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be informed of the respective consequences in the alternatives confronting the present perplexing moment of decision. We would like if possible to be underwritten not only for our monetary but for our psychic commitments, insured in advance against the usual contingencies; and the channeler proffers the prospect of just this excelsior potential. of verbalization born of limited perceptions for the transpersonal power of verbally portraying dimensions or aspects of being otherwise inaccessible. The myriad channeled voices to which we have been opened in recent years do indeed present an avalanche of prediction, of advice on principle and in particular, and a massive characterization of planes, states, levels and dimensions of reality which introduce whole other magnitudes to the ultimate questions of purpose and consequence. Through the innumerable contributions of channeled sources we have been, in a certain sense, asked to reappraise the whole matter of success in terms beyond the conventional, so that the horizon upon which the grail of accomplishment rests has been as it were elevated, the sights raised to the prospect of a more comprehensive and crucial, indeed sacred focus. On the "plus" side then, the phenomenon of channeling has supplied a verbal chorus of confirmation tending collectively to install our usual questions and concerns in a setting offset by distinct considerations of Soul. The "answers" to our most mundane queries as to future, choice and result have been furnished a whole additional dimension of meaning, so that the most casual skimmer of "channeled" material can't help but perceive at least implicitly the bearing which every conventional ego—choice has upon the larger destiny of soul-growth. Never mind for the time being that such emphatic intimations result from a cutting in, an abrupt verbal funneling of the basic meditative stream which was ostensibly moving toward the unique value of personal (unmediated) cognition and direct perception of those very, spiritual and high—psychic modes now presented by descriptive approximation. Never mind that the whole phenomenon seems in a certain light to express the impatience of higher—dimensional intelligence long waiting for the sluggish personal development characteristic of this "material plane" and so simply intruding with the necessary packets of information at the minimal achievement of some meditative quietude. To be fair, some "channeling" circumstances seem to promote the actual personal progress of the channeler in gaining direct access to the planes, states, phenomena and degrees of mind—body integra-— tion otherwise only described or verbally characterized by ventrilo— quist voice—transmission (cf. the Seth material, and the late Jane Roberts' occasional description of her personal development in "inner plane" understanding). But for the most part, the expressed Ryerson—attitude prevails, which amounts to a curious dissociation between the person of the channeler and the content of the communication resulting practically in an overall substitution of the description for the thing described. More immediately, on the minus side of the phenomenon we end up (in this avalanche of description from various sources) with a collision rather than a smooth confluence of materials. At the "higher" levels of consciousness not limited to the spacetime framework of the blindered channeler, there still seems to be contention or discrepancy in the respective characterizations of Reality; there still seems to be division regarding that which is perceived or known even in these greater and more allegedly comprehensive Domains of Knowing. Any who've scanned more than one of these sources in print, or compared notes with "live" sessions attended, are bound to notice (if minimally conscious) that, beneath the general agreement as to the existence of higher slates and planes, of different orders of knowledge and action from those assumed in the context of strictly physical expression there is a welter of large and small divergences ranging from minor variations to an embarrassment of glaring contradictions. This is explained in one such source, Cosmic Revelation "channeled" by Virginia Essene and Ann Valentin, as the inevitable condition of confusion resulting from the urgent/unprecedented need of the "higher dimensions" to disseminate changing patterns of information belonging to "revamped educational programs", brought T-Bird_Vs_The_Flying_saucers.htm The channeler in a sense, then, exchanges the personal power