Theos-Talk Archives (March 1998 Message tt00204)

March 22nd 1998

Dear Bee:

Is the channeling you refer to of the nature of a conversation which
can be conducted back and forth as one would a normal "waking time"
exchange ?

Very interesting contribution.  Thanks			Dallas

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| From: "Bee Brown" <bbbrown@ihug.co.nz>
| Subject: Re:Re: Medium vs Chaneller
| Date: Sunday, March 22, 1998 12:50 AM
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| On Sat, 21 Mar 1998 17:41:57 -0800, you wrote:
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| 			< MANY SNIPS >  Dal
| >
| >At 05:36 PM 3/21/98 -0600, you wrote:
| >>Would someone like to define/differentiate a medium and a
chaneller?
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| >From 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.

| 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.

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It has been suggested that sometimes our HIGHER SELF speaks to us,
and that for the waking mind to understand or grasp that which was
said it is presented in the shape of a dialog with an older or wiser
friend.  The test, as I understand is that the presentation is always
on a very high moral tone -- for some aspect of improving ones own
work or to assist others ?    Dal
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What HPB has to say about  mediums does not make me at all keen to
get involved in that line.

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I would whole-heartedly agree to that.  Nothing there to entice me !
Dal
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