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Here's an article by Lori Toye on channeling. She has the I am America Maps out showing how the earth will look after a pole shift. She was freatured on Ancient Prophecies
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Ralph, This was an interesting account of channelling, and how the Buddha became 'The Enlightened One.' It also mentions St. Germain and the story of Black Elk, "The shaman is the person, male or female who in his late childhood or early youth has an overwhelming psychological experience that runs him totally inward. It's a kind of schizophrenic crack-up."
I know this feeling!
A Definition Of Channel
A few traditional definitions of the word channel are:
This is also the frequency through which absent healing is done but allegedly by channeling microwaves through the ground, which then affect our bio-rhythms, 'scientists' can tap into this wave-band and send subliminal thoughts into your mind, which you think are your own. Beware!
I like this definition of God: "What is God?" - hoping to elicit some sort of encyclopedic contribution to mankind's store of theological understanding. To their utter bewilderment, the Source replied, simply, God is a being who can recognize good without evil as a point of reference."
This is something else I was trying to point out:
Many channels claim to hear celestial music before or after channeling and these types of heavenly melodies have often been referred to as 'The Harmony Of The Spheres.' Ethereal notes and choirs may have inspired Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as a child prodigy, writing his first minuet when he was just six years old. In a letter to his father he explained, "Everything has been composed but not yet written down."
In just 35 years he composed seventeen operas, forty-one symphonies, and twenty-seven piano concertos. "Mozart never tried to understand who he was, but his ingenious naiveté was a perfect vessel for his seemingly heaven-sent compositions." Don Campbell in The Mozart Effect continues, "No matter how absurd and tragic his life, the channel to celestial harmony was never interrupted."
Edgar Cayc said,. "Akasha is a Sanskrit word that refers to the fundamental etheric substance of the universe, electro-spiritual in composition. Upon this Akasha there remains impressed an indelible record of every sound, light, movement, or thought since the beginning of the manifest universe. The Akasha registers impressions like a sensitive plate, and can almost be regarded as a huge candid camera of the cosmos. The ability to read these vibratory records lies inherent within each of us.
Hazel
Thank you Ralph,
This is a very good article. I have the I AM maps, they are very
interesting. I don't know if anyone has seen them, what I find
interesting about them is that in the last one... called the 6 Map
Scenario, it is a series of 5 maps.. (grin) when rolled out it extends
far far off my table..each of the 5 maps are possible scenarios of
what is to come, each different from each other. Now, notice that it
says 6 maps and only 5 are given... that is because St. Germain and
the Great White Brotherhood have stated (through Lori) that we will
write the 6th map. They say it is up to humanity. I like this.. it
echos my believe that we have choice. 
Also there are places on the
maps where there are what she/they call "Golden Cities" that will be
there in the future. If any of you are interested, I'd be happy to
roll out the beast, and look up where the golden cites are
located...perhaps there is a connection to Hollow Earth entrances??
(thinking out loud here ;-)).
Also, here is another good article on channeling if anyone is
interested. I realize that not all will accept this (and that is fine
by me), but I like that he (Lee Carroll) has given guidelines of sorts
to watch for.
MaTa
(from Ralph)...
Here's an article by Lori Toye on channeling. She has the I am America Maps out showing how the earth will look after a pole shift. She was freatured on Ancient Prophecies
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Ralph (from Dick Fojut)... Amazing how many subjects keep popping up, which I am very familiar with. I just read Lori Toye's interview at the above URL. Interesting. Suggest others read it too. Some personal comments....
I met Lori Toye earlier this year in Tucson. She was interviewed by Ted Loman on his public access cable TV program, "Off The Record." A charming woman. But I have mixed emotions about her, and her maps. In other words I have doubts. Why?
Strangely absent from her comments in the URL article is any mention of the ORIGIN of the "I AM Presence" teachings in America under the guidance of Saint Germain, the Chicago I AM movement. Lori Toye gives the impression that all this only started with her after a few individuals she named got her on track.
.But the Chicago I AM movement in the 1930s was THE original.
"Godfre Ray King," (the adopted name of a former Spiritualist minister) had been chosen by Saint Germain to be the Messenger for the Masters of the Great White Brotherhood. Through him Saint German and other Masters gave many inspiring DISCOURSES.
Some of those publicly spoken discourses were published as books. In 1951, a psychic lady I knew and respected suggested I read some of the books. I did. Some of the 'flowery" words used turned me off at first. But the more I read of those DISCOURSES the more my inner senses informed me this was first rate, "QUALITY" information. By "Quality" I mean that possessing that something that has a ring of Truth in it. That "Quality" that indicates one should pay attention to it.
I won't bother you with details, but what I believe to be my first real inner contact with my Higher Self, my "I AM Presence," soon turned on in volume. It changed my life forevermore. So understand I have the HIGHEST regard for this teaching, no matter what other reservations I later formed about various I AM messengers. It was clearly evident the teaching in the original Chicago I AM Discourses aimed to get EACH reader or listener tuned in to his or her own inner I AM Presence. The "message" not the messenger, was the importance. (That same kind of ring of truth exists in the Seth discourses that came through Jane Roberts)
Before 1951 the Chicago I AM movement leader had died. His surviving wife survived continued the movement, taking over as the new Messenger. I had no interest in "joining" their organization, but later bought several of the books containing DISCOURSES given by her. Similar words and phrases were there... but to me, they seemed WITHOUT that special quality evident in the Discourses given earlier by her husband. Empty. Not "real." Lacking that ring of "truth" one can sense.
During the late 1960s and early 1970s a new I AM Messenger arose separate from the Chicago organization. Mark Prophet (at one time apparently involved in the Chicago I AM movement, but out west) started the "SUMMIT LIGHTHOUSE."
My wife and I read some of his I AM discourses books. I found them lacking that magic something "quality" in the original Chicago I AM discourses. But in 1973 we decided to join and take a better look. Just after joining, Mark Prophet died and his young wife CLAIRE PROPHET took over as the Messenger for the Masters.
We went to a Summit Lighthouse retreat in Colorado that year. Claire Prophet, like Lori Toye, was a charming and pretty woman, a fine inspirational speaker. But again, her discourses left me with an empty feeling... that something QUALITY of truth and meaning seemed absent. With Claire Prophet, the members carried on endless repetitive I AM DECREES spoken out loud in a group. In unison. Rather than each uttering a DECREE (an inner call to ones Presence) one or twice, sending it forth powerfully with DEEP FEELINGS OF EMOTION, "feelings" of Certainity, (as was taught in the original Chicago I AM Discourses), the Summit members seemed only concerned with speaking the decree words, all decided by Mrs. Prophet, over and over and over again as fast as they could, racing - without emotion. Automatic, robotic. Without "feeling." Without power and inner meaning. And Claire Prophet, the messenger was "glorified." Members considered her a "Saint," a living Master. And the Ascended Masters regularly made a lot of predictions and prophecies through Claire Prophet that failed to happen. We eventually dropped our membership. (Last year Claire Prophet got Alzheimers, is being totally cared for, and the movement is just hanging on without her.)
Lori Toye... I don't know for sure, but because she is too young, Lori Toye is unlikely to have been associated with Chicago I AM movement people. I do suspect Lori Toye was once interested in, or temporarily a member of the later Summit Lighthouse, who, not enchanted by Caire Prophet, decided to go off on her own and become another self-elected Messenger of Saint Germain. But this time with an odd new "twist;" the "I AM AMERICA MAPS" of coming catastrophes.
I've looked over her I AM AMERICA maps. They appear to be largely based on what we're each familiar Edgar Cayce predicted, with parts of other peoples' maps thrown in (like Gordon Michael Scallion's), and some additional details of her own. From what I perceive, Lori Toye's fans place great importance on her maps because they truly believe the maps have come from Saint German and the other Masters of the Great White Brotherhood. If Lori Toye had started out channeling messages and maps from her "inner self," or an unnamed "spirit guide" or "Captain IGOR" of the "Galactic Federation," do you think many people would have paid attention? Doubtful.
I do not know what Lori Toye is "teaching" her followers. Do any of you? I'd like to know. Is she spending any of her time instructing people HOW to get in contact with their own I AM Presence, get their own guidance from their inner self? So far I haven't detected her doing so. Instead, she seems, like Claire Prophet, to want people to qualify her prophecies and maps as important BECAUSE they come from respected Saint Germain and the White Brotherhood. At present I don't get that feeling of "quality" from what I've so far heard and read from her... and especially not from those fear-instilling catastrophic maps. The combination of the preceding perceptions causes me to DOUBT her and the value of her messages. But I may be mistaken.
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Stop reading here unless you're interested in some incredible history about the Chicago I AM movement...
During world war 2 in the 1940s, Russia had become our "ally" against Germany. FDR (serving his behind the scene Marxist advisors) decided to punish and shut up any public voices in America speaking out against Communism and Soviet Russia. Quite unconstitutionally, he began "THE GREAT SEDITION TRIALS." (for the good of the country in the war effort, of course!). A number of individuals and leaders of organizations including the CHICAGO I AM movement were arrested and put on trial in Washington. Perhaps only coincidentally, but most of those arrested were spiritual teachers. ( a couple of those individuals sickened and died in jail cells before coming to trial) In many I AM DISCOURSES, the Masters regularly warned against the evil of international Communism.
Also arrested was WILLIAM DUDLEY PELLEY, a former hard nosed reporter who after a near death experience ("7 minutes in Eternity") found his formerly unsuspected psychic and clairvoyant powers opened up wide. He started a national spiritually based organization in Noblesville, Indiana. Pelley was a prolific, brilliant speaker and writer. I have many of his amazing books (all written with good humor) that rival anything published by other seers in recent decades. He also knew the dangers of Communism from both inner sources and from his former experience as a reporter...
At the same time my father was serving as an ambulance driver with the allies fighting the Bolsheviks at Archangel in Russia (end of WW1), Pelley, as a war correspondent, was a friend of the officers who knew precisely who the Bolsheviks and their leaders were. And he wrote about it later! Unfortunately for Pelley, just before and during the early part of WW2, he had franchised independent patriotic groups around the country. With one of them in California some Germans got in control and were using it for pro-Germany propaganda. Using that as their excuse, and for speaking out against Communism, FDR and the government arrested Pelley.
The government had no real evidence of "sedition" against any of those arrested and eventually all (still alive) were released. But FDR went ahead and illegally "punished" each of them. For example, The Chicago I AM movement was FOREVER forbidden to use the U.S. Mai! From that day forth (and continuing in the 1950s) all their books and literature had to be shipped by truck delivery. Pelley was restricted to living in Noblesville, Indiana for the rest of his life! Leave and he would immediately be sent to prison. Pelley died in the 60s (I think) in Noblesville which he never left since the Sedition Trial in the 1940s.
Dick,
I want to thank you for this post. Very wise words indeed! The most
important lesson is to follow our own inner guidance.
I too have read the I AM discourses and they have truly been the
foundation of my belief system ever since. The lessons in those books
withstand the tests of time...they are as powerful and true today as
they were back in the 30s. This to me, is the best 'indicator' or test
of today's channeler's works. Will the information that they give NOW
withstand and hold true years later?
I realize that we are entering a new beginning so to speak and there
will be new information presented in new ways,,, but I truly believe
that it will be available to all.. everyone will be able (and can now)
access this knowledge. This is the message that my higher self tells
me, and the messengers of today (to me) should be conveying this.
As for Lori Toye - I bought the maps and a couple of the books (I'm a
curious one :-)) and my opinion on them is basically this.. the maps
are 'possibilites'.. not necessarily 'probabilities' and perhaps they
serve a purpose there in 'opening up some eyes' and getting some to
wake up. For me, I tend to run the other way when something is
predicted and is presented in such a way that you are waiting for the
messenger to tell you more. We need not be followers... we need to be
our very own leaders....listening within to what our own powerful I AM
selves are saying. (My humble opinion there )
I also tend to run from messages that are fear based, ones that say
"this is a safe place to live" etc. We are just beginning to realize
that we are very powerful creators and the possiblities are endless..
and this to me means that we can make choices for the better.. not the
worse.
Thank you for the history on the Chicago I AM group. This confirmed
alot for me.. I could never read the Prophet stuff...like you, it did
not hold the power that the discourses hold and there seemed (to me)
to be an element of control there. It seemed like a "follow me" type
of deal. I can't remember the complete details and correct me if I am
wrong here.. but I was told a number of years ago that The Summit
Lighthouse group basically "stole" the copyrights to some of the I AM
books because of some legal loophole??
Sorry for the ramble all (grin)!
MaTa
MaTa... Thanks for your comments. I'm delighted to learn you too appreciate and value the message of the original Chicago I AM Discourses. Haven't found anyone else similarly aware since back in the 1950s.
- Dick
Yoh
I have been following her map fantasies for sometime. As far as her
channelling it is just BS. She got her info from FBI Models that would
give survivability gradients for ABCD scenerios. Fact.
ps/lv
Ralph McCormick wrote:
Here's an article by Lori Toye on channeling. She has the I am America Maps out showing how the earth will look after a pole shift. She was freatured on Ancient Prophecies
http://paranormal.about.com/science/paranormal/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iamamerica.com%2FPages%2Ftheartofchanneling.html
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