Theos-Talk Archives (March 1998 Message tt00202)

On Sat, 21 Mar 1998 17:41:57 -0800, you wrote:

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

Brenda wrote
>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.

Very interesting book. It jumped off a shelf at one of the conventions
and it wouldn't stay on the shelf so I eventually borrowed it and read
it. I am dubious about some things in it but it still makes a good
read for anyone who likes huge books.
>
>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.=20

=46rom personal experience, I find channeling a bit like radio
talk-backs. There is a slight time lag between the inner talk and the
audible talk. I found that if something was to be said that I did not
wish to say then there seemed to be a quick casting about for a
different way of saying the same thing. Sometimes I felt that the
advise was too abrupt and I would not let it be spoken so a softer way
with words was used and all was well. It was a useful experience for a
year or two but I have not continued it as I felt that it no longer
served my purposes. I am aware that Theosophy does not approve of such
things but I experimented with this aspect while I was President of a
branch but did not make it known or obvious to the branch that I was
into channeling at the time.=20
It has made me aware of inner communication that still comes to me in
times of need or conflict. I wake at 3am and I have an inner chat with
an energy that refers to itself as the elder brother and it makes
suggestions but never dictates or tells me what I should do. Just asks
if I have thought of this or that and then leaves me to think about
it. Usually there is an influence that helps the thinking process to
see things clearly and without too much emotional feelings getting in
the way.
I feel that mediumship is passive rather than interactive. I would not
be a medium as I like to have some control over what I get into. At
this stage I do not actually know what it is that I channel. It could
be some part of my own self or some other influence but as long as it
was sensible, I was prepared to do it. What HPB has to say about
mediums does not make me at all keen to get involved in that line.
That a little bit from me.
Cheers
Bee
>
>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
>
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