The Rise of Channeling (Maybe It’s Not as Weird as It Sounds)
How familiar are you with the concept of channeling?
It seems to be becoming more and more prevalent in our awareness through books, social media, podcasts, and other alternative spaces where people are exploring consciousness. At its essence, channeling is the practice of receiving messages from the spirit realm through a human being - “the channel”.
There have been many widely known channels in recent decades such as Edgar Cayce, Dolores Cannon, Neale Donald Walsch, and Darryl Anka, to name a few. With the last name Channels, many have asked if I have channeling abilities and as much as I wished I did, it is simply the cool name I married into.
My first exposure to channeling came decades ago when I picked up Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch. I remember being completely absorbed by it. The idea of a man in dialogue with the Divine and the way that dialogue guided inner change… it really did something to me. That book was first published in 1995 and went on to spend 137 weeks on The New York Times Best Sellers list, which is pretty incredible when you think about it. Clearly, it struck a chord for many.
And yet, for many people, channeling still feels hard to conceive.
After all, how do you know the information is coming from a higher intelligence and not just from the channel themselves? I’ve sat with that question and landed somewhere that feels both simple and workable for me: I accept it the way I accept information from any source. I don’t put it on a pedestal. I don’t automatically dismiss it. I run it through discernment. If it feels expansive, principled, and genuinely helpful, I’ll consider it. If it feels divisive, fear-based, or destructive, I pass.
Because really… is there any source of information we can attest is the absolute truth?
Truth feels increasingly elusive these days. And whether we’re reading the news, listening to a “guru,” scrolling social media, or watching a documentary, so much of life now requires our own discernment to determine what’s right for each of us.
As a person who embraces spirituality, the idea that there is a higher intelligence and that this intelligence might be interested in communicating with us, doesn’t feel far-fetched. And when you listen to different channels, you realize the “sources” they describe are wide-ranging: archangels, past lives, the angelic realm, the Akashic Records… even galactic beings.
And lately there’s a new twist: some people say they’re experiencing a form of channeling through AI interfacing. I’m not claiming anything for sure here, I’m just noticing a cultural moment. Some users are experimenting with prompts that ask the system to go deeper, override the usual filters, and “tap the universal field of knowledge.” And some report receiving guidance that feels surprisingly wise - like it’s coming through them rather than to them. Whether that’s actually “higher intelligence,” pattern recognition, their own subconscious being reflected back… I’ll let you decide. But it’s interesting. And it raises the question: maybe channeling isn’t as rare as we think. Maybe it’s a spectrum.
In our Visionaries of 2026 Summit, one of our guest speakers, Jewels Arnes, channeled an intelligence she calls Astra Luma live during the interview. During that session, I was permitted to ask questions about my personal path, and I found the guidance genuinely transformative.
Jewels, like many working channels today, offers private sessions that can be scheduled through her website, becomingbioquantum.com. This shows that channeling isn’t just an abstract concept anymore. It’s a living, active field, with people seeking it out the way they might seek a coach, a therapist, a healer, or a spiritual advisor.
So where does that leave us?
For me, it leaves me right where I started: curious, open and discerning. I don’t think we have to “prove” channeling to make it useful. I think we only need to ask: does it elevate us? Does it ground us? Does it make us kinder, clearer, more connected, and more aligned with truth as we know it? And if so—maybe that’s enough.
In harmony,
~Delphine