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LOSING SOMETHING TO GAIN SOMETHING OF
GREATER VALUE
How My Channeling Work Began
Dr. Bella Karish
(Note: Bella Karish made the transition on November 3, 2007)
There is something special that I want to tell you. Until
I was fifty years old, I was a very normal, materialistic musician and typist,
and I worked in the Los Angeles County Superior Court in the legal offices. I
was married and had two children. I was a very busy, very normal, “square”
person.
I want to show you how Spirit works. At the age of forty-nine, my husband left
me, my legal job at the Superior Court was done, and I faced a major operation.
I was very tense and heavily impacted by everything.
A friend of mine said, “Let’s go and see a very fine hypnotist I know, who takes
you back into past lives—regresses you—and he can take you back to find out what
is happening to you.” That was Greek to me. Anyway, I said, “Fine, I’ll try
anything that may help.”
So we went to a private home where I met the hypnotist.
In the act of regressing me through hypnosis, he sent me to a cave which I
refused to enter, and he said to one of the people there who was also going to
be regressed, “This woman has a psychological problem which I’m not able to
handle, but when she goes home she’ll have a dream and know why she didn’t enter
the cave.”
In a dream that night, I saw my ex-husband clothed in a bear skin, hiding in the
cave, and holding a huge spiked club, intending to beat me. I wasn’t going to go
into that cave to be beaten— again!
When I came out of that dream, I had lost my voice and had developed what is
medically called a “strangulated voice” due to emotion and stress. Many people
have developed such a voice after experiencing extreme stress. This voice
impairment was a horrible thing to me because I was trying to get a job to
support my children and myself, and now I could barely speak.
I began to look for someone to help me, and in doing so, I went to a group party
where there was a man who, after hearing me speak, said, “I want you to come to
my place, because you are someone that I recognize from my work with Edgar
Cayce.”
In meeting this man, I realized that I lost my old voice to find this new
voice! Even though my “new” voice was not very good, I was able to do
counseling and therapy with it. (This was before I knew anything about the Three
Selves work.)
And through this man, who was a very fine teacher, I became involved with the
Spirit of Edgar Cayce. Edgar Cayce’s Spirit, which spoke through me, said, “You
cannot use my name, but I will be part of your channeling, and you can call me
Eternal Cosmos, or E.C.”
So even though I had no training, I didn’t have to go to school or to any kind
of group action to learn how to be a Channel. I sat down and there was my
Teacher.
With help from my friend and Mentor Wayne Guthrie, who became a part of my life
after I had started to channel E.C., Wayne and I began to move toward the Three
Selves work that we now do. In that work, we tune into the memory bank of the
Subconscious Minds of people to see why they chose to enter this lifetime, why
they are here, and why they have chosen certain parents, siblings, mates, and
actions within their karmic contract.
Now, many people, not knowing or accepting the reality of karma, cry, moan, and
groan about how bad their life is, or ask what’s wrong with their life , without
recognizing that their experiences are based on the karma they chose to come in
with and to handle during this lifetime.
Through the Three Selves work, we are able to place this kind of information
before people, to help them understand their lives as an “adventure,” with
challenges that are not bad, but good in the long run. Because when you finish
the karmic challenges in this lifetime, you don’t have to come back to repeat
them again.
I just wanted you to know that Spirit chooses us, we do not choose Spirit.
Spirit knows us and is with us. In my life, they waited for the point in time
when I became fifty years old before I was opened as an instrument for Spirit.
So you can see how I really had an adventure!
Q: What happens when you are channeling and you close your eyes and the
Teacher is there?
Bella: I’ve never seen what my teacher looks like, because he sits in
me—I’m an instrument. He enters me, he protects me, and if there is any kind of
disturbance, that is, if a bell rings, something drops, or something that’s not
good threatens me, he immediately brings me back to my conscious state.
I never have seen him. Other people have, but I haven’t. From my point of view,
it is similar to having a tape recorder, where you press a button and a voice
comes out, but you don’t see the person speaking, you only hear the voice from
the instrument.
Q: Often, people ask me, “You mean I really chose that situation before I
came into life?” Their question really is: Is it the personality, the Spirit, or
the Subconscious Minds [Basic Selves] that make that choice? What part of the
personality chooses us and the situations we face, Bella?
Bella: The High Self chooses the Subconscious Minds, which are present at
conception. The Subconscious Minds contain a memory bank which holds all the
memories of everything you’ve been or that you are and that you’re going to be,
and the High Self shows the contract to the Subconscious Minds for them to
accept or reject.
Within the contract, the parents are chosen for their strengths and their
weaknesses, which the Subconscious Minds and the Conscious Mind work with—to use
the strengths and to overcome the weaknesses. Many people blame their parents
for whatever happens to them. No way! You chose them to do exactly what they’ve
done—even if it’s beating, even if it’s cruelty, because somewhere in your
past-life pattern you have been that cruel person, and this lifetime you
have chosen to learn what it feels like.
I don’t view situations like that as being negative. If you would take a person
who has harmed someone and instead of putting them into jail, make them
experience what they’ve done to the other person, they won’t be likely to do it
to anyone else. So from my point of view, you have to learn through experience
in the past or the present, in order to be able to move into the future.
Hypnotherapy—not hypnotism, but hypnotherapy—can do that. It’s very wonderful,
because the violator experiences the crime being done to them. It is not the
hypnotist that gives the violator the answers. It is the actual violator that
does so. Many times, it helps the person to know why things are happening to
them.
Let me give you a personal example, about a mother who pinched her child when he
did something wrong. I remember that in my childhood, a little boy—the child of
a friend—kept pinching me to the point that I was black and blue. My mother told
his mother to pinch him when he pinched me. Now, if a doctor were to hear that,
the doctor might say, “That’s horrible,” but that boy stopped pinching me
because he’d been pinched, and he too was black and blue! But, you see,
many psychiatrists don’t accept that approach, however I have experienced it and
I know it works! When you feel for yourself a negative action that you did to
someone else, you’re not as apt to do it again. That seems to me to help people
who do these negative things to stop doing them.
This essay originally appeared in the Fellowship’s publication “Uniguidance”
(4th quarter 1992).
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