What is Channeling?

Note from Suzanne:  Just before sitting to meditate this morning I received an email informing me that a Unity church in the north where someone had proposed I speak next Fall has a policy of not sponsoring mediums who channel.  I felt a rush of varied human emotions, and immediately prayed for guidance.  I didn’t need guidance on how to react to the church.  That’s easy:  just send love!  My personal challenge was how to deal with my insecurity about channeling.  It’s ironic that when I doubt this process, what do I do?  I ask for higher guidance and write down what I hear.  What is that process called?  Channeling!

Sanaya’s answer to my request for guidance was lengthy and worth posting:

You give yourself a name, and that becomes who you are permanently in the human mind.  There is no room for expansion.  How limiting is a name!  it does not allow you to think outside the box and most especially to express outside the box.  And what happens when you begin to access information normally inaccessible to the one with a name?  this defies your sense of sensibility—this wisdom, these things unknown to the one with a name.  And so, you ask for a name, and a name is given to the source of the words.  You then ask, “Is it a guide?”  And the answer is yes.  Others ask, “Is it an angel?”  And the answer is yes.  “Is it God?”  And the answer is yes.  “Is it you?”  The answer is yes!

How often have we said it, and in how many forms?  There is only one Mind, one Consciousness. 

Who is Sanaya?  One aspect of the entire Consciousness—just as you are!  Sanaya is a bit higher than normally accessible by the one who holds the pen—quite a bit higher at times.  If the words are spoken aloud and they come out in a strange voice, this merely indicates the higher place along the spectrum of consciousness from which the words are accessed.

Is Sanaya the one who holds the pen?  Yes.  Can the one who holds the pen access Sanaya at will?  This depends upon the state of consciousness at the time of the asking.  Can anyone access Sanaya?  Yes, just as anyone can access Jesus, Buddha, or God, or their guides and angels, and even the mind of their best friend and partner in human form.  We say it again:  there is only one Mind, one Consciousness, but infinitely infinite levels of Consciousness … one Ocean.

Will you remain but one wave and limit your access to the ocean because others do not understand this?  Or will you stroke out boldly and enjoy a swim in the entire sea of which you are an inseparable part?  This is channeling:  not remaining stuck and limited as a human being with a name, but realizing that guidance, direction, wisdom, and the answers you seek lie not within the brain.  All is a part of the one Mind.  Reach out now and attune to Sanaya, to Abraham, to Zarathustra, if you must have a new name for this higher wisdom you access in doing so, but reach higher, my friend.  Always reach higher if you wish to grow.