Channeling is the communication of information to or through a physically embodied human being, from a source that is said to exist on some other level or dimension of reality than the physical, and that is not from the normal mind (or self) of the channel. Jump to: navigation, search Information is a word which has many different meanings in everyday usage and in specialized contexts, but as a rule, the concept is closely related to others such as data, instruction, knowledge, meaning, communication, representation, and mental stimulus. ... The mind is the term most commonly used to describe the higher functions of the human brain, particularly those of which humans are subjectivel // holaMedia:Example. ...

The definition of channeling has not yet reached a consensus. Some constrict the definition to a narrow band of behavior and experience, while others see it as including almost any information-processing of an apparently self-transcending nature. The above definition, however, excludes all conscious and assorted altered states such as daydreaming and dreaming, as well as memories and the personal unconscious. It also excludes "talking to oneself" that falls in the realm of clinical and cognitive psychology, and also telepathy and ESP communication between minds of embodied persons that fall under parapsychology. Jump to: navigation, search Consciousness is a quality of the mind generally regarded to comprise qualities such as subjectivity, self-awareness, sentience, sapience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and ones environment. ... Altered States is the only novel (ISBN 0060107278) and last film written by Paddy Chayefsky. ... Having a daydream, or daydreaming, is a form of consciousness that involves a low level of conscious effort. ... Jump to: navigation, search Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes: The Dream, 1883 Dreaming is the subjective experience of remembered and imaginary images, sounds/voices, words, thoughts or sensations during sleep, usually not being able to influence this. ... Clinical psychology is the application of psychology within a clinical (health) setting. ... Cognitive psychology is the psychological science which studies cognition, the mental processes that are hypothesised to underlie behavior. ... Telepathy, from the Greek τηλε, tele, distant, and πάθεια, patheia, feeling, is the claimed innate ability of humans and other creatures to communicate information from one mind to another, without the use of extra tools such as speech or body language. ... Jump to: navigation, search Extra-sensory perception, or ESP, is the name given to any ability to acquire information by means other than the five canonical senses (taste, sight, touch, smell, and hearing), or any other sense well known to science (balance, proprioception, etc). ... Jump to: navigation, search Parapsychology is the study of the evidence involving phenomena where a person seems to affect or to gain information about something through a means not currently explainable within the framework of mainstream, conventional science. ...

One hypothesis of channeling is that the human minds are really part of some vast impersonal sea of mind (or energy) with which humans interact to give birth to further, seemingly separate minds or personalities (or energy systems) that are the "entities" being channeled. According to this hypothesis, everything is "us", a single creative source generating, sustaining, and merging the endless possible sub-entities or sub-personalities of itself — a blending of what once appeared as separate minds, entities and energies. Jump to: navigation, search A hypothesis (foundation from ancient Greek hupothesis where hupo = under and thesis = placing) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. ...

For some, this concept is less bizarre than the prospect that there are totally separate beings living outside the physical universe who are communicating with us. This is one of many related hypothesis that goes beyond the stereotype that it is always some independent entity that is communicating, that humans are each, a bounded and autonomous entity as well, albeit an incarnate one. In religion the term physical universe or material universe is used to distinguish the physical matter of the universe from its spiritual essence. ... Stereotypes are considered to be a group concept, held by one social group about another. ... Incarnation, which literally means enfleshment, refers to the conception, and live birth of a sentient creature (generally human) who is the material manifestation of an entity or force whose original nature is immaterial. ...

However, there is another point of view about the phenomenon: that channeling is pure nonsense, an entirely self-generated phenomenon which very often involves conscious and unconscious fakery. It is true that the claims of some channels have been found to be without merit. One must therefore keep in mind that this subject is fraught with possibilities of deception and misunderstanding. Jump to: navigation, search Deception (or mystification) is to intentionally distort the truth in order to mislead others. ...

Because of its subjective and relatively unverifiable nature, channeling is an inherently difficult phenomenon to research. The problems faced are similar to those faced by philosophers and theologians who are trying to understand mysticism and the mystical experience. Channeling, like mysticism, is a phenomenon that has been a part of human experience as far back as human records go. Jump to: navigation, search A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy. ... Theology is reasoned discourse concerning God (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογος, logos, word or reason). It also refers to the study of other religious topics. ... Jump to: navigation, search Mysticism, from the Greek (mueo, to conceal), is the pursuit of achieving communion with, or conscious awareness of ultimate reality, the divine, spiritual truth, or God through direct, personal experience (intuition or insight) rather than rational thought; the belief in the existence of realities beyond perceptual...

Professor Marcello Truzzi, a sociologist at Eastern Michigan University who co-founded the "Committee for Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal" and the "Center for Scientific Anomalies Research", prefers to maintain what he calls "constructive skepticism" until someone comes forward with channel information that is evidential. Jump to: navigation, search Social interactions of people and their consequences are the subject of sociology studies. ... Jump to: navigation, search Eastern Michigan University (EMU) is a comprehensive, co-educational public university located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. ... Jump to: navigation, search An anomalous phenomenon is an observed phenomenon for which there is no suitable explanation in the context of a specific body of scientific knowledge (e. ... Occams razor non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem or plurality should not be posited without necessity is a central tenet of skeptical thought. ...

Books, channeled texts, entities and mediums

Books and channeled texts

Several notable books describe the entering of a trance state to allow the dead to speak through the medium or channel, or a spiritual guide to convey messages from other spirit men to listeners (see seance). Trance is an altered state of consciousness. ... A spirit man in Unificationist theology is the part of a human being that continues to exist after the death of the physical body. ... A séance (SAY-ahnce) is, on its most basic level, an attempt to communicate with the dead. ...

• The Coming of Seth (1966): Jane Roberts describes the beginnings of her experiences with speaking for Seth.
• Opening to Channel: How to Connect with your Guide (1987) by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer describes how to channel a spirit guide.
• A Course in Miracles: Channeled text, allegedly from Jesus, channeled by Helen Schucman.
• Conversations with God: Channeled text allegedly from God channeled by Neale Donald Walsch.
• The Book of the Law: Channeled text.
• The Indigo Children: Channeled text.
• Kryon: Channeled text.
• Oahspe: Channeled text.
• Toward the Light: Channeled text.
• The Urantia Book: Channeled text.
• Michael Teachings.
• Qur'an: Rarely called a channelled text because the term is usually reserved for New Age-related texts.

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Entities and mediums

• Messages From Michael.
• Seth entity, channeled by Jane Roberts.
• Ramtha entity, channeled by JZ Knight.
• Brazilian psychic surgeons, such as José Arigó, claim to work as channels for deceased surgeons.

Jane Roberts was an author, poet and psychic, wrote a number of books including The Education of Oversoul Seven and Adventures in Consciousness. ... Jane Roberts was an author, poet and psychic, wrote a number of books including The Education of Oversoul Seven and Adventures in Consciousness. ... Jump to: navigation, search Ramtha is the name of a being that JZ Knight claims to channel. ... Judy Z. Knight (born March 16, 1946 Roswell, New Mexico) is the leader of the Ramtha movement (now called Ramthas School of Enlightenment). ... Psychic surgery is allegedly a paranormal surgical procedure. ... José (Zé) Arigó ( –1 November 1971) was best known of Brazilian psychic surgeons. ...

Channeling in fiction

In fantasy literature, the term channeling is sometimes used in other ways, particularly to describe a person's ability to draw on some form of magical power. The Wheel of Time series, for example, uses the term extensively (although it is by no means the only work to do so). Jump to: navigation, search Fantasy is a genre of art, literature, film, television, and music that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of either plot, theme, setting, or all three. ... Open Directory Project: Literature World Literature Electronic Text Archives Magazines and E-zines Online Writing Writers Resources Libraries, Digital Cataloguing, Metadata Distance Learning Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Classicism in Literature The Universal Library, by Carnegie Mellon University Project Gutenberg Online Library Abacci - Project Gutenberg texts matched with Amazon... Jump to: navigation, search Look up magic on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Wheel of Time (abbreviated tWoT or more commonly, WoT) is a bestselling fantasy book series written by Robert Jordan. ...

See also

• Related ideas:
  • Spiritualist Church
  • Automatic writing
  • Automatic drawing

• Sceptical criticism:
  • Pseudoscience
  • Hoax
  • Delusion
  • True-believer syndrome

Spiritualist Church,Spiritualists,Spiritualism; Religious movement of belief in providing evidence of life after death. ... Jump to: navigation, search For an article about music album Automatic Writing go to Automatic Writing (album). ... Automatic drawing (distinguished from drawn expression of mediums) was developed by the surrealists, as a means of expressing the subconscious. ... Jump to: navigation, search Phrenology is seen today as a classic example of pseudoscience. ... Jump to: navigation, search A hoax is an attempt to trick an audience into believing that something false is real. ... A delusion is commonly defined as a false belief, and is used in everyday language to describe a belief that is either false, fanciful or derived from deception. ... The true-believer syndrome is a term coined by the reformed psychic fraud M. Lamar Keene to refer to an irrational belief in the paranormal. ...

References

• Klimo, John (1987). Channeling: Investigations on Receiving Information from Paranormal Sources. St. Martins Press. ISBN 0874774314.

External links

• What is Channeling? Mediumship and the Modern Age
• Articles and information on channeling
• About Communication with Divine Teachers
• Michael Teachings: A Michael Teachings Online Community & Resource
• Intuition Network: Interview with Arthur Hastings