Doreen Virtue

[[File:Doreen Virtue 2022.png|thumb|165px|Doreen Virtue, 2022]]
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{{cquote|Doreen Virtue, the woman who runs seminars on how to talk to angels. And yes, there are apparently adults who are not in mental institutions (yet) who believe in this. |||Skeptico Critical thinking for an irrational world<ref name=Skeptico>[http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2005/04/angel_came_down.html Angel came down…]</ref>}}

'''Doreen Virtue''' {{lived|1958}} was an [[Angel therapy|Angel Therapy]] charlatan (yes you read that correctly: Angel Therapy).<ref>[http://www.skepdic.com/angeltherapy.html angel therapy]</ref> In 2017, Virtue converted to [[Christianity]] (specifically, the American-style [[Fundamentalist Christianity|fundamentalist]] type) and renounced her previous New Age activities. She has had her name removed from various New Age products and publications, including apps and [[tarot]] decks.<ref>http://doreenvirtue.com/2018/08/08/an-update-on-doreens-changes/</ref> She is one of only a few special select people who can "see" and "communicate" with [[angel]]s including the [[angel#Guardian angel|guardian angels]] that watch out over all of us. If you're a lady between about 35 and 65, at home and without too much education and access to pricy-hourly-rate-kind-of-cash, Virtue may have just what you're looking for.<ref group=note>[[Alexa]], for what it's worth, suggests Virtue appeals primarily to 'moderately educated' women in the age group between 35 and 65 with kids browsing from home. [http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http://www.angeltherapy.com Alexa on angeltherapy.com]</ref> Indeed, Virtue has an impressive, unverified story about how angels saved her life when armed robbers tried to steal her car, the angels told her to scream and she screamed.<ref>[http://www.angeltherapy.com/about.php About Doreen Virtue]</ref><ref name=Skeptico/> She earned an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Chapman University, a fully accredited university.<ref name=degrees>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrXCs5PbMcc Doreen Virtue discusses how she earned her University Degrees</ref> She earned a Doctorate of Philosophy in Psychology from California Coast University, which is accredited by the Distance Education Accreditation Commission.<ref name=degrees/>

For a price, Virtue will show you how angels can help you the way they help her, which seems even more questionable now that she has renounced her work.<ref>[https://doreenvirtue.com/2020/07/01/why-did-doreen-remove-her-testimony/ Why did Doreen remove her testimony?] doreenvirtue.com, 1 July 2020.</ref> She is something of a prolific woo-factory turning out several books a year on angel related cruft. Earlier in her career she focused mainly on folk-psychology writing mainly on relationship therapy. She has written as many books on the topic as men she has married and divorced. Angels seem to be brilliant with numbers but lousy marriage counselors.

==Angel Numbers==
Virtue is a longtime student of [[numerology|number-woo]], and invented a [[Past life regression therapy|past life]] story where she studied under Pythagoras himself. According to Virtue, we're all [[Alchemy|alchemists]] somehow or other&mdash;it's not clear what that means, but it appears to impress her followers. Anyway, numbers have special significance or [[vibration#Woo|vibrations]] or whatever, and numbers you see on clocks, license plates and the like provide messages from angels&mdash;thus, we should ask our angels to explain the significance of these numbers. Angels arrange for specific number sequences to appear to us or subtly ''"whisper in"'' our ''"ear"'' so that we focus on particular numbers on every day banal objects. If we keep noticing the [[pattern recognition|same number sequences]] (specifically in repeating sequences or patterns such as 777 or 1212), the angels are [[Bullshit|giving us a message through those numbers]]. She also claims to know how Angels are able to interfere with license plate registration numbers, phone number customers are assigned and the exact temperature on thermometers (°F for Americans and °C for the rest of the world) so that one day, they all converge as the same number (up to how many decimal points they can do this...not even Doreen one knows). She could write down how Angels pull this all off in a book and sell it to you, but doing it through a 1-900 phone number is more sensible. To feel angel numbers in depth you can contact Doreen and trade her number-knowledge with your credit card number.

Virtue has a special "Angel Number Calculator" for identifying your personal angel number, or that of other people.<ref name=Skeptico/><ref>[http://spiritlibrary.com/doreen-virtue/angel-numbers Angel Numbers]; [http://spiritlibrary.com/doreen-virtue/number-sequences-from-the-angels Number Sequences From The Angels]; [http://www.easycalculation.com/other/fun/angel-number-calculator.php Angel Number Calculator]</ref> Virtue's most notable numbers are located on the price tags of the books she sells.

==Courses==
If you can't afford a personal therapy session with Virtue, there are other "certified spiritual councilors" (CSC) and "angel therapy practitioners" (ATP) that have been certified by the American Board of [[Hypnotherapy]],<ref group=note>You may need to read up on [[Quackwatch]] if you think this is a legitimate organization.</ref> which is (surprise!) headed by Virtue.<ref>[http://www.angeltherapy.com/atp.php Official Angel Therapy Practitioners]</ref> Yes, you too can take a series of courses (if you can afford it, that is), obtain the much-coveted ATP title and help others find interpersonal communicative bliss with their guardian angel.<ref>[http://www.charlesvirtue.com/AdvancedEN.html Example course]</ref>

==Indigo crystal and rainbow children==
Virtue is excited about [[indigo child]]ren and [[indigo child#Crystal children|crystal children]] and has now come up with something even more remarkable and special called "rainbow children". Since [[human]]s evolved from what Virtue calls ''"ape-like postures"'', crystal children prove humanity can evolve further. Still, Virtue doesn't mean [[evolution]] by [[natural selection]], because she also writes that [[God]] is sending these various children as a gift to us. The [[crystal woo|crystals]] and the rainbows are both highly sensitive and [[psychic]], they may appear uncommunicative and autistic but ''really'' they communicate [[telepathy|telepathically]] instead. Virtue writes that the spirit world told her remarkable things about all these wonderful children while she was asleep. Furthermore, Virtue published a 
lucrative
 spiritually-informed book about the crystal children. We wait with bated breath for her follow-up book on rainbow children.

Virtue also offers instruction on the very similar-sounding [[Earth angels]].<ref>[http://www.earthangel.com/ Earth Angels]</ref><ref>''The Care and Feeding of Indigo Children'' by Doreen Virtue (2001) Hay House. ISBN 1-56170-846-1.</ref>

==Crank magnetism==
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Besides angels and indigos, Virtue has written on a number of other [[woo]] topics, including [[chakra]]s,<ref>''Chakra Clearing'' by Doreen Virtue (1998) Hay House. ISBN 1-56170-566-7.</ref><ref>''Chakra Clearing: Awakening Your Power to Know and Heal'' by Doreen Virtue (2004) Hay House. ISBN 1-4019-0277-4.</ref> fairies,<ref>''Healing with the Fairies'' by Doreen Virtue (2001) Hay House. ISBN 1-56170-807-0.</ref><ref>''Fairies 101: An Introduction to Connecting, Working, and Healing with the Fairies and Other Elementals'' by Doreen Virtue (2011) Hay House. ISBN 978-1-4019-3183-4.</ref> [[ascended master]]s,<ref>''Archangels & Ascended Masters'' by Doreen Virtue (2004) Hay House. ISBN 1-4019-0063-1.</ref> [[crystal healing]]<ref>''Crystal Therapy: How to Heal and Empower Your Life with Crystal Energy'' by Doreen Virtue (2005) Hay House. ISBN 1-4019-0467-X.</ref> and oracle cards (which are divinatory decks like [[tarot]], but they lack the major and minor arcana structure).

==Conversion to fundamentalist Christianity==
Virtue said she had an experience of [[Jesus]] in an Episcopal church in early 2017 and says she has given up the angels, the [[tarot]] and the rest of it.<ref name="conversion">http://www.angeltherapy.com/2018/03/12/about-doreens-conversion-to-christianity/</ref> She is no longer selling her own books via her website, but instead refers to an Amazon site with a list of Evangelical Protestant titles. [[Hay House]] continues to sell 25 oracle decks authored by Virtue.

However, her new views are reminiscent of far-right [[fundamentalist Christianity]] (such as an [https://doreenvirtue.com/2019/07/21/an-a-z-list-of-new-age-practices-to-avoid-and-why/ A to Z list of practices to avoid on her website]), and have such been criticized. She would later even invalidate her vision of Jesus.<ref>https://lorilynhurley.substack.com/p/its-a-shame-about-doreen</ref> She promoted [[young Earth creationism]] with [[Nathaniel Jeanson]] of [[Answers in Genesis]] on her YouTube channel.

==See also==
*[[Hay House]]— Virtue is one of the cult [[guru]]s there.

==External links==
*Be sure to check out her [http://www.angeltherapy.com/faq FAQ] to see her Christian-compatible [[theology]]!
*Check out her [http://www.doreenvirtue.com/2018/07/05/frequently-asked-questions/ new FAQ] for an explanation of how her previous theology was totally wrong and how her new theology is the only [[true Christian]] way!
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