Lily Andrews - A Guide to Channeling and Channeled Material

by Theodore

transcribed by Lily Andrews

Cassandra Press San Rafael, Ca. 94915

Cassandra Press P. O. Box 868 San Rafael, Ca. 94915,

Copyright 1989 by Lily Andrews. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of Lily Andrews.

Printed in the United States of America.

First printing 1990

ISBN 0-945946-10-4

Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number 90-81600

Preface

Introduction

I. WHAT IS CHANNELING?

What It IsThe Astral Plane and Its InhabitantsThe Causal Plane and Its InhabitantsCapabilities and Limitations of Astral and Causal Beings How to Handle Lower Astral Beings Favorite Con Games of the Discarnate

II. WHO CAN CHANNEL?

Channeling and Evolution The Lessons of the Old CycleHow Do You Know You Are Ready, to Be a Channel? The Stages of DevelopmentLessons Faced by MediumsBenefits to the Medium Full Trance vs. Partial Trance

III. WHY CHANNEL?

The Wrong Reasons for ChannelingThe Dangers of Asking Personal QuestionsObtaining Information About OthersObtaining Information About Money SchemesBeneficial Uses of ChannelingThe Dangers of ChannelingThe Dangers of the Ouija Board and Automatic Writing

IV. HOW TO CHANNEL

When Does It Start? Is It Your Life Work? Before Becoming a Professional Channel How to Begin Your Work as a Professional-Being a Professional ChannelPreparations and Procedures for ChannelingTruth About GroundingThe Medium's Health

V. THE SESSION

The Client's ResponsibilitiesEvaluating the Channel and the MaterialWarning SignsEducation and Licensing of Channels Formulating Your QuestionsAsking About Past Lives and the Future Fruitful Areas of Inquiry What to Do with the Information after the Reading A Sample Session

VI. CONCLUSION: OUR MESSAGE TO EARTH Help for EarthWho We Really Are and Who You Really Are Good vs. EvilWho Inhabits the Universe? What Needs to ChangeThe Next Twenty-Five Years

I came to write this book, because it needed to be written or rather I needed to write it. I struggled with channeling for sometime in my own development, and I felt the need to share with others not only what I learned but what, perhaps, still remained to be learned. When Theodore suggested we write this book, the idea resonated not only with my desire to share information with others but my own need for clarification on this subject.

With misinformation and confusion abounding these days about channeling, a clear understanding of it is difficult to find. In allowing Theodore to explain this subject from his point of view, I hoped to at least gather information from this source and label it as such. This does not mean, of course, that this information is absolute truth any more than information from any other source is. You must be the judge of its usefulness and validity for yourself, just as I have. I found it to be an accurate depiction of channeling as I understand it. Please take what is useful to you and utilize it for good. Any information that you choose to believe should be tested. Examine it within the context of your life and feel its truth within you. The ultimate test of its validity lies with you, but we must begin somewhere in seeking understanding, and I felt writing this to be a good place to start.

Today the mention of channeling or channeled information often evokes ridicule, jokes, or whispers. When this is no longer the case, we will know that something has changed. Whether we realize it or not, the fact is that there is much information in the world today that has come to us via channeling which has not only gained acceptance but forms a foundation for many of our perceptions. The democratic principles of our founding fathers are an example of this. Our future will be shaped to an even larger extent by information scientific, technological, philosophical, and medical that is being channeled today. The earth has finally reached a level in its development when information of this nature is more readily received and utilized.

Of course, along with this come the pitfalls of this kind of communication. During these times, we will not only gain in understanding and new ideas, but in our ability to discriminate and use this material wisely. We, as a group, will go through some of the stages mentioned in this book in developing greater wisdom and discrimination in the use of channeled material. This means that sometimes we will make mistakes in accepting and utilizing what is received. Because this may happen, however, is no reason to avoid information offered from these realms. But it does mean that we must carefully examine and cautiously apply whatever information we do receive, just as we do when it comes from other sources. These times are very exciting in this respect, and I welcome the opportunity to be part of this learning process and the continuing birth of new information.

I did not come to be doing what I am by an easy route, but maybe no one's route is particularly easy. Although I had always been a seeker, I never had had any unusual experiences in my life. I had no psychic experiences as a child, but I would have liked to have had them. This desire for psychic experiences was a problem for me, because in seeking them, I like so many otherswas seeking to be special in this way.

When I was told in a channeled reading that I would someday be able to reach the same level of reality with which I was speaking, I was not sure what that meant. Just to cover all the possibilities, I bought myself a ouija board, because the channel I consulted with, although a very reputable channel, had used one as an aide (she has not used one for many years now). This was, perhaps, my first mistake. But not knowing any better, I attempted to use the board every now and then alone, as I had seen her do. I did not have success with this until years later when I pulled it out and low and behold! it began to work for me. Within hours of that moment I no longer needed the ouija board because the words were coming through fast and furiously in my head. I was overwhelmed by this new-found ability and figured that, at last, I had access to all of the answers and that my life would never be the same. It is true that my life would never be the same but not in the way that I had hoped.

I had hoped to be relieved of the need to be human, relieved of the need to live with the uncertainties that we all live with as human beings. I had also hoped to finally get the attention and acclaim I desired. I got attention all right, only because I drew it to myself, but I didn't get any acclaim. The way I approached this subject with my friends was so egocentric and foolish that all I received was reproach. My ego was making a terrible fool of myself, and I could not seem to see what was happening or break myself loose from it. For an entire year, my experience with channeling was a little like being on a wild roller coaster ride and not being able to get off until it was over. When it was done, I came away with a new outlook on channeling and its dangers, because I had experienced them all. I was devastated by what I had experienced. I decided that I was not ready to channel and that if channeling held a positive purpose in my life besides teaching me what I had already painfully learned, it would come about not by me pursuing it but by it pursuing me. Therefore, I set aside this aspect of my life and went about living my life as the ordinary human being that I (at times, regretfully! ) am.

I spent the next two years attending to my personal and spiritual growth through meditation and other spiritual work. But equally important, I immersed myself in the ordinary tasks of life cleaning, cooking, shopping and falling in love, for it was then that I met my husband. I was also working as an astrologer along with doing more conventional types of counseling, and I noticed that the level at which I was practicing astrology began to shift. No longer was I relying on the individual chart symbols to describe the person. I began to feel the energy of the chart and the level at which the symbols were operating. For me the chart became a clear and distinct story about the person rather than the maze of symbols it had been in the past.