Who Are We?
What a heavenly idea!
Article by Bill Tomaszewski
The New Hope
Channelers Support Group in
My story is
about how the idea to start a support group for people who channel originated
and how it grew into what it has become today. It wasn’t my idea but the
concept was channeled to me…I just followed through on the spiritual guidance. t was in
early August of 1990 when I walked up a flight of stairs to the apartment of
the trance channel (Kelly Sheehy) in
That was the
summer, if you recall that the
I knew why I
had come to see Kelly and to hear from Raphael. I wanted this channeled angel
to give me insight regarding the idea of trance channelers becoming more
accepted to mainstream society and to themselves. However, it is what you don’t expect to hear that can
change your life.
During that
private reading, Raphael suggested, “There should be a group, a gathering of
people who channel to share ideas and experiences to come together simply to
discuss this phenomenon that has happened to all of them. They will learn that
this is very important and that they should be doing this work and they will
talk to others in the same positions and it will clarify to them that they are
not losing their mind. They will have the good feeling that they are not
alone.” For me, personally, visiting trance channels and conversing with the
non-physical entities had been very helpful. Unanticipated events and
troublesome situations, I believed, were controlling my life.
After a
successful career in the army, I left with an honorable discharge and was ready
to conquer the world. I was married with three young boys and a life full of
adventure ahead but the adventures became nightmares when separation and
divorce almost drained the life out of me. I had strayed off my path and found
myself mired in the backwaters of life.
Whenever I
would go one-on-one with these channeled entities, whom
I believe have a higher perspective of our own inner wisdom, I pictured myself
walking up to one of the universe’s information booths to ask for directions
out of the forest of my confusion. A trance channel, for me, became a welcome
guidepost pointing the
way out of the woods. I would
jokingly comment that the conversations I had with the spirits were very inexpensive
psychotherapy sessions.
After Kelly Sheehy came out of trance, I told her of Raphael’s proposal
to start a support group for channelers. Linda Kalin,
one of the attendees, knew how to type and made simple notices which I placed
on the notice boards of health food stores, New Age bookstores and even dropped
a few off at area newspaper offices.
People began
coming out of their spiritual closets to attend the meetings. Men and women
from all walks of life who were either practicing channeling quietly among
their receptive friends or people who were just interested in channeling were
filling the meeting room.
The number of
people who attended fluctuated from ten to more than fifty. The format for the
meetings was informal and for the most part unstructured. It was conducted in a
non-critical atmosphere with attendees encouraged to speak about their personal
experiences and to share their thoughts. We didn’t push what we individually
believed down each others throats; we simply shared what we individually
discovered. For me, this was an important guideline for the Group.
New people
were always attending and they were concerned about how much they would want to
reveal about themselves. They may have learned to shut themselves off from the
world because of unpleasant experiences as children. I had read an article in
Fate Magazine entitled “Voices from Other Worlds” written by Craig Lee. Mr. Lee
quotes a Margo Chandley who was working for four
years on a doctorate thesis in ‘transformational psychology’ at the
I certainly
didn’t look like or act as an authority on channeling. People could relax and
not feel intimidated at the meetings. I would wear my Hawaiian shirts in an
attempt to keep the energy of the meetings light and became known for my sense
of humor. Laughter is a form of healing.
I invited
people whose business cards I had seen on the bulletin boards in New Age
bookshops and health food stores in nearby neighborhoods of
Sometimes even running out of chairs, the Group attracted many people to the meetings to hear several speaker/channels who combined their channeling aptitude with unique abilities to entertain, inform or heal. Lenny Ralls, for instance, would channel celebrities who had made their transition.
Channeled explanations for channeling
Amaya, the
former Robin Velez would bring along “Isaiah and the Group,” who would call on
people in the audience for some hands-on spiritual healing. Through Amaya I
received this explanation of the channeling process:
“Let us talk
first on the physical phenomena known as energy exchange and/or channeling.
Both the physical and spiritual preparation occurs within the intended trance
channel’s body. The consciousness of that spark of energy, known as the soul,
waiting to incarnate into the mother-to-be’s womb,
chooses to enter either before or after birth. As the child grows, depending on
the soul’s purpose, different functions of the body are manifested or firmed
up.
A prominent
change takes place in the pituitary-thyroid gland system. As the child grows
into puberty, the glands that stimulate sexual activity are also stimulated
deeply for the energies of paranormal abilities. These glands enlarge somewhat
and spew out a chemical that forms a film like a mucous membrane that protects
these glands.
Channeling is
initiated when the intuitive person learns to enter a self-induced trance. The
heavier and slower vibrations of the channel’s own energy are exchanged with
the finer and higher vibrating energies which are soul material just like you.
These energies have thought, intelligence, intellect and are a part of what we
know as the God Force. Prior to touching down and merging into the channel’s
body, the energies slow down the rate of speed of their vibrations so their
thought patterns can be interpreted and spoken verbally in the channel’s
accustomed language.”
At one of the
monthly meetings, I asked the Seraphic Angel, Ascordia, who communicates
through Amy Bortner, to speak about the functional role for channelers. The
reply was, “There were many ways a channeler can be effective in society. A
practical use of channelers would be in the aiding of families of a loved one
who is in a coma. Those who cannot speak their piece any longer, who are mired
in the confines of a coma so that they cannot express their desires; those who
are in great distress, psychological or physical -channelers can be used to
contact either telepathically or another fashion, so as to ascertain the true
desire as to whether they want to maintain their life or not.” Ascordia added,
“It may be helpful, for instance, to have channelers at the bedside of comatose
patients who have been on life support machines for long periods of time, who
may not be able to express their needs and would like to express them so as to
stop the unnecessary support of their physical body when they no longer need
them. Plus, for those who are dying, who are in hospices, who are in old age
homes who may have experienced this during the death/transition process but may
wish to express through their mouth but do not have any words for it or cannot
speak their piece. So channelers can be there to express to the family the
process of their death/transition which oftentimes is very beautiful, very
loving and very
peaceful but cannot be expressed
in the physical plane adequately at this time and so the channelers can be mouthpieces
for their consciousness.”
Articles about
our group were published in a Doylestown, PA newspaper, The Intelligencer; in
The Philadelphia Inquirer; and the Wall Street Journal in 1992.
The New Hope
Channelers Support Group then became quite a hot item in the media and members
were invited on local radio and television programs.
I returned
home after an appearance on a
It seemed that
there were many people out in TV and radio land who related to the group I had
created, who just wanted to open up and talk to someone who was willing to
listen without any judgment or criticism. This was just in a small area of the
East Coast of the
It has been a
long time since I had that date with an angel but the New Hope Metaphysical
Society continues to meet on the fourth Wednesday of the month at
What am I up
to now? Well, I met my soul mate and moved to
References:
Amaya
- http://www.amayacenter.com/
Amy Bortner
-Gialuco - http://www.ascordia.com/
Kelly Sheehy -
http://www.citypaper.net/articles/2006-07-27/fineprint.shtml
Contact:
Bill Tomaszewski
billski@spiritsvision.com.
