According to Webster's Dictionary: the practice of professedly entering a meditative or trancelike state in order to convey messages from a spiritual guide. Meditation usually refers to a state in which the body is consciously relaxed and the mind is allowed to become calm and focused. ... Trance is an altered state of consciousness. ...

In the New Age movement, channeling is the claimed receipt of information or commands by a person functioning as a medium or channel for an unknown or divine source, much as a radio receives a signal from a transmitter. Although the term was coined in the 20th century, the concept is quite old and widespread. New Age describes a broad movement characterized by alternative approaches to traditional Western culture. ... Information is a term with many meanings depending on context, but is as a rule closely related to such concepts as meaning, knowledge, instruction, communication, representation, and mental stimulus. ... For other meanings of medium, see medium (disambiguation). ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the...

Channeling is often believed to entail spiritual possession, where a spiritual being comes through the receiving person's body. This mode is central to Spiritualist religions, such as Kardecism. It may also refer to other psychic phenomena where the patient loses only part of his control on his body, as in certain forms of dowsing, or merely acquires new information or ability, as in clairvoyance and telepathy. Spiritual possession is a concept of many religions and tales, where it is believed that a spiritual beings may take temporary control of a human body, resulting in noticeable changes in behaviour. ... A spirit or spiritual being is a non-corporeal entity found in many religions and belief systems throughout the world. ... Spiritualism is a religion - primarily of Europe and the USA - with a broadly Christian stance and a central focus on mediumship to demonstrate the continued existence of the soul. ... Kardecist Spiritism or Kardecism is a spiritualistic doctrine created in the 19th century by Allan Kardec. ... Parapsychology is the study of the evidence involving phenomena where a person seems to affect or gain information about something through a means not currently explainable within the framework of mainstream, conventional science. ... Dowsing is a controversial method of divination which dowsers say empowers them to find water, metals, gem stones and hidden objects by carrying some form of stick and watching its motion while walking over a piece of land. ... Clairvoyance is defined as a form of extra-sensory perception that it is claimed allows a person to perceive distant objects, persons, or events, including seeing through opaque objects and the detection of types of energy not normally perceptible to humans (i. ... Telepathy, from the Greek τηλε, tele, distant, and πάθεια, patheia, feeling, is the supposed ability to communicate information from one mind to another without the use of extra tools such as speech or body language, and is one form of extra-sensory perception or anomalous cognition. ...

Books about the process

Several notable books describe entering a trance state to allow a dead or other-dimensional being to speak through them. Often a guide conveys messages from other spirit men to listeners (see seance), in which case two intermediaries are needed, one on each side of the heavenly divide for a conversation between a living person and a dead one. 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. ...

In Unknown But Known: My Adventure Into The Meditative Dimension (1969) by Arthur Ford, he describes seances he conducted for several different groups of people. He sat in a chair or laid down to enter a trance. A spirit man known as Fletcher spoke through him. Those for whom the seance was conducted would typically ask Fletcher to put them into contact with departed loved ones or perhaps famous people. (Interestingly, the chapter, "The Sun Myung Moon Sittings", was removed from the book in editions printed after Rev. Moon gained notoriety. The seances conducted for Rev. Moon and his disciples included strong testimonies from several spirit men, including Fletcher himself, all but averring that Rev. Moon was the Messiah.) 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1969 calendar). ... A spirit man in Unificationist theology is the part of a human being that continues to exist after the death of the physical body. ... Sun Myung Moon (born January 6, 1920) is the founder of the Unification Church (established on May 1, 1954, in Seoul, South Korea). ... In Judaism, the Messiah (מָשִׁיחַ Anointed one, Standard Hebrew Mašíaḥ, Tiberian Hebrew Māšîªḥ) is a human descendant of King David who will rebuild the nation of Israel and bring world peace by restoring the Davidic Kingdom. ...

In The Coming of Seth (1966) Jane Roberts describes extra-sensory perception experiments and the beginnings of her experiences speaking for Seth. 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... Jane Roberts, an author, poet and psychic, wrote a number of books including The Education of Oversoul Seven and Adventures in Consciousness. ... 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). ...

Opening to Channel: How to Connect with your Guide (1987) by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer desribes how to channel a spirit guide. 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Other texts

Books and texts which allegedly resulted from channeling include:

• The Book of the Law
• Conversations with God
• The Indigo Children
• Kryon
• Oahspe
• The Qur'an
• Seth (via Jane Roberts)
• Toward the Light
• The Urantia Book
• Michael Teachings

Brazilian psychic surgeons, such as José Arigó, claim to work as channels for deceased surgeons. The Book of the Law, also known as Liber AL vel Legis, is the text central to philosophical / religious practice called Thelema founded by Aleister Crowley. ... Conversations with God is a three-part dialogue written by Neale Donald Walsch that he claims to have channeled during the 1990s. ... Indigo children are supposedly a set of children having certain special psychological attributes. ... Kryon is the source to which Lee Caroll and the Kryon Group attribute the material that they regularly publish online and in books, and which they claim is channeled. ... Oahspe: A Kosmon Bible in the Words of Jehovih and his Angel Embassadors (sic) is a book announcing new revelations from God, which was produced by John Ballou Newbrough (1828-1891) by automatic writing, and which was first published by Newbrough in 1882. ... The Quran (Arabic: al-qurān literally the recitation; also called Al Qurān Al KarÄ«m or The Noble Quran; or transliterated Quran, Koran, and less commonly Alcoran) is the holy book of Islam. ... Jane Roberts, an author, poet and psychic, wrote a number of books including The Education of Oversoul Seven and Adventures in Consciousness. ... Toward the Light (in Danish Vandrer mod Lyset) is an ethical, philosophical and religious work, first published in Denmark in 1920. ... Urantia is the name sometimes given to the spiritual movement whose principal text is The Urantia Book. ... 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. For example, the Wheel of Time series uses the term extensively (although it is by no means the only work to do so). Look up Fantasy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary For other definitions of fantasy, see fantasy (psychology). ... 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... Look up Magic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The term magic is a Persian loanword into English and may refer to: Magic (paranormal) deals with the manipulation of what the practitioner believes to be genuine paranormal phenomena. ... The Wheel of Time (abbreviated tWoT or more commonly, WoT) is a bestselling fantasy book series written by Robert Jordan, notable for the extreme density of its plotting, the intricate detail of its imaginary world, its generally pessimistic tone, and the lifelike complexity of relationships and interactions between characters, both...

Reference

• 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