Throughout recorded history it has been thought that only those with a special gift could connect with a spirit guide, their higher self or the universal mind. However, this step-by-step guide to the art of channeling aims to show how anyone can be open to higher dimensions.
Sanaya Roman channeled Orin, a wise and gentle spirit teacher, for many years. Orin, a timeless being of love and light, has assisted thousands of people to awaken spiritually through his books, seminars, and audio courses. Orin teaches us how to reach the Divine within us, our true self, so we can grow through joy and release struggle, and experience love, peace, and abundance in our daily lives.
Orin, through Sanaya, has created over 200 audio journeys and courses in spiritual growth which are available at www.orindaben.com. You can also visit our site and enjoy free articles, Orin audio meditations, music, weekly book excerpts and written meditations, and daily affirmations.
Sanaya authored of six Orin books, including Living With Joy, Personal Power Through Awareness, Spiritual Growth, and Soul Love. Sanaya and Orin have co-authored with Duane and DaBen the books: Creating Money, and Opening to Channel. Their books have been translated into over 24 languages, and have sold over 2 million copies worldwide.
Sanaya's formal training included graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California at Berkeley. Much of her study and interest was in mathematics, in addition to sociology. She studied metaphysics for years, and found great value in the Seth books by Jane Roberts, and in the Alice Bailey books, as well as books by Joel Goldsmith.
A nice practical guide to developing your ability to channel your spirit guide or any other higher being. Takes patience and practice and a willingness to read over the sections several times, However, very rewarding when an understanding of the methodologies is reached and successful contact is made. I highly recommend it for anyone who wishes to enter the field of channelling.
If you definitely want to learn to channel, then this is a book that will definitely teach you that. I already speak to my guides regularly, and I thought this book would give me some insight into connecting on a deeper level with my guide, since that is what the subtitle purports to some extent. Unfortunately, this book really is all about channelling. It mentions the nature of spirit guides only in a cursory fashion, and in fact I found all of the introductory materials rather cursory. This is a book that will require you to practice regularly, and the exercises are geared toward you learning to channel. Furthermore, I was turned off of channeling as it is repeatedly made clear that the channelers often do not even understand, or remember, what they are channeling! Why would I want to learn to channel when I can already speak directly to my guides? I have always been a very utilitarian practitioner in all my spiritual endeavors and I feel like channelling is just... too involved a process. That may simply be my own bias. The book did explain channelling in a manner I could understand. Unfortunately, it really wasn't what I was looking for and it turned me off channelling altogether.
This is a wonderful book for beginners and I agree with most that the steps are clear to follow. I wish sometimes they would address some people like me who have been asking my spirit guide to tangibly connect with me for a long time and it all seems to be left to my imagination station. I sometimes feel there is something wrong with me that I don't get a 'name' or an 'image' or whatnot. I need a book that specifically addresses this discouragement and I thought this would but not really.
I would recommend the book and I am glad it is on my shelf.
I was recently made aware that this might be what is happening when I'm practicing meditation, tarot, or astrology. Hence, this was a beginner book to help me understand what's going on. Mostly I like this as a beginner starting place. Here are some notes:
p. 20 They talk about the feeling you might have as it is an altered state. I often am reading and get a tingling in my neck and all over my body. This is helpful.
They talk about the forms of guides. Some can be male, female & discuss body work.
They do talk about imagining a bubble of light as a way to help you.
Opening to channel is a fantastic book for people who are interested in exploring their abilities and minds on a different, new level. For those just getting started and knowing there is "more" out there, this book walks the student step by step and covers every base. Clearly written, informative and with examples of people's experiences. A definite must read!
HIGHLIGHTS: 1. CHANNELING BASICS: - As you channel, you built a bridge to the higher realms to access all the ideas, knowledge, and wisdom. - Channeling is not a surrender to control. - Asking for a guide brings one to you. - Connection Openings: tarot cards, automatic, writing, or meditation. - Ready: finding yourself valuing the experience and eager to learn more.
2. CHANNELING IN TRANCE: Once you have experience the channeling state, it is easy to return to, and remember. - The times when inspiration flows effortlessly are similar to the channeling state. - Trance states feel as if you have suddenly become very wise. - Channeling is a lighter trance state than deep meditation, it is easier to achieve and people experienced at meditation might expect. Requires concentration and focus. Receive assistance from your guides. - Conscious involves raising your vibration to sense, see, or hear in the guide’s realms.
3. STARTING TO CHANNEL: - Your guide chooses you to work with because of a similarity of goals and purposes. - High-level guidance will assist you in having a greater confidence in your own truth. - Only accept those messages which ring true to the deepest part of your being. - Channeling is a skill that can be learned. - Guides encourage you to connect with your own soul’s wisdom. - Channeling is accompanied by heightened awareness and feelings of well-being. - Your soul’s wisdom is far greater than you allow yourself to know.
4. READING FOR OTHERS. - You often teach best what you have just learned. - The universe has funny ways of giving lessons. - Truth will seem obvious when you are channeling. - Guides will not take away peoples lessons, but help them understand them. - A guide might lead them to discover the essence of what they were seeking. - Most guides will show people what they might expect, then leave it up to them to decide which path to take. - High-level guides help people discover more choices. - The clearer you become, the higher and more positive your own thoughts, the more your readings will increase in their love and ability to transform people. - Guides speak to people about issues they are ready to work on, and we tell them only as much as they are ready to hear. - You will be opening and growing, and the people who are drawn to your channeling, are perfect for your level skill at the present time. - As a channel you become a source of love and guidance for others.
5. GREAT AWAKENING - Channeling gives you the tools to find your own answers. - Channeling does not take away your lessons or opportunities to grow. It allows you to see more clearly so that you can take more appropriate actions and accomplish things with joy and ease rather than struggle. - Be to yourself. Everything comes at its own time. - Channeling will assist you in making the life changes you have been wanting to make.
6. PROBABLE FUTURE: - You will automatically change your future when you release a belief, change a goal, or develop different expectations. - Guide people to hold higher visions of themselves and their potentials. - Guides help people see what they can do to create what they want. We want to help people move more easily and rapidly through their lessons. - Change yourself and change the future. - The future is determined by what you intend to create. - You attract events that confirm your beliefs. - “Conscious channeling” is the next stage in mankind’s abilities to channel.
7. STARTING: - Ask guides to Boost energy or adjust breathing to better open the channel. - Channeling will unfold naturally in its own time. - Guides transmit pure energy. Symbols are often closer to their transmission than words.
8. ACCELERATED PATH: - Channeling will assist you in making the life changes you have been wanting to make. - When you channel, you were bringing more light into your life. It can be a gentle, safe process. - If you are not accustomed to trusting your inner messages, then it may be difficult to trust your channeling, for both come from within. Look back at all the times you were able to believe in your inner messages and follow them, and things turned out well. - You’ll get small confirmations that you are you really are channeling as you continue. - Use your doubts as a positive force to motivate you to become a better channel. - Decide whether or not, you can use this information. If you read something that is useful, you rarely question it’s authorship. You accept it because it feels like truth within you. - As you channel, you bring more light into your body. - Your imagination is the touchstone to the higher reality. - Habits are always trying to give you something positive. Ask for guidance on their higher expression. Once you find the elevated expression of a habit, the old form of it will drop away. - All you need is the courage to begin.
9. STRENGTHENING: - People experience channeling as a sudden inflow of ideas, insights, creativity, and clear guidance. - Some of the easiest times for you to connect or when you feel relaxed and at peace. - TIP: use channeling on every day things was one way to increase connection. - Guides practice economy of energy. - A good way to get more detailed, specific answers is to have people tell your guide exactly what they want to know about. - Conscious channeling gives you both a challenge of letting the message flow and the responsibility for accurately relaying your guides messages.
10. GOING OUT IN THE WORLD: - Achieving higher consciousness is the most important thing you can do to help others. As you grow, you become a broadcasting station to others. You become a tuning fork and others will begin to experience higher consciousness just by being around you. - Your guide isn’t going to tell you what your path is, he’s going to help you reach a higher vibration, so you can see it for yourself. - Simply ask for the people you can best serve, who will truly benefit at a sole level from your work, and you will find them coming to you. Rather than sending your energy out drought in such people to you. - Pretend you are a magnet in our magnetizing to yourself, those who can grow and be served by what you have to offer. - As you channel, you radiate more light and become more magnetic to people. - Your own inner knowingness is your ultimate source of authority. Remain true to your own integrity, all we have to offer another is the example of our own lives working. - Use your inner truth and your channeling to make your life work. Allow other people to have their own truths. - People became more successful after they began channeling, and they put their lives into greater order. - Part of your growth will be to find the highest perspective you can on any issue in your life.
11. TIME IS NOW: - Appreciate your lessons now, as they come, and know that they are preparing you to handle a higher vibration. - As you open your channel, you will be the one holding the light, bringing positive, encouragement, and direction to others. - Channeling is a scale that can be learned. - Guides to come to people when they request the connection. - Close your eyes, sit quietly, and ask your higher self to give you a date by which you could start opening and connecting with your guide.
I am not sure how to rate this. It's not like I have a basis for comparison. Is this a good how-to channel book? Not really sure. I enjoyed it, it was interesting and not as "out there" as I expected it to be. It's funny because this book is fairly old (15+ years) and it's totally like that whole "The Secret" thing. I never read that but I saw the Oprah and a lot of the terms, wording, ideas are very similar. (Even though this book is about speaking to your guide). Anyway, once I practice some of the meditation techniques, I may have to revise my rating one way or another. I just have to wait for my cystals to arrive.... (yeah, that's right!)
I read this back in 1988 when I began studying my journey into the world of summoning spirits. My research took me from medieval grimoires to seances to even the New Age where people supposedly "channel" which is more or less a form of spiritual possession. Understand, possession is used quite regularly in the African religions so it is nothing to be feared when you know what you're doing and have an initiated priest with you. Channeling however is more perilous since you do not know who the NPE (Non-Physical Entity) is who is possessing you nor what aims It has towards you. African priests summon specific spirits onto a medium to be possessed thus they know whom to speak with whereas with channelers?...
I first ran into this book when I picked up her other book written with co-author Da Ben, another channeler, on prosperity. After that, I thought I'd give this one a try. Well.... it's a bit TOO New Agey for my taste and as I said, the mediumship aspect of the channeler is a bit out of touch in my opinion. Why? Not enough safety is assured. I'm sorry but surrounding yourself with "love" is NOT going to stop any spirit you open yourself to from any harm should something go awry. I give it 3/5 stars only because it is one of the better channeler books out there on the market by comparison.
Anyone who's curious about how channeling works or who wants to learn to channel themselves, would enjoy this book.
I read this book to gain insights about how Esther Hicks channels Abraham, and in the process of reading, it took away some of the fears I had about channeling and helped me align with maybe being able to communicate with Source myself!
A beautiful book that lovingly, gently walks you through how to open up your own connection to higher wisdom with practical exercises to do. It soothes any concerns, and accurately covers lots of issues you may come across in the process, leaving no stone unturned. It gives examples of those who have walked this path before you, making you feel like you're not alone on your journey.
A must-read for anyone wanting to learn to receive information from Source directly.
Can I give this book 6 stars? Please? It's so good! I love the vibe in the book! You can really feel Orin's and DaBen's frequency coming from the pages to help you get in contact with your guides! I love the easy processes that are there to help you get started and I love how some parts are Sanaya and Duane talking about there experiences and all. It's so great! 2 minor notes: I missed the proces how to get in touch after you made the first contact with your guide, so I tweaked the proces myself and I felt like it talked a lot about how to channel for other people, while my goal is just to get in contact with my guides to help me with my life so I can help more people with the things I do great already. One of the best books I've read in a while!!
An interesting read. Filled with helpful information and exercises. Excellent tips to consider prior to starting on this journey, as in doing your own personal work first. Guides will point you in the right direction, bring information in the form of books and people, but you have to be prepared to take action and do the work yourself. They will never do the work for you and they will not get in the way of the lessons you are meant to learn. So yes sometimes that means that events will not unfold as you hoped, but they will unfold as they are meant to for your highest learning.
The final section of the book gives a brief history of the Spiritualist movement and changes. It also talks about how the term, medium, has now changed to channeling. Some interesting points to consider.
One of the best books on opening to channel, I’ve read it a number of times now and each time it truly helps me connect to extra-dimensional intelligence in more profound ways. The messages are clear, timely, and carry the energy of higher consciousness, with plenty of suggestions for how to begin this most exciting journey of connecting to higher intelligence, be it our own higher mind, soul, over-soul, other aspects, etc. Both a how-to manual and a treatise of consciousness, this is one to keep on your bookshelf for years to come - I have bought extra copes to share with friends!
Though I am not particularly interested in channeling I do like these types of books. I thought I would give this book a try since it came up in my pile. I think for the most part I kind of slogged through it though some parts were interesting. For me, the non interesting parts added up to more than the interesting. I think there are better books to read on this subject that would seem less boring even though I'm sure there are many who would be totally interested in this book. I'm sure it would be more interesting for someone who is actually interested in channeling.
Definitely the book I was looking for. If you've heard of channel and want to understand what it is and what it can do for you, this is the book for you. It's not just a how to book, it goes even a step further by solving all of your possible doubts before you even start channeling (if you decide that channeling is for you of course). I felt elevated the whole time while reading this book, this is the real deal folks. 100% recomended.
This is a must-read for lightworkers, healers, intuitives and anyone else who is curious about or eager to explore channelling. The guidance throughout the book resonated. Although I haven't yet worked through the exercises to open myself up further to channelling my guides, I am already feeling a shift in my energy and consciousness simply from reading the book from cover to cover. Highly recommend!
I thought it was too short but to the point. I would have liked more... On my part, I didn't know anything about channeling but I've been working on myself for quite a time now so it was easy to make the connection I didn't need to go through all the advice to start with channeling although I will take the advice on how to continue. Some insightful words of wisdom spoken from Oren & Daben made a lot of sense.
I really enjoyed the ease at which I made it through this book, & being able to go at my own pace. Very easy to read, very easy to pause when needed, & the flow and explanations were very helpful. Easy to understand & reflect on. Great book to read for those interested in channeling!
This book was recommended to me by a friend & this one was a spot on recommendation. Highly recommend to share with those you feel might also be interested, as you can work through it together!
Great book to take away the fear of speaking with your higher guides. Whether you all ready channel by way of book suggestions, through creation of the arts, reading tarot, or by asking advice for self or others or you know nothing about it, this book can be eye opening. For the open minded and unfearful, it can become another tool in raising your consciousness.
This book is fantastic and full of useful information! I did learn to easily channel from this. It takes work and I went into this with a strong background in spiritual work, so don’t read it completely new and expect it to be the most easy breezy thing. I still think even then, it’s very readily accessible.
I would recommend this book to anyone looking hope and direction in this human experience. The website offers many meditations also thank you Sanaya for leading the way.
Just a couple of years ago I never would have been in a place to look at this book, let alone read it. My, how life has changed. This is an excellent primer on channeling—clear, intelligent, well-written.
I thought it was too short, but it was to the point. I would have preferred more... Although I was unfamiliar with channeling, my self-improvement practice made it easy for me to connect. I didn't have to go through all the advice to begin channeling, but I did take advice on how to continue. Some insightful words of wisdom were spoken by Oren and Daben, which made a lot of sense.