Channeling
"Learning to channel is the single most important spiritual practice a person can learn to accelerate spiritual growth."
Vywamus

By
Dr. Joshua David Stone

Most people look at channeling as some strange metaphysical and esoteric phenomena while, in actuality, there is not a person in this world who does not channel all the time. We are all channels. The key point being who and/or what are you channeling.

People channel all kinds of things, some of which are: Physical body, their subconscious mind, their ego, their impulses, vital force, insights, inspiration, instincts, intuition, their soul, imagery, their Monad, dreams, spirit guides, Ascended Masters, art, music, creative writing, healing energies, and so on. What I am suggesting here is that most people are what I would call "unconscious channels". They are channeling and do not realize it, and are not always in control of what they are channeling.

Everyone is a channel. The key question is what are you channeling and do you have self mastery over the process. As one gains self mastery over their energies they develop total control over what channels through them. The ideal is to become a channel for those energies that serve the soul and the monad or God.

Every person has specific strengths in terms of what they channel. Some people are thought and intuitive channels as their greatest strengths. Other types of people are very good at channeling imagery and visualizations. Some people are great channels for music, as they hear the music just come to them inside their head. Other types of people are channels for great artistry. Healers are great channels of energy and vital force. It is important to become attuned as to what your specific gift is this lifetime and to use it for service to mankind.

We each have a right brain and a left brain. The only problem is that we are taught in school to deny our right brain for the most part and to only use our left brain. We are taught to be totally logical, scientific, and deductive in our reason. The imaginative, psychic, intuitive, part of ourselves - we are taught to disown. As children, this side of ourselves is very open. Children are very clairvoyant (inner sight), claraudient (inner hearing), and clarsentient (inner feeling and touch). By the time they go through a traditional schooling these natural faculties get shut down and programmed to close down.

Albert Einstein used to sit in his rocking chair and gaze at the clouds which would make him very dizzy, and put him into a self-hypnotic state. In this state he would ask questions about his inventions and answers would come to him.

Thomas Edison would sit in a chair and hold ball bearings in his hand and squeeze them as hard as he could for as long as he could. After five minutes or so the ball bearings would drop from his hand in exhaustion and he would ask questions about his inventions and answers would come to him.

Nikola Tesla would receive detailed images in his mind of inventions in the most detailed form. These blueprints he would receive in his mind were so detailed that he often didn't even need to create physical blueprints of his inventions.

All knowledge is already known in the universe. We need to just learn to quiet our minds and ask questions and all the answers, guidance and direction we need is totally available for the asking. Most of us are too busy allowing our minds to chatter away, which blocks the ability of this information to flow through. Each of us has within us the ability to access all knowledge. It is available to everyone. It is just a matter of learning how to tune into it, like you would tune a radio receiver.

Edgar Cayce called prayer talking to God. He called meditation listening to God. Many people have the idea that they have done their duty if they have said their prayers, after which they just jump up and go about their business: but what if God were listening patiently and just waiting to give answers, illumination or insight right then and there and they have left the attentive state without waiting to even receive those answers.

Most of us do not listen as well as we pray. Channeling is the ability to learn how to listen, to be receptive and to allow information to come to us without using the left brain to figure it out first. Part of the ability of channeling is to learn to quiet the left brain.

I emphasize again, that everybody reading this book knows how to channel and has been doing it for a long time. The purpose of this chapter is to refine and hone this ability.

When most people think of channeling they think of voice channeling. This is where a person attunes to the spiritual world and allows a spirit guide, or their Higher Self, or an Ascended Master to speak through the person who is channeling in a sense using the person's vocal chords. This is one type of channeling, however, not the only way it can be done.

Some people channel through what is called automatic or channeled writing. They use a pen, typewriter or computer and allow guidance to bring forth information through their hands. This is also an excellent way to do it. As I have said, other people can tune into spirit and will channel images which are guidance from spirit. Others will channel through the medium of telepathy, or thoughts not in a voice. Some people will receive poetry or sounds, or spirit may paint or write music through a person. All of these forms and many more can be learned and developed with practice.

I would highly recommend you find a psychic development, and/or channeling class where you can initiate this practice with other people. Then on your own begin to try out various forms and practice, practice, practice. These are skills which take practice and with which one gets better and better over time. You may also find some form which you didn't expect, to be especially satisfying, thus trying a variety is recommended.

Try to recognize what your strong points and weak points might be in terms of the kind of channeling you are most suited for. I want to emphasize here that no one form is better than another. No one person has all abilities. People can be likened to a forest on a sunny day. As the sun shines through the top of the trees in a forest it reaches the ground in individual rays of light. Each person is like one of these rays of light. We are each cells in the body of God, and each cell has its unique and specific function in God's Divine Plan. The most important thing is to not compare yourself with other people and to find, instead, the essence of your core function which God would have you express. My wife and I channel in completely different ways. I can't do what she does and she can't do what I do. Together we make a greater whole. Find the way that is best suited for you.

There are two levels of channeling I am differentiating here. A person can channel on a psychological level or on a spiritual level. When you are channeling psychologically you are channeling subconscious parts of oneself. For example you can channel specific sub-personalities in your subconscious mind. You can channel your emotional body or mental body or even your physical body. You can channel your inner child or inner parent. This list is in actuality endless and infinite. Again we all do this all the time but we are not doing it consciously. You might try doing this in your journal writing. It is like role playing. Just pretend you are leaving the conscious mind state and becoming a part of yourself. Let that part write through your journal. Then go back to the conscious mind state and talk back to it. You are dialoguing in your journal which is a form of channeling.

The second level of channeling would be your attempt to channel a higher spiritual source of information. You can channel spirit guides, the soul, your monad, Ascended Masters, angels, nature spirits, extraterrestrials. The one warning I would give you is that, as Jesus said, "In my Father's house there are many mansions." What He meant by this is that there are many dimensions of reality. When you are channeling spiritual guidance I would recommend only channeling your own soul or monad, and beings that are ascended Spiritual Masters.

People who fool around with ouija boards and the lower psychic arts often begin channeling and contacting what I would call lower astral entities. Remember how I told you in a previous chapter that there are seven dimensions of reality. I would recommend channeling only beings that are on the Monadic, Logoic or higher planes of consciousness in terms of their evolution. Astral plane entities are not likely to have very much more knowledge than you have. Just because a spiritual entity is on the other side does not mean they are evolved. You might be talking to Aunt Betty who just died, who didn't believe in spiritual things when she was living and still doesn't even though she died.

I am suggesting that you should skip the physical, astral, mental, buddhic and atmic planes, and attune to the sixth and seventh dimensions of reality which, again, are the Monadic and Logoic planes of the Ascended Masters. When you are about to begin channeling all you have to do is make this request. You just say something like, "I now attune myself to the spiritual dimensions of reality where the Ascended Masters dwell and I now ask to speak to ...(Jesus, for example)... I do not accept any other guidance except from the planes of the Ascended Masters." It doesn't matter really how you say it. The formation of the request in your mind and thought-form will protect you. How you form your thoughts is like the radio receiver I was speaking of earlier. If you set your intent and attunement as I have mentioned, then that is all that can come in.

If you ever hear a voice or receive guidance in any way that feels unloving, or authoritarian, you can ask with whom you are speaking and they will have to tell the truth. If you feel that your radio receiver (your mind) has attuned to a lower vibration then just with the power of your mind, dismiss the connection and say some prayers or protection and attunement and be firmer and more focused in your attunement. (See the chapter on Psychic Self Defense.)

Sometimes doing a little praying or spiritual reading or chanting God's name before you start can help in the beginning until you get the hang of it and it becomes a natural easy habit. In fact, it is always good to clear and attune yourself to the Highest before beginning any endeavor of this sort or before beginning your day, as a matter-of-fact.

In summary, don't waste your time channeling astral or mental plane spirits, go for the spiritual level and higher. Why channel astral and mental plane beings when you can just as easily channel your soul, your monad and Ascended Masters who are longing to speak to you and help you in any way They can. It is their greatest pleasure to do so. They are there for the asking, however, they never interfere with our free choice. The same goes for your soul and monad. They are happy to speak to you and give you guidance and direction, but they must be asked for help. This is Divine Law.

The following is a good prayer of protection to start your channeling, or even before bed, or any time you need it.

Beloved Presence of God, my monad, my soul, and beloved Ascended Masters, I ask to be clothed in a robe of light, composed of the love, wisdom and power of God. Not only for my protection, but so that all who see it or come in contact with it will be drawn to God and healed. You might also use the "Tube of light" prayer of protection in the chapter on the might I AM Presence.

The actual process of channeling is quite easy.

Step 1.
Begin by saying the soul mantrum of Djwhal Khul.

I am the Soul
I am the Light Divine
I am Love
I am Will
I am Fixed Design.

Next begin by imagining a tube of light extending from the top of your head all the way up to the highest spiritual dimensions of reality. Even though you may be imaging this tube for the first time as you read this, the tube has been there all along.

Step 2.
Imagine a clockwise spiral moving down the tube coming from the spiritual plane and moving right through the tube down through all your chakras right into the earth. Do this two or three times and move it with your breath. The purpose of this is to clear your tube and chakra column of any psychic debris before you begin.

Step 3.
Invoke the Ascended Master, or your soul or your monad that you wish to speak to. You have already made contact with your soul and invoked the soul's help by doing the soul mantrum. Just say something like, "I now call forth _____________ ! The soul mantrum has provided an added protective field, besides any other prayers or attunement you may have done on your own. As you call forth the Ascended Master you wish to speak to, feel this energy coming down the top of the tube into the top of your head. Feel the contact and ground it into your physical body.

Step 4.
You are now ready to channel. To begin you must "kick start" the process by either saying something out loud if you are doing voice channeling, or beginning to write or type if you are doing channeled writing. The Ascended Master glides in on top of your initial words, then just let it flow. Get the left brain/critical mind out of the way and don't worry about what comes out.

You might want to tape record it if you are doing voice channeling so you don't have to think about what you are saying. If it doesn't come through in a claraudient voice (so that you actually "hear" words), then just say the first thing that comes to your mind.

In the beginning it may also be important to "pretend" if your critical mind is doubting the process. Just pretend, let's say... "Djwhal Khul" is speaking. By pretending you are allowing Him to glide in on your role playing. As you let go more and more it will no longer feel like pretending, it will be the real thing. If you are doing other forms of channeling such as dancing, then you have to take the first step. If you are channeling music, then you have to play the first chords to "kick start" the process. If you are painting, then you need to start the process by making the first couple of brush strokes, and so on.

Step 5.
Closing and clearing the process. Sometimes the teacher will leave first. If not, kindly dismiss the connection and thank the Master of your soul for the guidance. It is very important to dismiss the connection, for you do not want to stay in the channeled state all the time. It is not healthy for the physical body to channel all the time.

As I mentioned earlier there are the two levels, the spiritual and the psychological and both need to be lived. If a person would channel all the day they would get disassociated and perhaps confused. The ideal is to channel and receive your guidance and energy and then ground yourself and live your life demonstrating that which you have learned. To channel all the time would be like meditating all the time and not living.

When you dismiss the channeling connection you are getting back your "sense of self" and your own personal power and self mastery. So, in essence, you have the best of both worlds.