Soul Lab Radio: Interview with Lorna Byrne, author of “Angels in My Hair”

I’ve done a lot of interviews, and I have to say that this was the first one that made me nervous. Not because I was at all fearful of Lorna Byrne, author of the international best-selling autobiography Angels in My Hair. I was nervous because after reading the riveting account of her lifelong connection and conversations with angels and other creatures from the spirit world, I felt like I was really getting ready to speak with a true modern-day Irish mystic and all that suggests.

Angels In My Hair is the autobiography of an Irish woman with powers of the saints of old. When she was a child, people thought Lorna was mentally challenged because she did not seem to be focusing on the world around her. Lorna remembers seeing not just the physical world but seeing equally vividly angels and spirits. For many years she assumed everyone saw the same. Lorna tells the amazing story of her life growing up in a poor family, later working in Dublin, marrying and experiencing family tragedy. Through it, the reader meets, as she did, the creatures from the spirit worlds who also inhabit our own – mostly angels of an astonishing beauty and variety – including the prophet Elijah and an Archangel.

Today, it is not only the sick and troubled who come to visit Lorna, looking for healing and consolation, but theologians of different faiths and the head of a religious order in Rome travel to see her for guidance and spiritual insight too.