George is a medium, a passive conduit through which the spirits communicate to subjects, their loved ones.

The modern euphemism for direct verbal mediumship is "channeling."

Abraham Lincoln was well known for his interest in the spiritualist movement. It is said that he consulted with a trance medium over the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. He was encouraged at that time, by an entity who identified himself as the spirit of Lester Webster, to sign the Emancipation Proclamation because it would establish, once and for all, the true principle of what the United States stood for- freedom for all people...

There have always been channels and mediums among us. Trance channeling was around before biblical times and both the Old and New Testaments are rife with references to mediums. This is true of the oral and written literature of most ancient cultures. Perhaps the most familiar to Westerners is the Delphic Oracle... Roosevelt consulted with Edgar Cayce on a number of occasions.

NOTE: List who went to see them... Who went to see the Delphic Oracle

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John: "Oracles were counselors to kings and helped to shape many of the focal points throughout history...

"Many of your sciences are an integration of meditation and technology, and the sciences that have evolved from them are but the documentation of thoughts which initially came from the trance state."

I could manipulate my own field to interact with another person's field... Moreover, I found myself receiving information about the source of a client's illness. This information seemed to be coming from what appeared to be an intelligence higher than myself or what I normally considered to be myself. This process of receiving information in this way is popularly called channeling. Channelled information would come in the form of words, concepts or symbolic pictures that would enter into my mind when I was rebalancing the client's energy field. I would always be in an altered state of consciousness when doing this...

For example, in one case I heard directly, "She has cancer," and I saw a black spot in her energy field. The black spot correlated in size, shape and location with results from a CAT scan taken later.

Ruburt tunes in to another station, translates it and broadcasts the information. To do this, however, he has to alter his own consciousness, withdraw momentarily from the official station to bring in this one. That means tuning in to other portions of the psyche, as well as another kind of reality. The final translation of my material has to come through his organism, however, or it would be meaningless to you...

I exist apart from him, as he exists apart from me, yet we are together a part of the same entity- and that simply carries the idea of the psyche further.

ROMC: "You are interested in the process that takes place to create this communication. It is the 'like-attracts-like' law in the universe. This is where a particular energy outside the physical level is attracted to a similar energy within the physical level."

George's many readings for subjects whose loved ones disappear or die under mysterious circumstances are of particular interest because by bringing forth new and later substantiated information, he proves conclusively that telepathy, or mind reading, is not a source. As a matter of fact, George consistently scores very low in tests for telepathic ability.

If you understand the radio you will know that when you set your dial at a certain wave length, all that is "on the air" of that wave length will make itself heard. It is exactly the same with your mind.

The term trance medium has been around for a long time. It came into popular usage in the United States in the mid-1800s, with Andrew Jackson Davis, Lester Douglas Home, and Lenore Piper, who were all recognized mediums in those days...

Edgar Cayce's contact was with his superconscious mind instead of with an independent entity, which clearly distinguishes him as a trance channel, rather than a medium. In fact, the term trance channel was introduced in order to distinguish between the latter form of channeling and the more traditional mediumship...

A trance channel is simply a person who has developed the ability to set aside one level of consciousness and allow another level of consciousness to come through...

Psychic merely means "of the mind" or "of the soul.".. Jean Dixon was a classic example of a psychic. She derived most of her information through clairvoyance rather than spirit channeling.

If two stations are competing for the same frequency on the radio, by slightly adjusting the dial we can tune down one vibration or channel and the other will come in more clearly. The personality named Kevin Ryerson is one vibration, channel, or frequency. By tuning down this particular frequency, other frequencies, such as Alfred MacPherson and John, can speak through me...

These entities are able telepathically to "view" the energy or thoughts that we broadcast and then reflect them back to us in the form of constructive insights.

ROMC: "Someone else has been talking through me; or maybe it is my higher soul source."

I do depend upon Ruburt's willingness to dissociate. There is no doubt that at times he is unaware of his surroundings during a session... It is a phenomenon in which he gives consent, and he could, at any time and in a split second, return his conscious attention upon his physical environment.

George also differs from other psychics in that he remains alert during readings and never goes into a trance... He works in the light, literally and figuratively, conducting readings in well-lit rooms, public places, and live on radio and television. He is also known to crack the occasional joke about the spirit in question. And George does not have a spirit guide or any other entity "speak through" him.

NOTE: Later it states that he is spoken to by the guides of those he gets information for, but awarely through clairaudience, clairvoyance, and many of the chakra methods written about above

Those who had their own readings and those who listened regularly never observed evidence that "spirit entities" took over the body or voice of Edgar Cayce. His voice never changed in tone, timbre, or inflection during a reading. In volume- yes. But he never manifested a personality trait in his altered state that we didn't recognize as Edgar Cayce, the man himself, awake or asleep.

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(Q) "Who is giving this information?"

(A) Edgar Cayce: "That same that stood in the position for the entity as a guide, and an aide, and that one who may be termed the guardian of this entity's activities...

"The body's guardian angel."

NOTE: Yet elsewhere it says that Edgar Cayce channels his Higher Self. This seems to contradict that.

In all those forty-three years of giving readings, he never heard one word he said in that altered state.

Once we asked Edgar Cayce in his altered state why he didn't remember; he said:

"...if the body... were to be wholly conscious of that through which it passes in its soul's activity... the strain would be so great upon that which holds the mental... in order... as to become demented in its relationship. And he is thought crazy enough anyway!"

Some material is channeled through a Ouija board. A channel using writing later began channeling orally, like most of the channels I know.

Automatic writing is a popular way to channel. There may be a sensation of "someone else" moving the pen or one's fingers.

Conscious writing is like conscious spoken channeling in that the words are formed in the consciousness of the channel in oneness with the channel rather than mindlessly coming through the channel.

"Why this method of communication? Why not, say, automatic writing on Jane's part?"

This method suits me temperamentally. Automatic writing is so one-sided. I enjoy the questions that you do manage to get in. Often they remind me of other things I would like to say. I always enjoyed conversation, which is the liveliest of the arts.

Because Ruburt deals in words, it is easy for me to communicate in this way. He automatically translates inner data given by me into coherent, valid, and faithful camouflage patterns. Its transference is automatic and instantaneous on Ruburt's part, and is performed through the inner workings of the mind, the inner senses and the brain.

As my life unfolded, the unseen hand that led me became more and more perceptible. At first I vaguely sensed it. Then I began seeing spiritual beings, as if in a vision. Then I began to hear them talking to me and feel them touch me. I now accept that I have a guide. I can see, hear, and feel him. "He" says he is not male or female. "He" says that in his world there is no splitting along sexual lines and that beings at his level of existence are whole. "He" says that his name is Heyoan, which means, "The Wind Whispering Truth Through the Centuries."...

As you become more attentive to your personal needs by listening to internal messages that come to you in the form of discomfort, you will become more balanced and clear. This will bring more health to you. The practice of listening-in will also bring on the phenomena of direct or verbal guidance.

Sometimes spirits mention that they have tried to contact the living through dreams or by giving them a sign.

On an overcast morning, as I sat watching a pair of bluebirds dance their celebration of spring, I became aware of a presence beside me. This unseen spirit felt very familiar, and somehow feminine. She stayed with me all day, and that night, as I was preparing for bed, she made herself known to me. I had just finished my evening prayer and meditation. When I opened my eyes, there before me stood the most beautiful Native American girl. As I listened to her story, I became her.

Communication with other realms most often occurs through the... more intuitive method: spirit reaching deep inside us, by-passing the overloaded mind to tug at our hearts, leaving a lasting imprint on our souls. These messages are then translated into a conscious knowing. This is called clair-sentience. Usually this information registers as a strong emotion, which comes suddenly for no apparent reason. Deep feelings of comforting safety, ecstatic joy, immense love, or overwhelming fear can convey reassurance, union, passionate care, or warnings from our ever-present helpers.

Sometimes these messages are accompanied by some direct physical manifestations. For example, whenever one particular angel is around me, the room is filled with the scent of night-blooming jasmine. If your mother was fond of roses, you may smell the delicate essence of these special blossoms, announcing her presence.

Some people actually hear their name being called by the familiar voice of one long gone. Or they are surrounded by beautiful, unearthly singing, or the ringing of bells, letting them know they are not alone. They may hear a clear voice telling them to "turn around" if they are approaching a dangerous situation. This is known as clairaudience...

Clairvoyance...

Sometimes guardians will take on a physical form, appearing before you in order to help or to deliver a message. Recently... an elderly Navajo woman and her grown daughter, living in an isolated desert dwelling, received one of these miraculous visits...

There was a knock at the door. She opened it to reveal two very tall, slender men; divine emissaries of the Holy People, the creators and spirit guardians of the Navajo. They said they had come to deliver a message to the elderly woman, who was to then carry it to her people...

Their message delivered, they turned and walked a few steps and then vanished before the astonished eyes of the woman and her daughter. All that remained were two pairs of very large footprints, which ended abruptly, and a heavy sprinkling of corn pollen, always present when there is holy interaction with the spirit guardians of the Hopi and Navajo peoples...

We are continually receiving guidance and reassurance and love from this unseen world, yet most of us fail to acknowledge what we are being given.

This failure stems from two things: fear of the unknown and the numbing that comes from living in a society focused almost entirely on things material.

Contact with this other world often comes when we are faced with a crisis- when we lose someone to death, during times of extreme stress, grave illness, or serious danger. The sensitization of certain neural receptors at these times comes as a survival response: the more information available to us at these times, the better our chances of surviving them.

NOTE: Not neurons... it's when there is a great release and the subsequent openness

Formulate a question in your mind as clearly as you can. Focus now on wanting to know the truth about that question, no matter what the answer is... Focus and silence the mind. Wait for an answer to come to you. After some time in silence you will begin to receive an answer...

After I did this every morning at sunrise for three months, the verbal information came so quickly that I couldn't write fast enough. The voice suggested that I buy a typewriter. Soon I couldn't type fast enough. The voice suggested that I buy a tape recorder. I did. At first, it was hard to go from writing to speaking the words out loud. The sound of my voice interfered with the quiet I, by that time, was able to hold in my mind. With practice I became clear again. The next step was to do it for another person, and then in front of a group. This was especially embarrassing, because the way verbal channelling works is that the channeller can only hear the first few words of what is going to be said. It takes a lot of faith to jump into the beginning of a sentence, and allow the unknown rest of it to flow out.

[Thomas, the medium:] "I began to get these experiences- physical experiences, like involuntary contractions in the solar plexus... It was very subtle- but I was told later that they [the spirits] were preparing me at that time, working with me on my breathing and... other internal adjustments...

"Still nothing had really happened right up into the last week of the class...

"I vividly remember what a deep feeling that was, of giving up. And at that moment- a very emotional moment- I had the strongest contraction I'd ever felt. I mean it was huge- like being hit in the solar plexus with a big hammer- a very strong contraction, almost like vomiting when there's nothing there to come up- with a force... As though this huge wind were coming out of me..

"He said his name was Ordin and started trying to talk without much success. It was just these guttural sounds. It was awful..."

Ordin was the first spirit personality to come forth for Thomas. There were others... but none much more satisfying than that first experience with Ordin. And it did not always work...

"I would put myself in position and it would happen a little bit, then a little bit more, then I would close off and it would stop- a real tug..."

I was furious. I finally went to talk to Dr. Peebles [through another medium]- angrily, I got real angry with him- 'What's going on? How could you do this to me? If this is real, then why isn't Spirit coming through? I'm sitting there, people are waiting to see me, and nothing's going on, you're not there. Why is it vacant all of a sudden?'"

"...He said, 'Well that's exactly why we're doing it... So that you understand that it is not you doing it; it is us.'

"...[Miriam] was my next humiliating experience... I was used to this big powerful thing, and instead this was sweet, gentle, a soft little thing just gradually building, at first so subtle that I wasn't sure anything was really there. But it kept growing and glowing- real slow... Drove me crazy. The feeling moved into my mouth and started going into this big, huge, ridiculous ear-to-ear grin...

"It's got to be the highest female voice in the history of mankind...

"Then Dr. Peebles started coming through- and I was afraid of that... because of the comparison with William... he would come through and say, maybe, five words... barely... I mean not him barely but me barely letting him come out, through me, and that was even a greater battle...

"I didn't like different spirits coming through- it was as if I were being ripped up and down and it was very uncomfortable- so I asked Dr. Peebles to fix it so I could just have one spirit coming through, and that's the way it's been."

Channeling is usually not of strong interest to the soul until the mature and old soul ages, because before that, our lessons emphasize external factors. I needed to empty my "vessel" of baggage before I could become a clear channel.

We are willing to be channeled by anyone who can accommodate us. An older soul who is channeling may be able to allow a greater depth to come through.

Channeling occurs through what Michael calls the "higher centers," which are dormant in most of us but which can be opened with practice. Higher centers are the parts of us that connect with universal love, truth, and kinetic energy. They are like radios that can be tuned in to the frequency of the channeled entity. The "signal" is generally received first by the crown chakra. In verbal channeling, it then stimulates the sixth chakra and the brain, searching for the subconscious for correlating words.

There has been an increase of spiritual consciousness, and it has become easier to channel- there is less of a "veil" in the way. A generation or two ago, human consciousness was more dense, less responsive to higher energies, and it was generally necessary to get a channel's consciousness completely out of the way. That's why most of the "old school" channels and mediums go into full trance.

Seth says that speaking through Jane is not a simple matter, for there are many manipulations and psychological adjustments necessary. I focus my attention toward the woman, but the words on these pages are not initially verbal at all. Language as you know it is a slow affair. It is the result of a linear thought pattern. In these communications, therefore, Ruburt's consciousness expands and yet focuses in a different dimension, a dimension between his reality and mine, a field relatively free of distraction. Ruburt makes his verbal knowledge available for our use, and quite automatically the two of us together cause the various words that will be spoken. Some of my energy is also projected through Ruburt, and his energy and mine both activate his physical form during out sessions, and now as I speak these sentences. I communicate with your dimension not by willing myself to your level of reality, but by imagining myself there. Initial contact on my part was made long before our sessions began. When I enter your system, I move through a series of mental and psychic events. You would interpret these events as space and time, and so often I must use the terms. I translate what I am into an event that you can understand to some extent. I send only a portion of myself here, as you perhaps send out a portion of your consciousness as you write a letter to a friend, and yet are aware of the room in which you sit. Anything in your experience I can use as an example or a point about which I can build a discussion.

There is within his psyche what amounts to a transparent dimensional warp that serves almost like an open window through which other realities can be perceived, a multidimensional opening that has to some extent escaped being clouded over by a shade of physical focus. The physical senses usually blind you to these open channels, for they perceive reality only in their own image.

We use the inner senses quite freely and consciously. If you were to do so, then you would perceive the same kind of environment in which I have my existence. You would see an uncamouflaged situation in which events and form were free and not stuck in a jellylike mold of time. You could see, for example, your present living room not only as a conglomeration of permanent-appearing furniture, but switch your focus and see the immense and constant dance of molecules and other particles that compose the various objects. You would see a phosphorescent-like glow, the aura of electromagnetic "structures" that compose the molecules themselves. You could, if you wished, condense your consciousness until it was small enough to travel through a single molecule, and from the molecule's own world look out and survey the universe of the room and the gigantic galaxy of interrelated, ever-moving starlike shapes. Now all of these possibilities represent a legitimate reality. Yours is no more legitimate than any other, but it is the only one you perceive. If our environment seems unstructured to you, it is only because you do not understand the true nature of order, which has nothing to do with permanent form, but only appears to have form from your perspective. You can, using your inner senses, percieve reality as it exists apart from the play and your role in it. The inner senses are channels that provide communication between various dimensions of existence. Yet even here the information must be distorted to some extent as it is translated into physical terms. Otherwise, it would not be perceived at all (**).

Sometimes I am very directly concerned in a session, and sometimes you get a session that has been programmed.

I must have a thorough knowledge of the particular system of reality in which my pupil operates, or his or her system of thought, of the symbols that are meaningful. The stability of the pupil's personality must be correctly gauged by me. My material must be presented in such a way that it makes sense in the context in which the pupil understands reality.

Whenever you work with the invisible in any way, you do so through your facility of imagination. You have to be able to imagine yourself conversing with your guides, for instance, in order for that to occur. Letting your imagination run freely is essential to the success of guided meditations. If nothing comes, make something up. Soon, as the "pump" becomes the "primed," reality will take over where imagination left off.

It is normal to wonder if you are making up everything you get. When you first start to access your guides or learn to channel, you may not have had much practice in translating from the invisible, so translation may be rather rough. Your imagination may be filling in some of the gaps, or parts of yourself that you have ignored may take the opportunity to express themselves. With practice, you can quickly grow in your ability to translate specifically and accurately, and keep your unfinished business from interfering.

Good material has a solidity to it. Usually, at least something besides pure imagination in happening, It may have a mixture of sources. Your psyche has no reason to make up something "from scratch" when what you are asking for is available.

I perceive people in a room in a far different manner than they perceive themsleves; their various past and future reincarnated personalities, but not their probable selves, are perceivable to me. I see the reincarnated aspects, in your terms it would be as if you saw a series of quickly moving pictures. I see this composite image of myself.

Communicating with your system in such a manner demands great diligence and greater discrimination, according to the "distance" of the communicator from the physical system. The discrimination comes to bear upon the precision needed to enter your reality at the precise point in time and space upon which you are concentrated. Present and future experiences of those in the room are available to me, and as real as their present experience. Therefore I must remember what they think has alrealy happened, or not yet occured, for to me it is one. I say that I am aware of their past and future actions and thoughts, and yet what I am aware of, actually, are ever shifting and changing patterns, both in the future and in the past. Some of the events that I see connected very clearly with these persons in the future may not, in your system, occur. They exist as probabilities, as potentials, actualized in thoughts but not turned into definate physical form. No events were predetermined. I would have to tune into future data and probe it with all its ramifications in order to ascertain which of the probable actons I saw in your earlier would be actualized in your later.

This room does not exist for me.

I sometimes hear Michael use a word or phrase that was key in the person's life.

When I observe someone channelling, I am able to perceive which chakra they are using to get their information. That chakra is usually active and has more energy running through it when they are channelling...

The kind of information you receive through each of your chakras is different.

The first chakra yields kinesthetic information- feelings in your body like a feeling of balance or imbalance, shivers running up and down the spine, physical pain in a body part, a feeling of illness or health, safety or danger...She can distinguish between her body and the body of her patient... There are disadvantages to this method of accessing information. One tires very fast of feeling everyone else's physical pain.

The second chakra yields information about emotional states... Again the healer must use her own energy field to distinguish between her own emotional feelings and those of the patient.

The third chakra gives vague information such as when someone says, "I thought you were going to call, and you did" or "My intuition tells me that I shouldn't fly on that plane today; something might happen." If one is sensing beings from another level, and the third chakra is being used to sense them, the person will get a vague sense of another presence in the room, its location, its general shape and size and its intent, i.e., friendly or unfriendly... In the example of the leg pain, the third chakra will give a vague idea of what deeper meaning the pain has in the client's life and also some intuition of its causes.

The fourth chakra yields feelings of love. Love that reaches out beyond the self, mate or family to humanity and life itself. When you are sensing with the fourth chakra, you can sense another's love and the quality and quantity of that love, whether they be in a physical body or not.

The fifth chakra gives the sense of sounds, music, words, smells and taste.

The sixth chakra reveals pictures... When I say images, I don't necessarily mean you see them as you do with your eyes, but you do receive a picture in your mind that gives a strong enough impression and allows you to observe it in a way that might allow you to draw or reproduce it if you wished... The image could appear on a screen in the healer's mind... or it could appear to be coming directly from inside the leg, as it would to normal sight... The sixth chakra could also reveal, in picture form, the patient's past experience that is connected to the leg pain, such as an image of a child falling off a tricycle and bumping her leg right where the pain is now, say twenty years later. This kind or direct access is rather like watching a movie.

The seventh chakra reveals information in the form of a whole concept.. The channeler, after absorbing and deeply understanding the concept, must then use her own words to describe what she understands. Many times, as I start to explain something in my own words, Heyoan will come in (from the fifth) and explain it in much clearer words than I can. The whole concept gives a complete sense of knowing.

Healers sometimes channel energies, while inspirational teachers may channel emotions. Music, images, and movement can all be channeled.

The vibrations of certain types of the divine force are in themselves too fine to be appreciated by the grosser essence of these lower planes; but if they descend to them through the channel of one whose vehicles at these levels are perfectly pure, then they can be appreciated even down here, and so their work may be done.

Yet there are conditions under which the grace and strength peculiar to a higher plane may in a measure be brought down to a lower one, and may spread abroad there with wonderful effect. This seems to be possible only when a special channel is for the moment opened; and that work must be done from below and by the effort of man. When the thought or feeling is absolutely unselfish, its energy pierces through the plane above because only in that higher condition, with its additional dimension, can it find room for its expansion. But in thus breaking through, such a thought of feeling holds open a door of dimension equivalent to its own diameter, and thus furnishes the requisite channel through which the divine force appropriate to the higher plane can pour itself into the lower with marvelous results, not only for the thinker but for others.

We communicate telepathically. Telepathy is the basis for your languages, without which their symbolism would be meaningless. We communicate through what I can only call thermal and electromagnetic images that are capable of support much more meaning in one "sequence." The intensity of the communication is dependant upon the emotional intensity behind it.

We can communicate in far more various forms than those with which you are familiar. We can communicate with someone we have only known as a child in a life in the 14th century by relating on the basis of that experience. We do not feel the need to hide our emotions or thoughts from others, because all of us by now well recognize the cooperative nature of all consciousnes and reality, and our part in it. We are highly motivated.

The printed line does not contain information, it transmits information. Your actual words convey information, feelings, or thoughts. The words are not the information which they attempt to convey. Direct experience for the soul actually exists- it is a total field of perception, innocent of the physical cues of color, size, weight, and sense, with which your physical perceptions are clothed. Words are used to tell of an experience, but they obviously are not the experience that they attempt to describe.

It is difficult for me to have to string this material out in words and for you to record it. You see, it is possible, in theory, for you to directly experience a concept-essence of the material in any given session. This would involve the utilization of most, if not all inner senses, operating as a whole cognizance field.

Jane's trance had been excellent, her delivery steady and rather quiet for the most part. "I knew what Seth was talking about," she said, "because I had the images to go along with what he was saying. Not that I could repeat him now, word for word..."

The information I received auditorially was at first general, and then with practice it became specific. For example, I would hear words of love and assurance for the individual who had come for a healing. Later this information would get as specific as naming people, diseases a patient had, or in some cases a diet, vitamins, remedies or drugs that would benefit the patient. Many people who chose to follow these verbal instructions became well.

The five abilities through which George receives the spirits' messages: clairvoyance, clairaudience, clairsentience, sympathetic pain and sensation, and psychometry...

Clairvoyance makes it possible for George to "see" in his mind's eye objects, symbols, figures, and scenes. Through clairaudience he hears the voices of the spirits as well as other relevant sounds: anything from gunshots, to dogs barking, to explosions, to cars crashing, to a spirit speaking to him. Clairsentience is an extrasensory feeling, perhaps best described as a hunch... George will simply state, "I have the feeling of being trapped," or "I'm feeling anxious and scared," or "They give me the feeling it was a business deal gone bad..."

Sympathetic pain and sensation differ from clairsentience, because here George receives very real (and sometimes quite painful physical sensations... A sharp stabbing pain in the chest indicates to George that a spirit died from a heart attack, for example. Thermographic imaging tests actually show that the affected area on George's body consistently "heats up" at the instant of sensation...

Through psychometry George might learn whom the object belonged to, where it came from, or in the case of a sealed newspaper story what it is about without having seen it...

"When the spirits speak to me, it's through the mind, like telepathy..."

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"Does this happen in the summer?"

"Yes."

"I feel as if I'm in warmer weather. I feel as if I'm in the summertime-"

NOTE: A full impression. A rote.

He receives information, which he relays to the subject. Many symbols, for example, have multiple meanings. A car accident can be a symbol for a car accident or any accident. In order for him to relay it accurately and decipher the clues he receives, he must have the subject's confirmation or denial of information...

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"I'm seeing Saint Joseph, my symbol for a 'happy,' peaceful death. He tells me he went into a coma..."

NOTE: They use his symbols!

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"He shows me the last scene from the film Steel Magnolias where the parent remains with the child until the end." For George, an avid movie buff, seeing scenes from motion pictures is not unusual.

Information must be sifted through the layers of the medium's personality. Any perception instantly alters the electromagnetic and neurological systems of the perceiver... Information automatically blends with, is intermingled with, and enmeshed with, the entire physically valid structure of the personality.

Any perception is action; it changes that upon which it acts, and in so doing it is itself changed. The slightest perception alters every atom within your body.

NOTE: Just like how the perfect stream of thoughts from God gets thickened and confused

In material like tonight's but in general during sessions, you end up with information that does indeed come from outside of time in certain important fashions.

It requires that Ruburt forge imagination and reason together in a highly accelerated fashion... I have my own consciousness at other intervals- intervals that in your terms encompass your own.

[Theodor Schwenk's] "archetypal principle" was this: that flow "wants to realize itself, regardless of the surrounding material."

In the beginning, for example, there is always a distortion of material by the person who receives it, at least on the topmost subconscious level. So an individual whose personal prejudices are at a minimum is excellent...

Information like this is sifted through many layers of subconscious conception, and is subsequently colored. People believing in your organized religions color it in a manner that is highly disadvantageous, and that unfortunately adds to existing superstitions... Others less perfectionist than myself are content with more distortion. I am not...

I am not his subconscious, though I speak through it. It is the atmosphere through which I can come to you.

ROMC: "I saw the face of a man very clearly- with a beam coming from the center of his forehead toward me. I think it means that it's time to receive the thoughts...

"I'm getting a picture of everything that's going to be discussed. It's coming into my mind. I must say what I'm getting because the voice I'm hearing builds up energy as I talk. It helps the energy flow of the vibrations that are sent.

"They say that the vibrations are sent in forms of energy, and I pick up these energy forms as they enter into my own mental system. Then the forms are transposed into my own level of communication and thought. It's at this point that the communication can be misconstrued as it comes into the earth level.

"The incoming information goes through various energy systems. When the channels are clear, the energy is stronger and the communication comes through in a purer form."

You are bringing this information through a unique filter- a filter which has been designed by you to shield you from too much remembering.

Do you think I know what I'm doing?

That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself?

As much as a pen knows what it's writing,

or the ball can guess where it's going next.

Some times you are "cleaner" than at other times. Some moments you are more open- like a strainer which has just been rinsed. It is more "open." There are more holes open.

Usually I get pretty specific answers, but it is not always easy, especially if I am uneasy about what the answer might be. It is then that I will block the information coming through. Then I must recenter to go on.

ROMC: "The balance of the energies in the earth level can make a difference in the nature of the transmission. If there is static in the vibrations, the energy levels can vary. We use the term 'static' to mean that the balance is not perfect. Therefore, the transmission will not be exactly what is it meant to be.

"In the earth level, it is impossible to have a perfect transmission. Because their are always levels that are not in complete balance, one hundred percent accuracy is not possible. Also, during the transmission process, there is a continual fluctuation in the energy balance, which affects the transmission."

When, in 1923, he responded to questions about past lives, the concept went dead against his conscious worldview.

On occasion I've had to put an entity "on notice." For example, in an early guides-and-teachers workshop, when Alfred MacPherson had just started channeling through, our values came into conflict. Alfred was introducing the various guides and teachers aligned with individuals in the group. At one point, an elegant Native American Indian guide by the name of Red Fox showed up. In the manner any good Irishman of his day, Alfred introduced Red Fox as "a savage with practically no clothing on." Alfred's transmission was terminated instantly. It was as if a large invisible hook had come out and jerked him offstage. Several minutes later he returned and said, "Excuse me. I've just been dutifully informed that you now address these individuals as 'noble Native Americans.'" It sounded like he'd been dusted down on the other side...

On another occasion, a client of mine asked Alfred if he could locate his wife, who was recently deceased. Even though my trance tends to be weak in this area, Alfred told the man he would give it a try. After a few moments of silence, Alfred said quite angrily, "You bloody liar. Not only do I find that your wife isn't over here, but she's in perfectly sound health!" The client, who was probably just trying to test MacPherson, was quite startled. Once again, the big hook came out and jerked Alfred offstage.

The hook that jerked Alfred offstage both times was my own system of ethics... My consciousness has an automatic screen that filters out behavior that goes against my values. In other words, spirit entities can make independent statements, but unless these statements serve the full intention of the channel, they will not be permitted expression.

Deeper trance can occur when the channel is not distracted, and there is a rhythm established.

A conscious channel should be able to move with anything an entity wishes to communicate, provided he has adequate raw material in his subconscious mind.

Finding "raw" information is relatively easy. What can be difficult is properly interpreting it, given the limitations of language.

One channel may be able to get highly complex material about health, but be limited regarding relationships, or vise versa.

If a channel has no connection with certain material, it can be difficult, if not impossible, for him to move responsively with it.

When a person opens to channel, various unconscious parts of himself needing release or healing may come to the surface under the guise of channeling, especially if he hasn't given them a chance to come up. A clear channel knows the difference between his own "stuff" and valid channeling. Every channel must be able to set aside his conditioned consciousness- not only his unfinished business, but his entire belief structure- in order to be effective. The more he knows himself, the easier this is.

Unless a channel is scrupulous about disengaging his prejudices and opinions, subtle "editing" can creep in, especially when the channel has charged feelings about the specific material being channeled or the people involved.

When there is not an organic need for information to be given or a wide-open-hearted receptivity, the information can be hard to get, or can even be blocked.

Many channels and psychics feel that a vegetarian diet is necessary in order to be a "clear receptor."

Various other factors can interfere with the clear reception of channeling: a headache, illness, or just a weakened or tired physical state; excessive alcohol, medication, drugs, caffeine, or sugar; and a confused or conflicted mental/emotional state. The atmosphere of the listener(s) also has an effect.

It is also easier to channel in some places than in others. Some people say that psychic skills are enhanced around water.

If you desire to learn to channel, it is certainly possible to do so. It take practice and dedication. The qualifications for channeling are a deep desire to do it and a willingness to practice, cleanse your subconscious, and set aside your belief structure for the duration of the channeling.

Your conscious awareness is the main "road" on which your thoughts travel. It is used by many sources within you, including what is sometimes called the subconscious mind.

Ideally, a channel has all chakras open and available. The ability to open the seventh chakra is usually most important, especially if channeling verbally.

Although no channel is 100% accurate, often what seems wrong is just incomplete.

*JoYS* Raising The Channel's Vibration: Bubles of Impurities in the Aura:

Since we do a lot of healing work through this channel, there is a need to raise his vibration to accommodate our vibration. Doing this too quickly would be like ripping something that was only intended to be stretched. As we begin to come in, we are "blowing up the balloon," filling the channel with increasing pressure. As this is done, little air-bubble-like pockets of impurities come to the surface, as in a water bed, and have to be released. If they are not, they are amplified and could harm the channel, cloud the channeling, or both.

Those with whom we are speaking are included in another, larger balloon or energy field. We subtly work with clearing this container also. This is done by drawing the "bubbles" into the channel and gradually pricking holes in them, so to speak, squeezing out the air so that there is a feeling of evenness and smoothness in the person coming for healing and information. Many who come are so full of these bubble of impurities that we can only do basic work, and as a consequence, cannot raise their vibration as high as we otherwise might.

When my body is clearing energetic debris, whether mine or anothers', my body reacts in various ways, including yawning and something a little bit similar to hyperventilating or to the "breath of fire" in yoga. The rapid breathing happens less now. It was partly he result of incorrect posture creating a block in my neck.

Before clearing in whatever manner, I feel a mounting pressure and drowziness, which climaxes of its own accord and releases through the breath.

"Heaven" or higher-plane energies need to be balanced with earth energies if we are to have a state of well-being. In other words, the more we work with higher energies, the more we need grounding. My tendency is not to be fully "in my body" anyway.

Energy seems to move more freely in my body than it did before I began channeling.

In preparing to channel ask for the support of your inner resources and protect them with white light. Go through your body, cleansing your chakras.

After channeling, flush away any energetic debris that has accumulated. Release any draining cords of connection that have been attached to you by other people. Ask your soul to replenish your supply of spiritual substance.

Channeling for people of little spiritual substance drains your own. It is a great service to them, but is can be quite a workout for both you and the entity being channeled.

The experience came within a framework that [Ruburt] could accept- that of highly accelerated imagination. His consciousness left his body only after he was in the throes of what seemed to him to be inspiration of almost unbearable intensity. Had his habits instead led him to regular prayer, then that framework could alo have been used. To those who believe that all answers are known, there is little need to search.

There is a fine impatience, a divine discontent that drives them on until the frontiers within their own personalities are finally opened. The energy generated by such experiences is enough to change a life in a matter of moments, and to affect the understanding and behavior of others.

Often the information given clashes with previously held ideas and beliefs.

[Individuals who receive inspiration in an expanded state of consciousness] are usually gifted with the ability to draw upon unusual amounts of energy. Often they must learn at a fairly young age not to dissapate the energy. They can seem, for example, to go off in many directions at once, before this lesson is brought home. The last 30s and early 40s are frequently involved simply because the need to know in such personalities often reaches a peak then.

The incredible charge is always the initial ecperience. Contained within it is the condensed energy from which all other developments come.

The individual now realized that he is indeed a living web of reality, and this becomes immediate conscious knowledge.

Individuals such as Rupurt are themselves a portion of the knowledge they receive.

Many individuals have experienced unusual, quite valid and intene expansions of consciousness, but found themselves unable to correlate the new knowledge with past beliefs, to make the changes necessary to handle the experience. In such cases, they tried to close it off, deny it, forget it. Others never allowed it to escape from the framework or the context from which it had sprung. If the information seemed to be coming initailly from God, they continued to think in their particular way about God, even though the experience and the information given should have brought them far beyond such a point.

Truth is all of these seemingly distinct, separate, different realities. Each of you are part of the truths you perceive. "Truth" reflected through Rupurt becomes in a way new truth, for it is perceived uniquely. It is not less truth or more truth in those terms. It becomes new truth. Such "new truths" can be very ancient indeed, but truth is not a new thing that must always have the same appearence, shape, form, or dimension. Those who are so certain of their answers will lack the need to know that can lead them into still greater dimension of understanding.

Expansion of consciousness requires honest self appraisal, an awareness of one's own beliefs and prejudices. All who wish to look within themsleves, to find their own answers, to encounter their own "appointment with the universe" should therefore become well aquainted with the intimate workings of their own personality.

If you want organization you shall have it -at any time. You structure your own existence, and you chose those realities that have exactly as much organization as you need at any given time. In this reality, you very nicely emphasize all the similarities which bind you together; you make a pattern of them, and you very nicely ignore all the distractions.

In the beginning particularly, there is always a distortion of such material by the person who receives it. So a person whose personal prejudices are at a minimum is excellent.

There must, of necessity however, be some distortion. If our communication involved invasion, then there would be no distortion because the person so 'invaded' would be blotted out and this is not possible.

People who believe strongly in your organized religions are used to thinking in terms of an inner world. For that reason, many of them have been recipients of inner data from others like myself. There are disadvantages involved, however, which I do not like to encounter.

Material like this is sifted through many layers of subconscious conceptions and is subsequently colored to some degree. People believing strongly in your organized religions often color the material in highly disadvantageous ways.

ARIEL: We noticed a breakdown in communication at one point. This was because your own thinking was entering the process instead of just letting it flow from Uris... You are trying to use your own process of reasoning because you want it to be right, but this is not necessary.

The guide will communicate in whatever form is easiest for you to receive. It will either be in a general concept, direct words, symbolic pictures or direct pictures of happenings like past experiences or past lives. When one form of communication does not reach you, or you become afraid of what is being conveyed, the guides will simply shift to another form or approach the subject from another angle. For example, if I fear that the words that are coming through have a certain meaning, or if someone has asked a particularly controversial question, I will "run away" from that place of inner peace and harmony and no longer be able to hear what the guide is saying. I then have to take a minute or two to find that place inside again. If I cannot pick up the words again, the guides will probably send me a general concept that I then try to explain in my own words. This slowly merges with their words again, and I am "back on line." If that doesn't work, they will come in with a picture that I will begin describing and allow the client to help find the meaning.

At times I am "here" more completely than in other sessions. These reasons often have to do with circumstances usually beyond normal control: electromagnetic conditions, psychological circumstances. These could be considered as atmospheric conditions through which I must travel.

These words are impressed on your mind with such delicacy that the slender thread connecting them with my mind becomes soluble to any disturbance.

George loses contact with the other side during severe lightning storms.

On that first show some of the promotion people were there, and you know we had the lights kind of low and you stay away from Thomas while he's in trance. But at a news break they turned up the lights a little bit so they could take some pictures- and Dr Peebles got right on their case: "Don't you change the environment around here! Turn it back down! I'm really concerned about my channel, he's trying to stomp back in here anyway as it is."

Said, "We just wanted to take some pictures."

He says, "No flashbulbs!" Says, "Bill, you've got to tell these people this is something special going on."

Dr. Peebles: "We are going- please understand that there will be times that we will leave quickly from the channel, from your vantage point, because we want to speak only- for you, in this project- when we are fully present, to capture the depth, so as to honor your wonderful, insightful, important questions... Everything's right on schedule; relax and enjoy the process."

-...Thomas, who places nothing in his stomach for several hours before a trance, had developed hunger pangs. Apparently Spirit knew that, was aware of his physical discomfort, so withdrew gracefully.

When somebody moved something across his abdomen, he quit talking, right in the midst of a reading... First I tried to get him to continue, then to wake him up. During this time he showed no sign, even, of life. I was getting deeply concerned. And people in the room were getting frantic. Then, he came out of it, swiftly, following a suggestion, and was suddenly standing straight up, and visibly upset...

Edgar Cayce: "As was seen, through the seeking of irrelevant questions there was antagonism manifested. This made for a contraction of those channels through which the activity of the psychic forces operates in the material body; as we have outlined, along the pineal, the lyden and the cord- or silver cord...

"The mere disturbing of the body that rests above the natural body by other than the elements that have not taken bodily form- break the associations, the connections, with that source from which the records are being taken."

When a person opens to channel, various unconscious parts of himself needing release or healing may come to the surface under the guise of channeling, especially if he hasn't given them a chance to come up. A clear channel knows the difference between his own "stuff" and valid channeling. Every channel must be able to set aside his conditioned consciousness- not only his unfinished business, but his entire belief structure- in order to be effective. The more he knows himself, the easier this is.

Unless a channel is scrupulous about disengaging his prejudices and opinions, subtle "editing" can creep in, especially when the channel has charged feelings about the specific material being channeled or the people involved.

When there is not an organic need for information to be given or a wide-open-hearted receptivity, the information can be hard to get, or can even be blocked.

Many channels and psychics feel that a vegetarian diet is necessary in order to be a "clear receptor."

Various other factors can interfere with the clear reception of channeling: a headache, illness, or just a weakened or tired physical state; excessive alcohol, medication, drugs, caffeine, or sugar; and a confused or conflicted mental/emotional state. The atmosphere of the listener(s) also has an effect.

It is also easier to channel in some places than in others. Some people say that psychic skills are enhanced around water.

If you desire to learn to channel, it is certainly possible to do so. It take practice and dedication. The qualifications for channeling are a deep desire to do it and a willingness to practice, cleanse your subconscious, and set aside your belief structure for the duration of the channeling.

Your conscious awareness is the main "road" on which your thoughts travel. It is used by many sources within you, including what is sometimes called the subconscious mind.

Ideally, a channel has all chakras open and available. The ability to open the seventh chakra is usually most important, especially if channeling verbally.

To contact your guide, simply sit in the quiet, peaceful understanding that you are one with God, that a spark of God exists in every part of your being and that you are perfectly safe. This attitude allows you to reach a state of inner quiet that allows you to hear.

In general, when entering a lifted state for guidance, I go through the following internal experience.

I feel an excitement because I sense the presence of a guide full of light and love. Then I become aware of a beam of white light above me, and I start lifting myself up into it... My excitement diminishes as I become aware of a pink cloud of love coming down over me. I become filled with a feeling of love and security. I then feel myself being lifted into a higher state of consciousness. At this point, my body may make a few adjustments, like the pelvis curling under more (to the forward position), and my backbone straightening more. I may involuntarily yawn to help my throat chakra open. (This is the chakra through which one hears one's guides.)

After more lifting, I enter into a state of holy serenity. Then I will usually both hear and see the guides. Throughout the beginning of the reading I will continue lifting. I usually have about three teachers that guide me. The person who has come to me for help will usually be accompanied by his guide or guides...

I sit in a cross-legged position, palms down on my thighs. First I center myself. To me this means kinesthetically anchoring in my body... At a certain point when I am lifted, contact with the guide is made. Again I feel it kinesthetically. I see the guide behind my right shoulder, and I hear the first few words from that direction... At this point, I usually begin to channel verbally. At first the words come from the right shoulder area. The more connected to the channelling process I become, the closer-in the words are. The guide also appears to come closer. Soon there is no lag time between hearing and speaking the words, and the apparent direction they are coming from moves to above and inside my head. The guide also visually appears to fit over me like a glove. The guide begins to move my arms and hands in coordination with the conversation. "He" also uses my hands to balance my energy field and to run energy into my chakras while "he" is talking...

At the end of the conversation, my experience is one of the guide lightly disconnecting and lifting off, while my consciousness sinks downwards into my body and my personality self. At this point I am usually quite shy.

Neale: "I felt a major rush inside my body. I sat quietly for a moment, stunned into a complete awareness of something that a moment before I had not thought of, but which now seemed perfectly obvious...

"The experience was usually followed by some kind of physical sensation- a sudden tingling, or what I call a happy trembling, or, sometimes, tears of joy. And, on occasion, all three."

"When the spirits come through, I feel as if I'm beaming with light inside... The average souls like ourselves give off a less brilliant light..."

"After I pray and ask for protection, as I always do, I feel a little whirring sensation, as if someone flicked on a light switch. Then I sense a presence."

I felt Ruth's soft presence leave my energy field. While she was there, I experienced what she was feeling; I relived her memories as she saw them.

It is such an electric experience- a truly intimidating confrontation- that sometimes the mind almost glazes over in the attempt to handle what is going on there.

Dr. Peebles: "The state of trance is accomplished by any personality of life on earth suspending self-interest, suspending one's self-image, suspending one's own drive and passion. Trance channeling, or the state of trance, is an automatic and natural space where different zones of time and vibration converge into a powerful explosion. The explosion is so rhythmic and so equal in its mathematical relationships that the point of contact- the human mind and heart, for example- is almost sung to sleep, is induced into a state of calmness, of sleep, of total acceptance of another being, another presence, another point of view."

As she said these parting words to Sandy, I felt my own energy begin to coalesce once more, becoming centered in this time and place.

Gretta: "When I left, it was like my feet weren't touching the ground, and I felt ten years younger, and the weight I'd been carrying on my shoulders was no longer there. It was a wonderful feeling and a wonderful experience."

It has the sound of his own thoughts, since channeled entities do not have physical voices. It's like the process by which we translate our thoughts into words.

Some channels experience channeling as being like taking dictation; they maintain a clear separation between themselves and the channeled entity.

At the other extreme from taking dictation is full trance channeling. The channeled entity has the channel's body mostly to itself for the time being, since full trance channels leave their bodies, often remembering little or nothing when they return.

I don't hear the word ahead of time and then speak it. I hear it at the same time those listening hear it.

Jane: "Trance state is an accelerated state. I would compare it to a higher state of wakefulness rather than to the sleep usually associated with trace – but a different kind of wakefulness, in which the usual world seems to be the one that is sleeping. My attention is not blunted. It is elsewhere.

"I'm often more refreshed than I was earlier. The state isn't always the same – it has peaks and valleys.

"The trance state is characterized by a feeling of inexhaustible energy, emotional wholeness, and subjective freedom. Returning to my usual condition, the words that I've just spoken as Seth vanished in dreamlike fashion."

Ruburt is literally a great receiver of energy. He attracts it.

She is always slightly dubious and doubtful before a session. The inner senses are not accustomed to operating so freely, and this sometimes upsets the all-present ego. Ruburt wants to know where the words are coming from and still wonders if I am a part of his subconscious; and I must admit that I find such an idea appalling.

He can be so energized, his body heats up. His spine can feel like a red-hot poker so that he can't move.

It takes him a couple minutes to go into full trance, but when he first began, it took 20 to 30 minutes. The first time that Yokar was fully in his body, he thought he might throw up. Coming back into his body is "a little rough." It takes him five to seven minutes to "animate" it, and it used to take much longer. Becoming a vegetarian and cutting out alcohol and sweets have helped him. Yokar has adjusted his body. "Some trance channels become ill after a number of years because they can't distill and process the energy into their physical bodies. Respiratory illness is especially common, because it can be hard to reactivate the lungs after channeling."

I've heard many stories about tape recorders not working normally when recording channeling. Some people have reported making tapes in which every voice other than the channel's is recorded. Until Yokar adjusted his vibration, Michael Morgan would get high distortion when recording Yokar -the meters would peak to the right, even with suppression circuitry, and there was a background buzz. Sometimes, while Michael was going into trance, there would be a number of voices on the tape that were not heard at the time the recording was made. JoYSchanneled • modern • Hoodwin

Every Saturday, the guard invariably returned to his home from the place where he served. The spirit of a departed yoga adept manifested itself in him on the Sunday following. He rose early in the morning, completely altered.

Hundreds of visitors would assemble in front of the door of his house each morning to seek answers to problems they had on their mind. He read their thoughts, one by one, as soon as they entered into his presence, and supplied answers suited to their questions.

J: Suddenly my consciousness left my body, and my mind was barraged by ideas that were astonishing and new to me at the time. On return to my body, I discovered that my hands had produced an automatic script, explaiing many of the concepts I'd been given. When the book was finished, it was delightful to read. It was completely new to me, even though every word had been spoken through my lips.

R: Usually Jane goes in and out of trance with remarkable speed. When her trance has been very deep, it takes her a few minutes to really come out of it. Her eyes are usually half-open or wide open and darker than usual. Her trance voice is somewhat deeper and stronger than her own. Seth speaks with an accent that's hard to pinpoint, which he attributes to his cosmopolitan background. Jane has an angular quality to her mannerisms and a rearrangement of her facial muscles while in trance. She smokes in trance, or sips beer, wine, or coffee. She usually has a snack after the session.

Electrical displays, such as thunderstorms, interfered with trance states.

S: The cat is aware of my presence and has on several occasions reacted rather noticibly to it.

Usually a session runs for several hours, and the energy is used up by the time the session is over. On the show, the session lasted only twenty minutes or a half hour, at most. When it was cut short, all that energy was still available, and subjectively I was aware of its full strength for the first time.

It is not a neutral energy but one of strong emotional impact, reassuring, and in an odd way, personified- warm and amazingly immediate. Perhaps it envelops me, but I do not fall asleep or lose myself in nothingness. I am myself, but very small. I seem to fade into a distance that has nothing to do with space but more to do with psychological focus. Yet I am upheld, supported and protected in the midst of this pervading energy that seems to form about and within me.

The Visitor

When Seth came "around" just before the session, it seemed that something within Jane began to crank up, to whirl or accelerate faster and faster until a certain incredibly other speed was reached - a part of Jane's consciousness that is called Seth. The Seth Two experience would be an even greater acceleration of this speed, reached at the point of the pyramid effect Jane describes. When Jane came out of the trance it ws again an almost audible experience for me -a feeling of slowing down from an airy whine to our normal soundof speed. It was a sthoough part of this acceleration was connected with a dimension where sound was more than a hearing thing.

In our own sessions [Ruburt] is not aware of the creative work that is being done, precisely because he has gone out of the range that the conscious mind can follow. He has projected a portion of himself into an entirely different kind of subjective reality, a different dimension of activity entirely. Connections are made so rapidly that the physical brain is not aware of them. During sessions, however, all the characteristics of the inner being are accelerated. This is a dimension of existence native to consciousness when it is not physically oriented. In such a state he literally uses incredible power, in terms of energy. The volume of the voice in many cases is an attempt to help him use some of this, and discharge it, while he learns how to use it, and until he is taught other purposes to which it can be put.

Many of the experiences that Rupurt has during our sessions he cannot recall afterward. Experience within such a dimension is extremely difficult to translate when Rupurt is back within the physical system. On my part, there are also adjustments that must be made. I step down several levels for example, so that contact can be made.

Seen or viewed from my perspective, your objects do not exist. You inner reality does, of course.

He uses nervous connections in a way that is unusual, and to his purpose. The acceleration begins, however, on a physical level, with the use of hormones and chemicals, and then leaps from there. Both halves of the brain spark, and from those connections, speaking physically now, the acceleration in initiated, and its effects on the body are cut off. Many cases of missing persons can be explained somewhat in the same manner: when the acceleration was strong enough, unexpected enough, to sweep the entire personality out of your system. I am speeding up the acceleration to see if she can perceive it. This often takes place during the dream state -and when it seems to you that you have briefly entered an astonishing new dimension, the dream state involves such an acceleration.

To some extent or another, each artistic creation, though to a lesser degree, involves the same principle.

Sue wrote,"when Seth told me that he was speeding up the acceleration to see if I could perceive it, I had the definate feeling of greater speed and visual change in Jane's body. It seemed to become smaller, as though I were looking at it through the wrong end of binoculars. This was again connected with motion, as though the physical frequency was also changed and Jane's body was rushing past me, even while staying in the same place. Then when Jane came out of trance at the last break, I felt as though a force had been released in front of me, so that if I wasn't careful I could topple over."

I began reading an excerpt from Living Time by Maurice Nicoll on probabilities.

After finishing my reading, I went out to the kitchen to wash a pan that I'd left soaking in the sink. As I did this, suddenly a concise clear stream of words came through my head.

Surprised, I went to my table and sat down with a paper and pen. The words returned exactly as before, and I wrote them down. I "knew" they were comments on what I had read:

Often there was a preliminary sense of discomfort and restlessness, and I knew I was going to write another "poem." Then all at once, the words would seem to form in my brain and I would sense the underlying rhythm.

As the final message came through I felt a definite change in the usually electromagnetic charged atmosphere around me. Whenever I had written in the past, a sense of light, peace and a highly charged vibration was present.

As the last word flowed onto the paper, I felt a definite withdrawal of that energy.

The light that Dad needed was a flash of white light. It was an indication to him that his soul was able to attune itself to those finer realms...

After seeing this flash of white light, after giving the reading, sometimes, actually seventeen times in all those thousands of readings, he'd remember a dream when he returned to consciousness, always about the same. Here's the version of it:

"I see myself as a tiny dot out of my physical body, which lies inert before me. I find myself oppressed by darkness, and there is a feeling of a white beam of light. As this tiny dot, I move upward, following the light, knowing that I must follow it or be lost.

"As I move along this path of light, I gradually become conscious of various levels upon which there is movement. Upon the first levels there are vague, horrible shapes- grotesque forms such as one sees in nightmares. As I pass on, there begin to appear on either side misshapen forms of human beings, with some part of the body magnified.

"Again there is a change, and I become conscious of gray-hooded forms moving downward. Gradually these become lighter in color. Then the direction changes, and these forms move upward- and the color of the robes grows rapidly lighter.

"Next, there begin to appear on each side vague outlines of houses, walls, trees, etc., but everything is motionless. As I pass on, there is more light and movement in what appear to be normal cities and towns. With the growth of movement, I become conscious of sounds- at first indistinct rumblings, then music, laughter, and the singing of birds. There is more and more light; the colors become very beautiful; and there is a blending of sound and color.

"Quite suddenly, I come upon a hall of records. It is a hall without walls, without a ceiling; but I am conscious of seeing an old man who hands me a large book- a record of the individual for whom I seek information."

During my work, I temporarily discard the costume. It is too confining for the graceful, quicksilver movement of the Spirit.

At that moment there is no past, no future... there is only now. And in that now lie all possibilities, all realities. I am free to follow any possibility, to experience any reality. I have direct access to beings existing at these other levels, and they to me. I can witness a person's past, as well as the possible futures available to them, depending on which choices they make. Yet- and this is the most crucial point- I do not guide what I say or do in this space. Rather, I wait in the stillness for Great Spirit to convey to and through me the instruction and healing most needed by the one who has come to me...

I am filled with a deep and holy love for the person sitting across from me. It is this love that creates the pathway through which any truth or healing comes. It is this love that opens the doorway to extrasensory perception, so that the presence of angels, spiritual teachers, and guides can make themselves known. I always feel them beside us, surrounding us with protection and comfort and love. Many times they can be sensed, even seen, by others in the room.

When Michael Morgan channels, he goes to a "blue field," a restful, infinite horizon of only blue. He is conscious there, but he is not conscious of where his body is, although he is within "calling distance."

In his normal state, Thomas has a rather normal aura- a softly mystical light raised about four inches and extending from shoulder to shoulder. It varies a bit in a sort of rhythmic pulsing while he is inducing trance... After ten to fifteen seconds of this, he appears to already be in a light trance with the body processes greatly stepped down; the aura dims a bit and recedes a bit; then the pulsing begins, with the aura growing steadily brighter and expanding gradually to a strong corona extending six to eight inches. After several minutes of this, Thomas is breathing so lightly that you can just barely detect the movement.

But when Dr. Peebles arrives, the diaphragm seems to explode upward; with that same movement the aura flares dramatically to engulf virtually all the visible space above his head and often billowing out to a diameter of several feet from the waist up. We have also noted (a) zigzag stovepipe auras that disappear into the ceiling and (b) rather ragged and imprecise inverted-pyramid auras sometimes alternating with the expanded aura...

Linda and I independently sketched the same effect: an inverted pyramid more than twenty feet wide at the top and extending to the ceiling, with the tip seemingly concealed inside Thomas's head.

We have also noted full-body auras extending from members of the audience who have gone to a floor microphone to converse with Dr. Peebles...

But it is the coming-out aura that truly tells the tale. It is soft, and golden, and rides the shoulders like a halo.

Dr. Viscott: "Just before Thomas went into trance and began to shudder- just that very moment before the shudder, there appeared above his head what looked like a white puff of smoke. What was that?"

Dr. Peebles: "...They see the energy of Dr. Peebles, with some of our friends here, coming into my channel as he quiets down."

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Vince: "The appearance of it was just about... an area maybe a foot and a half square, like a little piece of white cloth was waved, and then suddenly descended into you; you shuddered, and then the voice came."

Dr. Peebles: "Yes. Thomas disassociates off to the right of the physical body- to his right- I come forward through the upper back, through his solar plexus, and down through the crown chakra."

"One study using brain wave measures found that the channels showed a particular brain wave pattern when channeling (Hughes, 1990), similar to results from brain wave studies of spirit mediums and psychics." -Arthur Hastings

NOTE: Note how limited the EEG is. It is like studying fish from a boat by looking at what surfaces from time to time, the ripples and the waves. Twenty different phenomena could produce the same exterior ripples, and we would assume its the same thing. What we need is better technology- a submersible craft and bright lighting.

The doctor took a sample EEG to establish a baseline, or a record of George's normal brain-wave patterns. This "normalized EEG" showed George's brain-wave activity to be in the alpha, or deep relaxation state...

The EEG technician remarked that she was very surprised to see George's brain-wave activity show down during the reading, although he remained fully alert. Once the reading ended, George's brain-wave activity returned to normal...

Dr. Casarona explained. "George's EEG shows that the temporal and parietal lobes in the right side of his brain went into a very slow brain-wave activity- the theta [or drowsiness] state. In each reading the changes initiated in the right side of the brain. In the first reading it was localized to the right parietal lobe, the upper-back area of the brain, which is often called the sensory or passive part, because the body's sensory receptors originate there. In the second reading, this activity was seen in the right temporal lobe, an area approximately parallel to the temples. Hearing, memory, emotions, sense of self and time, even deja-vu experiences, originate there.

"Such slow activity as we saw in George during the readings is not always abnormal in an EEG. However, it usually appears symmetrically, in both the left and right hemispheres...

"In the second reading, slow-wave activity was followed by a sharp spikelike activity, which is often seen in those patients with seizure disorders, such as epilepsy. That too was found on the right side of the brain, asymmetrically, which is not generally a normal finding. Once again it ceased at the end of the reading...

"In terms of content, the first reading was much more emotional..."

So why doesn't George become sleepy when his brain waves show he is in a sleeplike state? As a matter of fact, George says that during readings he feels wide awake, or, as he puts it, "charged up."

Alfred MacPherson: "It is not quite my time to incarnate, and since we don't just take a number and wait four hundred years, I wish to be active and dialogue with you, as we are all just human beings and can share a common dialogue with one another...

"We communicate, but it's more like light or sensitivity. We sense one another more than dialogue...

"Believe it or not, it's a lot easier for you to tune us out than it is for us to tune you out. So pity poor us!

"...Spirit guides and teachers do not enter your body, they merely "overshadow" you. How I function through this instrument is I can wiggle fingers and thumb my nose at the British- whatever I care to do- by simply telepathically communicating information to his body. But I assure you, the young man is still in control."

Some years ago, my wife, Lynn, was conversing with Alfred MacPherson while I was in trance. They agreed that I was working too hard and needed a break. Alfred told Lynn that on my upcoming birthday he would treat me to a night on the town as he knew it in his day. He gave her an address in San Diego, where I was working that day, and suggested I show up at a certain time.

When I got there, I was astonished to find a restaurant that was a complete replica of a pub from Alfred MacPherson's day... Shortly after I'd finished my dinner of beef and ale, a client of mine, whom I hadn't seen in years, approached my table. I had previously extended him credit for a channeling, and he insisted on making restitution by picking up my tab for the evening...

These are some of the ways that Spirit interacts with us in our everyday lives.

"A higher being, a more in-tune, celestial being may suggest what would be a good direction for us, but the decision, ultimately, is left to us."

Alfred Kubis, Pat Kubis' son, is an internationally known jazz composer. He played the piano at twelve without any lessons, and the first composition he played was George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue"- an exceedingly difficult piece to play. He was composing in two weeks and was playing keyboard professionally within six weeks. In junior college, he received an award for Outstanding Pianist of 51 Colleges. He had never had a piano lesson. but he remarks, "When I first began to play, a man came into the room and sat beside me on the piano bench and he 'played through me'. I learned everything from him."

I am what you would refer to as a future Seth, as Seth in a "higher" stage of development. This is not to be taken literally, however, since both of us are fully independent and exist simultaneously.

ROMC: "This communication is taking place between the lower and higher third level, which is the balancing point of the five levels or dimensions. The lower energies are still in touch with the earth energies, and the higher energies are moving into the finer vibratory energies. It is necessary to start at this balancing point of energy, for communication with the earth plane.

"Once the balancing of the initial communication takes place, then we can move into the higher energies of this being. We cannot send through higher energies or use higher energies than this system is able to accept...

"As the channels are opened up, we are able to work in the higher energies... This is why we do cleansing and raising of the vibrations before most sessions... When we get into higher levels of dimension four, there is usually no conscious remembrance on the part of the energy channel... NOTE: Such as Seth

"The voice vibrations are important in keeping the energy flowing. Therefore, the vocal communication is contributing a great deal in the whole process... The vocal cords and the lower mind can function freely while the higher mental energies are at work in other dimensions...

"We are able to work in the energies of the human system because we are on a higher vibration and can slow our vibrations to get into these lower energies. We exist beyond level five of the earth-consciousness."

"Let me tell you something about that spiritcom device [the North Carolina material] you've been working with, and George Mueller."

...He told me all about Mueller and what a [character] he was... Then he tells me, "Oh, by the way, they've lost contact with him for a while. He says he's moved to another vibratory level, which is one way to put it. And he's just having some instruction there."

But he goes on to say, "But actually they're going to regain contact with him through a trance medium in Colorado.

II. While the Soul is in Kamaloka... The Soul is clad in an astral body, the last but one of its perishable garments, and while thus clad it can utilize the physical bodies of a medium, thus consciously procuring for itself an instrument whereby it can act on the world it has left, and communicate with those living in the body.

ROMC: "Groups of souls work together on certain levels or rates of vibration...

"Because of the earth contact I have had, I am able to work directly through the physical energies of this entity...

"The physical energies within this entity, and the energies that are a part of my soul-consciousness, are on the same vibratory rate. Therefore, I can speak directly through the vocal cords of this dear soul, who has worked many lifetimes helping other souls to understand their purpose and meaning."

The reason guides and teachers come through in the personality of one of their previous lives is to more easily establish rapport with us.

I [come through so forcefully] for several reasons: because that is the way I am, in the guise that I choose to use in my communications, and to get everyone over the idea that so-called spirits must be sweet-faced, quiet, sober, and dignified. That, for example, is one of my main concerns...

I have a reservoir of personality banks upon which I can draw, and as a teacher I use the one that is most effective in any given system of reality; this is the one I use here. It is a portion of myself that is the most closely connected with earthly experience, and it is a self that I liked very well, indeed...

You yourselves adopt personalities, though usually you are not aware of doing so. So I adopt a personality that can communicate with your own. In one manner of speaking mine is heroic, larger, and multidimensional. On the other hand, I can operate only mentally in your world...

My identity includes the identities of many others, and they each operate in their own fashion. In those terms I am a wave formation. More specifically, however, and to a lesser degree, each physical person operates partially as a particleized being, and partially in terms of a wave.

I told Ruburt from our earliest sessions that he could call me Seth. I never said "My name is Seth,"... for I am nameless. I have had too many identities to cling to one name!

I dwell, in a way, in a realm that is more direct than yours. That is one image. I allow myself greater acknowledgement of my being. I speak with the wisdom, for example, that your cells would utter if they had speech.

It said, "My name is Heyoan, your spiritual guide."

What does Heyoan mean?

"The Wind Whispering Truth Through the Centuries."

Where does it come from?

"Kenya."...

Soon I could feel their touch, and sometimes when I saw them in the room, I could smell a wonderful fragrance...

Guides usually know more about where problems really lie than we do. They go right under an individual's defense and into the heart of the matter...

Many spirits who come through in readings use the same verbal expressions or communicate in the same emotional "tone" that they used in life.

Spirits close to those for whom George is doing a reading, either by relation or by blood, or close to someone the subject would know, communicate directly to George without a spiritual middle man...

It's not uncommon for several spirits to drop in on a reading, sometimes quite abruptly, or for George to hear several voices simultaneously. He has no control over which spirits come through or how long they sustain the communication. Generally, the more dramatic, emotional cases result in longer and clearer readings...

In the readings that George conducts over the telephone and that are broadcast live on radio or the television, the caller may say only "hello" before George begins receiving the spiritual communications.

Don: "[Dr. Peebles] is how you were known in your last previous incarnation on earth..."

Dr. Peebles: "I am Dr. Peebles and I am many other things."

Don: "Are you always instantly available for this sort of thing?"

Dr. Peebles: "Well, first of all, for the vast majority of spirits it would be an interference... Most are not involved with the planet Earth but are involved with their own lives, and it is best that they not have anything to do with the planet Earth...

"However, there are a few spirits, such as myself and others, whose life is communicating with earth. That is my joy; that is my day and my night; that is my greatest joy. It is both my greatest recreation, greatest pleasure, and most extraordinary growth, to continue to communicate with the planet Earth, and so it is not a detour or an inconvenience, it is a blessing, it is an act of love."

The Technician: "When I talk to you I adopt certain characteristics of you, as I must "transfer" myself to you. Being other than human, a small part of myself has to adopt human characteristics [become human]. You would not understand me otherwise."

It will do you no good to ask deep questions concerning the history of the times of some personality who was impoverished, ignorant, and limited. He would simply not know the answers. The picture of any given life usually comes through the experience of the personality who lived it.

Michael is the name of a group or "entity" of one thousand fifty souls (also referred to as "essences" or "fragments") They refer to themselves as "we." The name Michael was chosen somewhat arbitrarily. The last soul in the entity to finish its cycle of physical-plane lifetimes had the name Michael in its last lifetime.

Michael is on the causal plane.

Michael no longer has a personality, as we think of it, and hence "borrows" traits from the channel's storehouse of possibilities,

Seth wasn't known at the location I reached there. He could be scattered into several 'spirit guides'; that's how his reality would be interpreted, or come through.

Like attracts like. The more developed the entity's consciousness, the more powerful and refined the energy, and the clearer the channel must be to accommodate it.

The astral plane, being the nearest to the physical, is the easiest other plane from which to channel. There are also distinctions between channeling from the lower, middle, and upper levels of planes, particularly the astral plane. We are on the lower astral plane between lifetimes and during out-of-body experiences, so it is easily accessible. Cycled-off entity mates are on the middle astral plane. NOTE: Spirit guides, etc.

NOTE: Outer rings The upper astral plane is populated by fully cycled-off entities that are recombining, and it is less accessible. The higher the plane or level of plane, the faster the vibration, and the more it "stretches" (and tires) the channel's body.

Quality is not a matter of the plane. Some of the best channeled material comes from those of the astral plane. They are closer to the physical plane than higher-plane teachers, and may have more knowledge of the details of our lives and of the physical plane itself. On the other hand, their knowledge and scope may be more narrow than that of higher-plane teachers. They can be easier to relate to, but they can get rather opinionated. Higher-plane resources have little in the way of opinions or personality.

There are many levels of energy to which a channel can tune in, like the many bands on a radio. Some energies are broader or more general in scope -they combine many energies- whereas some are narrower or more specific. We are a collective energy, that of a recombined entity or "spiritual family" of one thousand fifty souls, but we are relatively narrow in scope. Wide is not better than narrow, just as blue is not better than yellow.

There are seven planes of creation, and infinite facets of reality. It is possible to channel any consciousness. You could actually channel the consciousness of a rock. There are people who do channel devas, which are of the physical plane even though most people do not see them. The most common consciousness channeled is that of astral-plane souls; this includes both those who are between human lifetimes and those who have completed the physical plane.

One can channel energies from the sun- the sun has consciousness. There are energies from other planets that can be channeled, including those of extraterrestrial beings. Sometimes these are inhabitants of the physical plane, although more often they are astral -on the astral plane, movement is much easier.

Seth is a causal-plane entity, like Michael.

It is possible to channel a source from a plane (or level) lower than its true one. One channel may be accessing Michael or Seth from the fourth level of the causal plane, while another may be tapping in at the sixth level of the astral plane. In the latter case, Michael would seem like an astral entity, which is neither better nor worse than manifesting as a casual entity—only different. Astral aspects of Michael would, for one thing, show more vestiges of human personality.

One could even access a source from a plane higher than its true one. For instance, one could channel the "future" or potential messianic plane resonance of Michael, in which case a more abstract, inspirational part of Michael would come through. Similarly, one could channel the future or potential causal-plane resonance of one's own essence or reunited entity. NOTE: Remember – channeling!

There is more physical fatigue in channeling from a higher plane than from the astral or physical planes, since the vibration is faster and is more foreign to the physical body.

Fatigue: It is work for the mind to find words to correlate with the thoughts being brought in.

Many trance channels report awakening from trance feeling refreshed.

Particularly complex or foreign material is also more tiring to channel.

Different Michael fragments (or essences) among the 1050 warriors and kings are being channeled. Each fragment may identify itself as "we," like a spokesperson representing a company, but the entire entity doesn't have one voice.

The various Michael fragments confer with one another. "We are integrated fragments of a larger entity."

I worked with a pool of about a dozen Michael fragments, mostly kings in cadence positions two, five, and six, which resonate with the roles of artisan, sage, and priest. Later, they said that that pool had grown to over sixty, including those who speak, those who research, and those who do energy work. Over the years, I have opened "wider" to be able to handle more energy. The specific expertise of particular fragments can affect which ones are "on duty" to handle the unique needs of an individual or group. In a gestalt of group consensus and individual "volunteering," Michael tunes in to the situation when I am going to channel and senses which of its fragments are most appropriate.

A king is more likely to channel king fragments. A channel who is higher in male energy is more likely to channel the male energy aspect of Michael.

As many as ten can come through at once. However, since there is a high level of unity among the various fragments, such divisions are not cut and dried.

The Michael entity is 80% warriors, and is in the number four or scholar position within its cadre.

The following paragraphs will be written by another personality, who stands relatively in the same position to me as I stand to the woman through whom I am now speaking.

Jane was experiencing the feeling of a "cone" or "pyramid" coming down over the top of her head. Jane has often told me that wherea she feels Seth come to her in a very warm and alive and friendly manner, she feels her consciousness going out of herself to meet Seth Two "up the invisible pyramid like a draft up a flue."

[Afterwards] Other realities' present might, foe example, include the life and death of your planet in a moment of their "time," Seth Two's existence is at the outside fringes of one such galaxy of consciousness. When Seth Two speaks, Ruburt initially is aware of the following: His consciousness strains upward, following an inner psychic pathway, an energized funnel, until quite simply it can go no further. It seems to him then that his consciousness goes out of his body through an invisible pyramid whose open top stretches far up into space. Here he seems to make contact with impersonal symbols whose message is somehow automatically translated into words. That point actually represents a warp in dimensions, a place between systems that has far more to do with energy and psychological reality than it has to do with space, for space is meaningless. I am almost always present as a translator at such times. My knowledge of both realities is necessary for communication. Seth Two is familiar with an entirely different set of symbols and meanings, so that two translations are being given -one by me, and one by Rupurt. These minglings of reality and experience, these messages from one system to another, occur in various ways continually, emerging in your world in one guise or another -as inspiration of many kinds. You are being helped, in other words. Your own characteristcs largely determine the amount of help you receive. Outward is also inward, and so consciousness travels as far inward as it seems to go outward.

I opened my eyes and there he stood! Not like a ghost, but solid, vibrant, smiling, alive!..

Later I found out both of us had moved unconsciously, toward each other, and since I was in a very relaxed, peaceful state we actually met "in the dimensional doorway." At that point I could "see" in his world, and he could "see" in mine.

DVK observed B. Mc. Both before and during the trance state. Just before she went into the trance and became unconscious, her solar plexus center began to vibrate, and at this point she took energy from the corresponding chakras of those present for whom she was giving the "reading," thus establishing the contact.

As she opened herself to the astral consciousness, her whole etheric became limp and droopy. Her breathing became rapid, which affected the brain, and she let herself lose conscious control of her body. As the core of her crown center opened and became more elastic, she herself became open to astral consciousness. This process took a few minutes, during which a degree of harmony and coordination was established between herself and the pulse of this new astral energy.

Shortly after this, B. Mc. Went into a full trance state and exited from her body. Her consciousness became completely quiescent when full harmony was established eith the astral consciousness. Its rhythm was superimposed on hers, thus enabling it to use part of her brain mechanism, which changed at the moment she entered the trance state. The etheric brain pattern speeded up, yet at the same time dulled. Thus she became a focus for other influences, and spoke aloud and gave messages in an altered voice. During trance, both the crown and the solar plexus centers speeded up. The core of the throat center, like that of the solar plexus, opened and became wider. The core of the solar plexus, however, was the one most affected: as it became wider, it became more elastic and dysthythmic, and this condition increased throughout the trance state. Also the reddish color of the chakra was accentuated.

The etheric brain pattern speeded up, yet at the same time dulled.

The accent of a channeled entity may be a combination of the accents of several of its past-life selves. Lives in which the personality was especially adept at language might have particular emphasis. It can also have to do with the past lives of the channel in which he either had a relationship with the channeled entity or was a channel. Those aspects of self are brought in to assist.

Manville Sonnenburg's weight increases when he channels, He gains up to seventy pounds when the entity he channels enters his body.

Sometimes, especially while the client and Michael, through me, are holding eye contact, the light becomes so intense that the clients face appears to me as a blur, and clients have reported the same of my face. Also, there are sometimes moments when my face looks to the client as a negative of a photograph of it.

A psychic described the change he saw in my aura when Michael entered my body as an explosion of white light. Even people who have never before seen auras have seen my aura while I'm channeling.

My face seems to change, looking much older or younger, or having a beard, or looking like a totally different person. Sometimes the images appear to be of past incarnations, and may be in historical garb.

The image might be of someone who was a teacher to the client in a past life. The image might also be of one of the person's own past-life selves, now wiser, who is seeking in this lifetime to get a point across to the person.

He might also be seeing one of my past-life selves who knew him before. Michael was once on the physical plane with many of those who are now their students.

In hundreds of hours of Explorer communication to date, about one-third consists of those instances where, with the Explorer's permission, their friendly entities take over their physical bodies and speak using the Explorer's vocal cords. The other two-thirds are contacts made by the Explorer, who then converses with the nonphysical third party and reports the conversation...

In speaking to the Explorer, the being is limited in vocabulary to that in the memory bank of said Explorer. Therefore it often shows hesitation in searching for the correct word to express what needs to be described...

During visits by certain of these beings, especially when they use the physical body to speak through, there is a change in body voltage and other biomonitoring data in the Explorer.

Guides can speak through a hypnotized subject, but the voice comes through raspy and discordant and hard to understand.

Ruburt was myself, Seth, many centuries ago, but he grew, evolved, and expanded in terms of a particular personal set of value fulfillments. He is now a personality that was one of the probable personalities into which Seth could grow. I represent another. I am another...

Ruburt and myself are offshoots of the same entity. The difference in time is but a camouflage distortion... And now, my dear patient Joseph, may I tell you that you are also part of that same entity- and this is one of the reasons why I am able to communicate with you both.

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My characteristics as they are displayed through the Seth personality, therefore, come from you as well as Ruburt...

My personality, as it so richly presents itself, is to some extent a joint creation of the two of you. This does not mean that I do not have my own reality, for I do, but in my relationship with you and Ruburt, and with your world, I do take certain characteristics that come from each of your realities...

My emotional behavior does not follow your patterns.

The spirit entities who speak through me seem also to know one another from past lives at various points in history, although not necessarily in the lifetimes in which they are speaking through...

I'm quite certain that I've known all the discarnate personalities who speak through me in past lives...

Because I knew these discarnate personalities in past lives, there is tacit permission given for our association, even if I was initially unaware of them.

On many occasions I will see the questions within your mind, or the minds of your witnesses, and [again in your terms] will therefore answer them ahead of time...

I look in on you closely... to see whether or not my message is coming across clearly, and I also learn.

I myself operate well clairvoyantly... for my own reasons and peculiarities, and usually obtain such information [in that manner].

Dr. Peebles: "I'm really locked into this body, and so I don't visually see you. When I'm out of this body I don't visually see you as you see each other. I see energy patterns and waves, like heat off hot tar, but with color and change and movement... panoramic. In my channel I see blackness. However, I work with other spirits, and I am able to sense you through some of my channels."

Don: "When you have been counseling an individual that often they will be across the room from you, while Thomas's eyes are closed- and they are... preparing to break in, to speak while you are speaking, and we have seen you pause, evidently aware of their desire, and give them permission to speak."

Dr. Peebles: "Yes. It is not because of any physical vision. It's because between all life there is connection, there is synchronicity, there is a field of energy that is disturbed or affected by every movement and every thought- and the thoughts, the emotions behind... is much stronger and... the thoughts and emotions have a much more dramatic effect on the field of energy than physical movements."

I perceive people in a room in a far different manner than they perceive themselves; their various past and future reincarnated personalities, but not their probable selves, are perceivable to me. I see the reincarnated aspects, in your terms it would be as if you saw a series of quickly moving pictures. I see this composite image of myself.

By necessity, we interpret our perceptions of higher planes through the perceptions of the physical plane, since that is where we are. By the same token, when Michael is not being channeled, they see us energetically, almost as though we were causal ourselves.

We see the causal energy of physical-plane action. That is primarily how we know you. This energy is more real and prominent to us than your physical body. It provides much information to our direct vision, telling us what is fundamentally going on. However, we cannot read the New York Times, for instance, unless we are being channeled.

The causal plane is a plane of intellect: it has a medium of thought energy, whereas the physical plane has a medium of kinetic energy, emphasizing movement and action. The astral plane has a medium of emotional energy, or content. The causal plane is here, where you are, like the other planes. You live in all of them, but do not see them, because they vibrate faster than the physical plane.

When I enter your system, I move through a series of mental and psychic events. You would interpret these events as space and time, and so often I must use the terms, for I must use your language rather than my own... In one way, I translate what I am into an event that you can understand to some extent.

Linda: "Do you find a somewhat different experience through each channel?"

Dr. Peebles: "Oh, dramatic, yes; very different."

Don: "Your channel is very important to how much of you can come through; is that right?"

Dr. Peebles: "Yes, or in many cases, what part of me can come through, effectively...

"There are other channels, however, I can come through with a little more scientific information and language that is difficult to bring through Thomas, because of certain fears and bias that, uh, impede the route and we will not interfere with that, you understand, we do not overpower...

"There are many, many issues that I can bring through Thomas that are difficult or impossible to bring through others."

Dr. Peebles: "He has a pattern, a series of inner movements he makes... that are very specific. When he's completed that last particular movement, we have an agreement- we're very aware of it- then we come forward, but he's not totally gone yet... We assist him out of the body by force of our presence. That's accomplished through union, not disregard for Thomas, it's a very deep love affair... He is taken and held in great love, he is nurtured and invited to another vibration...

"There are other beings and teachers here, and some of them work solely with the channel. Others work with the people in the room, such as the two of you, to help you go into a state of trance so you hear a larger depth of truth... So everyone's lullabied a little bit."

ROMC: "The energy being wants to project a way of light into my energy body while I am going through this very relaxed state...

"The light ray that was projected into my energy body was energizing and protective, and had a lightening effect on my body...

"They would like to use the light beam to communicate through my vocal cords...

"(in a different voice)... The molecules of the energy body, which are working through her physical body, are vibrating at a more rapid rate. Therefore, at this time there is a feeling of heat surrounding the body...

"[Cont.] As she gets relaxed and begins to float above her physical body, she will experience the coolness, and a feeling of complete security. These will be the physical experiences from level one- of the heat state- to the second level of the cooling-off stage, where she will feel light and airy and relaxed. At this point she will be able to go out to explore."

The thought of Dr. Peebles "is the realest thing in the universe" but it must be slowed down for resonance within the dense realm- and it is slowed down by Thomas's brain...

He has told us that Thomas is taken out of the body and held and nurtured while Dr. Peebles is present in that body... It is then Dr. Peebles's soul (or mind, however you prefer) that interacts with the dense matter of Thomas's brain to channel the thoughts through, interacting with Thomas's own articulation centers to produce the stream of consciousness in human terms that we all can understand...

[The guest spirit] must continually content with the automatic reflexes and conditioned responses- habit patterns, if you will- of the host brain which also contains memory, therefore bias and prejudice.

(Jane could sense the whole of whatever concept Seth was discussing- and how, since such a structure was too much for her to handle at once, she could feel Seth "withdrawing it, to release it to her a little at a time in the form of connected words.")

Concepts fit together in patterns. In order for there to be communication between us I must disentangle a concept from its pattern, which is somewhat difficult. It is somewhat like having to free a particular word from a strong emotional association. I experience patterns made up of concepts, and you use words in associations...

It is natural for me to experience the concepts in their entirety; and yet I must drop very important data by the wayside because you are not capable of handling it, except in consecutive form. I feel concept patterns...

It is possible in theory for you to experience directly a concept-essence of the material in any given night's session...

Ruburt's intellect had to be of high quality. His conscious and unconscious mind had to be acquainted with certain ideas to begin with, in order for the complexity of this material to come through.

Heyoan: "Do you understand, my dear?"

Barbara: "No, I'm getting tired. This talk is too linear."

Heyoan: "That is because we are again squeezing this information into your narrow perception."

The information coming through a clear channel is often beyond what the rational mind of the channeller can understand. It is at those times when the channeller will need a lot of past experience to remember all the other times the information didn't make sense when it came through, yet later the information turned out to be very helpful and understandable when all the information was in.

What do we want mere Spirit to tell us? Something that we cannot possibly encompass with the mind? Let's be reasonable about this. Spirit cannot possibly tell you something that you could not tell yourself.

Interestingly, at the beginning of this session I saw a "tape" with words on it flowing by, and I received the impression that I was to read the words as they moved across my vision. But after the session got under way, the energy seemed to increase and I wasn't aware of seeing an reading the tape any longer.

Each person has several guides who stay with him and guide him throughout many lifetimes. In addition, one has teacher-guides who stay during times of specific learning and are chosen because of that specific learning.

Dr. Peebles: "I work with millions of spirits,... so you're pretty much left alone to your own activity, but there's always one of your council or your family on the spirit side who is going about his or her own business, who... feels a tug of the rope, typically through great pain, or request, who responds; says, 'Oh, what's going on over there with Linda; let's take a peek'- and then we respond in concert, according to the nature of the problem- different spirits have their different preferences of work, respond to you during your daydreams or most often your night dreams, your meditations or your prayers... The spirit community can be a little distance away from you, pretty much leave you alone, or it can be pretty close, again according to your request, your need, and your permission level...

"I know of no soul who does not have at least three guides or teachers who are in contact and aware and concerned with its activity."

Those who do not wish to carry out their training with open eyes may become mediums, but they will never become seers or clairvoyants as esoteric science uses these terms.

I have a cat named Agape. Whenever I begin to bring in Michael, Agape trots in and lies on the couch right next to my chair, soaking in the energy. When I am done, he gets up and goes somewhere else. Channels' pets like Michaels energy.

Seth: The cat is aware of my presence, and has on several occasions reacted rather noticeably to it. (Seth 7)SSchanneled • modern • Seth

There are as many imposters and opportunists on the "other side" as are in our physical reality...

One who has done extensive historical research on channeled entities claiming past mortal existences is Bruce Fisher... who is credited by some as an expert on afterlife... His book, Hungry Ghosts, recounts his experiences in that group and the depth of his efforts to substantiate the claimed past-mortal life credentials of certain self-styled "guides" who came forth to them. It's a troubling revelation of how several channeled entities of his group's experience mixed specific, detailed and accurate historical information (which, upon superficial research, would seem to confirm their authenticity) with fictitious or inaccurate details...

It's clear from his account that the discarnate entities enjoyed subverting their charges' free will to their own whim and control, and had no compunctions over claiming whatever fraudulent credentials they felt gave them the stature to lead- or mislead- their dupes. They encouraged ever more frequent sessions, so they could vicariously partake of their beloved physical reality with ongoing regularity.

During these sessions, we are sometimes visited by people who are no longer living. They may be relatives or friends, lovers, or even old enemies. They usually appear because there are unresolved issues that need to be addressed in order for healing to occur... Sometimes they come simply to reaffirm the eternal bond and everlasting love between souls, which will never die.

Whenever one of these disembodied spirits enters into our circle of expanded awareness, I experience a physical reaction. My electrical field is disturbed, my skin prickles, my heart races and pounds, I become very cold and temporarily disoriented. As this happens, I pull myself back to my center and adjust my level of perception so that I can serve as a communicator between those on either side of that invisible fence that separates the living and the dead...

As they shared with me their fears and joys, their suffering and their deliverance, I was drawn farther and farther into their realities, until their experiences became mine. I actually became them. I felt what they felt, spoke as they spoke, saw as they saw.

The entire experience is one that I will more than likely never repeat, nor shall I ever forget it. It was very hard on me physically as well as emotionally. As one-of-a-kind beings, we all have differing vibrational frequencies. These frequencies are as unique and as individual as fingerprints. Merging with frequencies foreign to my own familiar vibration created an imbalance in my physical body. I did not regain my normal physical integrity until this process was complete. In contrast to this experience, merging with the angels has never affected me adversely. It feels like home to me!

We've had no firsthand experience with classical possession, but we have interacted with one entity that, if not downright malevolent, certainly was arrogant, overbearing, physically threatening, and abusive of the occupied host's usurped body. (It required two strong men to forcefully restrain the unwitting host from materially injuring himself.) This mercifully short session ended with the host crumpling inert on the floor for several moments before normal consciousness returned.

In one local murder case, Marianne sought to connect with the surviving essence of the female victim, hoping to receive a visualization of the murderer through the victim's eyes. We were in a friend's apartment, quietly watching, as Marianne went into trance, when suddenly she rent the silence with a bloodcurdling scream. The traumatic intensity of experiencing the victim's own terror instantly forced Marianne out of trance, badly shaken, and it took her many long minutes to regain her composure...

At this session, Charles Strickland also went into trance, seeking to probe the consciousness of the unknown murderer in the hope of discerning something of his identity or location. Charles was unprepared for what happened: he literally seemed to enter the consciousness of the murderer, perceiving his thoughts, emotions, and, above all, his psychotic aberrations, as though they were Charles's own. Finding this devastatingly discomforting, Charles disengaged quickly- but not soon enough to avoid leaving him emotionally sickened for the balance of the evening...

"The thrill of danger and the urge to kill- not from fear, but utter revulsion-" he said, "pushed my adrenaline to a nearly intolerable level. his mental state was a hideous mixture of hate, fear, and compulsion, with a sickening viciousness and conflicting desire to both embrace and choke the objects of his rage.

Listening to this man's story, witnessing how twisted a soul can become when it chooses a dark path, was excruciating. I was aware of a miasma of toxic emotions- lust, depravity, cruelty, and fear- emanating from this lost soul. Despite the protection of the mighty angel, I still became physically ill for several days.

Marianne: "I am normally- probably ninety-five percent of the time- aware of everything that's going on, when I'm channeling my own SC; with ghosts, most of the time I am unaware of what's going on while it's happening... I often sense a "different energy" - foreign one- when an external personality is given control.

Marianne said afterward, "I was [mostly] aware of what was going on, while it was going on. I think this is because Rosie and Lizzie were fully aware entities, not 'trapped' souls in distress. They certainly were there by choice."

NOTE: Maybe the wall of ghosts serves, when being channeled, to wall off the person channeling as well as the friends and helpers trying to get through to them

"I gather Melinda was an aware Spirit. I had no problem at all working with her energy in my body; it was relatively comfortable and very, very gentle to work with."

She asked "Why is my face wet?" It indeed was Marianne, much to my relief, puzzled though she clearly was. With her consciousness fully blocked during the entire incident, she didn't know, until I told her, that a ghost had been speaking through her and shedding her tears.

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"When I first came out of trance," she related, "I felt emotionally drained without knowing why. I felt confusion- disorientation- and a sense of time loss. I also had a sense of some kind of catharsis, but I couldn't define it.

Then Charles invoked the ritual protective field about us, and Marianne settled into trance.

Shortly, Marianne's hands began the usual tactile exploration of her body. Mainly for Tony's benefit, I explained, "The energy is feeling a different body... trying to acclimate to it." Then, to the emerging personality, "Good evening."

It didn't answer; instead Marianne's body began to writhe and squirm, as though the visitor found it uncomfortable. "Why do you struggle?" I asked. "Would you speak to us?"

Marianne's hand suddenly shot forward, striking the microphone I was holding in front of her. There followed a long silence, as her hands returned to their tactile exploration...

"Would you do us the honor," I insisted, "of saying 'hello,' and identifying yourself- among friends?"

Sometimes an external entity has to make several tries, before it can master speech in the strange body. After Marianne uttered some exploratory squawks, a prolonged, undulating dirge-like groan, and a series of labored, unintelligible attempts at words, I suspected the entity could now talk. I asked, "Will you speak to us now?"

"What do you want?" The question was hoarsely whispered.

For most discarnates, having been bodiless for many years, physicality is a strange, like-new experience. Some entering personalities spend long minutes in silence, feeling arms, legs, face, and hands in detail, learning to manipulate a strange body...

Speaking is the greatest challenge to physical coordination, and an emerging entity may grunt, groan, and stammer awhile, before managing to speak intelligibly through the medium's body.

As the session progressed, I heard my voice become that of a Southern youth, with the cadence and timbre of a boy in his early teens. I was astounded. I had been aware of a deeper merging of souls during this session, and, in fact, for days afterward I carried a great grief and love in my heart for this young man.

Although the entities have on occasion spoken spontaneously in their own language, they do not often do so because it tends to leave residues in my subconscious mind. For instance, I was giving a public talk some years ago, and just as I was coming to a dramatic point and was about to say "and God goes to bat for you," instead I said "God will take a shillelagh for you." (A shillelagh is a shepherd's crook. It is the old Irish word for staff.) So, even though Alfred MacPherson's linguistics are close to our own, his archaic phraseology occasionally pops up in my vocabulary when I'm not in trance. Sometimes when I'm speaking, a word comes out that is alien to me on a conscious level but has the right feel at the moment. Often it turns out to be a foreign word known to Japu or another of the entities. The retention of such words is a side effect of the clairvoyant state.

Not all inspiration comes from channeling, since we are each creative beings in our own right, but most creation involves some sort of collaboration. We receive more help than we realize.

Our conscious mind accounts for only a small part of our total self. Through intuition, we can access the full range of our inner knowledge, especially that of our essence, our "higher self."

Sometimes intuition comes from our spirit guides or other nonphysical souls.

Channeling is usually thought of as accessing an outside source. Channeling another entity feels like a different, perhaps more intense energy coming in, whereas channeling our own essence feels like a setting free of our own energy. Although I find channeling Michael physically tiring, channeling my own energy can be refreshing.

A person would probably not be able to channel well if he wasn't intuitive.

You can also communicate with an invisible source mentally, without it coming into your physical body and expressing through you.

To focus yourself, it is good to concentrate on something that is not distracting in order to keep your attention in one place. You can gaze through a candle flame, listen to some nonlinear music, such as chimes, or listen to your breathing. Once you feel deeply relaxed and present with yourself, state out loud what you wish to experience in the session. If you wish, for example, to receive visual images from your primary spirit guide, say that, and imagine a movie screen in your head. Then simply wait until the movie starts, Continue to focus on your breathing, the music, the flame. Once you get images, describe them on tape as they come. Work with the images as you would in interpreting a dream.

If you wish to receive words rather than images, you might imagine that you are sitting at a table with him, talking about what it is that you wish to know more about.

It is important to be clear about what you intend to happen. You can also ask that simply that whatever is for your highest good occur and then just remain in this state of openness.

ROMC: "When we speak through earth energies such as the energies of this entity, we do not go into the energy body in the manner that possessing spirits do. We work through beams of high vibrations, called light."

My clairvoyant friend, LD, told me of an OBE where a spirit of a woman entered her body without permission. The woman was trying to animate LD's body, but couldn't. LD returned to her body to find it occupied. She was so angry that she yelled at the spirit to get out "or else." The spirit said no, but LD got furious and yelled "Now!" The unhappy spirit quickly left the body, and LD entered it again. The point is, even when you are out of your body, your oversoul has a "claim" on that body. Other spirits do not have the power to animate your body.

Around 1903, an invalid by the name of Vincent Turvey learned how to induce OBEs to free himself from his disabled body. Spiritualism was still popular then, so Turvey started visiting seances during his OBEs. A few times he actually sent messages through the medium during the seance.

In another life, this entity used occult power to control others. This might lead to possession in this life, unless corrected.

Atun-Re: "There is no need for concern over what you would call psychic protection... You may receive messages telepathically that may disturb you a bit, but only if you are emotionally unbalanced in your life. But if you are balanced, merely allow anything to pass through you and return to its source."

Begin to combine letters, a few or many, permuting and revolving them rapidly until your mind warms up... When you feel within that your mind is very, very warm from combining the letters, and that through the combinations you understand new things that you have not attained by human tradition nor discovered on your own through mental reflection, then you are ready to receive the abundant flow, and the abundance flows upon you, arousing you again and again.

NOTE: the coldness of being caught in things is a strain, both mentally and physically.

"Parts of the Zohar may have been composed through automatic writing... Such a technique was reportedly used by other thirteenth-century kabbalists." -Lester Lance

Automatic writing suffers from many of the same types of distortion found in dreams.

Ruburt has trained himself to deal with words as a writer. When he picks up a world view that belongs to someone else, he can quite automatically translate it faithfully enough in that idiom of language...

So do scientists and inventors often tune in to the world views of others- living or dead, in your terms- that correlate with their own intents, talents, and purposes.

These "other," reinterpreted world views form a matrix from which new creativity emerges... If you can momentarily abandon your private world view, that focus from which you experience reality, then you can allow the experience of others who have had similar challenges to color your perceptions. You can tune in to their solutions and apply them to your particular circumstances.

In many such instances, the Ouija board operator or the automatic writer is to some extent or another tuning in to a world view, struggling to open roads of perception free enough to perceive an altered version of reality, but not equipped enough through training and temperament, perhaps, to express it...

When you use the Ouija board or trance procedures, you frequently free philosophical areas of your mind that have been frozen. The resulting information then definitely seems to come from outside of yourself, and because you are literal-minded you try to interpret such experiences in a literal way. The material must come from a philosopher, therefore, and since it certainly seems profound to your usual mundane organization, then it appears that such information must originate with a profound mind certainly not your own.

You may signify this to yourself symbolically, so that the board or the automatic writing designates its origin as being Socrates or Plato. If you are spiritualistically oriented, the information may come from a famous psychic recently dead. Instead you yourself have momentarily escaped from your accustomed world view, or home program; you are reaching out into other levels of reality, but still interpreting your experiences in old terms...

You are each as valid as Socrates or Plato.

You always form your own experience. Ruburt picked up on the world view of a man known dead. He was not directly in communication with William James. NOTE: If you're just receiving information, where did the idea that it was William James come from I wonder?

He was aware, however, of the universe through William James's world view... Each person has such a world view, whether living or dead in your terms, and that "living picture" exists despite time or space. It can be perceived by others.

Each world view exists at its own particular "frequency," and can only be tuned in to by those who are more or less within the same range. NOTE: Aha, that makes sense! Like how you remember things only on your energy level! However, the frequencies themselves have to be adjusted properly to be brought into focus, and those adjustments necessitate certain intents and sympathies. It is not possible to move in to such a world view if you are basically at odds with it, for example. You simply will not be able to make the proper adjustments...

Even in your life as you understand it, if you are insecure or frightened, you cannot properly see your family or your neighbors. If you are afraid, then your own fear stands between yourself and others. You do not dare take your eyes off yourself for a second. You cannot afford to be friendly, for instance, because you are terrified of being rebuffed.

In the same way, if you are overly concerned about the nature of your own reality, and if you are looking to others to justify your existence, you will not be able to abandon your own world view successfully, for you will feel too threatened...

Ruburt picked up on William James's world view because their interests coincided...

The world view of any individual, even not yet born from your standpoint, exists nevertheless...

James was not aware of the situation. For that matter, James himself is embarked upon other adventures. Ruburt picked up on James's world view, however, as in your terms at least it "existed" perhaps 10 years ago...

It carried the stamp of James's own emotional state at that "time," when he was viewing his earthly experience, in your terms, from the standpoint of one who had died, could look back, and see where he thought his ideas were valid and where they were not...

Ruburt had to be free enough to accept the view of reality as perceived by someone else. To accomplish this, Ruburt, anchored in its own reality while letting another portion soak up, so to speak, a reality not its own.

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If you take your own world view with you all of the time, however, as you travel, even in your own world, then you never see the "naked culture." You are always a tourist, taking your homey paraphernalia with you and afraid to give it up.

When you begin to leave your home station and alter your focus, however, you leave behind you the particular familiar receptors for your projections. Using the Ouija board or automatic writing, you may find yourself immediately confronted with this material that you have suppressed in the past. When it surfaces you may then project it outward from yourself again, but in a different fashion. Instead of thinking you are in contact with a great philosopher or "ancient soul," you may believe that you are instead visiting with a demon or a devil, or that you are possessed of an evil spirit.

In such a case, you will have already been convinced of the power of evil. Your natural feelings, denied, will also carry the great charge of repression. You may be filled with the feeling that you are in the midst of a great cosmic struggle between the forces of good and evil- and indeed, this often represents a valid picture of your own view of the world.

None of this is necessary... You are in far greater danger the longer you inhibit your natural feelings, and alterations of consciousness often do not in one way or another come to your attention, then it is very possible that the denied energy behind them will erupt in ruptured relationships or illnesses.

"Psychic explorations" never cause such difficulties, nor do they ever compound original problems. On the contrary, they are often highly therapeutic, and they present the personality with an alternative- an alternative to continued repression that would be literally unbearable.

(Q) Who is giving this information?

(A) That same that stood in the position for the entity as a guide, and an aide, and that one who may be termed the guardian of this entity's activities. (Lynn & Cayce 122)NDchanneled • modern • Lynn & Cayce

I sometimes hear that, unbeknownst to me, Michael used a word or phrase that was key in the person's life. (Hoodwin 72)JoYSchanneled • modern • Hoodwin

Warriors, the most "earthy" of the seven roles, can find it disorienting to be fully conscious during channeling, and more often go into a deeper trance, whereas sages tend to not want to "miss a word," and more often stay fully conscious.

We are each a member of a permanent group of seven souls, called a "cadence" or "primary cadence," in which we have a particular numeric position, one through seven. Our cadence, in turn, has a particular numeric position within its group of seven cadences which is called a "greater cadence." Being in sixth or seventh cadence or greater cadence position facilitates channeling and other psychic work. The six resonates with the astral plane, and the seven, with the casual plane. I am in the fifth position of a cadence which is fourth in its greater cadence group.

The vibration of the six or seven is strong for someone at the sixth or seventh level of their soul age, but it is not as significant as, say, the attitude of spiritualist (a six) or more importantly, being in a six or seven cadence position.

Channeling through sixs and sevens tends to come "up" through the channel's whole being. Another way is to bring the channeling "down" through the channel mind. This requires a lot of mental power, and is more cut off from the rest of the channel's self. In some channels, it happens both ways- that is, the easiest, Having sixs and sevens gives more endurance.

"Very few priests and kings make good channels because it is necessary for a channel to be able to 'ground' and the nature of six-ness and seven-ness at role level makes such a grounding difficult." This is a matter of "too much of a good thing." -Michael's People