TYPE 4

CHANNELING

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Channeling For Fun And Prophet

Farrell J. McGovern

Channelling is one of the more popular parts of what is call the "New Age".

It is also one of the most controversial aspects of this movement.

To properly channel someone, be it Marylin Monroe, Aliester Crowley

(I have been told this doesn't work well...) or Devine, one must know

something of this person. The easiest way is by reading about this person.

Autobiographies are the best, of course, but biographies, news reports, or

even old photos are almost as good. You need some connecion...

In Pagandom, and Wicca, popular beings for channelling are various aspects of

the God and the Goddess. Again, one must know as much as possible about the

Lady or Lord that you are going to bring into yourself for the enjoyment,

edification and educat ion of the others in the Circle with you.

The most popular source of information on Gods and Goddesses is again in

books. Since there are many aspects of deities, there is a great deal of

literature about these beings. Most of this literature that is over a couple

of hundred of years old is usually in the form of Fables or Epics, which

have more literary content than reality. One could easily call these works

Docu-dramas, but they are still fiction.

"But..." I hear you ask, "How can they channel these beings if all they know

about them is fictional?" Well, there seems to be enough consensus on certain

deities, but not on all. But these rituals work, as anyone who has attended

the beautiful "Dra wing Down the Moon" ritual of Wicca.

So it seems to me that the idea of a "consensual reality" is created from

the energies that all these people put into their concept of whatever God or

Goddess they believe in. There are hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions

of people who believ e in Cerridwin, Iris, Hecate, Hern, and others.

But...are there not also millions of people who believe in Captain James T.

Kirk? Arthur Dnt? Catwoman? Batman? Smurfs?.....or even Peewee Herman?

Imagine some Circle performing the Drawing Down The Moon ceremony,

and due to a lack of concentration by the priestess, she channels, not

Athena, but Marry Tyler-Moore?!?!?!? Or the priest channeling PeeWee

Herman?!?!?!

We shall leave the further exploration of this to some experimental

coven...but please! If you manage to channel Papa Smurf....we DON'T want to

hear about it!

BLESSED BE