Theos-Talk Archives (March 1998 Message tt00194)

At 05:36 PM 3/21/98 -0600, you wrote:
>Would someone like to define/differentiate a medium and a chaneller?

In my mind, a medium contacts deceased human beings - people who live on
inner realms and by contacting them are able to get answers concerning
hidden circumstances, much like one of today's psychics might propose
answers, like conjecture, and satisfy some of the ill feelings, desires,
discomforts that people have due to circumstances which were beyond their
control. They are also able to perform rappings and table raisings and make
ghostly appearances because they are "near physical" by borrowing from the
"od," the nerve force, or the etheric double of humans who are mediumistic.

A channeler can use writing, rather automatic writing or dictated to them,
to produce works containing assertions which are not their normal waking
consciousness. I was reading from conflight-l how the Urantia book was
written, and I think it involved a man who would sit up in bed in the
middle of the night and speak words and gibberish that he would be unable
to speak any other way. It was so uncharacteristic of him. Well, the doctor
who treated him night after night at one point may have been able to
receive intelligible, classical, cosmological dictations from this sleeping
person. The way that Urantia was written is kept secret because the people
involved promised never to reveal the circumstances around the document,
but the fact that the doctor was one of the people involved and was
treating this character links the two events.

A channeler can also stand and speak what he or she is channeling. The
nature of channeling is such that it becomes "volumes" of words, which is
not so at all of the mediums experience. The medium is satisfied that the
trance has worked after the uncommon circumstances of physical exposure and
some kind of vague answer or leading assertion is made. Then they
awake from their trance.

All of the tapes, dictations, etc. at the I AM Temple are from ascended
masters, cosmic beings, or angels, goddesses, etc. They are all beings like
HPB describes in THE SECRET DOCTRINE as being hierarchies beyond man's
evolutionary development so what they have to teach is relevant to mankind
and not to one or two individuals. Even though the founders of the temple
did most of the channeling, there is still some of it going on today, I
believe. It's fairly secretive.

The books I have read by Master Hilarion were channeled by Maurice Cook.
This book by St. Germain is channeled by Azena (?).  (As to whether St.
Germain is the same St. Germain HPB speaks of, that is left to each
person's discernment. I don't know why we have to have two masters named
exactly the same thing.)
The book I have by Archangel Michael was through Lori Jean Flory as told to
Brad Steiger.

There are lots more examples.

Brenda