How I Became a Channel for Michael

Whatever you may believe about trance channels, I’m probably not what you’re imagining. I don’t see spiri­tual light normally. I can’t see auras. As much as I’ve tried, doing so has never been within my capabilities.

In celebration of my birthday, I went for a session with a healing practitioner named Debbra Gill, who is a friend of mine. Because it was my birthday, I had been compiling a list on a legal pad of what I wanted to release from my life. She told me, “Bring it.” I tore the piece of paper off the pad and folded up my list, and when I arrived for my healing session, we put the folded up piece of paper on Debbra’s altar. We never opened it or looked at it. I just took my shoes off and hopped up onto her massage table fully clothed. Debbra’s works with the energy of different crystals. She strategically placed crystals on different points on my body, including my upturned hands. I closed my eyes and she started her work.

As I was laying there, I silently thought, “Release and let go. Release and let go. Release and let go.” I repeated it three times—and then I did.

Letting go was cool. I felt myself going somewhere else and knew I wasn’t there on the table anymore. And I was surrounded by all sorts of warriors. As a photographer, I am a visual person, and I need to see what is going on, which, I believe, is why my healing experience was so visual that day. One warrior would pop up and then he would vanish. Another warrior would pop up and vanish. It went on and on. The warriors wore differ­ ent garb, and I knew they were warriors I had been or known from different lifetimes.What I had wanted to release was my armor. That day, I wanted to let go of everything that armored my heart. I knew this, but I didn’t write it down on the pa­ per exactly like that. The warriors came up because they were the energy I used to fend off love and to keep me from opening my heart and being seen for who I am. They stood in the way of being loved really and truly for who I am.

As soon as the warriors would be shown to me, they would vanish into thin air. But there was one I called a Zulu warrior, who wouldn’t leave. His energy was healed and he was released later on a trip to Burma. But that day he didn’t vanish. He stubbornly remained.

That was when I looked up and realized that, wherever I was, I wasn’t lying on the table. I had left my body. I was up in a corner of the room watching me, my physical self on the table. All of a sudden everything went dark. Then, I opened my eyes and found myself looking up at Debbra and I remember saying. “That was a short hour.”

Her response was, “What? That was two hours— and while you were gone you channeled the Archangel Michael!”

I looked at her and knew it to be true. “Yeah, I know,” I said. Although I didn’t know what Michael said or what happened while I was out of my body, in my heart and soul I knew it to be true. Channeling was an aspect of the divine plan of my soul.
It was amazing!

Debbra had experienced channeling previously, and so she asked many pertinent questions: “Who are you? Why Jeff? How did you get here?” One thing Michael told her was, “Gabriel brought us to you.” It makes perfect sense, because according to research I’ve done since then, Gabriel and Michael are the two archangels that have the most interaction with humans. They were with Jesus, and Michael is Jesus’ messenger.

In case you might be feeling a bit impressed with all of this, there’s something that must be said, which is this: even though I channel the energy of Michael, I am no better or worse than anyone else. It doesn’t matter any more that I have this gift than you have your gifts. We are all equal beings on this planet. This is why I can walk through the streets of a city in Cuba or a village in Burma and feel akin to the people there. In my heart, I recognize that I am one with those people, and those people are one with me. I feel for people. Watching the news about the earthquake in Haiti in 2009 and seeing images of the destruction and pain, I felt connected to Haitians, as if their losses were my losses.

Everybody is relevant. No matter who you are and where you come from, you are relevant. You are here at this time in a body on earth for an important reason. Everybody has gifts and talents. These are diverse. But we are one. Everyone is lovable. Everybody matters. Ev­eryone has an important life purpose, a reason for be­ ing. The purpose of this book is to guide and support you in realizing yours, in understanding your gifts and talents, and knowing why you matter so very much just for being you.

We need each other if we are to succeed in our evolution. No more can we go it alone and hope for the best. Rather we grow mutually and collectively. I honor those of my companions who have helped me under­ stand my value and embrace my purpose.
The next step I took was with the assistance of my friend Brian Brennan, who was another member of Robert’s weekly meditation group. Everybody else we knew from the group was on the trip to Peru, but, like me, Brian had stayed home. He was the perfect person to offer me support. After leaving Debbra’s apartment, I phoned Brian and told him, “I channeled!” I explained the whole scene to him and, frankly, I was freaking out. He was great. He said, “Calm down. What do you need?”

I love that question. It’s always a good one to ask when you’re feeling emotionally overwhelmed. For a couple of weeks, I phoned Brian almost every single day because I was freaking out and I needed someone to talk to about it. I knew what happened was real. But I never asked, “Why me?” I was just freaking out. There are things in life that don’t require an explanation. Our feelings are one of them. That question is a good response when you or someone you know is having an in­ tense feeling. xviFirst, Brian asked me a few questions, and then he asked, “Do you want to bring in the energy again?” Oh yeah!

Debbra, Brian, and I met at a friend’s apartment and we did it. I sat on the sofa, closed my eyes, and men­ tally repeated the same thing I had on Debbra’s table: “I release and let go.” To this day, that’s exactly what I do to go into a trance every time I channel. But since then I have added, “This is not about me.”

The longest amount of time I have ever channeled in one session is between three and four hours. But it always seems as if it is an instant to me. When I open my eyes, I can see that everything I thought was real and three­dimensional is different than before. My heart is open so much to people around me that my purpose always is fully revealed to me in those moments. I know why I am here and what I am here to do.

Peace Jeff