Please forgive me if anything I say is against the grain of the sub. I believe in some unexplained electromagnetic phenomena in crop circles, I have seen UFOs and I am open to the idea of aliens being both an unexplained phenomenon and a government cover up. In all this confusion, channeling aliens or even a true higher self is a very interesting idea. But I am trying to understand how and if it can be separated from creative writing. I think human creativity is a blessing and a gift from higher powers. And there are so many ways it can be used. For good and bad and neutral.
As a writer, I am fascinated by the idea that "my" best (or worst) ideas aren't really mine and I believe there was an old European belief in the "genius" that is similar to this notion. The "genius" is a separate entity that tells creative people what to do and how to write music and epic stories. As a writer, I can honestly attest to countless times that my writings synced up in ways I could not possibly have planned if I had spent years on a complex chart studying the topics I write about, and I can only explain this as something much bigger than me helping me present information. Not just my mind doing super calculations (which I think is a mystical belief of scientism) but some kind of "tapping into" collective conscious and creative intelligence.
However, this seems different from Urantia and Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue books, which seem to be genuine attempts at giving voice to specific council or consciousness ... specific entities, if you will.
But are these techniques of channeling open to all of us? Like if I decided I were contacted by a being named El Rocky Socky the Planar, maybe while I was in a state that needed a lofty confident personality to remind me of my own beliefs, and I just started writing in that creative voice by tapping into my highest values and hopes for humanity, could it be argued that I actually did reach my higher self, or, like, a being at the same "level" as my higher self, if I really really tried?
Could it be argued that by simply disassociating from a natural creative voice, this is the method by which humanity can reach a metaphysical contact with higher intelligence? Like, not necessarily an El Rocky Socky but something else whose unearthly name eludes us and who allows itself to use the silly language I use?
I want to believe that perhaps those who have dedicated so much time to channeling and spreading books of their channeling information (and inspiring people like David Wilcock to talk about it as fact maybe) are actually accessing "higher" information. But another part of me wonders if they are gamblers that have to tell themselves, "This is real channeling" in order to access their own confidence and they don't actually have any idea if it's what they must socially claim it is.
If we assume good intentions on the part of the "alien channelers", and we have the right to do so, this would be an argument for their epic long books being an authentically alien or spiritual voice. Because as an honest writer I could not merely lean into creative disassociation and call it the same thing as channeling. So then it seems to come down to my belief that the writer is choosing a public gambit or authentically channeling, no matter how strange or even contradictory the knowledge from different entities appears.
But is it possible that "channeling" real (or deceptive) beings and "creative reaching" are different? And could it be that some people with good intentions could fail to make that distinction because their faith precludes them from thoughtful discernment between these two things? Have any alien channelers given convincing statements that they are capable of such a distinction, shown it's more (or less) than ordinary creative genius (or given indications their source is a negative entity fooling them by playing to their ego)?
And if you could choose the most compelling "alien channeler" to read, what would you recommend? Even if it's just for a good sci fi experience at best?
Submitted February 25, 2019 at 12:45AM by Maxeemtoons https://ift.tt/2XldxFf
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