What channel are you on?
The frizzy, dizzy channel, that rushes me past the day’s used by date. A perpetual feeling of late. Late to life. Negative thoughts coursing through my brain, raising the tension in my muscles cutting off my connection to the environment. I am carrying thoughts that keep me from listening to you. How much baggage do I carry? Filled to the brim by forceful teachers teaching a curriculum. Now I am full of the known and there’s no room for the present. No room for you. My ears, eyes, nose and touch is blocked off by the knowledge I carry.
Channeling can be a freestyle flow, releasing the damned thoughts blocked up by reason, traditions, expectations, knowledge, ideas of self, to enable an expressing, writing and doing of things that we never knew we knew. Channeling is most commonly spoken about in new age circles; channeling higher dimensional beings and extraterrestrials beyond time and space. Gestalt psychotherapists use a dynamic called dialoging in which the subject will intentionally start a conversation with an aspect of a dream, or a person alive or dead, anything and anyone. Dialoguing can be used to access wisdom from historical figures and even archetypes such as the greek gods. Simply write a letter to them or a question and then write their reply from their subjective view responding to you.
In the in-person conversation each of the four members found an extremely absorbing and exciting flow of thought. I noticed that I would be stimulated by another’s expression and have the impulse to enlighten everyone with my insight. As I held onto this insight I lost track of what was being said, until I had to let go the treasure that I had found in order to remain listening to the group. It was a little act of dying consciously, letting go of what I was holding onto in order to be present and engaged. I wonder if we lose energy trying to hold onto things whilst keeping up with the present. I wondered at the moment of insight if I should pull out my journal and write it down.
Maybe this insight is just for me? And I need to speak it to simply hear it or let go of it to uncover the next line of the poem.
Channeling seems natural to us and is facilitated by relationship, collaboration and connection. Not just with other humans but with the world itself; listening, touching, playing, contemplating.
This seems to be how a baby learns the controls of a body to which we have no instruction manual. So why do we stop channeling, playing curiously and discovering the controls that we are yet to uncover?
Have we been hijacked by weaponised stories that motivate a stagnation within us?
An example of this is the embalming industry or trade that began during WW1. The bodies were being sent home and in the process rotting and causing a problem with the staff of the trains. Entrepreneurs discovered the niche and began to embalm and prop up dead bodies on the battlefield as a form of advertising. The embalming industry blew up and prospered but as WW1 and WW2 came to a close, the dead body transporting market dried up. The embalmers then began convincing people that dead bodies were dangerous; diseased and infectious and on this false premise continued to embalm and their businesses continued to exist.
In a moment of history the idea of embalming was channeled into existence and relevancy but then continued to exist beyond its need. This is also how a cancer cell is created, the mitochondria are weak and do not turn off the cell that has finished its job, the cell then continues to exist feeding on life itself and eventually killing the host.
These ideas, once channeled, held onto, block the channel. Just like holding onto a tangential insight whilst in a conversation. I anxiously wait for the person to finish so that I can have my chance at a monologue, I do not listen and I am vampiric upon the life that is being shared.
The above story is an example of how our dynamic channeling can be made static and held onto by weaponised narratives, generating a blocked irrelevant society. However, just as nature cannot be contained without time consuming maintenance, our channels explode out of us or slowly leak from us. Creating us all as unique individuals no matter the contracting narratives directing us to maintain the existence of irrelevant industries.
Psychosis or spiritual emergency could be thought of as the channel of nature unblocking in an extraordinary display that can knock the doors of perception from their hinges overwhelming the individual with our full capacity. Western society sees this as mental illness. Indigenous societies may understand it as the birthing of a healer and have ancient customs and contexts to hold this individual.
Our creativity, from my perspective is a flow of our channeling capacity and every aspect in which we are being is a slow leak of our channeled nature. This created ideas and concepts help us navigate and build yet can transform us into vampires if we do not learn how to let them go and surrender.
In our conversation one member brought forward science as a dominating and sometimes weaponised narrative used to perpetuate industry and other agendas. However a scientist themselves is an artist, creator, and curious explorer searching for a channel to explore the outer limits of. It just seems that attempting to bring light to a channeled insight using science can sometime take thousands of words to describe or years to prove while the conversation of the universe continues to spiral away. And on top of that individuals with agendas use the narratives of science to fulfil their greed and power.
This is only a small take away from the collective discussion on channeling. As one member’s check out described the conversation as walking along a narrow path with cliffs into infinity on either side. We all felt so grateful to even arrive to edge, because sometimes we find ourselves stuck in the farmed fields of the known.
So go out there and channel some relevant shit into existence and then let it go at the end of the day, to wake up with a clear and open channel to the universe.
A tense body also blocks the channel, we must relax ourselves into gentle gratitude and wonder to allow ourselves to flow. Be kind to yourself in order open yourself up the magic of life.
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