Communicating with Your Departed Loved One, Part 1

How on earth did you ever start channeling those who had departed from the physical? Good question!

Back in the early 1990s I was offering a retreat at an ashram in Woodstock, New York, and had scheduled several private channeled sessions. One man asked if he could schedule a session for his grandmother. “Sure,” I said.

That evening, his grandmother and I sat in the meditation room and as I began to explain to her how a channeled session worked, she would have none of that. “I wanna talk with Mama,” she insisted.

Here’s what I’ll be blogging on this topic:

1. What did it feel like?
2. Was I afraid of possession?
3. What was communicated?
4. Doubt
5. Your giving it a try
6. To share or not to share, that is the question.

Let’s begin with what did it feel like. Well, I had never opened to channel in this way before and when the woman said, “I wanna talk with Mama,” I didn’t know if her mother would even be available. In truth, I was in a kind of shock, even as I agreed to open to have her Mother speak.

In the very next moment I felt a swirling at the top of my head, at the crown chakra, and a soft, gentle slipping of a spirit into my being.

I had been accustomed to channeling an energy know as Pretty Flower and what was called a full-body synchronization. That is, her spirit entered and resided in my body, changing the nature of the way I stood, the structure of my face, and of course, the nature of my speaking voice. So, you could say that I was accustomed to a different energy speaking through me. I was also accustomed to stepping aside, sometimes staying as an observer in the background and at other times merging with the energy, especially that of Pretty Flower.

In the case of this Old Italian Grandmother’s Mother, I remained in the background, more curious than anything. As I look back on it, I didn’t feel anything imposing or intrusive. There was just that soft energy that floated in and sat there, inside. Unlike channeling Pretty Flower, my face or physical posture didn’t change. When “Mama” spoke, her quiet voce was easy to allow to flow forth from my being. What happened was amazing. Who would have known a decades-old question would be asked and answered!