Caroling and Channeling

Here are the main features of channeling.

• Channeling is about exchanging healing energy or information.
  What is healing? Healing is connecting with the whole. What is the whole? I don't know. It is beyond everything we have discovered. What is energy? Not stuff. Usually, channeling implies that guidance has been received or transmitted with the help of something higher than oneself. The guidance could be via your higher self or spirit guides. What is your higher self or spirit guide? There are many ways of imagining some way or something or someone or someSpirit that helps connect us to the whole. The person doing the channeling is the channel (or healer or guide).

• A channel opens an energy circuit to the beyond.
  The most healing energy flows through the channel from the beyond. If a channel considers themself as a source, giving their own energy to the receiver, then the channel is depleted. And the receiver, as end target, even though charged up, risks losing it. The idea is to be open to the flow although not grasping it. Grasping cuts us off. In the open flow of healing, everything is energized.

• A channel aspires to make the greatest contact possible with the whole while knowing that ultimately, it is impossible.
  Expanded consciousness and mystic unrepression help open the channel.

• A clear channel is one that is able to keep their personal self out of it.
  This includes our personal history, but also cultural concepts inherent in our conditioning. Therefore it is a very worthy endeavor.

• When a vision comes through channeling, it is treated as a story.
  Its truth might eventually be scientifically proven, but that is not its test. The test of the truth is how well it makes us feel and how valuable it is spiritually.

• Healing energy is sometimes felt as heat by a receiver.
  I don't know why. But no heat does not mean that healing energy is lacking. Healing energy is something inherent in our nature that the channeling discipline is expanding.

I learned how to be a channel from Frank and Georgiana Burt. They are my spiritual parents.

For examples and content of channeling, see the Examples and content.

Now, take a break and balance out with a quote from East/West Magazine, July-August, 1997, by Swami BeyondAnanda:

"Finally, everything I have told you is channeled. That way, if you don't like it, it's not my fault. And remember, enlightenment is not a bureaucracy. So, we don't have to go through channels."