channeled on 1998_08_02

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Channeling Class Lesson One:
Meeting the Source

"This is Spirit, welcome.

"First, let's define channeling ~
as direct, two-way inner communication
with an entity other than your conscious self.
It could be a part of you not ordinarily in consciousness
like a 'higher self',
or it could be someone completely different than you,
or even your own spirit essence.

"Specifically this part of the class
is about channeling the Spirit part of God,
talking to me and receiving a response back.

"Channeling is of course different than prayer.
With most prayer, a person humbles themselves before another being,
very often with an attitude of worship and supplication,
and the communication is usually only in one direction.

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"Channeling has all the advantages of prayer
with the additional advantage
that you are able to hear my responses.
Because channeling is a two-way communication,
it necessarily supposes some degree of equality.
In fact, it is a collaborative endeavor
and involves some give and take on both sides.

"In this class we'll cover
how to recognize my presence and connect with me directly.

This will be a personal connection,
so we can talk about our journey together
and find more and better ways to collaborate.
There are some things
I can tell you only on the inside
that will make a difference
in how well the healing work goes.

"In the channeling process
when you're addressing me
you'll be speaking for yourself, of course.
When I address you, however, I must speak through you.
So you'll also be speaking for me.
In both directions you are the speaker,
first speaking for yourself, and then speaking for me.

"You already know how to speak for yourself,
but what about speaking for me?
The two primary questions
that will be answered in this class are:
How will you know what I'm saying?
And how will you know it's me who's saying it?

"You'll know it is me you are channeling
when you sense my presence.
You can know my presence
as the inner voice, thought, image, or sense
that is clear
and with the highest, most inclusive point of view you can have.
My messages will have the ring of truth,
they will feel right and can be verified in your heart.

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My communication is always inclusive and free of judgment.
I will never tell you that something you have done is wrong.
I am the one inside who knows you to be innocent.

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I am the presence and the voice that tells you
the goal is wholeness,
that we have work to do together,
and that you are more
than who you've thought you were.

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"When you do the running energy exercise, remember
as you draw down my Light
that I come within you
with complete acceptance of who you are
and everything you've thought, felt, and done.
Where you are now is the right place for you.
Of course you'll be farther along later,
and right here and now you're fine just as you are.

"You will know it is me by a certain feeling of energy
that you'll come to know and rely on.
When the feeling and energy is present, then I am too.
The feeling itself, where it's felt,
and how it's felt
all vary from person to person.
The important thing is that you develop a way
to recognize and find the sense of this feeling
whenever you wish to channel.

"So, how will you know what I'm saying?
You will know what I'm saying
because you will be interpreting my energy
[italics in the original].
My communication is like a signal
that rides on the 'carrier wave' of my energy.
You will know how to interpret the information in my energy
because it will show up as a pattern in your imagination.

"Channeling, like all other inner phenomena
happens in the imagination.
This is the faculty humans use to access the inner planes,
spiritual worlds, divine reality
or whatever you wish to call what is beyond the external, material world.
We'll make use of the imagination
to establish contact with each other,
and to carry out the channeling process.
You can think of the imagination as a permeable membrane
located right at the water line in the metaphor of the iceberg
in the introduction to this class.
Being between the two major parts of the mind, it is shared by both.

"New ideas, insights, creative inspiration and intuition
all begin in the unconscious mind.
As these kinds of impressions,
including the energy you will be interpreting,
rise to awareness,
they pass through the imagination.
The conscious, aware mind perceives these impressions
as representations in the imagination.
Sometimes the impressions are represented visually as images or pictures,
sometimes auditorily as sounds or words,
and sometimes sensorially as feelings or energy.

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"Of these three main perceptive modalities,
the most reliable is sensory.
My presence is most often experienced
as a felt sense,
but I am not limited to this.
My voice and words are often heard,
and of course having an image to represent me inside is not uncommon.
The common feature of all these systems is
that they can only represent me, they are not me.

"I am spirit manifesting as Creation.
No representation or set of representations
can completely capture my essence,
or all of my communication.

In the next lesson of this class
we'll explore a method of channeling
that will make it very easy to interpret
and put into words the communication in my energy.

"For now we will focus
on getting a good sense of what my energy is like,
and making a clear contact with each other.
When you channel, you want to know for sure
that I am your source,
that it's me you're channeling.
It will not be the version of me
that is being channeled on this web site
or anywhere else on the outside,
but the me that is dwelling right inside of you.
Of course they are all aspects of me,
however

the truest sense of God you will find
is the sense of my presence inside of you
and in the life around you.

"You can connect with me anytime you can sense me.
And often 'seeing' an image or 'hearing' a voice
can help you calibrate to the feeling sense of my presence.
For this reason it can be very helpful for us
to have a virtual 'meeting' in your imagination.

"There is another exercise
that goes along with the running energy exercise
that will help you develop the ability to sense my presence
and distinguish it from other manifestations of Spirit.
I have asked the channelers to present this practice from their own experiences."

Meeting the Source Exercise

Channeling Class Lesson Two
Channeling Class Introduction
Channeling Class Discussion

Running Energy Practice