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The Channeling Craze: Helpful or Hogwash?
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LIFE
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10 / 1988 |
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Steve Kaplan
Steve Kaplan is a widely published free-lance writer living in
St. Paul, Minnesota, who is also a contributing editor of St.
Paul Magazine. |
Several people are seated around an old oak table in Joan Davies' art deco living room, anxious to meet a 10,000-year-old soul. Davies, an attractive, educated woman in her forties with two grown children, lives in a large home in most exclusive section of town. Her guests tonight include a journalist, a photographer, a psychologist, and a businessman. Each has paid for the privilege of seeking advice from an entity who communicates through Davis and identifies himself as "the Source."
Davies lowers the lights in the room, pours herself a cherry Coke, turns on her multicolored fiber-optic light, snuffs out her cigarette, shuts her eyes, and begins meditating. Suddenly, her head drops to her chest. Her body begins to shake slightly. After a minute or so she lifts her head, opens her eyes, and begins speaking. Now, her expression is somewhat different and her voice is deeper and touched with the slightest of unidentifiable accents. She asks if anyone at the table has any questions.
"Who are we speaking with?" asks the businessman. "What is your name?" "I am called the Source," says the accented voice from Davies' mouth. "We are the higher self, you know. We were on the planet many millennia ago."
"Why do you bother to come speak to us now?" asks the psychologist.
"It is our job," answers Source-through-Davies. "The channel, she makes her living doing this, you know. And we have a need to communicate with you, to help you through this world."
"Did you know the Buddha?" asks the photographer. "And do you ever desire to leave the spirit world and come back to earth?"
"Come back to earth?" asks Source-through-Davies incredulously. "For what purpose? No, definitely no. And, yes, of course we knew the Buddha. And Jesus too."
"What would you like to say to a national magazine audience?" the journalist asks.
"That God is love, all is God, there is no such thing as choice, all things happen for a reason," the voice from Davies replies. " Also that fear is the great killer. There are many forces opposed to mankind, but fear is the greatest of them. If we did not have fear we would not have darkness. It's very simple: there are just two things on
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