What is it like to channel?

How did I learn to open up?

“…There is no trance involved in my reception of these thoughts, no loss of consciousness, no voice change or foreign accent. I am fully present throughout the experience. …I begin to realize that accessing higher frequency awareness is actually an organic process, a natural ability with which every child is born…” The Third Millennium by Ken Carey.

I am often asked what is channeling like for me? Did it change me to open up to channel?

My voice does change a little in its cadence. The words tumble out of my mouth before they register in my mind; I am fully unfiltered during channel sessions. In Ken Carey’s book, he is adamant that he is not channeling. I have no issue with that label; however, I can tell you that I in no way ‘step aside’ to allow my body to be used. I am fully involved and the more I connect, the more I feel connected as though we are not truly separated at all.

I am here in this body, having this experience, and at the same time I am part of the group that the information is coming from.

My channeling journey began long ago, although I did not recognize it as such. I remember an incident when I was visiting a friend who was complaining about her husband’s behaviour. I kept getting this persistent thought in my mind that her husband was undiagnosed with ADHD, was extremely depressed, and contemplating suicide. I had no evidence to support this information and it absolutely did not feel like something I should say out loud.

I tried to ignore the thought but it persisted with more and more insistence. It was not a voice in my head, more like a thought that I could tell was not mine, with information I had no way of knowing. Finally, I spoke to her and presented the information. My friend, not surprisingly, was flabbergasted.

How can you know this? This cannot be true! Why would you say this when you cannot possibly know this…

Although she was unimpressed with me that evening, she decided she should ask her husband if he was alright. He admitted he was not and was subsequently diagnosed with both ADHD, and severe depression. He also confided to his wife that there was a history of suicide in his family.

I am a Reiki Master and would often get messages intended for clients when I was in their energy. This was not consistent and I was hesitant to share the messages, although when I did, the confirmation was always present leading to a very positive experience for the receiver.

In 2014, I attended eight days of training in something called Soul Voice Sound Healing. with its founder Karina Schelde. It was the most amazing and difficult training I had ever received. We opened up to all manner of sounds, watching it change with each person we worked with. It was a beautiful, difficult, intense healing experience. She never once described it as channeling sound.

“There is a cry, a call, deep within our hearts that wants to be heard. We long for the liberation of our voice and soul to rediscover the grandeur of who we truly are as a force of the highest vibration of Creation.” Karina Schelde, Founder of the Soul Voice method.

Later that same year, I was asked to do a demonstration of sound healing with one of my Soul Voice class mates; we were to attend a gathering at the home of Bonnie Bogner who teaches channeling. The only person I knew before going to this gathering was my classmate. We had a lovely pot luck dinner and I chatted easily with new acquaintances… until we did the demonstration.

The classmate and I stood on either side of Bonnie and channeled sound for her. The sounds that were coming out of me were low and strange, to be sure. After spending five days in the 2nd level of Soul Voice, none of the sounds surprised me anymore.

I sat back on the couch next to the lady I had been conversing with all night, she shifted, creating a greater space between us, giving me a wary look. I asked her what was wrong? Nothing, she insisted. I waited a while and then asked her again. “We have been talking all evening and now you are looking at me as if I have horns… what is wrong?”

“Those sounds… the sounds that came out of you, there is no WAY you could be making those sounds. They sounded NOTHING like you!”

Just at that moment, Bonnie was passing by and explained that those sounds were what she heard when she channeled the Galactic Council. I had been channeling sound for them.

Channeling? I had never thought about Soul Voice as channeling. Karina had not mentioned that at all.

Bonnie then turned to me, looked me in the eye and said… “Do you know who you are?”
”Uh, yes…. I think so? …. I don’t know…”

“No, you don’t” she said “but you will….”

That was enough to intrigue me. I took several classes from her, the last being a class to learn to channel called “Galactic Conversations”, culminating in a collaboration with Bonnie for her book Hope for Humanity - Love is the Answer… now what was the question?

More on how that came about in future posts…