Trying to make sense of recent experience

[Diana]

I started to learn more about channeling, and my wife and I attended a shamanic journeys workshop. I started to understand that the line between channeling and imagination can sometimes be very blurry. But if we are to accept that there exists only one consciousness that we're all "tapping into," then I started to wonder if it really mattered. What if it really was my imagination? Would that make a difference? Did it need to be an outside entity for me to seriously consider the experience as "real"?


After about a minute, the answer came, abruptly, and it was not what I was expecting: "You're not from here." I didn't really know how to react, but, again, it fit the wanderer theme exactly.

I very much enjoyed your story. I deeply resonated with it.

I don't concern myself with the "reality" of channelings, though at first I did. I quickly saw that it was more efficacious to determine if the channeled material had any meaning for me. Worrying about where it comes from, whether it's imagination or even faked—is all mind stuff. The problem with mind stuff is that it's like a computer ticking away at 1's and 0's of sequential data that has no intrinsic value. The "real" stuff is the message.

I had a similar experience of being told I was from elsewhere. And it happened at a time when I had no interest in, and very little knowledge of, New Age culture. I was and am of a scientific bent. A friend of mine was going to visit a "psychic." She wanted me to come too and get a reading. I did. My friend went first and I was present, and heard things within my paradigm such as past lives and life purpose. When it was my turn, the first thing the psychic said was, "The first thing you need to know is that you are not from here." I was shocked and didn't believe it at all... until later that day when so many memories flooded in, especially from childhood, that supported this idea.

The reading depressed me because she said something I already knew to be true deep inside—that I had no soul connection to any of my family. There was a genetic connection of course, but I was not here as an Earthling learning Earth lessons. I was here as a volunteer to help in some sort of shift by injecting love. The whole conversation was wild. This was 1989, well before I read or heard anything of such concepts.

So I understand your questioning. My advice is to just go with it. Don't waste any time analyzing (I find this extremely difficult, myself). The mind is important for free will and its lessons. The mind, which has important functions here, eventually must be overcome to reach higher states of consciousness. 

I endeavor to receive messages no matter how they come.  I am an artist and writer and have a huge imagination—so oftentimes I question if something derives from my imagination. But as you say, does it matter? We know very little about the nature of existence, and what is "real." My working theory is that everything is real—its all creation. So, exercising the "muscle" of receiving information in out-of-the-box ways can only lead to clearer effectiveness and better discernment, in my opinion.