• mentally request help in clarifying the message from his or her "known" helpful entities
• visualize a better connection
• ask the invading entity (if there is such) to leave.

There Can Be Only One?

The connection initially is not always smooth and deep. In fact, what I have noticed for myself is that the initial connection is almost always a bit rocky. I liken it to the confluence of two rivers: Initially, the water is turbulent and muddy (the information coming through is less clear and accurate), but after a while the waters settle into a more powerful channel and clear flow than was true for either river alone, and the information flows deeply, strongly, and clearly. (As clearly as I am capable of.)

This is a key point:

The information coming through is a collaboration between two entities. As such, it is greater than either entity alone could bring about.

With some caveats, of course. I am not claiming to be greater than Jesus, for example (who is one of the main entities I channel), or even to being anything close to him in this incarnation, yet I am able to channel him pretty clearly and to bring through from him messages that are unique because I am as much a part of the message as he is. Others can also channel Jesus, but I am the only one who can channel him the way I channel him.

Which brings up a point: Some channels "bring through" information that says that they are the only ones who can channel entity So-and-So. I call this the "There can be only one" syndrome. My interpretation of this is that they are indeed the only ones who can channel entity So-and-So in the unique way that they do, but others can channel that same entity. (Though beware of imitations, eh?) In these cases, the channel is either consciously or unconsciously interpreting/translating the message from the entity that says "the connection is unique" so that it comes through as "this connection is the only possible one."

I understand that in some cases of very public channelers who are making their living from channeling that entity (and there is nothing wrong with that--more of us should be able to!), there are concerns with having people muddy the waters by channeling the same entity in their own unique way. As I've said before, not all channels are equally clear. I have read some "Seth" channeling, for example, that is very muddy indeed and a discredit to the original material brought through by Jane Roberts (another one who claimed that she was the only one who could channel Seth).

However, I also think it is faintly ridiculous to try to claim that some non-incarnate entity who is capable of much is limited in that he or she is only capable of or interested in channeling through one being. Yes, it is possible, but imagine someone trying to claim that God, for example, is only going to speak to humanity through a single intermediary, and never directly to any one human. Except, of course, for the intermediaries.

Oh, wait. That's been done, quite successfully, by many major religions. :-) It's almost as bad as the fundamentalists who told me that Jesus is dead and therefore can't talk to anybody and that God specifically does NOT talk to psychics.

Maybe I better use another example.

Imagine this: Every one of us has our own internal ability to communicate with the unseen. This ability varies from person to person, but it is there. And every entity likewise has the ability to communicate with us. Think of it as internal telephones. We all have them, and they all work with varying degrees of clarity.

Now imagine, if you will, that some entity decides that he or she is ONLY going to call one person, and likewise that that person is only going to call that one entity. Yes, it is possible. And certainly, for many channels, focusing on one entity is their path. But for many entities, the more channels they can speak through, the more likely it is that their message is going to go out into the world. Of course, if the channel becomes very famous, then yes, the entity can choose to concentrate on that one channel, but that doesn't mean the entity is only capable of "calling" that channel exclusively. The distinction between "can't" and "won't" needs to be made here.

Remember, just because it was channeled, doesn't mean it is 100% accurate.

The Channeler's Awareness

During the process of channeling, the channeler is either more-or-less fully aware of his or her surroundings, or is off somewhere in a virtual room where the translation is taking place. In a sense, you could think of it as a translation booth, where the entity and the channeler are meeting to come up with the translation, and meanwhile the translation of the entity's message is being broadcast through a loudspeaker system based in that room. The trance channel may later not recall what took place in that room, while the conscious channeler usually does, and there you have what I consider one of the strengths of conscious channeling: You can later review the channeled material (assuming it was recorded), and analyze it against your own awareness of when you felt you were translating more clearly, and when you thought you had lost the fine focus and were perhaps a bit muddier. The trance channel doesn't usually have this resource available, and so has the tendency to think all the material is of equally high quality. Which it almost never is for any channeler.

If others are present, the channeling is likewise affected. According to channeled information I have received, those who are present affect the channeling and are almost as much a part of creating the message as the channeler. The idea is that even though those who are present as an apparent audience only seem to be listening, in fact they are participating in creating the message on the spirit level. Think about that next time you listen to a channeler in person and are tempted to wonder in awe how they can get that information.