I am a Conscious-Trance-Channeler. I’ve been channeling for over 20 years.  Conscious meaning: awake and able to experience what’s being said and seen in the “third eye”, the psychic center of our brain.  I’m able to remember the symbolic images and can talk about the channeled readings that I do.

Trance meaning: I go into a self hypnotic state with my eyes closed while “reading” a person through the questions they ask. I lose track of the sense of time, and am in a blissful state.

 Channeler meaning:  the name given to one who opens themselves up like a clear, open vessel for information to come through them for themselves and others.  Sometimes people channel through their art or writing.  Some people channel through spoken word, automatic writing, paintings, music composition, lyrics, and poetry.

From my experience as a channeler these many years I’d say it’s been an interesting journey into the unknown.  It’s not been easy geting used to it, though.  I’ve felt like a freak many times.  I’ve not told people what I do many times.  I’ve been ridiculed by people even some of my own family members. 

 There is a thin veil between channeling information from this unknown place within all of us and being conscious in an everyday kind of way.  What I mean by that is, there’s psychic ability and intuition and there’s intellectual logic.  There’s knowing the future of outcomes and being able to “see” what most people cannot see and feel and there’s living life by trying to figure things out with the acquired information and circumstances that are before you.  The veil is thin because one world so to speak merges into the other world often.  I’ve asked myself a lot in the beginning “Am I feeling an intuitional tug, a psychic pull in a certain direction or am I feeling superstition or going by what I’ve learned by past experience only?  Am I feeling feelings that are leading me through life because someone told me it was this way or am I feeling that special feeling that comes from another place that gives us information that in our “normal” world just would not be possible to know?

When I channel, especially when I go into channeling, the posture, hypnotic state or trance state my breathing changes.  I feel an energy comming up from the base of my spine area and it feels like it’s “popping” in, in segments.  I feel my breathing going more into the upper nasal cavaties and at the same time I feel a feeling like my ears popping and it feels like an energy is rising up through my body in stages until it “pops” into my head area and then my voice says “Hello” and I know at that point that Fortune, the energy name I channel, is present.

 Fortune came about while I was under hypnosis.  My voice changed at some point and when asked by the hypnotist therapist, “What is your name?”, my voice said, “Fortune”.  Fortune has been identified as my Guide of Knowledge.  I accept that.  I really don’t know how I channel or why this has happened to me, but I acceept it.

It’s been the same for me for 23 years, now.

When I am in the “channeled” state I feel the thin veil between everyday and the trance channeled state. While I am channeling I have very little sense of time.  When I channel I am filled with bliss and feel a “floating” feeling, my body is extremely relaxed and I see everything in technicolor and symbolic imagery.  I “feel”, “see”, “hear”, and sense answers to questions.  Answers to questions that I have “no business” knowing about. Answers come from this trance state that I, in my waking state, would probably have an impossible chance at figuring out.  Maybe no chance.  When I’m channeling psychic images and feelings pour forth without hesitation, no thought.  A generally constant flow of feelings about a question asked, a constant flow of images describing the questions asked and words and phrases come to me and I say them readily.  Channeling in a trance state is like maybe how a surgeon feels going from his everyday personal life stepping into a hospital, putting on his surgeon’s gown and gloves and opening up a body, looking inside and reading the health of that person.  Reading the organs, blood pressure, heart beat, and breathing. Making a diagnosis from the experience the surgeon has gathered from years of schooling and first hand experience.  The difference is I’ve had no schooling in channeling and don’t need any experience to answer the questions asked.  When I’m channeling, the answers flow to me clearly.  All I have to do is show up and go into the trance state.  No expectations, no pre-planning. No getting research done beforehand.  No rehearsals.  Nothing but just showing up, closing my eyes and going into the trance state.

This process has surprised me over and over again.  Time and time again for many years.  I don’t know how I do it, I only know I can.  This is a very strange experience for me even now.  I’m always blown away by the information that comes through for myself and others.  I’ve been told, through my channeling Fortune, that this is my spiritual path and that by channeling for others and giving them answers, I too will learn.  Answers come to me about questions I couldn’t possibly know about from total strangers.  When I channel for friends or people I’ve known for years, surprisingly new information comes out that I couldn’t come up with myself.  Problems have been solved through channeling that I have not been able to come up with solution in my normal conscious state.  I’ve worked on murder cases for total strangers, missing persons, mysterious illness, realationships, business problems, film directors and producers call me, doctors, nurses, teachers, other psychics, you name it, I’ve channeled on it.

I don’t know how I channel and continue to not know what it’s all about.  All I have to go by is the outcome of what is said. I often say, “If I started channeling and I was wrong after only a few weeks of channeling, I probably wouldn’t keep channeling for all these 20 something years.”  I would have given up and known I couldn’t do it. This is not the case. It’s hard to de-mystify channeling.  The act itself is a mystery to me.  I live with it, love it and let it go.

For more on this subject go to: Wild Woman’s Path section on this website.

HEAR CYNTHIA’S INTERVIEW & CHANNELING SESSION WITH JEFFREY MILBURN ON HIS OMNI ART SALON PODCAST. SEE LINK ON THE “RESOURCES” BAR ON THIS WEBSITE