Phoenix
by Dale J. Sprague
Reveries
5.1997 Once, I was disconnected from everything, far more than I ever experienced before. I felt empty. Everything seemed trivial. It was not depression because I was still motivated to get up and do throughout the day. I ate very little from day to day. Food had no taste. Flowers had no aroma. The world was grey'toned. However mechanical, I still conducted my regular activities. I carried this feeling around with me like so much empty baggage. I felt it in my solar plexus. I knew that I could not live like this indefinitely, and had to find a way to fill the void.
So isolated, I looked at people, even loved ones, and wondered how I could get back in touch with them. I was far away, and I knew that I could not return the same. I felt even more alone because they did not know how far away I was. The void could be filled only by something new, something newborn for a self'aware empty eye. After awhile I stopped trying to feel familiar with familiar people and places. Stop trying to bridge the distance and simply accept it. I turned to look at the world, and at once, an all'consuming warmth entered me. The walls of Jericho crumbled, at least enough to make a passageway..and passing through it, I saw the world as I once did as a child. All is alive! I liked it, and made a gate to come and go as I pleased.
Many notions have been related about channeling. Perhaps, this is because channeling is more of a common activity than what is commonly understood. I call this common channeling, "global" channeling. In distress, one psychically opens up, and revelations, illuminations, inspirations pour in; like the time when I felt so isolated from all, feeling so empty yet unbearably heavy, the light of day suddenly became consciousness, the wind became spirit, and conscience and emotions of an eternal realm expressed itself in the form of all material things around me..transforming me in a moment from profound isolation to one of intimacy with everything.
It seemed to me, if one is intuiting, imagining, or inspired with imagery, or with thoughts spontaneously appearing, one is channeling information and even sensations from realms of which we are not conscious, into one in which we are. After channeling, I focus on it, enhance it..see its light, and by its light, illumine what was chosen to become self aware.
I've sensed that these realms from which one may channel may come, perhaps more often than not, from a collective memory accumulated in one's own current life. Beyond that, the realm could be from another person's memory..or another collective memory in the universe. From exactly where one channels is sometimes known, but mostly not, I think. And from where one channels may not be important to know; it may be more important to keep the cosmic resources, remote and anonymous. What matters is the ability to channel, to link. Everyone is capable of global channeling, cosmic linking..a'pulling information from realms beyond one's self, as necessary. Channeling from a specific memory requires, I'm sure, mental conditioning and discipline, and is effected only by a few. But even these few are no less active in everyday global channeling..downloading, as it were, from one's local domain. Operating intuitively.
Channeling is an innate ability in everyone. It is instinctual and vital not only to one's survival, but to one's enjoyment and meaningfulness of life. Also, it seems that channeling is blocked only by the belief that there are not any realms beyond one's self, other conscious beings equal to one's self, nor any past and present memories of other universes, or life different than one's own. With these beliefs, it simply would not occur to one to make any effort to link to anything or anyone. Since channeling is so instinctive, so spontaneously effected by everyone, perhaps it is important to them that they don't in that period of their life.
One is closer to all and everything in the universe than one realizes. The walls of Jericho are not that thick; if they are, the bricks lack straw. I am already connected to all and everything. All I have to do is open'up and activate otherwise inactive links..when it becomes necessary.