{"id":84,"date":"2007-09-26T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T01:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/conversationswithgod\/2007\/09\/is-what-you-do-called-channeli.html"},"modified":"2007-09-26T01:01:01","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T01:01:01","slug":"is-what-you-do-called-channeli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/conversationswithgod\/2007\/09\/is-what-you-do-called-channeli.html","title":{"rendered":"Is What You Do Called ‘Channeling’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday is Question and Answer Day <\/strong>on the blog…a time for exploring many of the questions that people have recently asked about the nine Conversations with God <\/em>books and the New Spirituality. Here’s this week’s entry…<\/strong>
\nTopic: <\/strong>Channeling vs. conversations
\nQuestion asked by: <\/strong>Axel Schmidt
\nQuestion:<\/strong>Hi Neale…In your books, you never use the term “channeling” for your “conversations” with God. Is this just a personal preference of yours or would you see a substancial difference here?
\nAlso, I noticed that through the sequence of the books, God talks less and you talk more. On your recent tour, I came to visit you for the evening session in Offenbach, Germany, and in this session you were speaking completely out of your own authority. Would you see this as an development?
\n(English is not my mother tongue, I hope my questions don not sound too silly \ud83d\ude09
\nNeale’s Response: <\/strong>Thank you for your questions and no, they do not sound too silly!
\n“Channeling”, as I understand it, is the process by which a disembodied entity or spirit is “brought through” a physical being. This would not be a description of what is occurring with me when I am having my conversations with God.
\nI have called my experience “inspired writing.” I think this is a much more accurate description of exactly what is occurring. Many people throughout the centuries have been inspired to produce extraordinary writing. I believe that is what is happening in this case.
\nWhile speaking in Offenbach, I was not “bringing through” the voice or the direct in-the-moment messages of God, nor do I ever speak in “God’s voice” before an audience. In every lecture I have ever been delivered since the beginning of my conversations with God experience I have spoken in the first person singular. That is, I have made it clear to my audience is that I do not speak for God in such public presentations.
\nWhat I do when I am before an audience is re-present the messages that I have received, in my own words. I hope this answers your question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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