Channelling

Channelling means receiving mediumistic messages from the spiritual world: a person – the medium – perceives communications from beings beyond and passes them on, for instance through automatic writing, inner images or heard words. At the Kyborg Institute we understand channelling as a real connection with spiritual beings and expressly as a personal, worldview-based view that many cultures have always known. It relieves no one of responsibility for their own life: “Spiritual counsel does not release us from responsibility.”

Who comes through in channelling?

In Botschaften aus dem Licht (Messages from the Light), D. Harald Alke distinguishes three levels:

• Spirits – individual souls, nature spirits, the “phantoms” of the deceased or simple subtle creatures that are called devas in Asia.
• Beings of light – more highly developed, in the Western picture akin to angels and archangels; they are aware of their tasks and in part further our development.
• Higher beings – “far greater, more powerful creatures who should rightly be called gods”. Many of them call themselves “cosmic constructors”: they fulfil particular tasks in the universe, “just as we do, only on a different level”.

Beyond this, and at the same time within everything, rests universal consciousness – Brahman, Ain Soph, the creative intelligence: “It is simply everything, and so also you and me.” Who comes through depends, in our experience, on the spiritual maturity and disposition of the medium.

“Let the goodness of the heart be the measure of life on Earth.” – Horus

How did channelling begin at the Kyborg Institute?

The story is precisely dated. In December 1990 a seminar participant, Karin, appeared who had already been writing mediumistically for two years. Her spirit guide, she said, had sent her to teach D. Harald Alke to channel – “quite an original story, but since Karin made a good, clear impression on me, I agreed”. She taught it to him within a few hours; in return he helped her with yoga.

On 18 December 1990 the first sessions of his own writing began – at first more a drawing lesson for the hand than a conversation. On 2 January 1991 came the first conscious and clearly understandable contact with Horus. The energy “made me tremble”, his handwriting changed, the letters became very large. The messages received over the years are collected in the book Botschaften aus dem Licht.

One of the first messages was deeply personal: his late grandparents said goodbye – “Since we lost you, you belong to the light! You must let go. Grandma and Grandpa are leaving now for ever.” Only then did he realise that until then he had let go only outwardly.

How does channelling work?

“With the messages that I receive or can call up, I see images running inwardly like a film, hear spoken messages with them, and my hand writes automatically.” Added to this are quick changes of feeling, telepathic impressions, sometimes sketches – a “multi-layered transmission of data”.

Some features of this work:

• A built-in check signal: “If I do not transmit something correctly, a tension arises in my right forearm and I have to repeat the text as a check and correct it.”
• Recording: every message is noted with date and time; every being has its own handwriting.
• Development: at first handwriting was needed, later a kind of shorthand, and finally it often went straight into the typewriter or into fluent talks.
• Keeping to measure: “Basically I could channel day and night, but more than two hours at a stretch make me tired, and I take the liberty of shaping my own life as well.”

Honesty includes doubt too: whether the transmission “always succeeded quite exactly, I do not know. I have done my best, and I think that on the whole it has succeeded well.”

How does one recognise a reliable message?

This is the most important question – and our own work answers it soberly:

1. Ask who is speaking. “I recommend to all who wish to channel or already can that they ask their spirits or spirit beings for their precise name, origin, task and so on.”
2. Expect mirroring. Spirits can read thoughts – “so much of what you are told will come only from your own thoughts, which are, as it were, ‘mirrored’ back to you”.
3. Do not believe everyone. “Channelling can give us valuable counsel, but it can just as well confuse. The contacts from beyond are not always what they claim to be.” The first contacts are often just the deceased who still want to pass something on.
4. Force nothing. “If you want to force something, some other beings will come to you and pretend that they are your God or your guardian angel.”
5. Listen closely. Horus himself once sent an ambiguous sentence to show “how easily one can make a mistake in channelling and misunderstand something”.
6. Test the benefit – together with the inner certainty that comes from one’s own centre, the 4th chakra. A clean connection, in this experience, needs “a considerable degree of concentration and a great deal of love”.

Or, drily: “If the medium is talking nonsense, of course, nothing is gained.”

Why does responsibility remain with the human being?

Because channelling can tempt one to hand over every decision to the messages. “But that is not the right way. We are here on Earth to make decisions ourselves and to develop our personality ourselves, not to become a puppet that only obeys inspirations.” D. Harald Alke describes how over the years he learned to make more decisions on his own again and not to keep asking.

Two rules follow from this: “Whoever sets out on the path of channelling should always stay attentive and preserve their independence as a human being. And whoever goes to a medium should take care whether the information really helps them.” And towards others: “When you begin to channel yourself, please remember that we should help other people without influencing them. By our deeds shall we be known!”

The yogis, too, counsel caution: “You never know whom you are channelling, so better leave it before you are led astray, start taking yourself too seriously and fall into dependencies.”

Is channelling the same as telepathy or intuition?

They are closely related. Tobias Alke speaks “specifically of telepathy but also of channelling, which is basically the same as telepathy” – more in the entry Telepathy. D. Harald Alke realised “that my gift for channelling is nothing other than the intuition of an artist. Intuition means inspiration, after all.” And he asked further: “If someone receives inspirations, there must surely also be someone who inspires!”

How honestly the limits of one’s own knowledge are drawn is shown by a sentence on the Kabbalah’s tables, which classify the powers beyond in exact detail: “I know far too little about it, and I am by no means sure that the forefathers of the Kabbalah knew much more about it than I do.”

An ancient, worldwide practice

The ability to make contact with higher beings is, in our conviction, something we all carry within us. Priests, sages, prophets, shamans and magicians have done it in all ages – only the methods have changed with each culture: the oracle of Delphi, the trance oracles of Tibet, the shamans of Siberia and the Americas, the priests of Egypt. We place these paths side by side as equals. And to anyone who thinks they know more than others: “For those who know better, that is no reason to become arrogant.”

In our view, no one has to be an esotericist to open up to these experiences – everyone may keep their own opinion. Related terms: Telepathy, Akasha, Aura, Esotericism. Personal viewpoints: Gods, prophets and Horus energy pyramids and A call to all spiritual people.

Note: This entry sets out a personal, worldview-based and spiritual view. Channelled messages are no substitute for medical, psychological, legal or financial advice.

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By D. Harald Alke, Tobias O. R. Alke