Just after I wrote my first book, 100 Years of Ermintrude, I remember telling a psychic the manner in which I wrote it, how it just came in from nowhere and how I felt a huge surge of emotion when I’d finished it.
I was in floods of uncontrollable tears, yet I felt ecstatically happy at what I’d just done.
The psychic, the amazing Dr Lisa Turner of Psycademy, told me that I’d channelled it.
By the way, I wrote the whole 1st draft on a ‘plane flight, you can listen to it here …
… incidentally I learned how to channel the music I used in this later too.
At the time, I had no idea what channelling was and assumed it referred to mediums contacting the ‘dear departed’. Certainly not something an IT consultant would or could ever do.
That was over 3 years ago and since then I’ve been on a bit of a journey of discovery, part of which has lead to me not only understanding what channelling is but being able to teach people how to do it. The engineer in me just had to research and understand what was happening.
Furthermore, there are more flavours of channelling that you can shake a stick at and mediumship is just one of them. I’ve been privileged to meet many talented channels, some who do it professionally and some who like me, do it almost unconsciously and use it in their private lives – and for creative writing.
In its widest sense, channelling refers to getting your conscious mind out of the way and either speaking or writing what is ‘on your mind’ – or more accurately, coming through it.
Channelling also does not have to be random or involve you getting ‘taken over’ – unless you let it. It can be a dialogue as well as one way traffic. So, for example, if you want an idea for the next chapter of your novel, you simply ask.
The essential key is to understand everyone will get the messages in different ways. Trained mediums, and the clairaudient, may hear a voice. Those that are clairvoyant will see images. Your dreams are often channelled information.
For most people though, it’s a feeling or a knowing – referred to respectively as clairsentience or claircogniscence. For me, it’s the latter. I just seem to know stuff I didn’t know that I knew.
So how do you know if you are channelling?
The difference between your own thoughts and those that are channelled is subtle.
If you are clairaudient or clairvoyant – both of which can be learned – then channelled information is obvious as it is clear it hasn’t come from the physical plane.
For thought based channelling, detecting it is a little more subtle. If you have ever had an amazing flash of inspiration that comes in less than a second, then that’s a ‘gift’ and message from elsewhere. Remember to say “Thank You”. Compare this with your internal dialogue, perhaps where you are rehearsing internally a speech or a conversation you are about to have. Therein lies the difference.
So exactly what are you channelling?
It’s a common held belief that sentient life exists in our 3 space and 1 time dimensions. This is understandable. Physicists are postulating that 10, 12 or even 26 dimensions are needed to make the maths ‘add up’.
In these extra dimensions, other sentience exists and this is what you can tap into. Incidentally, this includes 2-D and 1-D worlds. This whole subject is huge so I’ll leave it there for now and may return to this subject later. Just for now, it’s worth pointing out that this sentience is not separate from us but inextricably linked in homogeneous fabric. A good name for this would be the superconsciousness.
How do you learn to channel?
There are two keys to this.
Firstly to allow your conscious mind to be quiet which is best achieved through entering a meditative state. Drugs and alcohol can have a similar effect but your other facilities may be weakened. I have recorded a specific visualisation called the Quantum Collapse of Thought which is great at helping you control the babble and chatter of your conscious mind.
Secondly, your unconscious mind needs to be balanced and quiescent as a conduit between your conscious mind and the minds beyond. This involves controlling and understanding your base emotions.
This blog is the first of many I plan to write (and channel) on this subject soon and for now just leave you with two thoughts …
“Most thoughts aren’t your own …”
“It only has to be true enough …”
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If you are interested in finding out more about channelling straight away, you can learn how to channel to a structure in my Unleash the Book Inside workshops and Home Study course
P.S. re: that surge of emotion – I found out later that this is what happens when you interact with consciousness at 5-D and 7-D – some refer to them as ascended masters and angels
A hyphen can make a huge difference in a word and give it a new semantic and the reader a new insight.
I’ve been rather taken recently by Lee Carroll’s Kryon channellings. In his first book, The End Times, he channelled much about “voiding karma” and taking the “neutral implant”. The simple message is one that we all know. When you address what it is you agreed to come here to do in this incarnation, then you move on and upwards gracefully and easily.
The simple addition of a hyphen and a letter makes it easy to understand the flip side.
If you a-void karma, then you get stuck in a loop and the same lesson comes around to hit you again and again. Perhaps it manifests as the same type of partner or the same dead end job. Once it’s recognised – or better expressed as re-cognised, as you have been there be-fore – you can move on and embrace the next challenge and new learnings.
So armed with this gem, you have the whole lexicon and richness of the English language to play with. The potential for enlightenment is immense.
Now I run workshops on creative writing where I teach authors how to tap into inspiration. Imagine my surprise when the addition of this simple hyphen led to a huge insight.
The etymology of in-spiration decomposes into the word into “in” and exposes the Latin root of “spirare” which means “to breathe”.
Now I was aware we speak on the out breath. Could it be that ideas, and divine guidance, come to us on the in breath?
Some experimentation with my own meditation, then with individual clients and latterly in group classes seemed to confirm this was true. I used a modified Taoist Drop meditation I learned from the Barefoot Doctor and amazing results ensued.
I was on a roll. This insight then morphed and expanded into inner-sight. My intuition told me that this was all really inner-tuition. Where would all this linguistic in-vention lead? There you go again with the breathing!
I have always thought it amazing what people like Leonardo achieved in a single life time. He was a polymath – an artist, sculptor and inventor. Not only did he think up the helicoptor but he had the pre-science to add the parachute too in case it failed. Now some Kryon channellings imply that our in-carnations do not necessarily follow chrono-logically. Perhaps this re-naissance man reborn in the past from a future life or another planet?
Yes, just re-read the above para-graph again. The semantic layering is deep, wide and so much fun.
So it tran-spires that the English language has become entrenched in concantenation. I suppose this occurs in all languages, naturally, from years of usage and abusage.
Then a horrible thought occurred to me. If language slides into the modern day parlance of mobile phone text-speak then the origins become lost forever – hardly LOL 4 U & I.
I was in-spired to craft some verse in order to re-verse this trend.
The addition of a hypen
A gift of inner-sight
We are what we speak
Inner-tuitive light
Expand The Word
Banish concantenation
Add a simple dash
For joyous e-lucidation
So a call to all
Authors, poets and scribes
Add verve and dashes to your work
Keep true meanings alive
Now such lyrical musings take your mind down new paths and it occurred to me while penning this that this thought piece would not be complete if it didn’t include re-search on the word hyphen itself.
It is often thought that spiritual practice is a desirable but sometimes not practical pursuit.
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I am Kryon, the magnetic master, your friend. I am Kryon of Magnetic Service and greet you with the words OMAR TA SATT.
While the messages of Kryon are flowing through the medium, an energy field is building up which is of great importance for each single one of you for this period. You have been conveyed the message that this is the year of change, a year full of contradictions, a year of struggle.
Once more the energetic pattern of Lady Gaia has changed and you can see and feel what this means for you. A field is being created, here and now in the present, here and now in this room, a field full of magnetic love energy, a field of energetic healing, a field of cleansing energies which are being brought to you and which are so important for you.
Kryon conveys the message of change to you. Everything you are experiencing in the duality in these times, what frightens you or wears you down is a big gift at the end of the day. It is the gift into a new life connected with various confusions which the human beings feel and cannot categorize. The energetic pattern has raised itself. Thus emotions cannot be held back anymore. You have surely noticed that often you cannot keep your moods under control anymore, that you are experiencing an up and down of emotions. But at the end of the day it is a gift.
Before Kryon conveys the messages of the New Age Kryon asks you: Go into the depth of your soul. Breathe the light of love and feel your divinity, your light, deep inside of you and unify all your chakras. Expand yourself like a sun, into all directions. And when you are ready, give the permission that three kinds of energies are transmitted which are of great significance. The magnetic love energies, healing energies and cleansing energies will flow. Lay down your hands with the palms facing up. With each breath that you take you open yourself more, become calmer and calmer. You ask the energies to flow into you. They will find their way and anchor themselves there where you need them. For this time on Earth is no easy time for the human beings.
We have told you – in so many messages – that old structures will collapse, that nothing stays the way it was. When you look into the outside then you can guess what this means for the structures have begun to break a long time ago. But before the great change occurs there will be a time in which the human beings will feel scared and be confused. But that these structures collapse is the condition of the ascension for the duality is an illusion. The old energy crumbles, it breaks apart. The new energy arrives – even your body feels this. For more than ever before do you feel Light Body symptoms in yourselves. But this, too, is a gift.
Feel how the energies are being brought to you, how they circulate in your system, you absorb them and accept them gratefully. In these times, when everything is changing, when the human beings apparently cannot hold on to anything, one of the most important messages which we can pass on to you human beings is this: Learn to erect your own thought system. Otherwise the collective will think for you! If you permit that the collective thinks for you in these times you can imagine how you are going to be with that. For the collective is in fearful, worried thoughts. We can convey the messages of the New Age to you. We can bring you the energies which you need. But you are the messengers of God on Earth. You are qualified and carry this ability in you to change yourselves, your attitude of mind, to detach yourself from the big collective and thus experience the freedom of your own personality and your own thoughts. So strongly does the collective power work on every human being at this time. Therefore hear the message of Kryon once more, which is: Become that which you are! Become that which you have always been! Recognize the divinity in you!
Now the time has come to understand – not only with the intellect, but with the heart – that it is a primordial right of yours to reach personal freedom and an attitude of mind of your own which is good for you. To go into the New Age without fear, without worry and full of courage and joy. Even if you think you are unable to endure the duality any longer, when you see how everything around you collapses, how you perhaps lose your job, how you carry Light Body symptoms and are still courageous enough to know: This is the struggle and I have the power to be and to live in such a way that I am thriving. For more than ever before your thoughts manifest in the outside when you have anchored them inside. The more your attitude of mind changes, the more your life will change. You will realize that this courage which you are summoning up in order to take a step can change your whole life. Even if you think to be tied to the collective, to be dependent on the collective, hear the message of Kryon: Dependency is illusion. You are a free person with free will, equipped with everything you need. With all the abilities you are the messenger of God on Earth. Shape your life the way you would like to. Accept this right which is in your soul. For in these times your soul shows you if something is not right. Your soul begins to knock, to call you, to show you. It calls and whispers to you: Look at me. Listen to me. I am you, you are me. We are one.
For not only are economic structures going to collapse, but also medical structures. But this is also a gift. The human beings are going to remember that there are self-healing powers in the body and that there are plants on Earth which are of significance. The human beings will have to understand how important conversations are – not conversations from intellect to intellect, but conversations from heart to heart. The human beings will learn to listen to each other again. They will learn to look into each others eyes and to discover themselves at the same time. The changes cannot be stopped and as they cannot be stopped it is the greatest gift that you yourself can be part of it. That you carry the energy and also the knowledge of what it means to let go of so much, which also makes it difficult for you at first. For letting go is a process which is difficult sometimes in the duality. Be it the letting go of possessions, the letting go of a job, the letting go of a partner, the letting go of thought patterns which catch up with you again and again. For this it takes courage. But you bear this courage in yourself. Each single one of you bears this courage in himself. For the energy of God is courage. The energy of God is love. And you are a messenger of God, great light in a human body, seemingly still imprisoned in a duality. But the new is arriving and is moving closer. Something new can only come into being by something old breaking into pieces. Do not stop between two energy frequencies, waiting, suffering, frightened, but make a decision for the path to awakening, no matter which path you choose for it. But make a decision. Make a decision for yourself for when you yourself are whole, when you yourself are cleansed, when you yourself are ready and courageous to allow the changes, then you can help so many human beings. You wouldn’t be here, not in these rooms, if there wasn’t a spark, a light somewhere in you which is telling you: Your legs have carried you here. You have taken a seat on a chair and that has a meaning – more than you can guess. For your soul has shown you that it is good to accept the changes and that the energies which are being brought to you today are doing you good and help you to master the difficult time in the duality.
Feel now the peculiarity, the healing energy of Raphael. Feel deep in you whether you are standing before a decision. If this is the case, use this opportunity when the energy of Lady Amethyst is flowing through you that you decide right here and now. You are being flooded with magnetic love energy of Kryon, and when everything shatters you will move closer together. You are a unit, bearing for this is the dawning of consciousness and the love. Because the third Light Body level of the human beings has been activated the soul does not permit that emotions store themselves in the bodily cells. This, too, is a big gift. There are many human beings who have developed themselves very far spiritually, Pioneers with expanded light, lightworkers and healers. Many of these human beings carry the burden of emotions within. They punish themselves when they feel an emotion of anger or sadness. They think they are no longer spiritual then. Believe me, even this emotion transforms itself and is love at the end of the day. Do not try to suppress something. You will see that this will work less and less. The masks which the human beings have built up for themselves will fall off and the light will appear, the light of glory. For in truth you will recognize your opposite when you look into his eyes and when a smile touches your soul.
Endeavour to choose your words which you speak carefully. Do not hurt with words. For behind each word is an energetic pattern. The human beings are learning to speak loving words again for the energetic pattern of the New Age is love.
You have received a high energy transmission, but the highest form of transmission of an energy frequency is the breath of God, and so you will feel the breath of God today which fortifies and strengthens you and stores in you the energies which have been transmitted to you. So let us feel the breath of God. Kryon asks you to rise and to lay your hands on your heart.
(A powerful song was played)
And so Kryon would still like to go into the most important Light Body symptoms which so many human beings bear at this time. Many human beings suffer from allergies, breathing problems, head-aches, inflammation of the joints, a feeling of tiredness at the moment and very many human beings are brooding over these Light Body symptoms. For after you have visited a doctor and this doctor has confirmed to you that there is no physical trouble you will recognize that they are Light Body symptoms of the New Age.
But how do you handle such Light Body symptoms? In the duality, the way you are experiencing it here, they are painful and trying and sometimes they also cause fear. But hear the message of Kryon. Hear the truth and the love of the words which are being transmitted when Kryon conveys the message to you: It is a new beginning. It is a sign of the times. It is a sign for the fact that the changes have already happened. Important about these Light Body symptoms is that you listen to your soul, that you know what this means. But do not simply give yourself to these Light Body symptoms for even this you can change with attitude of mind and with dawning of the awareness of who you are. You bear everything in yourself in order to provide yourself with relief. For example, if you suffer from breathing problems it is a sign that the magnetic new-energy has arrived and your cells are ready to change to prana breathing. It is the time of changes. Accept this as challenge and as gift. Each single one of you carries so many abilities within. Use these abilities. Even if you have the feeling sometimes that the High Councillors of the Light and the angels are not with you, know, we are always with you. With each breath that you take we accompany you whenever you permit it.
So, as farewell let us speak the highly energetic words together:
Like many of the best things in life, I can’t remember how I found the web site of the Kryon School. A serendipitous mouse click and I found myself downloading the first free step of 48 Ascension Steps. At first, I didn’t know what I’d chanced across. Was it real? Was it any good? Did it work? Could you really just take 48 steps at 20 euros each and be lead to some form of Ascension? If so surely this was the best investment that could be ever made.
I was so taken and captivated by the audio narration of the first step and the simplicity of the message that I thought it worth taking some baby steps. So I trusted the Universe and as ad hoc unexpected payments arrived in my PayPal account, I would buy another step and then another.
Over the months that followed, I found the visualisations and meditations both calming and enlightening. Bit by bit, strange coincidences would occur. I started noticing number sequences, hearing the actual sounds of the cosmos and had flashes of strong clairaudience in the Elohim Light Language.
It was clear that the Steps were working and raising my vibration. As veils of the illusion that comprise our reality were lifting, I saw the world in a new light and started communicating with a new level of claircogniscence with other levels of consciousness.
I took the 48th Step about three months ago; I have to say with some anticipation that was instantly followed with a sense of anticlimax. Then within 24 hours “stuff” happened and I found myself at a whole new level of being which is still taking time to settle.
In summary, I would recommend everyone at the very least took Step 1 – it’s free after all – to see how you get on with it. In these credit-crunchy days, as we approach 2012, my feeling is that they are one investment you can bank on.
Just after I wrote my first book, 100 Years of Ermintrude, I remember telling a psychic the manner in which I wrote it, how it just came in from nowhere and how I felt a huge surge of emotion when I’d finished it.
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