Trance Channeling in the 19th Century
Mrs. J. H. Conant (Frances Ann Crowell 1831-1875) The expression 'ascended master' is something of an enigma in relation to the ways an entity such as Ramtha is different from other transcendental communicators. I'm not aware if there are other channelers who have described the channeling process as JZ Knight has in her autobiography A State of Mind, My Story (1987): "I was racing or flowing down a tunnel, but I couldn't see the sides. I just remember that there appeared to be a wind taking me toward a brilliant light at the other end of the tunnel." Trance mediums in earlier centuries wrote about being in a state of trance, sleep or unconsciousness while other personalities spoke through them. Ramtha was quoted by JZ as having told her: ". . . you will bloom completely into that which is termed a channel. Be it known, not that which be a medium — there are rivers of consciousness in difference between them." In Biography of Mrs. J...