Be careful about anyone who claims to channel guides or intelligences from this world or beyond.
I say that as a disciple and close friend of Dr. George King, who I believe was the greatest medium for extraterrestrial and other intelligences the world has known. He was rightly designated as Primary Terrestrial Mental Channel.
I also say it after practicing channeling myself for over 40 years with dozens of guides from other realms on this Earth. Some of these, who gained renown in their lifetimes, include: St. Rock, Sir Winston Churchill, Pope John XXIII, Dante Alighieri, Sir Francis Bacon, Count François Jollivet-Castelot, Count Cagliostro, Magdalena de la Cruz, John de Balliol, John of Patmos, Erasmus and Madame Blavatsky.
Some may have reincarnated since their life under those names, but for communication purposes have reverted to their former identities. There are dozens of others who have also communicated through me over the years.
Why have they chosen to use me as a medium? Mainly because of my work with The Aetherius Society, which some of them support wholeheartedly, and especially my close connection with Dr. George King, whom a number of them greatly admire.
A good guide makes a critical decision when choosing their medium: Can sufficient rapport be gained to ensure accurate communication? This requires examining the credentials, training, capability and methodology a particular medium uses.
I feel sorry for people trying to discern how genuine a channeled communication is, because there are so many claims out there and, bluntly, many are false. I also feel sorry for would-be mediums who have been encouraged to jump in the deep end without proper training, leaving them to sink into mental ill health. Like any skill, intensive practice with strict discipline is required – we need to put the science back into the séance.
I would not recommend anyone attempt trance mediumship unless they are an adept at yoga and the mystical sciences over many years. It is not the method I use, nor that used by Madame Blavatsky, Alice Bailey and others who received great wisdom.
Dr. King is in a category of his own. He used trance mediumship to channel the Masters, but only after specific training which enabled him to enter Samadhi – a very rarely attained meditative condition in which a yoga adept is in trance and becomes one with that upon which he meditates, thereby knowing it completely.
To my knowledge, Samadhi had never been used before for trance mediumship in which an elevated communicator uses the medium’s voice to deliver their message orally; or if it was, it was not disclosed to the public.
After ten years practicing advanced yoga for eight hours daily, Dr. King was able to raise Kundalini entirely and lodge it in the highest chakras, receiving a beam of thought transmitted to him. I don’t know of another medium who has claimed to do this.
Those who practice trance mediumship without entering Samadhi – very few on Earth have attained that state – would have to negate their mental faculties to allow a communicating entity to overshadow them. This is dangerous because they cannot control the outcome and their conscious and subconscious mind can influence the message, leading to inaccuracy. There is also danger of possession by an interfering entity taking advantage of the mental vacuum.
Dr. King also described another method: mental transmission. As the Master he was, he could raise his consciousness to receive a telepathic thought which his brain translated into English, recording it in writing or with a handheld tape recorder. I witnessed him do this while walking around or seated.
This is the type of method, albeit in a more lowly form, that I have used for over 40 years. I believe Madame Blavatsky, Alice Bailey and St John who recorded the Book of Revelation, did too.
In my case I combine telepathic reception with clairaudience – psychic hearing. Hearing the voice while receiving the communication tells you about the communicator and helps distinguish between a message from outside and your own thoughts.
Very intense concentration is absolutely vital, requiring years of training in yoga or mystic disciplines. Without this, any message will be unreliable. The medium must not allow their conscious or subconscious mind to color the communication or think about the meaning of the words while receiving them. I sometimes receive the spelling letter by letter.
If a person receives a message without such disciplined technique, it will be a mix of their own thoughts and the communicator’s. Some describe their writings as ‘inspired’ rather than ‘channeled,’ which is more honest.
Indeed, some authors through history have likely received guidance from other realms, even unconsciously. Tolkien might be one example.
The guides who have channeled through me have done so because of my spiritual work. To give examples:
St. Rock, the 14th century healer of the plague, was interested in a healing campaign run by The Aetherius Society in Britain in the early 1980s.
Sir Winston Churchill and Pope John XXIII both had connections with UFOs in their lifetimes and were interested in the many broadcasts and presentations I was engaged in, also in the 1980s.
Dante Alighieri and Sir Francis Bacon (who authored much of Shakespeare’s works) contacted me because of a series of literary messages I was channeling, published in the book I wrote with Mark Bennett, Gods, Guides and Guardian Angels.
Count François Jollivet-Castelot and Count Cagliostro, I believe, like Dante and Bacon, are followers of Count St Germain. They support the revelation of mystical truth, including through The Aetherius Society.
Magdalena de la Cruz and John de Balliol are supporters of Dr. King and The Aetherius Society.
John of Patmos is the St. John who dictated the Book of Revelation, though not the same St. John as the disciple of Jesus. He has an understandable interest in Armageddon which is fully reported through The Aetherius Society. He has become very dedicated to the Society on a very high realm.
Erasmus helped me attain samadhic levels of consciousness. The fact that he attained this in a western environment, albeit hundreds of years ago, made his help particularly applicable to me.
I have been aware of Madame Blavatsky since I became European Secretary of The Aetherius Society in 1979. I believe she is now a keen proponent of Aetherius Society teachings, especially The Nine Freedoms.
As I have evolved through intensive yoga practice, much of it through my closeness to Dr. King, so has my capacity to channel more advanced guides. When I gave psychic readings, I received messages from ordinary people who had passed on. Now I can receive messages from those who inhabit the highest realms on Earth.
Many mediums are not interested in evolving spiritually. Once they reach a certain level, they stay there. Strangely, some basic mediums could be more accurate than those with elevated purpose who have not developed their skills sufficiently.
As you progress towards a more advanced guide on a higher realm, it can be more difficult to concentrate because the energy is so beautiful that part of you wants to “bliss out” rather than focus on the message in a detached manner.
I must make clear that mediumship is not essential to spiritual development. Although psychic powers will manifest as you progress, it is not necessary to take up channeling.
I am often asked whether I channel ascended and interplanetary masters. My answer is that, even if I did, I would not claim this publicly. The Aetherius Society has a strict policy not to recognize claims of mediums other than Dr. King who say they channel cosmic intelligences, to avoid confusion. In the position I hold, such a claim could be destabilizing for the Society.
To be clear, Dr. King never stated that he is the only person ever to channel cosmic intelligences, or that it would never happen in the future through someone in the Society; only that even if it did, such a claim would not be officially recognized.
I have become aware that my mediumship was mainly conducted through my solar plexus center. I have now been guided to elevate this to a higher chakra, especially since I have experienced samadhic conditions in recent years. This is a necessary karmic condition for receiving a certain caliber of communicator.
Whether I achieve this remains to be seen, but I am grateful to all those wonderful guides who have honored me with their messages. You will find some of them on my website at the channeling tab.
Richard Lawrence is Executive Secretary of The Aetherius Society for Europe and Africa and an international bestselling author whose books have been translated into nine languages. He has appeared on over 600 radio stations, including Coast to Coast AM, lectured internationally for 30 years, and devoted his life to the work of the late Spiritual Master, Dr. George King. www.richardlawrence.co.uk.
