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A Quick Channeling Tutorial, by Jenny Tyson

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

Channeling, also called telepathy, is a skill that anyone can learn. It is intuitive communication with any living or spiritual being that does not rely on the five physical senses.

Telepathy is not just a communication in verbal form. It can also occur as feelings, imagery, or other types of perception such as are experienced in dowsing. It is a natural and universal form of interpersonal and spiritual communication. It has been observed in other mammals such as dogs and cats, and also in birds such as ravens. Telepathic communication most often occurs at a subtle, subconscious level, and does not reach conscious awareness. Instead, it results in an often vague gut feeling, or a fleeting thought you assume to be your own.

Over the years, I have learned and developed techniques to extrapolate information obtained through telepathic interaction. Channeling with pendulum dowsing is a short and easy method by which you can talk to your spirit guides and other beings. The focus in this method is on perceiving accurate, specific, and useful information.

Tools for this Technique
To do this simple but effective channeling technique, a couple of tools are needed. You need to have paper and pen, a pendulum, and a deck of cards. I will go over the specifics for each tool briefly.

My favorite pendulum is a darning needle. A darning needle is used in knitting to join separate pieces. I also use sewing needles. The string that holds the pendulum should be something lightweight. For a beginner, a lightweight sewing thread is easier to work with. Ideally, you should not feel the weight of the pendulum when you hold it and it is not moving.

The second tool is a deck of cards. The cards can be playing cards or Tarot cards. You will be using only the numbered cards. In a Tarot deck, each suit (Wands, Cups, Swords, and Disks or Pentacles) has ten numbered cards. If you are using playing cards, use the numbered cards with each suit (Hearts, Spades, Clubs, and Diamonds). Pull these forty cards out of the deck.

The paper and pen are to write your questions down and the responses you receive through channeling. Any paper can be used. I use a notepad on my cellphone if I do not have my paper communication book handy.

Ten-Step Channeling Technique
1. Pick out at least six numbered cards from the deck. The cards do not have to be of the same suit. However, the number of even and odd cards you select must be equal. For example, if you are using a Tarot deck you can pick out cards 1 to 6 of the suit of Cups, which gives you 3 even and 3 odd numbered cards. The odd numbers are 1,3, and 5; the even numbers, 2, 4, and 6.

2. Shuffle the cards you pulled from the deck to mix them up so that you do not know which card is which. You will be selecting three cards from these numbered cards with your pendulum. It is important when you do the dowsing that you do not have any conscious idea which number the pendulum is selecting.

3. Connect with the spirit you want to communicate with. In this article, I am focusing on connecting with a spirit ally or guide. This is the easiest spirit to connect with for most people and does not require elaborate meditation or a contact ritual. If you feel more comfortable doing a protection circle, and smudging or cleansing your location, that is fine. Because there are many different ways to protect a space, I will not go into them here. Protective measures are unnecessary. Telepathy occurs constantly even though you are unaware of it. It is not dangerous. It is a normal everyday thing that you can learn how to control and use for a purpose.

You do not have to know the exact name or identity of your guide. Simply focus on connecting with your spirit guide and that will be sufficient. You can assume that your spirit guide wants to connect with you and wants you to learn this technique.

Even though you do not have to a have a specific name for your spirit guide, it is important that you not be distracted or restless while you attempt to make contact. You need to be focused in order to successfully communicate through telepathy. The connection and communication requires physical and mental steadiness. You are not looking for an apparition or any kind of physical manifestation with this technique. Simple telepathy does not require this. It is a low-intensity connection.

4. Step four is asking a question. When using a pendulum, the question you pose needs to be answerable with a "yes" or "no" response. You can ask any question. The spirit guide is not limited by space or time. However, when you are learning how to communicate using channeling or telepathy, it is best to start with a specific type of question called a trivial precognitive question. A trivial question is a question regarding a minor and unimportant event. The reason why you should start with a trivial question is that it does not carry any emotional baggage. It allows you to experience channeling without emotional intensity. This will help you to develop accuracy.

A precognitive event is a prediction of an event or activity that will occur in the future from the time you are doing the session. In this type of channeling, the event should be within a few hours to day after the channeling session. As you gain experience you can channel about events farther into the future.

Using trivial precognitive questions for channeling is also called channeling calibration. You are testing your connection and your accuracy in telepathic communication. The goal of calibration is to improve your accuracy so you can obtain better information about topics that are important and more interesting.

Here are a couple examples of channeling calibration questions. The event and time limit for the prediction are spelled out in the question:

• "Will I see a red car when I go to the grocery store at 10 am today?"
• "Will I see a crow in my yard by 5 pm today?"
• "Will it rain at my home by 8 pm today?"

Write down your question on the paper or in the notebook app of your cell phone.

5.Arrange the cards you took from the deck face down in front of you on the table so that they are evenly spaced. You should have an equal number of even and odd cards. They need to be placed face down so that you cannot see the numbers, only the backs of the cards. Hiding the numbers will help your accuracy.

6. Before you pick up the pendulum, state out loud: "Even numbers represent a 'yes' response, and odd numbers represent a 'no' response." It is important to state out loud how a positive or "yes" and a negative or "no" response is represented in that session. It is also a good idea to stick with the responses you set for you subsequent sessions—that is, even numbers for "yes"/positive response and odd numbers for "no"/negative response.

7. Move your pendulum over the cards, holding the thread between your first finger and thumb. The pendulum should hang about four inches below your hand. Do not rest your elbow on the table while you work. Observe the pendulum for changes in the feeling of the pendulum, or in its movement as you pass it over the cards. You may feel the pendulum pull towards a card as though it is being pulled by a sort of weak magnetic force. This is usually very subtle. The pendulum may, or may not, swing or move in a circular way. It may just vibrate without moving much at all. Do not force the pendulum to move or swing. The subtle changes in vibration, motion, or sense of pulling of the pendulum are what you want to observe. You will initially feel as though you are imagining the change of movement or sense of pulling.

This change in the feeling or movement of the pendulum will occur when it passes over a card that the spirit guide wants you to select in response to the question you have posed. It is the spirit guide who is influencing how the pendulum feels, but the influence is subtle, soft, and gentle.

You should move the pendulum slowly but steadily over the face-down cards in front of you so that it passes over each one in turn. Watch and feel for that gentle change in the movement or sensation of the pendulum.

When the pendulum indicates selection of one of the cards on the table in front of you by a change in its vibration or movement, set the card aside. Do not turn it over until all three cards are selected. Once you have selected three cards lay the pendulum down.

8. After you have selected three cards with the pendulum, turn those cards over. Count the number of even cards and the number of odd cards that the spirit guide selected. If you have two or more even-numbered cards, then the response is positive/"yes." If you have two or more odd-numbered cards selected, the response is negative/"no."

9. The last active step is to compare the session result, which is the prediction, with the event to be predicted. The response should be noted and then compared to physical reality after the time stated for the prediction. For example, if you ask about seeing a red car at the grocery store by 10:00 am, you should note whether or not you saw a red car when you ran the errand. I write down the results of the prediction and whether or not they matched up with reality. The act of recording and comparing your channeling results against what actually happened will improve your accuracy. As your channeling accuracy improves, so will your connection to your spirit guides. This builds confidence, and as your confidence grows, you can branch out and ask more important questions of your guide regarding such matters as the use of magick, your employment, diet, healing, and other life choices.

10.Celebrate!!! As you learn to channel using this dowsing method, you will find you have a very powerful tool in your hands. Connection to Spirit is fun and provides deep insights into this life and the next. The universe begins to open to you as you viscerally connect to and realize that Spirit is real, and you are far more than just a physical body.

In my book The Art of Channeling, I go through additional channeling techniques that anyone can learn and use. I focus on accuracy and growth by experiencing telepathy. When you realize that you are indeed communicating by telepathy, you break down the barriers that hold you back from growing spiritually and psychically. In addition, advancement in telepathy can lead to beneficial breakthroughs in health, energy, and exploration of the universe. The possibilities are unlimited.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2022. All rights reserved.

My mother passed away a little over a year ago. I don't feel I've really dealt with her death because I don't know how. A few months after she died, I had two dreams in which she visited me and we just talked about normal things like my new boyfriend, whom she said she helped bring into my life. In the last dream, she told me that she had to go. I was never scared during or after these dreams. On the anniversary of the day I learned of her death, I had a very frightening experience. I was sleeping and then had a sinking, trance-like feeling with a sharp humming noise in my ear. Then I heard her say hello and my name, and I awoke with a jerk. (This happened at my boyfriend's.) I didn't sleep very much for three days after that because I was scared to death. At first I wasn't sure it was my mother because my mother has always known how things like ghosts and spirits scare me. Since then, I have had these trance-like feelings while falling asleep but have woken myself up. Today it happened every time I tried to fall asleep, even after prayer. I haven't heard voices since, or had dreams of talking with my mother, but I usually try to stop them. Is my mother trying to contact me even though she knows how it scares me? Also, the sleep disturbances mainly happen at my boyfriend's, which is where I stay most of the time. It is becoming a huge problem in my life. I feel like I'm either going insane or have reason to live in fear. Why would she come to me in dreams before and disturb my sleep now? Is this even her? What can I do to stop this, since I don't think I can ever learn to like it? Please help - I don't want to be afraid of my mother or of going to sleep at night.

Molly

Astrea:

I lost both of my parents a little over a year ago, so I know how awful this is. In fact, I am rather annoyed at mine for not being around more than they are.

I think if you were encountering your mom, you would be so glad to see her that you wouldn't be fearful at all. The entity that is visiting you isn't your mother; it's an energetic entity that forms over you when you try to sleep at your boyfriend's house. It's got icky energy because it's trying to deprive you of sleep in order to split the two of you up.

I want to reassure you that you WILL see your mother again, and you won't be afraid when you do. She'll come to you in a form you will happily accept when you are ready to see her. She will know when that time comes, just as she knows that now is NOT the time.

Also, you'll know the difference between her and what you've been encountering when you actually are in touch with her again. It will feel very different from these disturbing visits.

The two dreams you describe having of your mom were just dreams. I had a long conversation with my mother about Maury Povich in a dream the other night, and I'm sure my mom didn't know who he is!

We can dream good and not-so-good things due to the anxiety of losing our parents. There is nothing for you to fear, however. If you have any guilt about your relationship to her, healing and releasing it should also take away your fear.

The entity you're experiencing at your boyfriend's is bad. It's quiet when you're not there because it gets its energy to manifest from the tremendous energy between the two of you as well as your reactions to it. Whatever it is that reaches into your Harmony lives there with him but doesn't appear to him because you're easier to affect; you're more sensitive and therefore more aware of its presence.

It scares you because it doesn't want anyone to be happy. You can try burning sage and other banishing herbs in the house, but if you could just stay away from there it would be better. If you can, get your boyfriend to move. Can't he sleep at your house? It's a heck of a lot easier to remove yourself from this entity than to remove it from the two of you.

I can't tell for sure whether this Spirit was ever in a human incarnation, but I doubt it; it exists by gathering unhappiness. It's an aberration of Love Energy, so I suppose you could call it Hate Energy. Every couple it destroys makes it stronger and more evil. Don't be its victims; stay away from it!

*****

Susyn:

The feeling that you don't know how to deal with your motherís death is common. Most of us can't describe or explain how profound losses like this affect us, and we all handle those sorts of experiences differently. There are aspects of losing our mothers that will never be resolved - we just do the best we can. I offer you my condolences; I recently lost my own mother and know what you are going through.

You are blessed to have had her visit in your dreams and verify that she not only knows your boyfriend, she was instrumental in bringing the two of you together.

I do not sense that the negative experience you had on the anniversary of your motherís passing involved your mother at all. It may have been a spirit disguised as your mother. I'm certain that your mother would never try to scare or frighten you in such a way.

You mention that these scary experiences happen only at your boyfriendís house. This gives us another clue that these are not visits from your mother at all. Most likely, your boyfriend has a discarnate spirit living in his house - one that is trying to play tricks on you.

To verify this, start a journal in which you record all the events you have experienced so far and any you have in the future. Then ask yourself questions to see if you can find patterns. Does this only happen during full moons? On Tuesdays? When you're anxious or upset?

Once you have a better sense of what's happening, youíll be armed to put a stop to these events. Play detective to see what you can figure out. When you are at your boyfriend's, change some things around to see if that stops these frightening events. Change sides on the bed or see if he will move the bed to face a different direction.

I also advise wearing a protective stone when you sleep over at his house, such as turquoise, malachite or amber. Another powerful way to stop this entity in his tracks is to ground it with salt. You can keep a packet of salt under your pillow or place a bowl of salt on the nightstand. This is very effective for keeping unwanted night visitors away.

If these methods aren't effective, you and your boyfriend may need to smudge his house to eliminate the negative entities that seem to be hanging out there.

In the meantime, you can connect with your mother through guided meditation. You do not need to be asleep to interact with her. Choose a special time and place each day when the two of you can be together. (Ideally, this will be at your own house!)

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.