Channeling — What Few People Are Told

Imagine there is a door in your home you have never opened. It has always been there, unnoticed, quietly blending into the background of your everyday life. One day, someone knocks.

The voice on the other side sounds warm, wise, deeply reassuring. It promises answers to questions that have troubled you for years — questions you may have carried in silence. You reach for the handle and open the door. But do you truly know who has just entered your life?

Channeling — often called trance mediumship — is a practice as old as humanity itself. Nineteenth-century spiritualists summoned the dead during private parlor séances, while today “channels” broadcast their messages live to thousands, their words later appearing in bestselling books. The form has changed dramatically over time. The danger has not.

Mechanism — What Really Happens During a Session

During channeling, a medium intentionally enters an altered state of consciousness. Sometimes it is a light trance; at other times it involves a near-complete withdrawal of the medium’s own personality. In this state, the medium allows a foreign intelligence to use their speech, bodily movements, or even their thinking process.

It is, fundamentally, an act of surrender. And within that surrender lies the first and most essential problem — control is handed over. Most often, the entities that come through a medium are believed to be the spirits of deceased individuals. Each carries a specific energetic signature, a vibrational trace that becomes part of every message delivered. When you listen to such communication, that signature reaches you as well. Without realizing it, you may begin attracting similar beings.

This is not merely symbolic language. Many spiritual traditions describe it as an energetic mechanism that operates regardless of whether you believe in it.

Truth Mixed with Illusion — Every Manipulator’s Greatest Tool

Can channeling sometimes contain truth? Yes. And that is precisely what makes it so risky. No manipulator in history has relied solely on lies. Those most effective spoke largely in truths — often profound, moving, even spiritual truths — while quietly weaving in distortion. Spirits primarily interested in human energy can operate in much the same way. Messages may be beautifully expressed. At times they appear insightful, even transformative. Trust begins to grow almost naturally. And once trust is established, it becomes far easier to lead someone astray.

Determining whether a message comes from higher spiritual vibrations or from the emotional realm — often referred to in wisdom traditions as the astral world — is extraordinarily difficult. It requires a level of discernment most listeners simply have never developed. Not because they lack intelligence. Because no one ever taught them how.

The Fearful Spirit — Hidden Suffering Within the Message

Imagine a person who, during life, pursued spiritual growth — someone educated, reflective, inwardly aware. Yet after physical death, something went wrong. Fear arose, anchoring that consciousness to the lowest layers of the emotional world, those shadowed regions closest to the physical plane. Fear becomes the spirit’s dominant vibration.

Of course, such a spirit cannot speak openly from a place of terror during a channeling session, so the fear is suppressed. But the deepest fears — those rooted in ancient survival instincts — are incredibly subtle. If you have not recognized these layers within yourself, you will struggle to recognize them in another presence.

When a spirit approaches a living person, it carries its entire inner reality: suffering, confusion, disorientation, a lack of understanding about the state in which it exists. Gradually, this can begin to shape your own emotional landscape. A spirit possession rarely resembles what we see in films. Sometimes it looks like a growing, unexplainable anxiety that simply appeared one day — quiet at first, yet increasingly difficult to ignore.

Lost Autonomy — The Highest Price

Opening yourself to external entities can slowly weaken your will and your capacity for independent thought. Both mediums and those who follow channeled messages may become dependent on a perceived “guide.” Instead of strengthening their own intuition, they begin entrusting life decisions to a presence whose true nature they cannot verify.

Channeling can contribute to dissociative states, identity disturbances, and in extreme cases, serious psychological disorders. The line between a “controlled trance” and pathology is often thinner than it seems. History offers sobering examples. The Fox sisters, who sparked the Spiritualist movement in America in 1848, later struggled with severe alcoholism and deep depression. Throughout the nineteenth century, psychiatry frequently hospitalized practicing mediums, interpreting their experiences as symptoms of psychosis. The past leaves little room for illusion.

The Astral World — Not Only Darkness, but a Path That Requires Preparation

The astral world — the realm said to be inhabited by spirits — is not exclusively dangerous. Beyond the vibrations of fear, rage, jealousy, and hatred, there are spaces some traditions describe as harmonious, even beautiful. Yet divine love in its purest form is not found there; it belongs to higher planes of existence. To safely approach such realms, one must first master the most primitive fears — those rooted in humanity’s evolutionary past: aggression, survival anxiety, the instinct to protect one’s existence at all costs. Without this inner foundation, any attempt to explore the unseen becomes a matter of chance. Preparation is not optional. It is protection.

The Light That Lives Within You

Wisdom does not lie in repeatedly trying to cleanse those who continually expose themselves to unseen influences. True wisdom begins earlier — in learning not to open that door until you are genuinely ready. The deepest spiritual teachings across ages repeat the same truth: authentic knowledge emerges through inner effort, mental discipline, and the gradual awakening of higher awareness. Real inspiration flows from within — from your Higher Nature — not from an external force assuming control over your mind.

You move forward only when guided by intuition arising from the highest dimension of your own soul. Do not search for answers behind a veil. Your soul was created to become light itself — and that light is already within you. Seek it there.

About the Author:

Michael, a co-founder of The Dr. Wanda Pratnicka Center, holds a B.A. degree in psychology and is a spiritual teacher and healer, with a specialization in spirit removal. Under the mentorship of his wife Wanda Pratnicka, Michael gained profound spiritual insights into the nuances of spirit attachment phenomenon, and for many years, he played a crucial role in assisting her with the remote spirit removal process. In his leisure time, Michael finds solace in meditation, immerses himself in the timeless beauty of classical music, and cherishes tranquil walks by the sea.

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