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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.

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 Virtue 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 Virtue 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.

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.

Books authored by Doreen Virture

 * Angel Therapy published November 1997 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1-56170-397-4
 * Chakra Clearing published October 1998 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1-56170-566-7
 * Healing With the Fairies published May 2001 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1-56170-807-0
 * The Care and Feeding of the Indigo Children published May 2001 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1-56170-846-1
 * Angel Visions II published October 2001 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1-56170-850-X
 * Earth Angels published September 2002 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1-4019-0048-8
 * Messages From Your Angels published April 2003 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1-4019-0049-6
 * The Crystal Children published June 2003 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1-4019-0229-4
 * Archangels and Ascended Masters published March 2004 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1-4019-0063-1
 * Crystal Therapy published January 2005 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1-4019-0467-X
 * Angel Numbers published March 2005 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1-4019-0515-3
 * Angel Medicine published August 2005 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1-4019-0235-9
 * Angels 101 published June 2006 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1-4019-0759-8
 * Divine Magic published June 2006 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1-4019-1033-5
 * Goddesses and Angels published January 2007 by Hay House Inc ISBN 978-1-4019-0474-6
 * Fairies 101 published January 2007 by Hay House Inc ISBN 978-1-4019-0760-0
 * Realms of the Earth Angels published January 2007 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1-4019-1718-0
 * The Lightworkers Way published June 2007 by Hay House Inc ISBN 1-56170-390-7