The psychology and reality of channeling
What is Channelling?
Channelling is a powerful means of spiritual unfoldment and conscious transformation. As you channel you build a bridge to the higher realms — a loving, caring, purposeful collective higher consciousness that has been called the Universal Mind (amongst others). Channelling involves consciously shifting your mind and mental space to achieve an expanded state of consciousness.”
As someone who bridges the worlds of scientific inquiry and the esoteric, I have a more encompassing definition for channelling:
“Channelling is the process of revealing information and energy not limited by our conventional notions of space and time that can appear receptive or expressive.”
To achieve this expanded state of consciousness, channellers usually meditate, trying to break free of worldly influences and tune in to higher consciousness. They may imagine themselves seeking out specific spirits of the dead, or they may be contacted, apparently unbidden, by some unknown force that wishes to communicate.
The Million Dollar Question: How does channelling work?
There are some popular ideas about how it might work. One of the clearest understandings about channelling is that it is likely not a force. We know this because things that work through force are dependent on space and time. For example, if you had telepathic abilities and your thoughts were a force, they would need to travel from your mind to your brother’s mind (across the country).
However, in channelling the effects are seen instantaneously and are not dependent on space.
It means that channelling transcends time and space.
It also appears that our abilities to tap into this consciousness are limited by external stimuli. Therefore, meditation is often used to cultivate intuitive abilities: It’s about learning how to shut out the noise.
The term “non-local consciousness” is often used to describe this phenomenon; our consciousness is not limited to our physical brain and in fact, extends far beyond it. Some even propose that consciousness is fundamental or the most basic thing in the universe and that our consciousness is just one small part of the larger consciousness.
All of the parapsychologies hinge on the idea that consciousness is nonlocal and fundamental; therefore, everything is interconnected. It’s as though we can all tap into a consciousness larger than the one we experience in our day-to-day life.
Multiple studies have also shown that our bodies are sensitive to information and energy that our traditional five senses can’t pick up. We see this in presentiment experiments where our bodies change based on information from the future, and from the distant mental intention in living systems experiments where people’s bodies change when someone directs their mental intention to them. Finally, there is some conjecture that the pineal gland has something to do with how channelling works, but limited research has been done on this so far.
So back to the evidence: Several channelling experiences have been repeatedly demonstrated in the laboratory and have multiple studies with positive effects.
One recent paper describing these results was published by the American Psychologist and reviewed meta-analyses of telepathy, precognition, presentiment, remote influence, and distant healing.
A classic example is the distant mental intention of living systems. In this protocol, you have someone directing positive mental intention towards another person. Both people’s bodies are usually measures for changes. Dozens of these experiments have been done with measures like heart waves, skin changes, brain waves, and even real-time functioning of the brain.
All the results show the same thing: The receiver’s body changes when the sender is sending versus not sending. Effects are small but appear to be instantaneous!
This is the reason distance healing works so well and further proves that the implications of the non-local nature of consciousness are in fact huge!
Health and healing are a top priority for most people. Many studies have demonstrated that our positive intention creates changes in cells, plants, animals, and humans. Again, the effects are small but consistently noted. These results are amazing because the effects “should” be zero!
Channelled information received from mediumistic readings has also been shown to be valid in multiple laboratories using rigorous triple-blind methods. Volumes have been written describing tests of the validity of medium ship in and out of the laboratory.
Some Common Characteristics of Channellers:
Certain characteristics lend themselves to channelling.
Women report stronger and more frequent experiences than men. This may be because women tend to carry more yin qualities. Yin is feminine energy. It is open, receptive, and connected. Channellers also tend to describe themselves as “spiritual but not religious.”
There are also some standard personality traits among channellers. Channellers appear to be higher in extraversion and openness to experience. Channellers also tend to score higher on empathy scales, express a greater sensitivity to other people and their environment, and become fully absorbed in whatever they’re doing (in other words, they are very present). They also have an innate understanding of the energy world and a knowing as well as an acceptance that our existence extends much beyond our body and the 3D world.
Conclusion:
Most people think of trance channelling, where a person allows a supposed entity (deceased spirits, aliens, angels, higher self, etc.) to use their body as a vehicle to communicate.
One of the most confusing things about channelling is its name. Many people associate it with trance channelling. Others use it interchangeably with terms like psychic, medium, and ESP.
The truth is that channelling comes in so many forms.
Multiple research studies show that channelling is experienced on a spectrum. On one side, you have widespread experiences like intuition and gut hunches. Telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition lie somewhere in the middle. Rarer experiences like trance channelling and out-of-body experiences are on the far side of the spectrum.
At this point, no one is sure exactly how channelling works. We understand bits and pieces; however, more research is needed. In any case, we are still relatively new in our understanding of extended human capacities.
Can we give a conclusive statement on what channelling is?
Maybe not. Nonetheless, channelling is a field that has fascinated the world for probably as long as the world has existed. The key takeaway for me as a professional in the area of alternative healing, parapsychology, metaphysics, and hypnotherapy is the vast and exciting possibilities that channelling can be applied, to uplift and heal humanity.
Published on : October 04, 2021
