Category Channeled

Most of us carry a small private collection of moments we never quite explained. The shiver that crossed the shoulders at a graveside. The song that came on in the car at exactly the right moment. The friend who phoned an hour after we dreamed about them. We usually file these under coincidence, partly because it is the polite thing to do and partly because nobody ever handed us another folder to put them in...

Almost everyone who has lost someone has done it. A few quiet words at a graveside, a name spoken into the dark before sleep, a silent "I hope you're at peace" while washing the dishes. Most of us do it without deciding to, and most of us wonder afterwards whether anything we said actually went anywhere.

For most of my adult life, anyone who spoke openly about non-human intelligence risked being quietly filed under "crank". That changed on 26 July 2023, when a former intelligence officer testified before a US House oversight subcommittee and, under oath, described what he had been told about a decades-long crash retrieval programme...

Every few months another teacher steps forward promising to reveal what the "watcher" in you truly is. Eckhart Tolle calls it presence. Rupert Spira calls it awareness knowing itself. Both point at the same quiet fact: behind every thought, feeling, and sensation, there is something...

Professional mediums build entire careers on the claim that the veil between the living and the dead is thin enough to cross. Yet ask almost any working medium about the Ouija board, the cardboard "talking board" sold in the toy aisle of every big box store, and the answer is nearly always the same....

There is a difference between the words of someone who is dying and the words of someone who has already died. The dying speak from inside fear, still bargaining with a body that is shutting down. The dead, according to the mediums who claim to hear from them, speak from somewhere past that fear altogether, looking back at an entire lifetime the way you might look back at a film you already know the ending to.

There's a reason certain stories never let us go. You watch them once as a kid, and decades later you're still quoting lines, still feeling something stir when the music swells. That's not nostalgia...

In the late nineteenth century, a Russian-born mystic managed to unite Catholic clergy, Anglican bishops, and American revival preachers in a single shared conviction: that her writing on Jesus was dangerous. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky did not deny Christ. Denial would have been unremarkable in an age of confident materialism. What she did was stranger...

There are moments in a conversation when the air shifts. When something older and vaster than the words being spoken seems to lean in. That is the experience many people describe when they encounter the work of Amanda Ellis, a UK-based spiritual teacher, medium, and colour therapist who has spent nearly two decades channelling one of the most complex and powerful figures in the angelic hierarchy: Archangel Metatron.