Despite all the real-world evidence to the
contrary, there are many who still believe that channelling is a tool
of the devil, an occult experience, and inappropriate in a spiritual
setting. This, of course, is information given to us (almost from birth),
directly from the oldest and most established religious organizations
on the planet.
I believe that the truth is far different, though, and if you’ve
gotten this far in this article, I congratulate you for your open mind.
Some say that simply reading material like this is an affront to God!
The typical rhetoric is that you better watch out or the devil will
capture you for looking at this Website (honest!). Most of the Christian
doctrines of the planet agree (something they don’t normally do)
that channelling is bad stuff! They also intimate that if you somehow
look at these words long enough, your intelligence will slowly be sapped
from you, your logic will go down the tubes, and the entities involved
in these messages will take you over (sigh).
Channelling, by its basic definition, is actually the way that all scriptures
on Earth were written, the Holy Bible among them. Think about it. When
you stop to consider who wrote the Bible, you begin to realize that
Humans did. When you then further examine how that all came to be, you
begin to understand how channelling worked to bring us spiritual energies
back then and perhaps continues to fit into ongoing spiritual information
today.
After the death of Christ, the man called Saul became the apostle Paul
and a follower. After he had his spiritual experience on the road to
Damascus with an angel (who some say was Christ), he was a changed man.
With his newfound excitement—and while in prison for his beliefs—
he then wrote letters to friends in Ephesus, to his friend Timothy,
to the Galactians, and Corinthians, among others. He was a highly spiritual
man, one who founded many Christian churches and helped guide the doctrine,
but when he was writing letters to friends, he probably had no idea
that his words would be seen someday as the holy word of God.
Long after Paul’s death, his letters were discovered and slowly
became scripture. So, you might ask, what was it that made simple letters
to friends become holy scripture? The answer is that it was the energy
of the words and the profundity of the information, as seen and examined
by other Humans of his faith. This is channelling at its best!
1400 years ago, the prophet Muhammad had a similar experience. He received
information directly from an angel, and it spawned the nation of Islam,
a huge spiritual belief system on the planet today. By the way, before
you go to the next thought, I’d like to remind you of the prophet’s
basic message: unity! On the record is the fact that this great prophet
was to unify the tribes of the Arabs and give them one God, the God
of Israel! I tell you this to remind you that since then, you get to
see what men of power have done to a divine message that you might not
be as familiar with as you are with our Western religions
The Pope, representing more than one billion Catholics on the planet
(almost a sixth of the world’s population), also channels (but
don’t tell him that). The church authorizes a system where he sits
in the "Chair of St. Peter" (a Vatican relic) and gives spiritual
information. This information, according to ancient church doctrine,
is absolutely infallible at the moment the Pope gives it (not later
after processing), and comes directly from God. The process is called
Excathedra (Latin for "from the chair") and it’s the
Pope . . . channelling!
Charismatic Christians have a real-time information system called Glossolalia,
or "speaking in tongues," whereby one person gives a message
in a worship service in a strange language that they don’t know,
and another will often stand and interpret it. When it’s not a
show (sometimes it is), these messages are uplifting, and are accepted
as messages from God . . . channelling, once again.
The actual definition of channelling is "the word of Spirit (or
God) as given to a Human or Humans for their enlightenment and information."
In recorded history, it was often given by a messenger-angel who started
the conversation with "Fear not." (I always wondered about
that until I realized that having an interdimensional creature unexpectedly
show up. walking through walls might be a very frightening experience!)
Those two words also carry a larger message: An angel of God will never
give you a message of fear. It’s often one of liberation, escape,
fulfillment, action instructions, or just plain joy! Today’s channelling
messages haven’t changed in this respect, in that they’re
still often given by an angelic entity who first speaks of the love
of God.
If I’m allowed some "plain talk" here, let me speak about
something else. First of all, "plain talk" is what normal
folks do, and it’s not often reflected by politicians, ministers,
priests, or anyone else in the public eye. Today’s climate of "correct
speech" assures that absolutely the fewest people possible will
be offended. That also results in a climate where nothing is explained
well or gets done, and where honest feelings and opinions are never
really known.
So if I offend you, just sit there a moment and breathe . . . you need
to know that my truth is my truth. If your truth is different, know
that I respect and honor your intelligence and also your right to voice
it, as I do mine. I don’t know if that will help, but perhaps your
reading experience will be a better one if you know that I’m not
presenting my thoughts as anything but thoughts. I’m not evangelistic.
This discussion isn’t given in order to provide anyone with still
another spiritual box that they’re supposed to climb into, throwing
away everything they believed.
True New Age thought isn’t evangelistic. It’s a philosophy,
not a religion, which explains to some degree why the New Age has no
organization, church, or written doctrine. Instead, it encompasses all
faiths and invites them to receive updated information, allowing then
to potentially become stronger in their spiritual experience because
of it.
It doesn’t tear down anything or become empirical in presenting
new sets of spiritual rules. If my discussion ever sounds that way,
then forgive me, but I’m excited to share my truth . . . just like
Paul was.
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If there was ever an outcast group within Christianity, it’s the
Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS). Now that’s not a negative statement,
it’s just the truth. Ask any Mormon about this. It’s unfortunate,
but the LDS church isn’t even considered a Christian church in
some circles (but it obviously is). Now before you write me another
letter (I get lots, so it probably won’t make a difference), understand
that I’m very familiar with the Mormon faith. My sister’s
family is Mormon, and I have very good friends who are both active and
formerly active members of the LDS church. Some regularly host me for
meetings in Utah.
I refer to this group because the overview of its lineage is actually
quite ironic in this discussion. The Mormon church is considered negatively
by Christian organizations because its founder, Joseph Smith, had the
audacity (I’m being cute here) to actually look around and decide
that the Bible was outdated for his culture. The world had changed,
he felt, and through his writings, he gave additional information (given
by an angel) to extend the Bible (The Book of Mormon) and give Humans
updated information. Therefore, he’s considered (by the LDS church)
to be a modern-day prophet. Where did he get his information? He received
it from angelic sources (channelling). He was also killed for it and
never made it to Utah, yet the church survived and prospered. However,
if you told Mormons that Joseph Smith was a channeller, they too, migh
be offended.
It’s also interesting that the LDS church is the only Christian
doctrine that believes that your soul is "out there" waiting
to be born into a spiritual family on Earth. Part of the seemingly odd
and unusual ceremonies they do for the dead in their temple is simply
an honoring of the family and a spiritual blessing (baptism) of souls
they feel are very much still with us, or at least waiting for us somewhere.
Although this isn’t reincarnation, it gives credibility to a soul
that is eternal in both directions (Kryon’s way of saying that
the soul always was and always will be). Most of the rest of Christianity’s
doctrine has the soul created at birth somehow, then it becomes eternal
after you die. (This never made spiritual sense to me, even as a child
in Sunday school.)
The past: Here’s where Human nature takes over. Every single one
of the faiths I’ve mentioned above, considers new spiritual information
from outside their own sources to be inappropriate and not permissible.
Many have considered this attribute of religion to be a struggle between
men for control and power rather than a real article of faith.
The clerics of Islam walk a tightrope as they dispense the prophet’s
words, too. They’d better not add to it or have original, modern
thinking or they’ll lose out on their power (or more). Their task
is to only reflect or interpret what the prophet taught. Even so, like
all the other religions, over time many kinds of Islamic teachings emerged
with differing views of what the prophet's words really meant.
In Saudi Arabia, Muhammad ibn Abd Wahhab founded Wahhabism, which is
still the major (and official) Islamic religion for that country. In
Wahhabism, not only can’t they add to what the prophet said, but
there’s no provision for tolerance or any Human rights. If you
disagree and are a Muslim, you could be a target for fatwa (on a list
to be killed). This is all sanctioned by their belief in a prophet who
taught unity! Not all Islam is this way, but it’s still amazing
to many of us raised in the West that so many disciples of a modern
religion (less than 1,500 years old) don’t recognize the tolerance
of God, and at least allow others to have their own faith. Instead,
nonbelievers are infidels and therefore deserving of elimination (jihad).
All this is to say that here is one huge, modern religion that’s
absolutely anchored in the past.
Most of the largest religions on Earth want you to adhere to what was
said by their originators, and nothing else. It has to come from history
to be valid, even if it was just normal spiritual people writing to
friends long ago. So new information is not normally allowable, and
the prevailing thought is that there’s plenty in all the writings
of the past to keep you on track in your faith. Here is where I, and
many others, depart from that traditional thought.
Does it make spiritual sense that all communication with Spirit (God)
stopped more than a thousand years ago, and that we’re supposed
to believe that God went behind a curtain and stayed there? No more
updates? No more messages from angels or prophets? For some reason known
only to the highest spiritual leaders, God stopped talking, so we have
to search the scriptures for answers to today’s situations, or
go find a priest or minister to explain it all. These "situations,"
by the way, are way past any prophecy in any scripture, anywhere. The
Armageddon didn’t happen (if you noticed), and even the book The
Late Great Planet Earth, a full explanation of the Holy Bible’s
Book of Revelation and current times, is "past its ‘sell by’
date" (a joke referring to products that spoil), according to an
article in Time magazine in July of 2002. In other words, the prophecy
didn’t happen, so the book that explained it can no longer be considered
relevant. We’re in a New Age, navigating new spiritual paths with
very old spiritual information.
This process of only trusting what "was said," unfortunately,
has us searching very old history books, written by the spiritual leaders
and prophets of very old cultures, in order to help us with our current-day
struggles. And here’s the rub: If you truly believe that you can
only use past spiritual writings to judge what you’re supposed
to do today, then you’re not going to be very popular! Slavery
is still fine (according to the prophet Muhammad), and if you’re
a Christian, you’ll find that it’s okay to kill your neighbor
if you find him working on the Sabbath (Exodus 35:2), and you can sell
your own daughter into slavery (Exodus 21). Also, eating shellfish is
an abomination to God (Leviticus 10:10).
See where this is going? In other words, these things that are obviously
way out of touch with today’s consciousness are soft-peddled in
the largest doctrines, promoting a system where you get to "pick
and choose" which scripture is relevant and which is not. That
alone might indicate that perhaps some are outdated. So, should there
be updates? We think so.
So who’s qualified? I guess this is another big question. Even
if mainstream religion allowed channelling, there would be tremendous
arguments over who could do it. First, you’d probably have to be
dead, and then someone would have to find your writings in a cave. And
it would help if the writings were found in an exotic place such as
a long-lost library in Tibet instead of an abandoned mine in Arkansas.
Again, this is Human nature . . . to honor only those who are gone who
wrote something profound in the past . . . which was found in a significant
place.
There is also the argument that if God is the same yesterday, today,
and forever, then sacred writings of the past should carry us through.
That sounds logical, since there would be no need for an update. All
that’s written should be a complete enough explanation of an unchanging
God. This is fine for God, but what about us? We change, and our cultures
change. Humanity also has a dynamic ability to change the planet’s
path (according to the Old Testament prophet Isaiah) and when that happens,
doesn’t it beg the question for new information about our relationship
to God? When the prophecies of Revelation didn’t happen, did anyone
think that perhaps humanity changed something? If so, then what’s
next? God may stay the same, but we don’t. If we were static in
our spiritual evolution, never changing and always the same, it might
be different.
Some have indicated that the study of their spirituality is the "water
of life." If this is so, then most of the planet is drinking from
a very old, stagnant well, with no inflow of fresh water.
The channellers of today don’t believe the old paradigm of having
to be "dead to be read." They also don’t believe they’re
the apostle Paul—or the Pope—either. What many of us believe
is that channelling is a blessed, authorized, informal, and personal
link between God and humanity. We believe that we receive updated information
about a changing earth, ourselves, and about new communications with
God. We also believe that it’s for everyone, and that anyone can
channel. Much channelling is personal, just for the individual.
Also, you don’t normally find us trying to create a new Bible (there
are exceptions) or new empirical truths for anyone to cling to, throwing
away their former beliefs. We don’t want to be gurus, have followers,
be worshiped, or start new churches either. (Again, as in anything involving
people, there are noted exceptions.) It’s about information that
would personally enable another person. It’s information without
the paradigm of a church, given in love for anyone to ponder, consider,
and act upon.
The Kryon books are presented in this way, as "loving information
to enhance the Human Being." All the books combined try to help
explain the relationship of God-to-Human, and not much more. In the
process, people get to "see" their spirituality better, make
better choices for themselves, and come into a loving partnership with
others and the planet. They make better partners in love and in business.
They make better parents and teachers, and are more likely to see compromises
in difficulty and solutions in drama. They are the ones we often look
toward to solve problems between countries, and to avoid war. They are
the ones we wish were our politicians! Isn’t it nice to meet a
balanced person who radiates tolerance and love, yet doesn’t spout
doctrine at you or want you to sign up for some organization or give
them money? It’s a person who listens to you and whom you feel
safe with. That’s what we’re talking about.
Perhaps this is just a bit different from an evil entity who will capture
your soul if you’re not careful, taking you to dark places. Maybe
it’s time to update the perception of channelling as something
honored as much as going to church. Okay . . . maybe that’s a dream,
but hey, I’m one of those who believes in the Human Being’s
ability to cut through some of the old ways and come out with a better
balance of thought. I want to be considered one of those authors who
speaks to the smarter parts of people, and not one who talks down to
the lowest common denominator (as in advertising or politics). I guess
you could say that I believe in humanity and the changes in Human nature
that I’m seeing. I’m also an optimist who believes that we’re
actually built for peace on Earth, and that we’re beginning to
understand this. Our commercial news reflects the pain of a changing
consciousness on Earth—a pruning of an old paradigm and the beginning
of another—not the end of everything.
For me, I believe that God is alive and well within the Human spirit
. . . able and willing to have a divine conversation with ordinary Human
Beings. My God is not behind a curtain. My God celebrates me as part
of the "whole of God," and therefore I’m part of God.
My God lives through me every day and creates joy in my life, since
I’m part of all creation. Kryon is an angel. He/she gives me information
about the planet that’s uplifting, current, validated, and always
loving. I appreciate being in a place where I can share the love of
God with humanity. I appreciate being in a place where your eyes can
meet my words, and a kind of author-reader friendship can be kindled
between us as members of the same spiritual family.
Reader, I honor you.
Lee Carroll
