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Chapter Three consideration consideration might give a different perspective to such a consciousness, but that didn’t attest to its advancement in philosophical different such In other words, a dead Presbyterian is just that: a dead Presbyterian. If the consciousness can use your body, it can’t be much different from your own. I noted in going through the literature on channeling and spirit mediumship that there were certain very interesting cases where it could be thought that the “possessing entity”, (because, despite claims to the contrary, trance channeling is possession), was, at the very least, a consciousness a small order of magnitude more dense and rich than the medium him or herself who may or may not have achieved their consciousness/genetic potential. The curious thing about such cases was that there seemed to be a direct relationship between such potentials and body mass. In other words, mediums who seemed to be capable of making limited connection to seemingly higher (though only slightly) beings, were rather large. Not only that, but when subjected to scientific controls and measurements, as some of them were in the 19th and early 20th century, it was learned that such mediums could lose up to 15 pounds of body mass in an hour or two of such contact. Eusapia Palladino’ is a case in point. Considering such things made me think, naturally, of the very ancient Goddess images found all over the world, where She is nearly always represented as a very fat woman! Well, I was definitely a qualified applicant for the job! The only thing was, I was not at all satisfied with the levels of contact achieved even in those cases described above. There were also stories of yogis and shamans who, in states of meditation or shamanic ecstasy where they claimed to have made some sort of “cosmic connection”, lost incredible amounts of weight due to the “heat of the state”. That this was a heat that did not necessarily register on a thermometer was clear, but heat of a certain kind was definitely present in these cases, as well as significant fluctuation in body mass. This led me to the idea that, in terms of channeling truly higher beings, the mode itself presented significant problems. Relative to the theorized “high voltage” of such higher sources, I proposed that the only way to make such a contact was to combine the energies of two or more people as a “receiver”, and then to attempt to “tune” the receiver or spiritual terms. with repeated acts of intent. 7 Eusapia Palladino (1854-1918) was an Italian woman, well-known for her séances.