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

400 Pages·1987·51.092 MB·English

by  Jon Klimo

ISBN 0-fl7M77-'-431-M >$lfi.TS
ON
INVESTIGATIONS
RECEIVING INFORMATION
FROM PARANORMAL
SOURCES
From earliest recorded history,
people have claimed that under certain
special conditions they were in direct
contact with, and spoke on behalf
of,
beings who “inhabit a higher dimen-
sion of reality than our own.” Over the
years, these mysterious contacts have
been known by vaiious names, including
“revelation,” “spirit communications,”
“mediumship," and, most recently,
"channeling.”
This phenomenon, those who claim
to have experienced the nature of the
it,
messages received, the scientific theories
that explain and the techniques we can
it,
use to unfold our own latent capacities
for channeling— all are explored in this
exciting work.
Channeling: Investigations on Receiv-
ing Informationfrom Paranormal Sources
reviews these channeled messages, their
content and significance, and the prin-
cipal modern channels who are bringing
them to us —in many cases utilizing fas-
cinating personal interviews conducted
specially for this book. The author also
provides an in-depth historical look at
channeling, from its earliest recorded
instances as religious revelation, through
centuries of underground activity, to its
current widespread popularity and
acceptance.
Klimo details the startling unifor-
mity ofchanneled r.aaterial »md the effect
of these "teachings” on both those who
channel them and those who come to lis-
ten. Drawing on cross-cultural findings in
CHANNELI-NG
INVESTIGATIONS ON RECEIVING INFORMATION FROM PARANORMAL SOURCES
JON
KLIMO
JEREMY TARCHER,
P. INC.
Los Angeles
Distributed by St. Martin’s Press
New York
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Klimo, Jon.
Channeling investigations on receiving information from paranormal
:
sources.
Bibliography.
Includes index.
1. Spiritualism. 2. Mediums. 3. Extrasensory perception. I. Title.
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CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
xi
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 Z. Knight, Kevin Ryerson, and Jach
J.
^
Pursel Messages from “Michael” From Heaven to Earth:
the “Returns” Series ^ “Space Brothers” ^ Mark and Eliz-
^
abeth Clare Prophet Ken Carey, Meredith Lady Young, and
Pat Rodegast International Channels ^ Others ^ An Inter-
^
view 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
VIII
CONTENTS
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 Non-
^
physical 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 An-
gelic Realm, Devas, Elementals, Plants, and Animals
Human
Extraterrestrials Discarnate Spirits
6
HOW DO DO
THEY 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 Pro-
ix
CONTENTS
^
goff’s Dynatypes Hypnosis, Trance, and Cognitive Psychol-
ogy Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry: Normal versus
Abnormal ^ Parapsychology and Consciousness Research
^
8
BIOLOGY AND PHYSICS
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
INDEX
370
I especially owe my dear Jane the deepest acknowledgment for her lov-
ing support of me throughout the making of this book. She has con-
tinually worked for my productivity and fulfillment, teaching me along
the way through the example of her loving and unselfish spirit. I want to
thank my mother, who has always believed in me and what I am to do in
this lifetime. And I thank my daughter, Elizabeth, for her love.
Willis Harman deserves my thanks for suggesting in 1981 that
I
write down some of my ideas on channeling. A copy of what had
I
written found its way into the hands of Mineda McCleave in Daven-
J.
port, Iowa, and I have Mineda to thank for passing it on to John White.
My
appreciation to John for becoming my agent and matching me up
with Jeremy Tarcher as publisher. I have felt John’s support and under-
standing throughout.
I wish to acknowledge the people who consented to be interviewed
by me for this book. Their contributions have been of great value. They
include: Ralph B. Allison, Earl Babbie, Margo Chandley, Armand Di-
Mele, James Fadiman, Marilyn Ferguson, Philip Goldberg, Jean
Houston, Stanley Krippner, “Lazaris,” Robert Masters, Jeffrey Mishlove,
Robert Monroe, Tam Mossman, Michael Murphy, Karl F. Pribram, Jach
Pursel, Shawn Randall, Pat Rodegast, D. Scott Rogo, Jack Schwarz,
Judith Skutch, Huston Smith, Jose Stevens, Hal Stone, Charles Tart,
Marcello Truzzi, Frances Vaughan, and Ken Wilber.
I am indebted to the various expert readers who have given me
much-needed feedback: Ernest Hilgard and Steven Feinberg in hypno-
sis; William Tiller and Robert Shacklett in physics; James Brown in
brain synchrony and psychophysiology; Justine Owens in cognitive psy-
chology and state-specific learning; Matt Erdyie on Freud; and Frank
Barr on his melanin model. I especially wish to thank Margo Chandley
for her careful reading of the entire manuscript and for her numerous
valuable suggestions.
I want to acknowledge the help Jonas Bastys and Joshua have
provided me with resource materials. Special thanks to Silver for his
friendship and for our crystalline coffee conversations. Ernest Pecci has
XII
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
aided my thinking as well. In addition, many others have helped me
throughout the research and writing of this book, and I only wish there
were space to list them all. I think they know who they are. They have
my
gratitude.
I wish to thank Connie Zweig, the editor who worked with me for
most of this book. She took the obtuse, idiosyncratic poet-philosopher
that I was in my writing, and patiently taught me to think and write
clearly and succinctly. I wish also to thank Kip Hargrove, John White,
and Hank Stine, who came in later as editorial readers to help wrest a
final shape and size from the^manuscript. Hank Stine’s enthusiasm and
expertise were especially helpful. And finally, I wish to say what an
absolute pleasure and extraordinary education has been working
it
throughout with my publisher, Jeremy Tarcher. No author could ask for
wiser, more witty, or more supportive circumstances for writing a book
than Jeremy has provided. He is an artist among publishers, and it has
been an honor for me to have worked with him.