As I walk on my path of spiritual growth, questions come up, just as they do for all of us. As I wondered how I could find the needed answers, my higher self said that I would be channeling information that would assist me on this path. How would this information come across? Would I be aware of what I was channeling, or would I be a trance channel, unconscious of what was said? I hoped I would become a conscious channel. The idea of having to listen to a tape of myself to find out what I had said was pretty amusing. Would many of us even do that? Or would we share important truths and then lack the time to listen to them?

After a few days, I started to understand how I would channel: the more I stayed in my passion and loved myself, the more easily I could achieve the energetic vibration of the information itself, allowing the energy to flow through me. Then I realized that this is what many of us are already doing. My higher self said that we have all chosen to be conscious channels: to be awake and to channel a new energy or vibration so that others can recognize that quality in themselves.

Now that I have been channeling, I can say that being a conscious channel feels like standing in an energetic gate or portal. It means vibrating highly enough to hold two realities open. There are actually many different gates, as well as different symbols and sacred geometries. Each time a person looks at a symbol, something happens inside; a little spark goes off. These sparks are one kind of gate; they are gates into one's mind that release energy or knowledge when the person is ready to receive it.

The ability to look and listen inwardly for information, as with channeling, can be improved by practicing to see auras and the Living Light Language, the Akashic Records that hold all of life's events and sensations. Just for a moment, close your eyes and put your forefingers on the outermost upper edge of your eyelids. As you do this, you will likely see colors or shapes on each side of your eyes. Bring the patterns on each side together, into the center of your vision. Keep focusing until the patterns from both sides match. This is an easy way of balancing the right and left halves of the brain, which is important in communicating with one's higher self. The more open you are to receiving any and all information that comes to you, the easier it will be to grasp the concepts and knowledge as a whole.

Once the pattern is balanced, keep focusing, and you may see geometric forms coming toward you in sheets. These are sheets of Living Light Language coming in. Be open to receiving any and all information that comes in that may be in other modalities, like spoken language or feelings. By continuing to focus, you may see through the different layers, and both the information and your experience will become holographic.

What I look for is a pure, bright, neon-blue color that feels fluid. This is how the center of creation appears to me. When information comes in, it will come as a complete concept rather than as just one piece. This is what I mean when I say that information is holographic. The more open you are to receiving any and all information that comes to you, the easier it will be to grasp the concepts and knowledge as a whole.

Seeing auras helps to open the mind in other ways. To practice, get four colored sheets of paper: red, blue, green, and yellow. They should be 81/2 x 11 or 11 x 14. For the fewest shadows, use a room that is lighted from the back and has white or light-colored walls. Stay away from florescent lighting.

Start with the red paper, having a helper put it up against the wall. Gaze at the center of the paper while letting your eyes go slightly out of focus. Do not use a hard stare. Focus for two or three minutes, then have your helper remove the paper while you continue to focus on the same spot on the wall. You should see a faint after-color, which is the complementary color of the original colored sheet of paper. Red, for example, will leave a green glow on the wall.

Continue doing the same with the other sheets of colored paper, using yellow last. This exercise retrains your eyes to see the faint color images, or auras, around people and plants. As a final exercise, have your helper put his or her hand up against the wall. You should be able to see the prana (life force) energy radiating from your helper's fingers.

The question one needs to ask is whether his or her body is energetically prepared to allow the increased energy of these techniques to flow through. Because the DNA holds all the knowledge of the universe, one can find the answer to this question within. I believe that outside information can sometimes keep us from knowing our own truths, so I try to keep the wisdom of all the information I have gathered but let go of the rigid structure that limits my capacity to allow new truths to come in.

Keeping this in mind, a person can more easily see if she or he is ready to communicate with these high energies. If not, the solution is remaining in one's passion and loving oneself, for by doing so, anyone can raise his or her personal energy, and as the vibrations rise within, these energies will channel through ever more easily.