Channeling - a matter of consciousness

Someone wrote a very nice note to me today explaining why the channeling we do is totally invalid. Her point was that direct intuitive knowledge is the only reliable divination technique. After writing her a rather lengthy reply about why channeling , and our channeling in particular can be valid, I decided to post it here, so that WHEN I get a similar challenge, I'll be able just direct them here without breaking my pace.

Her point was that direct intuitive knowledge is the only reliable divination technique. After writing her a rather lengthy reply about why channeling , and our channeling in particular can be valid, I decided to post it here, because i didn't really think I'd be facing these challenges from this group.

Anyway, here's my reply to her (cleaned up a little):

A lot of people feel the same way you do about channeling. And I know there's a lot of schlock out there that was supposedly channeled. It all comes down to personal consciousness. Just as some people are wiser than others, some attract wiser and more cooperative entities than others.

Many years ago, I tried using a Ouija board. I could tell that the first entity who came through had nothing important or serious to say, so I just dismissed him/her and asked for someone with a better message. My wife has a system of protection that she always puts up. She tells others about this too, and i suppose it's necessary, but I've never had the need. I can just tell if the entity has anything of importance for me. I can feel the love and good intentions - or not.

Anyway, I sincerely believe that channeling can be a useful tool, especially the way we do it! Danna channels her brother, whom she greatly loves. He was also a holy man in a previous lifetime, and I've started using that name, Rasha, instead of Billy, 'cause that seems to impress more people. She's also channeled an entity we both have a lot of history with. He gave me a series of lessons on how to get back to nature. She's also channeled a being who said his name was Othello, and that he was "the reader of the stars." Turns out he's a navigator for the Ashtar Command, and he has the highest energy either of us has ever been exposed to.

Besides, direct experience is not without it's pitfalls. People are comfortable with it because they trust their own perceptions and conclusions. However, that can be a big mistake, especially when people have to make leaps of faith to get past their natural mental censors of such info. Often they'll assume a depth and knowledge that's really beyond their experience. I've had lots of direct experiences, and Billy/Rahsa has had to correct the details many times.

Direct experience told me I had an affinity with Moses. Someone else might have jumped to the conclusion that they were Moses. Or a malicious entity may have confirmed it for them in channeling just to sit back and watch the fun. As it was, Billy told me I was his scribe, and together we worked out some of the details from that experience. I had memories, and he put a fine point on them.

The same thing happened with Dante. I said that whenever I read Dante or thought about the man, it felt really familar. Someone else might have taken that direct experinece and closeness with Dante and jumped to the conclusion that they were him in that past life. As it turns out I was Dante's grandfather. That info opened me up to other memories and issues that relate to other past lives - which Billy confirmed.

It's not that channeling is unreliable. Consciousness in this world is unreliable. If someone has a direct experience or memory or a channeled message, it can simply be be wrong because it has to filter through our human consciousness.

I've come to a very comfortable understanding about what I'm doing, and there are lots of checks and balances. I'll do conventional research, run it by my own intuition and contemplate it. Then I'll make a list of questions to ask in channeling.

When I ask specific questions in channeling, the answers are very clear, and I believe they have a very good chance of being correct. A very common sense picture of the issue in question always develops by the time I go through this process.

When I ask vague questions or personal questions like what am I supposed to do, or what's my purpose, I'm told to ask my own guides. I'll run all i get in channeling by my own guides anyway. The process begins and ends with a personal contemplation, and then I'll present the big picture back to Billy/Rasha in channeling.

Usually, he'll agree, but he might make minor corrections to some of the facts. I end up feeling very comfortable that I've gotten to the bottom of the researched subject. However, because channeling is subject to a consciousness that can screen and verify the facts given, and because many out there who are capable of a trance aren't capable of a high degree of digression, channeling has gotten a bad name.

It's too bad too. On the other hand, we all sacrificed a tremendous amount of awareness when we came into this world. I'm sure putting up walls to that awareness now that we're here is also part of that natural mechanism. Illusion is the name of the game in the 3D world, and just because truth is available doesn't mean it's always desirable. Still, when it is, I don't think we should entirely rule out channeling.

Blessings,

Hunt

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