Doreen Virtue
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Doreen Virtue (born 29 April 1958) is an author, and creator of products and workshops on angels and angel-oriented therapy, fairies, chakras, goddesses, Ascended Masters, Indigo Children, and other spiritual topics. Doreen Virtue is best known for her book Messages From Your Angels, which has sold over 700,000 copies, and her New Age themed deck of cards. As a child Doreen claimed to see dead people, and was unable to tell the difference between them and living people. She now claims to be able to see guardian angels of every person on earth, even over the telephone, and has created a lucrative business telling people about their angels. Virtue claims a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from California Coast University, which was not an accredited institution when Virtue attended, and has widely been considered a diploma mill. The university is now accredited as a distance learning school by the Distance Education and Training Council. Outside of her claims involving angels Doreen has spoken and written on a range of concepts such as Indigo Children and numerology, where she claims to have divine revelation that the appearance of repetitive number sequences are forms of angel communication. Before she became involved in the New Age Movement, Virtue claims that she worked at several psychiatric hospitals. That claim is disputed since both hospitals appear to have been closed down for a considerable period of time. Her first published works were in the genre of psychological self-help and food craving. Virtue has reported that it was a carjacking attempt in 1995 that brought her to her current career path. She claims that the attackers were driven off after a voice told her to scream at the top of her lungs and passers-by came to her aid. She says she rediscovered clairvoyant abilities she had possessed since childhood and dedicated herself to following and teaching about divine guidance.[citation needed. She has primarily published through Hay House, which focuses on New Age books and materials and was started by author Louise Hay. Hay House also sponsors her internet radio show and many of her workshops and seminars worldwide. For more information on Doreen Virtue products or next appearance in Australia, please visit hayhouse.com.au or call 02 9669 4299