Channelling (Seth, Abraham-Hicks, Ramtha, Kryon)

Domain XIV · Western esoteric, divinatory & new spiritual movements · Jane Roberts, Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks · 1963 · United States

What it is

Channelling is the practice in which a living person (the "channel") speaks or writes material attributed to a non-physical source. Anthropologist Michael F. Brown describes channels as acting as vessels for beings such as angels, aliens and "ascended masters", many of them educated, middle-class…

Format

• No source gives a session count for therapy with a client involved in channelling; none is stated here. The phases below are a clinical sequence built from the CFI, the channelling research and the scholarly accounts.
• Seth. Jane Roberts (1929–1984), a poet and novelist, began in 1963 to receive messages from what the publisher calls a "non-physical energy personality who called himself 'Seth'"; her husband, the artist Robert F. Butts, recorded the sessions, and the material appeared as Seth Speaks, The Nature of…

Who practises it, and how they are trained or regulated

• Version followed: channelling as four named currents publish it (the Seth Material of Jane Roberts, as presented by its publisher Amber-Allen and the Yale archival record; the Abraham-Hicks teachings, as presented in Esther and Jerry Hicks, Ask and It Is Given, Hay House 2004; Ramtha's School of Enlightenment, Yelm, Washington, as described by Encyclopaedia Britannica, the World Religions and Spirituality Project…

Evidence status, as the guide reports it

• Core idea of change, as the currents state it. A non-physical teacher supplies knowledge that the listener applies to change belief, feeling and life outcome (Abraham-Hicks: aligning one's "vibration" with one's desire; RSE: remembering one's divinity through disciplines). Evidence status (one…

Questions to explore with your client

• What drew you to it, and what are you hoping it will change?
• Is there physical contact? Was it explained beforehand, and do you feel free to say no or stop at any point?
• Does it involve any substance, plant preparation, remedy or supplement? Has your doctor or prescriber been told, especially about any medication you take?
• Does it involve intense or unusual breathing? Have you been told about the medical conditions for which that is not advised?
• Is it a group, retreat or community? How do they respond if someone wants to leave or raises a concern?
• Who runs it, and what training or registration do they hold?
• What actually happens in a session or meeting, and how often?
• What does it cost, and is there pressure to commit to more?
• How do you feel afterwards, in the hours and days that follow?
• Does it fit with, or clash with, the work we do here?

What practitioners of it watch for

• the client fearing the referral is a judgement on their faith. Working: the client attends and returns.
• ultimatums that end contact; covert interventions. Working: relationship maintained; concerns raised calmly.
• exhaustion, dissociation outside sessions, responsibility for clients' crises. Working: the client sets limits and has support.
• escalating paid sessions, decisions made on the dead person's "advice", avoidance of mourning. Working: comfort without dependency.
• trauma memories surfacing; frightening entities; sleep loss. Working: the client can end the state at will and returns to baseline quickly.

When to involve someone else

• New or worsening physical symptoms, or advice to stop or change prescribed medication: involve the client's doctor or prescriber.
• Signs of coercion, isolation from family and friends, escalating costs or secrecy: discuss openly and consider safeguarding.
• A crisis or thoughts of suicide: follow your crisis protocol. In the US, call or text 988; in the UK and Ireland, Samaritans on 116 123.

Drawn automatically from the guide's own sections. Stay curious: neither endorse nor dismiss what the client values, and check anything that matters against the full guide and its sources. Not medical advice.