Third Generation Channeling

To better understand the sources of channeling information and how channeling has evolved over the last 100 years, I constructed what I am calling a first-, second- and third-generation channeling model. I am using the technical product analogy where each subsequent generation of the product is improved over the earlier ones. Now this idea of first-, second- and third-generation channeling is a construct of mine for this blog. If you go back to the beginning of humanity, we are probably on at least the thousandth generation.

Here is my construct: In the last 100 years we have had Edgar Cayce as the first- generation in the first part of the 20th century; Seth by Jane Roberts and others in the 70s and 80s as 2nd- generation channeling sources; and now a new group in the 1990s and early 2000s that I am calling the third generation. Examples of 3rd- generation sources are Abraham and Kryon. They are channeled by Esther Hicks and Lee Carroll respectively.

What is different with the third- generation channels is that channeling is done with the human in an awaken state. It was quite different in the Cayce channeling: he was in a trance, sleeping state and was known as the sleeping prophet. Also, the third generation message is clearer and easier to understand; it is in present day English. Its messages are crafted for our time and culture. It acknowledges our state of spiritual awareness and the evolution of spiritual consciousness. Because of our spiritual growth, we are being provided with higher spiritual concepts, teachings and practices.

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