This is something that absolutely must be addressed directly if the community is going to move forward. While there's a ton of wonderful, loving, evolved messages that are brought to us through channeling, there's also a whole lot of information that's very questionable, to put it nicely. I've lost count of all the failed predictions and the carrot-on-a-stick type promises of amazing things in the near future. Then there's all the "behind the scenes" information that's impossible to confirm, it has to be accepted on faith alone. Then the really odd stuff... Archangels are giving me investment advice? Pardon the French, but that just makes me say, what the fuck? I can't help but laugh at how ridiculous some of this is. Channeled messages are supposed to be super-evolved higher-consciousness information, why are they like this? Well I've got a very simple explanation that brings sense to all of this: channelers are channeling themselves.
At first glance it may seem like I'm trying to discredit channeling, but that's not my intention, I want to breathe new life into it. I don't need to discredit channeling, there's plenty of channelers who do a great job of that without any help from me. When I say that channelers are channeling themselves, I'm not discrediting channeling, in fact I'm giving credit to the channeler. That wonder transcendent message of Divine Love? That was You! You brought that through! Isn't that wonderful?
But no, most channelers aren't quite ready to merge with their Higher Selves. That's obvious, because if they did that they wouldn't need to channel anymore, they'd just speak Divine Truth directly. They still carry around this illusion of separation from the Divine, so they can't take direct responsibility for the messages. They still don't believe they can be as amazing as they really are, so they have to attribute it to someone else, some Being that they can believe is that amazing.
So if they're really channeling their Higher Self, how come we get so much incorrect information? Well, the thing is, they're not always channeling their Higher Self, they often channel their own mind. Because the channeling is largely unconscious, it's difficult for the channeler to tell exactly where the information is coming from. The mind is great at telling people what they want to hear, in fact that's essential for the mind's survival. When the channeled messages start to ramble, sound like religious prophecy, or sound like a plot from a Hollywood movie, it's usually because it's just the mind making stuff up. It's a form of wish-fulfillment. It will often sound legit, but that's because the channeler's mind is appealing to people's preconceived beliefs about how a Divine Being is supposed to speak , dear ones.
Notice that when they're talking about raising Consciousness, the channelings are often spot on and very helpful. When they're talking about earthly matters, politics and predictions for the future, channeling is very hit or miss. Sure, they're correct sometimes, but given the amount of predictions that are made, some are bound to come true purely by chance. When you keep predicting change is going to happen repeatedly for decades, you're bound to be correct eventually.
So why so many channelers who channel Archangels and Ascended Masters, and so few who claim to be channeling their Higher Self? Well that's actually not the case, there's tons of channelers who understand that they are bringing in information from their Higher Self. However, it's not the channelers that make a message popular, it's the readers, and the readers put more faith in names they recognize. It's marketing 101, and it's unfortunate that it works the exact same way in the spiritual community as it does in mainstream society. Someone who claims they're channeling Archangel Michael is going to draw more attention and more trust by default, regardless of the accuracy of the message.
It's also important to understand that much of the channeled information is not a message from some Higher Dimensional Being to the whole world, but direct advice from the channeler's Higher Self to the channeler themselves. Things the channeler needs to work on, realizations they haven't quite come to. Sometimes advice is repeated over and over again because the channeler hasn't quite integrated it yet, though often this seems to go over the head of the channeler. Often the channeled message will even say, either directly or indirectly, that the being they're channeling is Themselves. Not all channelers are ready to hear this though, so it gets filtered out.
One thing that I feel would greatly enhance the credibility of channeling is for all channelers to take direct responsibility for what they're telling people. This should go without saying, of course you're responsible for a message that you put out to the public, but there are many channelers who take no responsibility for what they're telling people. That's irresponsible, it's the very definition of irresponsible, and yet some of these people get substantial followings. I highly recommend staying far away from channelers who take no personal responsibility for their channelings, it almost always seems to end in disaster. It's happened many times that a channeler will blame their own mistakes on beings of Unconditional Love and Truth. That kind of stuff makes me want to grab these channelers and scream some not very nice stuff at them. The channeler just needs to admit they made a mistake instead of making up excuses. The fact that this happens ought to be more than enough proof that channelings often just come from the channelers own mind.
A common explanation for false information coming through a channeler is that they were being influenced by negative astral entities. The thing about these entities though is that they aren't really real. They're negative thought patterns given "life" by your own mind. If nobody fed them anymore, they'd disappear, simple as that. Of course, for someone who can't see past their own mind, they may seem very real. A channeler is supposed to be more aware than that, and supposed to be able to tell where their information is coming from. A channeler is responsible for bringing in an authentic message, if they can't, they have no business channeling, or at least they shouldn't be spreading their channelings to thousands of people and claiming it's absolute truth.
Let me finish by saying I'm not against channeling, I feel it can be very helpful in bringing in messages of Love and Oneness. It can assist you in reconnecting with your Higher Self/God. I'm just aware of the obvious pitfalls and mistakes regarding channeling that the spiritual community seems to be making over and over again. To really move forward we need people merging with their own Divine Intelligence on an individual level, not putting a few channelers and teachers up on pedestals and treating them as infallible sources of Divine Truth. That's not the new paradigm at all, it's very much the old paradigm, that sort of thing is the basis for most religions.
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Thank you Will. Discernment is vital, and 'vital' comes from the heart. ;))
Just remember, when someone is truly connected/merged with their Higher Self, there is a unity between that Self and all higher dimensional Beings. To see it as an 'either/or' scenario is dualistic. If a person is very steady and centered in their heart, messages flow through from whichever consciousness 'flavour' is right at/for that moment. The ego mind (of channels and readers not in high vibration) attaches more value to 'big names' than 'unknowns'; it's just another version of the cult of celebrity, pretending to be spiritual, when it's really a psychospiritual drama.
There are higher dimensional Beings assisting us, hugely; it's just got a bit hard to see the wood for the trees. But that is all a lesson of discernment, and going deeper and deeper into your own heart connection with Source.
There is also a lower astral 4D band; it exists because the collective fear consciousness magnetizes it, and it creates a lot of distortions in who/what channels think they're connected to, and what readers perceive. There are channels who are conscious disinfo agents, although from my view, most are well-intentioned. However, if those well-intentioned have any subconscious fears, such as lack of self worth (ego desperately desires attention) or survival stuff going on ( desperate desire to bring through 'good news of imminent change' with dates, promises etc) they need to have a very good, honest look at their hurt inner child, and heal and release lower energies, as do the readers who take on their words without their compass set to true north, so to speak.
Then we can all clear the decks and see/feel what is what.
Namaste.
Thank you--this article is much needed right now.
The synchronicity of this article can't be missed in light of some of the most recent channelers of popular sites that have come to some of the realizations you mentioned above. I have always taken channeling with a grain of salt, especially the ones that paint a very rosy picture however I can think of others that make sense and are more ingrained in reality.
If the Dark Cabal wanted to influence the New Age movement and affect the creation of a new paradigm, certainly 'channeling' their own message would be one way of making this happen, complete with predictions designed to coincide with their agenda.
Learning to trust thinking with your heart and the practice of making conscious contact with your higher self will always be our best bet.
Best article in a long time. Thank you.
I agree with you. I have merge with my higher self. When I want to know something it comes directly from my centre. There is no need to channel. I could only feel joy. That joy never leaves you. I always say joy is the celebration of remembering who you truly are. I realized it is in the expansion that we create and it is eternal. My memory of experiencing different planets, galaxies, etc. It all comes down to, that I am creator of the ideal who I want to be next. So just enjoying my creation here. This is were my awareness is most prominent however I know that I exist everywhere else at the same time.
Ahh what a breath of fresh air! This site really needs to hear this fresh information that for me really is spot on!
"Dear ones" ^^
Well I've been thinking myself in these same patterns and I feel that I have started to get a very good connection to my Higher Self when I personally need it. The preconcieved idea I had of it before I knew it was happening was far from the reality, and I also believed that something "out there" was to reach for for the ultimate truth when I've had it inside of me all the time. I just need to ask and listen when the time is right.
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We can remedy the "ignore"-part quite easily by keeping commenting and clicking this post over the weeks, so that it will always stay on top of the "hot topics"-list. :)
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