Channeling Your Higher Self by Edgar Cayce

* The mind has the capability of giving a shape or a pattern to energy. Although this may sound somewhat strange to us, these thought creations or thought forms are very real and continue to exist even after the thought has left conscious awareness....Whenever "attunement" is achieved, a variety of experiences may arise, including extra sensory perception, astral projection, healing and channeling.
* The psychic is OF THE SOUL...The psychic operates through faculties of perception, whether hearing, seeing, feeling, or any portions of the sensory system...Hence ....meaning the expression of the material world of the latent, or hidden sense of the soul and spirit forces, whether maifested from behind, or in and through the material plane.
*The soul has a constant impulse to express itself..
* We can have psychic experiences involving the astral level, in which we attune ourselves to another person's thought form creations which are at that same level.
*Most sensory talents, including the "sixth sense", involve aspects of the soul.
*Psychic abilities...lie dormant or active in every individual, and await only that awakening or arousing, or the development under those environs that make the accentuation of same in the individual....Awakening this dormant talent is not so much a matter of increasing its activity as of increasing our awareness of our use of it...The psychic information we could channel will be affected by how we live our lives and by the type of thoughts we entertain about ourselves and the world. IF we develop sensitivity but live negatively, that sensitivity could turn on us and bite us.
*People who die do not realize for a while what has happaned. Having discarded their flesh bodies, they may be experiencing in their finer physical bodies, yet they continue to try to contact or affect the three-dimentional, material world...Even though they may not have flesh bodies, the creative function of the mind is still operative and thought forms are created. These thought forms can potentially be picked up telepathically by a receiver, just as can be done in more traditional telepathy experiments.
*It is recommended that we seek guidance from the Divine within ourselves rather than from some outside source.
*Everything within the scope of what affects our body, mind and heart -- will develop in us the abilities to be in closer attunement with the Infinite.
*Not even God knows what we will choose; however, through our past choices we have created strong likelihoods, or probabilities, that specific future experiences will come about.
*Mystic is as the spirit, while the psychic is the soul, the occult is the mind.
*Channels vary like radio receivers. While a good radio picks up clear signals from distant places as well as nearby, a cheap receiver picks up a lot of distortion and static and gets only signals nearby. A good channel picks up clearer messages coming from a greater distance -- i.e. from the higher spiritual planes.
*(when seeking a guide/channeler -- ask yourself): Is it helping your spiritual growth or is it just entertaining?

c. 1989 Warner Books (reprint)