What is Channeling

The most popular trend today that brings one into the New Age world view is channeling. The channeler (who is a medium) first brings them self in to a totally relaxed meditative state, what we may know as a trance. They then allow themselves to become neutral to allow another being (entity) control over their personality. Essentially you, your own personality, are out to lunch and another spirit takes over your mind and body.

You can have a space being or a higher intelligence spirit from another dimension come into your body. You can channel your higher self, your over-soul (the eternal you?) to give you fresh spiritual knowledge. Many claim they have given their lives over to these so-called alien intelligence's to help bring the golden age (new world order) here on earth; they are called walk-ins. Many New Age participants believe they themselves are either angels or aliens reincarnating on earth for this crucial transition time to help earth bring in the era of peace. Automatic writing is often used by the spirits to communicate; also astral travel, dreams and visions, and prophecy. Other beings announce themselves as the inner counselors claiming they’re a spirit guide that has always been with you (familiar spirits the Bible calls them), they are not limited to any form. They can range from an animal creature, to an angel of light mostly dubbing themselves the Christ energy or a legion of light. It does not matter, as long as one accepts their message they are pleased.

Almost the whole New Age Movements techniques methods and instructions are dictated by these spirit guides; this is their source of information, and this is where the deception occurs. Total trust is given to these spirit being beings since they are supposed to be higher in intelligence and much older, they naturally would have our best interests at heart, right? Wrong! When these entities first start communicating they usually lead one into thinking they are divine or god, how's that for flattery. It doesn't matter who is communicating the message, whether it is called a spirit guide, your higher self, or a space brother, the message is basically the same.

HISTORY

The history of Channeling can be traced back to its earlier more blatantly Occult roots of Spiritism. In the 1840's the Fox sisters claimed to communicate with the spirit of a murdered man, Charles Rosma. Their convincing act tricked thousands until 1886 when they finally confessed that they were frauds (Understanding The Occult, Josh McDowell and Don Stewart, pp. 145-146).

Despite their confession, the Spiritism movement was under way.

Several proponents of Spiritism, Automatic Writing and other forms of communication with the dead would also make their mark on the history of Channeling.

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, who founded Theosophy in 1875, claimed to receive information from spiritual "superhuman `masters' or `mahatmas' allegedly living in the Himalayas." Another noteworthy figure was Alice Bailey, founder of the Arcane School in 1923, who channeled the "Tibetan master Djwhal Khal (D.K.)." Under the guidance of D.K., Bailey would write twenty five books (A Crash Course on the New Age Movement, Elliot Miller, pp. 145-146).

Though there have been others who have certainly influenced the development of Channeling, it was not until the 1960's and `70's that Channeling began to be commonly accepted and even fashionable. "The first popularized emergence of an unseen personality was the delivery of the Seth Material through the channel Jane Roberts. Published internationally in 1972 by Prentice-Hall, Seth Speaks quickly became a best seller as it explored the realities of the unknown world. Seth was the first unseen entity who was generally accepted by a large readership, numbering in the millions" (Voyage to the New World, Ramtha with Douglas J. Mahr, p. 12).

Since the emergence of the entity Seth, the spirit world has allegedly been leaking spirits into the physical world at ever increasing speeds. Some of the most popular spirit entities would include J.Z. Knight's Ramtha, Penny Torres' Mafu and Jach Pursel's Lazaris.

This phenomenal growth can be attributed in part to the fact that more people currently believe that contact with the dead or the spiritual realm is possible. In the mid-1980's an "opinion poll was conducted by Andrew Greeley and the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Council. It reports that 42 percent of American adults believe they have had some type of direct contact with a person who had died" (Ibid, p. 141). Notice that the 42 percent are those who feel they have had contact, not those who believe that contact is possible. The latter figure would most certainly be higher.

DOCTRINE

Because there are thousands of channelers throughout the world, with different entities, who have supposedly lived at different times and in different geographic locations, it would be assumed that the messages of the various entities would be different. However, to make such an assumption would be an error.

While there are differences in the messages and even contradictions between the messages from entity to entity, the basic themes of all the channelers are the same throughout the world. The theme is: God is All and All is God