from the heavens. However, I now realize that I needed some major paradigm shifts in the area of expectations, fear, life purpose, and the point of "Earth school".

Hiring the Heavens is a 131-paged paperback and includes several "Committee Worksheets" in the back of the book. Also included are three "Angel Express" Cards issued from the Bank of Creation. Tucked onto the book flap and easily cut out for use, they are valid today/always/forever.

Unlike the countless spiritual self-help books gathering dust on my bookshelf-Hiring The Heavens-was delightfully refreshing! I read the book-from cover to cover-in ONE afternoon. Slatter's process is simple (the best usually are) yet; its applications run deep and are transformational. I found Slatter's employment metaphor applicable and fun to practice. Miracles and synchronicities are now daily occurrences-thanks to my celestial work force. More importantly, Hiring The Heavens helped me to once again EXPERIENCE my own connection with the Divine. For those feeling bogged down with metaphysical concepts and applications-this is a MUST read.

Jean's own story is an inspiration. Her book is so easy to read and gets the reader pick the concepts up so quickly. Everyone can grasp the concepts described in Jean's book and she offers very helpful insights in the "how to's" of the creation process, making 'co-creating with heaven' a simple 'job'.

I highly recommend this and have used the concepts in this book and creating great improvements in my life.

Thank you very much, Jean, for writing the book. Please keep up the great work.

Yours very sincerely.

I just finished reading this book, and I am already thinking of all the amazing & wonderful things I can accomplish, and the sheer joy I can experience in my life, by co-creating the life I truly want to live with the help of Spirit.

This amazing little book explains that we are co-creators of our own life experience, and that, when we request the help of Spirit, we will be given all the help we need to create exactly what we desire.

The author has done a great job of explaining our role as creators, and of providing a context through which we can request aid from those in spirit - by actually creating comittees to help us achieve what is truly important to us.

It's a great concept, and appears quite easy to use. In fact, I can't wait to get started in creating the comittees I'd like to help me along the way.

This is a relatively short book, but it's jam packed with great information & ideas. So, although it can be read in one sitting, its' impact can last a life-time.

If you are at all interested in the topic of creating the life you desire, then this is the book for you! I would also highly recommend (as does the author) those books/tapes by Esther & Jerry Hicks, as well as the book "The Power of Intention" by Dr. Wayne Dyer. Although they approach this topic in a different way, the core ideas are the same.

This book presents one of the simple and fun ways for co-creating with the divine. To this effect, the author uses the metaphors of heavenly yellow pages, heavenly temporary agencies and heavenly staff meetings and just like you would hire an assistant to help you with your project from a temporary agency or find help you need through yellow pages, the author suggests to use the similar method to get divine help.

The books is designed to inspire you and encourage you to keep in touch with divine throughout each day and to call upon divine no matter how small or mundane the tasks you need to accomplish may be. You can engage divine assistance to ensure that your everyday life is happy, healthy and fulfilling, add a divine touch to your shopping, childcare, business meeting, project preparation or fulfillment, travel, vacation, social gathering or whatever activities may be part of your day.

As you begin to live and work with divine assistance, you begin to experience all sorts of miracles in your daily life, projects get done faster, everything goes smoother and problems get miraculously solved. Your live becomes harmonious, you begin to flow with life; living becomes effortless and whatever you need to accomplish becomes more like playing.

This is one of those lovely little books you may want to buy for all of your friends and loved ones.

There are few suggestions that the author made with which I do not quite agree. One is that it doesn't matter how you word your request because the heaven has your best interests at heart. I agree that heaven has your best interests at heart, and that as a matter of fact "heaven" loves you so much that it says "yes" to whatever you ask for, cherish in your heart, keep on repeating as a statement (intentionally or unintentionally), whatever fits your beliefs and expectations. We are all experiencing the effects of our cherished thoughts, words and beliefs in our daily lives. On a more drastic note, there was a man whose daughter was very ill and who used to repeat that he'd give his right arm for the health of his daughter. He ended up having a car accident, lost his arm and at the same time his daughter miraculously recovered. I've had my share of situations that prompted me to pay better attention to the thoughts that go through my mind and to the words that come out of my mouth. As your power to manifest unfolds and you begin to have more and more experiences where one moment you think of something and the next moment it happens you realize the necessity of becoming vigilant over your thoughts and to contemplate only those thoughts which you'd love to experience in your life.

Another issue in this book was whether you should or shouldn't use phrases "I want". Some authors suggest that if you keep on using them, you'll keep on wanting forever, whereas this authors suggests that wanting is the essence of creation. None have mentioned that what really matters is the subjective experience, the feeling you have associated with those words - when you say "I want" are you experiencing a lack of the thing you want or are you subjectively experiencing an ownership of the thing you want. Feelings of neediness and desperation are not the essence of creation (if you are projecting a feeling of lack, the universe mirrors it back to you and you end up with more of the same), subjective experience of having it is what moves the energy to take the form of a desired thing and manifest in your life.

The author is in this book also discussing some old and new paradigms of asking heavens for help. Just because there are many people who have never learned how to ask heavens for help, I don't think that it constitutes the old paradigm. After all, in the Sermon on the Mount, in the Bible, Jesus himself used what the author is calling a "new paradigm". Throughout history and across the world everyone who prayed aright - whether they called it praying, co-creating, self-hypnosis, magic or by any other term, has done it following the same universal principles, the same paradigm and that is getting into the state of Oneness with the Power of Creation and creating what you desire from that state of mind.

Once you're done with this book, if you want to get even more inspired, you can pick books like Door of Everything by Ruby Nelson, Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East by Baird T. Spalding, and A Course in Miracles.

If you believe in guardian angels then this book is for you. Simple and fun - you will have a field day. I got this as a present and instantly created my career committee ... within two weeks I got the job in the field I really wanted! Try this tool and see where it leads you!

This is one book everyone should read, it is amazing and works. I was told about this book, by my mother, and decided to try it. My husband and I are truck drivers, and I asked my angels for a load that paid $1700 for one day. Five minutes later I got a offer for a load that paid $1685, after picking up load, I told the angels that I would like to repeat this. Right after asking, I got a call, and was offered a repeat for this load, for $1725. Before we finished we made $3400 in two days. That was even before I read the book. Now I hire my angels for parking places at truck stops, and I am working when others sit still. The angels work for me, and I tell others about them all the time.

This is an outrageously delightful little book and Jean Slatter is a divine creator! Simple, elegant and so very to-the-point the book is short and worth every word. Manifesting our reality really is this easy, and this much FUN :) Abers, this is a wonderful book - written with the help of Universal Managers and other Abraham-Hicks fans - and it shows!

Wow! Wow! Wow! From the moment I picked up Hiring the Heavens, I knew this book was exactly what I had needed. I have been a student of the Law of Attraction for many years. However, my truest desires seemed to elude me. I spent a great deal of time thinking "What is wrong with me?".

After reading Hiring the Heavens, my life has been completely transformed in every area of my life, including my business, my relationships and my level of prosperity. I loved the simple and powerful principles in this book that I tell everyone about it. It is a must read!

Hiring the Heavens is a good, concise, and sensible guide that inspires believers to "let go" and allow the spirits of creation to work for, with, and through us.

...Also makes a great gift.