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(implying a passive, dependent and thus ultimately estranged and helpless relation to it), but a general Proposition requiring an interpretive orientation (always ultimately made through the inherent freedom of the determining void—psyche of the soul). Two tricks of the dedicatedly Negative are (1) to appropriate the short—sighted counsel of 3rd density time/space (or the revivifying afterlife of this dimension) in "confirmation" of the non-existence of the Negative except as a subconscious tendency, and (2) to endow the idea of the negative (as in the Hilarion recitation of the "fall") with an alien and antithetical formalism that, in essence, imposes upon us a "forced" or inoculated kinship rendering us all that much more powerless and ineffectual in relation to its invasive presence. (The fact that in this account we are also "inoculated" with the Good, only makes that value—potential an equally alien and invasive presence contending for the soul in virtual independence of its passive-battleground condition. The soul, in such a case, simply becomes an incidental "site", and is reduced to the stature of host—organ). In this way we come to see that, even in relation to the alleged rescue—operations of channeling, we haven't succeeded in surpassing the original problem at all. We find there is no device to which we can have recourse, that serves as proof against the possibility of deception and illusion. We find once again that we are thrown back ultimately on our own resource, stuck after all with the responsibility of developing our own discriminative faculty, our own will, our own spiritual intelligence able to act as a gyroscopic monitor of information-signals. For it becomes inescapably evident that, regardless the subtlety of the originating plane or quality of the formal Ground, the voice of Self-serving can Speak from the Other Side with as great an ease as any other orientation, and indeed takes up Residency there with as firm a sense of proprietary rights. At this point we hear the common plaint what about the "goodness" of the medium? Doesn't the "right intention" and positive expectation of the channeler tend to ensure the benign intent of the Received Signal? Doesn't the occult proposition pertaining to the law of the psychic plane wherein "like attracts like", serve as sufficient safeguard so that we may resume our basic confidence in the integrity of the Higher Ground granted this one proviso of appropriate alignment? Overlooking for now that this still leaves us with the petitio principii of having to assume just the egoic equanimity on the part of the channeler that's as problematic as the question of any "guru's" ego, and that in fact has yet to be proved, we should go to the central consideration in the whole question of any invited intercourse between planes. Channeling is resorted to in the first place in order to obtain what one manifestly doesn't have, and despite tangential issues, this means most critically certain Values of Being. Indeed, the device of "meditation" from which those values are traditionally thought to proceed, becomes the agency of acquiring information more colorfully descriptive of those values, in the context of channeling. The operative plane from which all of this takes place, is as a consequence maintained at the ordinary low level of mind—body integration characteristic of 3rd density consciousness as a whole. Indeed, the channeler takes pride in the preservation of just that humble "ordinanness", displacing all claims to the extraordinary upon the received Source. In this way, we're supposed to take comfort in the fact that the channeler lays claim to no personal merit in terms of Transformative Realization, he's not purporting to be the source of such fascination but only the indifferent medium, thereby retaining his warmly assuring identity in ingratiating commonality with us. This shouldn't be a matter of such congratulatory assurance. The implicit confession is that the channeler, no matter how personally oriented to the "good" he may be (and whatever that may be in his terms) is functionally established at the same, essentially non—transformed level of mind—body harmony and integration characteristic of the mean average with which he takes such proud identity He is, by inference, 48 T-Bird_Vs_The_Flying_saucers.htm The "Good" Ol' Boys