The modern craze of CHANNELLING is nothing other than MEDIUMSHIP under a new name. In fact, “Medium” and “Channel” are synonyms, literally meaning something or someone which allows something or someone else to flow through it. The New Age movement places high emphasis and great importance on channelling and channelled messages. A brief visit to YouTube or simple search on Google will reveal an abundance of channelled messages, all purporting to be from highly important and powerful spiritual beings.
Thousands of people around the world believe themselves to be channels for the “latest messages” from the Lord Buddha, Jesus Christ, Krishna, the Virgin Mary, the Archangel Michael, other Archangels and Angels, alien overlords and extra-terrestrial queens and princesses, deceased spiritual teachers of recent times.
In the 1980s a spiritual teacher in Arizona conducted an experiment or rather an exposé to show the true nature of channelling; its utter unreliability, inherent deceptiveness, foolishness, and delusion.