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Channeling: How to Reach Out to Your Spirit Guides
Channeling offers state-of-the-art New Age techniques for making contact with and receiving wisdom from those who have lived before. In a straightforward format, it provides an introduction to channeling and describes what some have learned from their channeling experiences. Original.
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150 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published February 1, 1988
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December 15, 2025
I found this book to be a practical and easy guide that takes you step by step into channeling. As a spiritual person who understands that our angels, ancestors and guides are always surrounding us, just in a parallel dimension, it was a fun read that gave me confirmation in my own contact that I‘ve had thus far. I appreciated how precise the instructions are and the chapters: invoking your personal spirit guides and building a relationship with your guide. I feel inspired about deepening my relationship and strengthening my contact. I trust that this book found me in the right way and time for my soul’s evolution. Thank you Kathryn Ridall!
May 23, 2024
A PSYCHOTHERAPIST RECOUNTS HER OWN CHANNELING EXPERIENCES, AND MORE
Psychotherapist Kathryn Ridall wrote in her Introduction to this 1988 book, “For the past five years I have been involved in a wonderful adventure in consciousness called channeling. Channeling is the ability to connect with other beings and other levels of consciousness and to express their reality through our body. A channel acts as an intermediary between our physical world and the unseen dimensions of the universe. You could think of a channel as a living transmitter of subtle energies, much like a telephone or a radio station… I would like to share some of my own experiences of channeling with you. Hopefully my experiences and the experiences of others included in this book will inspire you to embark on this adventure yourself.” (Pg. 1)
She recounts that about a year after meeting a channel known as ‘Diya,’ “I could feel a stream of words, a channel or communication available for me to tune in to if I so decided… I easily made the decision to try to channel.” (Pg. 4) “My early obsession with daily channeling also grew out of my skepticism. I wanted to know if this channeling was ‘real’… I wanted to make sure that this channeling was more than my imagination… I eventually decided that I would probably never know for sure whether Diya was simply an aspect of my own consciousness or an independent being. And I ultimately concluded that it didn’t matter where the information came from as long as the experience was valuable for me. I realized that it didn’t matter if it was ‘just’ my imagination, for even that explanation would mean that my mind was a far richer and more complex instrument than I had previously imagined. I resolved to stop trying to decide the undecidable… rather than worrying about whether it was real or not.” (Pg. 4-7)
She continues, “As I have learned to contact many beings and many different levels of consciousness, I have often utilized this ability to draw to me the teachings I desire. Although I do not currently work with Diya on a conscious level, I am aware in writing this book how profoundly he has affected me and how much his teachings and his love permeate my life. (Pg. 10-11)
She explains, “as a ‘light-trance channel,’ I remain fully conscious when I channel. Light-trance channels can listen to the information that passes through them and continue to experience the external environment as they channel… Channels who use a ‘medium trance’ hear only fragments of what they channel. They retain very little awareness of the world around them as they channel and afterward remember little of what went on while the channeling was taking place… ‘Deep trance channels’ become totally unconscious during trances. Their personalities vacate the body, allowing another being to take control.” (Pg. 18-19)
She provides profiles of some other channels: e.g., “Sanaya Roman, a 37-year-old woman … is a professional channel... Sanaya has worked with her guide, Orin, for ten years. Like many high guides, Orin feels that focusing on who he in rather than what he has to teach can only distract from his message…” (Pg. 27)
She states, “Often people ask me where guides live, what their worlds are like. Because some guides willingly share this information, while others refuse, I know of no detailed channeled material that addresses this question. Many guides feel that this kind of information can only distract us from the spiritual transformation we must focus on to survive as a species. There is, therefore, no precise cosmology of the universe that I can draw or that any other channel I know can draw.” (Pg. 53)
She cautions, “If viewing the changes that have happened to an unconscious channel has scared you, keep in mind that a contract always exists between the guide and the higher self of the channel about the form that the channeling may take… The only warning I would give you about channeling is that it might not be appropriate for you if you have a history of psychiatric disorders.” (Pg. 66-67)
She acknowledges, “Building a relationship with your guide is similar to establishing any relationship: the quality depends on the time and care you put into it. In channeled relationships, however, unique challenges arise based on the fact that you live in a body and your guide does not. The most fundamental challenge that you will need to meet is doubt. You do not doubt that your mother or lover or boss exists. At times these people ae all too real. But doubts about whether your guide really exists or not may nag at you, undermining your efforts to build this kind of relationship… you may receive only minimal social support in maintaining a relationship with your guide… The most common and paralyzing doubt that people encounter is connected with the subtle nature of channeling. As people begin to channel, they almost inevitably feel that they are making it up The greatest channels of this century, Edgar Cayce and Jane Roberts, went to their graves with doubts about the origin of the material they channeled…” (Pg. 112-113)
She concludes, “In a very practical way, channeling and other intuitive arts move us a step closer to the kind of consciousness we as a race need in order to survive… As our sense of unity and identification develops through different intuitive practices, it will become more difficult, if not impossible, to harm another. For we will truly know that in wounding another we wound ourselves, and in exploiting the earth, we exploit ourselves. I hope that this book will serve you in your individual evolution and that it will contribute to the evolution of our earth as she transforms.” (Pg. 147)
This book will interest people studying channeling.
Psychotherapist Kathryn Ridall wrote in her Introduction to this 1988 book, “For the past five years I have been involved in a wonderful adventure in consciousness called channeling. Channeling is the ability to connect with other beings and other levels of consciousness and to express their reality through our body. A channel acts as an intermediary between our physical world and the unseen dimensions of the universe. You could think of a channel as a living transmitter of subtle energies, much like a telephone or a radio station… I would like to share some of my own experiences of channeling with you. Hopefully my experiences and the experiences of others included in this book will inspire you to embark on this adventure yourself.” (Pg. 1)
She recounts that about a year after meeting a channel known as ‘Diya,’ “I could feel a stream of words, a channel or communication available for me to tune in to if I so decided… I easily made the decision to try to channel.” (Pg. 4) “My early obsession with daily channeling also grew out of my skepticism. I wanted to know if this channeling was ‘real’… I wanted to make sure that this channeling was more than my imagination… I eventually decided that I would probably never know for sure whether Diya was simply an aspect of my own consciousness or an independent being. And I ultimately concluded that it didn’t matter where the information came from as long as the experience was valuable for me. I realized that it didn’t matter if it was ‘just’ my imagination, for even that explanation would mean that my mind was a far richer and more complex instrument than I had previously imagined. I resolved to stop trying to decide the undecidable… rather than worrying about whether it was real or not.” (Pg. 4-7)
She continues, “As I have learned to contact many beings and many different levels of consciousness, I have often utilized this ability to draw to me the teachings I desire. Although I do not currently work with Diya on a conscious level, I am aware in writing this book how profoundly he has affected me and how much his teachings and his love permeate my life. (Pg. 10-11)
She explains, “as a ‘light-trance channel,’ I remain fully conscious when I channel. Light-trance channels can listen to the information that passes through them and continue to experience the external environment as they channel… Channels who use a ‘medium trance’ hear only fragments of what they channel. They retain very little awareness of the world around them as they channel and afterward remember little of what went on while the channeling was taking place… ‘Deep trance channels’ become totally unconscious during trances. Their personalities vacate the body, allowing another being to take control.” (Pg. 18-19)
She provides profiles of some other channels: e.g., “Sanaya Roman, a 37-year-old woman … is a professional channel... Sanaya has worked with her guide, Orin, for ten years. Like many high guides, Orin feels that focusing on who he in rather than what he has to teach can only distract from his message…” (Pg. 27)
She states, “Often people ask me where guides live, what their worlds are like. Because some guides willingly share this information, while others refuse, I know of no detailed channeled material that addresses this question. Many guides feel that this kind of information can only distract us from the spiritual transformation we must focus on to survive as a species. There is, therefore, no precise cosmology of the universe that I can draw or that any other channel I know can draw.” (Pg. 53)
She cautions, “If viewing the changes that have happened to an unconscious channel has scared you, keep in mind that a contract always exists between the guide and the higher self of the channel about the form that the channeling may take… The only warning I would give you about channeling is that it might not be appropriate for you if you have a history of psychiatric disorders.” (Pg. 66-67)
She acknowledges, “Building a relationship with your guide is similar to establishing any relationship: the quality depends on the time and care you put into it. In channeled relationships, however, unique challenges arise based on the fact that you live in a body and your guide does not. The most fundamental challenge that you will need to meet is doubt. You do not doubt that your mother or lover or boss exists. At times these people ae all too real. But doubts about whether your guide really exists or not may nag at you, undermining your efforts to build this kind of relationship… you may receive only minimal social support in maintaining a relationship with your guide… The most common and paralyzing doubt that people encounter is connected with the subtle nature of channeling. As people begin to channel, they almost inevitably feel that they are making it up The greatest channels of this century, Edgar Cayce and Jane Roberts, went to their graves with doubts about the origin of the material they channeled…” (Pg. 112-113)
She concludes, “In a very practical way, channeling and other intuitive arts move us a step closer to the kind of consciousness we as a race need in order to survive… As our sense of unity and identification develops through different intuitive practices, it will become more difficult, if not impossible, to harm another. For we will truly know that in wounding another we wound ourselves, and in exploiting the earth, we exploit ourselves. I hope that this book will serve you in your individual evolution and that it will contribute to the evolution of our earth as she transforms.” (Pg. 147)
This book will interest people studying channeling.
September 5, 2007
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February 16, 2018
A good beginner book into the subject.Although its outdated because the field has grown a lot not only in interest and information it is still a worthy read.
December 18, 2010
I found this book to be quite interesting and offered many great tips and advice on how to channel your spirit guides. As with any book of this nature I believe you have to be open to it, but also decide for yourself what method of communication with the spirit world is right for you.
June 24, 2016
This book was alright, but if you really want to learn to channel I recommend "Opening to Channel" by Sanaya Roman over this book.
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