Learn To Channel

What Do You Do When Spirit Stops Talking?

2011-07-10T12:50:00.000-07:00

This is an email I got yesterday.

Hi. I’ve been speaking to my nana in the spirit world and lately I’ve been getting a feeling I should do a tarot card reading for myself. So I did. It wasn’t a good reading all. The bad cards came out, so the same night I asked my spirit guide to bring my nana through. She didn’t come which she always has done in the past.

Something felt really wrong that she didn’t answer me and a few days later she still won’t come through. I’m just wondering why they don’t come through. I also feel as though they are trying to prepare me for something distressing to happen. Is that why she won’t speak to me at the moment?

Hello,

You are worrying too much. That’s all. When you make contact with Spirit in the way that you have been accustomed to this is not the way it will always be. You will, as a sensitive, evolve and develop. Not to worry about it.

So, what is going on with you? Did you realize that you are the one who determines what spirit is going to sound like? We did an experiment once with 4 people I was coaching on learning to channel. The game was going to be that we would listen to one guide. The same guide. And, that guide would channel about what was going on in our future. We were all set to get really good information. What came through was surprising and not what we expected to hear.

Bear in mind that I live near San Francisco. We get a lot of earthquakes and everybody has been warned for years that the BIG one is coming.

So, one person channeled that we should all get out of Dodge and move as quickly as possible. We should move to Colorado because that was going to be the new west coast in the United States when the present western part of the country was going to sink and drop off the map.

Another person channeled that if our higher self determined that our life lesson was going to be that we needed to be involved in a big earthquake, then that was where we were going to be. Why there? Who knows? Maybe we are supposed to help people.

Two very different channelings, yet from the same guide and through two different people speaking on the same subject.

That was when I realized that it is the person who determines what kind of channeling comes through; whether it is going to be scary or not.

Okay, so what do you do if you feel you don’t have any control over the channeling coming out of your mouth?

You have lots of control. It’s all about choices. For one thing with alarming or distressing messages coming through you can take a step back from it and know the channeling you are doing is based in fearfulness.

How to get over fear? Grow yourself. A kid is afraid of nothing. They learn fear as they grow. Unlearn it. Are you afraid of the first raindrop? Run for shelter so you don’t get wet and melt? Try this. Next time it rains go outside without a coat and without an umbrella and get wet. I know that is simple, but for me, when I did it, it was a revelation and it was one of the first steps I took outside of my comfort zone.

Allow the fearlessness to come gradually to you. Journal. Pour out your thoughts on paper. The very act of expressing yourself on paper is therapeutic.

Begin to gradually change your world views. Are you as well balanced mentally as you can be? If you move on the assumption that everybody, the world over, has some sort of neurosis going on, figure that you must have one too. You always figured that you were perfectly okay. Figure now that you are not. Number one rule is that channeling is distorted by how well balanced you are mentally, or at least that you are making the attempt to be well balanced. So, the important point here is that you make a promise to yourself that you will make the attempt to investigate some aspect of yourself that might need a little healing. I don’t know what it is. You have to discover that one on your own. Remember, that your world view, your take on reality needs to shift a little bit in order for you to spot something in your makeup that could use some work. It is a process of being more sensitive to what your needs are.

The thing with healing emotionally and figuring out what is going on with you is to assume first of all that you are not a victim. If you go around saying, “If this had not happened then everything would be different for me.” Or “If they hadn’t done this I would not now be doing this.” This is the blame game and if you blame others for your problems then this is something you can look at. Here’s a hint. Do you ever get really angry about things? Focus in on those times and see if you can’t figure something out about yourself.

My signal that I need to get quiet and do some inner work is when suddenly, out of nowhere, I am surrounded by drivers who can’t drive worth a poop. In front of me, behind me, coming at me from the side; the worst drivers you can imagine and I am attracting them like flies. Ahem. My own personal signal that there is something in my world that isn’t quite right. If I choose to ignore this it only gets worse.

This doesn’t mean that you are defective. It means that you, just like everybody else, has something to work on. That’s our opportunity here on Earth. Learn all you can.

One of the best things I ever did to help me shift my reality just that little bit that would allow me to channel was to read, “The Course in Miracles”. There is a section in it that has 365 lessons; one for each day of the year. Start on the first lesson and begin reading. These are short. They never go much more than one page.

Now, the cards. First time I ever read the Tarot for myself I got the 3 “bad” cards; the hanged man, the tower and the devil. The hair stood up on the back of my neck. I shuffled the deck and drew again. Same three cards. Yikes. I shuffled and drew again. Same again. The odds of that happening were incredible. So, since I didn’t know much more about those cards than they were “bad” I figured I would read the meanings. Your world turns upside down, things are going to change, you have the opportunity for great changes in your life.

I finally realized that Spirit was coming through the cards and since I already held a bunch of “beliefs” about ESP and psychic things I was frightened. It took years for me to unlearn my fears, to realize that Spirit had just stepped in to communicate with me via the cards and that was one of the first steps I was taking to learn how to channel.

Your sensitivity to the other side is changing. Take a hint and study more. There isn’t one perfect and right way to lean as far as disciplines go. Lean the way you are drawn. You’re going to learn something from all of your teachers. There is a saying, “When the student is ready the teacher will appear.” So, don’t fret. You’re doing fine.

There is nothing to fear and your Nana and your guide are not preparing you for something bad to happen. When it all settles down again you’ll be able to talk to Folk in Spirit again and I’ll bet you will be a much happier person. It’s all about growing.

Best of luck to you and thank you for writing.

Pauline

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

2010-11-26T09:53:00.000-08:00

I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving and intrepidness on Black Friday I would hope you can tell your children about years from now. (For those unfamiliar with Black Friday it is the day after Thanksgiving when merchants throw open their doors with specials of all sorts and the hope that people will come spend their money thus enabling the store owner to finally turn a profit and record it in black ink rather than in red.)

It has been some time since I have written, here in this Learning to Channel Blog, on any of my other websites and blogs and even in my own journals.

But, I haven’t been dead or in a coma. I was reeling first from the passing of our dear friend and neighbor, Phil last January and then from the new responsibilities of my job. I just let it all go away for a time. What I did during my spare time was to read and lose myself in books, to watch an inordinate amount of television and to play an addictive form of Solitaire; Aces and Kings to be specific.

I continued to channel my guides and others, close friends and relatives and other interested parties. And, it is regarding channeling that I wanted to tell you about something that happened to me just a few minutes ago.

I was watching a movie, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” from NetFlix on my computer. Part way through the movie when Benjamin has grown to be 9 or 10 years old he invites his young friend for a ride on the tug boat he works on. It is very, very early on a Sunday morning and he crept into the bedroom where his friend lay sleeping with her grandmother. He awakened her and asked her to come with him to see something special.

To everyone except his mother and his father it appears he is a man in his 70’s when he is actually a little boy. As the tugboat captain takes the two friends out onto the river a voice in my head said, “rapscallion”. It was one of those special moments in channeling where I could so easily distinguish between what a voice in spirit said and what I might think. Rapscallion is such an old word, a word I don’t think I would ever easily use. It brought tears to my eyes because the experience illustrated so wonderfully the amazement I still experience about everyday channeling.

The Scary Part

2010-05-23T10:02:00.000-07:00

This is an email I got last week from somebody. I'm betting this will be helpful for others who read this blog. It was a short question that resulted in a big answer. Don't think I am apologizing for being a Sage in the Michael Teachings (blah, blah, blah) because I feel this is important stuff for people who are learning how to channel.

These issues not only affect the process of learning how to channel, but knowing the mechanics of what is going on will allow you to move past fear issues. In addition just knowing how to address these psychic issues will also allow you to make improvements in many areas of your life.

Hello Lady Skye,

I wonder if you could provide some advice for me. I have always felt the presence of spirits around me, but have been somewhat frightened by them. I've recently decided to embrace my ability and learn to communicate with to them properly.

I recently had an experience whereby I attempted to channel an entity in the room and it unexpectedly presented itself to me as a horrible gargoyle-esque face imprinted over the face of my friend in the room. This really shook me up and affected me for quite a number of days. Can you provide some advice as to how to deal with such a thing and how to stop myself becoming freaked out?

Thank you in advance!

And, my answer:

There’s a couple of things going on here. One is you were afraid. You’re not still afraid? Sounds to me like you are at least uncertain.

Second thing is you are new at it and your own subconscious is, if not rebelling, is trying to protect you. Anything perceived in our own usual world and in the world of the unseen spirits is filtered through your own belief systems. You were afraid and decided not to be afraid? Deep down I believe there was a reason you were afraid. It would be useful for you to investigate this still active deeply held and buried fear. Just have a look at it. Think about it a little in a calm and meditative state. See what comes up for you to look at.

Change your own deeply held beliefs about how things are and you will find your own reality shifting a bit too. Here’s an example from our own usual reality: You are a teenager going through teenager angst. The thing you want most is to be a cheerleader. But, there is a whole list of reasons why you could never be a cheerleader. So, you make a list: You’re not popular. You’re not in the IN crowd. You are not athletic. You feel you are not pretty enough. You are shy. A short list, but let’s look at some of them.

Starting with the first where you are not popular. Ask yourself why you can’t make friends. Are you jealous? Are you afraid of rejection? The solution? You’ve got to go out on a limb to make friends and be what might be considered popular. Smile at one of your classmates at lunch time and say hello. Okay, you’re on the way to making friends and becoming popular. Was that a no brainer? Yes. Was it something you would do of your own volition? Probably not. Why not? Well, because there are deeper issues involved here. You might have abandonment issues which would directly affect anybody in a friend relationship. You might prove to be a clingy sort of friend and the person you are friends with might be uncomfortable with that and stop being friends with you. It’s a vicious circle until you look at what you think are the root problems and make the effort to learn something about them. Life lessons aren’t always easy. But, chipping away at the first objection in your list of not being able to be a cheerleader could be the start of something that a year from now shouldn’t prove to be such an obstacle.

So, that’s what you do. You just sort of chip away at the list and your reality eventually changes, the world as you perceive it becomes less of a scary place and next year maybe you can try out to be a cheerleader. You take a step towards becoming fit and athletic. Blamo the objections your body has to the idea of being fit start to come up. You twist your ankle and are out of commission for 3 weeks. You hurt your back. You don’t have any energy. The list goes on. Go to a quiet meditative state and ask yourself the question of why you can’t allow yourself to be physically fit. Just look at the answers and try again. Be sensible about it and do easy physical exercises.

But life lessons are interesting. So, you’re going to be physically fit and your body keeps coming up with things designed for you to not be physically fit. You look at these unexplained reasons why you are not able to change your reality. I know that there are probably lots of people out there who would look at your sprained ankle and say that has absolutely nothing to do with you trying to change your reality, and that included me several years ago too, but I have come to learn that an obstacle like a sprained ankle is a way for my subconscious to keep me safe and in my own usual reality because my subconscious perceives a very real need not to look at that deeply buried wound.

You’re an adult. You are not afraid anymore. You are mature and you can look at these things. Sometimes it takes a therapist to help you get past some of the closed doors, and that is a very valuable service. But, in order to go the physically fit route you as a person need to know why you’ve got this resistance to being physically fit. You don’t have to solve the whole problem, but you need to make some progress. You learn a little bit and are able to operate quite nicely for a couple of years and then you get another sprained ankle and it is your higher self’s way of letting you know that you are now ready to do a little more work on the same issues. That’s why they are life lessons; they take awhile to do.

How does this relate to psychic stuff? Same things. Same processes. Look in your heart to see what about this psychic, unseen reality scares you. Also, you can consider that just by making an attempt to change the way you view your reality your subconscious is setting obstacles in your path, namely the scary visions. Keep trying. Eventually two things are going to happen. With making an attempt to figure out why things are scary you are facing up to a next step life lesson. And the other thing is with continued practice, even though it is scary, you are proving to yourself that you are brave and are willing to go through this newbie beginner stage of just becoming accustomed to a new reality. Eventually, the scary faces stop and will morph into regular visions of your guide and/or of psychic sight.

Have you ever found yourself in front of a group of people having to make a speech and being terrified of it? How do you figure people can do that without having a panic attack? They practice. They’ve done it in front of a mirror lots of times imagining the audience in front of them. They convince themselves they have something useful at least some of the people in the audience will appreciate. And, they accept the fact that there will be some of those people who will not be interested. They decide they can live with that. Enough of this mind practice and they can stand in front of a large group of people without nightmares.

Now the other important part of your question I can easily answer by saying this is new stuff. You are the kid in kindergarten and have a really short attention span. Does the teacher who teaches in kindergarten teach differently than the teacher you will eventually have in a senior year of calculus? Yes. Different. How do guides teach us? They have to get our attention and ask that you step up to the next level of adult maturity and responsibility by examining deeply held beliefs. You want to play in the realm of spirits you need to be up to the task. This is hard stuff and requires that you pay attention, that you be willing to make personal commitments to watch your own personal life lessons closer, that you not be afraid.

Fearless. And, in order to do that you have to look into your heart.

And, it’s just the way the guides teach. I call it the jerk around method. This is why I tell people not to tell the world about channeling they get during that first year. It can really get embarrassing when down the road, a year into your channeling experiences you look back at how many people you went and told that your guides had told you that you had known Jesus Christ when he taught. Right. The likelihood of that happening is sort of along the lines of slim and none. Maybe you did. Maybe you didn’t. The world at large (or at least your family and friends) are going to think you are a nut. Just keep all this incredible information to yourself for awhile. And, I guarantee that it will be wild ass stuff. Fun, but you are a beginner and are being taught by your guide who will sometimes have to jerk you around a little bit. It’s not how you would expect a teacher to teach, but they are limited in the methods they can use to teach you, at least in the beginning. I actually think it’s a good method. And, I did embarrass myself with newbie channeling gone wild.

The other thing to do is to however you can make this happen raise your own vibrations and expectations about your teacher. Seek the light. Seek higher vibrations. Meditate a little before attempting to make contact. SPEAK WITH YOUR OWN GUIDE. I know that is rude to yell in caps, but that is an important thing here in the beginning. Elvis and Liberace can wait their turn until you are sufficiently expert at moving around in the spirit realm. And, even with the intention of speaking with your own guide they will still jerk you around. Especially, if you are afraid. But, for that first year be content with your guide.

In short, it’s all part of learning how to channel and most everybody experiences it. I know I did. Thanks for writing.

What Do You Do About Stupid Channeling?

2010-03-13T06:48:00.000-08:00

I have spoken before of how it is that the messages coming from Guides and Folk in Spirit are distorted just because we are human beings. Sorry, it just can’t be helped.

It does help if you are willing to work on your own psychological stuff. And, don’t bother telling me that you are perfectly well balanced. Everybody has stuff they can work on. It doesn’t mean we are a bunch of loons. It means these are our own lifelong lessons and can always use some work.

In any case, Rule Number One for people who wish to learn how to channel is to make the promise to themselves and to Spirit that they will work on their own issues as they arise for the rest of their lives. This does not mean that you will be working on this stuff all the time. Just when it looks like they are interfering with your life or with your quality of channeling.

How can you tell? You have to do it awhile and you will come to know your own special signals that it is time to do some work. My own are crappy drivers. It’s not that they suddenly flock around me like bees around flowers. It’s just that I no longer have any patience for them. They are there all the time. I just notice them more when I am on edge. Also, another signal I can watch out for is being really cranky and angry. Do I always do the emotional work that needs to be done? Well….not right away. Hey, I’m human and I have feet of clay. But, I do get to it eventually.

So, what do you do? There are all sorts of methods. My own is to find a quiet place. Dip into a sort of meditative state and ask myself the question, “What is wrong?” You get quicker at it with practice. It’s called Focusing. Look up Eugene Gendlin. But, this process will lead me into memories or into situations that are causing my own inner turmoil. And, I deal with it. How? Mostly I just feel the emotion, acknowledge what is going on. You can’t change the past, but you can change how you are affected by it. So, suddenly I am a toddler and something happened I didn’t like and I learned from that experience to do this. This, however, is the fly in the ointment that is causing my upset, whatever it is. For instance, be quiet. Toddlers are not quiet. They make noise. They are learning how to communicate. They are noisy. They ask questions. That sort of stuff. But, somehow I got the idea that I had to be quiet and now that issue is bothering me. So, I deal with it.

Did I completely fix my problem? Probably not. Maybe I just touched the surface. Maybe I’m going to be okay for the next 2 years. But, somewhere down the line I will have the opportunity to do some more work on the issue. Is this bad that I didn’t fix the thing in the first place? No. It’s how you heal.

Just pay attention and work on your stuff.

How does this help with the channeling? Making the commitment to get help, whether it is on your own or with the occasional help of a therapist, allows you to participate as a clearer conduit for the messages from Guides and Folk in Spirit to come through.

I also mentioned that just because we are human beings the messages are going to be distorted too, but like the guides said to me once they just keep trying until we get somewhere in the ballpark of what they intended to say. Also, they have infinite patience and make allowances for the distortions. Face it, as human beings we believe in different things. These belief systems affect how we live, how we present ourselves, how our world looks to us.

It’s sort of like painting. Imagine the Guides and Folk in Spirit are the brushes. We are the paint pots. I am red. You are blue. The other guy is yellow. Same message from the Guides, but because we are different colors the message will be slightly different from each channel.

When I first learned of this I was upset because I am a Virgo and a very precise person. I thought because I was screwing up what the Guides wanted to say I was a bad channel. Everything goes by the rules and everything is perfect. The guides have taught me to loosen up. Now I am more tolerant of how I channel. And, that is what I want to impart to anybody who is learning to channel. Just loosen up. Relax and it goes easier. Make that commitment to pay attention to your own needs. Don’t share your channeling with others for the first year because, basically it sort of sucks. It is wonderful channeling, but you are learning how, getting used to the whole thing and some of that first year channeling can be pretty off the wall.

Hey, I was Dorothy reincarnated for a few months there.

Helping the Channel to Heal

2010-03-07T06:33:00.000-08:00

One of the advantages of being able to channel is that your guide will help you to think and talk about the hard stuff. Your hard stuff will, of course, be different than mine or anybody else’s.

Constantly with my advice to people who are interested in learning how to channel I say that they must make a promise to themselves that they pay attention to their own psychological and emotional healing. I made that promise and keep it, sort of.

In reality, I find that I can be a stubborn as a mule and circumstances sometimes almost seem to surround me to remind me of a mule being beaten with a large stick before I will give in and take care of my own emotional and psychological well being.

Like this morning. I won’t tell you what it was, because it is private, but it was a hard thing for me to even admit to myself. It is something that I am able to ignore and go about my daily life. Here’s how it happened. I was sitting on the pot reading a very good book. This is the fourth in the Outlander series by Diane Gabaldon. I’ve read these books before many times, but enjoy them with the re-reading every time. So, I’m at the place where Brianna tells her father that she is pregnant. He thinks it is by one person, she feels it to be by another. They have so totally screwed up what actually happened and great damage has been done by Jaime, her father, totally beating the crap out of Roger MacKenzie who is actually Roger Wakefield. It’s just a really emotional time. Now, from reading before I know they gave Roger to the Indians and he’s going to have a hell of a time getting back to Brianna.

So, in the telling to her father of her pregnancy both Brianna and Jaime are able to shed horrible burdens. There is the corollary disaster of misunderstanding and the physical damage to Roger when Jaime beat the crap out of him before he gave him to the Indians.

And, I sat there on the pot crying buckets over this story. Now, I can’t remember exactly what Seth said to me. I’m going to give you the gist of it and perhaps he might step in (please?) to help me out with the rest of the story.

Here is what Seth said to me: Not all of what passed between us was with words. Communication on this level sometimes passes as quickly, more so than of thought. I compared the way Missy was crying over her story with how she has yet to cry over her own circumstances. I reminded her of what those circumstances were for she does tend to ignore them for the most part. There is no need to do anything about this issue now or ever. It is just that hidden feelings not expressed, thought not thought will wear upon a person and I sought to help her to explore that painful emotional abscess.

So, thank you to my guide Seth for helping me out. I feel better, though tears are still trickling down my face even though I am busily writing this entry. I just wanted to point out to all of you who are learning how to channel how very helpful your guides can be.

Blessings from everybody this morning.

Just a short note about where I was when all of this took place. Everybody knows sitting on the pot is private and the best place to read in the house sometimes. It is also a rather terrific place to channel. I don't know why, it just is. The same as when you're taking a shower that you can come up with great ideas sometimes. So, get over the shock that your guide can talk to you with your pants down. They really don't care. (I'm getting snorts of laughter from the Folk in Spirit.) Have a good day.

Are You Still There?

2010-02-21T19:45:00.000-08:00

I remember when I first learned how to channel the contact I had with Seth was spotty. At least, that’s what I thought. It was if I was hearing his voice and then I wasn’t. What was happening was that my channeling muscles were getting exercised and I was going from the condition of not having channeled consciously to one where I was channeling. I expected to be able to dance like Ginger Rogers overnight.

So, because that did not happen and it just took time to develop a condition of channeling I became quite alarmed when the sense of channeling seemed to go away. I was afraid this wonderful gift would disappear and I would no longer be able to speak to my guide.

I want to tell you that will not happen. Once connected to your guide you will always maintain that connection. It might change over time but you will always have a connection to another layer of consciousness.

I have to tell a story on myself. I confess there were times when I would call out my guide’s name silently, in my head and was relieved when he would say, “What?” I didn’t want to talk so much as just reassure myself that he was still there.

Aspects of Channeling

2010-01-29T05:31:00.000-08:00

What does it feel like to channel?

It depends on how “into it” I am. Mostly, it feels ordinary to me. I don’t go into a deep trance, though for a satisfactory, as far as I am concerned, channeling experience I should take a really deep breath with the intention of centering and calming myself and then step off the edge of a cliff. It is a surrendering into the experience where I prefer to close my eyes and just relax and allow whoever in Spirit is there to talk.

For the most part I talk with my guide Seth, though there are many occasions when other Folk in Spirit come through. For instance, loved ones who have passed on; my mother is a frequent Person in Spirit to speak, and now my neighbor Phil who passed this month. I get to grieve just like anybody else, but it is a comfort if not to actually talk to him, to know he is near.

The first year that I channeled was spent getting used to it. Voices came at me from every which way both loud and murmurings I almost couldn’t hear. They were audible voices. I couldn’t hear too well when there were other people or noise in my area, like if the television was on. They also said weird things at times. But it all calmed down eventually to where what I hear now appears to be more of a telepathic communication.
The only physical sensations I feel occasionally is a poke in the head, more pressure than a poke, generally top and to the right side, sometimes a tightening around my head like I wore a headband and sometimes an achy feeling at the back of my neck. These are not uncomfortable feelings, just things that happen sometimes when I channel. I asked Seth in the beginning when these sensations were more prevalent what was going on and he said they were tuning me up. I’ve never known whether that is true or not, but it seemed to be a humorous answer. Who knows? I do know, though, when I was learning to channel using, “Opening to Channel” by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer that you would feel a sharp poke in the back of your neck when Spirit entered. Sure enough, the day before I started channeling I felt that sharp poke. It started at my neck and went completely down my back. It was only an instant and it has never happened like that again. So, you don’t need to worry about it.

A difficult thing in the beginning when my hearing went from audible to telepathic was to try to figure out whether I had just thought something or if my guide had said it. For the longest time I was asking him, “Did you say something or did I just think it?” Seth would give me the confirmation I needed to continue on. It was an awkward stage and I didn’t care for it overmuch, but whether those confirmations were true or not, just having him acknowledge the question with a decisive answer calmed me enough to get through that stage. I suppose it lasted a few months. After that time I began to recognize the energies involved with the Folk in Spirit I was channeling and the way my own thoughts were. It was very important to me during that period of time that I maintain my own sense of individuality.

My Neighbor Phil

2010-01-22T19:54:00.000-08:00

Our dearest friend and neighbor Phil passed away earlier in the week. He’d been in the hospital for a week and a couple of days. In April he would have been 80. Grieving was intense the first few days. Today as yesterday, I am scattered and very short of temper. Thankfully, the ladies at work are taking care of many of the minor things that will generally be the first to drive me nuts when I am not feeling well or under stress.

His family is here now, trying to understand what needs to be done, trying to put the things and issues he left behind in order and into a finished state. It is hard to do that while you are grief stricken.

Admittedly, while I am a psychic I understand that he is fine, that his soul is okay, that he is in a good and interesting place. I have channeled him, so that is fine.

I still have to grieve just like anybody else. And, it really, really sucks.

My Newsletters

2009-12-26T13:04:00.000-08:00

I just finished writing my 3 pieces for the Talking to Spirit January, 2010 newsletter. The newsletter has evolved into a section that is pure channeling, a section where people might get some ideas about how to awaken their psychic abilities and a last section where I just talk about something I think might be interesting.
I was just putting the finishing touches on the last article which has to do with Tarot cards. It was interesting because I was basically done with the article but my Guide prompted me to continue and make the connection for the reader between Spirit and just who is going to be helping them. I’m glad too, because I had forgotten my own experience when I first handled a Tarot deck.

That first time I didn’t realize where the info was coming from. I knew it was coming from somewhere because I turned up the same card three times in a row running. Scared the you know what out of me and literally forced me to go look up the meaning pretty ding-dong fast. It was the death card. It means change guys. It means abrupt, dramatic, life-changing changes are afoot. And, that’s when I turned psychic. With a message from Spirit via a Tarot card.

A Little Bit of Channeling on Christmas Morning

2009-12-25T07:08:00.000-08:00

Happy Christmas everybody. I've been working on my January Newsletter and took some time out for the guides to do some personal channeling for me. I thought you might be interested in what they had to say to me.

There are any number of ways that a person might specialize in a psychic awareness. It could be psychic hits or impressions as you sometimes experience. It might be more along the lines of colors or music. You might read the written word of old or Akashic records. On a more spiritual tangent it might be said that you can ask for the company of entities who do good work along those lines.

Spirituality can be defined as the development and growth of a person toward their higher self. If you can define all of life as spiritual, the people, the animals, the fish, the fowl, the bugs, the plants, the soil, the rocks, the water and the very air you breathe as a part of the same spiritual awareness you can begin to understand how a shaman might be able to interpret signs.

If you speak another language you can understand others who speak to you in that tongue. If you suggest to yourself and endeavor to learn the language of spirit depending upon your own teachings and present view of reality you could learn to understand messages that come to your from afar. Afar actually being quite close to hand, but because it is made known to you from an unknown place, from an invisible place could be considered to be from a place other than where you stand right now.

What Does It Feel Like to Channel?

2009-11-22T19:56:00.001-08:00

Hi everybody. I got an email the other day with a question I remember having myself when I learned how to channel. I figured this information will be helpful for others so I am passing it along with the personal info removed...It was such a nice email too, I left in the compliments!

Here's the email: I found your site a few days ago and I just wanted to tell you that I love it. I have been trying to work with my guides for about a month now. I write down a question in my journal and then I try a calm myself down and say a prayer. Then after awhile I start to write what comes to me.

Do you feel different in a good way when you are channeling? I'm still learning to trust myself, is it one of those things that the more you do it the more you learn to trust? Thanks again for your website.

And, my answer: In the beginning you might feel "different" when you are channeling. In fact, many people try to set up some atmosphere that will say to them: this is my channeling time. Like a special notebook, a quiet place in the house or garden. Just something special. After you've been doing it for awhile you don't need anything special and can channel standing on your head. In fact, one of the best places for me to channel when I was learning was in the bathroom. It's relatively quiet and you've got some privacy.

As far as how do you feel later on once you've been channeling awhile? You really don't feel any different than you do normally. It's like in the beginning you are working with entirely different energies and maybe you get buzzing in your ears or tingling across the band of your forehead. Later on, nothing like that. You just channel. It becomes such a natural part of your life that you even begin taking it for granted.

I will, if I am channeling for someone, close my eyes, take a deep breath to settle myself, reach inwardly for calm and the higher energies. Mostly, I'm chicken, so this is a technique for me to get over self consciousness...then, I open my mouth. It just comes out.

To help in the beginning for verbal channeling what you might do is start it yourself by sounding out a note...or singing...or humming. Then, you pretend. Pretend is very important. Pretend that you are handing over the use of your voice to your guide and whatever comes out is okay, no matter what it is. Specifically, for these early exercises make the silent agreement with your guides (whether you can hear them or not) that what comes out of your mouth can be nonsense. No doom and gloom. No holy messages. Nothing like that. In fact, for the entire first year you are channeling don't buy into any of that. There's too much of you in the mix and what it really is, and will always be is a mix of what you want to say, what you want your guides to be saying and what they are trying to say. It's called wishful channeling.

So, the goal is to be able to allow your guide the room to say something useful. They can't do it while you are in the way. So, you need to relax. You need to not be self conscious. You must, underline, must make the commitment to pay attention to your own mental and emotional health and take very proactive and necessary steps to address all that. These guides will be pushing your buttons and you can't be a good channel for either yourself or anybody else if you're battling depression, sore emotional spots, whatever. Don't resist growing. Don't try to make it all go away. You need to be healthy. Make the commitment to do something about it by either seeing a psychotherapist when it seems appropriate, definitely keeping a journal and don't try to pigeon hole exactly what should be happening as you learn how to channel.

Everybody channels differently. Everybody comes to it differently. Sometimes people see odd bits and pieces throughout their lives but it doesn't come into this final act of channeling until they are middle-aged. At least, that's how it was for me.

Biggest thing is there are no rules for it. Play with it. Relax with it. Your guides are wonderful teachers, much respected and will be gentle with you. Stick with them for the first year. Don't go seeking haunted houses to talk to ghosts. Stick with your teacher for the first year.
Also, don't go blabbing around the messages they give to you. Remember, for awhile it's going to be skewed channeling. Even now I don't trust what I channel about dieting. It's just too near and dear to my own heart. I will take the guides advice for myself and it has been helpful, but I'm not sure about for other people, so I don't pass on that info when it comes. Unless I think it is absolutely terrific or funny.

And, they will be funny. Guides can be hilarious.

I'm so glad you wrote and asked such wonderful questions. I'm going to upload this with your specifically identifying information removed because it's a good question and one I had myself when I was learning how to channel.
　
Sincerely,

Lady Skye Fyre

Channeling About Swine Flu

2009-10-31T16:26:00.000-07:00

This is channeling from Seth:

Whether you are feeling up to it or not usually people with jobs go to work. That means there are days when you are able to function at 100% energy levels and make the best decisions you are capable of. There are other days when with a raging headache or a backache or any other number of physical woes you stick it out. You might not be operating at your peak level of efficiency but you are there. This is representative of most people.

With the advent of the swine flu and the dangers inherent in the population of contracting this illness habits of years of work attendance are not likely to change much.

There are things you can do to minimize your exposure. Avail yourself of a face mask and wear it. Walk into a grocery store with the mask on and watch how people will get out of your way. Magically the lines before you at the cash register will dry up. Granted you won’t get any help from customer service and might even be asked to leave the store, but you will have made a point. In a county such as China people are accustomed to seeing people wearing their face masks whether they themselves have already caught the flu or are just protecting themselves from others who might have it.

Wash your hands. Be more clean at home and at work. Wipe surfaces often and don’t cough on others.

Don’t try to tough it out as you have in years past. You could be saving someone’s life.

And, remember that always, always you are safe. Your eternal body, your soul, your higher self inside you placed you here for a reason. Learn, live, love and teach. That’s your job anyway.

Our blessings and good health to you.

Seeing Auras....Must See

2009-10-30T21:07:00.000-07:00

I think this is an important video on seeing auras.

Speak Louder. I Can't Hear You.

2009-10-25T19:46:00.000-07:00

Here's an email I got this week:

Hi Skye, I am a channeling student of 2 months and learning energy work. I have been able to channel and answer questions in a group setting! I am doing conscious channeling eyes closed. The problem is if I cannot hear the question I find I cannot give the answer. I feel this is to do with confidence and I am required if I wish to continue which it is in my heart to do so that I must channel answers to a group without hearing, I do have very poor hearing. You as a practicing channeler may have some information in which a suggestion would be greatly appreciated. I don't want to drop out of my course and I also know that some things close new doors open for us. Thankyou for taking the time to read my draft.

And, my answer:

We’d all like to be unconscious channels and then it wouldn’t matter that we could hear or see or speak because we’d be flat out unconscious and therefore pretty much not in control over what comes out of our mouths when we channel. It would just lend that better edge of legitimacy to the whole thing. Nobody could call us frauds or anything!

Unfortunately, most of us aren’t like that. The majority of us are conscious channels. Which means we are conscious and as such rely upon all of our senses to channel. We just need to hear the question. I tend to shut my eyes when I channel and then I block out whatever it is that is going to distract me or alarm me or just get in the way of the channeling. But, I also feel sort of vulnerable in that position because I just can’t see the people I’m channeling for. Still, after all my years of channeling I haven’t gotten to a nice place where I am comfortable channeling for others. So, I don’t do it much. If you count in the last 2 months I might have channeled in person for 2 people. There was a time when I could channel for more people but I was never comfortable doing that, so I stopped. What I do now is to respond to emails, write blogs, and work on my website.
So, you need to hear whatever questions come your way. If it is a large group the “rule” could be that the person who wishes to speak either stands up and speaks clearly or they come forward and speak nearer to you. That’s the rule.

It irritates me that people will say to me, “You should be able to know what I am thinking if you are a real psychic.” Baloney. But, that is what they think. They also think we should automatically know whether we can hear or not whatever it is that they are asking. If they discount you because you can’t hear them that is their tough luck and you move on because there are lots of people who will appreciate what you do.

Maybe you could request that anyone who has a question write it out on an index card to give to you. Or, you could have an assistant, a helper to help you with a channeling session. JZ Knight always had somebody with her when she was channeling Ramtha.

Now, there are times when I relax enough to allow Spirit to really share my body. That’s fun to do when you dance around the kitchen or something like that. I’ve never thought of it as possession, but more sharing. What I think is going on is that I am moving into a deeper trance like channeling. It’s up…It’s down.

Anyway, you are in control. It’s your game and you make the rules up. Same thing with your relationship with your guide. It’s not all their rules. You can come up with your own suggestions. It’s give and take. It is a relationship. Like, I remember when I was first learning to channel and I’d lose track of what they were saying. It was like trying to meditate and my mind would just wander all over the place. I asked Seth if he would tell me a story, just like when I was a little girl. So, he would. I remember Goldilocks and the Three Bears a well known story from my childhood. The thing is, is that I knew the story. I knew how it started. I knew what happened in the middle. I knew what happened at the end. However, Seth wanted to tell the thing didn’t matter. So, I didn’t have to be worried whether I was channeling it properly or that I’d gotten something wrong. It helped with my confidence. It taught me how to relax into the rhythm of channeling. It just helped a lot.

At two months into your channeling remember that you are still becoming accustomed to the whole channeling thing. It’s going to fade in and fade out. It’s going to change as time goes by. Channeling isn’t always this one way. You will experience all sorts of degrees of channeling. The intensity will be stronger at times and just barely there at others. I remember I sort of thought the guides were playing with me to see how faint the messages were that I could still pick up on. The “hearing” will be like you’re listening to somebody standing next to you and will gradually go to a more telepathic style. You’ll get to where you can have a real conversation with your guide. In the beginning I couldn’t do that very well because the minute I opened my mouth it scattered whatever my guide had to say to the wind.

With time, with practice, with joy it will all eventually settle down to be your own personal style of channeling.

I don't generally print out the replies I get from people, but this one was just wonderful and I wanted to share it. It really made me feel good:

Thank you so much for your reply to my e-mail. It meant alot to me, well to be honest I burst into tears of joy. To see that you had gone into so much detail to help me with my channeling block, and the suggestions you offered me were just amazing. Also sharing with me your own experiences when you were learning. The information you have sent me answered all of what I had been questioning and more. I feel so blessed to have had such a beautifull caring person and purely from your heart to be able to help and give me encouragement, thats an angel. With time and practice and from your advice i know now in my heart I will find my own style of channeling You answered my prayer. I will always remember and appreciate the help you gave me.

Being Psychic in the Office

2009-09-12T04:19:00.000-07:00

Here is an example of how being a channel is a plus.

Last week I stood at the fax machine waiting for my transmission to complete. As I prepared to move away from the machine my guide said that it needed paper. I opened the drawer to the fax machine and saw there were only 2 sheets of paper left.

Then, I misplaced a very important bunch of papers. I was pawing through all the piles around me looking for these documents. Pissed? Yes. Very, very much so. And, with it came a sense of the frantic. What was going through my head was how very important those papers were and what an ass I was to be so careless with them. Not exactly what I would think would be an ideal time to delve into that very quiet psychic space for some help from the guides.

I deliberately moved out into the middle of our office, took a deep breath and said to myself and to my guide, “Help me.” I began to turn and as I looked over to where I usually sit my guide said, “Over there.” I had already checked that area, but I moved slowly back to my desk and zeroed in on where the ding donged papers were hiding. Sitting on their edges with a pile of other stuff to lead me astray were the papers.

It has been my experience that when I was panicky, when I was distracted, when I was in a big fat hurry that the voice of Spirit didn’t speak. In the beginning when I asked my guide for help in finding something I expected and wanted badly to hear really specific directions on where to go and what to do. Actually, a lot of the time now I still expect the same thing, but I think I’m learning to calm down about it. Anyway, what I expect and want to hear from the guides is sort of like, “Look to the right of your sitting area, lodged against the side of your desk is where you will find these important papers of yours.” That’s not really what happens.

When I get panicky the voices I hear quiet and just aren’t there like they normally are. So, I’m beginning to get the idea that with distraction, with panicky feelings, with my not being in what I consider to be the ideal psychic state my connection with Spirit is also going to be altered. What happened with finding those papers was more along the lines of my willingness to shift into the idea that I could allow Spirit to actually direct where my eyes were going to see, to be in such accord, even in a frantic state, to have such faith that they would still help me find what I was looking for and in slowly revolving in the office as I faced my desk I got, “Over there.” That was good enough for me. I moved to my desk and stood there quietly and that was when I got the specificity I needed. My eyes moved to where that bitty bunch of stuff was wedged between the edge of my desk and the thingie that held my pencils and stuff like that.

Such is the life of a psychic in the office.

Did It Go Away?

2009-09-05T06:34:00.000-07:00

I received this email yesterday and I feel people reading this blog and working with their own psychci development would benefit from it. I have deleted personal references so anonomity is retained.

The email I received: Ever since I was a little girl I have always believed in spirit guides. I have been meditating for a long time and I remember when I was younger I could talk out loud and hear responses that no one eles could, but I didn't tell anyone I didn't want them to think I was crazy, but I can't seem to do it anymore I can use my pendulem and know that they are there and I just can't seem to hear them anymore. I've been working really hard at it and maybe I've just lost it for good or maybe I'm just not listening close enough anymore. This will sound silly but I really don't remember who or what i am listening for. Do you have any advice that could help? I am really sorry about the long drawn out details and i am sure some of them are irrelavant but I had the urge to put them down so I did. Thank you so much for you time.

My Answer:

What you ask is actually a really important question and none of the details you present are irrelevant.

I feel everyone is psychic. Not everyone believes they are psychic. We tend to have this standard in our head that if you can achieve it you are psychic. If not, then you are not psychic. For instance, I used to think if you could bend spoons then that was when you were psychic. That’s just not true.

Being “psychic” I feel is being able to reach into yourself calmly and with no fear to see what else there is to know. How do you know this other sort of information? The same way you are able to perceive the world around you. Maybe you can see (clairvoyant). Maybe you hear (clairaudient). Maybe you just know acting on a gut instinct (claircognizance). Maybe smells are more important (clairalience). Maybe touch is how you access psychic information (Clairsentience). There are more ways, but my point is that there are many ways to experience psychic knowingness.

When you were younger you experienced your connection to psychic awareness as an ability to speak with those on the other side. Who were you talking to? Interested parties who, likely, were there as your spirit guide. Or, perhaps just a person in spirit who was interested in your psychic development.

Things change for all of us as we grow and this it is no different for psychic awareness. Where you once had a connection with Spirit which involved being able to hear that connection has changed slightly now. It was never taken away. You did not lose it. It has changed slightly. In working with a pendulum you are experiencing another way of communicating with spirit. You could do the same with a Ouija board, with a deck of Tarot cards, with a bag of rune stones, with automatic writing. The list is long. The connection is there. It never went away. You just grew up.

My suggestion? Stop worrying about it. Continue to meditate, but don’t obsess about it. If you want to do more than half an hour a day I feel you might do better to find a meditation coach or be prepared to help yourself. What appears to happen with really intense meditation is that in unlocking the psychic and spiritual side of life you also unlock your own psychological and emotional growth bumps in the road. It can get unsettling, but if you know what is going on you will be fine. How you know that you’ve hit a psychological bump in the road is different for everyone. You might get unusually irritated with people. You might cry more. You might be unexplainably angry.

I can tell when I start hitting my own psychological bumps. I start to attract bad drivers like crazy. I’m not kidding. It’s uncanny, actually. But, that’s my own signal that something isn’t quite right. Do I really attract them? No. I think I just get really impatient with how everybody is driving and it bothers me and that is my own signal to seek out a quiet place at my first opportunity and ask myself the question, “What’s going on? What issue deep in my heart and gut needs the light of day for healing and understanding?” Then, I relax and wait for the first thing to come up.

The issues can present themselves to me as a memory of something that happened to me years ago. It could come as a word that floats to the surface of my awareness or even as a sudden knowingness of what went wrong a long time ago. And, as an adult I can react to whatever it was with freedom rather than how I reacted as a child where I could not react appropriately. For instance your memory is of being a kid and of being afraid that you will lose your mother. You’ll be lost and this is terribly upsetting to you. So, you have something about abandonment you need to think about. I am not a psychotherapist, but this is what I do. Part of it is called focusing. The creator of the technique is Eugene Gendlin. You can look it up for more information. But, in a nutshell I would have touched upon the current thing that is up for me to look at. Abandonment. As an adult I know that I can read a map and know where I am. I know I can ask for directions. I know I have control over many aspects of my life that I did not have control over when I was a kid. So, as the mature and responsible adult I can also visualize the frightened kid and say to her, “Hey, it’s okay to be angry. I understand. I’m here and can help you now.” Stuff like that. Also, if the kid in you is really very upset maybe you can envision them standing on a table with a plastic bat beating the crap out of the table. It helps to take the edge off.

This sort of work gets easier as you do it more often. And, interestingly these issues that come up will continue to come up throughout your life. You work on an issue for awhile, are happy with the results and 3 years down the road your higher self decides it is time to work on it or something else now that you are stronger and better equipped to take care of it.

My advice would be to start journaling if you aren’t already. Just blather it out on paper, anything and everything under the sun. It helps with emotional healing. If the stuff coming up confuses you and causes you distress go get some psychological help with it. Even psychics….especially psychics, in order to be effective as psychics and happy in their lives, might think about making a commitment to take care of their emotional and psychological well being. Interestingly, having made that commitment to yourself and to the universe sometimes psychic development is accelerated.

When I first learned to channel at the ripe old age of 35 I thought I wasn’t doing it “right”. What came for me first was a connection to Spirit via a deck of Tarot cards. Then through dreams and meditation. It was about that time that I also began my own journey of emotional and psychological healing. Then, after many months of trying, I finally made what I felt was a really solid connection with my spirit guide through use of a Ouija board. Within a week and a half I was anticipating the answers coming through on the Ouija board. I thought I’d gone nuts and was making up the whole thing and with that thought my guide spoke to me for the first time. He said to me, “Go outside. I have something to say to you.” I went out onto our patio where it was quieter than inside the house and he said in a perfectly clear voice, as if he were standing next to me, “You can hear me now.” That’s how it was changing for me. Within a month’s time the sense of hearing changed somehow to a voice in my head rather than one at my side. The hearing went inside which actually was a relief because I was forever turning around to see who was talking behind me in those early days.

It’s all a developing thing. It was this way before. Now, it is this other way. You did not lose it. It has merely changed a little bit.

Playing the Slots

2009-08-30T07:31:00.001-07:00

When I first started channeling it did not occur to me to ask my guide questions relating to personal gain. It just didn’t seem right. I also believed every little thing Seth had to say to me.

As time went by when I realized that some of the information coming from Seth was flawed somehow. My first thought, and a devastating one it was, was that Seth was lying to me. Or, I thought that I wasn’t talking to Seth anymore, but had gotten hold of some sort of evil and demonic spirit that was all set to jerk me around.

Turns out I thought wrong. It was Seth all the time, but he was teaching me as only a Spirit Guide will. They do jerk you around sometimes. It has something to do with delivering the word, “No” or some sort of negative or disappointing news to the student. I used to clam up. The connection between Spirit Guide and me distinigrated and all because Seth had told me a truth which I really didn’t want to hear.

So, in order (I figured later) for the Spirit Guide to most effectively teach me he had to spin a good yarn.

This is why I tell people don’t believe everything you hear from your Guide.

And, who knows, you might be different than me.

In any case, the other thing that played a huge role in what was going on when I first learned to channel was my own emotional and psychological well being. You almost have to unhook and then rehook back up again with a new view of reality.

For instance. At the time I was believing that in order to make spiritual points I needed to be good. Then, God would love me. If I didn’t do anything then maybe He didn’t think about me anymore. Also, I was convinced God was male. There was a lot of tension involved with the way I thought about God.

Gradually, I began to let go of the things I believed, of my view of reality, that it really doesn’t matter what I believed and that there is no one way to be saved. Everybody is saved whether they are Christian or not no matter what they believe. And, I loosened up with judgment and payback and just desserts and stuff like that. Commit a crime, something bad, hurt somebody and the minute you die you will be reviewing your life and feeling what you did to the other party. Also, you will be learning more about it in lifetimes to come. The answer to that is to take responsibility of your life. Act in a mature manner and quit hurting yourself and other people. Also, you can make the world a better place and start with your neighbor if you actually want some direction.

Apart from changing and shifting the things I believed I thought another thing had to take place for the information coming from Seth to be useful and valid. I had to go see a shrink. See how my early learning shows up here? In my family nobody needed to consult with anyone from the psychological community. We were perfect and if you were having problems, well then, you could just straighten up and fly right. It was a shameful thing to have to go see a psychotherapist. It just wasn’t done in my family. Consequently, I believe we all experienced a lot of pain.

Anyway, I spent awhile seeing a psychotherapist and it helped immensely. I developed a bit of a backbone. I was happier. I was writing. And, I was channeling like a champ.

To this day, however, I know that I still have my sore spots and likely will have them all my life. You work on your inner problems a bit, things ease up for awhile, and when you are ready to handle the next stage you get to work on your inner problems again. I had thought in the beginning that once fixed, fixed for all time. No, these are life lessons. Be grateful rather than depressed about them.

In any case, I don’t channel advice from Seth or any of the other Folk in Spirit about dieting. It is too easily skewed by my own psychological sore spots.

One of the biggest lessons I ever learned about channeling was that the information coming out of my mouth from Spirit was colored by my own belief systems and by my own psychological and emotional well being. If you can remember that you will be on your way, I think, to being a pretty good channel.

So, after such a long yarn this morning, the point I wanted to make was to rationalize why I was accepting advice from my Spirit Guide this morning while I was playing the slots on the computer.

This game is from my friend’s site. It’s at Zdaily.com and I can really aggravate my carpel tunnel syndrome as I sit there for a loooong time pressing the buttons. So, still harking back to the idea that having much personal gain is not a good thing and certainly playing the slots is one of those no-no items on the list I hesitantly reached out in a psychic way to my Guide to see if he might be inclined to help me this morning. Not that I would hie myself off to Las Vegas to make a killing, but just for fun you see. Just to see if I was a good channel.

It worked! But, the important thing here was that I was not understanding what he was saying. This is key. After all these years of channeling I can still mess up. Seth was saying, “Up” and I was hitting the up button to make the wheel roll forward. I wasn’t winning. Then, I realized he meant to go after the fruits above where the wheel had stopped and I should be hitting the down button.

A minor misunderstanding, but for me key to getting the communication to go in a better direction.

So, my recommendation to anybody out there learning how to channel is not to sweat it when the info coming in from your Spirit Guide is weird or skewed somehow. Do a quick self inventory to see if you are okay psychologically. How to do that? In a nutshell ask yourself. It's called Focusing. Look it up. Anyway, that is one technique. Just don't get your panties in a bunch. Also, don't be sharing this information with anybody in that first year. It's too easily skewed for everybody. Like if someone in Spirit says to you, "The guy who lives down the block is going to have a terrible accident if you don't go over there right now and tell him to be careful." Don't buy into that. I know. It happened to me. Just chill out.

Look for fun ways (like playing the slots together) to practice your channeling skills. Get your guide to tell you a story that you already know. That way you are focusing on their words and trying to maintian your concentration for longer and longer periods of time. Meditation helps here. A funny? Just now? I wrote medication rather than meditation. Ha.

Are You Frightened?

2009-06-21T07:05:00.000-07:00

There are a couple of ways you can be when you awaken your psychic abilities. You can be calm, curious and eager or you can be flatout hair-raising scared. It is entirely your choice which you will be. I can understand how paralyzing being scared can be, but this is one of those underlying belief systems that just has to go if you want to fully awaken and enjoy your psychic abilities. It boils down to the idea that you are not a victim.

I can understand at first glance there might be some confusion over trying to connect these two ideas , but let me make an attempt here to explain. The idea that you are not a victim actually has farther reaching consequences than merely shifting scared to not scared. When you are more in the mode of thinking that you are not a victim thinking about, mulling over, obsessing on the past moves from number one activity to number seventy two. This gives you more time to pay attention to your life and living it rather than obsessing over the past.

Here’s an example. You get mugged and your purse is stolen. This frightens you and for the next 10 years you are nervous about carrying a purse. You do more than be normally alert as you walk on the city streets. Instead you clutch your purse carefully to your side. You are constantly aware of people around you. You flinch if someone goes by you too closely. You are basically still being affected by the mugging that happened many years ago. You also tell the story often to people. You think to yourself, “Why did this happen? Why me? It could happen again. I have to be careful.” It has pretty much affected a lot of how you live your life.

And, here’s the other side of the coin. You get mugged and your purse is stolen. You report the crime. You do what you need to do about replacing your credit cards and identification. And, you let it go. You don’t think of yourself as a victim. You don’t think, “Why me?” Instead, you try to get your mind around the idea of this was something that your higher self decided was going to be a real good learning opportunity. If you’re thinking opportunity instead of victim you might think this would be a good time to do a little psychological self-tuning.

So, this incident pushed a few of your fear buttons. Go be quiet and private for 15 minutes and as you relax you ask yourself the question of, “What is here for me to look at?” Pay attention to the answers that come to you. They will come as flashes of insight, as little visions, as a voice from your heart. How do you know you got an answer? Your body will relax. It will feel like a great weight has been lifted from your shoulders. You will be able to take a really deep breath. Tension will fall away and you will feel altogether a great deal better. This is your body telling you that you got the right answer.

Embracing this idea will enable you to look at the odd things that happen during a psychic awakening and when you are first learning how to channel in a way that leans more toward curiosity and eagerness than to a frightening experience. Remember that when you are frightened your reality is seen through fright and when you are calm your reality is seen through serenity.

Trickster - An Email

2009-05-16T17:21:00.000-07:00

This is an email I got this afternoon that I thought would probably help a lot of people.

I'd be so grateful if you'd help me out a little bit with this but several years ago I had a ouija board, which I had successifly gotten to work for only me in a couple of months and I communicated with Rare, who mind you is a trickster and loves to laugh about my problems, Grrrr! lol Its been quite awhile and I've stopped useing the board, but I still feel as if I'm communicating with him through my head.

Like for the longest time I would have these written conversations with "him" and also even as I write this, He's conversing through one of my fingers. I'd only spoken this to one person before who tried to explain to me that it was just my over imagination working on me again. Or my depression, very very mild depression, which come to think of it I wouldn't have gotten through without Rare telling me I was being stupid. (I had conversed with him before they told me I was depressed)

I'm just confused as if I could be conversing with the trickster through the ouija board or if he is just some sort of figure of my imagination. He's mad that I keep saying he's fake, but I'm just now coming to this conclusion. I would just like to see your views on this subject and see if I, whom has no privacy in my head at all!!!!!!, do have a possiblity of channeling or whatever it is that's going on in my head. Thank you so much for your taking the time to read this

And, my answer:

Good questions! Yes, this is channeling and for it to move from Ouijia, to written, to telepathic, to fingers, and back again is normal. But, you are in the early days. If your guide is a trickster this is not the level entity that you want to be communicating with, fun though it is at times. Think of your spiritual development and how this is tied up with that. Would you fool around with it? So, this is not game time, it’s serious business.

So, what to do now? Make the commitment to yourself and to your guide that you will stop being entranced with the trickster end of things. You’re no help to yourself nor can you be of help to anybody else if you allow the level of your channeling to remain in the lower levels. Don’t get me wrong, talking to folks at all levels of the astral is interesting. I do it all the time. But, I also know where the most serious stuff needs to be attended to and that is with the highest vibrations you can imagine. Aim high. In the beginning this is important.

Also, it is not at all unusual for the drama to be very high in the beginning. As you settle down the drama tapers off too.

Now, does this mean you have to turn your guide in and get a new one? No. Your guide is bending to the lowest common denominator which is you inching around in the lower astral planes. If you smart up he or she will also treat you differently. It’s like anything else. We view our reality through our belief systems and if you think all there is for you is fun house spooks that’s all there will be. Believe me, you have a very nice guide, a very learned guide and as soon as you show yourself to be ready they will act with you in a more guide like fashion.

Now, the bit about being depressed? Tend to that. Right away. Whenever you open to the spiritual places you also immediately step up to the more mature and responsible plate of being open to your own spiritual, emotional and psychological growth and healing. In a nutshell? Opening to spiritual stuff really ends up pushing your buttons and if you try to ignore the signs that you need a bit of help at times via a therapist you will really be in for a rough and tough time. It’s like when you open spiritually you don’t end up doing it to be self serving so much as you do it to help other people and you can’t help other people unless you are healthy in your head and heart.

So, get a move on and have your depression looked at.

Loosen Up

2009-04-17T19:38:00.000-07:00

This is an interesting exercise I just did to put me into a channeling sort of mood. It’s sort of like taking a spelling test. Just word by word. The “rules” were that none of the words had to make any sense. And, as the list grew at number 26 they started saying two words which quickly moved to three words which did sort of make sense taken together. I realized how this could be a really good exercise for somebody who was new to channeling.

I remember getting real tense when I was first channeling expecting and wanting everything that was said to make some sort of sense. It didn’t always and I would sometimes feel exhausted with trying to get it right. Then, trying too hard it all dissolved into nothing and I couldn’t get anything at all. So, since this little exercise worked for me just to sort of loosen me up I figured it might work for those of you out there who are new to channeling or, who like myself, just need to loosen up channeling muscles and get back into the groove again.

So, all you do is sit there with pen or pencil in hand. Calm yourself. Meditate a bit if you want to. Center. Ask that you speak with your guide...or, that your guide say some words for you to write, one by one. And, wait. The "hearing" can come so very softly that you just sort of think you are even dreaming. The word, "River" goes by. It's not hooked up with anything. It's not anything you were just thinking of. Could this have been your word? You're not sure. But, the "rules" are to write down the words you think your guide is saying to you. So, you write down, "River" on the list.

Next word. Nothing. Take a deep breath. Center. Calm. "Bird" Center. Calm. "Fritter". Write it down. Center. Calm. "Mechanic". They're starting to come faster. This is wierd. This isn't talking. It's just a bunch of words. Fine. That's what it's supposed to be. A list of words your guide is saying to you and you are writing down.

Here’s my list:

sex
scents
gardening
Baking
Smells
Odors
flash
French
tickle
this
that
tremble
list
access
tilt
Monroe
skill
even
handedness
tilt
wheel
weather
stickler
tickler
thresh
wild flowers
this and that
taken with you
we will carry
this to you
all the way
without fuss or muss
taken to the limit
threshold of pain
capacity to love
good plans

I have to tell you I argued with them to take the first word off. I didn't figure I wanted Sex to be the first word my guide said to me. But, I lost the argument. The reasons being I am honest in this blog. That really was the first word they said to me. And, as embarrassing as it is it might be on your list too. I didn't want you to feel wierd.

And, you could continue on and realize that as the list gets longer the words begin to make sense and it just could morph into a nice channeling session.

Another E-Mail I Got

2009-04-09T18:31:00.000-07:00

Here is an email I got in response to the post I made below this one on April 4, 2009:

I have been reading your 'How to channel blog' for a while now, and I want to thank you very much for all the useful advice you give on it. In this last post you wrote about the voices in your head, you mention this person has a spotty connection with their guides and suggest they strengthen it.

My question is, how? I have read, S. Roman's book and done the exercises, and I don't know if there is any more I can do other than just being persistent and wait. I am up to the point where I can sense my guides around me, but so far I haven't been able to hear them or connect in any other way. Do you have any other exercises you could suggest? I do the children's rhyme sometimes, and I also talk to myself quite a bit, but I don't know how else I can play with them. Any advice?

And, here is my answer;

It sounds to me like you’re on the threshold of being able to communicate with your guides. With me, when I was at that spot, I took the bird shot approach and just peppered my efforts with all sorts of ways to connect. At the time it didn’t seem like any of them were working. In retrospect they all contributed a little bit.

When I spoke of a spotty connection I meant it’s sort of on and off at times which happened to me in the beginning. Just early days, that’s all. It does get stronger.

So, the one thing you can hang your hat on and count as the number one sign that you are making it is the fact that you sense your guide every once in awhile. I realize that you’ve likely got more than one guide, but for the time being focus on the idea that there is just one to meet. It’s sort of like being at a party. If you’re talking to one person you can devote your attention to them. If you’re talking to more than one person your attention is divided. So, for the purposes of the next while just pretend you’re talking to one guide. The other one will not be offended in any way and later on once your connection is real firm you can talk to everybody. But, in the beginning just to one quide.

However, many times these guys will talk and refer to themselves as we. Seth explained to me it's sort of like a choral effect...many guides joined together into one guide's voice. Just figure it's one guide even when they say we.

And, here are some suggestions:

1. If you are not already doing it begin keeping a private journal. It can be on your computer, it can be in a notebook. It can be in both places. The point is to just pour your heart out. As you move into a space where you are going to be talking to your guide you are also moving forward with your own emotional and psychological growth. Keeping a journal can help over some of the bumps. It’s not so much that you have to read what you wrote, it’s just the idea of getting it out.

2. Try having a pretend conversation with your guide on paper. You can write both parts for awhile and maybe at some point it will feel like what you’re writing is almost like having your thoughts flowing alongside of somebody else’s thoughts. It’s a strange feeling, but that’s how it was with me. After I got used to it the two thought streams separated and I can tell easily when a guide is speaking and I’m not just thinking something. As a warning, too, when you’ve gotten to the 2 side by side streaming thoughts stage? Sometimes the guides will say startling things, things you would never say in a million years. This is to further point out to you that you are not thinking this, but a guide is speaking just to help you begin to tell the difference.

· YOU: Hi. I haven’t heard from you this morning.

· GUIDE: You did not initiate a conversation. We had nothing to say.

· YOU: I thought you would at least say hello.

· GUIDE: (silence)

· YOU: Are you there?

· GUIDE: Of course.

· YOU: I can’t sense you right now.

· GUIDE: You are communicating verbally via the written word.

· YOU: Oh,

· GUIDE: Do you understand?

· YOU: No.

· GUIDE: (silence)

· YOU: Are you there?

· GUIDE: Yes, did you think I was going to disappear?

· YOU: No, but I thought you would have more to say.

· GUIDE: You need more time being quiet and listening.

· YOU: Thanks.

· GUIDE: You are welcome. Our blessings.

So, even though it is a pretend conversation somehow the guides came through. Just pretend they are there.

3. Something else to do is that sometimes it is effective when you are working so diligently on something to step away from it. For instance at one point I bought a piano. I can’t play. I tried to learn. It was impossible, but I felt I needed some sort of outlet more than my journaling to express myself. I might not be able to play well, but I please myself. Sometimes it even feels like I’m channeling. Just relax enough and let Spirit take me away. Anyway, after 20 minutes at my piano I come away totally refreshed and thinking a whole lot better.

4. Mostly it just takes time. Everybody is different. I know I stalled out many times. And, once the actual channeling began I was doing it in a way that was not the recommended choice in Sanaya Roman’s book, “Opening to Channel”, but it was right for me. So, I used a Ouija board. It took me 6 month’s of work for it to even move, but once it started it was like gangbusters. For 10 days I communicated with Seth via the board. Then, as each day went by I got faster and faster until my hand was flying over the board. There was no way anybody could tell what letter was being indicated anymore. That’s when I began to anticipate what was being said and it all morphed nicely into the telepathic sort of method I use now. It was the way I did it. It might not be the way others do it. But, the board was the vehicle to breaking through for me. Maybe something like that will work for you too. Interestingly, the Ouija board started working on 2/12/93. A week and a half later was when I first heard Seth’s voice in my head. That was 2/22 – the number sequence I had begun seeing some 5 years earlier when I had my first psychic awakening. See how long the process can take?

5. Read about other channelers to see how their guides speak to them. Read John Edward, read Sylvia Browne, read about how JZ Knight channels Ramtha, read Messages from Michael, read the Seth books that Jane Roberts and her husband wrote. Just read anything you can get your hands on.

6. At one point I learned how to draw. I needed to be drawing on the other side of my brain more to get myself ready for channeling.

7. Try getting some Tarot cards or a bag of Rune stones and see if that isn’t the way to get your foot in the door.

8. One of my steps was to begin reading, “A Course in Miracles”. I only ever got half way through but I’m convinced I needed to change the way I was looking at the world for the channeling to begin happening for me.

9. Always remember that learning how to channel, to connect to Spirit, puts you on the fast track for your own psychological and emotional growth and well being. Which just means that where you had worked slowly on emotional and psychological issues before now they come at you like gangbusters. That’s what the purpose of the journaling is for to help you through that. It won’t be a stage that is ever over, it’s just that it would have been easier for me to know it up front. That’s why I tell people early on in the game now. Just realize there’s no shoving problems under the carpet and hoping they’ll go away anymore. To be the best you can be means being a mature responsible person and stepping up to the plate when it involves this sort of growth. Don’t be afraid to get a self help book or even to seek out a therapist. I’ve been told transpersonal therapists might be your best bet, but anyone will really do. They can tell when folks are nuts and when they’re not.

10. And, I guess the best advice of all would be perseverance and patience. It’s almost like you’ve got to pay the dues and prove to yourself you are willing to do the work for the life changing event of channeling to take place.

11. And, finally don't work so hard at it. Try to have a balanced life going on. It really is just going to take time.

Thanks again for writing and I’m glad the blog is helping you.

That Voice In My Head

2009-04-04T10:12:00.000-07:00

This is an email I got the other day:

I think I might be hearing my guide in my head but I can't have a conversation with them. What happens usually is if I get angry at someone or something there is always a voice in my head which says stuff like think about it from their point of view or not to get angry at them because of some reason. But then if I think of another reason I should be angry it just answers back. It's really weired. It's like having a two sided argument in my head. What do you think? Is it just me or could it be my guide(s)?

And, here's my answer:

It’s probably your guide running interference for you. It’s a spotty connection, not real strong right now. They can come through because of your heightened emotional state. So, I think the thing to do is to be thankful you’ve got a connection, spotty though it is right now, resolve to work harder at strengthening that connection and not worry too much about the messages other than to look at your anger.

Guides are there to teach you not to tell you how to live your life. So, if you don’t get the point of what they are encouraging you to pay attention to right now, don’t worry about it so much. With me they just continued to say the same messages over and over again until I “got it”.

Your message about trying to think of what is going on in the other person’s shoes? Good one. Good lesson. I think your guide is just trying to get you to shift away from the tornado of being so angry and not being able to see much else to a place where you can be more objective about it and try to see the source of your anger.

What I’ve learned over the years is to ask myself what is bothering me when I get angry. Like I have my own personal cue of crappy drivers. When I need some personal introspective work and am not doing it, or am ignoring the signs that I need to go spend some quiet time, crappy drivers, I mean drivers who should never have gotten their driver’s licenses flock around me. They tail gate. They honk their horns at me. They buzz too close. I’m a basket case. Then, it dawns on me, “Oh, shit. I need to go see what psychological or emotional issue is up for me right now.” Takes about 10 minutes and you feel better.

Or, you could go journal for a little bit and just pour your feelings out on paper.

But, when you make a connection with Spirit a requirement is that you be the best connection you can be. You will eventually be in a position to help people and the best way you can do that is to have made a commitment to be the best you can be. That requirement includes paying attention to your own emotional and psychological health.

All of us, all of our lives work our ways through these emotional and psychological issues. Sometimes people take years to do bitty step after bitty step. The thing with talking to Guides is they step it up to a whole new level.

My advice would be to look at why you are getting so angry. Are you afraid of something? Are you in a defensive position to protect yourself? Go get a self help book and do your own fine tuning.

I hope things look up. It’s slow work. People work on their issues little bit by little bit. It’s just when you’re channeling you get to work on them more often.

Where You Talk to Yourself

2009-03-28T06:27:00.000-07:00

When a person opens psychically I think they also will be faced with changing a few of their ideas and beliefs about who is out there. When I first embarked on my own journey I had no idea that I had a higher self. I had never heard of it before. There I go wanting to talk to my guide and in steps this higher self idea. I was more afraid to talk to my higher self than I was to my guide. Go figure.

I think of the idea of higher self as the boss in charge. This is my soul. This is the part of me that endures forever. This is the part of me, the head honcho, who knows all, sees all and knows the game plan. This is the part of me that is familiar with all my incarnations, with all my foibles, with my heart, with all my husbands, all my children from all of those lifetimes and all of my wives. Notice in this scenario I’m changing gender back and forth too.

Once I tried a meditation where the intention was to meet my higher self. I have this thing about visualization that makes it all that more real to me; they call it clairvoyance. Anyway, I tend to like to “see” stuff. So, on a variation of the meet your guide meditation I, instead, journeyed off to meet my higher self. It was actually sort of humorous. My higher self towered over me to the tune of 10 feet tall. I didn’t stay long and in a truly startled fashion leaped out of the meditation quickly. I believe I had that vision since I was already sort of nervous about meeting my higher self and it all was a sort of self-fulfilling prophesy. Something like wishful channeling.

But, since that experience I’ve become more accustomed to the idea of having a higher self and it is to that higher self that a person might make their connection to spirit.

So, in trying to communicate with your guide you might start off with the idea of communicating with your higher self. Opening psychically is tough enough, but if you’re okay with the idea of talking to yourself maybe this would be a good route to take.

And, you could use a prop of sorts too. You might buy yourself a bag of Rune stones or a deck of Tarot cards. Then, as you dip into the bag to select a stone you sort of ask your higher self to guide you in the process. I’d suggest that in the beginning you do the readings for yourself. They’re going to be slow because you’ll need to learn what the cards or the stones mean. Use a book or go on the internet to help you. There are lots of tutorials out there. Learn the way of a teacher and when you are more familiar with it you’ll begin to see other meanings.

In any case, whether you stick forever with the idea of talking with your higher self or branch out and talk to your guide too, this is a way to get your foot in the door and start talking to spirit.

How You Can Approach Contact With Your Guide

2009-02-25T22:11:00.000-08:00

One thing I kept running into when I was trying to learn how to channel was how serious it all was, both in how my approach as a student and practitioner ought to be and how Folk in Spirit responded to the questions we asked, with the exception of Seth and Michael. As time went on I learned there were others in Spirit who would joke around a bit. But, for some reason I figured they would never do it with me, that I was basically a really unworthy student who couldn’t do squat with any of the lessons I tried.

Little did I know. Now, I know a bit more about it. I know now that if I had lightened up some the whole process wouldn’t have been as heart rending as it was. Or, maybe it just had to be heart rending for me. All I know is that I wanted, with all of my heart, to have contact with my guide. And, it wasn’t happening.

Well, it didn’t happen how I thought it was going to happen. But, it was already happening even when I didn’t think it was happening.

Now I get emails from people whose experiences seem to echo my own. It’s like they are almost grieving from a broken heart trying to talk to their guides. They tell me that they think they hear the odd word or two, or they have these thoughts that spring out of nowhere, but no, that couldn’t be their guide. Well, all I have to say is it is. Those are legitimate contacts with your guide. Nothing really got said, but you are certainly on the right track.

Okay, so now you are thinking to yourself that these things have happened to you too. You plan on redoubling your efforts to deepen the connection with your guide. Why not stop beating yourself up about it and in addition to trusting that your guide is there and sort of talking to you also begin to trust yourself more. What you can do at this cross roads is to get real quiet and pose this question to yourself: What can I do now?

Here are some possible answers:
Keep a journal
Remember and record your dreams
Doodle with the idea that your guide, if so inclined, could doodle along with you
Play an instrument
Start exercising
Do some soul searching

Whatever answers you get can come to you as visual pictures and could be more along the lines of a flash, or the errant thought, or even a nicely strung together sentence that makes sense. I’ve had them come to me in all these ways. I guess it just depends, but at least you might know what to expect.

You can also use this technique when something is bothering you. For more information go look up focusing on the internet. I hope this helps you.

Dreams and How They Can Change As You Open Psychically

2009-01-28T19:18:00.000-08:00

It’s interesting that before I learned to channel my dreams were always me and whoever was chasing me at that moment. It never failed. I don’t think I’d had a relatively nice or ordinary dream in years. Once I’d opened psychically and had begun to channel the tempo and makeup of my dreams changed dramatically.

One thing is that the guides were forever showing up. No longer was it me and somebody else, now it was me and a cast of many. Sometimes I knew they were guides, other times I’d be less aware in the dreams and they’d take on the guise of characters. Whatever was up for my subconscious at that point in time to create a dream subject about. I remember once I had a bad dream. There were several men who had hold of me in the dream. I was afraid. They were trying to manhandle me and get me to go somewhere I didn’t want to go.

When I awakened I knew that those had been guides. I had it out with them right then. I said, “Hey, why did you do that to me?” And, they said quietly, “Why didn’t you say no?” So, they’re always teaching.

There have been times too when I actually start channeling in my dreams. That is very, very interesting. Other times when Folk in Spirit come to visit with me. These visitors also include animals.

And, of course, I have the regular garden variety dreams. Last night I had a Tribble in my dream. Remember Captain Kirk and the Tribbles? Yes. Only this one had very, very sharp teeth. I had to keep dodging it while it wanted to take a hunk out of me. I'll have to think on that one for awhile to try to figure out what it was about. Could the Tribble have been a guide? Somebody just said to me, "Only on Planet Zeebo."

Learning How to Channel - Some of the Steps

2009-01-17T08:46:00.000-08:00

When I was learning how to channel I was never really very sure about whether or not I was attaining the correct mood in order for things to proceed like they said they would in the book. Actually, I was the worst student ever because nothing I seemed to do would work. All I wanted to do was to talk to my guide. I wasn’t particularly sure of what I wanted to say so I wouldn’t say there was much focused direction in that area. I just wanted to talk to him. For some reason I always figured that my guide was going to be a he. I don’t know why that was. It turned out Seth was a he, but that was either coincidence or maybe somehow I knew. I don’t know. I’m not going to look into the matter too deeply because I don’t think it really matters.

Here are some of the things I did. Some worked in the end, though I didn’t know they were working at the time. Some may have never have provided much of a significant boost to the process. I don’t know. I tried a lot of things.

I consciously tried to raise my energies. It actually felt very much like trying to take a dump only higher. Same degree of effort. I probably tried too hard. It’s interesting but I can hear the guides laughing. They come and go sometimes. Anyway, they’re sort of chuckling and snorting away in the background.

So, that was one thing I did. Another was to listen to music. That was useful. It also helps me to write. I’ve been doing this now for 15 years or so. Very useful stuff. I put on the headphones, close my eyes and I’m in another world. Although it is my chosen route to both channel and write my own stuff, when I am in a writing mode I think that I hang onto consciousness a little tighter. With channeling I let go. It’s like having sex I think. You’ve really got to let go and allow the process to happen even though it almost feels sometimes like you’re getting ready to hurl yourself off of a cliff.

Another thing I did was to use stones to help me move along. Some seemed to help while others didn’t seem to do much. I think they’re pretty and so will often pocket one that draws my attention when I’m getting dressed to go to work. The first stone I went out and bought a lot of was moldavite. I do think that helped. It’s supposed to help you along your spiritual path. I also got rutilated quartz which is good for channeling. Lots of others: citrine for digestion, blue stones are good for the throat chakra which has to do with speaking, with communicating, for writers. Lots of pretty blue stones: lapis, sodalite, sapphire if you have one. Jasper for calming.

I learned how to draw. Funny as it seems I wasn’t really aware that this was going to prove helpful, but it did. It draws upon another area of your brain and sort of sets you up for being ready for the shift.

Because shift it is. After the first honeymoon phase which can last a year you’ll settle down back into normal again. Then, life will feel about the same as it did before except that you can talk to Elvis if you want to. It will seem normal to you. In fact, there are all sorts of Folk in Spirit that you’ll be able to talk to. It makes for interesting conversations all around. They will even be in your dreams. They’ve been in mine for years.

What I learned after I learned to channel is that every single thing I did was important for me to do whether it seemed to be furthering the cause along at the time or not. The number one most important thing that I did during that time was to keep a journal and just barf all over the pages. This wasn’t anything to save for posterity. This was just emotional and psychological healing. See, when you go after channeling as a goal you are setting yourself up to be in a position to help others eventually. In order to do that you need to be in a good head and heart space. Start journaling. You won’t regret it.

Another thing I did was to pretend. Kids have the right idea. Just play with it, especially after you’ve made first contact. Be respectful, but consider that you’re in grade school. You need to play. Make up games with your guide that will allow you to solidify the connection between you. It’s energy. It takes muscles you’ve not used before. You’ll get a buzz on sometimes with it. But, it will settle down so that you can enjoy it for the rest of your life.

Oh, and don’t be afraid. If you bring superstitious ideas to the table. If you think evil is a real and threatening thing step back from the entire process. You aren’t mature enough for it. You need to be an old soul who is willing to be open minded and not be gullible, or at least too gullible. In the beginning contact with Spirit is going to upset the apple cart in your head. And, just as when you start meditation for the first time all your subconscious is going to move into really active mode and present you with odd, frightening and anything horrible it can to prevent you from doing it. Keep meditating through the weird stuff and the same with channeling. Channel right through it. It will calm down eventually in both cases.

Here’s what I’m talking about. You just start channeling and you know you are channeling with your guide. Number one thing is not to go channeling Babe Ruth, or Elvis or your Aunt Maude who died 10 years ago. Channel your guide only, only, only. For the first year. Then, you can branch out and talk to others in Spirit. Anyway, already sure that you are talking to your guide he’s probably going to tell you to run out at 2 in the morning, bare assed naked to the street light on the corner and start dancing or the entire town will be blown to pieces. Weird shit. Don’t buy into it. Something like that happens and you say to your guide, “Why are you saying this to me? What do I really need to be talking about with you?” And, he will say to you, “I wanted you to realize you don’t have to buy into everything I say. I want you to realize that your buttons are being pushed here. You are turning over earth in your head and heart that hasn’t yet seen the light of day and there are nightmares there. Anything that bothers you psychologically is going to be exposed and whatever you channel will be filtered through that the same as how you move about in your every day life. Normally you are able to exercise coping mechanisms because you know subconsciously how to adjust. You’ve been doing it for years. Now, however, this channeling is new to you and you’re not sure how to react.”

“Because it is necessary for you to be the best you will serve yourself better by being willing to seek psychological guidance. Or cope better. But, the mature thing to do, the thing that will help you move along your spiritual path in a positive and direct direction will be to recognize that you need help. Our blessings.”

Okay…I’m back again. Dip in and out of it sometimes. It’s a process. There’s lots more that I didn’t talk about. These are the things that came to mind this morning. I suppose I ought to write a book.

One other thing is that while the guides are terrific teachers it is a rather unusal way of teaching. At least it was for me.

Focus Your Thoughts

2008-12-23T17:48:00.001-08:00

A very important part of learning how to channel is learning how to focus your thoughts. Meditating will help you to do this. There are other activities which, when done very intensely will serve the same purpose like running, or drawing, or maybe writing, but for our purposes here I’m urging a practice of meditation.

Now, please try not to get so all fired impressed with people who say they can meditate for hours on end and adopt that as your goal. What you need, instead in the beginning, is a regular practice. Every day for 10 minutes. First of all this is not going to put a crimp in any of your other activities. For pity sake, the day is 24 hours long. You can spare 10 minutes of it to meditate. Additionally, you’re the one who said they wanted to learn how to channel. I’m telling you that you need to do this. For clarity. Fine, you’re channeling and somebody says, “If you don’t turn right at the corner three people are going to die.” Well, that’s channeling isn’t it? Yes. It’s also warped channeling. So, meditate already. For clarity.

Next, put away all your expectations about what meditating is like or how you think it should be. It starts out one way and ends another. It is over time that your meditation will change and it is as you do it more and more that you begin to see the results of the meditations. But, I’m getting ahead of myself.

It starts like Grand Central Station in your head. There’s just no getting around it. Your mind is not trained. It’s a new place to be. You’re trying to be quiet and it just isn’t working. Do you quit? No. Keep doing it.

Be kind to yourself. Realize that for everybody it is going to be noisy in their head in the beginning. It happens to everybody. Be kind toward your wayward mind and when you find yourself straying from the act of meditating and thinking about all the things you want to do or all the things you need to do gently take your mind by the hand like you would a little kid straying from a path and bring them back to the meditation. If you’ve got to do that 25 times during the 10 minutes you’ve devoted for meditating do it. The next time you meditate you’ll only have to do it 22 times.

What you could do is to have a piece of paper and a pencil by your side and every time a thought occurs to you write it down. That way you won’t spend energy being anxious that you’re going to forget something. Actually, this technique is fantastic to use for getting your ducks in order for the day. Just depends on how you look at it. In any case, reassuring your mind that you are not ignoring it, that you depend upon it to keep you on track and you appreciate all these reminders of things to do is great. Eventually, it will realize (this is your subconscious, by the way) that you are not going nuts with this new practice of meditation and it will be quiet for the time that you want to spend meditating.

Something else that happens to folks who embark upon a practice of meditation is their own personal demons will rise quickly to the surface. This is also understandable. Keep meditating. You are toeing your way into an expanded reality and for somebody who is trying to learn how to channel the clairaudience and the clairvoyance takes off. You’re not trained in this and it’s going to be odd, strange, weird and possibly frightening. You know it’s coming. Keep meditating. The distorted, yowling faces will stop. I know. It happened to me.

In the beginning you can use tricks to help you move into the meditation. You can visualize yourself descending a ladder. You can count backwards. There are all sorts of things you can do to help yourself into the meditative state of mind. I used to pretend I was melting like when Dorothy throws water on the Wicked Witch of the West. She melted. It was great for moving me into a meditation. Whatever rocks your boat. There are lots of techniques to try out.

Get a book about meditating. It doesn’t matter which one. There are lots on the market. Find one and try out a few of the techniques. They work. What doesn’t work is the person trying to learn how to meditate because they don’t stick with it. Same thing with diets. That’s why there are so many books on the market. Anyway, if you can make a deal with yourself that you are going to devote a short period of time every single day for a month to a practice of meditation and then step back at the end to see how you did I can almost guarantee that you’re going to see results. This will be the encouragement you need to continue.

Developing Resolve - Learn to Channel

2008-12-13T03:21:00.000-08:00

Ensure you are exhibiting resolve. This is very important. Not just lip service. Imagine that you are a millionaire. How did you get to be a millionaire? Imagine that it was plain hard work that did it. They didn’t start out with any money. This person started out the same as you or I. But, what is the difference between a millionaire and you? It is resolve. It is a focus on the one goal you want. In the millionaire’s case it is money. In your case it is the desire to speak to your guide.

Now, just for a moment imagine that you want to be a millionaire. We’ve all done that often enough. It’s easy to enter into the daydream of this particular imagining. But, this one time there’s a little twist to the daydream. This time you have resolve. In your imagination pretend that you are faced with one obstacle after another. Now, pretend that you, Joe Future Millionaire, have the ability to move past those obstacles. Argh…you got a flat tire. So, you put the spare on and move forward. Argh…you got the flu. So, you take it easy until you are recovered and then continue on with your plan of being a millionaire.

The interest you have in learning how to channel is actually one of the more important keys to success than you could imagine. And, you will be faced with obstacles. The first will probably happen when you decide to set aside some time to do the necessary exercises to retrain yourself to connect in a more conscious fashion to Spirit. Notice I said in a more conscious fashion. That’s because we’re all already connected. We just don’t pay a lot of attention. In any case, the time you set aside to do this work will be challenged at any and all opportunities. You will fall asleep and forget. You won’t wake up in time. An emergency will crop up. You will need to reconcile your check book. Your computer will start acting up. Your car will start sputtering. Anything and everything will start happening to draw you away from your new found resolve to learn how to channel.

You will likely become discouraged and quit. Fine. You have proven to your Guide that you are not ready to talk to him or her. That’s okay too. Not everybody has what it takes to learn how to channel.

Irritated yet? I couldn’t possibly be talking about you? Good. So, we continue. What happens when all the most incredible things start happening to draw you away from this resolve you need? Get more resolve. Don’t forget. It’s like the ocean is throwing you out time, after time, after time onto the shore. Turn around and dive back in again.

What else do you figure that a person wanting to be a millionaire would need to do to actually achieve their dream? One thing would be in how they go about overcoming obstacles. As a person decides to do something that is going to take them out of their already known and comfortable life they are moving from what might be considered a safe place to a dangerous or unknown place. Scary. As an adult you figure that you can do this easily and it couldn’t possibly be such a frightening thing to do. You’re thinking of brute force here. Just keep pounding on the nail and eventually it will be driven into the piece of wood. Right? Well, sort of. You could destroy obstacle after obstacle in your way, but there would always be the next obstacle on the horizon. The more efficient way would be to address why you’ve got these obstacles in the first place. Your subconscious is throwing up these road blocks to dissuade you from moving into a dangerous and unknown territory. It is keeping you safe.

This is where you begin to make the shift from being a victim to being somebody in charge of your own life. I don’t mean to get your goat here, but many people do have that victim sort of mentality. It was luck. They were born with a silver spoon in their mouth. They get all the breaks. It wasn’t my fault. Everybody hates me. Nobody loves me.

Admitting that you’ve got a problem is half the battle. So, although these obstacles aren’t exactly a huge problem, solving them or making the commitment to solve them is certainly going to make your life, spiritual or otherwise, easier. It’s all in your head. It is psychological. It is emotional growth and healing. It’s paying attention to the stuff that frightens you, to the stuff that irritates you, to the stuff that just pushes your buttons every time.

It is real and everyone has these issues. What normally happens with people is that we live quite happily with our neuroses and are able to cope and have a relatively okay life. Gradually, gradually as the years roll by we learn, we fix, we heal the stuff that hurts emotionally. By the time you are 89 you’ll be feeling better. But, from the age of 17 to 89 you weren’t able to ride in an airplane. It terrified you. No problem. Take a train. Or, go by car. But, for all those years you had a horrible fright of being in an airplane.

This ignoring things and letting them take care of themselves by themselves and in their own time isn’t going to work all that well if what you want to do is learn how to channel.

* Make a commitment to pay attention to your own emotional and psychological well being.

* Make a commitment to do something about healing.

One thing that came as a shock to me was that psychological and emotional healing doesn’t happen all at once. It is a gradual process. You heal a little bit at a time and keep doing it for the rest of your life. It’s actually not that much of a drag. What you learn is to recognize when your buttons are being pushed. And, when you see that happening you dive into a quick 15 minute quiet time meditative inner search and release of pain and you’re good to go until the next time. The next time might even be 3 years down the road. It’s not onerous work. Consider it as necessary as cutting your toe nails. You just need to do it every once in awhile. Interestingly, for me, one of the “signals” I get when it’s time for me to do inner work? Crappy drivers. They’ll be all around me. I can attract them like flies. But, that’s my own signal. You will learn to recognize your own.

So, here’s what happens:

* You have decided to learn how to channel.
* You set out on a course of instruction, mine or somebody else’s.
* You start encountering roadblocks.
* You move past them developing your resolve.
* You notice the road blocks are continuing and come to the realization that there’s something else going on here.
* You decide to be interested in your own mental health.
* You seek out a solution whether it is with a psychotherapist or via a book somebody has written on the matter. Personally, I recommend having a look at, “Be Your Own Therapist - Whoever You Hire Is Just Your Assistant” by my friend Thayer White. It is available free online at http://www.psychologyhelp.com/

One of the reasons I’ve spent so much time talking about the necessity of psychological and emotional healing is not only to be able to learn how to channel, but to ensure that the channeling you do get isn’t too warped and wrapped around your own psychological issues. Because it will be. I guarantee you that no matter how exalted your Guide is if you’ve got a weight problem and your guide wants to talk about weight issues it’s going to be really skewed information. Go ahead and do it. Just don’t publish it or tell anybody. As an example: I have had a life long weight problem. I’m chipping away at it, but it still is a large issue in my life. I once channeled that there would come a day when humans would not need to eat. Hey, I bought into it. Sounded good to me. Until my friend Thayer clued me in that it wasn’t valid information. And, all that time I thought it was truth coming out of my mouth. Hah. Anyway, my guide helps me with cooking and we steer away from talking about dieting, at least in public.

So, the more you lessen the impact of psychological issues on your own life the more enjoyable will be your overall channeling experience, both in the beginning as a raw new channel and 20 years into it as an experienced channel.

SuperMen

2008-09-21T08:44:00.001-07:00

Where I talk to Superman.

Hi.

Hello.

I suppose I ought to preface this with something.

I'm waiting.

I thought you would say something.

I did.

Okay...okay. So, this morning I was looking at YouTube videos. You know how it is. You sort of poke around and are looking at this and at that and somehow you sort of stumble onto something. I went looking for Superman. My thought was to put the video up for Video of the Day at my friend's website Zdaily. Instead, we went here with it. While I was watching the video George Reeves, Superman in those days, in this video spoke to me. He sort of dared me to put the video up here and then do an interview with him. So, here we are.

Yes, after that rousing introduction may I say the world is a better place for men like Supermen about. You should put Christopher Reeve up next.

You guys are going to get me in trouble.

I don't see how. You seem to be able to do an adequate job of it yourself.

Well, anyway, we are here at the Learn to Channel Blog and I just wanted to demonstrate that you could talk to celebrities who have passed on in addition to talking to your guides. I think it's a more advanced sort of activity, but say, after you've been channeling only your guide for the first year or so you can branch out and talk to anybody who has passed on. It's just something channels do. I don't generally go around acting the medium because how the person is that you are channeling is usually not quite how they were in their last incarnation as folks knew them then.

For one thing you as the channel distort what is being channeled. I don't care how good you are you will distort it. It's like looking at something through a lens. You just don't get exactly what you're looking at. Things will be distorted just because you are a human being and bring to the table all the experiences, all the preconceived notions you have as a human being. When you are channeling you are somehow translating those energies from the entity or the former celebrity into your known native tongue. So, say the person was a native French speaker. What you come up with as a channel is in English because you don't know French.

Now, I used to do a better job of it when I was drinking. I don't drink anymore. Turned out to be a not very good thing for me to do. So, I quit. And, I'm not the party animal anymore. Something I'm still getting over. But, it also sort of changed the way I channel. I'm sort of more staid. I'm not as relaxed and free and easy with it the way I used to be and it's also something that I sort of miss. That said, let's get on with this.

My word. You do need help.

Oh, shit.

You do realize that people do not expect their psychic to say bad words.

Well, I wasn't sure what you were going to do.

Sort of like when you were drinking, isn't it?

Sorry. I'll relax.

Yes, so we might proceed.

You don't sound like Superman. You sound more like my guide.

Yes, and so it is all distorted, as you say. I still wear a cape occasionally.

You do not. Do you really?

Yes. Sometimes without clothes on.

Get out. Really, let's have an interview or something. I'm sure people might be interested in hearing how life has been for you since you passed on. Are you going to incarnate anytime soon?

No, I think not. I'm having too much fun here. In those days it began as a job. It was thrilling to be Superman and be the hero, but I had no idea it was going to remain such a popular thing for people, for children. And, look at the number of comic book heroes that have spun off from Superman. The first one, you know, was Flash Gordon.

Yes...I should go find a clip for him too.

I think that would be nice.

So, really what's it like where you are now?

I'm quite happy. Everybody is who is here.

Do you get to be with lots of people?

Yes. But, we aren't people anymore. We are energies. We are thought. We are dreams.

Oh. But, you said you wore a cape.

I was teasing you.

Is it hard for you to talk to me?

No. Is it hard for you to listen?

No. I have to close my eyes to get a better connection.

Then, calm yourself for a moment and see what happens.

Okay.

We realize that it is difficult for you to demonstrate, though, as a teacher you do wish to allow those who visit your pages here to see what it is like to channel a guide or celebrity. I wouldn't say any of us are celebrities anymore; for we are the same as anyone else. There are levels of course. You enter into Grand Central Station. There's a lot of commotion, especially after the grand migrations which would be your natural disasters, 911 or war events. Things get sorted out soon. Nobody is afraid. Confused maybe, but not afraid.

Then, can come the judgement. You are in charge of yourself, but there are older folks, older entities, older loving energies who guide you and help in the processes.

Then, you have a party and then you go back to school.

School in Heaven, though, is fun. We all teach each other and learn from each other. It's a very constructive place.

We also pray for you, folks back on Earth and in other places. The animals too. It's a busy life.

We are happy to be where we are. You meet folks who were important to you in your life and in other lifetimes. It's nice.

Are you aware of folks who think of you? Who are watching your old movies?

Not so much, but on another level, thought is energy and all energy has repercussions. So, on that level, yes, we are aware of everything. Whenever a person prays for a loved one who has died that prayer is heard by the person in question. Nothing is wasted.

And, our blessings.

Hey, thanks. That was fun. Can we do it again sometime?

Yes, that would be fine.

Spirit Doll

2008-08-15T12:27:00.000-07:00

Spirit dolls. I saw one on Etsy the other day and was intrigued. I’d never seen such a thing before. It got me to thinking. Much as I was drawn to the doll displayed I wanted more to make my own. Ad as with my dream catcher earrings saying a prayer, associating good thoughts, tying what I make with cosmic forces holds an appeal for me that will not let go.

I have a friend who cannot buy clothes from Good Will or at yard sales. She is so sensitive that she feels what was going on with the former owners of those clothes. Good, bad or indifferent I can see where she would not want to have extra empathic stuff going on in her life. Regular everyday stuff is enough. I’m betting riding the bus is probably an interesting experience for her.

So, deliberately to ask that something go into my doll besides stuffing. The ones I saw for sale also had crystal chips inside of tem. That makes sense and luckily I have a boat load of crystal just waiting for me to do something with it.

I have beads. I have felt. I have buttons. I have embroidery thread. I have lots and lots of material. I have bits of lace. I have leather. I have whatever a person could possibly want to make a spirit doll.

But, what would you want with a spirit doll? Why even have one? Is it supposed to bring you good luck? Is it supposed to get you a good job? Is it supposed to make the world a safe place for you? I wonder what a person is supposed to do with a spirit doll?

Maybe you put a spirit doll on an altar. You could have things that mean something special for you on an altar. Then what? Sit there in front of it and meditate? I just got a visual of one of my guides with their finger on the side of their nose. That’s my own personal cue that I’m onto something. Santa Claus also did that when he rose up the chimney.

Okay, spirit doll. Altar. Um…I don’t really have an altar. I don’t even really have any room for one. Make room? Well, I guess I could. Am I hard to work with?

We work with what we’ve got, Dear. Don’t worry about it.

An altar is a place for you to get busy with meditating. An altar is your space where you don’t watch television, where you don’t busy yourself with chores or other duties. An altar is a place where you can contemplate your relationship with spirit. Where you can have a conversation with the big Kahuna if you want to. Kahuna? Sure. If you’re going to capitalize Kahuna you should also capitalize big. Okay, Big Kahuna. There, that’s better.

Maybe I could decorate my monitor. I spend enough time in front of it. And, what I want to do for most of what I produce is to appeal to people’s desire to get in touch with spirit. Maybe my altar should be right in front of me here.

That’s an idea.

I could hang things off the edges. There’s room at the bottom to lay things. I could have a little spirit doll there too.

So, imagine that your altar is prepared. How are you going to work any differently than you do now?

I think I might be inclined to be a little more focused on what I’m doing. I haven’t been all that focused in a long time. It’s sort of an easy come easy go thing with me. And, I haven’t been all that productive.

Does this bother you?

Well, yeah. I’ve only got so much time and I don’t think I’m spending it the best way I could. It’s not like I can retire and spend all the time in the world here helping people.

Do you think you help people?

Well, I get emails every once in awhile from people who say thank you. I think that’s helping them.

Do you really think so?

What is this? A trick question? Okay…okay. So, maybe all I did was to make them feel better. But, that’s helping people, isn’t it?

Giving heroin to an addict makes them feel better too.

Oh, you’re tough today. Why?

Not so tough, Dear. This is a teaching exercise. Put it into your Learn to Channel blog and those who are curious about what we talk about will have something to see.

Yeah, you’re right. I never did have a real clear idea of what it would be like before I started channeling. Thanks.

You are welcome.

PS - when I eventually get around to making a spirit doll I'll post a picture here.

Being Clark Kent

2008-07-26T18:50:00.001-07:00

How do you actually hear your guide talk? Do you suddenly develop super-human hearing? Actually, I don’t really hear my guides or the Folk in Spirit that I talk to anymore. Not like I did right after I started channeling. In those days it was the same sort of hearing as if somebody standing right next to me was talking. In those days if there was noise around me I might miss some of what they were saying. But, it didn’t take but a couple of months for that “hearing” to go from normal style hearing to a telepathic communication.

When I would channel via the keyboard or with pen and paper the speed of what was said dropped to match however fast I was typing or writing. It’s still the same. What was interesting was when I started channeling verbally. That’s when (and it still happens) where what comes out of my mouth doesn’t sound like the same entity who is delivering content via keyboard channeling. (They just said to me, “We work with what we’ve got.” Ha.)

Anyway, no you don’t develop super human hearing. What will help with the process, though, is if you open yourself up to some non-verbal or non-language sort of communications. What I mean is take up a pencil and start to draw. It exercises another part of your brain and you need those muscles flexing well when you start to channel. You could also start playing a musical instrument. Or you could start singing. Something other than what you normally do.

It’s like falling into a meditation. You leave your normal, ordinary living behind just for a little while and go to a place where colors have sounds and can speak to you, where there are sounds that defy written notes. It’s like being high with no assistance from drugs or alcohol. You don’t have to accomplish anything while you are in this place. Just hang out for a little bit on a regular basis. That is if you are trying to learn to channel. The good thing is that you always come back down to earth so you can go to work the next day and nobody is the wiser. It’s sort of like being Clark Kent.

What Did You Say?

2008-07-06T08:08:00.000-07:00

When I remember back to the days when I was learning how to channel I remember there being one rather important thing that I kept in front of my face the entire time, rather like dangling a carrot in front of a donkey to get him to move along.

That very important thing was that I didn’t know how to channel and I obviously wasn’t doing it right or I would be doing it. It was like the territory leading up to knowing how to channel was one color, the color of not knowing how to channel at all and then there would be the breakthrough and on the other side a different color being that of knowing how to channel. Essentially, I didn’t know how now, but someday I would know how to channel. Another way to look at it was: Life is the shits now, but, boy oh boy, once I learn how to channel are things ever going to be different.

Unfortunately, I realize now this is the exact same approach I’ve done to a lot of things in my life. I’m not there. I’m there. Black and white. You’re either popular or you’re unpopular. You’re either athletically inclined or you’re a couch potato. You’re either smart or you’re dumb. You’re either beautiful or you’re ugly. You’re either fat or you’re thin. Always with the extremes. What happened to in-between? What ever happened to I’m getting there? What ever happened to typical?

So, for those of you reading this blog who are interested in learning how to channel I’m asking you, if you happen to be operating along the same lines as I did, to put aside those long held beliefs for a little bit. I’m not asking you to abandon long standing operating rules for getting around in the world. I’m asking you to suspend them for a little bit. You can always take them up again later on when you’re trying to lose 10 pounds on a diet or something like that.

First of all channeling is something everybody does. I didn’t realize that until after I really started channeling the way I do now. It might not feel like it, but you can imagine for a few moments that you are channeling. How to do this? Have an imaginary conversation in your head with your guide. You didn’t know you have a guide? You do. Several in fact, but just the one will do for our purposes now. Think he or she is busy? Not. They can multi-task. Okay, in your head now.

How to begin? Well, imagine an imaginary conversation. Doesn’t matter now what anybody is saying. This is pretend. Remember back to when you were playing with trucks or with dolls; it’s that kind of pretend.

You start: “Hi.”

Your Guide: “Hi.”

You: “What?”

Your Guide: “You have a problem with hearing now?”

You: “Sorry.”

Your Guide: “No problem.”

You: “Are you really my guide?”

Your Guide: “Yes.”

You: “What is your name?”

Your Guide: “Sam”

You: “Sam?”

Your Guide: “Yes, Sam. You do seem to have a problem with hearing.”

You: “I’m just not sure this is real.”

Your Guide: “Well, this seems to be a conversation of sorts.”

You: “Really, your name is Sam?”

Your Guide: “For all intents and purposes my name can be Sam for the moment. It doesn’t really matter what my name is, but you seem to think it is important, so I can be Sam for now.”

You: “I didn’t get it right after all.”

Your Guide: “Actually, I’ve had about 2,500 different names in all the different incarnations I’ve ever had and Sam is as good as any. You can rest assured that calling me Sam will get my attention.”

You: “Oh.”

So, you suspended the rules for a moment and had a silly made up conversation with your guide. The point is that even if you were making it up Spirit will take that opportunity to move in and stand in the imaginary place holder in the conversation you just invented. Trust me on this: you were talking to Spirit. It might have been a sort of inane conversation, but you and your guide were communicating. Things will pick up for you after this.

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I move into my "space" for channeling by listening to Dr. Jeffry Thompson's Brainwave Suite. My personal favorite is the Delta wave CD.

Channeling in My Dreams

2008-06-11T21:03:00.000-07:00

This is the dream I had this morning: The cast from the Waltons was there. John Boy, Jason, Mary Ellen and Erin. They were sitting on the other side of a long table. I walk into the room and am amazed to see them. I smile and I’m saying hello and there at the end is Larry Hagman. He reaches to grasp my hand. I’m just thrilled to see these folks, people I’ve always admired for the work they did on television. Larry Hagman still has my hand. Now, he reaches up to grasp it with his other hand and he’s got my hand enclosed in both of his. He smiles at me and says, “Tell me what is on your hand that is between both of my hands.” I told him, “It’s my palm.” He was startled that I knew the answer. Then, I felt a little bad that I’d ruined his riddle.

I move down the table greeting everybody else and come to find a place to sit.

I’m hesitant to tell them that I’m a channel but then somehow I relaxed enough and I started going into a trance.

It was a really tremendous feeling to channel that way. I just sort of lost control, didn’t mind that I was losing control and channeled. Then, while I’m channeling the guides told them that they can speak with their loved ones who’ve passed on. They told them that their loved ones are near to them. They told them that their loved ones are not way out there but that Heaven is just close to our ground.

Then, somebody at the table made a wise crack about some goof up uncle they had who had passed on and I began to come out of the trance.

It was a pretty intense dream. I love when I channel in dreams. It is just way cool.

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Ask Me No Questions

2008-05-26T07:54:00.000-07:00

If you figure what’s channeling good for but to answer your questions then you are probably going to be disappointed. These are questions like: When am I going to be rich? Who am I going to marry and when? When am I going to die? Will I ever get a better job? Ask all you want but the answers you get to questions like these don’t really amount to squat. And, the reason why is that guides lie. Well, it’s not that they lie so much as they aren’t going to answer those types of questions for you with the truth. It’s sort of like having 3 squirmy kids in the backseat asking, “When are we going to get there?” The answer to that one is, “Soon.” And we all know exactly how quick soon is when you’re 5 years old.

The point of channeling, at least what I’ve found out, is that the guides will help you work through your own issues. Start with the when am I going to be rich question. Okay, so they tell you next month. And, next month rolls around and you are no wealthier than you were before. In fact, you’re a bit deeper in debt because you were counting on the moola rolling in and you maxed out one of your credit cards buying that new camera you’ve had your eye on for the last year. So, the first reaction is that you are hurt. You are hurt because your guide has just been exposed as a liar. He or she just lied to you. How spiritual is that? How nice is that? What did you learn from this?

After you’re done feeling sorry for yourself you might come around to the idea that those sorts of questions aren’t the ones that are appropriate to be answered. What is going on here is that the guides aren’t here to make your life easier. They are here to help you awaken spiritually however that’s going to end up being. Lots of paths. Pick one.

I’ve found they’ll help out many times with things that aren’t critical to your own life lessons. Like once my guide told me it wasn’t going to be a real good idea to unroll the passenger side window in my car while I sat in a parking lot to eat my lunch and have a smoke afterwards. I don’t smoke anymore, but the point of it is that I argued with him. I have a tendency to not just do things right off the bat. It was hot. If I didn’t unroll the window it was going to get all smoky in the car and the draft wasn’t going to be there to blow it out. Not 15 minutes later some lady asks me for directions and as I’m pointing off in the other direction she reaches in the open window and steals my purse. You think I’m not going to pay attention in the future to the stuff my guide says? You bet. Well, first of all it was my fault that I didn’t listen to my guide. But, I was hurt that he didn’t press the issue with me like he could have said, “If you persist with this plan of yours you are going to be real, real sorry.” No, he didn’t say that. He just clammed up. And waited for the fun to begin. My fault….I know….my fault…but, I was still mucho pissed. My lesson in all of that was many fold.

• Pay attention
• The worst thing that can happen does often happen and I can recover from it
• Don’t put so much crap in my wallet and purse
• Periodically go through said wallet and photocopy the stuff in it
• Get over it

I still carry my keys in my pocket. This all happened many, many years ago. Maybe I haven’t learned all the lessons about it I could.

The point of the questions you ask of Spirit is that you learn. You can learn judgment. You can learn maturity. You can learn to deal with tough issues more gracefully. You can learn to poke fun at yourself. You can learn a lot. What you’re probably not going to learn are what the winning lottery numbers are for next week.

Akiane Kramarik - Spiritual Young Artist

2008-05-03T20:02:00.000-07:00

How's this for channeling?

An Announcement

2008-05-03T07:07:00.000-07:00

Well, I can't say as how I've been Miss Johnny on the Spot with posting entries to this blog on a fairly regular basis, but I would like to announce that I have finally decided to write a book about learning how to channel. Interestingly, it was the guides who helped me out with the idea. And, because it is appropriate I figured I'd relay the story here.

I've been in the dumps for some time now. I know that I can likely do something constructive to get out of them, but I have this character trait that tends to like to wallow for awhile. So, this explains being in the dumps. A little anyway.

There are health concerns. Some not feeling well because of my diabetes that frightened me. Some news about early stage cataracts in both of my eyes. Some work related issues. I keep reaching down the throats of the people I work with and trying to rip out their tonsils. At least, it seems that way. I'm not having any luck at it, but I keep trying. Money concerns, but who doesn't have those? Menopause is driving me nuts. And, last but not least: I'm fat and ugly. If that's not enough to depress anybody I don't know what is. So, that was the scenario.

It was the news about the cataracts that tipped the balance of wallowing in depression and despair to actually doing something constructive and fun.

Anyway, I was driving home from work recently and Seth said, "Why don't you write a book about channeling? You can have it done by your birthday." I almost had an accident. Not that hearing from my guides while I'm driving home is anything new. It was what he said. It struck every chord in my being just right. Life was fun again. Just with those few words. So, I've been mulling it over ever since.

And, that's my announcement. By September 1, 2008 I hope to be able to offer a book for sale about Learning How To Channel.

I started writing this morning. I've got 1,300 words done and it isn't even 7:30 in the morning. I talked about the process yesterday evening over on The Spirit Moved Me and Look What Happened. I figure I could find a little gizmo widget sort of thing to track my progress. That would be fun. Sort of like weighing myself every day. I'm not a skinny person so I do that. I feel comfortable with it.

Much of what has been written in this blog will be fodder for the grist mill of writing. I tend to not reuse things, so if you've been reading the entries of this particular blog you won't be re-reading anything when you purchase the book. It will all be new material.

What About My Wife?

2008-03-25T19:29:00.000-07:00

Here's an email I got today:

I've enjoyed reading your sites. But I am curious if your husband supports your efforts of channeling? I am interested in doing the same, but I think my wife would think I'm nuts or something. I've been reading and reading about the subject but have not really shared my interest with my wife. She is more religious than I am and I'm afraid that I would offend her all the while feeling like she would think I'm nuts or something. Just curious of your view point?

Here's my answer: By all means tell your wife what you want to do and why. Try to include her in what you are doing. And, you do want her support.

The road to channeling of reading and meditation and thoughtful introspective thinking can help everyone whether they actually channel or not. It's the idea of getting more in tune with your inner self, having more confidence in what you do and in what you think that are the benefits that come from the path to channeling. Also, there is the desire to be more on your own path of spiritual development.

And, then there are the nuts.

What also happens is that people have expectations of what channeling is and that's where the nutty ideas come in. I can certainly see how a spouse, especially one who is religious would be alarmed at what her husband was doing.

If you think that the channeling will not take away from anybody's, yours or your spouse's faith and can convince her of it too then I would think things would be okay.

It's in the early days of channeling where the odd things happen. That's when I advise people to sort of keep their mouths shut and try real hard to keep one foot on the curb of rational thought. That's when God comes to you to say there is a fantastic sale down at the local hardware store and if you jump in the car RIGHT THEN you will be able to have the buy of the century. Those are just the early warped days of channeling. It's not true. It is your guide speaking to you, but it is also you with a whole boat load of preconceived expectations and ideas of what the channeling process SHOULD be. It's once you get accustomed to the new energies, to the new talking, address your own psychological growth issues (and everybody, absolutely everybody has them) then, things begin to settle down.

But, it's not just a simple thing of, "This week I'm going to learn how to channel". It's a life changing experience. And, you could alienate your wife in the process. You do not want that to happen. Once you make contact with Spirit there is no going back and unmaking contact with your guide.

There's also a stage (and I went through this too) of where you get all sorts of helpful advice from the guides for everybody and you feel you must share. Folks tend to not like that. You'll learn caution and when to keep your mouth shut. This cautionary note would hold for anybody whether they are married or not. Can you imagine going to your boss to say, "You know, my guides said if you were to stop dragging your dog around the lake with you every time you go out to jog the dog would be a lot happier." Right. See what I mean?

I wouldn't say the various religions are so keen on having parishioners going about channeling. That's what the priests, ministers and rabbis are there for: to interpret God's laws. Not you. They just don't seem to like it. There is a place for it, but I haven't tried real hard to find it. (One of the guides just said that's when you go make your own church.) I did know a priest once who I told about my channeling experience. As he and I talked over time I remember once he said to me that I sounded like his spiritual advisor. That's as close as I've come to any sort of acceptance by a member of the clergy. It was brief and now I've lost touch with that priest. I've never sought out another one. But, that brief interchange did much to give my confidence a boost.

My husband is supportive of my efforts now. He was a little anxious in the beginning. There was a real tense moment once early on when he said I had to chose between him or my guide. I stood my ground and said I was going to have them both. Even then I realized that there was no way I could unmake the connection to Spirit and there was no way I could live the rest of my married life under a cover of silence from Spirit.

So, I learned a little discretionary caution. Everybody is going to have a different experience. It's been 15 years that I've been channeling. Even though it was strange trying to find a place for the new me in my married life I did. And, I'm glad for it. I'm more outgoing now. I'm a little bolder. I've had to do my own psychological work, which, by the way does not stop. You work on it a little...a year or so goes by and then you work on it some more. This is an absolute must for anybody doing channeling. You don't want to end up like some nut mowing down innocent civilians in a misguided effort to save the world. So, your own psychological health is an area of constant observation. My relationship with my husband is solid. It weathered my journey into channeling. It wasn't always easy, but we came out the other end of it even happier together, more accepting of each other than before.

What you could do, if after all that I've told you if you decide the upheaval in your marriage isn't worth the trouble of learning how to channel move into the introspective writing mode where you begin to meditate a bit, where you pray, where you balance your life with useful and healthy activities (jogging, gardening, exercise, yoga maybe, stuff like that), where you begin keeping a journal for writing whatever you want to write about and where you do a self evaluation to see if there is anything along the lines of psychological healthy making things you can do to help yourself, including your wife in these activities too. Check out Byron Katie. Google her and you will see her website and books, "Loving What Is". Terrific book. Absolutely terrific. It's not channeling. It's supporting spiritual and healthy life for yourself and your wife. I hope this helps.

How to Develop Your Psychic Self - Vision

2008-03-16T07:59:00.000-07:00

Pretend. I know it doesn’t sound very grown up, but pretending is actually a good tool to use in whatever endeavor you are undertaking. You envision something enough, it gets burned into your brain cells and then the actual doing of the thing is easier the next time you do it. Works with dancing and golf swings. Why wouldn’t it work with psychic stuff?

So, what could you envision? Well, envision vision. Close your eyes and imagine that you are seeing a flower. A daisy with white petals. Don’t see it? Get a real one or a picture of a daisy and have it in front of you. Actually, anything would work. Use your coffee cup if that’s handy. Or a pen or whatever is in front of you. In the kitchen? Use the toaster. Anything. Stare at the object for a few seconds. Close your eyes and picture it in your mind’s eye.

I actually have a hard time with this exercise. When I close my eyes I just see red, the light filtering in through my closed lids. But, there’s a difference between just closing your eyes and moving into the psychic seeing part of your mind where you can picture things. For me, it’s sort of like closing my eyes and moving into a meditative sort of state. Well, semi-meditative.

This was actually one of the first exercises to do when I was learning how to channel. I sucked at it then and I suck at it now. But, doing it was important. And, even though I’ve never quite gotten the knack of it I have experienced psychic sight. For me it’s easier if my guide holds the object in question. As he moves in my mind’s eye I see him and I see the object he is holding. It’s a really quick flash of vision that doesn’t last more than a second or two. Maybe with time I’ll get better at it. But, for now that’s mostly what works for me.

Also what’s important for me to imagine seeing things psychically is that meditative state of mind. I do have to close my eyes to get there. I do need a relatively quiet area to work in. I really don’t need people talking to me. And, how I do it is that I envision the person I’m interested in doing a psychic reading for. I might not be able to see them in the flesh. I might only have had an email from them asking me some question. But, that slight contact is enough for me to reach out psychically and make a connection with that individual.

The information that comes to me about that individual comes in several different ways. I experience a knowingness about the situation. I can see spots on their body. Like I might see a dark circle on a knee or on their mid-section. Sometimes it is a word that sort of floats out of nowhere that I hear. Betrayal. Confusion. Anxiety. Stuff like that. Sometimes I am transported to some place. Like once I was focusing in on a missing girl presumed to be dead. Zam…I’m off seeing a dirt floor and a bunch of tumbleweeds. Where that was I have no idea other than I think it was where she died.

Many times the information does not make sense to me at all. I just report what I am seeing or hearing to the person. Lots of times it doesn’t make sense to them. But, later on maybe it might.

I think I do my best work, though, through my guides. I surrender to the moment and allow what they have to say to come through me. Seeing as how I’m a channel that’s the best way I work. Anyway, I’m sort of sucky lately at verbal channeling, but I’m better at the typewritten channeling. I just let it flow and they talk.

If I’m not too anxious or worried about stuff their information comes through in a clearer manner. If I’m off balance about something some times they come up with some really off the wall stuff. Like if suddenly in the middle of a channeling session somebody starts talking about the Marx brothers or Tarzan or something that has absolutely nothing to do with the point of whatever we were talking about then I know I need to settle down and do a little bit of psychological work to center myself again.

And how do I re-tune myself psychologically you might ask? Well, I close my eyes, go into that semi-meditative state of mind and ask myself the question, “What’s bothering me right now?” I allow whatever is foremost on my mind to float up and be there. I’ll sort of zero in on the idea of whatever it is and make a connection with whatever it is and my inner child. Something somewhere back when I was a little girl didn’t get done right and now it’s risen its ugly head to bother me as a 52 year old woman. So, I deal with it. Takes 10 minutes and I’m good to go until the next weird thing happens.

Like if I close my eyes now and do the same thing it has to do with me as a little girl not expressing myself as much as I’d like to have done. Quiet little girl. Invisible little girl. Needs to shout and run and play and have fun. So, in my mind’s eye I encourage that little girl to do all of those things. For a few seconds I see her skipping and running. Hell, I see her do cart wheels. I never, ever did things like that when I was a girl. Ah, she’s caught a ball. I couldn’t do that either. Just a really active little girl. Moving. Running. Skipping. Fast. And happy. Very, very happy to be doing all of those things. I think I’m done.

And, somehow doing this started with closing my eyes and trying to see a flower.

Hair Cut

2008-03-01T07:27:00.000-08:00

As a note before you begin reading this post, it is a very mundane example of a conversation the guides and I had. It's not earth shaking revelations. It's just me and the guides. This one about hair cuts. I've put their parts in italics.

I just love Saturday mornings. One thing about the guides is they are always there with handy suggestions and this morning is no exception. I’ve been dithering around about getting my hair cut for some time. I have yet to find somebody who I really, really want to return to for a second cut. I’ve been to Nancy where I work several times and haven’t ever been all that happy with the cuts I get there. She’s nice and asks about DeeDude who does get his hair cut with her, but if her assistant is the one to do the cutting she tends to do what she wants and not what I talked to her about. The last time I was there I was absolutely shocked at how short my hair got. Nancy even said examining the cut with a critical eye, “I think it is a bit too short”. Whether her assistant is there any longer is up for grabs, but I think I’ll steer clear of her place.

The next place is a chain operation down at South Shore Plaza in Alameda. I’ve gotten cuts there twice and they were both okay. Not fabulous, but I suppose what you’re working with has to be pretty good too. My orange hennaed hair has mostly grown out. I’m no longer brown, but a mix of black and white. DeeDude said to me, “It’s gray”. So, that place is a possibility. It’s just that I’d like to combine it with another errand because it is a bit of a jog down there. Not far, but I am using gas and gas hereabouts is going for $3.55 a gallon.

The third place is across the street. Somewhere I have the lady’s card. And, I suppose the telling point in all of this is that the last time I got my hair cut I did like what she’d done. However, after a bit it tended to stick out all over the place. I’m not accustomed to getting a cut every month, so I want something that is going to last.

Dear, if we might interject here?

Sure.

When you opt for a shorter hair style the very idea of having it be short and styled is that you maintain it. And, you have to do that every month or 6 weeks. It just grows out and that was the every which way you spoke of.

Oh.

Well, it does appear to be one of those “no-brainer” sorts of situations as you refer to them, but you are unaccustomed, as you said, to shorter styles. Longer hair does not require as much maintenance as a shorter style.

The question is do you wish to maintain a shorter style for awhile? If you do just settle on getting it cut more often. The woman across the street is convenient. You do not need to spend money on gasoline and she could use the business. And, by your own admission you cannot do as good a job cutting your own hair when it is short.

The idea is to take care of yourself. Having a fabulous hair cut is not going to change the fact that you have health issues and that your back hurts. What it will do is to boost your spirits somewhat and that in combination with the other things you do to ensure better all around health will only serve to create a rosier picture of your own creation.

PS---I ended up getting a nice haircut from a place I hadn't been to before just a few doors away from where I go to Curves. I'll probably go back there for my next one. And, that's a load off of my mind.

Be Persistent

2008-02-22T05:31:00.000-08:00

Part of learning how to channel involves both faith and that motivational technique of imagining yourself already doing something. Because, otherwise, it just doesn’t seem like much can possibly be happening a lot of the time.

One thing about the guides is if it is not appropriate they don’t say much. They can be there. In fact, everybody has a guide. And that guide is in very close contact with you. So, if you were to direct your thoughts toward that guide that’s a good thing. It’s like praying though. God doesn’t always answer out loud. So, don’t expect your guide to either. Just know that your guide is there and you can talk to him or her. In your head and heart is sufficient. It doesn’t have to be out loud.

The other thing that is helpful is when you have been doing this for 3 years and nothing has happened as far as concrete communications from your guide is that you don’t give up.

Figure, too, that the vessel might not be ready and there are other things you need to do. That’s why I think middle aged adults are able to do this more easily than younger folk. They’ve been around a while longer and have just flat out done more things.

Do what amuses you. Want to learn Italian? Don’t think it has anything to do with talking to your guide? Think again. Learn Italian.

Somehow when you take the focus of your attentions away from the contact guide quest for a brief period it actually begins happening. It’s sort of the same technique for manifestation. You want and want and want something to be so badly. Then, you release the want to the universe and it happens.

In the Wee Hours of Night

2008-02-09T02:53:00.000-08:00

So, it’s the middle of the night. I couldn’t sleep. Or, rather, I awakened and then, it wasn’t easy to get back to sleep. I decided to pray for “my” folks. These are people I know who aren’t doing so well. These are folks who’ve visited my sites. Anybody who needs it, I guess.

I’ve come to think of the folks I say prayers for as a group. I might not think of them individually, but sometimes images of them cross my mind. Sometimes these aren’t always folks who are still in body, but have already passed on. In the old days I wouldn’t really have thought to pray for somebody who’d passed on. I guess I figured they were done with the race and didn’t need a rooting section any longer. But, now-a-days that doesn’t really seem to apply anymore.

I don’t know why I pray other than I feel I should. I’m drawn to it. And, the praying for me isn’t like it was when I was growing up. It isn’t a pleading, whining sort of prayer. Please, please, please. And, if you do I promise. That sort of praying. At least, not tonight it wasn’t.

This night’s prayer was more a wanting to send healing towards those who could use it. I am in need of it too, so I figured I’d pray for all of us. And, so, as I flailed around wanting to do that I got some advice from the guides.

I’m a second level Reiki practitioner, except, I haven’t really done it in awhile. I had a sort of a basic disagreement (although it works on me well enough) with the whole idea of secret, secret, secret as it was presented to me when I learned how. Maybe that has changed since then. I don’t know. I’ve always been more attracted to the idea of healing energies present everywhere and that pretty much anybody can open to them. That just feels more right to me than any other sort of view. What I couldn’t seem to reconcile was how it sometimes worked for me and other times it was like I was kicking a closed door.

So, as we talked tonight I wasn’t all that sure if what I was doing for myself and for anybody else was working or a mostly wasted effort. And, that’s when the guides talked:

In this, we are happy to be here tonight. Now, not as it was with you in your dreamy semi-meditative state of half an hour ago. Our blessings to you and to all who happen upon this entry. The “rule” as it were is that to successfully utilize healing energies one might be sensitive enough and open enough to accept them. Compare a similar situation where a person is standing out in the rain. If they are wearing their rain gear and carrying an umbrella the likelihood of them getting wet is less than were they to be walking around in the all together. Think of the rain as if it were healing energies and think of the rain gear you wear as all your defenses.

Defenses are there to protect you. Logically created in a moment of need you decide the best way to handle a particular situation is to always respond by doing “X”. “X” might happen to be eating. “X” would be, then, what you do to protect yourself from your fears. Think about them. Get to the root of them and you can begin to strip away the onion skin that covers you. It is many layered.

It is the same with love. Open more fully to yourself, to who you are, to the love inside of you and you can open more fully to other people.

In fact, think of healing energy as if it were air. It is always there. You are not always aware of air, but you breathe all the time. When the wind blows your conscious awareness is drawn to it. But, normally most do not notice.

Think of healing energy as all around you. All the time. What does it look like? Sort of pink at times. Depends on what you are most in need of. This is why colored stones are sometimes effective. The energy and vibrations given off by the stones, the heart of the earth and made of the same stuff you are made of begin to resonate together.

But, for now we speak of general healing energy. Say a short prayer, a declarative statement to yourself. This is for you, for your higher self, for the angels who are watching, for your guides, for your mother who roots for you even to this day as she lives in Heaven, all of these entities, all the same. All rolled into one. This, your declarative statement:

I say I am ready to heal. I would be open to healing in whatever way will best support my lessons on earth. I ask that you help me in whatever way is appropriate to move closer to a place where I am able to see more clearly, to understand and to open easily to the love and healing energies all around me.

Love never went away. Healing never went away. It is one. Our blessings.

Psychics

2008-01-26T06:51:00.000-08:00

Have you ever gone to see a psychic? Are you too afraid of what they might say to you? Do you think they can see into your heart and know your most awful secret?

I’ll tell you what I see if that will make you feel any better.

I know we are all connected on a different level. It’s invisible. It’s something you can imagine. It’s close to Heaven. All of us emanate from Source and we’re all made of star stuff. My soul sees your soul on an equal footing. No language barriers. No age barriers. No cultural differences.

I pretend to go to that place. I just close my eyes, take a deeper breath and I’m with you. If it helps you I can say that I sense just how much you want to make a difference in the lives of those you care about and I can say that you do. I can tell you the things we worry about just don’t amount to a hill of beans. It’s going to rain eventually. Why keep looking for clouds when you might be enjoying the sunny skies? It's interesting, but many times whatever a psychic sees for you is exactly what you know already.

Just for fun go to a psychic. You don’t have to spend a whole lot. It's been my experience that a reading could go anywhere from $35 to $75. It’s sort of like playing the slots. You’re probably going to lose your money, but hey, wasn’t it interesting? Every year for my birthday I pick a psychic at random. Mostly, I trust my own guidance and just sort of let my fingers do the walking on the internet. I've met some nice people that way and gotten some interesting insights into what I do.

Rule 1: Remember the psychic is human just like you are. This person is going to interpret whatever they see for you using what they know of life. In fact, what they might interpret as a really intense and creative portion of your life you might view as a very difficult or tense time.

Rule 2: If the psychic starts saying things like, “You should” or “You must” change their choice of words in your mind to, “You might consider” .

Rule 3: The future is totally in your hands. Whatever anybody sees for you is not what the future has to be. If I see you as a train wreck waiting to happen you could also turn that train wreck into a good thing. Many times people have to hit rock bottom for them to make changes in their lives.

Rule 4: If the psychic tells you that you need to have more consultations with them, spending more money each time or if they say anything about a curse walk away.

Rule 5: Do it yourself. Go buy yourself a deck of Tarot cards. Look online for free tutorials. Get a Tarot reading to see how a psychic does it and learn to do readings for yourself. Or, go buy a bag of runes and do the same thing.

How to Develop Your Psychic Self

2007-12-15T07:45:00.001-08:00

One of the things you can do to encourage psychic instances in your life is to, first of all, recognize they are happening.

Many times a psychic hit, as I call it, doesn’t always announce itself with a grand entrance. It doesn’t happen that you will hear a voice that says, “Okay, Binky: This is a psychic hit. Pay attention.” No, mostly they are pretty quiet. Many times when I have a psychic hit I don’t realize that it has happened until after the thing it announced is over. Generally, I say to myself then: “Oh, crap. Why didn’t I pay attention?”

I think most people are afraid they might be causing something to happen by having a premonition of the event. Like you dream of a plane crash and three days later there is one. Then, the person feels awful thinking there might have been something they could have done to prevent it from happening.

Be calm about the whole idea of having a premonition. Because we are all different we all put our own personal stamp on our interpretation of life, but when you are tense or fearful you will more dramatically color the information coming through. It’s like the difference between two psychics. One tells you to pack up and move to another city because your life is going to be miserable. The other psychic says that you are going to be having some pretty intense lessons coming up, but with patience and fortitude you will get through them. The information presented to each psychic was the same. What was different was how it was presented.

My own next step with my psychic impressions is to honor the fact that I’m getting them at all. So, even if you find yourself looking backward to say, “Oh, man, that must have been a psychic hit.” Feel good that you had one. I think this will encourage more to happen.

I guess what might be helpful here is to define a psychic hit. With me it is that small feeling that comes over me as I am just ready to do something that says, “This just does not feel right.” But, I do it anyway. And, whatever it is that I was doing gets messed up. It is a very, very quiet feeling. It’s a stillness that happens in the middle of a riot. Maybe it is different for other people, but for me that’s what it is like.

You don’t have to tell people about whatever it is. I think you have to have a lot of them before you can start saying with certainty, “I don’t think we want to hire this person because I’m having a weird feeling about them.” Try not to base your really important decisions on your psychic hits until you are pretty certain they are mostly all spot-on.

We all have intuitive feelings. The psychic hit is just an intuitive feeling taken up to the next level.

Spirit Moved Me

2007-10-13T10:09:00.000-07:00

I’m thinking about what folks mean when they say, “The Spirit moved me.” I suppose it means different things for different people. (Please note, further down in this entry Spirit moved in. I put their parts in green. )

You might think that Spirit means something holy, a bit of Heaven, God, representative of good and what’s right. You might think Spirit is of the paranormal, ghosties or of energies left behind after horrific events have taken place. You might think of Spirit as the collective unconscious. In any case, Spirit is mysterious, unknown, not given to eloquent conversation and somewhat forbidding.

And, if Spirit moved you it might mean you did something that you normally would not do in any given set of circumstances, meaning that whatever you did came out of left field and you can’t claim responsibility, therefore Spirit must have moved you. It’s like there’s you as a distinctive and individual part of the universe and then there’s Spirit who stands apart from you.

I would ask you to take a moment and to think in terms, just for the few moments it takes to read this, that you and Spirit are one. That there is not a discernable boundary between where you end and where Spirit begins. You don’t have to feel this. Just for a moment pretend that it is really true.

Now, if that were true why would you ever be afraid of Spirit?

You know about you. You know what your favorite color is. You know what you like to eat. You know what you like to read. You know what your favorite season is. What do you know about Spirit? Well, you’re pretending that you and Spirit are one. If you’re as comfortable in your own skin with your own stuff why wouldn’t you be as comfortable with Spirit?

What exactly is Spirit? Well, we were sort of discussing that above. It is different things for different people. Okay, so if we are to presume that Spirit is the holy part of us, the God part, the heavenly part, then the other extreme might mean that we, the human part is bad, evil, wicked, nasty and prosperous during the Depression. Right. Get serious here. You are one and the same. Okay, I sense Spirit moving more in this essay.

Yes, you got it Binky.

Hey, I’m trying to be serious here.

We noticed.

Okay, since you’re here would you like to say something?

We were here before. There is no turning Spirit off. Think of it as waves. The more you surrender, the more you open, the more you welcome the idea of Spirit into your life, the more obvious we might be.

I think people wait for something different to happen to them and when it doesn’t they think that they haven’t done it right. Like if you pray hard enough and good enough your prayers will be answered and if they are not answered then you didn’t do something right.

Well, we understand this happens. We might ask you why you want anything different than what is already happening to happen?

Oh, God.

Dear. Really, think about it.

Okay. What will be will be. God isn’t there punishing anybody. Shit happens sort of things.

Well, yes. But, you can make the choice of being bothered by it or not. You can’t make anybody else alter the way they feel about what goes on in life. Think of it this way: If you are bothered by something this is an indication that you can concentrate on whatever it was that bothered you, get to the root of the problem and heal it for yourself. Then, the next time that “something” happens you can gauge the extent of your progress by seeing that you are no longer bothered by it the way you were bothered the first time. Being human isn’t something to escape. Being human is the best way to express yourself right now. Rejoice.

Sticks and Stones

2007-09-23T09:40:00.001-07:00

Nobody likes to be laughed at. They also don’t like to be chastised. Yet, it happens all the time; perhaps not blatantly, but certainly in unobtrusive ways. What do you do? Well, you could be embarrassed. Or, you could be angry or afraid. Or, you could just let it not bother you.

The question is how do you get to the point where things like that would not bother you? Nobody likes to be rejected, but it happens all the time.

Okay, here’s where I ask for a guide’s help. I’m figuring I’ve got too much psychological stuff going on to be able to give a nice clear and welcome answer to this question. (The channeled parts are in green.)

Good morning.

Good morning.

What is it you’d like to know about?

Well, I just said it up there.

Yes, it was rather disjointed. Could you be a bit more succinct?

Right. (Eyes narrowing wondering what is going on, but is willing to play along)…How can a person not be bothered by the stuff other people say about them?

If the “stuff” people say is framed in terms of constructive criticism then you might consider the advice. If what is being said is merely hurtful or slanderous you could allow it to not bother you.

Yes, but that’s the point. How do you get it to not bother you? For me those things hurt a lot. And, it really doesn’t help now because I get an instant hot flash with it. That really points out to me something just happened I don’t like and I really have to fight to come back to normal.

Ah, so now we are talking about you instead of people in general.

Well, yes. It did cross my mind, but I figured other people had the same problem so I was going to talk about it like it wasn’t me.

Why?

Well, I’m supposed to be the psychic. I should be above stuff like that.

Why?

Just because I figure I ought to.

I see.

You’re not being very helpful here.

If you read back through the discourse you will see that we are waiting for you to come to the realization that you are the one who controls how you feel not the other person.

Okay. So give me a hint about what to do about this. Please.

Nice never hurts.

Thank you.

When you recognize that you are having a reaction to something somebody says whether to you, about you or just within your hearing, that is the time to take the time to look inside and ask yourself what it is about that particular interchange that hurt you and why. If you are at work you can excuse yourself to go to the lady’s room, sit in a stall in relative quiet, have your rolled up sweater at hand in case you need to stuff it into your mouth if you happen to gasp or cry out. Or, if you are at home go lie down on your bed.

Sit quietly. Take a deep breath and think this intention in your mind: I want to know why I got upset just now. Then, you promise yourself that you will pay attention to whatever comes forward out of your subconscious demanding a bit of your attention. Whatever this is can come as a suddenly remembered incident from your childhood, a spoken word or two or as a vision. This procedure does not need to take a long time at all. Two minutes works fine. A dump would take longer.

Maybe for you.

Well, do you think this will work?

I think it’s good advice. Yes, I think it will work fine. Thank you.

You are quite welcome.

Email about Ouija Board

2007-09-08T06:53:00.000-07:00

Here's a terrific email I got this morning:

I have been studying the metaphysical side of life for many years now. I've read Edgar Cayce books, Jane Roberts book with Seth as well as other books. I have made great progress. A few months ago I bought a ouija board. It took several tries with my teenage children to get the board to work for us. Now we have it done perfectly and have some wonderful, positive experiences. My concern is for my teenage daughter. I don't want her to be doing this on a weekly basis with me as I'm afraid that some of her traditional religious friends will find out and begin judging her in a negative way causing her to lose her friendships.

So, I've begun to try to use the board myself. I haven't had much luck, and the spirits I have talked to about this say, I have too many doubts, and I need to relax. I asked one spirit if I should meditate more, and he said as long as I "don't fall asleep". I had to chuckle at that one, because the day before I was trying to really meditate, and felt myself falling asleep as my hands were on the planchette!!

Any advice you can give would be greatly appreciated. Yes, I always open the gate with positive prayer, prayer for protection and call upon those spirits who are within God's light and love to communicate with me. We haven't had any problems with so called "evil" spirits.

And, my answer:

When I decided to work the Ouija board by myself it took longer than 6 months to get it to happen. My problem, too, was that I needed to relax. So, good advice from Spirit.

One suggestion would be to, in the beginning anyway, speak only with your guide. You are like an open window and no matter how hard you pray you are the lady standing at an open window hollering out into Spirit Land, "Come talk to me! I want to talk to you!" Anybody could drop by and, evil or not, they can sometimes be distracting, confusing or obscene. Even your own guide when they crank up the energy level can come through in a distorted manner. When I say, "crank up the energy level" I mean it. It's like your guide is speaking with a five year old in the beginning. "Let's take it easy on her." Suddenly, you got promoted to the 10th grade. They take off the kid gloves and start talking organic chemistry and algebra to you. You gotta be prepared for that. So, when they say, "A,B,C" to you at the 5 year old level that's what you hear: A,B,C. But, when the energy level gets hiked up and they start saying, "When in the course of human events...." you start hearing, "Hey, Bro, take a few minutes to chill and we'll talk to you about a bunch of dudes fighting a war a long time ago." Different.

Also, because the folks in Spirit Land are invisible you really don't know if you are speaking with your guide or with somebody who says they are your guide. You've just got to have faith that it is your guide, no matter how weird they might sound. You state the intention: "I am only speaking with my guide now" and that's it. If your guide tells you that he is really Santa Claus in disguise then you go, "Okay." and don't believe it, know that you are a raw newbie and Spirit has an odd sense of humor sometimes and move forward. It will eventually even out. Just state the intention: "I am going to speak with my guide". (or guides). This is good advice for the first year or so while you are getting used to it. After that you can talk to anybody.

Also, part of what's going on is that your beingness as a human being is distorting what you are hearing. There is no way you are going to get around that. Also, it takes time to become accustomed to speaking with Folk in Spirit. I ball park it with a year's time. Generally, people who channel settle down into nice solid channeling about a year after they start. That first year is La La Land. It was during that time that my guide said to me: "There will come a time when human beings will not need to eat." Right. I bought into it. Until I spoke with a friend who is also a psychotherapist who told me, "Pauline, you have an eating disorder. Listen to what your guide just told you. This is not right. You are filtering stuff through your issues with food."

Also, talking to Spirit is not a one way street. You gotta give something up. And, what that "something" is becomes your nice safe, stable psychological standing in life. They pull the pins out and you begin dealing with your piled up psychological issues. Don't tell me you don't have any. Everybody does. Usually we deal with them quietly when we're ready to deal with them and life goes along smoothly enough. When you're talking to Spirit you step onto the fast track and you, because you are in a position now to help others, can strive to be in the best psychological shape you can be. Being willing to deal with psychological crappiness as it arises in your life makes you a better channel, because that's what you are doing when you talk to Spirit. How do you know you've got psychological issues to deal with? That's when what you're channeling goes south and starts sounding really weird. Or, you attract every crappy driver in town every time you get in a car. Or, stuff just starts bothering you. Or, you start having nightmares. Just deal with it and you'll be a better channel.

Also, people have "issues" that are not healed completely the minute they decide to tackle tough psychological issues. Just be willing to do a bit of work on them. Deal with as much as you can now. Figure that you'll be a happy camper for 2 or 3 years and then you will be stronger and better able to deal with the next stage of whatever issue is there for you. And, that's not just for folks who are channeling. That's advice for everybody. Just deal with what's in front of you until your life settles down and is good again. But, don't figure that it has gone totally away. It's good for now and when you decide (higher self and sub-conscious self) the time is right then you can deal with some more. You don't have to do this, but I feel that it just becomes a better channeling experience if you are willing to do something about your "stuff".

Beyond being able to relax, I'm thinking you can release some of the fear you've got about the whole experience. I'm talking about the prayers, and the protection, and your reference to evil spirits. Just think about it some. Your guide will help too. You are the lady standing at the open window into spirit land. There are axe murderers out there just waiting to talk to you. And, there's nothing you can do to stop it other than to take your hands off the board. And, even then it might be too late, because the board is the first step in channeling, especially if you are wanting to handle it on your own without others to help. The next level is telepathic and it is very difficult to turn that off. So, are you going to be frantically emailing me as to how to shake an axe murderer spirit who wants to get friendly with you? No. That's 5 year old stuff. You've got to morph into the adult and mature person who can look an axe murderer in the eye (so to speak) and say, "Hey, what's life like now for you?" and not be afraid.

It all has to do with getting a new perspective on life. I know. I had to do the same thing.

I agree that it's not such a good idea to have your daughter fiddeling around with the board right now, especially with your views as to being safe and only attracting the "best" spirits to speak with. She's just not mature enough.

I had to laugh about going to sleep when meditating. I do that too. My husband calls them power naps.

Talking to Spirit Dogs

2007-09-06T20:41:00.000-07:00

This is an email I got today: I would appreciate if you can tell me if it would be possible to get in touch with the spirit of my dog who passed away, and how – doesn’t matter how long and hard this road would be – I would be prepared to take this journey.

My Answer: People (including me at one time) think that being able to communicate with Spirit is hard. It's actually not that hard if you are willing to sort of change what your expectations are of what the experience is going to be like. If you think the hair on the back of your neck is going to rise and crackle in the wind, if you think that you're going to be hearing ghostly sounds, cupboard doors slamming in the kitchen, lights turning on and off mysteriously, it won't happen. That eerie stuff is the Hollywood part of what communicating with Spirit is. The real part of communicating with Spirit is quiet.

However, there are a few levels of intensity to it.

Basic level One that anybody can do is to just talk to Spirit. In your head, silently in your heart, mumbling quietly, or shouting into a canyon; however you want to phrase the communication, Spirit can hear you. Also, animals who have passed are as much Spirit as your great-grandfather who has passed on. It was one of the amazing things that I learned when I "broke through" to channeling was that animals can communicate with us in our own tongue and folks who lived as a person speaking a language different from our own can talk to us just fine. It's like we have so many different languages and ways of communicating while we are human, but when we are Spirit there is just one way. Anyway, whoever you want to speak with in Spirit can hear you fine. If you want to sit quietly and get into a meditative state of mind that's fine. If you want to talk while standing in line at the grocery store or sitting in your car at a stop light, that's fine too. Now, the difficult part of this communicating with Spirit is that you can't hear them. That's the part that might take longer. Actually, the guides are saying it's only difficult if you choose it so. That's guide talk. If you can be content knowing that your dog can hear you, that your relatives who've passed on can hear you and you're okay with not being able to hear them, that's fine.

Level Two has to do with opening to Spirit, being willing not to bend Spirit to our ways, to your expectations. If Spirit is going to communicate with you in a non verbal way then the hawk who circled around your house this morning was Spirit saying, "Hey". Spirit can also communicate via tools of divination: a deck of tarot cards or a pendulum.

A really good way to communicate with Spirit is by writing. Have in mind who it is that you want to speak with and begin writing. You write your part of the conversation and then you relax and pretend and begin writing the other side of the conversation. This is where you need to lift all the rules and just allow the experience to flow. No judgments. No being frightened. You walked into this. You want to communicate with somebody on the other side. Release your expectations of what is going to happen and just let it flow. If you're in a really good space just let your hand go limp on the pencil or pen and "help" things along by roughly drawing a circle. Just doodle. Less than doodling. Just scrawl out circles and see what will happen. And be patient.

Anyway, with more control on the writing instrument you could just "trust" for a few moments that the answers you receive to your questions are going to be Spirit speaking with you. Animals can do this fine too.

Communication with Spirit can also occur during your dreamtime. Just be open to the idea that dreams are a terrific place for Folks in Spirit to come and visit. Many times my pets who have passed on come to me in my dreams. I'm not always aware of them right then, but in the morning when I awaken I remember that they had come to be with me in my dream and every time it is special. If you can possible learn how to dream lucidly and have a dream where Spirit can be with you then, that would be the primo of all wonderful dreams. But, a normal dream is much more usual and is certainly special.

Also, my understanding of the process is that Folks in Spirit are not in pain anymore. They aren't upset, or angry, or vengeful. One of the guides once said dying was like waking up from a dream. They said everybody suddenly understands everyone else. There is no hate anymore.

Mostly, what works is being playful with the process. Trying different things to see what you're comfortable doing and what appeals to you. It's like phones. They all work, but there sure are a lot of different models.

Questions About Ouija Board

2007-08-16T19:02:00.000-07:00

This is an email I got today: I was interested in using a oiuja board, but after reading stories of evil spirits coming through, I am afraid. How do you protect yourself when you are using it?

And, my answer: Part of having a satisfactory experience using the Ouija board is to examine your reasons for wanting to use it. If it is just for play and for fooling around that shows the spirits that you are not serious and then you could very well get a roller coaster ride when you go talk with them.

It also depends on how mature you are. Key to this is to ask if you are afraid of the experience. It could very well happen that you would in the beginning get hold of a "live wire" sort of spirit who would joke with you or say bad words or things along those lines. Then, if you ignore all of that and keep insisting that you want to talk to your guide, who we all assume won't act that way toward you and I mean a big assume on that one because our guides will sometimes treat us as if we were children and when we get serious about the whole thing then they act serious towards us. It's a sort of a mirror almost.

Anyway, if you are afraid and think the devil is involved I would say do not use a ouija board. Being new at it some of the things that will happen will be wierd. But, it really is not the devil or satan or evil. It's just you being new and not knowing how to be polite in the spirit world. For instance, a long time ago my guide said to me, "I am not a Nickelodeon" meaning that I could not force him to answer my questions. That's when I learned that if it doesn't interfere with my life plans or somebody else's life plans than, maybe the guides will answer it. Like they've never told me when I'm going to die. I've asked, but that's like a no-no area.

There are people who will say do this or do that for protection while using the board. I don't believe there's much to do other than have a positive attitude, treat everybody respectfully, don't be afraid and be prepared for wierd things to be said to you in the beginnning. Also, it's very important not to go blabbing about what they say to you especially in the beginning. I can guarantee you will be embarrassed. Like you might hear something along the lines of a warning that if your best friend goes to work today they are going to die or some other horrible thing. Do not buy into that. That is the newbie silliness going on. Nobody is going to die. You are not responsible for telling the entire countryside that it is time to evacuate because a mud slide is imminent. Stuff like that. So, don't be afraid if you hear wierd stuff like that. Just keep saying, "Okay, thank you. Now, I would like to talk to my guide."

If it gets to be too wierd just put the board away and don't use it anymore. Not good to get hooked on it...you might end up like me. And, I really only recommend that adults use the board. I know that kids can but I don't feel they are mature enough to handle it. Need to get some living under their belts before they go out into the wide world to talk to Elvis.

You'll be Sorry

2007-08-02T06:05:00.001-07:00

One of the things that’s rather cool about talking to Spirit is that they will sometimes help me out with the more mundane things that go on in my life. They don’t help with everything, but sometimes they do. When I first started channeling I sort of expected them to help me with everything, but as Seth said to me once, “I am not a nickelodeon.” meaning he wasn’t for hire and I couldn’t make him do a damned thing.

Anyway, over time I sort of stopped expecting them to help me. If they offer that’s wonderful, but if they don’t say anything about some situation, then I’m not meant to know.

However, when they start in with the warning shit, the ominous stuff, the things like they just said to me regarding a post I did on one of the blogs, “You’ll be sorry.” It’s that particular phrase that immediately tightens my gut. The logical side of me knows that I’ve got something going on and they are just sort of echoing my unease. This is why I’ve always maintained that anybody who wants to learn to channel needs to be relatively psychologically balanced, at least enough to know what to do when the weird stuff starts happening. Like, when suddenly every asshole driver in the world seems to be attracted to your rear bumper. Psychologically you’ve got something going on that will take all of 10 minutes to fix. You sit quietly, by yourself and say, “Okay, what’s up with that?” And just allow whatever it is that is currently bothering you to rise to the surface of your mind so you can examine it, react to it and, hopefully, take care of it. For now. Later, guaranteed, there will be more, but the important thing is that you saw the warning signal of asshole drivers on the horizon and reacted to it by doing your own psychological fine tuning.

So, for me, my own personal signal is some guide saying, “You’ll be sooooorrrrrryyyy.” Right. I love it. The problem, is that they really could be warning me of something but, more than likely it will be my own crap I need to pay attention to.

I need to go sit for a few minutes.

Walk This Way

2007-07-10T07:24:00.000-07:00

I have a tendency to make things harder than they really need to be. I don’t know why I do this, but I do. So, I’ve puzzled over what I’d like to have in this section of the newsletter for some time. I wrote my first article last week. That one was okay. But, this one, something to do with learning to channel, just had me stumped. And, a part of it was that I’d already talked so much about learning to channel that I just could not think of anything new to say.

That’s where I started making a simple thing difficult.

I realized this morning that people have themes that run through their lives. I might approach a project in the same manner that I did when I was 20. Sort of eating around the edges and then finally taking a big bite. Or, in other words, worrying the ding donged thing to death before I finally screw up my courage and just get it over with and do it, whatever it is.

So, I’ve been worrying about this section of the newsletter for over a week. And, this morning I thought of themes that course through a person’s life. And, I thought of how people who paint will be fascinated with one particular thing and paint that one single thing over and over again, with each time they paint pushing themselves farther and farther into the heart of whatever it is that fascinates them. I thought of writers who delight in telling love stories; this way, that way, another way. The same love theme but just another story.

And, I thought again of how very simple things can be if you allow them to be.

Channeling is sort of like that too. If I were to pick one particular “rule” to remember it would be that pretend is very important in opening the channel, in widening the street that exists between your conscious mind and what your guides have to say.

I know that we all want something to be true. We don’t go around deliberately deluding ourselves about things. We know that it’s not right to pretend that you’re rich when you’re not. We know that it’s not right to cheat on school papers. But, I ask you to remember back to when you were a child and you played house or firemen. You were in your pretend mode. That’s where I want you to go for a little bit.

Just pretend that you are channeling.

You don’t have to announce it to all and sundry. You don’t have to go telling your neighbor what you are doing. That’s a sure fire way of getting somebody to look at you incredulously and say, “For God’s sake, get a clue. You’re nuts.” Things along those lines. That will gum up the works in no time flat. So, just be private.

Sit there quietly. Put some headphones on and listen to some sort of soft, ambient music, bells, birds, waves, something soothing. My favorite is Dr. Jeffrey Thompson’s Brainwave Suite. Dip down, however you imagine it to be, into a meditative state. Quiet, not fighting the random thoughts that begin coursing through your head. Put a pad of paper and a pencil beside you and promise yourself that you’ll write down the real important things you don’t want to forget. Once written that particular thought will float away. Out of iceberg lettuce? Need to buy it the next time you go to the store? Thought won’t stop? Write down lettuce. Not a full sentence. Just the word, “lettuce”. See if you can’t dip again into that meditative state of mind.

I know that your mind, like mine, will frantically try to keep you on track and not in that peaceful space of meditation. I usually either want a cigarette or get really hungry. Go figure. But, my mind isn’t any different from anybody else’s and I have trouble getting into a meditative state of mind. But, I don’t stop trying.

When the thoughts you have sort of stop bamming against the inside of your head think of something, like a rose or a book or some object. It might help to have that object sitting on your desk in front of you. Open your eyes, look at it, close your eyes and try to picture what you just saw. Do that a couple of times.

Relax some more. Imagine that you are on a path. Doesn’t matter what path. A path. Paved with cobblestones, or gravel. Dirt path. A sidewalk. This is your path. Just be on the path.

Now, start walking. Sort of look around you with your eyes closed while you’re walking on this path and notice what’s going on next to it. Are there plants growing? Flowers? Grass? What’s going on right beside the path? Look a little ways away from the path. Do you notice anything else?

You might find your way blocked by something in your path. Try to get around it. Over it. Under it. I once found a huge boulder in my path. I walked around it. Sometimes people blast them up. That’s what I should have done. I think I wouldn’t weigh so much right now had I blown up my own personal boulder. But, that’s neither here nor there. Somehow, if you find an obstacle in your path get around it and continue walking.

Now, notice that your path sort of rises up. It’s on an incline and you’re going uphill.

Notice off in the distance that you’re making your way toward a place. It’s a big hill. It might even be a cave. There’s some sort of doorway or natural opening that you’re going towards. Keep walking.

You might find yourself magically right there. Get to the doorway or gate or whatever it is in your mind’s eye.

It might be closed. Push on it. Knock on it. Look over the gate if that is what it is. On the other side there are some guides. They are gathered around a fire. They are talking amongst themselves. They notice you. They turn around and notice you. One of them leaves the group and comes toward you. This is your guide.

Say hey. Or, smile. Or wait for him or her to say something to you. This is where you get to put a face to your guide, so that as you learn to channel you will know what your guide looks like. My guide smiled at me when I met him. Somehow it made the rest of the process of learning how to channel go a little bit quicker.

"Bon Chance" is what one of the guides just said. I think that must mean good luck.

Doodling Toward Spirit

2007-07-04T06:16:00.000-07:00

My mind is on ruts and ways to extricate myself from them these days. I am especially interested in thinking ruts. This is where my whole world seems sort of blah or tense and where I am not especially enjoying myself. I also regret not being as “psychic” as I might be.

Writers write. Psychics are psychic. A writer can still write in their head when all is otherwise not in a writing mode around them. Like you’re at the grocery store and your mind is not totally on the groceries you are purchasing or the dinner you plan on making that night. Your mind is on the people around you, the mother and son in the freezer isle arguing over something behind the glass. You wonder why there is a problem for them. This has nothing to do with your own purchases. These are people you are noticing. It could only be for writing. You’re not nosy, are you? No. So, then, by default it must be for the purpose of utilizing their disagreement for an interaction between characters. To show love where, seemingly, none is being demonstrated. But, care is there. Why else would a mother not acquiesce to her child’s request and yearning for some frozen food product unless there be a reason not to get it? That reason could be there is not enough money, or room in the freezer or it is not a healthy item to ingest. You would not even consider that the refusal stems from a perverse sense of meanness. But, it could, could it not? Yes, spite and meanness could be a reason not to honor a child’s yearning for a food.

Okay, this exercise today, this morning before the sun has even come up, is a demonstration where I move from one mode to another; where I move from where it is just me writing to where I am channeling. I felt it happen. I closed my eyes and relaxed, surrendered to what they were saying. I just gave over. And, I’ve been doing this long enough that I could feel it happen. I can also tell because the words the Folk in Spirit use with me are not what I would normally choose; words like, “ingest” and a turn of phrase like, “unless there be a reason”. I put the guidespeak part in the paragraph above in green.

Now, what you can do as the person wanting to learn how to channel is to deliberately say to yourself, “From this point forward I will consider my words to be coming from my guide.” Who cares if they sound like they are coming from you. This is the exercise and that is the condition. From this point forward is guide speak. You keep doing it over and over again and eventually it does actually begin to sound a little different.

It’s like using an affirmation. “I am slender.” Over and over again. Many times over and over again, until finally, your own perverse mind begins to accept that you are slender. And, slowly you begin to think of carrot sticks as an interesting thing to munch upon.

I wouldn’t go around blabbing to everybody that you are channeling. That’s the best way to mess up your progress. Just keep a notebook and record your thoughts. Or, speak into a microphone.

Here’s what I would do:

• Choose a quiet time where you will not be disturbed for awhile.
• Say, “I am going to channel and it will be my guide I will be talking to.”
• Put a pair of headphones on and listen to some quiet music, nice, smooth flowing music. Ocean sounds are good. My personal choice is Dr. Jeffrey Thompson’s Brainwave Suite.
• Know that you are safe. Know that you are in complete control of your body. Know that your guide will keep you safe. Know that you can break away and come back to the “present” anytime you want to.
• And, just give over.

With a notebook in front of you begin to doodle. Not necessarily words, just squiggles. Circles, lines, swooping up and over and down and around. Movement with your pen. Just play with it for a few minutes. Then, stop. That was the exercise.

Did anything get done? Did you channel? Well, you said you did. So, you must have. A guide helped you make a squiggle? How weird is that? Hey, you’re pretending. That was the exercise. To state plainly, whether you did out loud or not, that for the next 5 minutes you were going to channel.

Next time you do it, the same way, go a little deeper into a meditative and calm sort of mindset.

As your hand forms the circle on the paper close your eyes and move deeper into the music you are listening to. Try not to grip the pen you are holding as you would normally. Loosen your grip on it so that your hand feels very light, so loose that you think the pen could even just slip out easily if you weren’t careful. Doodle away. Maybe now just write something. You’ll use up a lot of paper. It’s helpful to use a felt tip that flows nicely.

The words you write might get written one over the other. You might not even be able to read them. Don’t worry about it. Next time you’ll have a little more control. The idea is to allow Spirit to flow, to find a channel in your willingness to open to them. These aren’t folks who are going to tell you how to live your life. These aren’t folks who are going to give you the secrets of the universe. This is like sitting in your garden enjoying nature around you, participating in life. This is adding another dimension to your life. This is Spirit.

Podcast - Learn to Channel #1

2007-06-30T19:24:00.000-07:00

My first podcast where I talk about learning to channel. It's pretty quick, just 5 minutes. Thanks to Audacity for the free program to do this and thanks to Magnatune for the royalty free music. The artist is Heavy Mellow and the selection is, "Weaving" from the album Acoustic Abstracts. I thought it was just perfect. I'm still pretty much a rube at this, so you'll probably have to turn up the volume a bit. Hopefully, with my next podcast I'll be a bit smoother. Thanks for listening.

Steps to Channeling

2007-06-09T15:45:00.000-07:00

Everybody can channel. Everybody does channel. Already. There are degrees of channeling and it’s not until you are a bonifide channel that you look back and realize you’ve been doing it all along.

It’s one of those no-brainers. It’s like you felt when you learned how to tie your shoes or when you learned how to ride a bike. It’s exactly the same feeling you get when you learn how to swim or how to whistle. One moment you can’t do it and the next moment you can and once you can you really can’t imagine how it was that you couldn’t do it before.

It’s this funny little shift. It’s not like the hairs stand up on the back of your neck or that you felt a cold draft move past you. It’s more like you pretend/sense a friend at your shoulder. It a feeling like somebody just placed their hand on your shoulder. It’s almost a quick tensing of your muscles, but even that is not subtle enough. It’s just this passing sense that there’s a comforting presence at hand for you.

This feeling of Spirit doesn’t remain this subtle. At least with me it didn’t. Now, because I can hear and see them I am aware all the time. They’re not constantly talking to me. But, they are always there. Sometimes, though, I’ll just say, “Seth?” and he will say, “Yes?” and that’s all I wanted. Just because I couldn’t immediately sense a presence. I knew he was there, but I couldn’t sense it so I asked. He answered and I knew. That’s all. I didn’t really want to ask him anything. I just wanted confirmation that he was there.

Remember how when you were a kid and you believed in Santa Claus? It’s sort of like that. You’re an adult now and you’ve known for years that there really isn’t a Santa Claus. But, what if you were to find out that Santa Claus is real? It’s like that.

And, knowing your guides are real, in acknowledging their presence in your life, even if you cannot now say that you actually feel their presence, is the first step in doing the actual channeling thing.

Like they said to me years and year ago: It’s on the wings of pretend that this works.

You don’t have to prove anything to me. You just need to prove it to yourself.

All sorts of other things are involved too, but this is one of the most important ones.

The other things that might need to happen for channeling to happen? It would probably help if you aren’t afraid. It would definitely help if you’re not under a doctor’s care for some sort of psychiatric condition.

You need to be a responsible adult to do this. Although kids can channel the same as anybody else, I think I wouldn’t be responsible if I didn’t mention that the stuff I talk about is geared toward adults.

It certainly helps to be open minded. If you’re already set in what you believe I wouldn’t try to learn how to channel if I were you, because you need to be prepared to re-learn everything again. You’ll come away from the experience with a wider view of the people around you. You’ll come to feel that you aren’t so isolated and that what you think and do really does have an impact on the lives of other people.

Don't Give Up When What You Hear Channeling Fades Away

2007-05-26T05:51:00.000-07:00

One of the things that used to happen to me when I first learned to channel was that it seemed I sometimes couldn’t hear everything my guide was saying. Like I’d hear every word for the first 8 and then something would cut out and I would start to hear every other couple of words and then the whole thing would go belly up and I wouldn’t hear anything.

This used to really bug me. As my level of frustration rose it seemed to get worse. I was never really sure why this happened. I thought it was because I was new at it.

The problem, though, is that it still happens to me occasionally. So, here’s my theory about it:

Actually, I was just going to say I thought it was my “connection” to Spirit that faltered, but the guides just said to me that wasn’t it. Here, I’ll just let them talk.

We would say that everyone might experience this “effect” of statico channeling at one point or another. It is not your connection to Spirit for that has always and will always be what it is: Strong. It is your perception of the reality of channeling that shifts. And, it is your level of tension, of calm, of acceptance and of surrender that is at issue with the quality of channeling. It is not concentration. It is the ability to relax and flow that is of more importance. Also, irritation figures in for as you do not perform as you want to perform you might become angry at yourself or at your guide thinking they have refused to speak with you. That is not the case.

Listening is not always at level 10, the highest volume possible. Listening involves paying attention and being open to hearing the babble of the brook beside you.

Sometimes voice from Spirit will be as plain as the nose on your face. Sometimes voice from Spirit can be faint or perceived as weak. Imagine something you are seeing close up. A dandelion you are holding. How you can look at each individual petal. How you can see up close even as though you were looking at the flower under a microscope to see detail so exquisite about an ordinary flower you might never have realized without having taken the time to have a look that it was there. And, compare that to you standing beside your automobile as you’ve stopped at a rest station alongside the interstate highway to gaze at a mountain many, many miles in the distance. Hot where you are, summer days, rushing traffic behind you, but off in the distance you can see a majestic mountain. Both are you seeing. Both are you using your eyes and your sense of vision to experience something. So, too, with channeling does the experience
become divided between quiet and loud.

Learn to experience both sorts of channeling for they are always there with you.

Okay, Pauline back again. That was nice. And, to allow you a sneak peak behind how I did the above little bit of channeling and to set the scene for you: I’ve got my headphones on and I’m listening to “Letting Go of Stress” Brainwave Suite by Jeffrey Thompson. It’s a babbling brook, birdsong, wave and rain sounds with the special stuff he’s put into the music to stimulate your brainwaves. I’ve been using this for years and it moves me rather effectively and quickly into the “zone”. I can channel without it fine, but somehow it seems I am able to get better channeling listening to this music. Maybe it’s just me “being there” and being ready to rock and roll than anything else. I don’t know.

I also like to close my eyes when I’m channeling. That allows me to pay more attention to what I’m hearing and not have the distraction of anything visually to interfere. Also, long ago I learned not to be bothered by horrible spelling because it can really get bad once you open your eyes to have a look at what you’ve channeled. You might know that you’ve not been able to spell something correctly while you are channeling but try not to allow that to intrude on the channeling experience. You can always fix it later. In fact, maybe this weekend I’ll channel something and just leave it “as is” for you to see what a person who has been channeling for 15 years and who types at 75 words a minute is capable of as far as right out of the box channeling goes.

Spirit Speaks

2007-05-11T06:20:00.000-07:00

Channeling is very much like any other activity in that you must in your mind decide that now you’re going to do it. The problem, though, is that once you’ve decided now is the time nothing happens. And, you think it is not working and you give up or you get frustrated or you double your efforts and come away from the experience really irritated.

That’s what used to happen to me, anyway. I figure I’m not so unusual. It’s probably happening to you too.

If you consider the attempts you make are good efforts and the irritation you feel just gets in the way, or just clouds all forward momentum maybe ridding yourself of the irritation might be a useful thing to do.

How do you do that?

Pretend.

Okay, so you’re sitting there and you’ve closed your eyes and you’re waiting for your guide to say something. You’ve been told that you have one and he or she is an exalted guide so you figure that you’ve got connections and since this is a way powerful guide they will be able to break through the ether or whatever it is and talk to you.

Well, I suppose I ought to mention that all guides are exalted, the way I figure it, so, buying into the idea that your guide is better than average is just that much smoke. The other thing is that it’s not the guides who need to “break through”, it’s you who needs to learn how to relax and recognize a voice from Spirit.

Also, consider that it’s not as simple as moving from Point A to Point B. The way is sometimes circuitous and you might just need to learn how to draw, or paint, or journal to release and heal some of your frustrations before you can hear Spirit speaking. Those activities, I wouldn’t have supposed would have anything to do with you channeling, but they really do.

Anyway, back to you sitting there waiting for something to happen and getting more and more irritated as time passes by and nothing appears to be happening.

Ask yourself the question: Are you ready for this? Likely, you will say, “Yes!” not really understanding what is going to happen. Well, that doesn’t really matter. It will all unfold eventually. You will come to the rude awakening in time. (One of the guides just said, “We aren’t all Yes Men.” That was my own rude awakening.) So, you’ve decided that you’re ready and nothing is happening. You’ve tried all the exercises in the book and nothing is happening. What is going on? Time. It takes time. You’re not ready after all and even once they all start talking to you the quality of the channeling you’re going to be getting will be absolutely and directly mirrored by your own beliefs and by your own psychological messes. That is a guarantee.

Having an optimistic attitude will be more helpful to the process than getting angry at yourself or at your guide. Pretend that they can hear every word you say to them, so you know your voice reaches their ears and that part, at least, is working.

Lower your expectations of what channeling ought to be. They just get in the way, anyway. Keep on with the exercises. Know that it is just going to take time and learn to listen for what Spirit is saying. They’ve been talking to you all your life anyway. You just haven’t been listening.

Great Balls of Green String

2007-04-28T06:53:00.000-07:00

This is one of those things I began writing that morphed into the guides talking about things. I began writing the first part of it and as the guides stepped in I continued to write in my own voice with what they were saying ringing in my ears. As the writing continued I stepped back more fully at the midpoint with their request to visualize and just let the channeling flow.

More often than not I will make the announcement that the guides are now speaking, but this morning I did not. It just sort of morphed. I’m going to change the color of the part they did mostly on their own, at least with my own attempt to fade into the background as much as I could.

Now, as writing goes and I read it again the moving past Jello didn’t work. So, if I were to shine this up, as a writer I would find something better to start with, but I’m not here to shine it up. I’m here to illustrate just how it goes for me to channel and the moving in and dancing and morphing. Just how that moves. It was always something that totally mystified me when I was trying to learn how to channel. But, beyond all of that it was just plain interesting. I hope you enjoy it.

The world in Jello

Well, it doesn’t have to be Jello. That’s just to get your attention. It could be Jello. It could be anything else. I’m reaching here and I’m hoping one among you might reach with me. Just stretch your imagination. Just for one moment in time drop all your beliefs about everything and imagine for one minute that what you are thinking, what you are feeling right now is being sensed by someone on the other side of the earth. That far away. Now imagine that person you have linked with has just sensed what someone is feeling closer to where they live just 3,000 miles away.

Imagine that person 3,000 miles away from the one halfway across the world from you is sensing what someone is feeling some miles distant from them. And so It goes. Visually it is a mass of lines that begin to crisscross and shoot all over the surface of the earth until, if those lines were green the entire world would look like a great ball of green string.

Just visualize this for a moment.

This is what it is like when you die. You are able to have an immediate connection with those who are very far away from you. In Heaven all are connected and Heaven is built upon the same rules, if you will, as your own mortal coil.

People are not generally aware they can make these connections with people so far away from them but you actually do it all the time. This is best illustrated by pointing out that in some dreams you have met with those who are very far away. Awakening from a dream of this nature you don’t know exactly what has happened, you know only that you have been talking with someone you do not know. And, dreams are also primarily a vehicle for you to slough off the dandruff of the day, to solve your own problems and work out solutions for things that are currently bothering you, but they are also the green string that holds the world together.

Our blessings this fine morning.

Talking to Yourself

2007-04-20T06:05:00.001-07:00

I talk to myself. I’ve been doing it for years. It helps me to work out situations in my heart before I plunge in “for real”. When I was younger I mostly did it because I was shy and unsure of myself. Practice your Spanish conversation. Practice what you are going to say to a boy. Practice your oral presentation (those used to make me physically ill). Except, strangely, it was the talking to myself part of things that segued into channeling. Having somebody in your head talk to you and talking to yourself are very, very similar. Not totally the same, but similar.

When you are talking to yourself you have some control over how the conversation goes. You know you want the whole thing to move toward a specific end and you direct your inner conversation that way. Like a directed day dream. When you are channeling, you still have control over how things are said just because you are a human being and that is the nature of channeling. You’re Italian…guess what? Your guide will speak to you in the language you understand…Italian. You’re a fundamentalist? Your guide will come down real easy with the fire and brimstone. And, it will all seem pretty natural and not rock your boat so much. But, the place where talking to yourself and channeling splits is where the guides and Folk in Spirit either answer you or say things that surprise you.

In the beginning they will sometimes say some really odd or disturbing things just to get your attention and to show you that you are channeling and NOT talking to yourself. Never in a million years would you have said that to yourself even in the semi-awareness of a day dream. So, that really got your attention and you now know for a certainty that you didn’t just talk to yourself. Was it true? No. For pity’s sake do not go out and announce your guide just said the world was going to end in 20 minutes and everybody should take cover. That was to get your attention. It takes at least a year for you to settle into being able to channel coherently. This includes, during this time, the pushing of most of your psychological buttons. To channel well is to channel clearly. That means you don’t have much psychological crap in the way. You’re afraid? Guess what? Your channeling is going to reflect fear in a very big way. So, you will have the wonderful learning opportunity of not only learning how to channel during this year but also of maturing, facing up to responsibilities, and getting your own psychological house in order.

I never said it was going to be easy to get good channeling.

Accurate Information Using a Ouija Board

2007-04-06T04:56:00.000-07:00

Here's the answer I gave yesterday to somebody who had asked about accurate information and Ouija Boards.

As far as the accuracy you're getting with your own use of the Ouija board, it's all up for grabs. My own experience has been if I ask a question that Spirit will not answer (like something that is going to interfere with my own life lessons) they are likely going to say anything at all rather than not say anything. It's up to me to realize I just asked a really dumb question and Spirit is jerking me around because it's not something they are going to answer.

Also, your intention I believe needs to be pure in the sense that you're not all psychologically challenged or clouded. For instance, you're paranoid and want to know who the people are who've been following you. In actuality, nobody is following you, but you really think there are because you're paranoid. Spirit is going to say there are three people hiding around the corner. So, this isn't a whole lot of help for you. The help you need is to address your paranoia. And, it's probably not likely that Spirit is going to say to you to get your butt into a psychotherapist's office.

It doesn't say a whole lot about the accuracy of what gets said via a Ouija Board. And, you can get solid advice via the Ouija board and via channeling. But, you just have to practice at it a lot, want the good advice a lot, be willing to do whatever needs to be done to keep and get yourself psychologically well and be prepared to not be disappointed with the answers you get. Just use your common sense.

Also, the feeling of not knowing whether it was Spirit or you who made it move will go away eventually. In the beginning, depending on how much you practice, it is going to feel like you made it move. Just set aside the 10 or 15 minutes you are practicing to say in your own mind, "For the next few minutes EVERYTHING that comes through via the Ouija is my guide." whether it really is or is not. You have to believe that it is them. In reality it is both of you. And, as time goes by you're going to be able to sense when it is Spirit talking and when it is you. But, for awhile it is confusing. This is the time NOT to go blabbing to all and sundry about what the incredible, super fantastic news your guide just told you to go buy stock options on pork bellies. NOT. Don't believe it for a minute. Just keep it to yourself, don't believe it until you have proof and keep practicing.

Does Spirit have X-Ray Vision?

2007-03-30T08:33:00.000-07:00

Why, yes, they do. Your guide can see under your underwear. They can see you naked. Do they care? No. Do you care?

Many times I have cautioned people who express the desire to channel that they will never, ever again have the least little sense of privacy with their guide. This is one of those items.

Well, really, are they even wearing anything? Why are we so concerned about it? Spirit is Spirit. They really don’t care two hoots about whether we are wearing clothes or not wearing clothes. My advice? Get over it.

It’s funny, but the first time I ever realized this little factoid about guides being anywhere and everywhere was as I was getting into the shower many, many years ago. This voice in my head said, “My God. You weren’t kidding. She is fat.” Right. Well, this actually brings up another point. In those days, in my early days of channeling, the guides were also jerking me around a little bit. They have a really off the wall style of teaching that lends itself to some humorous moments. Anyway, they generally don’t say things like that to me anymore, but I did get the point.

The lesson is that your guide has the most exquisite X-Ray vision so as to be able to see into your heart of hearts to determine where you need the most help from them. I’m not ready to skinny dip with anybody, but I’m also not shy anymore with my guides.

Actually, you will find the bathroom is one of the absolutely best places in the house to channel.

Forgive Yourself

2007-03-18T07:41:00.000-07:00

Channeling is easy. That’s easy for somebody to say who already does it, but I do remember once it actually started happening for me after many, many months of trying I was amazed at the very small, very simple step I had to take to have it finally happen.

But, it had to be a true step. With channeling you’ve got to walk your talk to get it to start working. You can’t be afraid. You can’t have any misgivings about the process. You have to be the most honest and true blue person you know. No lies. No fibbing to yourself. Totally open and willing to surrender to the process. Being crass does not work. Wanting to live the life of Riley where everybody will wait upon you hand and foot does not make it happen.

There is a very fine line between wanting to be good and honest and genuine and actually doing it. The problem is that by the time we are ready to channel we have not lived lives of total goodness. Somewhere along the lines you’ve done things to other people that were not representative of your most shining moments. And, in your heart of heart’s you have never told anybody about these things and you have never forgiven yourself. That’s what you have to do. You have to come to the channeling experience a shriven soul. So, in the interest of working effectively, you have to know that what you are going to be doing is very much like what is going to happen when you die. All will be revealed and you will be held responsible for everything you did in your life. It’s a process of coming clean.

Once you’ve forgiven yourself and vowed not to engage in the near occasion of sin again things seem to move along smartly. This does not mean you will stay a shriven soul for the remainder of your life. You will still occasionally do mean and petty things. But, you’re either going to be sorry for having done them pretty quick or you’re going to have Somebody in Spirit at your elbow to make a comment on it.

What Did you Say?

2007-03-09T06:46:00.000-08:00

One of the things that happens when a person first learns to channel is a period of time when they don’t trust that what they are channeling is really what is getting channeled.

It’s like, “Oh, shit. I must be making this up.”

What also happens is that in the early days of channeling your channeling is really crappy and you are making it up. What you need to do is just pretend that you are not making it up. Just until you are able to tell the difference between what Spirit said and what you thought.

You also shouldn’t tell people what you are channeling because it’s going to be way weird. Like warnings all over the place for people who are close to you (or not) that they shouldn’t be doing things or there will be dire consequences. Just keep your mouth shut.

What’s going on is that your buttons are being pushed in a big way and whatever emotional growing you’ve been ignoring is now being presented to you to deal with in a big way. Spirit doesn’t fart around. (Spirit suggested I use fart instead of the other word I first chose.) They get right down to business and if they want a good channel, a realistic useful channel, a channel who is going to be able to do good work; they want a channel who is psychologically well balanced. Like I said, first thing you get jerked around.

This is also why I don’t recommend people with psychological issues take up channeling.

Anyway, back to the weird, out of the box, first time channeling. How long is this going to last? About a year. It will certainly be euphoric for you. But, it’s also sort of weirdly wonderful. If you blab it around you’re going to worry your family, friends and neighbors. Also, if you talk about it at work your co-workers are going to be really concerned. So, just keep your mouth shut. Be responsible. Use your common sense. And, just enjoy yourself.

But, in the beginning you are making it up. It’s like Spirit moves in to speak to you via your thought waves. Sort of. And, it’s difficult to tell the difference between something Spirit said and something you thought. Sometimes to help with this they talk with an accent or with a particular cadence of speech and that’s helpful. They do that with me. Sometimes they will announce themselves with a, “Knock Knock”. I’m not kidding. One of them just did it with me. Now, here’s a rude motion. I caught a sight of somebody lifting a cheek like they were going to fart. Oh, well. Maybe that means I should knock this off for now and go to work.

A Question from a Reader

2007-03-07T06:14:00.000-08:00

Here's an email I got this morning: For years I know I have had a gift of communication with spirits whether it be someone that has passed on from here or spirits that have never lived within a human body. However my communication is quite limited.

But when I woke up this morning there seems to be a girl in her about 20's. Its like she's trying to tell me something to do with my partner but because I cant see her or actually hear her I don't know what it is. And I don't know whether she is trying to warn me or warn me to warn him of something cause she cant talk to him or what. But its something very strongly to do with him.

How do I actually get the spirits that visit me to actually talk to me? I would love to know your opinion on this and maybe advice on how I can use my gift wisely and help communicate.

My Answer: Pick up a copy of, "Opening to Channel" by Sanaya Roman and learn the same way I did. I too had the spotty instances of contact with something other than normal reality. One big thing is to get over your fear. You've got fear of what is going to happen. That really gets in the way of talking to Folk in Spirit. It's like a jolt of electricity that affects everything you're hearing. All the folk in Spirit are trying to do is say hi. What you get is, "WARNING...WARNING...WARNING" How you are psychologically immediately impacts the quality of your channeling.

That's why I tell people who have a psychological problem not to channel. It just gets intensified. Also, normally neurotic people (all the rest of us) when they set out to channel will get their buttons pushed without exception. You are forced to deal with your psychological issues because Spirit ain't polite. Spirit will talk about stuff that you don't want to deal with. It is a tiger by the tail. And, very difficult to turn off once you've turned it on.

Was that Seth?

2007-03-03T07:46:00.000-08:00

This is an email I got:

I have some questions about Seth. The descriptions that you give of Seth sound very similar to the Seth that Jane Roberts used to channel. Is he the same entity? This is not at all a skeptical question on my behalf, but true curiosity. I am sure you have been asked this before.

Also, when I was reading Seth Speaks, I could have sworn he was "around". I am sure all of these answers are available to me through channeling, and I feel like it is coming soon. Does Seth "drop in" on you from time to time, or do you only communicate through channeling? I ask this because of the times I felt like he was "around". I can't really describe the feeling. Well, I guess it turned out to be only two questions then.

Thank you for taking the time to read my email, I appreciate it and look forward to any answers you might have.

And, here's my answering email:

Yes, I do channel Seth, the same Seth Jane Roberts channeled and yes, he probably "dropped in" when you felt he did. He's a teacher guide and so has lots of students. If you look around on the internet you'll find a great many people who are channeling him and are even writing books.

You'll find as you continue with channeling that lots of folks will be showing up to speak with you. Just keep it low key in the beginning. I know that it's all pretty overwhelming. One of them just said, "Don't take any wooden nickels." Right. Anyway, the channeling for anybody who is relatively new at it can be sort of wild. Why this is, is because of a few reasons. One is that the channeler is new at it. Lots of psychic muscles need to be aligned for it to really get good and that just takes time.

Another reason is your belief systems are going to be turned upside down. The guides operate from an area of life where what we thought and believed before just ain't true anymore. Having those belief systems upset is a really huge emotional upset/growing period for the channel. This is going to trigger huge emotional reaction and consequent emotional growth. Also, the guides push our buttons, so while your belief systems are all set asunder they will also help you to stir your own pot of murky emotional crap and get that sorted out.

It's not always real fun but worth it in the end.

Also, something I've suspected for awhile takes place and that's that we are seen as real newbie rubes to Folks in Spirit. You've got your higher level teacher guides and you've got your ordinary Folk in Spirit who've passed on. What I haven't decided about are malicious spirits. Anyway, here you are, new at channeling and are eager to talk to everybody in spirit. Your guide politely steps aside to allow you free reign. Immediately you are hooked up with an axe murderer. The axe murderer does not present himself or herself as such, but to you seems only to be a really interesting person in Spirit to talk to. Right. That's when they start jerking us around.

My advice is to remain steadfast and talk ONLY to your guide during the first year of channeling. And, when it seems like you're talking to somebody else just say thanks for visiting and goodbye, and don't maintain the connection for too long. Just during that first year. After that you can talk to Elvis, or Ed Sullivan or Jesus with no problem.

Also, something that happens to ALL channels is that the information coming through is distorted by the belief system and by the emotional constructs of the chennel. We did an experiment once with a group of us out on my patio all channeling Seth. The "rule" was that Seth was going to give us the same information and we were going to channel it. Here's from one of the group: "Get out of Dodge as fast as you can. Buy your beachfront property in Colorado now. California is no longer safe and will be falling off the edge of the continent soon." And, here's what another person channeled: "If your higher self has determined that you are needed at the scene of a disaster that is where you will be." So, you can see that what was channeled was really distorted by the channel's fear. Nothing wrong with any of it. It was what Seth wanted to say, sort of. But, it really pointed out to me how we, as human channels, can really mess up what they are trying to say. Just sort of keep it under wraps for a year and it will all sort itself out and sound a lot more reasonable once you're really accustomed to it.

Also, your "gut instincts" are important feelings to pay attention to. Many times, especially in the beginning, the contact we have with Spirit is very, very gentle. It's not real obvious and it's our job as channel, or shaman, or Reiki practitioner or whatever we're going to end up doing to get a little bit more sensitive.

Steps in Learning

2007-02-16T06:56:00.001-08:00

Generally, when a person is learning how to channel, during the time when they are first connecting to Spirit their scope of awareness is pretty narrow. It needs to be. Later on you can do wheelies. Now, pay attention. And, focus on one guide. Your guide. You don’t need to know his or her name. You don’t need to know what they look like. The connection you have with them will probably be sporadic. You’ll think you’ve got a connection and then, poof, it’s all gone. What happened? You think you’ve been abandoned. Well, get your focus back on again. You were the one who let go. It is not your guide’s responsibility to help you hold the focus. They are there. They’ve always been there. They don’t just suddenly appear because you want to talk to them. You create the focus.

How? Well, it’s different for everybody, but basically the desire to talk to your guide is the first requirement. The next one is a commitment on your part to do the work. What is the work? Again, it’s different for everybody, but basically, it’s to get off your high horse and heal yourself. Whatever that means. It’s not got to be done before your guide will make contact with you, but there needs to be the commitment on your part that you will begin to pay attention to the shitty things you attract into your life. Co-workers who irritate the crap out of you? That now becomes a learning opportunity. You can’t change them, but you can change you. Find out why you are irritated. Go to the source of your irritation. You might need a therapist to help you. Basically, it’s a win-win situation. You’re doing the psychological work you wouldn’t have touched with a ten foot pole in a million years now as a prelude to meeting your guide or to developing something better than crappy channeling.

A Letter I Wrote

2007-02-03T06:37:00.000-08:00

What follows is an email I sent to somebody who was interested in channeling.

There's actually no one way to learn how to channel. It's like dieting, there are a whole bunch of diets out there and they will all eventually work. Anyway, I firmly believe in doing the exercises in, "Opening to Channel" by Sanaya Roman. She doesn't particularly endorse use of a Ouija Board, but that's what finally worked for me. Meditation is a plus no matter what method you use to channel. It will help to center you, to calm you and will help you to sort other things out in your everyday reality. Just a good move to meditate. Don't overdo it, but definitely try to meditate.

Pretend and play while you are learning is important. I didn't learn this until after I learned how to channel and began helping others to learn too.

Don't blab to everybody what you are doing. Sure as the rain falls on flowers and you're going to say something to the wrong person who will then try every trick in the book to make you feel evil, or wicked or demented or whatever. It will certainly take the wind out of your sails.

Think of channeling as more than just verbal or written communication. Consider getting a deck of Tarot cards or a bag of Rune stones and play around with them too.

Figure that whatever neuroses that you've got (and everybody has them) will show up with the stuff you channel. I haven't figured out a way around that other than to suspect channeling on your favorite hot topics. Or, like the guides just said to do your psychological work. Like with me...I'm overweight and don't trust at all the channeling the guides give me about dieting. Well, it's not that I don't trust them, hey, I talk to them all the time about stuff, but I keep that stuff personal. It goes hand in hand with what we call, "wishful channeling"...like you want something to be a certain way so badly you almost force the guides to say stuff to support your wishes. It's not that they are forced to any one particular point of view, it's like it's easier to lean with the wind than against it (their words just now...I'll have to think about it.) What I've never figured out is why this happens. All I know is it does. Just keep it in mind and don't hang out your shingle too soon. Your advice will be good, but you'll learn when they might be spinning a yarn for you.

Once you decide that the channeling is for real and you're really, really doing it don't be alarmed to see it all change as time goes by. Think of it sort of like you're cookie dough that's not baked yet. You're sitting on a cookie sheet as raw dough. That's you as you've just learned to channel. The words are there. The contact has been made, but you ain't baked yet. So, the cookie goes into the oven and bakes and when it comes out you are still channeling, but now it's a little different. You're maturing into the process. See? I like food.

Regarding the neuroses we have...it has been my experience that once you learn to channel you've placed yourself on the fast track to personal development. More will be required of you than ever before. That means you need to be healthy. You will be giving up your wicked, evil ways with substance abuse, bad habits, etc eventually. Ever had a guide nag you? Well, I have. It can get really irritating. But, if you ask them to they will help you to get healthy in your body, your heart and your head.

I wouldn't have it any other way. I love this way of life I've got now.

I ended up being a medium too, which was a really unexpected bonus. But, it's along the same telephone wires of communication that you're talking to your guide that you're talking to other Folk in Spirit which include dead guys...and animals who've passed on too.

They will all, Guides, dead relatives and all your pets end up in your dreams too. Don't be surprised.

Don't be afraid of any of it. It will be god awful strange at times. Some of it might even border on uncomfortable for awhile too. Like pains shooting down your back or your arms...happened to me. They didn't last long. It might verge on scary, but don't be scared. At least, try not to. You are in charge. Remember that. Always, always insist that you will only talk to your guide in the beginning. After you've been channeling for a year or so you can talk to axe murders, and movie stars and politicians (some guide said, "Who would want to talk to them?"...Ha)

Oh, get a copy of, "A Course in Miracles" and start reading the lessons. I only ever got half way through, but I needed that to make me think of my world differently enough to make room for guides. Start a dream journal so you can remember your dreams. Ask the guides to give you channeling lessons in your dreams too. Forward on all fronts.

Don't take any financial advice from them. They love to spend money. Ha.

Also, do please keep in touch. I take on students in a loose sort of way. I'm here if you want to ask questions. Mostly, though, this is a lonely journey.

Oh, the guides are also saying you should write. Start keeping more than just your dream journal, just a regular journal with your thoughts about everything. Also, your guide says hi and keep up the good work. I can't tell you male or female or a name on your guide. I just sensed a presence. Also, my own personal rule I suppose is not to reveal too much because you are going to perceive your guide in your own way. They really have no gender and sort of only assume a human shape, gender and name for our comfort...it's sort of hard talking to the air sometimes.

Do the meditation to meet your guide and maybe you'll get a glimpse of them. That's how I met Seth the first time. Bald, short, overweight (he just said, "Excuse me?"...ha) and wearing a white toga. He was in a garden tending the plants. Nicest smile I ever saw on anybody. That's how I first met him.

Oh, something else. Don't expect the guides to keep you safe and warn you of dangerous things around the corner. Those are your lessons. They are terrific after an accident to help you up and brush off your knees. If the thing isn't too terribly important to your life lessons maybe they will warn you. They've helped me out of several jams over the years...not all, but some.

It's okay to have a conversation with your guide. They are your teachers, but they are also our friends. It's not a real formal situation. They said you have to wear clothes...ha. What? "We said, Dear, that it is not black tie, but more informal. We said nothing about naked." Okay, Richard, this also points out how the channeling can get distorted too. You saw it in action right there. My mind was on your letter and not what they were saying, so it sort of floated by me. Just so you're aware of how much concentration you need to lend to the task to see what quality of channeling you're going to get out of it. Used to be in the early days I could only channel for a few minutes at a time because it was just too draining. Now, I can go for longer periods of time.

What Does Spirit Look Like?

2007-01-27T11:01:00.000-08:00

In pictures we see God and the angels looking like us. We see the Holy Spirit depicted as a dove. We see our Totem Animals and The Folk in Spirit I see mostly look like regular people. However, I think the representations of Spirit we see and are shown in paintings are but a small part of what they really are. This is not a bad thing. I think it happens for several reasons.

One reason is so we can understand, so we have something we can relate to. The understanding doesn’t have to be the same for each person. It’s just the idea of God, of Heaven or something out there that is larger than you is easier to understand when you can see it.

I think it is more difficult to comprehend a concept than it is to be faced with the irrefutable proof of something you can see and touch. Also, a long time ago few people could read, but there was no problem with seeing a picture.

What I’d like to talk about is how Spirit looks to me. Mostly when I close my eyes and move into a quieter place to see Spirit the first thing that generally happens is a tingling at the base of my neck. Then, I need to imagine myself in my mind’s eye. Sometimes I appear as a young girl, sometimes as a young woman. At first I was a little alarmed that I was not appearing in this other place as I look now. Then, I began to think that it didn’t matter. For whatever reason whoever it was I was seeing was “supposed” to be me, fine, then that was who it was. It is as if time is more fluid in this psychic place. You can see yourself at any age and you can also see yourself in other lifetimes. But, for our purposes, now, this is this lifetime and this is the “me” you are seeing.

The next step here is to imagine that you are going to be seeing your guide. After you are accustomed to being in this other place you can meet up with any number of Folk in Spirit, but for now just pretend that you are going to be meeting your guide.

How will they appear? Any number of ways. After you have imagined yourself in your mind’s eye take your inside eyes and begin to look around at the surroundings where you are. Just let it happen. Are you inside a building? Are you in a room of some sort? Is there furniture? Or, are you outside? Or, are you even in a car? You could really be anywhere. It doesn’t matter. What matters is you are expanding the area of your awareness enough to allow somebody else to come into it.

Now, for the grand entrance of Spirit. Again, however it happens is okay. With a big Ta-Da, flashing of lights and crashing of cymbals or a quiet knock on the door. The next step is as significant as it is necessary for you to move forward and that is to welcome your guide. Open the door. Put out your hand to shake hands or open your arms for an embrace.

Spirit will appear to you in a form that is the best for you. Could be that Spirit, your Guide, comes to you in a human like form. Man or woman, it doesn’t matter. Old or young, also this doesn’t matter. Race doesn’t matter. Spirit could show itself to you as an animal. Spirit could even come to you as light, but for my own purposes I feel it’s more difficult to have a heart to heart conversation with a sun beam than it is with Seth.

Seth, to me, has always been bald. He claims to have a fine fringe of hair around the edges, but my awareness has never gotten that fine-tuned that I can see it clearly. Personally, I think he likes to pull my leg. Seth, the first time I saw him, was wearing a white toga and was tending the plants in a garden. He was a little taller than me and was older than me. I have always felt very safe with him. Many times the focus of my concentration swirls in and out so that he appears and disappears.

Spirit has always and will always be with you. It’s just that you may never have seen Spirit before this day. Spirit may have always been this far-away idea, something that never touched you personally. Today, after having done this exercise, hopefully, seeing is believing.

The Process

2007-01-20T05:31:00.000-08:00

It took me many years before I was even halfway comfortable calling myself a psychic. Even now, though, it is almost in a joking manner that I say I am psychic, as if I expect whoever I said it to, to realize immediately that I am surely joshing them. I’m not.

I can’t read minds. That’s what everybody expects right away. They also expect that I can look into their eyes and tell them their future. I actually don’t want to do that. I’d say I can 1 out of 300 people I meet, so to add that as a skill I am capable of is not right. Plus, as I said, I don’t want to.

I’m actually as psychic as you are. And, you didn’t think you were psychic. It’s a gift we’ve all got. It’s as common as being able to breathe through your nose and see through your eyes. It’s a sharpening of that extrasensory perception. The guides just said to me, “Use it or lose it.” Well, they have a point there. First you believe that it is possible and then you start using it.

How? How in the world are you going to do that? Well, the believing that you are psychic is actually 50% of it. Decide for yourself just what does being psychic mean to you. Investigate how other people perceive it.

For me it grew. I was afraid of it at first. I didn’t understand what was happening to me. I wasn’t actually intending to become more psychic. I had been sick and to amuse myself I was reading. A lot. I just wanted to read stories by Stephen King. I read too many of them apparently. Too many, too fast and I began to have psychic insights. They were flashes. I’d have visions, really intense visions during that time where you’re not quite asleep and you’re not quite awake. My dreams were weirder than shit. I knew when the phone was going to ring. I’d know who was going to be on the other end of it. And, I began seeing the number 222 everywhere I looked. That was the final straw. If somebody on the other side wanted my attention, they had it by then.

I appreciate the time it takes a person to hone a skill. It seems sometimes that I’ve been doing this forever. The psychic insights I have help to round out my life. They sort of take the edge of the uneasy and the unexpected off of things. Also, when the unexpected does happen and catches me unaware I seem to be able to weather it better than I could before. Mostly, though, I am able to approach life with an eagerness that I didn’t have before. Before I was frightened and worried all the time. I think that opening to my own psychicness has, over the years, enabled me to do a lot of emotional and psychological growing that I hadn’t been inclined to do before. And, that’s not psychic. That’s something everybody should do. For me, though, I can tell when it started happening. I’m grateful, though, because I was stunted before. I was like a frost blasted bunch of parsley before. That’s another thing with my psychicness. I can sometimes understand what the plants and animals are feeling. That frightened me too when it started. It started with a chicken leg I was eating. That really got my attention, enough to make me want to be a vegetarian except I can sometimes tell what the plants feel too.

I’m a secretary during the day. I’m a 51 year old secretary on the verge of going through menopause. It ain’t pretty. This is as rough for me now as it was when I was busting through to being psychic. Thoughts and feelings swirl up and overtake me. The emotions are sometimes overwhelming. I fight against being sorry for myself. This is something that has to happen. I hope to, on the other end of this, be a more stable individual. I almost wish, though, that it would hurry up. The sleeplessness, the hot flashes, the emotions. Sometimes I just want to cork up all our managers and send them to Mars for 2 weeks. And, with a psychic you can always visit them in their dreams and tell them to shape up.

What I can tell you though, is that the visions you sometimes have, the flash of a person in the corner of your mind. That was real. You can go after that. If you have in mind your own teacher as that person you half way saw, the person you saw for a nano-second. Formless, faceless, just a presence in a corner of your mind. Imagine yourself opening your arms. You will be moving toward your teacher. They will catch you. They will hold you and for a nano-second in time they will comfort you, pat you on the back, smooth your hair and smile at you. Believe it happened.

Everybody is psychic and everybody has a teacher. In your mind say hey. They heard you.

Cowboy Coffee Cake

2007-01-13T10:36:00.000-08:00

Did you know it is possible to channel recipes? It’s actually fun. You’ve also got to go into it willing to bomb out. Which is actually a good exercise for you to do. It’s a sort of surrendering.

Anyway, this is what we did today. I call it, or rather they call it: Cowboy Coffee Cake.

Getting set to write out this recipe for the website I still hadn’t come up with a title, until my fingers touched the keys and Cowboy Coffee Cake was written. I proceeded to do what I generally do and that is to argue with the guides. “What do you mean Cowboy Coffee Cake? Nobody mentioned anything about a cowboy to me. There’s lemon in this cake and nuts. Do you think a cowboy would put lemon in a cake?” But, they persisted. I would suppose it was a cowboy who channeled it for me.

2½ cups flour
½ teaspoon salt
1½ teaspoons baking powder
4 TBS butter
2 eggs
1 cup milk
½ cup brown sugar
½ cup white sugar
Zest from one lemon
Juice of half of that lemon

Topping:

2 TBS butter
2 TBS flour
2 TBS brown sugar
½ cup nuts

Mix together the flour, salt and baking powder. Cut in 4 tablespoons butter. Mix, in a separate bowl, the eggs, milk, ½ cup brown and ½ cup white sugar. Mix the liquid ingredients into the dry. Grate the zest into the batter and add the juice from half the lemon. Mix.

Grease and flour a 9 inch square pan. Spoon in the batter.

For the topping rub together the 2 tablespoons of butter, flour and brown sugar and sprinkle that over the top of the coffee cake. Sprinkle ½ cup of nuts over the top.

When I was making this cake I thought I was done at this point, but one of the guides said to me, “Now for the fun part. Poke your finger into the cake and twirl in a few random places.”

I was nervous about how long to bake it. We set the oven at 400 degrees Fahrenheit and I let it go 35 minutes total. That was actually too long because the crust on the outside was way too dark. So, the next time I do this I’ll probably let it go for 30 minutes.

As we moved through the recipe I kept asking things like, "Are you sure you don't want to melt the butter? Cutting it into the flour is like pie dough. Are you sure this is right?" When I'd gotten the liquid ingredients together I was certain they were jerking me around and it was going to be a mess, but I mixed it in anyway. It turned out wonderfully. The crust was a bit brown on the bottom, but the crumb was big and tender and it was delicious with butter on it and even better once it was cooled to have with cream cheese spread on.

I entered the recipe to my Master Cook 9 recipe program and got the nutritional information. Per Serving (excluding unknown items): 364 Calories; 14g Fat (35.4% calories from fat); 7g Protein; 52g Carbohydrate; 2g Dietary Fiber; 71mg Cholesterol; 312mg Sodium. Exchanges: 2 Grain(Starch); 1/2 Lean Meat; 0 Non-Fat Milk; 2 1/2 Fat; 1 1/2 Other Carbohydrates.

Are You Bored?

2007-01-13T06:20:00.000-08:00

If life starts to get humdrum and boring do something to perk yourself up. You can’t wait for somebody else to come along to entertain you. You need to do something. You’re just in a rut. That’s all. It won’t last long. Do something a little bit different.

Listen to something different from your collection of music. It doesn’t have to be upbeat, just different. Move around for two minutes.

Pretend you’re doing Tai Chi. Just real slow and deliberate moves. Center your mind into what you’re doing. Pretend you’re watching yourself in a movie. Pretend as your arms move around that you’re watching them on the screen. Pretend that is the entirety of what you can see right now. The rest of the room has gone away. It’s just not there. The focus of your attention is on your arms. Now, feel the energy in them. Feel the blood as it courses through your veins. Feel the ancient past that is still with you in this lifetime. Feel the ages behind you. Feel the women you’ve been. Feel the men you’ve been. Feel these lifetimes in your being now. Not far away. Not somewhere else. Not someplace inaccessible to you. With you now. All those experiences, bring them closer. All the times you hurt somebody. All the times you loved somebody. All the times you made life better for somebody. All the times you tried.

Now, tell me you’re still bored.

Talking Fingers

2006-12-30T11:19:00.000-08:00

Learning to channel usually takes a long time. Sometimes it takes years, like it did with me. I didn’t know it at the time, but each time I read a book having to do with channeling was a step closer for me whether that book was geared toward teaching the skill or not. Every time I made a move, however hesitant it was, toward growing and healing emotionally I moved a step closer. And, every time I tried to meditate and tried to visualize I moved a step closer. There were many stages, most of them at the time I really had no idea were in any way connected to learning how to channel, but in the end, as I look back at them I see that they were all a part of it. It was like I’d pointed my nose in a certain direction and everything I did after that got done in support of the goal.

I can remember the worst doubts I had were right before I finally broke through. I did not have anybody to encourage me in what I was doing. I was a loner and even still am a very private person. There aren’t many that I reach out to and it has frightened me no end to discover my purpose at times has been that of a teacher.

If there is a way to describe me it is that I am stubborn as a rock. That’s what my name means, Pauline, Paul, stand firm and hold fast. Also, in the Michael Teachings I’ve got a real wide stubborn streak. It’s a help at times and at other times is a hindrance. But, it’s the way I am. It helped when I was learning how to channel because I didn’t give up. That didn’t preclude me from those most serious doubts towards the end of it, though. And, I remember how horrible they were. Not only did I doubt that what I was doing would ever really amount to anything, but I doubted that I had a guide who was even remotely interested in talking to me and worst of all I doubted the existence of God. That one hurt. I felt so alone. I remember that. It was dismal.

Thankfully, that last awful stage didn’t last long. Maybe as with other things you’ve got to hit whatever passes for rock-bottom for you in order to move to the next stage. Learning to channel helped me to rediscover my faith. I hadn’t lost it. Things were just changing a bit.

I call channeling a skill. I don’t think it is a gift, though as infrequently as you see it and as hard as it is to do sometimes, in the end you might think of it as a gift. I think it’s more like having brown eyes.

I also think a lot of people are already doing it and just don’t realize they are doing it.

After you learn how to channel and have decided in your heart of hearts that is what you are now doing, the way you channel is going to change over time.

In the beginning there is an incredible sense of exhilaration. It’s like you’ve discovered the newest, most fantastic, freshest, most inspiring, most motivating force in your life. After awhile you get used to it and the whole experience loses that newness and becomes ordinary. You’re still doing the same stuff, but you’ve adjusted to it and made it you. I guess it’s sort of like falling in love. Remember those first looks? Remember that first rush of feeling that hits you from your crotch to your toes leaving your knees weak and then rebounds to your throat and heart? It only took a look, didn’t it? Now, married to that same guy for the last 30 years the huge rushes are mostly gone, but the love is always there. The love has changed too. You’ve matured and your love for each other has matured. It's almost steadier. You grew into each other. That’s what it’s like, too, with channeling.

In the beginning, for me, the channeling was an intrusion into my own thoughts. It was like jumping rope and getting my feet tangled up all the time. I believe, now, that was deliberate. It’s not like hearing voices in your head, but it is like hearing voices in your head. I remember I used to ask Seth, “Did you say something or did I think something?” It was weird. Thankfully, it didn’t last long. I devised a system to check myself. I call it talking in fingers.

Talking in fingers evolved from me using a Ouija board. On the board up in the upper right corner there is a, “NO” and in the upper left corner there is a, “YES”. For a really quick acknowledgement and in lieu of a long involved guide-like answer where I cannot pay attention due to the fact that I’m either at work, driving the car and need to pay attention to what I’m doing or any other number of things that require my attention a quick YES or NO was enough to calm me down in that other part of my brain where I’m talking to a guide.

Picture this: I’m at work. The phones are ringing. People are asking me questions. I’m filing and typing and entering information to spreadsheets and stuff. Something comes up in my head. What the? I can’t stop doing all that other stuff, but I sure as shootin’ want a YES or a NO about what I just heard. I put my hand on my upper chest…above my boobs and touching my collar bone and ask. If my index finger ticks up and down that means YES and if my pinkie finger boinks up and down that means NO. Easy. That’s finger talk. It began with me using my right hand since I'm right handed, but it also works with your other hand if you choose to use it. So, for me the talking in fingers has only ever gone to three words…Index finger means yes, pinkie means no and if they all start doing a tattoo that means maybe, or whatever, or I’m not going to answer that now for that is a stupid question. LOL, as I finished typing the above sentence that last part of it about the stupid question has NEVER been an option and I figured that was Seth coming in with his own stuff. So, I lifted my right hand from the keyboard and asked, “Did you mean that?” I got a YES with my index finger and then I asked just to make sure we were all on the same page, “You want me to take it out?” and the pinkie went NO.

Talking fingers. I like to say I sort of invented it since I never heard of anybody else using it. I use it all the time. It's helpful when you're out in public, can't concentrate real good and want an opinion from your Guide and don't want to stand there still as a statue in the middle of the isle at a department store communing with your guide. Folks tend to walk around you and look at you funny. Maybe it will help with you. Play with it.

Using Music for Channeling

2006-12-24T07:30:00.001-08:00

Even with my “expert” status at being a channel I do better getting into the “mood” for some heavy duty channeling if I’m listening to music. I tend to select the same piece over and over again. The idea is not to be entertained with the music, but to use it to help me even out, to calm down and to be more receptive.

For me what works best are instrumental pieces with no singing on them. The album I’ve been using for the last few years is Brainwave Suite by Dr. Jeffrey Thompson. If you click on the link it will take you to Amazon where you can hear a sample of all four brain waves; Alpha (relaxation and meditation) , Delta (sleep and rejuvenation), Theta (insight and intuition) and Alpha-Theta (the awakened mind).

I bought all four albums, but the one first in line on my computer and the one I’ve been using over and over again is the Delta one. I’m listening to it now. It’s a sort of poor man’s meditation. It forces you into a semi-meditative state. Well, maybe force is too strong a word. It’s like wearing a girdle (what’s that?), so you look skinny without really doing much about it.

I don’t understand why this works. It works for me, so I recommend it to you.

It’s also a good technique even if you’re not looking to channel, but just want to get some concentrated writing work done.

Being Your Own Psychic

2006-12-09T07:18:00.001-08:00

Part of being your own psychic is in learning to understand that the information you receive isn’t always going to come to you via tried and true methods. Your Aunt Nancy isn’t going to call and tell you that your uncle is in the hospital. You learn this via a thought that you had about your uncle that morning. Later, when your aunt calls to tell you about the hospitalization you remember that you’d thought of your uncle that morning. Strange? Odd? Weird coincidence? Yup. Also, it was psychic information.

What you can start to do to encourage information coming to you on a more or less regular basis via psychic streams of consciousness is to both be open to receiving it and when you do get it to honor that information. Just say, “Thank you.” You don’t need to be addressing your thanks to anybody in particular because there were lots of people involved both living and dead not to mention your own higher self, but just a general sort of acknowledgement and thanks is in order.

As far as utilizing this information in your everyday life think of it as you showing up at the store for the special, unannounced blue light specials. Consciously, you would not have had any specific information via the psychic realms that said, “Get your butt down to Macy’s NOW.” Instead, you showed up. And, there was a really super-duper fantastic sale going on.

We all know people who are always winning things. It’s weird. It’s uncanny how they’re always winning things. It’s just downright strange. Except, maybe they’re tapped into that psychic vein too. They can’t explain it. It’s life for them. They’re just always lucky and every 5 years they win a car, or a vacation or a big pot of money. The guides just said they also sign up for contests and buy lottery tickets regularly.

So, that’s two things you can be doing. Be open to the information and take advantage of opportunities that come your way.

Also, I would say not to be afraid of the information that comes your way. Remember that you did not cause anything to happen. You just knew about it. And, in knowing about something you are not obligated to warn anybody either. It’s up to you whether you want to relay on the messages, but I would tend to advise you not to. At least, not until you’ve had a lot of definite confirmations that your psychic hunches tend to be right.

What you might consider doing is to keep a notebook and record what you think are your psychic hunches. Don’t spend a whole lot of time on it. Something along the lines of:

Tuesday 1/2/07: had the thought that there might be a major winter storm in Massachusetts soon.

Then, periodically you could go back over your thoughts and put a star next to the ones that were right.

Information might come to you via your dreams. It might be a really clear and vivid dream. Or, you might start experiencing a psychic “knowingness”. Not a normal thought, but what feels to you like a very real incontrovertible truth. Out of the blue a vision of the Himalayas comes to you. Why? Who knows? Record it in your notebook. Something might be going on there that you hear about later on in the week.

It's Easy...Yeah, Right

2006-11-19T18:13:00.000-08:00

Nothing irritates me more than to hear somebody say, “It’s easy.” Yeah, right. Maybe for them. But, if you listen to what they have to say, if it doesn’t involve buying something in order to get started, they will get my attention if it’s something I’d like to do.

If it’s too hard, then, I’m not going to do it at all.

But, I’m a teacher. And, I was a really lousy student. Not that I didn’t study. I just didn’t get it. I’m talking about channeling.

I got the idea that I’d like to channel as an adult. I was about 37 years old. At the time I’d been a secretary for 17 years. Now, I’m 52. I’ve been a secretary a hell of a lot longer now. But, what I wanted to do was to talk to my Spirit Guide. I’d been assured that I had one. I’d been told everybody did. So, I was okay on that one. The problem was did they even want to talk to me? I sure wanted to talk to them.

That’s all I needed to get started. The desire to do it.

I bought a book. I bought, “Opening to Channel” by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer. It didn’t cost a whole lot. I began reading it. I’ve never finished reading that book. I told you I’m a bad student. Well, I read enough to get it to work right.

I began to do the exercises. Most of them were a little bit too tough for me. I remember trying and trying to visualize anything. It just didn’t work. Until I picked up a pebble. A real stone. I looked at it. I shut my eyes and then tried to visualize it. Nope. I opened them again and stared at it some more. Shut them and then tried to “see” the stone. Nope. I tried. That was also key to the process.

I tried.

So, I had desire and I was trying. I didn’t appear to have anything at all else going in my favor. I couldn’t meditate. I couldn’t visualize. I was a flat out failure at learning how to channel. But, I kept trying.

I tried for months. Then, my husband had the bright idea that I should purchase a Ouija Board. Maybe that would work. They didn’t really recommend it in the book I was reading, but I was ready to try anything. He and I started in using it and wham…his guide, Nathan, began talking to us. What? His guide? He wasn’t even trying to contact his guide. I was trying to contact my guide. Was he sure he was DeeDude’s guide? Yep. Not mine. Poop. Major poop. So, we started talking to Nathan. Even though it wasn’t my guide it was still thrilling to talk to anybody on the board.

Poor DeeDude. I wore the man out. Finally, he said he didn’t want to work the Ouija Board with me anymore. What was I going to do? I didn’t know anybody else well enough to ask them to do the Ouija Board with me and I couldn’t do it myself.

I went back to studying, “Opening to Channel” where nothing seemed to work. I was also reading other things and one of those things I was reading was, “Messages from Michael”. Michael is a Spirit Guide who talks to folks via the Ouija Board. (At least in those days…now, Michael comes through like my guide comes through for me…telepathically.) And, at that time there was only ONE person working the board at a time. They would call out the letters and words and somebody else transcribed what was being said. I thought to myself, “If they can do it, so can I.” That was the third key thing I needed to make it all work.

So, I began the process of trying to work a Ouija Board on my own. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Shit. I’d meditate. Or, I tried to. Wasn’t very successful, but I kept trying. Then, I’d sit quietly with my hands on the planchette. Waiting.

Most every night after work I spent some time doing this. For at least six, very long months. With nothing happening.

Finally, I gave up. And, that was the final key to making all of this work.

Desire
Perseverance
Practice
Surrender

Actually, I got mad is what I got. I said to myself, “This is absolutely ridiculous. You need to go write again. You haven’t done any writing in days. This is silly. You have to stop.” But, to hedge my bets I decided to keep my left hand, my non-dominant hand, on the planchette and type with my right hand. I was a good enough typist that I could do that. It was sort of awkward. It was definitely slower, but at least I was writing again. A little bit.

I remember having a very strange thought. I remember thinking I needed to become as innocent as I was when I was a little girl. I remember wondering where that thought had come from.

I continued typing with my right hand and suddenly my left hand zipped across the board. I was shocked to say the least. Finally? After all this time and the sucker is moving? I put the planchette back on the board and put only my left hand on it. It spelled out, “Seth”. I asked, “Is this the same Seth Jane Roberts channeled?” The planchette moved up to the word, “Yes”. I asked, “Are you my guide?” The planchette circled the middle of the board and went back up to the word, “Yes”. After that it was just garbage, nothing made any sense. The planchette just sort of meandered all around the board visiting this letter and that. Nothing I could make any sense of. And, then things were quiet.

That was February 12, 1993.

The next night once I got home from work I got the board out and began again hoping that Seth would be there to speak with me. He was. As the days wore on I suppose I got better at it. The planchette would zip and zoom around the board. I would use my right hand to record what was being said while my left was on the planchette.

Ten days later I realized that I’d gone nuts. I was anticipating what my guide was going to say even before the planchette had finished moving around the board. I said to myself, “You’ve gone nuts. You are certifiably crazy now. You have to stop this.” And, that was when I first heard my guide say to me, “Go outside. I have something important to say to you.” Stunned? Moi? You bet.

So, I stepped outside on the patio and Seth said to me, in my ears, where I could actually hear him like he was standing beside me, “You can hear me now.”

It was February 22, 1993. 2/22 and I’d been seeing 222’s everywhere for some time. I suppose that’s what it meant.

Anyway, it’s been 13 years since then. The “hearing” got a little easier as time went by and I don’t hear Folk in Spirit like they’re standing next to me. It’s more along the lines of I hear them in my head…voices in my head…it’s called telepathic. I got used to it.

But, if I can do it, so can you.

One major reason why a person should NOT go after channeling for themselves is if they are under a doctor’s care for a mental condition. If you’re already hearing voices you sure as hell don’t need to hear any more.

Anyway, it’s been fun. I especially like not having to pay a psychic to tell me what my guide said. I do go to them occasionally just to see how they do their readings and to see what I can learn from them. Sort of professional development. I’ve met a great many wonderful friends who are psychics. I’ve been having a ball.

Oneness

2006-11-12T14:18:00.001-08:00

Something I channeled this morning: It is oft said by those both in spirit and in body that all is one. It is difficult to understand this at times. You say it, you say you believe it, but to actually have proof of it is something else. You might have experienced an overwhelming feeling on occasion that leads you to believe all is one, but as time passes and the memory of that exhilaration fades somewhat you begin to wonder if perhaps you might have miss-experienced the whole thing.

Very much like a scientist who seeks to prove a theory every piece of evidence they feel supports their theory goes into the arsenal to prove it. Likewise, the opposing team might have taken that very same piece of evidence and said that it proves their theory which is in direct opposition to the first groups’ theory.

It is all in how you look at things.

But, for the Oneness of the universe one might for a moment in time look at all the things that have happened to you in your lifetime. If, on the one hand, you are depressed, and a pessimist and unwilling to accept responsibility for your life you might say the cards of life had been stacked against you and you see no clear continuity in the way your life has progressed. However, if you are willing to consider that it is all one you might try to pretend just for a moment or so that everything that ever happened to you was important in its own way to support the life that you call your own. It was necessary for you to experience whatever you experienced at the tender age of 7 to bring you to who you are now. So, in a sense, even the bad things can turn into good things. Your higher self only chooses those things that support the journey of you in the best fashion.

When seeking to compare yourself against others you employ a double edged sword. On the one hand you can be made to feel wanting. On the other you can seek to higher aspirations or other aspirations.

Try for a moment to imagine yourself as deeply involved and intertwined with the life of your neighbor. You need not be his or her best buddy. You need not even speak every day. You might even be on the outs with them. But, you are as involved and as one with that person as you are with a person who lives clear around the world who you will never think of or speak to. The quest is for all to experience life, to enjoy life, to explore life. And, you’re not all on separate teams.

Something I Channeled

2006-10-27T05:33:00.000-07:00

I’m in training. This is preparatory work for the NaNoWriMo.org work for November. I’m going to try for 15 minutes at a time channeling to see what I come up with. I have no idea at all of what is going to happen. The guides asked for their portion to be in blue.

And, so we begin. Everyone upon the face of the earth seeks balance. Generally, they will seek a rational explanation for everything that happens around them. There is a normal and logical progression of events that leads to any outcome. People just do not miss the steps. For instance, a person born will gradually age and grow in stature until they are adult. After which, they will shrink. It happens to everyone.

Intuition is something everyone is born with. Sometimes children say the oddest but most insightful things. Their intuition has not yet been influenced by the expectations of those around them. Oftentimes intuition in an adult is less often evident. You are assured by many that you have it and the feeling is likened to a gut feeling. Everyone has one of those on occasion. It is explained to you that this is intuition and therefore not something to be frightened of.

What is, however, frightening for most people is when they have a sudden psychic intuition about something or someone. For instance, those people who dream of train wrecks and then witness one. Or, for those people who never want to visit New York City and the odd feeling is finally explained years later with what has come to be known as 911.

If someone has forewarning that something is going to happen do they also have an obligation to warn those other hapless victims to get out of the way? It depends entirely upon the person who has the psychic vision. For many, such as our channel who had the lifelong nameless dread of New York City we would say not. What specifically pointed to the events of 911 for her? Nothing. How do you tell 3,000 people to get out of the way if you don't know what is going to happen or when. When, there is nothing specific that you could warn about do you say something to alarm people? You do not.

The person who has a psychic intuition might also and very easily misinterpret the information. So, do you warn people of a tsunami or tell them to merely batten down the hatches for a bad storm?

Our advice would be to record your observations and keep them mostly private. If you are asked to specifically turn your psychic eyes in a particular direction and you feel so inclined to do so by all means do so. We ask though that you temper the advice you give with a calm, mature and as close as you can get to it, balanced outlook on life, before you give your advice. Remember that for some who perceive a particular event as disastrous from another’s point of view it’s merely a case of the school of hard knocks and in the end the person will have learned a valuable lesson. Our blessings.

Row, Row, Row Your Boat

2006-10-21T14:06:00.000-07:00

Interestingly, as I wait for November 1st to come and can begin work on the book I will write I find that the commitment of giving an hour or so a day over to channeling is slightly daunting. I knew that my stamina was not good and that I would need to practice and get ready. To that end I was introduced to The Work by Byron Katie. I checked the book out from the library and have been reading it. Slowly. Very, very slowly.

The reason, I think, is because this is such life changing stuff. And, again, to do what is going to be an incredible amount of channeling in November I just plain wasn’t ready. So, trusting in the Universe to provide and my Higher Self to arrange, I’ve got a book to read. Whether I read the entire book in the next week or not is not the point. The point is to get me pointed in an entirely different direction. This sort of brings me back to my original point all along which is in order to get good channeling the channeler needs to take care of his or her own business.

It’s not like the guides are going to refuse to speak just because I’m cranky, or ornery, or being a mean secretary. Like they’ve said before, “We work with what we’ve got.” Which means me. I want this stuff to be good for people. I want somebody to be helped by it the way I have been helped. I want what they say to be said in the quickest and quietest way possible. I don’t want people to have to lug around a 12 pound book in order to totally absorb what the guides have to say. These need to be short books. They need to be quiet books. There needs to be a lot of white space too. I’m reminded of somebody who was griping about how they’d spent a lot of money on a book that had an inordinate amount of white space between the lines and how she felt she’d gotten gypped. Anyway, that’s off topic. And, what I want to say is that I’m in training for a marathon of channeling.

It was interesting to me that when I first thought of channeling a book during the National Novel Writing Month I felt such a thrill go through my body. It was like bells. It was like a terrific shot of electricity that instead of shocking was healing. Even as numb as I’d gotten to stuff lately, even I could tell that was a resounding, “YES”.

A day later somebody made a comment and said how thrilling it would be to channel a novel. What I felt upon reading that was a really sick feeling in the pit of my stomach, because I hadn’t planned on channeling a novel. But, when you get technical about it the National Novel Writing Month is geared toward getting a novel written. A story. A fictionalized story with characters and a plot and interesting stuff happening and a wonderful ending. A story. What I had planned to do was to just channel whatever the guides wanted to talk about and I was pretty sure it was not going to be a story. But, as the day wore on I thought more and more about doing just that, except I was really intimidated about it. I thought about how Jane Roberts had written, “OverSoul Seven” and how it had always seemed to me that Seth had a rather large hand in that project though nothing was ever really said about anybody but her writing it. And, I wondered if I could do it, because if I didn’t come up with a novel I would be violating the rules of the National Novel Writing Month.

Poop.

Guess what? I don’t care. I’m going to channel whatever gets channeled. For all I know they’re going to come up with a bunch of short stories. I have to just relax. I have to meditate. Really meditate to be prepared. I have to commit to this. I have to surrender a whole lot more than just what it takes to Talk to Spirit. I’m not sure right now what that is, but this is an undertaking for me. And, I need to do a bit of what Byron Katie recommends with The Work.

This will not be a novel. I’m okay with that now. I will use the momentum and the vehicle of NaNoWriMo to move me forward here.

Maybe next year I’ll write a novel. I know it would certainly be interesting. But, this year it’s got to be something I channel.

And, to gear me up...to get my channeling muscles loosened up for an hour's worth of channeling today I'm going to do one of the really easy elementary exercises that I recommend people try when they're just getting started.

What you do is you get to pick a nursery rhyme that you know by heart. And, you type it at your keyboard. This isn't something that you're going to show anybody and say, "See? I was channeling just then. Isn't this amazing?" No, you're not going to show anybody. Besides, who would believe you? You know this by heart. You could just as easily have done it yourself. The exercise is totally for you. It is the surrender I spoke of earlier. You pretend and surrender and trust that your guide will be with you on this. You also do it more than once.

The first time it sure as anything feels like you did this and there is no guide around. They're pulling your leg. The second time you do it you remember that you're supposed to pretend that your guide is doing it with you. The third time you do it you begin to wonder if maybe they are there after all. The fourth time you do it you sort of "feel" them riding alongside of you. You, just for a few seconds, feel that maybe, just maybe there is something to this. The fifth time you do it you think, no, you were mistaken it was you all along. The sixth time in a row that you write out, "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" you remember to trust in the process and pretend that you are channeling.

Trust. That's the main word there. So....even though it sure as shootin' looks like I'm the biggest quack and faker around...here goes with a very simple exercise for channeling.

Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream.

Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream.

National Novel Writing Month is November

2006-10-15T06:26:00.000-07:00

It’s interesting, but just when you figure that you’ve got things under control and your projects are sitting there in a real orderly fashion life throws you a curve ball and suddenly your schedule gets real tight. This is a fun thing, though. For the last couple of years, always too late, I find out that the National Novel Writing Month in November has commenced. The operative words there are, “too late”. This year I got a head’s up. And I signed up.

It doesn’t cost anything. You start writing on November 1 and stop writing on November 30. Your goal is to get to 50,000 words. In the forums at NaNoWriMo.org are a boat load of people you can listen to, ask questions of and just generally hang out with when you’re not busy writing. You do need to sign up. You get a certificate of completion if you get the 50,000 words. You can say you participated no matter how many words you end up writing. You tried is the important thing.

Originally, the contest was geared toward adults but they do have a section now for kids 12 and under. And, for the first time in February of 2007 they will be having one especially for people who want to write screen plays.

Although it doesn’t cost anything they do accept donations. The hope is that they will be able to build 2 children’s libraries in Vietnam.

What impressed me were the number of participants and the people who finished (won).

1999: 21 participants and six winners
2000: 140 participants and 29 winners
2001: 5,000 particpants and more than 700 winners
2002: 13,500 participants and around 2,100 winners
2003: 25,500 participants and about 3,500 winners
2004: 42,000 participants and just shy of 6,000 winners
2005: 59,000 participants and 9,769 winners.

To reach 50,000 words in a month I figure I’m going to have to produce 3 pages a day with approximately 600 words per page. If I am able to do that every day I would have 54,000 words.

Anyway, I lay in bed mulling over what I’d write about. That’s always one of the hardest things for me to decide upon. I figured I’d need to have that question answered before November 1st. Seth, my guide, suggested that I channel a book. My first thought was absolute delight. It tingled up and down my spine and in the way of focusing I could take that as a whole body YES. My second thought was that it probably didn’t qualify as a novel. That’s when he pointed out that it would be a book and more suited to what I’m into these days than a novel is.

The challenge for me and why I’m writing this blog entry here is that I’m going to be pushing myself personally with the channeling end of things. I can channel up a storm, but I don’t have a lot of stamina at it these days. I operate best in fits and starts. I also have a tendency to “clench up” when the information coming through is controversial or confusing. What I have to work on is the actual surrendering to spirit to allow the information to flow easily. That’s the challenge. Can I do it for 3 pages a day? For an entire month? Can I keep my own personal stuff out of it? So, that’s another aspect.

I’m going to try.

Why Won't My Spirit Guide Talk to Me?

2006-10-08T17:18:00.000-07:00

I felt the same as you before I began to channel. Same way. They said they were there. They said I could believe. I tried to believe. Turns out you just have to pretend. For awhile. Until it finally happens. But they are there. And, you're right, they will not speak to us because we will not listen or, rather, are afraid of what they might have to say, or it just isn't time yet. I just don't know why.

I had to surrender. I had to lay myself open and after the contact was made and I could hear I realized I had laid myself more bare than I had ever done with another human being in my life. That was really scary. Think Santa Claus sees all? Think God sees all? These folk in Spirit see all and have something to say about it too. Sometimes it is difficult to listen to them because they will point out the stuff you've been trying to ignore. That's hard.

So, I would say if you aren't ready for a buttinsky guide in your life just be content that they are there, though you cannot hear what they have to say.

As far as them comforting me that did not happen until I had stepped over the edge and started to actually channel. It is a very, very weird feeling. You get used to it. I couldn't imagine life any other way now. It's interesting too, but I realized once I'd started to channel that there had been times in my life before the "official" date of learning how to channel was upon me that I might have somehow tapped into the universal unconscious or talked to the guides years before it officially happened. I just don't know, but sometimes those strange things that had happened to me at different points in my life just felt so much like channeling later on. I think if it happened to me that it has to have happened to other people too. I can't be that different than others.

Even though you can't hear them they can hear you. So, just blab away. Pretend that they are there just being silent. Talk to them silently in your heart. Write a letter to them and then sit quietly to see what thoughts might just sort of pop into your head. Rail at them for not talking to you. I remember pounding away at the piano just days before I broke through and began to channel. I was so angry at my guide for not talking to me. I desparately needed to talk to him. My husband was in the hospital with a broken back. Our finances was in a critical position right then. I was desparate to talk to my guide. And there was only silence. Yes, I know how you feel. I've been there.

The way they speak in the beginning is very, very quietly. Sometimes they speak and we just aren't able to hear because of all the noise we are making.

So, before they will talk to you verbally, perhaps you can trust that they will talk to you through another source of divination. Like maybe the Tarot. But, the key for all of it is trust. Just surrender and trust that they are really there contrary to all evidence that says otherwise.

Thanks for writing and I hope this helps a little bit.

What I Learned Today

2006-09-24T19:33:00.000-07:00

If you figure that everybody has something of interest to teach you whether you agree with everything they have to say or not I ran into one this morning. I was actually looking for a place to submit articles to where I might be able to link back to my sites and gain pagerank. Eventually.

Anyway, here I am reading about what exactly is a channel. Which, incidentally, does interest me being as how I am one and all. And, they said that there is a progression to how it works. First you are psychic, or, at least sort of mildly psychic. Whether that happened in a previous lifetime or sprang from nothing in this one it’s there. Then, they said you channel the teachers, or angels, or saints, or guides, or “God”. Then, you become a medium and can relay on information from dead people like your Aunt Martha. And, then you become clairvoyant and can do psychic readings like this lady could.

She said there was a sameness to the information that comes from the guides who speak through the channels. I’ve encountered that too. But, the information is valid and how many times did your mother have to tell you to pick up your room before you finally cleaned it up, anyway?

My experience with channeling is that I do all of that together. I channel the guides, I talk to Elvis and I get psychic hits of information about people. It’s all happening together. It’s interesting that someone can see it all separately.

I’m not famous. I’m a grouchy secretary. Emphasis on grouchy….tomorrow is Monday. I’m also a channel. I also teach people to channel. I’m a tightwad and don’t like to spend money on psychic readings, though I will infrequently do so just to see how other people do theirs. It’s interesting to see how many folks allow their opinions and beliefs to get in the way of the psychic hits they get. I’m not saying I don’t do that. I do it all the time. But, it just gets my panties in a bunch to see people say it doesn’t happen to them. I don’t know of anybody that it does not happen to.

I suppose my advice to anybody who is looking for a psychic is to look for someone who posts their work online, who will allow you to see what they’ve already done for others just so you can get an idea of what they do. Look for people who are willing to explain the process to you. Listen to recommendations from folks…I know of a few people I’d refer folks to in a heart beat. It ain’t cheap either. But, if you want a couple of recommendations I’d be glad to give you some. Just email me. You know how.

A Question

2006-09-19T07:33:00.000-07:00

This is an email I got over the weekend. I thought the question was a good one for folks learning to channel.

Question: All of your information that I have gotten from you and your site so far has been so helpful! I was just wondering lately, can other people’s guides give people guidance? Or does it have to be your own? I was wondering, just in case my guides had a message for me? And if so, how do I listen for it? I’ve got so much stuff to worry about at the moment and I was just wondering how I can really hear them!

Answer from Pauline: Your guide is plenty powerful enough. Everybody's guides are. It's interesting, but after you finally break through and realize that you're channeling they will use their "awesome powers" to amplify the voices of the recently departed for you to talk to. At least, that's a theory of mine. So, I suppose the question to ask then, might be, "Why can't I channel yet?" Could be you're too worried, though I'm getting a no-head shake from the guides on that one. Now, I'm getting a not cooked enough message. That's what I get for channeling before breakfast...my mind is on food! Ha. Anyway, keep at it. You're on the right path. And, in answer to your question, yes, you can ask other guides for help. I didn't realize I could talk to other guides until after I learned to channel. If you're reading, "Opening to Channel" ask Orin and DaBen for help. Certainly ask Seth for help. He's not just my guide. He's a teacher and helps many, many other people.

They told me once that sometimes the guides I refer to as the heavy hitters (like Jesus and the Saints and Famous Folk in Spirit like that) are also out there as nameless teachers. They don't like to alarm anybody by saying their better known names. Ask one of them for help. They're glad to do it.

One of them just said I should qualify the "awesome powers" I talked about in the first paragraph of this letter. I really don't know what abilities any of them have. They're still very mysterious to me and as such I spoof at them by saying things like that. It's not exactly being disrespectful...though, sometimes it might edge that way...could be why they occasionally mention they're keeping a place warm for me :)...but, it's my attempt to try to take the frightening aspects out of the channeling experience. Because it is so far and away different than what people are normally used to they could easily believe they've been taken up to visit space aliens if they aren't well grounded in reality. That's why I use humor...to keep them grounded and not afraid.

It just takes awhile. It took me a long time. Just keep at it. Imagine your guide always with you beside your side. Talk to him or her in your head during the course of the day. Don't worry that you don't hear anything back in response. Like you're shopping...and you're picking out bananas...and, just address the silent comments in your head to your guide, "Crap, when do you figure that they're ever going to start putting out the good looking fruit first?" Stuff like that. Maybe one day he'll say to you, "Ask the produce manager. The good ones are in the back."

Meditation - All Roads Lead to Source

2006-09-17T07:18:00.000-07:00

As I’ve gotten older what meditation means to me has changed. In the beginning, when I was a teenager it was something I was drawn to as a part of a different lifestyle, a way to move away from the things my parents espoused as important, a part of the trailing edges of the hippie generation; free love, free spirit, a more spiritual way of living. But, I came to it furtively and with a small amount of fear. Even in those days I did not know of all the reasons why people say you should not meditate, but I knew only that it was not something “we” did. It was not something for a white, middle class young woman to embrace. My father took special care to speak to me of the dangers of cults in those days. But, even so, I was drawn toward the practice of meditation.

What finally dissuaded me from pursuing meditation was an out of body experience. With a fantastic whoosh I left my body and flew about the neighborhood one night. I had not thought it would happen. I am generally afraid to ride any of the rides at amusement parks and leaving my body in such a fashion without knowing that it might happen had frightened me. It would be more than 20 years before I tried to meditate again.

When I was learning how to channel the books I read suggested meditation would help. I attempted the exercises and though I don’t feel I met with much success, still, I think it helped a little. After I actually started channeling my guides suggested to me that I pick up the pace with my meditation and I began to practice more often. In those early days as I dipped into meditative states I “saw” in my mind’s eye faces that floated about. These were frightening to me, distorted, yawing mouths with saliva dripping. I stopped meditating, but the guides told me to continue. They said the fearsome faces I saw would stop. And, they were right.

It didn’t take long and the faces I was seeing settled in to the Guides and Folk in Spirit I’d been talking to. Later on I learned this is a common thing. You are leaving a reality you have been accustomed to and stepping into a wider psychic reality. It can be a little frightening. It also explained to me why I always seemed to come out of a meditation and go immediately to the kitchen to eat. Eating was a way to comfort for me and though the meditation had been pleasant it was still something I’d not grown entirely comfortable with yet. With time that also stopped.

As time went on I realized with the practice of meditation I appeared to be a calmer sort of person. Things that had, in the past, set me off at work no longer had the control or power over me they had before.

And, for the first time I began to think of meditation as a tool to use to sort of hang out with God; another way to pray. I would think, “I want to be with You” as I would start the meditation, as a statement of intention, and somewhere during the course of my brief time meditating, if I was lucky, a mantle of peace would settle upon me.

In the beginning it would sometimes take me half an hour to settle enough to, in my mind, be meditating. Later on I developed my own personal techniques of moving more quickly into what I thought of as a meditative state. One of them was to think of myself as melting, just as the Wicked Witch of the West had melted when Dorothy had thrown water on her. Hey, what can I say? It worked.

There are many techniques to use to meditate. Approach it calmly. Read what other people do. Dance like they say to dance and with time you will come upon the techniques that work best for you. All roads lead to Source.

Aspects of Channeling

2006-09-10T19:32:00.000-07:00

When I first started channeling I could only do it a little bit at a time because I was so exhausted afterward. It was like I’d done some sort of long distance running and I was absolutely tuckered out. I think it was because I was nervous.

I think I was nervous that I wouldn’t channel things properly. At times, in the beginning, my focus would leave. I’d hear some of what was said and then, like the wind it would just drift away and I’d be left not knowing what the rest of it was. That would certainly upset me and I would be so upset with myself that I couldn’t get back into the channeling session.

Finally I learned to be kinder to myself. It’s not like you missed the brass ring on the merry-go-round. All you have to do is say to your guide, “Okay, sorry. I drifted off. Can you say that again please?” What? Ask a guide to repeat themselves just because you didn’t get it the first time around? These are the guides. These are respected teachers. These guys, if they could, could charge an arm and a leg to be teaching you stuff. Right. Just ask them to repeat themselves. They will. Just be quiet, center yourself and wait. They will repeat it.

Then, the bit about not getting it right. The guides told me once they work with what they’ve got. It was a bit of a sarcastic dig at me to lighten up. They do have a funny sense of humor. I think so, anyway. But, what happens with me is if I don’t get something right they will keep talking. Or, we move into a new paragraph and later on, as I go through looking for spelling errors, which there are generally a lot of since I channel with my eyes closed and my fingers don’t always move in a sensible typing fashion when I’m channeling, they’ll start talking with more stuff to add as we hit different parts of the manuscript. Also, they’ll do this as my concentration flags. If I can get the main part out and then later on, when I’m not so surprised to see it, they’ll talk more about it.

Guide's Parts are in Red

2006-09-06T21:01:00.000-07:00

An interesting experience I had a couple of years before I began channeling would prove to be more prophetic of the experience than anything I’d had happen to me to date. I was diligently applying myself to a Tony Robbins tape course. I think it was his Personal Power Course. In those days it was designed to last 30 days. Since then it has been redesigned to be a 7 day wonder. I suppose people had a hard time sticking to it for 30 days. Normally, I would count myself among them, but for whatever reason I got hooked on the course and did the lessons every day. Interestingly enough, I went from writing 4,000 words a day to over 20,000 words a day. It was, for me a pretty phenomenal increase. It didn’t last long, but I proved to myself I could do it and was able to move forward with my life as a writer and eventually as a semi-psychic crabby secretary.

Anyway, one of the exercises was to allow 2 imaginary beings/playmates/companions to join you in a writing exercise. I can’t remember exactly what it was, though I believe it was along the lines of you saying, “I believe I can” and allowing the 2 imps to butt in and say, “I think you can’t”. There was a give and take between the three of us and what turned out to begin as a sort of choreographed by me and stilted dialogue soon let loose with the 2 imps busting out and saying whatever the hell they felt like saying. It was a total and complete surprise to me who was the one doing the writing. The exercise was designed to allow you to break through whatever emotional barriers were holding you back from whatever success you wanted and, in fact, I believe it worked for me. However, in retrospect, I see now that channeling as I do it now was exactly like it felt like during that brief exercise.

I don’t see why a person wanting to learn how to channel couldn’t do the same sort of exercise. It couldn’t hurt, anyway.

Start out with the goal or statement. Maybe you could say something along the lines of: I know I am already channeling because….and, you start filling in the blanks. The 2 imps you allow to join you will certainly have something to say about it. Start in with what you figure your subconscious must have to say about the whole thing. Something like: Oh, yeah? Well, whoever do you think you are Miss Hoity Toity to think that some invisible holier than thou teacher is going to deign to talk to you? And you say: I’m not Hoity Toity. I’m as good as anybody else. And, Pauline said everybody has access to the psychic realms anyway. I believe her. And, they’ll say: Oh, yeah? Well, I’m going to trip you up. And, you’ll say: Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

Something along those lines. I mean this stuff can get really goofy, but it’s the interchange that’s important. Whether it’s your subconscious or your guide whoever has the other voice it’s you stepping out of your normally tight shoes to go stepping along the beach for awhile and in a way it sort of prepares you to speak to a guide.

Anyway, that’s my two cents. Do any of the guides want to say anything?

Who us? You’re actually inviting us to say something? Be still my beating heart. Watch out Bud, or I’ll cut you off. Try it and see who keeps you awake tonight. Oh, I forgot about sleep depravation. I suppose I ought to talk about that in one of these entries.

Are you still there? You’re so quiet. We’ve been insulted. I don’t see why. You did manage to keep me awake for 3 nights running back in the early days when we were having a fight and I wouldn’t talk to you. That was a misunderstanding. Yeah, right. Anyway, you’re forgiven. So are you. Anyway, the offer still stands. Do you want to talk about anything?

Yes, we do. This then, would be for anybody who is interested Seth. Elvis is standing behind me and…do you mind? I can’t handle the names. They throw me off. Yes, I see you’re having a hot flash. Yes.

We would say our channel has decided not to type the things she just thought about disrobing. We wouldn’t want anybody to think this is a porno site. Okay…okay…Just hurry up and talk already. I’m hot.

Good thing she types quickly or we’d be here all night. Thanks. It feels good to talk this way. It has been a long time. We’re not really going anywhere with this but I think it’s good for folks to see how informal we can be with each other. It isn’t always me sitting at the knees of the masters taking notes. We horse around some too. When I first started channeling I sure didn’t suspect that it would all end up this way. And, when it all started to go south as it were (that’s guide speak…they’ll sneak it in on me sometimes too…but, the phrase, “as it were” is entirely their’s) and, it’s not like I’ve lost control and it’s a matter of, “Take me to your leader” or anything like that. It’s like a parasite and a host. Gee guys, that sounds really appetizing. A nice symbiotic relationship. Everybody wins. Well, whatever. I type faster and better, so that’s a plus.

It's actually funny when they make me laugh at work. I have to say things like, "Sorry. I just thought of something funny." and hope the people don't want to really know what I was laughing about. I hate swallowing laughter. You really do need nerves of steel at times.

What Was It Like?

2006-08-19T20:59:00.000-07:00

I’m reminded of what it was like to learn how to channel.  I remember wondering what it would feel like when it happened.  I imagined something would be different about my world.  I imagined my life would turn about 180 degrees and I’d be a totally different person.  It didn’t happen.

What did happen was that my hand zoomed off of the edge of ouija board.  And, I didn’t do it.  That was the first thing that happened.

Other minor things happened after that.  Like the year long headache I’d been having finally ended.  And, the damned ringing in my ears I’d been experiencing for as long as I’d had that year long headache also ended.  So, those were very welcome changes.

Then, for awhile after I started channeling I’d experience a tightness of a tingling band around the top of my head.  Also, I’d occasionally feel a picking feeling at the top right side of my head.  Not often and it didn’t last very long.  Just a few months.  Were those things related to the channeling?  I don’t know.  Seems the timing would indicate they were.

The one really major change for me was in my dreams.  My dreams to that point had generally been along the lines of either fretful or nightmarish.  They had also been sort of lonely with me and whoever was chasing me in them.  After I started channeling all the guides showed up.  I’m assuming they were guides.  Maybe I should just call them Folk in Spirit because my mother is always in my dreams now.  I can remember in the early days I’d have dreams where I was channeling.  It took me a good year before I was ever able to channel verbally, so doing that in my dreams was a help to me.

In the 13 years that I’ve been channeling they helped out a whole lot when it came time for me to quit smoking and quit drinking.  They’re helping out now as I move through menopause.  At least, I appreciate whatever suggestions they give me occasionally.

But, did I change?  Not really.  I’m pretty much still the same as I was before.

Potato Pancakes

2006-08-12T20:34:00.000-07:00

If I were to compare how I feel now with how I felt before I started channeling I would say I don’t really feel any different. What’s different is that even though you might still talk to yourself occasionally, now, somebody might answer you. That did take some getting used to. And, when I think back to how I felt then I’d say there were time of really intense loneliness. Of times when I hesitated to say too many people knew where I was coming from. Now? Yeah, there be a stadium full of dead folk who understand me.

Like today. I was making potato pancakes to have for dinner. Actually, we ended up just having the potato pancakes by themselves, but I was reading the Stephen King novel, “Cell” and suddenly knew what was going to go perfect with our dinner of sausages and eggs. So, I hauled myself out to the kitchen to begin preparations. I had planned to do the mashed potato version but as I wheeled into the kitchen and began paring the potato I planned to use I thought grating it and making lacy pancakes sounded better. As I began to assemble the ingredients I wasn’t measuring anything; just tossing it all together in a bowl. So, a grated potato, some grated onion, some scissored chives from our patio, an egg, salt and pepper, baking powder and some flour.

I thought to put in some milk and at that point one of the guides said not to. They said there was enough liquid that had come off of the potatoes. So, I didn’t add anything else. And, that was the extent of guided involvement in tonight’s dinner. It was obvious. It was certainly helpful. DeeDude really liked the pancakes. We had already made inroads into the supply I’d finished frying when I suggested that could be dinner. He agreed, so I didn’t cook anything else; Susie Homemaker I’m not. But, it was a little bit of help. Granted, not having anybody to kibitz with me in the kitchen wouldn’t really have made a great deal of difference in how dinner turned out, but I enjoy the input from Spirit. I enjoy the company.

Psychic Attacks

2006-08-05T07:38:00.000-07:00

Occasionally I will hear from people who are concerned about psychic attacks.  Mostly, they are wanting to channel, had a little bit of experience channeling or something along those lines and live in dread or had actually experienced what they consider to be a form of psychic attack.

Having been there, seen that and done that I hazard to say there is no such thing as a psychic attack.  (Duck)

I believe what is happening is that folks are venturing out into an expanded psychic reality and don’t know what’s what yet.  What they interpret as a threat is actually just life intensified in a psychic manner.  When on the psychic plane things you experience are different than in your normal walk around in daily life and rather than approaching it all with an open minded attitude the person approaches it as dangerous and different and fearful.  Hence, it becomes threatening and therefore is an attack.

So, that’s not to say that things in the psychic realms aren’t different…they are.  And, they can be interpreted as scary.  Your job is to decide in your heart that you are ready for it, that you are not going to be scared, that you are curious, that you are willing to learn and that you plain want to do this.  I guarantee that if you think it’s going to be scary it will be.

Hey, meditating was scary for me until I got used to it.

The first time I ever “saw” psychic faces as an adult they came to me as maws huge and dripping with drool, with eyes distorted and were just really scary and horrible things to behold.  As I grew accustomed to moving into a psychic vision place the faces calmed down until they were more like I used to see when I was 8 years old whiling away the time while I was supposed to be having an afternoon nap.  Then, as I got more adventurous my vision began to expand to encompass more of the entire being I was communicating with, and bits of scenery about the edges.  I’m still not expert at it, but at least, I’m not afraid.

I’ve heard people saying you can guard against psychic attacks by doing this or that or the other thing.  I personally don’t feel that doing things like that is going to help any whether you are dealing with a spirit or with some twit you met on the internet.  What I feel works if you feel you are under attack is to stop doing whatever it was that you were doing when you first felt the attack and then ask yourself what’s up with this?  Wait calmly for the answer and maybe you’ll get a glimmer of something from your childhood that might be addressed now.  It’s no different from the lessons we get in normal ordinary life, they are just continuing on the psychic planes.

So, on the one hand it’s a matter of folks just growing accustomed to dabbling in psychic stuff and getting used to it and on another hand it’s paying attention to your own inner growth.

It's All About Relatives

2006-07-26T06:06:00.000-07:00

Talking to Spirit is very much like attending a base ball game where all the seats have been sold out.  There is you and there are all those other people.  Except, you would never in a million years be able to talk to each and every one of those people.  It’s just plain not possible.  So, your focus of awareness on the psychic plane becomes very much like it is in real life.  You speak with those people who are within earshot, to those folks who are near you.

However, all those folks are really only a thought away.

If you are thinking that you’d like to talk to a long dead relative.  Hey, we could count back 6 great grandmothers.  You want to talk to your great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother.  It is likely you don’t even know her name.  You could sort of center yourself by figuring out what period of time she would have lived.

Okay, figuring that each generation is 25 years and you’ve got 6 greats to work with.  That’s 150 years ago.  About.  So, that would place her in 1856?  Ah, wait a minute.  My great-grandmother was born in 1865.  For the kiddies in my family right now Neddie would have been their great-great-great grandmother.  Her mother would have been their great-great-great-great grandmother.  And, Neddie’s grandmother would have been their great-great-great-great-great grandmother.  However, we get to the 6th great by focusing in on my great grandmother’s great grandmother.  So, Neddie was born just as the Civil War was ending.  Her mother would have been born 25 years earlier about 1840, her grandmother might have been born in 1815 and the grandmom we’re looking for would have been born in 1790.  About. That’s the great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother for the little kids in my family.  For me we’d have to go back another 3 greats.  To 1715.

Argh.  This is complicated.  Well, it’s an exercise.  It’s a stab in the dark.  One of the guides just said it’s not rocket science.  Ha.

Anyway, you’d like to talk to a long dead relative.  Why don’t you just pick a period of history?  You don’t have to be an expert.  Think of Benjamin Franklin.  What was he doing before the Revolutionary War in the United States?  He was busy getting in trouble.  He was writing up a storm and having disagreements with his brother.  Well, let’s think about what life was like for him.  No indoor toilets.  Quills to write with.  Probably cold a lot.  Sensible he was.  Nosy is what he was.  He was interested in everything going on around him.  He liked to needle people.  Sort of like I do.  Maybe that’s why we’re talking about him this morning.

So, what you do is you close your eyes having established a toe hold in history.  You don’t need to know everything about it.  Just that it’s a long time ago.  And, you’d like to make contact with a relative, preferably female, from that time.  There’s no question that you had a relative from then.  You’re here aren’t you?  So, a relative.  That’s all.  This isn’t a famous person.  This is your relative.  How difficult can that be?  Here’s what one of the guides just said to me, “ From all appearances it is getting more and more complicated by the minute.”  What a hoot.

Okay, you’re right.  What I was trying to do was to establish that this is going to be easy.

Okay, I know of Neddie.  Now, I will, in my mind move backward through the relatives who were familiar to her.  And, I know I have one when the tears well up in my own eyes.  It always happens that way with me.  It’s like this awareness on the heart level.  It’s a, “Oh, it’s been awhile since we talked. I’m glad to see you again.”  Except, usually I can’t see or hear in the beginning, it’s just this feeling, this heart feeling.

Okay, so I’ve made contact.  I felt it.  I know from having done this many times this is how I make contact on the soul level, on the heart level, on the psychic level with whoever I’m looking for.  Now, as to actual communication?  Well, that might take a bit more concentration.  But, to know in your heart that you’d made contact with somebody, with a relative of yours who’d lived a long time ago, that’s pretty important, I think.  Who, when they were alive might never have thought ahead to when they themselves would have a great-great-great-great-great-great granddaughter or grandson.  Just consider it a brief family reunion.

Yes?

2006-07-19T20:53:00.000-07:00

In the beginning there were many times when I thought my guide had gone. I was frantic to know that he was still with me. I couldn’t tell that he was there. I couldn’t see him. I couldn’t hear him. He wasn’t moving around. It was just empty. So, I’d say, “Seth?” like I wanted to ask a question, though I really didn’t have anything in particular to ask or to comment about. I just wanted the assurance that he was still there. And, he’d say, “Yes?” Just like that. As easy as that. I was almost embarrassed in the beginning to be caught being so needy because there’s one thing you won’t ever get away with again with your guides and that’s lying. They know.

As time went on I realized that my guide was always going to be there and if not him then somebody else would be around to talk to. You’d think I didn’t have any friends, but it’s sort of different with Folks in Spirit. I can actually say really dumb stuff and not feel bad. They have never once said they thought I was stupid, though I have thought it a lot. I can think the wicked horrible, godawful things that you’d never in a million years want anybody in the world to hear you saying and it’s okay. Though, what they will eventually do is want to talk about it. So, you’re not quite off the hook.

But, this is the one thing the guides are so good at, I think anyway, and that is guiding you. Being there whenever to just be there for you. They won’t try to make you into something you are not, they don’t judge you, they are just there to encourage you and to point out aspects of situations that you might have overlooked. It’s actually made me look brilliant occasionally, but that’s another story.

Anyway, I’m a creature of habit and I will still just for the hell of it say, “Seth?” even when I don’t have anything in particular that I want to say. And, he says, “Yes?”

You want to hear a channeling funny? It’s when I take the Lord’s name in vain and somebody says, “Yes?” Man, that’ll make you clean up your act in a hurry.

Learning To Channel

2006-07-13T07:02:00.000-07:00

Here’s an email I got today.

I would really like to learn how to channel, I am wondering if you can help me and how we would go about it.

Hello.

Sometimes it is a short learning curve and sometimes it takes years. It just depends on how far the person has come on their own particular journey. All I can recommend is for you to do it close to how I did it. Get a copy of Opening to Channel and do the exercises. Additionally, I have a blog about learning how to channel that has some tips on what to do and what it feels like.

First, though, you need to be certain that you aren't experiencing psychotic things and actually need a psychotherapist. Because if you are under a doctor's care or need to be, learning how to channel is a very bad idea.

Secondly, you need to be an adult. Preferably 35 years or older. I say this because I was such a ditz as a young adult myself. You need to already be well grounded and sensible and not easily frightened. Weird stuff happens. And, if you are frightened of it then you don't need to be channeling.

Next you need to read. A lot. I mean read a lot. The Seth books, Findhorn books, Ramtha books, Emmanuel books, Bartholomew books. There are more. Go out and find them. Read them. Find out what it is like to channel. Everybody has their own experience with it and you need to be finding out just what the guides say to all these people and how they say it.

Next, you need to be meditating. Lots of books out there to learn how.

Next, you need to really want to do this. Because years might go by where nothing happens. Like with me. The need to channel, the desire to channel needs to always be there. If you give up nothing is going to happen. It's almost like you have to prove to Spirit that you are worthy.

There aren't too many teachers out there who will take on students for a pittance. The places I've seen charge an arm and a leg. You can get correspondence courses from the folks who wrote Opening to Channel. They do good stuff. Also, in Berkeley, California you could sign up for a five year course on learning how to channel at the Berkeley Psychic Institute. Doing it, of course, their way. That's what bugged me about their way. It was too regimented. But, organizations are out there who will take you by the hand and lead the way. Me? I throw you in the water.

I would also start reading A Course in Miracles. It will take a year to plow through it and that's just the student's portion. But, that sort of stand you on your head before Spirit will talk to you situation is what might possibly work for you.

Also, if you aren't already doing it start exercising. To move the energy. Also, painting, drawing, some sort of art work. At least make the effort. You need to move different portions of your brain.

Also, no drugs. Absolutely no drugs. If you're taking medication for a medical reason, that's different. But, no recreational drugs. That also means no abuse of alcohol. And, if you aren't already they will eventually get you to stop smoking. It's a boring, pristine life you will be living. Be careful what you are getting into. It's like taking orders and becoming a nun. I wouldn't have it any other way, but I'm basically no fun anymore at all.

Explore different spiritual paths. Start with the one you were exposed to as you grew up.

Loosen up. Don't be so judgmental of others. Their truths are just as valid as your own.

Anyway, this is all work that you have to do on your own. Keep a personal journal so that you can sort things out as you move along.

Dream work. Important stuff. You'll be doing much of the learning and meeting of Folks in Spirit in your dreams. Start remembering your dreams and writing them down. Learn how to dream lucidly. There are books out there and info on the internet to help you.

Learn a method of divination. Tarot is good. Allow Spirit to move through you for the readings you give yourself and eventually as you practice with others. The first time I dealt myself cards? I got the death card, the tower and the hanged man...none of them real happy cards. I was shocked. I gathered the cards up and dealt them again and got the same thing. I was almost hyperventilating and scooped them up to deal myself a third hand. Same 3 cards. That's when I stopped and started reading what those cards represented. Big journey. Big changes. Big, big, big. And, then I learned to channel.

Go on some Shamanic Journeys. Books out there to help you do it. Excellent method for meeting and talking to Spirit Guides and Folk in Spirit.

So, those are my tips.

Go lightly with it. No need to be so serious. There isn't a wrong way or a bad way to connect to Spirit though there will be people who have all sorts of opinions on it. Especially family members. It helps to have support from that quarter, though it is not always guaranteed. Mostly they will be alarmed that you're doing weird stuff and afraid that you'll end up like somebody saying God made you do it and kill a bunch of people. Hey, he heard voices too. That's why I say you've got to be psychologically sound.

And, once you've made that connection to Spirit? The ride ain't over yet. That's when the next hard work starts because they will push you to your absolute limits. The reason is that you don't do this for yourself or any other reason that you've got in mind right now. You end up doing it for other people. And, the advice you're going to be giving them needs to be sound. Which means you need to be sound and not operating from too neurotic a state.

So, if you want to learn, learn. You've got some tips on what to do. It's all self study unless you want to shell out the big bucks, which you might want to do as you move through the journey. I've spent oodles on music that helps me move into meditative states of mind. I'm stinky at meditating, so I always need help with it. Also, I use the music when I'm channeling at the computer. It just helps to move me into a place where I can concentrate and let go when I need to.

Mostly, you need to believe that you can do this. Because you can. What I was surprised to learn is that sometimes Spirit whispers too.

Write me as you move along if you want to. Your teachers will show up when you need to talk to somebody. They will all be different and all have different points of view, philosophy and techniques, but you can learn something important from each and every one of them.

Sincerely,
Pauline

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