In this luminous, thought-provoking companion volume to the NBC television series "Angels: The Mysterious Messengers," some of our most powerfully original thinkers and spiritual leaders explore the place and meaning of angels in the modern world. Interspersed with interviews are mesmerizing true stories of angelic encounters -- flash visitations of angels to warn and comfort and heal ordinary men and women in their hours of greatest physical and spiritual need. nous, thought-provoking companion volume to the NBC television series "Angels: The Mysterious Messengers," some of our most powerfully original thinkers and spiritual leaders explore the place and meaning of angels in the modern world. Interspersed with interviews are mesmerizing true stories of angelic encounters -- flash visitations of angels to warn and comfort and heal ordinary men and women in their hours of greatest physical and spiritual need.