Carla Rueckert - A Channeling Handbook

A Channeling Handbook

By Carla L. Rueckert

Other books and tapes by L/L Research:

Living the Law of One 101: The Choice
A Wanderers Handbook
A Book of Days
Secrets Of The Ufo
The Ra Material (The Law Of One, Book One)
The Law Of One, Book Two
The Law Of One, Book Three
The Law Of One, Book Four
What Is Love ? , a coloring book for kids
The Crucifixion Of Esmerelda Sweetwate r , a parable for all ages, by Don Elkins and Carla L. Rueckert
Messages From The UF O , a -min. cassette tape
The Spiritual Significance Of UFO s , a -min. cassette tape

Portions of this book have appeared in somewhat different form in Metapsychology; The Journal of Discarnate Intelligence.

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Preface

Although the art and practice of channeling is at least as ancient as written history, and although a scholarly work of research comparing and contrasting various kinds of channeling throughout history would undoubtedly be fascinating, this volume is in no way intended as such a work. It is, rather, a workbook for the practicing channel, or for one who is contemplating the attempt to learn how to produce channeled material. It is my response to the veritable explosion of new channels, and especially to the many new-age weekends which teach the mechanics of channeling, which are very easy to master, but which do not give students a firm metaphysical basis for the appropriate use of this gift.

I became a channel i n and have pursued that gift to this day. I have taught students the mechanics of channeling, but I hope that I have done a good deal more than that, for it has always been my intention to make available not only the how-tos of being an instrument but the whys. Channeling is not a parlor game. There can be emotional, mental and even physical difficulties which spring from the misuse of this practice. It is my hope that this volume will help those who wish to avoid such problems. The ideas which are offered herein are my opinion only. It is hoped that they will help you. If they do not, please leave them behind without a second thought.

I would like to acknowledge my enormous debt to several people, for although I was given the gift of faith and the temperament to sustain an effort which I thought well-begun, I would never have begun channeling were it not for the encouragement of Donald T. Elkins, my beloved friend, partner and companion of many years, who died i n . His faith in my gift far outmatched mine from the beginning, and his encouragement was equaled by the disciplined compassion of his counsel to me as I encountered situation after situation which had been unfamiliar to me previously.

James Allen McCarty has also encouraged and supported me in every imaginable way in the very humble service that I perform, and this book would have been physically impossible to create without his emotional support and the nimbleness of his and Kimberly Howards fingers.

Thanks go also to my family and faithful friends and those many members of our meditation group over the years, without whose enquiring questions and hunger for truth there would have been no call generated for our contacts to answer; without whose personal love, encouragement, support and tolerance I would be poor indeed in the currency of shared love.

The most central and deep thanks I offer to my personal Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ, whose promise of redemption and living Spirit sustain me every moment of my life, and to the community of Christs own with whom I worship, Calvary Episcopal Church, Louisville, and to my spiritual director and priest, Father Ben Sanders, whose godly encouragement and censure alike have strengthened me.

Spring is creeping quietly into our inland hills, touching the burgeoning pussy-willow and unfurling our winter hearts to warm, free bloom. Peace to each of you from Kentucky.

Carla L. Rueckert
Louisville, Kentucky
Februar y 0, 1987

To all, visible and invisible,
who seek to be channels
for love and light.

Carla Lisbeth Rueckert

Carla Lisbeth Rueckert was born on July 16, 1943 in Lake Forest, IL. She grew up in Louisville, KY and graduated from the University of Louisville in 1966, earning a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English Literature. This was followed by a Masters degree in Library Arts from Spalding College in 1971. Carla worked as a librarian for a thirteen-grade school until she was hired away by Don Elkins to do paranormal research. They formally created L/L Research in 1970. Carla served as a vocal channel from 19742011,and was the instrument for The Law Of One series. During her lifetime Carla authored and channeled thirteen published books, channeled approximately 1,500 different transcripts, sustained volumes of written and spoken correspondence with spiritual seekers, wrote poetry, danced, gardened, and sang with a heart full of praise and thanksgiving, both in the small moments of home life and in the church choir her entire life. Carla loved Jesus, loved serving, loved seeking, and loved life itself. She married her soulmate, Jim McCarty, in 1987, and passed away at home during Holy Week on April 1, 2015.

Carlas life work continues through her non-profit organization, L/L Research. You can find all of her work available for free at www.llresearch.org .

Photo by Glenda Love Jaggers

Table Of Contents

Chapter One :
What Is Channeling?

Channeling is the reproduction by words or sounds of concepts not generated within ones own conscious mind but transmitted from the subconscious mind or through the subconscious mind into the conscious mind from an impersonal or nonpersonal entity or principle. A good analogy to channeling would be the pipe which carries water. The pipe does not create the water, but rather receives it from a source external to its own identity. There are things a pipe or channel can be and do to enhance the delivery of pure channeling/water through itself: it can keep itself clean and free from corrosion; it can remove obstructions; it can strengthen its walls or enlarge its diameter; it can make new connections. However, the only control it has over the water it channels through itself is the care with which it has allowed itself to be connected; the only control a pipe has over the appropriateness of the position and place of efflux of this water is its care in positioning that opening. And of course, it must obey the mechanical rules of water distribution, which are quite simple, but inexorable.

People are designed to be channels, just as a pipe is designed to carry water. Indeed, in a sense, we all channel our lives moment by moment, thought by thought, relationship by relationship and experience by experience. Seldom is what we say, think and do completely under our conscious control. Almost always we are, to some extent, channeling unconscious thoughts. Any seminar which advertises that it can teach you to get in touch with your psychic powers is preparing for itself an extremely easy and potentially fruitful jobfruitful to the seminar holders financially perhaps, and personally almost surely; fruitful to the participants only to the extent of their own intuition and common sense and the tools that they have been given by their instructors. Since there is a gap between what common sense can tell you and what most instructors can express in a single seminar, the student must either learn further by making mistakes, as I did, or come across information such as this which is at least intended to bridge the gap.