Channeling; Investigations on receiving information from paranormal sources, 1st Ed

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From earliest recorded history, people have claimed that in certain special conditions they were in communication with entities “inhab­iting a higher dimension of reality than our own.” This phenomenon is called channeling. Those who claim to have experienced it, the nature of the messages they have received, the scientific and metaphysical theories that explain it, and the techniques anyone can use to unfold his or her own latent capacities for a direct experience of channeling are all explored I in this definitive book. Author Jon Klimo demystifies channeling while maintaining an elegant sense of the mysterious and reviews the various types of channeling--trance, clairvoyance, automatic writing, etc.--and provides a full history of the phenomenon from ancient times. Foreword by CHARLES TART • • • xiii INTRODUCTION: SETTING THE SCENE • • • 1 What Is Channeling? → Exclusions and Inclusions Constructive Skepticism Entities, Planes, States, and Stages A Personal, Subjective Journey Selecting Examples of Contemporary Channeling ONE - THE PERSONALITIES 1 - CHANNELING AS A MODERN PHENOMENON 27 Jane Roberts and the “Seth” Books → The Findhorn Circle → A Course in Miracles → J. Z. Knight, Kevin Ryerson, and Jach Pursel → Messages from “Michael” → From Heaven to Earth: the “Returns” Series → “Space Brothers” → Mark and Elizabeth Clare Prophet → Ken Carey, Meredith Lady Young, and Pat Rodegast → International Channels → Others An Interview with “Lazaris” → Conclusion 2 - CHANNELING AS A HISTORICAL PHENOMENON 76 Prehistoric and Primitive Roots →Ancient Egypt, China, Japan, and India → The Greeks → Other Early Cultures → The Rise of Monotheism → Jesus Christ → The Dark Ages to the Mid-Nineteenth Century → The Spiritualist Era → Entering the Twentieth Century → Four Notable Twentieth-Century Channels →The Beginning of the Modern Era 3 -WHO DOES IT? 129 Correlation with Unhappy Childhood → Seven Stages in Channeling Development →The Channel’s Lot →Portraits of Five Contemporary Channels TWO - THE MATERIAL 4 - WHAT DO THEY SAY? 147 Two Approaches to Judging Channeled Material → Ageless Wisdom → Guidance and Personal Messages → “Proof” from Discarnate Human Spirits → Descriptions of Life in Nonphysical Realms → The Future and the Past → Subject Matter for Artistic/Creative Expression →Scientific/Technological Material, Health, and Healing 5 - WHO ARE THEY CHANNELING? 168 The Channel’s Higher Self → Gods and God The Universal Mind and the Collective Unconscious → Group Beings → Jesus Christ and Other Ascended Masters → Nonhumans: The Angelic Realm, Devas, Elementals, Plants, and Animals → Extraterrestrials → Discarnate Human Spirits 6 - HOW DO THEY DO IT? 185 Full Trance → Sleep Channeling → Dream Channeling → Light Trance → Clairaudient Channeling → Clairvoyant Channeling → Automatisms (Automatic Writing and the Ouija Board) → Open Channeling → Physical Channeling THREE - POSSIBLE EXPLANATIONS 7 - PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPLANATIONS 205 Early Twentieth-Century Views → Closed Models of the Psyche → A Freudian View of Channeling → Jung and the Collective Unconscious → Silberer’s Autosymbolism and Progoff’s Dynatypes → Hypnosis, Trance, and Cognitive Psychology → Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry: Normal versus Abnormal → Parapsychology and Consciousness Research 8 - BIOLOGY AND PHYSICS 254 The Traditional View of the Brain → The Holographic Brain → The Psychobiology of Transcendence → Physics and Para-physics → Conclusions → A Concluding Metaphor FOUR - THE POTENTIAL 9 - OPEN CHANNELING 303 Intuition and Creativity → The Creative Artist → Receiving Spiritual Experience 10 - YOUR TURN 320 Discernment → Preparing Yourself: Beliefs and Attitudes → Raising Vibrations and Cleansing Emotions → Working with Your Physical Body → Grounding → Stilling the Mind and Letting Go of the Ego → Setting Intention and Verbal Self-Programming → The Use of Mental Imagery → Attunement → Becoming an Open Channel → Some Sample Procedures → Warnings → Conclusion CONCLUSION 340 GLOSSARY 344 NOTES 351 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 365 Back Cover