Healthy Skepticism

Watching a talk given by 'Bashar', an entity channeled by Darryl Anka (www.bashar.org), I noticed my skepticism.  I have personally channeled beings from other realities, as well as people who have died suddenly and traumatically, but not realized they had died, as I helped them move on to the next phase of their paths.  So, why the skepticism?  Because I have had these experiences, as well as mediumship experiences of different forms with people who have passed on, I have very high standards of what I consider to be clear and quantifiable information.

For me, the 'gold standard' for deciding, for example, if a communication purported to be from a deceased love one through a medium is real or not includes: 1) clear, specific, unambiguous information versus general information that could fit anyone of a certain gender, age, demographic etc; 2) information without interpretation by the medium (e.g. 'an older white male wearing a blue shirt and grey wool pants, and holding a shovel has appeared to me; he lets me know that he is your grandfather' versus 'your grandfather is showing me a shovel, which means he loved to garden...'); and finally 3) at least one piece of information must be something that you, the client, does not know about and could have had no way to know about it; which means you, the client, must find a family member or a historical reference to validate that information (e.g. 'the gentleman lets me know that his real name is John Smith, not Byron Jones, his name having been changed when he was adopted at age 6 months').

So, I once channeled --that is, brought through a verbal communication, from a being not of this time-space reality-- Darax, a being who stated his kind did not live in 'mattered reality' as humans do, but rather in a 'fluidic reality'.  What?!  I could easily dismiss this experience as being the product of an over active imagination (for those of you who are familiar with the psycho-spiritual model called the Enneagram will understand when I say this over active imagination is a quality of the Type 4 energy/personality), except for the fact that I was completely surprised by the experiences leading up to this actual communication.

I was working with Bhuvaneswari Devi (www.bhuvaneswari.ca) to increase my already active trance/altered state abilities in order to support the possible communication of wisdom from other than ordinary Earth realities and/or from Earth herself.  In the preparation process Bhuvaneswari taught this energy I felt building inside me to use my vocal cords.  I felt my throat and vocal cords expand, become larger, in a very physical way.  When he, or they since Darax stated he represented the beings from where he existed, actually spoke it was with an accent and a confidence that I did not possess in that moment.

So, while I am very curious about what others are relating via altered states of consciousness, such as Darryl Anka and Bashar, mentioned above, and actually find much of what is communicated either believable or even matching information I have myself received, I still find my skepticism arise.

We must be open to learn, but also open to questioning what we are hearing --the basis of skepticism, which has become warped by those who make being 'skeptics' a full-time career. 

I welcome your skepticism about anything I say or write.

Thanks for listening.

Edward