Lesson 18: Channeling and OOBE

Okay, I have touched on this before, and I will probably do so again, but Channeling and OOBE is two sides of the same coin. First, let's define what Channeling is.

chan·nel·ing noun: Purported communication by a disembodied entity through a living person, as by voice during a trance.

Okay, so using this definition, who is a Channel (the one who speaks the words that the disembodied spirit speaks)? Well, I can think of several examples, the Oracle of Delphi, some prophets (or profits) like Joseph Smith (although this can't be proved) and Jane Roberts (the channel of Seth), your priestess in ritual circumstances, and any other person who goes into some kind of trance to tell you the words of God. So many of the prophets of the Bible could be seen as channels.

Now, where do these souls come from? Most times, they are Teachers, Guides, Ascended Masters and others from the Astral Plane. However, in some cases, they are you.

You see, while I am here in this reality, and a spirit comes here, and I move aside for it to speak, I am the channel for that spirit. However, if I go to another reality, and speak to others there, then he is the channel for me.

Keeping this in mind, and remembering when I talked about going to a might-have-been and taking over the body of you there, this is what I mean when I speak about the channel being you. See, the same thing can happen in reverse, in other words, you-there can come to here and borrow your body.

Is this good or bad? It depends entirely upon what you are doing and what you want to do.

Normally a version of you who comes here knows more about their reality and can answer questions about where they live in great detail, but I have also seen those same people become completely bollixed and flummoxed by something simple like a light switch. So if the information you are after is about what is going to happen here, there are better ways of getting this information.

If, on the other hand, you are looking for information on how your life would have been different "if only" then you have the correct means of getting that information.

What do you need to channel effectively? First and foremost, you need to be practiced in AP and meditation and possibly hypnotic trance. Of a good help would be another person you trust to guide your trance state and ask questions of the person who comes here, and a tape recorder would always be helpful.

You can sit down and come up with a list of questions first, and then ask those questions to whomever shows up. However, there may be a few more things to consider.

First, what is the purpose of the session and what information are you looking for? Could this information come from other sources easier and more freely? Remember, just because the soul is you, does not mean that this entity who shows up will have any reason to give you the help you need or are asking for.

Second, just because this person is a version of you, does not mean that it will be inclined to help. I have met some versions of myself that were stone sons of bitches, and rude to boot. They not only told me to take a hike, but tried to enforce it with any means at their disposal. Now, granted, there is not a lot that you can do to a "ghost", but they tried. Imagine the havoc that can be caused by calling someone here who was not inclined to help, who decided to take it out on this plane. So, be careful.

The next thing is, who are you going to call? You may want to talk to a version of you named "George" on a might-have-been where Christianity died out, but unless you know exactly who you want, and you just say "George" you could get a version of you who is named George on a plane where nearly everyone is dead from a plague that swept the land. So you have to be specific, either in your mind and your idea of who you are trying to talk to, or in stating who you want.

Once all these conditions are met, it's fairly easy to get them here. But, if you are by yourself, it would be easier to just meet them on the AP, rather than allow them to take control of your body.

Now, if they can come here, how about you going there? Well, as already stated, you can. It's like projecting anyplace else, you simply do it, and settle into their body. However, you won't have to trance out to leave that body. All you have to do is to will yourself back "home".

Can you channel other beings like guides and so on? Yep. They tend to be a bit better about behaving themselves. You may want to pick up the books by Jane Roberts (one of which is called "Seth Speaks") to find out more about channeling.

Are there other things you can channel? Yep.

Whenever you act as a conduit for energy, you are channeling. That energy flows into you and out of you again. You send it to where it should be, and you are channeling it.

However, Edgar Cayce had a book on Channeling that I got once upon a time. I was interested in the "possession" type of channeling, but this book dealt with pulling information from the Akashic Record, the Mental Plane, and the Collective Unconscious, as well as from the IS.

His ascertation was that the information is out there, all you have to do is to look for it. When you get that information from another place, any of the above mentioned places, you are channeling that information.

This is the source of such things as "flashes of intuition" and "feelings" that you get that turn out correct upon examination. His book was supposed to help you to be able to channel this information easier. The title of it is "Edgar Cayce on Channeling" and if you are interested in this manifestation of AP, I advise you to read it. Just remember that Cayce was probably one of the best channels in the 20th century.

Just keep in mind that channeling and possession are the same thing, just happening on different realities.

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Okay, on to another part that I have touched on multiple times and not elaborate on too much. In a word, Magick.

I know I said that the practice you get in AP will increase your skill in magick, and vice versa, it's time for me to tell you why this happens.

First and foremost, you are dealing with realities that you can only see in your head. The AP is only accessible by either leaving your body, or by using your visualization to see the place you want to go. Few magicians are able to see the energy they summon and manipulate, so the same set of skills are being used.

That is one reason I was so big on you practicing your visualization skills back in lesson 6. It's one of those critical skills that you will need all the time, not only on the Astral Plane, but in so many more areas of your life.

I'm going to make a pronouncement here, and some of you may not believe me, but trust me, it's true. You can force things to happen on THIS plane using the same set of skills.

If you can see it, you can have it. It's an axiom that I just coined and I want you to remember it. As long as you can see it in your head, either you having it, or the final outcome of a spell or action, you can have that happen to you, even to the point of extreme effects.

Here's an example: A while ago my wife lost her job at Sprint. She decided at that point she would find a job making $30,000 per year, doing exactly what she wanted to do, with a kind boss who would take care of her and appreciate her and all those requirements that one has for a perfect job.

She sent this thought out into the universe. However, nothing happened. She sent out resume's, she went on temp assignments and so on, we moved, moved again and again and took care of my grandfather and so on. She raised my daughter for that time, and I worked.

Well, grandpa died, and I got to see he and my grandmother reunited on the Astral Plane, and Mary came to a decision. See, before she had done nothing to follow through with her desire, no follow-up rituals, no continuing to pump that desire into the universe and 4 years passed without anything happening. However, now she had motivation. She decided that she wanted that job, she could see herself working in that job, the cubicle around her and everything. She kept visualizing it every night, although she didn't do too much more mundanely than she had done before. And within 4 months, she had that perfect job, boss and all. She's now one of the highest ranked people in that company for an Administrative Assistant. Her boss is directly under the CEO. No one else in between her and the owner.

Now, this can't be taken as conclusive proof of anything other than her boss knowing a good find when he saw one, but I see it as proof of Magick in action.

Consider: She had done the same mundane actions as she had the first time, resumes and temp jobs and so on, with vastly different effects.

What changed? From the first time to the second, the only thing that did change was that she believed with all her heart and soul that she would get this job, and worked on it every day. There was no doubt in her mind that she would get it, but she was also patient.

That is the telling difference. Her belief.

Some nay-sayers would rationalize that there were other factors in play, better job market, better family condition, not as many pressures on her and I, and many other things. The faithful would say that it was not time for her to have that job yet, and that God would bless us when it was time.

To both of them, I say "bull". It's not God's decision when my wife gets a job, it's hers. It's easy to rationalize anything away to trivialities, and to dismiss any result you care to simply because it does not fit the parameters of the test.

She used the same skill set, visualization, knowing instead of believing, and patience to bring to her what she wanted. This is the same skill set that you have been developing since day one.

Did she do a lot of mumbo-jumbo rituals? That I know of, she meditated once, and that's all. No rites, no rituals, no props, the only thing she had was her will and desire.

What I theorize happened was that she set up resonances in her soul and spirit that said, in effect, "I will have this job. I will not be denied this job. I have earned this job." Since all life touches the Astral Plane, and all souls are part of the Astral Plane, when the BS of day to day is burned away, those resonances set up similar resonances on the Astral Plane.

Those resonances on the AP, pulled situations and people into her life that had similar resonances in them, and brought her and the job together in the end. A vibration in her, broadcast into the Astral, set up those same vibrations, and drew similar vibrations to it and her. Which had the real-world effect of bringing her and the job she wanted together.

As I have said, this is multiplied on the AP itself. When you are there, and set up the same set of vibrations, the vibrations are more powerful. Consider: Which sets up more waves in a pool of water? Holding a tuning fork over the water or plunging it into the water?

So, setting up these vibrations becomes somewhat easier to manipulate since on the Astral Plane you can see what you are doing, and know how to fine tune the desire or wish to bring it to you. You will know if you need to add more of *this* desire, and take away more of *that* wish, and so on. You can actually SEE these spells as they will work, and "purify" them to a certain extent.

Related to that, you can also do divination on the Astral Plane. Remember back several thousand lessons ago I gave you the graphic for the "tree theory of time" when we were discussing might-have-beens? I made a cryptic statement about how it's perspective that will allow us to know what will be coming? Here's where I talk about that some more.

On the Astral Plane, you are equal to the Gods. You have all the powers and abilities of a God, as well as having the perspective of the Gods. If you call up a representation of time in your Astral Temple, you will be able to see more of the pattern than just the few seconds that you know about.

You will see potentialities branching off what you are living now, see the steps that will lead you to those possibilities, and know the pitfalls along the way. You will start understanding that time and space don't exist because you can see what will be coming.

Now, this, like everything, is a double edged sword. Knowing what is coming up takes the fun out of life. Granted, it also diffuses the fear of living, but some people enjoy getting surprised by life. It also takes the hope out of life as well.

Think about this. You are in a bad situation, and through divination you KNOW that there will be no relief for a long time, as you also know there will be no resolution to any of the courses of action you take to solve this. You will stay in this state for quite some time, and you will not be able to get out of it.

Kind of takes the "it'll be better tomorrow" out of life, doesn't it?

So, that's one pitfall that you can avoid. Looking too much will change even what you are seeing, and you will have problems with your life if you spend all your time in the future.

One problem I ran into was the "their life is more interesting than mine, so I will watch them all the time" trap. Yes, other's lives are probably more interesting, but remember that it's relative. You are only seeing the "high points" in their lives, not the day to day drek that everyone goes through, and very few of the problems. In the final analysis, I bet your life is just as interesting as theirs is.

Okay, no assignment this time, but I would like to hear thoughts, or requests for more elaboration. There is lesson 19 and 20 to go before we start on the review, and I would like to get all the questions or points that are still unclear disposed of before we go over all the material again. Any comments made that I promised to elaborate on later and have not gotten to, any unclear explanations, anything that you would like reviewed again, please let me know.

I'll collect them and include them in lessons 19, 20 or the reviews.

Daven

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