I have two things to say about the channelings that I have run across to date. I am impressed. I am unimpressed.

This is what I think is going on. Under self-hypnosis, people are willing to be more bold in their statements and speculations that they would under normal circumstances. A trance is to some people what alcohol is to others. So there is a good deal of self-deception, of course. If we could be true to ourselves we would need neither.

Channeling is our most concerted effort to find our voice of salvation. The effort is impressive, and I speak as one who has found value in those voices.

I do not suppose that every channeler is a New Ager, but they could as well be from the sound of the voices. One mark of consistency of the channels is the anti-Christian tendency. Along with the tone of moral and intellectual superiority that the speaker invariably takes toward humanity, there is the also the invariable response to the inevitable question concerning Jesus. Why sure, isn't he a swell guy, in fact I ran into him just the other day down at the health club, and he sends his regards. Well, EXCUSE ME! Yes, the mice will play when the Cat is away.

Any rational person can deduce only two things from the above observation. Channeling is not always just about self-deception, and furthermore Satan is alive and well. And I go one step further. When Satan speaks, we should listen very carefully.

So what is our comrade, Mr. Satan up to? It is very simple. He is trying to make the best of a bad situation. His days are numbered, and he will accept his inevitable fate like any gentleman would, and he will get in a final riposte or two, just for old times' sake. You do have to admire that numero uno of all the good ol' boys. And it is even possible that like his brother, the Gnostic demiurge, he just don't know any better. Like a certain comic strip figure, he travels in a perpetual cloud of navel lint.

On a slightly more sophisticated assessment, channeling is proof that both nature and Satan abhor a vacuum. When God is still concealing, you can be sure that it is Satan who will be revealing. And there is one additional point on which Christians tend to be rather stupid. Not only will the anti-Christ not claim to be such, neither will he claim to be the second coming. That would give away his game. He will do precisely what Mr. Channelor does. Damnation with faint praise.

What is God waiting for? Only for Satan to help wake us up, not by what he says, but by what he does not say. It is up to us to finish what Satan has started -- the Revelation. Like the Minuteman at the Old North Bridge, I am willing to fire the first shot. Someone will fire the shot heard 'round the world of our spiritual liberation. That person will be the Second Coming, no matter who he looks like or where he comes from. That will be God's final message, His final gift. We will not refuse it, try though we might.

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rev. 5/19/97