Hi Andy - it's excellent that we dwell in this area a while - what's the problem with channelling as such and what's the difference between this and attuning?

You asked,

I only feel the difference is a matter of degree.

I wonder whether you consider the safeguards taught in the field of psychism to be adequate for channeling? There is cleansing, raising vibration

and being very specific about who you call on. Then there is the challenge, using specific questions to reveal the integrity of the being.

It's BECAUSE the difference is only a matter of degree that it's most essential to establish the difference. It is said, "the greatest deception is that closest to the truth". The problem being if your own higher self is not already embodied in your being, if you're not already coming from that space, then an entity can entwine with infusing energies - channelled energies. And then it's hard to untangle - I have seen this happen to people in plenty of situations.

You often see channellings expressed in such as way as to say, "I am this, or that", they speak in convoluted language with a sense of self-importance and elevation. Also if you explore, the language often causes polarity and separation - they're establishing themselves as something separate, something above - and therefore to be revered. And they often speak in absolute truths, "this is the truth". No truly evolved being would communicate that, since truth is always a perception through the lens of the observer.

In terms of channelling, the usual approach is to make oneself a completely open vessel and invite other energies in. With attunement, what you're actually do sounds similar but the effect is very different: you're inviting benevolent beings, "that have your highest interests at heart", to work with you. But not through you. They'll then come along side, or sit next to you, where they'll activate that similar frequency in you - but a frequency that is totally yours. There may or may not be telepathic exchange - but that tends to come at a much more advanced level. The first connection would most likely be attunement.

Using simple phrases or questions to ensure a malevolence doesn't enter your field, may or may not work. It can help where you're stating clearly that a being may only be accepted to connect providing it has "your highest interests at heart and the highest interests of all life". However if there's still some unconsciousness in your own field that is desiring of this connection, then the entity can simply override the statement.

I often encounter situations in people where they have some past allegiance to a group, say an intervention one, which in some way is derailing them. At a conscious level they wish to extract from the group, but at an unconscious level there's still some nostalgic loyalty or sense of heritage and roots. For example, someone who feels the genuine heartfelt pull in life, of the soul, but then continually talks themself out of it because of an interfering, channelling, group - old Annunaki for example. This group may provide useful information, useful intuitions of the field, or seemingly useful connections, but then lead you down an erroneous and debilitating path - away from the soul.

This is why in the Openhand work there is so much emphasis on integrating sovereign beingness through practical meditation and so much inquiry into what you actually feel as your own resonant truth. This is far more essential for a being to get right in the first place, than any channelling can surpass.

Well wishes

Open 🙏