What exactly happened to Don Elkins?

[AnthroHeart]

If it's a hot day and you plug your phone which is already fully charged in to a charger you're stressing the "instrument" by overcharging it with energy for an extended time.

I think this is a good analogy for what happens when people channel too much.

I wonder if being an environment with a colder temperature would help with the overheating that is said to have happened with Carla.

if in this they're speaking metaphorically or actually describing temperature

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106.22 Questioner: Can you tell me what the instrument’s difficulty was with her last whirlpool?

Ra: I am Ra. The instrument took on the mental/emotional nature and distortion complex of the questioner as we have previously noted. The instrument has been taking whirling waters at temperatures which are too hot and at rates of vibration which, when compounded by the heat of the swirling waters, bring about the state of light shock as you would call the distortion. The mind complex has inadequate oxygen in this distorted state and is weakened.

In this state the instrument, having the questioner’s distortion without the questioner’s strength of the distortion one might liken to the wearing of armor, began to enter into an acute psychotic episode. When the state of shock was past the symptoms disappeared. The potential remains as the empathic identity has not been relinquished, and both the questioner and the instrument live as entities in a portion of the mental/emotional complex of the instrument.

May we ask for one more full query at this working and remind the instrument that it is appropriate to reserve some small portion of energy before a working?

It doesn't have to do with ambient temperature.
Increasing your field density is one way to be able to channel longer.