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TAKE CHARGE: The spirit you are channelling may be your own

Last updated: March 25th, 2019

Channelling as a way of communicating messages from discarnate beings in language that you and I can understand has been around for many years and even seems to be increasing in popularity. It’s predicated on the belief that the messages that come floating down from “above” are the utterances of presently existing celestial beings. Yet I suspect that much of the channelled material is from “below.” There’s nothing fundamentally magic or supernatural about it. Just as active volcanoes “channel” hot lava from the bowels of the Earth, mediums channel psychic lava from the bowels of the collective consciousness. Generally, the more spiritually refined eruptions are channelled, but quite a bit of dross gets into the mix.

One night in the late 60s a friend of mine and I were walking through the exclusive Broadmoor area on the southwest edge of Colorado Springs, Colorado. After passing many large mansions that were clothed in darkness, we came upon one where light was streaming through some windows on the first floor and where several cars were present in the parking lot. Curious, we walked over to one of the windows and peered in. A man at a lectern was speaking to a small audience, and even though the window was closed, the words were audible. Someone in the room saw us at the window and soon a nearby door opened and we found ourselves surrounded by a group of people. I momentarily thought they meant to do us harm, but one man smiled and calmly asked us if we would like to come in. Not knowing what we were getting into, we meekly agreed. We were seated in the front row of the audience, and as the impressive man at the podium lifted his eyes upward and spoke in clarion tones the person beside me whispered, “He’s channelling Saint Germain.”

This was my first exposure to channelling. After the service the speaker introduced himself to us as Mark Prophet, leader of the Summit Lighthouse and The Great White Brotherhood. After he died a few years later, his wife, Elizabeth Clare Prophet, who was also present that night, took over the leadership and formed the Church Universal and Triumphant that drew quite a following among the New Age community. As intriguing as this encounter with Mark and Elizabeth was, I nevertheless emerged from the gathering with my natural skepticism intact. The words Mark spoke had a certain beauty and the ring of truth, but I couldn’t quite bring myself to believe that they were the spontaneous proclamations of an “ascended master.”

I must admit that at one time in my writing career I was thinking of getting into the channelling profession myself. A lot of spiritual inspirations and insights were coming to me from who knows where, and I thought if I could attribute them to an ascended master it would measurably boost the popularity of my writings and enhance my personal reputation as well. Yet something in me, perhaps a desire for “truth in advertising,” rebelled at this idea. Why credit an ethereal entity with my own intuitions? The voices I’m hearing from the depths and heights may just be my own! Sure it may be more glamorous and profitable to claim inspiration from the Archangel Gabriel. And flattering to the ego: “Look, everyone, Gabriel has chosen me as his/her channel!” But where does all of this frolicking in the ethers leave the spirit of truth and personal integrity?

So if you have a valid perception of truth, why not give yourself a little credit before leaping to the conclusion that it must have originated with a disembodied entity? A spiritual leader who I admire put it this way: “My very nature is an aspect of wholeness of the Divine and longs to be joined in union with that reality. I am the flute, the hollow reed. I am the capacity through which the spirit comes. I am the servant of that. I am the man of God who worships that reality, knowing that it is my reality.”Another message I’m getting from the high place in myself in this moment is this: “Put aside distractions and diversions. Rise up and take charge of your own spiritual life. Only so will come the clear perception and mature leadership required to restore sanity and spiritual government on Earth.”

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[su_panel background=”#f2f2f2″ color=”#000000″ border=”0px none #ffffff” shadow=”0px 0px 0px #ffffff”]Jerry Kvasnicka, a graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, has had a varied career as a youth minister, a radio news reporter, a writer and editor for several magazines and journals and a custodian with the Loveland, Colorado school district. Jerry currently edits and writes for the spirituality section of the online magazine The Mindful Word. He has lived at the Sunrise Ranch spiritual community in Loveland for twenty-five years. He can be reached at jerry@themindfulword.org.


image: David Niblack (Creative Commons BY-ND)

  1. Well done Jerry! and thank you for this piece. I too have a “natural skepticism” of channeling and I much prefer the genuine intuition of a self-professed seeker in full awareness of their humanity. That is the kind of heartfelt advise I will consider any day. All the rest is just a fancy costume!

  2. Thank you for your comment, Stacey. We all have the capacity to “channel” our own reality–the innate, intuitive connection with the truth of love at our core. Of equal importance to an awareness of our humanity is an awareness of our divinity. We are here on earth to blend the two.

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