Comparing Ra and the Cassiopaeans

[Patrick]

...The tuning and challenging process is at the heart of responsible channeling...

...You are also, once you receive a contact, in need of your actively
discriminative faculties in challenging the source that you have contacted.
In order to challenge any invisible entity, you must be able to state, in a
sincere and unequivocal way, who you are, what you believe in, what you
love and for what you would die. This is why the beginning of the process
of becoming a channel is figuring out how your nature and mind “tick.”
You cannot expect to challenge in the name of Christ if you are of a nature
that does not find faith a comfortable emotion. You are not going to be
able to challenge in the name of truth if you believe there is no truth, and
that man can know nothing. Let us say that you are one who believes—as
the majority of new age channels seem to do—in the Christ, not as Jesus
the man, but as a consciousness which Jesus attained during his
incarnation, but which is also attainable by any being who can keep his
mind, soul, heart and strength fixed upon the Creator. You wish, then, to
challenge in the name of Christ-consciousness. You feel, or you guess, that
this is something that you can believe in. In this very complex society we
are not used to saying things in a way which implies no relativity. We are
used to situational ethics, wrong things being “right” under certain
circumstances, and people leaving our religious beliefs pretty much alone in
the interest of getting along with each other. It may be difficult for you to
say unequivocally that you would die before you would deny the supremacy
of the force of Christ-consciousness in your life...

Properly challenging is a challenging concept.