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I of my own knowledge…
This business of channeling
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by Frank DeMarco |
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I didn’t come into this process a true believer. I was 46 years old before I had first-hand experiences of the psychic abilities that I had believed in and doubted, so I clearly remember what it was like to not know, to not be able to do it, to live in the world that skeptics and non-experiencers inhabit. It cost me a good deal of doubt and self-criticism along the way, but the experience of living in contradictory mental worlds helped me to translate one world to the other.
I have given a good deal of thought to what’s going on with what we call channeling.
For the longest time, I assumed that “channeling” always meant “trance channeling,” and I knew that this was not what I was doing: I was just bringing in messages from the other side. I called it talking to the guys (“the guys” being verbal shorthand for The Guys Upstairs), a pleasantly vague and un-inflated formulation taken from a friend.
First, in mid-1989, came an almost-automatic writing. (Should we call it stick-shift writing? J ) I would pose a question and would wait in a state of receptivity and then write whatever came to mind. “I” never “went” anywhere; I was always fully conscious of forming the words with pen or keyboard, and so I wondered if I was doing anything more than fooling myself, but I persevered. This went on for nearly four years.
In December 1992 I did the Gateway Voyage at The Monroe Institute, which I often describe as the beginning of my conscious life. In March 1993 – 15 years ago – I returned to do their Guidelines course, which, as the name suggests, concentrates on increasing access to internal guidance. The course includes a session in their black box, which is a sort of sensory-deprivation chamber that leaves one connected, by microphone and earphones, with a monitor in another room. There for the first time I learned to let “the guys” come through my vocal cords. That is, I did in speech what I had been doing in writing: I held myself in neutral and passed through whatever came to me.
In late 2000 I did a series of ten sessions in the black box. In each of these sessions, I alternated between speaking directly (that is, interpreting whatever I felt or experienced) and letting them speak through me (that is, acting as passive filter for information I did not consciously formulate.).
That was one jump. A bigger jump followed in August, 2001, when I did the first of two dozen sessions in the home of Rita Warren, a Ph.D. in psychology who had run TMI’s lab for four years after she retired from a distinguished academic career. Rita presented a long list of questions she had long held about life, the universe and everything, and I let the guys answer. I still didn’t trust or even recognize the process. I said, “I think all I’m doing is being a know-it-all, speaking with great authority, but no real basis in fact” – but she said “that’s practically a definition of being an intuitive.” (After a few sessions she also told me, in the nicest possible way, that I wasn’t smart enough to be making up the material we were getting!)
We did those sessions once a week for five months, and I got used to functioning that way, and the next thing knew I was doing it for others from time to time. Then within the past few months, we began a series of sessions with a different friend, an engineer, who has his own shopping list of questions about life on this side and the other side. A third friend, a professional psychic, listened in to one of those sessions and said that I should be doing this professionally. I think it unlikely that I will go on to become a professional psychic, but the implied validation – and Rita’s death at 88 in March -- did suggest that it was a good time for reassessment.
* What is it I’ve been doing all this time? And what does it imply for you?
In the first place I have been seeing first-hand that our customary definitions of ourselves are insufficient. We see ourselves as being, more or less, one unified consciousness in one body, separate from our fellow humans (and separate from the rest of creation) and separate from the non-physical universe. No element of that definition is true, except from a certain point of view.
* one unified consciousness?
We could be better described as a local part of a vastly extended consciousness – vaster than we can hold in consciousness at one time, perhaps, while remaining in the body. Being incapable of holding awareness of ourselves in our entirety, we thus offer ourselves many surprises when we begin to go exploring.
* in one body?
I see no evidence from my own experience that my consciousness is confined to my body. I see much evidence – intuition, telepathic moments, “knowings” while engaged in energy work or healing – that the boundary is relative.
* separate from our fellow humans?
This would imply that our consciousness is unaffected by the consciousness of those around us. Anyone who has ever experienced what we call “group energy” knows from experience that this is not true. Lynch mobs, to cite a prosaic example, demonstrate a shared but lowered consciousness. So do hysterical spectators at a football game, to cite another. (Congress, perhaps, a third. J)
* separate from the rest of creation?
If you think your consciousness is unaffected by your surroundings, go take a walk in the woods, and then in an open field, and then in a suburban street, and then in a shopping mall. It shouldn’t take much awareness on your part to see that more is at play than just your active, deliberate, chosen response.
* separate from the non-physical universe?
This is somewhat true, while we are in the earth, relatively true, but far from absolutely true, or even very true. (“In the earth,” to remind us that being in the physical does not mean standing on a surface – “on earth” – but existing in a state of greater density, the world of 3D, regardless whether we are on Earth or on some planet circling Alpha Centuri.)
When I look at things that way, it seems to me that this business of channeling is less a matter of doing anything special than of ceasing to cut myself off from the vastly greater connection to the universe that is our birthright. And that implies -- which I also firmly believe – that channeling is an inherent human ability.
It is useful way to relate: to the world, to others, to what we call the other side, and to unsuspected portions of our own being. (And in fact I suspect that these seemingly separate things -- the world, others, the other side, unsuspected portions of our own being – are really all parts of the same whole that merely appear to be separate, seen separately because we in bodies experience the world divided into time-slices and space-slices.)
Our secular, materialist culture, thinking that it was turning its back on superstition, turned its back on direct psychic experience centuries ago. You and I grew up in a society whose cultural conditioning banished channeling and other psychic input to the nether regions -- but it seems to be making its way back into our ordinary mental and spiritual toolbox, and it’s about time. The trick now will be to learn to use these skills in a matter-of-fact, ordinary way, neither allowing ourselves to become inflated nor living in awe of our new state of connection.
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Frank DeMarco,
Author, publisher, editor, & psychic explorer.
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Frank DeMarco holds an M.A. in History from the University of Iowa and a B.A. in History from George Washington University.
His work as co-founder and (for 15 years) chief editor of Hampton Roads Publishing Company brought him into close association with many brilliant and insightful minds, including psychics, remote viewers, channelers and mystics, and showed him the human side of extraordinary abilities.
In 1992, his psychic abilities opened up at a Gateway Voyage at The Monroe Institute in central Virginia. Since then he has been engaged in first-hand exploration of the nature and limits of all things psychic, especially including such areas as healing and guidance, direct access to knowledge, communication with past lives, and the integration of the spiritual dimension into everyday life.
His autobiographical work Muddy Tracks: Exploring an Unsuspected Reality describes the first stages of his discovery of the key to expanded awareness, and offers pointers for those just beginning their quest. In his weblog, www.frankdemarco.
wordpress.com, he shares the journey and the results of continuing explorations. His blog, “I of my own knowledge…” investigates what individuals can know first-hand about the purpose and conduct of life.
Contact info
blog: http://frankdemarco.
wordpress.com/
email:
muddytracks@
earthlink.net
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