What is channeling and how does it work? This is a question that is hard to answer. Every time I am asked this question I have a hard time answering it. It is difficult to describe what it is like to be a channel. Only direct experience can give a person a true idea of what channeling is and how it works. It is like describing the indescribable. Barbara Brennan says in her book Light Emerging (1993), "It is not the metaphor of reality that you use to describe this phenomenon that is important but the usefulness of the information that is gained through altered states of consciousness. I'm sure, as this phenomenon becomes more understood, we will find better metaphors with which to describe it."

Some things I can say, however, is that channeling is much like a deep sleep in which you are aware of dreams, and you are describing them as these dreams go by. When someone asks a question, visuals, emotions, thoughts, intuitive hits, words—all sorts of information appear and come into awareness. Sometimes there is a delay while the information is being collected on the inner planes. When this happens, there is nothing to do but wait for the information to formulate. Then, once thoughts and ideas are completed and the information is in, it is up to the channel to dispense the information. It is much like translating from one language into another. It feels as if someone else is speaking, and the words flow quite effortlessly. I am not aware of the process of translating, but somehow my vocabulary and knowledge of language is involved in the act of delivering the information.