Back to Basics
Where I Channel A Little Bit Too
I am not a pianist, but I know that they practice scales daily. No matter how good you are, no matter how famous you are, a pianist will sit there and practice their scales. It’s their fingers, their hands, the musculature, and the music. They just do.
I, as a writer, write every day. Like I’m writing here. At this point in my piece, I don’t have much more to go on other than this, which is something that I have to do every day.
Now, if I were to have a plan for my writing, I could jump in with both feet and not even consider the what of what I was doing.
I’m here to write on Chapter Five. Is everybody getting along and doing their thing in a nice fashion, or is somebody getting mischievous and starting to set traps for the other characters in the story? Just because they can?
I work with a rough outline because I am sort of new at writing a book. Actually, I’ve written a couple of non-fiction books, but I feel stunted at the age of 69. I didn’t do it all. I wasn’t always flamboyant. I was never what you’d call brilliant. I was adequate, I suppose, though I’ve got a couple of former bosses who are agitated right now. Perhaps I was pretty good at what I did in those jobs. I mention the agitation because not only are those bosses former bosses. They are dead.
I talk to dead people.
It’s something that I had to learn to do. It wasn’t until somebody told me I could do it that I thought it was something I’d like to do. Five years later…. Actually, I think it was longer than that. I spoke to my Spirit Guide, Seth, for the first time. That was February 12, 1993. I remember the date because it was the start of a new part of my life. Ten days later, on February 22, I started channeling telepathically. Those dates hold an especial significance for me. Years before, when I first set the intention that channeling was something I wanted to do, I began seeing the number 222. It wasn’t an accidental sort of thing. It was a curiosity. Then, it was me wondering what was going on. It was special. I think it was as much as Spirit could be at my side in those days. As much as I was able to allow Spirit to be near me in the form of a number that began to show up. It was really odd. It was a sign. I knew it then, but didn’t know what it was a sign for.
You know how people talk to themselves? Like, you could be in the bedroom trying to find all the clothes that never made it to the laundry basket because you want to do a load of wash? So, you start muttering, “Oh, crap. Where did Dennis put that other sock? Maybe it’s under the dresser. It could be under there. I’ll need a flashlight. Maybe the tongs from the kitchen.” And so your day goes. But you were talking to yourself. Maybe you were thinking it and never got as far as saying the words out loud. The one thing you might even do is to answer yourself, which might actually be a good thing for a writer who is writing dialogue.
Now, imagine if you channeled. Imagine that same scene, and you haven’t found a stray sock to match up with its mate. Imagine if somebody said to you, “It’s okay. Just wash it, tuck it into the side of the drawer, and the other one will show up eventually.” Would you think you were crazy? No, that’s ordinary, daily channeling. I suppose if you weren’t expecting somebody to be there to make comments, you’d be making an appointment with a shrink pretty ding-dong fast.
For Spirit to intone the secrets of the universe to you, you need to be ready. You need to spend years working on your own emotional well being. A balanced position, which everybody needs help with at some time or another. You need to be in a good physical shape because concentrated, intense channeling will knock the stuffing out of you. I maintain that letting down the barriers and allowing Spirit into your life, your ordinary life, is like being comfortable with a friend or a loved one. It’s not like being on a date where you are trying to hide a run in your stocking because your look is ruined. It’s not like trying to be convivial while using alcohol to get there. It is you being at peace and allowing Spirit to say stuff to you.
Beginning a conversation with Spirit is as simple as saying, “Hi.” And, a daily written channeling practice is important. At least, it is for me.
Hi.
Hello yourself.
Seth?
Yes, can’t you tell?
Well, you're sort of invisible right now.
You can just take my word for it. Remember back then when you made the rule that if whoever you were talking to didn’t immediately identify themselves, you could assume it was me?
Yes, I remember now.
So, you might explain the rules you made as you moved into the channeling experience.
Yes, that sounds like a good idea. By the way, when I am channeling like this, on paper, I always put the stuff Spirit says in a bold italics. That way, there is no he said or she said going on. It’s just simpler. In the old days, I would write Seth: or Me:, but the italics work.
When I first began to channel, I used two things. I worked my way through “The Artist’s Way” by Julia Cameron and did the same thing with “Opening to Channel” by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer. Like any teacher, there was a curriculum. They took me by the hand and led me through a series of exercises. I was supposed to become more observant and to imagine more. Imagination plays such a significant role in channeling.
One of those exercises was Seth telling me a story. My job was to be attentive and stay with him. I used to, and still do, sometimes drift away. Anyway, the story was an old childhood favorite, “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”. I knew the story. Developing a focus on what Seth was saying to me was the idea.
Before that, my life had been constructed of rules. Rules for how to act at work. Rules for the things I needed to do at work for things to get done. There wasn’t much thinking outside of the box for me in those days.
As I learned how to open to the channeling experience, one of the rules was that whoever they turned out to be, you were going to believe that you were talking to your own Spirit Guide. It was explained to me that everybody has a Spirit Guide. You didn’t know what they looked like, you didn’t know what their name was. By the way, Bob works well until you actually get a nod toward a different name. Bob is a placeholder. So, that was a rule. People can get so stuck on what they should call their guide. It interferes with your progress.
What actually happened with me was that everything was weird, strange, and wonderful, and not what was described to me in the books. My first personal rule was, “Only one person in Spirit talks at one time.” It was confusing. I wasn’t used to it. It was like a peanut gallery with 18 people in it, with everybody talking at the same time. I couldn’t understand a thing, so I made that rule. It worked for me and my new experience with Spirit.
It also led to a second rule, “I’m only talking to Seth for a while. Just until I get accustomed to this new thing.” It turned out that advice now, when I am teaching somebody to channel, is to only talk to your Spirit Guide for the first year. It takes that long to develop your sea legs. Also, another rule I made up for others learning how to channel, and I learned this the hard way, is don’t tell anybody what your guide says for that first year. First, that “stuff” might be alarming. If your family members hear any of it, they will think you are off your nut and will do anything and everything in their power to dissuade you from trying to talk to invisible, dead people. Unless you’ve got understanding, loving people in your life like I do with my husband.
So, you make up your own rules. You have the rules of the person who is paving the way for you to engage in discourse, as Seth just suggested, but once you’ve learned how to balance and can ride your bike, you can learn how to pop wheelies.
Seth? Do you think I covered it?
Well, you covered a lot. Trust is an important thing, too. Remember when you thought you were Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz?
Let’s not go there today.
No, really, this stuff is important. Besides, your audience this morning includes other writers. They are just as imaginative as you are. There is no reason at all for believing silly things along the way.
Well, it was embarrassing.
Yes, and so the “rule” was established: Don’t talk about the things that happen during channeling for at least a year. Or thereabouts.
Did you say thereabouts?
Yes, I did. Stretch and say goodbye. There is always another blank piece of paper.
You’re right. Okay, so that’s it, everybody. Yes, I was channeling during this piece. Again, the bold italic part is what my guide, Seth, said. This was written channeling, which, interestingly, sounds slightly different than verbal channeling. I’ll talk about that another time. Or, once I get used to making videos, we’ll try some out on my YouTube channel, Talking to Spirit.
Thanks for reading. I’m going to put some links below the article, so if you’re interested in pursuing a psychic path, you can go read a book. One thing I will mention is that after you’ve learned how to channel, you will never, ever be lonely again.
Love, Pauline Evanosky
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🌺Resources:
Seth books by Jane Roberts — Wikipedia
Autobiography of a Yogi by Parmahansa Yogananda
Creating Money by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer
Opening to Channel by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer
Abraham-Hicks Publications and Teachings
Lucid Dreaming by Stephen LaBerge
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
Tony Robbins — Lots of books, lots of courses
Drawing on the Right Side of The Brain by Betty Edwards
Tyler Henry
Theresa Caputo
Pat Rodegast and Emmanuel
A Course in Miracles
Hearts of Space — Music