In the beginning....Part 3

I tried to go back to regular outer life. Work, work out, surf the net, movies. It seemed flat and empty, very two dimensional. I felt stuck and lonely, not able to move forward or backward.

Luckily, I managed to find a spiritual school through the internet called Delphi University. Delphi is located in a remote location in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains. Not only is the location beautiful and serene, but the teachers and classes offered there are phenomenal. I highly recommend it:

http://www.delphiu.com/

At Delphi I met like-minded souls and began to do the work I needed to become more grounded and whole. I began meditating again and focusing on my spirituality, but not channeling. I continued to focus spiritually, take classes and do inner work over the next ten years, but I decided to wait on channeling until I could find a teacher.

Finding a teacher has not been easy. There are many good channeled books out there through. My favorite, besides the Seth Material, is anything by Sanaya Roman. Sanaya channels a being named Orin. Orin has amazing energy - you can feel it in their books and cds. His message is so positive, simple and yet profound. They have the best book out for learning to channel, "Opening to Channel." I go back to their books all the time when I need inspiration. I always find myself giving my copies of their books away to friends in need.

http://www.orindaben.com/

Unfortunately, during my doubting days I destroyed all the wonderful channeling notes, tapes and information from the beginning. A lot of information I channeled that seemed crazy or ridiculous back then to me, now makes sense. I did channel a bit off and on over the ten years since, but nothing consistent like in the beginning. Mostly channeled messages would come through when I seemed to be in dire need of answers or inspiration.

Well, 10 years, 1 foreign country, and 4 states later, I finally found a channeling teacher. As you can imagine, it wasn't until I was living in the greater Los Angeles area that I found a real live channeling teacher. Even though it took me two hours driving during rush hour on the 405 to get there each week, nothing was going to stop me.

In the beginning.....Part 2

My boyfriend at the time was taking a nap next to me when the voice first spoke through me. It was Will again. He told him to grab a pen and write the message down.

From then on we channeled almost daily. It took me about half an hour to get into the deep meditative state where the channeling would begin. I was not very aware of the message as it came through. Will and the other beings who channeled through me worked on me energetically so that it could become easier for me to receive their messages in a more conscious state.

A lot of things opened up for me spiritually at this time. I experienced lucid dreams, out of body experiences, and past life memories. It was very exciting, as if a whole new world had opened up. All I wanted to do was meditate, read, and channel.

Of course, I still had a lot of spiritual maturing to do, which I didn't realize at the time. I had a lot of healing left to do in my lower (physical/emotional) chakras, but I only liked spending time in my upper (spiritual) chakras. Over time, this created imbalance. My head was up in the stars but my feet weren't grounded securely on Earth.

This happens a lot when people start awakening to their spirituality. You have all these amazing spiritual experiences and you begin to think, why do I have to be stuck here on Earth? There's so much pain and cruelty. The spiritual world is so much "better." So I tried to move beyond the physical realm by spending all my time in the spiritual realm.

The truth is that you cannot leave something until you have mastered it. You can avoid it, even for a whole lifetime, but you will still have to come back to it in some shape or form in another lifetime. And so, my own disowned lower chakra energy came back to me, but fairly quickly.

What a person starts to channel, a lot of energy can come into their energy system. If that person has been doing a lot of meditating and self-growth, it can be more easily integrated into their life. If a beginner like me brings through all that energy and doesn't continue to do their self-growth work, it can wreak havok. Not to scare anyone. It's just good to have a teacher or a friend who has gone through the process, so you don't fall into your own illusion or delusion.

Imagine that you have lived in a dimly lit house all your life. One day a bright light shines into your house. Suddenly you notice many wonderful details that you had never seen before in your house. You get very excited. The more the light shines, however, you also notice all the dust and dirt in the house. Instead of cleaning the house, you get angry at the light for showing you the dirt. That is what I did.

All the energy that was coming through me began to also intensify my own disowned darker energy. I began to have negative experiences when I channeled. Fearful messages would come through. I started to doubt the whole channeling phenomenon. I didn't have anyone to talk to who channeled. So I just stopped.

In the beginning..... Part 1

I first began channeling about 10 years ago. I discovered the Seth material by Jane Roberts and was blown away. The quality of information that Jane received through the entity Seth was exceptional. I couldn't get enough of it. I had so many of my own questions that I decided to try it myself.

Jane first channeled Seth through the use of the Ouija Board. I know a lot of people are spooked by the Ouija Board, but I figured that intention creates results. If you have the energy of curiousity and fear, that is what you attract. So I set my intention to call a high-level spirit guide to come through.


Results came right away. The cursor moved but the answers started out as jibberish. After several tries I contacted someone who was no longer physical, but not very enlightened. It's a common misconception that once people pass over, they become enlightened. That has not been my experience. It took some time before I began to communicate with an entity that was coming from a place of love and wisdom.

The first entity I channeled was a spirit guide of mine named Will. Will gave me a lot of information about personal issues that were affecting me at work and in my relationships. He always helped me see the higher meaning and the bigger picture of what was going on without making me feel bad. In fact, Will could be very humorous and light-hearted.

Will insisted that I needed to begin meditating, because it wasn't good to bring so much energy through my system without preparation. He compared it to trying to lift a heavy weight when you haven't developed the muscle yet. We all have the potential to channel but most people haven't ever utilized the "channeling muscle" in their lifetime. Many people have probably never even heard of channeling until recently.

I began some feeble attempts to meditate. I felt very frustrated at the beginning. Either my mind wouldn't shut up or I would fall asleep. I figured I wasn't cut out for it and gave up. I just wanted the quick and easy answers I got from the Ouija Board. Will knew this and told me he wouldn't contact me through the Ouija Board anymore unless I meditated. I figured he was just joking again until one day I got on the board and got no response.

It went on for a couple weeks like this until I couldn't stand it. I began meditating with a passion. Persistance paid off. I began to experience moments of peace and tranquility in between the mind chatter. They got longer and longer. Then I began to feel blissful energy in my body. At this point I couldn't wait to meditate every day. Some days I would meditate for 3 hours even.

Then one day as I was meditating, a voice spoke through me.