Latest / The Psychic Explorer / Trance Channeling, Spirit Guides & Letting Monty Speak | Kim Charlson 🔮
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- 0:08Hello everyone and welcome to this February guest
- 0:11episode of the Psychic Explorer. How are you?
- 0:15I know I overused the word interesting, so forgive
- 0:18me, but today's episode is exactly that. Last
- 0:22month I spoke to Rob Lomax and he was talking
- 0:24to me about how he channels parts of his soul
- 0:27who are having experiences in different parts
- 0:29of the universe. Today's guest is Kim Charleston.
- 0:33Kim is a semi -conscious trance channeler. But
- 0:36instead of channeling galactic beings, Kim channels
- 0:39her spirit guide, Monty. Now I know this episode
- 0:43and the last guest episode are fairly similar
- 0:46in sort of themes and topics, but once you hear
- 0:49this episode, I think you'll agree, they're two
- 0:51different aspects of the same coin, I guess you
- 0:56could say. And don't worry, if you're sat there
- 0:59thinking, oh, this is now turning into a trance
- 1:01podcast, it's not the case. It's just how the
- 1:04scheduling has worked out. Part of the reason
- 1:07I wanted to put Kim's episode out in February
- 1:09was because of Valentine's Day. For me at least,
- 1:12Valentine's symbolizes partnership. This doesn't
- 1:15have to be the romantic side of partnership.
- 1:17This can be the everyday, not relying but leaning
- 1:21on someone. And for me at least, this is how
- 1:23I sort of see Kim's relationship with her spirit
- 1:26guide, Monty. She has such a close connection
- 1:29to him that she can channel him effortlessly,
- 1:33it seems. It's taking her a long time to get
- 1:36to the stage, but it's really fascinating to
- 1:40see the dynamics between her and Monty. Now,
- 1:44prior to, during and after this recording, I
- 1:46have to ask myself, does... the concept of spirit
- 1:49guides resonate with me and I have to be honest
- 1:51no I don't seem to have much conscious connection
- 1:56to any sort of spirit team that I may or may
- 1:59not have I'm sure I do but I don't have that
- 2:02connection at least not the connection that most
- 2:04people in the spiritual world seem to I hear
- 2:08the term spirit guide banded about quite a bit
- 2:10and I have to I have to be honest when I hear
- 2:13people say my spirit guide told me this my spirit
- 2:15guide told me that I have questioned in the past
- 2:19is that just your inner self giving you permission
- 2:25to say or do something you may not have the confidence
- 2:27to do yourself but during this conversation with
- 2:29Kim it's made me realize that actually this whole
- 2:32concept of spirit team and spirit guys I've been
- 2:35holding far away from me like a third -party
- 2:38object something that revolves around me or is
- 2:41around me but I don't have any direct interaction
- 2:44with And in this conversation, Kim talks quite
- 2:47explicitly that we are constantly channelling,
- 2:50whether it is spirit guys, whether it is soul,
- 2:53whatever it is. If someone is being guided by
- 2:57something within them, who am I to say where
- 2:59that comes from? And I thank Kim because she's
- 3:02really broadened my horizon on this whole theme
- 3:04and topic. I had first come across Kim Charlson
- 3:08on Hilly Bee's podcast, Opening the Door. Kim
- 3:12was talking to Hailey about channeling her spirit
- 3:16guides, she was talking about the concept of
- 3:18spirit guide and I was already not uncomfortable
- 3:22but uncertain of that whole concept and then
- 3:26coupled that with the term trance I was like
- 3:29boom my mind was absolutely blown. I am really
- 3:33glad that I listened to Kim's episode because
- 3:35as I was listening Although it didn't sit with
- 3:38me personally, it did make a lot of sense the
- 3:42concepts that she was talking about. Suddenly
- 3:44something was clicking in my mind thinking, ah,
- 3:46like that makes sense to me. I reached out to
- 3:50Kim on Instagram and threads and we got chatting
- 3:52and I plucked up the courage to invite her on
- 3:55and wonderfully Kim said yes. During this conversation
- 3:59you'll hear Kim pause and give way to Monty.
- 4:03She channels him through her voice and you'll
- 4:05hear the difference. It's not this strange squeaky
- 4:08voice or this deep baritone of a guy. It's just
- 4:11a slightly different intonation than what Kim
- 4:14normally uses. This is a very open and honest
- 4:17conversation about Kim's experience, which I
- 4:20love. I think that's really important to have
- 4:22those sort of conversations around these topics
- 4:24because it's something that myself, maybe you,
- 4:26maybe many other people haven't yet formed their
- 4:29belief systems around. Right, shall we get to
- 4:33it? Before we do that, very, very quickly, a
- 4:35big thank you to Kim and a big apology to Kim.
- 4:38When I recorded this, I had a hacking cough and
- 4:40I was blessed that she had to put up with me
- 4:42coughing down the line to her. I don't know why
- 4:44I didn't use the mute button. On top of that
- 4:46there were a myriad of technical problems. It
- 4:48was recorded in the height of summer so I had
- 4:50my windows open and there were sounds of bears
- 4:52swooping outside which were distracting for both
- 4:54of us. So a big thank you and a big apology to
- 4:58Kim for such a chaotic recording. But I'm really
- 5:01happy with what we've got now. So I present to
- 5:03you the fabulous Kim Charleston. Kim Charlson,
- 5:17welcome, welcome, welcome to my little podcast.
- 5:19How are you? I am doing so well and I'm really
- 5:22excited to be here with you, Matt, and to get
- 5:24into everything about channeling. Well, this
- 5:27is an interesting one for me. I became aware
- 5:30of you, Kim, on your interview with or from your
- 5:33interview with Hayley B on her podcast, Opening
- 5:35the Door. We've been chatting back and forth
- 5:37and I'm really interested because your perspective,
- 5:41and I mean this with love and respect, but Your
- 5:44perspective doesn't naturally sit with me. Does
- 5:48that make sense? Yes. And it's even different
- 5:51within the channeling space too. I'm in a very
- 5:55unique position that a lot of people who are
- 5:58more traditional psychics and mediums feel very
- 6:01uncomfortable with channeling, which I totally
- 6:03understand. And then a lot of people who are
- 6:06very into channeling... also have a lot of issues
- 6:09that I'm a very grounded person and have a very
- 6:14specific perspective of why we should channel,
- 6:17how we should channel, the accountability and
- 6:19discernment that should go into it that I feel
- 6:21a lot of other channels may be lacking. The more
- 6:24I explore on this little path of mine, the more
- 6:27concepts which don't necessarily sit with me
- 6:30or resonate with me. I'm not, the more I do that,
- 6:35I'm less likely to sort of dismiss them. And
- 6:36I want to investigate them. I want to explore
- 6:39them just so that I can understand them just
- 6:42that little better. I love that perspective.
- 6:45And I will say, like, even though I'm a channeler
- 6:48now, six years ago, I would have laughed at this
- 6:50and said, well, that person's just... off their
- 6:53rocker. I was not a woo -woo person. You said
- 6:57it, not me. Oh, no, I'm fully aware. I'm fully
- 7:01aware of that a lot of channeling is, is that
- 7:04my subconscious. Am I making this up? Am I just
- 7:08losing my mind? Like, that's a lot of what channeling
- 7:10is about. So I know you have more questions,
- 7:12so I'll let you guide this discussion. No, no,
- 7:15no. As you're speaking, I'm being reminded the
- 7:17first time I'd ever come across this concept
- 7:19of trance channeling. Actually, it was more trance
- 7:22mediumship, and it was on a Netflix documentary
- 7:24called Life After Death. Not the Tyler Henry
- 7:26one. There's another one on there called Life
- 7:29After Death. I don't know if you saw it, but
- 7:31I was watching, and there was this Dutch woman
- 7:33on there, and she was channeling this spirit
- 7:34called Tommy, and she opened her mouth. This
- 7:37squeaky little voice came out of her, and I watched
- 7:40it, and I was almost embarrassed. I was like,
- 7:41oh my God, what is going on? It was too strange,
- 7:44to be real. It was too bizarre. Your bullshit
- 7:47meter starts to go off. I don't know about bullshit
- 7:50meter, but it was just so bizarre. I think that's
- 7:53normal, though. I think that's entirely normal
- 7:55because, you know, there is... a certain inclination,
- 8:00and for the listeners that don't know what we're
- 8:01talking about first, so transmediumship or trans
- 8:04-channeling, they are slightly different. Trans
- 8:06-channeling is when you go into either a semi
- 8:09-conscious state or a completely unconscious
- 8:11state and you allow another spirit to take possession
- 8:14of your body and speak through you and express
- 8:16through you. Transmediumship, the difference
- 8:19is it's a person that's recently passed instead
- 8:22of what we would consider like a higher perspective,
- 8:25a higher vibrational consciousness. And I think
- 8:29the reason why we are so leery of saying, yeah,
- 8:34this is totally legitimate is because there's
- 8:38no way to prove it. Unlike mediumship where you
- 8:42can say, oh, you know, your grandmother loved
- 8:44to cook this, and I'm getting a sense of this,
- 8:47and she lived on such and such street of having
- 8:49that evidential mediumship. We don't have that
- 8:51in channeling whatsoever. It is purely based
- 8:53off of trust and understanding, hey, that message
- 8:56really resonates with me. There's something for
- 8:58me there. It's interesting because you've gone
- 9:00through that process of questioning already.
- 9:04Before we started recording, you were even saying,
- 9:06you know, when this started happening to you,
- 9:08you were thinking, Is this real? Am I making
- 9:11this up? Oh, I thought I'd lost my mind the first
- 9:14time it happened. And like the very first time
- 9:18that I voice channeled, it happened spontaneously,
- 9:20which is very rare. Most channelers do it in
- 9:23a more intentional way. And for me, I was trying
- 9:28to do an energy healing session on my husband
- 9:30and felt this energy and wanted to bring it through
- 9:32my body and and transfer it to him to move the
- 9:36block. And it ended up wanting to speak through
- 9:38me. And in the moment after it was over, I was
- 9:42like, what even was that? Did I just make that
- 9:46up? Are these things that I wish I could say
- 9:49to him about his energy and his block, even though
- 9:52they don't really resonate with me? Like, is
- 9:53this my subconscious coming through? What even
- 9:56was that? And it was only because I had a really
- 10:01deep relationship with my own energy healer and
- 10:03told her what had happened. And she was like,
- 10:05oh, yeah. This is channeling, and my husband
- 10:08had had a conversation with his spirit guide
- 10:10that was the one that came through. Otherwise,
- 10:12I would have brushed it off and just said, well,
- 10:14that was really strange. I'm not going down that
- 10:16path. So he was able to recognize that what you
- 10:20were saying was valid because he had had that
- 10:22conversation already privately. Yeah, he is someone
- 10:26that is very connected to his spirit team. And
- 10:29frankly, his connection makes me jealous, which
- 10:31is funny coming from me that I can allow my spirit
- 10:33to speak through me. But every single day, he
- 10:36talks with them first thing in the morning. And
- 10:38he has the relationship with them where they're,
- 10:40you know, kind of piping in all the time. And
- 10:42it had a conversation with this guide earlier
- 10:44that day. And he always takes notes. on his phone
- 10:47every morning of what they have to say. And he
- 10:49said, look, look at my phone. This is what they
- 10:51said. That is just what you said. This is a continuation
- 10:55of that same conversation. And I was completely
- 10:58unaware. of what he had gotten from his spirit
- 11:01guides that morning. If that had not happened,
- 11:04I would have said, well, this is just some strange
- 11:06occurrence. I must just be under a lot of stress
- 11:08and just feel like this was something I needed
- 11:11to say that had not recognized. And that's I
- 11:14feel like what often happens when people are
- 11:17tapping into their intuitive abilities as they
- 11:20write it off, because it's so easy to to do that
- 11:23because we live in such a logical world that
- 11:26prioritizes logic to such a high degree that
- 11:30anything that comes in through an intuitive sense,
- 11:33whether it's as far down the road as channeling
- 11:36or it's something as simple as just kind of a
- 11:37weird feeling in your stomach, you're kind of
- 11:39like, is that just something I'm making up? Because
- 11:43it's not logical. We can't follow that logic.
- 11:47OK, so let's go back to basics on spirit guys
- 11:50and Kim. In your opinion, what or who are spirit
- 11:55guides? Because I've never felt that need to
- 11:57be able to contact that side of my spirituality.
- 12:00So in your opinion, what or who are these entities?
- 12:05Yeah, so your spirit guides are a group of souls
- 12:08that are non -physical, that they may have been
- 12:11incarnate and been human or a different animal
- 12:14or not even on earth at some point in time, but
- 12:17they've decided and chosen to remain in the spirit
- 12:21realm and that they are working through their
- 12:24own soul growth and soul evolution by helping
- 12:28you on your path. And they only work with you,
- 12:32so that's why they're different than an ancestor
- 12:35that may come through mediumship, that they are
- 12:39only on your team. They don't coordinate to like
- 12:43really help anybody else. They may coordinate
- 12:45with other teams, but it's always for your purposes.
- 12:48And they generally have done a lot of spiritual
- 12:51work. And what Monte, my spirit guide, has explained
- 12:54is that there is actually kind of like an overseeing
- 12:56body over spirit guides. There is an organization
- 13:00to it that they assign different members to different
- 13:03teams Check in on their progress provide them
- 13:06with resources. So they're also supported on
- 13:09their side, but it's for you and you alone to
- 13:13Move forward in your own spiritual growth and
- 13:16then they move forward in their spiritual growth
- 13:18by being on your team. And they do that through
- 13:22unconditional love, that they love you no matter
- 13:25what mistakes you make, no matter how bad of
- 13:28a person that you think you are. Your spirit
- 13:30guides love you no matter how much of a failure
- 13:33you may believe that you are because they see
- 13:35in your essence who you really are. And they're
- 13:39the ones that are with you every second of every
- 13:41day in every lifetime you have had. And they
- 13:44continue through multiple lifetimes with you.
- 13:47I wonder also, what is their role in our lives?
- 13:51Is their role to point us in the right direction
- 13:54or to change things, to make certain things happen?
- 13:58Their role is really a support team. So they
- 14:01believe that we live in a world of choice. We
- 14:03live in a universe of choice. And they won't
- 14:06make those choices for you, but they will help
- 14:08you make those choices to make choices more in
- 14:11alignment. So they may send you nudges, they
- 14:13may send you different interactions that they
- 14:14coordinate, different synchronicities for those
- 14:17things to happen. But the most important thing
- 14:20that they do for you is that they send you that
- 14:22unconditional love and support because energetically,
- 14:26that's what they're doing all the time. And you're
- 14:28receiving it, whether or not you are open to
- 14:31it, it is coming into your energetic flow on
- 14:34a consistent basis. And for them watching us
- 14:37make all the mistakes that we make because we
- 14:38do we make tons of mistake that takes us out
- 14:41of alignment with our soul They have to learn
- 14:44to love us even still that's part of their mission
- 14:47and part of their calling is to love us even
- 14:49still and They don't get mad at us. It's really
- 14:53a supportive position and That they are there
- 14:58in the purpose of helping us in our spiritual
- 15:01growth. So it may be that something that's really
- 15:04difficult and hard and challenging for you, they're
- 15:08not going to steer you away from it because they
- 15:10can see, well, that's really going to help them
- 15:11work on these different issues that they really
- 15:14need to work through in their spiritual growth.
- 15:16And every so often, I will get like a comment
- 15:19on social media that says, well, all these horrible
- 15:21things happen in the world. So I can't believe
- 15:23in spirit guides because all of these really
- 15:27horrible things happen to children and obviously
- 15:30spirit guides would prevent those things if they
- 15:31existed but unfortunately that's not what they're
- 15:36there for they're there to support us but they're
- 15:38not to prevent bad from happening to us and in
- 15:43the same way as we experience challenges of whatever
- 15:47those are, they are there for spiritual growth.
- 15:50Now, that gets into a lot of theoretical concepts
- 15:54that I would urge listeners to think about themselves,
- 15:59of the questions of like reincarnating into really
- 16:02difficult lives, like really, really difficult
- 16:04lives, the ethics of that. A lot of times we
- 16:09also project moralism onto those things of, well,
- 16:13they deserve to be there because their energy
- 16:15is bad, or they've done that to themselves, or
- 16:19the traditions of karma, of that you did something
- 16:22in a past life that you're paying for now. What
- 16:26Monte has often talked about is that the role
- 16:28of spirit guides is one without morality. Morality
- 16:32is a human creation. So they don't have morality
- 16:36in the same way that we do, but they have unconditional
- 16:39love. And there's a really big difference between
- 16:41those two things. There is no limit to their
- 16:44love in the way that humans experience. And a
- 16:48lot of how we ascribe value to people and what
- 16:52happens to them is through a moral lens. But
- 16:56instead of having a moral lens, they have a lens
- 16:58of love is how they look upon the world. It's
- 17:00a really different perspective than what we have.
- 17:02And it's hard for us to really be able to access
- 17:05that because none of us are really capable at
- 17:10this stage in our lives and at this stage in
- 17:12our incarnation, not only to love that way ourselves,
- 17:16but also to receive that amount of love. that
- 17:18it is hard for us to really open up to that level
- 17:21of love from our spirit guides. And oftentimes
- 17:24when I am teaching people how to connect with
- 17:27their spirit guides that every quarter or so
- 17:29I offer a free class for people to connect with
- 17:31them, at least one person starts breaking down
- 17:34in tears and says, I've never felt such deep
- 17:37love like that in my life before. And it's a
- 17:39transformative experience for them. Everything
- 17:42you're saying, Kim, is resonating with me. It's
- 17:45echoing within me. My personal ethos in life
- 17:49is that we are here to learn lessons, but that
- 17:52can be hard because sometimes those lessons are
- 17:54really shit. But if you take a step back, if
- 18:01you take an objective point of view, you can
- 18:04say, yes, I had this experience and it was awful,
- 18:06but actually I still learned something from that.
- 18:08And job done, you know, I know I'm overly simplifying
- 18:11that, but I think if you just look at it objectively,
- 18:16the ethos is still valid. Yeah, and I would agree.
- 18:19And one of the funny things is Monty often talks
- 18:21about, we're not actually here to learn lessons.
- 18:24And the reason why is because lessons are like,
- 18:28there's some authority that is teaching you that.
- 18:31And that puts us into a relationship of the universe
- 18:35is above us and we're below, we're lesser than,
- 18:39and it creates hierarchies in our mind. And one
- 18:43of the things that he often talks about in channeling
- 18:46sessions that we do is you are your own authority.
- 18:51You're the authority on your own energy. And
- 18:55that's also another really different perspective
- 18:58of that, instead of saying you are being handed
- 19:00a lesson by the universe, you are creating your
- 19:02lessons for yourself. And doing that self -reflection
- 19:06of, okay, what did I get out of this, is a really
- 19:08important part of it. What an interesting concept.
- 19:12It's funny because as I say about learning lessons,
- 19:14I don't think I mean it in the way that Monty
- 19:16interprets. I don't mean it in the way of hierarchy.
- 19:20I suppose a better way of saying it would be
- 19:22rather than learning lessons, we're here to have
- 19:26experiences. That might be a better way of putting
- 19:28it. Maybe our souls are here to experience things
- 19:31that they can't experience elsewhere. And I'm
- 19:35interpreting that as a lesson when actually all
- 19:37it is is an experience. Yeah. And that's the
- 19:40word that Monty uses, is he says we're here to
- 19:42experience. And specifically what we're here
- 19:45to experience is more of our own soul's expression.
- 19:49And one of the things I've learned in channeling
- 19:51is the word choice is very specific. In the words
- 19:55that he chooses and why he says them, there are
- 19:58certain intentions behind them. And it's very
- 20:01often informed by... a very strict meaning of
- 20:06what those words mean. But then sometimes he'll
- 20:09say, okay, this word's used this way, but we're
- 20:11going to use it this way because there's not
- 20:12really a word that exists for this. So we're
- 20:14going to explain this concept in more detail,
- 20:16but we're going to continue to use this word.
- 20:18Trauma is one of those words. For him, trauma,
- 20:21we associate trauma as always something negative
- 20:24in human life. But for him, it's always too much,
- 20:28too fast, and too much energy to process in a
- 20:30single go. And it could be something positive.
- 20:33It's not always something negative, but he uses
- 20:35the word trauma to describe that, because in
- 20:39an energetic sense for him, trauma is energy
- 20:42that gets stuck in us. It could be positive energy
- 20:44that gets stuck in us, not just negative energy.
- 20:47So in channeling, we kind of... learn like the
- 20:51pattern of words is very often important. The
- 20:54word choice is very important. And I think I
- 20:56have a tendency to mince words because of that,
- 20:59because I'm like, wow, but the words matter.
- 21:02I could listen to you all day, Kim. I find what
- 21:07you say, the topics that you and Monty explore,
- 21:10there are so many layers in what or how you explore
- 21:14and what you say on these different topics. I
- 21:17feel really privileged being able to listen to
- 21:19you live. But I'd really like to know a bit more
- 21:21about your experience, Kim. You spoke earlier
- 21:24on about how you first channeled. But can we
- 21:28take a step back? Were you always spiritual?
- 21:31Were you always woo woo? Were you more corporate?
- 21:34What's your background? So I laugh because I
- 21:38was so not a woo woo person. And in fact, I own
- 21:44a marketing agency and years and years ago we
- 21:46worked on a website that was a directory for
- 21:50healers of all different types of energy healers,
- 21:53Akashic record readers. And that was my first
- 21:56exposure to a lot of these different concepts
- 21:58was doing SEO research to help this website rank.
- 22:02And I was like, who in the world pays for...
- 22:05an Akashic reading, like what even is this? How
- 22:08do you even say this word? I couldn't even say
- 22:10the word Reiki because I didn't know how it's
- 22:11pronounced. So for me, like I had absolutely
- 22:16no woo. I was not raised in a woo -woo family,
- 22:19didn't know anything about psychics, work, tarot,
- 22:23any of occult stuff whatsoever. I was raised
- 22:26in a Christian household, but my dad is recovering
- 22:29Catholic and my mom is a Recover King Episcopalian.
- 22:32So we were in a hippie dippy church where there
- 22:35were literal rainbows painted on the walls. Excellent.
- 22:38That's a church I can get on board with. Yeah.
- 22:42I mean, I was a very love and light and it's
- 22:44a super liberal church. They actually sued the
- 22:46state of South Carolina to legalize gay marriage.
- 22:49It's a completely different experience. Yeah.
- 22:51Great. But that was my religious upbringing and
- 22:54what I had. as a kid, but absolutely no woo stuff.
- 22:57And I approach life in a very logical, achievement
- 23:02-based fashion. And I still struggle with that
- 23:04a lot. I got really deep into hustle culture
- 23:07because I started a marketing agency very early
- 23:11on in my life and felt like I had a lot to prove.
- 23:14But at the end of the day, I worked myself to
- 23:17the bone, doing it for, you know, 10, 15 years
- 23:20now, that it just got to be too much. And I didn't
- 23:25know how to cope. So I started going to therapy.
- 23:28The problem is I'm one of those super logical
- 23:30people that is extremely self -aware. And I'd
- 23:32already read a bunch of books on CBT, had started
- 23:35applying CBT to myself of, okay, what was the
- 23:38trigger? Why do I feel this way? How am I going
- 23:40to work through those emotions? Got to therapy,
- 23:43they were like, well, we don't really know what
- 23:44to do with you. You're kind of doing all the
- 23:46tools in our toolbox. After four therapists,
- 23:51I was like, well, I don't know what to do. But
- 23:53they're just at this point saying, this is all
- 23:55there is. I got to learn how to cope with this.
- 23:58And it got to the point where I was just looking
- 24:01for anything. And a close friend of mine, she
- 24:04was a copywriter, and she's based in Australia.
- 24:07She decided that she was going to try becoming
- 24:09an energy healer and started giving away sessions
- 24:11for free. And it was during the time in the pandemic
- 24:15where we were all using Gosh, I can't remember
- 24:18the name of the app. It was like something else.
- 24:21It was like a chat app that you could listen
- 24:24to people having conversations in other countries.
- 24:28And I had downloaded it and saw it like, oh,
- 24:31someone I know is on this and she's live at the
- 24:33moment. So I'm going to listen to it. And she
- 24:35was talking with somebody else about energy healing
- 24:37and what a difference that had made in her life.
- 24:38So I reached out to her and found out she was
- 24:40giving away these free sessions. And I decided,
- 24:42you know what? I've tried therapy. I've tried
- 24:44all the self -help books. I'm going to give it
- 24:46a try. and see if that is something that's going
- 24:49to help me because I was completely at a loss.
- 24:52And that single session was so helpful and so
- 24:56transformative that I said, okay, maybe there's
- 24:59something to this energy stuff that I was willing
- 25:01to try it just to see because I was so desperate.
- 25:05And in the interim between when I decided to
- 25:08go down that route, and really getting into it,
- 25:12my husband dislocated his shoulder and had to
- 25:14have surgery. And he was down for weeks, like
- 25:18couldn't really move his arm. I was on my own
- 25:20at the agency because we've worked together for
- 25:22a number of years at that point. I was just completely
- 25:25overwhelmed and said, you know what, I'm going
- 25:27to take this as just a I have to do this because
- 25:30I need help. I am at my limit. I cannot keep
- 25:33going. And so committed to working with her,
- 25:36doing energy healing. And when we would do the
- 25:39energy healings after a while of working on my
- 25:41own energy for probably a couple months with
- 25:43her, I started to be able to sense my spirit
- 25:46guides, but it was only when I was connected
- 25:49with her. And the reason I understand now is
- 25:52because she was kind of boosting up my energy
- 25:54to the point where I could connect with them.
- 25:57But if I was in meditation, I couldn't hear them
- 25:59at all. Even if I was trying, I couldn't connect
- 26:01with them, couldn't sense them, couldn't really
- 26:03understand why they weren't there. And I chalked
- 26:06it up to, well, it must be one of those spiritual
- 26:08skills that only a few people have. And I just
- 26:10can't have that. It's not for me. I feel like
- 26:14a lot of people are probably in that same position
- 26:16of they really want to connect with their spirit
- 26:18guides and they can sometimes, but then they
- 26:21feel like it must be a gift for some other people
- 26:23or they can only connect with them through things
- 26:25like angel numbers. And that's really where I
- 26:27started my journey of connecting with them. And
- 26:30it wasn't until I did a lot more energy work
- 26:32and then started journaling where I would ask
- 26:35questions. and then I would try to connect with
- 26:38my highest self and receive the answers that
- 26:41I then started being able to connect with my
- 26:43spirit team that my highest self was the thing
- 26:45I could connect to first before I could connect
- 26:48with my spirit team and then I spontaneously
- 26:52channeled and then decided okay this is something
- 26:54I actually really need to cultivate on a consistent
- 26:56basis. I wonder if what Kim is saying is resonating
- 27:07with you. I'm fascinated, but the more and more
- 27:09Kim is speaking about these different concepts,
- 27:13the more I am finding that they make more sense
- 27:17to me. And I wonder if that's the same with you.
- 27:20I'd love to know. You know where you can reach
- 27:22me. You can reach out to me at Facebook, threads,
- 27:25and Instagram at the .psychic .explorer. I'd
- 27:30love to know what you think of this and my other
- 27:32episodes. This is a place where you have impact
- 27:35and you have input. If you want something different,
- 27:38let me know. If you want to be on the PsychiExplorer,
- 27:41let me know. You can also find Kim on Instagram
- 27:44and threads at Kim Charlson. Also her fantastic
- 27:48podcast Vessel and Voice has just celebrated
- 27:51its 50th episode. So you were exploring this
- 28:06route anyway, but the channeling was complete
- 28:10fluke But because of your curiosity, that's what
- 28:13kept you exploring, kept you on this path For
- 28:18voice channeling specifically and it turns out
- 28:21that as I went down this road to learn more about
- 28:23channeling I'd actually been channeling before
- 28:25that and just didn't know it That we can channel
- 28:28our highest self. So every single day I'd sit
- 28:30down and write down questions about like the
- 28:32biggest issues I was facing that week and what
- 28:35I needed to do and I was lost and didn't know
- 28:38any answers and I would just sit there and kind
- 28:40of close my eyes and just write down whatever
- 28:43it was that I felt intuitively while trying to
- 28:46tune into my highest self. That is a form of
- 28:49channeling. Channeling comes in lots of different
- 28:51forms. So it's not just voice channeling. It's
- 28:55not just, hey, I channeled this and tune into
- 28:57this psychically and I'm receiving these messages
- 28:59and these signs and different imagery. It can
- 29:02also be automatic writing, which is where you
- 29:05allow the pen to move via the spirit being is
- 29:08moving it for you, as well as inspirational writing,
- 29:11which is what I was doing, where you sit down
- 29:13and write down questions and then you just try
- 29:14to write down whatever it is that you feel that
- 29:16you're receiving. As well as you can just sit
- 29:19in meditation and whatever you receive, as long
- 29:22as you're well connected and you're in a high
- 29:23vibrational state, that's also channeling. Channeling
- 29:26is the act of bringing anything from the non
- 29:28-physical to the physical. Anyone who has listened
- 29:32to this podcast before knows that self -trust,
- 29:35self -doubt, believing in what's coming through
- 29:39is a big theme for me. As I continue to explore
- 29:42my spirituality, it continues to be a big battle.
- 29:45Further to what you were saying there and actually
- 29:47further to something we were talking about before
- 29:49we hit record. I don't know if I should be asking
- 29:51this in present tense or past tense, but how
- 29:54do or did you tell the difference between the
- 29:57voice of your spirit guide and your inner voice?
- 30:01I love that question because usually people ask,
- 30:05how do you know it's them? But I think knowing
- 30:08the difference between the different... Voices
- 30:10that you can have in your head is really important.
- 30:13So you have that inner voice and you usually
- 30:15have more than one There's the one that beats
- 30:17you up that says negative crap about you all
- 30:20the time There is a positive version of that,
- 30:23but they usually actually speak in the same way
- 30:26They use a lot of should they use a lot of regret
- 30:29and they use a lot of past tense That it's a
- 30:33lot of reflecting back on things that you should
- 30:36have done or could have done or did correctly
- 30:39and that you're building yourself up. It's not
- 30:43a lot of forward -looking, and it's also not
- 30:45a lot of present tense. If it is forward -looking,
- 30:47it's usually the voice of anxiety. We have to
- 30:50anticipate all these different things that are
- 30:52going to happen. We have to orchestrate this
- 30:54different way and this different way, or what's
- 30:56going to happen in this way or this way, and
- 30:58trying to predict. But it's usually from a position
- 31:01of trying to figure out things. It is not a voice
- 31:05of knowledge. It may be very confident in itself.
- 31:09But when you really listen to it, it doesn't
- 31:12actually know what it's talking about most of
- 31:14the time. And when we come into the subconscious,
- 31:18so not the active voice that you can hear, but
- 31:21the kind of voice that bubbles up from deep within
- 31:24you, sometimes that can speak in things that
- 31:28may feel like they're channeled, that they're
- 31:31images that we don't really understand, or they're
- 31:34allegories, or they're archetypes. The difference
- 31:38in that that I have discovered myself is that
- 31:42it makes logical sense. That I can apply logic
- 31:46to it and say, oh, well, I'm having this dream
- 31:48about feeling trapped all the time because I
- 31:52feel trapped in my life right now. And that was
- 31:54a dream I kept having at that time period in
- 31:56my life. I would have these horrible, horrible
- 31:59dreams and they were not positive. and that every
- 32:03single time it was resonating with how I was
- 32:05really feeling deep down, if I really tuned into
- 32:07that subconscious that I was very unaware of
- 32:09at that point in my life. And that's not to say
- 32:12the subconscious is always negative. Sometimes
- 32:13it can be very positive, but it's something that
- 32:16feels, how do I put it? It feels natural to you.
- 32:21It doesn't feel foreign. It feels like, oh, I
- 32:24understand it now. I see that in myself now,
- 32:27but it's more of an internal realization. Versus
- 32:30when you're working with a spirit guide, even
- 32:33though it may be a realization, it feels like
- 32:35it's coming from outside of you. The way that
- 32:37it's communicated is usually very different in
- 32:39terms of the vocabulary, the sentence structure,
- 32:43but it will often be extremely positive things,
- 32:46especially when you first connect because they're
- 32:48so loving to us. Most of the time, the messages
- 32:51that we receive are very, very loving in the
- 32:53beginning. And so then we kind of brush them
- 32:55off because we're like, well, that's just me.
- 32:57getting into a mode of self aggrandizement. It's
- 33:00not actually beneficial that like, you know,
- 33:03I'm telling myself I'm doing a great job and
- 33:05look at all these amazing things I have done.
- 33:07Well, if somebody loved you a lot, that is probably
- 33:09the first thing they would want you to know.
- 33:11So we have a tendency to brush those things off
- 33:13because they seem innocuous. because they're
- 33:16not the answers to the big struggles. But most
- 33:18of the time when our spirit guides come in, they're
- 33:20trying to establish that trust. And they really
- 33:22want us to know how much they love us, because
- 33:24they know how much of a difference that could
- 33:26make in our lives. And they're really dang proud
- 33:28of us. But in terms of like discerning the difference,
- 33:33there's a couple different ways. So the word
- 33:35choice. The way that it's said is usually different,
- 33:39but if you're able to tune into the energy, the
- 33:42direction of the energy is different. Usually
- 33:44if it's coming from you, it kind of feels a little
- 33:46swirly. It's around you either in your head or
- 33:48it's around your body. It feels kind of like
- 33:50it's just circling there. Whereas when you're
- 33:53tuning into a spirit guide or a spirit being
- 33:56outside of you, it's coming at you from a specific
- 34:00direction. So when it comes to that discernment,
- 34:05that's what's really required. is that we take
- 34:07time to receive first, and we take whatever it
- 34:11is that's coming in, and then we discern afterwards.
- 34:14And for a lot of our inner self -talk, we don't
- 34:17do that. We just accept it as fact. We don't
- 34:20go through the process of saying, well, actually,
- 34:22that's not true. I am not stupid just because
- 34:25I did that thing absent -mindedly. So learning
- 34:28that process of receiving and then discerning
- 34:30is a really good practice. And it's a good practice
- 34:33for your mental health anyway, because that negative
- 34:35voice for some of us is very, very strong. And
- 34:39using that self discernment can make a difference.
- 34:41But it also makes it easier for us that when
- 34:44we receive intuitive hits from wherever they're
- 34:47coming from, we can say, OK, that's actually
- 34:49not coming from me. I understand that's not for
- 34:52me. Yeah. Would you agree that the more and more
- 34:55you experience that, the stronger that understanding
- 34:57gets or becomes? So in part, yes, I can trust
- 35:02it a lot more now that I have a really strong
- 35:04discernment, but my self -doubt still shows up
- 35:07on a routine basis. And what it takes is not
- 35:11external validation of people telling me, hey,
- 35:13that message really resonated with me, or that
- 35:16really hit a chord with me, or that meant so
- 35:20much and that really talked about, you know,
- 35:22all these different things that I'm going through.
- 35:24Yes, that does happen, but that's not up to me.
- 35:28My job as a channel is to make sure that I am
- 35:32as clear of a vessel as I can be, that my consciousness
- 35:35is as out of the way as it can be, that I am
- 35:38in a state of deep surrender as much as possible,
- 35:41and that I'm maintaining that connection regardless
- 35:44of what distractions come up. Because sometimes
- 35:46the things that will come through can be really
- 35:49surprising. So it's really important for me to
- 35:52be constantly monitoring that connection of,
- 35:55am I connected, am I connected, am I connected,
- 35:56am I connected? rather than saying, okay, I'm
- 36:00going to doubt that information. As the channeler,
- 36:04when I'm sitting with someone and doing a channeling
- 36:07for them, It's them to do the discernment, not
- 36:10me, because I don't know what's going on in their
- 36:12life. I don't know what's going on in their head
- 36:14or whether or not it resonates with them. And
- 36:16that comes down to is Monty doing a good job
- 36:18on his end of like, I get to relinquish that
- 36:22a little bit in a way that like psychics don't
- 36:25get to in the same way, because it's not my skill
- 36:28as the spirit being to know. Is this message
- 36:32resonating? Is it really helping them in the
- 36:34way that they need, in the tone that they need
- 36:36it, in the moment when they need it? My job is
- 36:38just being the channel. So I do get off a little
- 36:41bit more lightly in that way than a psychic.
- 36:43You know, I've never thought of it like that
- 36:44before. That must be quite relieving. It is.
- 36:49The way that you describe that, the way that
- 36:50you say that. After a lifetime of making sure
- 36:53that I was hustling and performing at the highest
- 36:56ability, The only thing I have to worry about
- 36:59now is taking care of my vessel. It is this just
- 37:01really lightened load. And what it has helped
- 37:05me actually understand is that's true for all
- 37:07of us. that that still applies in our lives because
- 37:12what we are really doing is that we're a vessel
- 37:14for all the energies that want to work through
- 37:16us. Whether we're channeling or we're doing our
- 37:19daily work or we're creating something, that
- 37:22is something from the non -physical that we are
- 37:24bringing through. It may be our own soul energies
- 37:27or it could be a different energy. So rather
- 37:29than constantly judging ourselves on the product
- 37:33and the outcome, which many times we cannot control,
- 37:36we have to judge ourselves on how good we're
- 37:39being a vessel, how good we are doing the act
- 37:43of the creating without regard to the outcome.
- 37:48I suppose just as we were saying before, before
- 37:50we press record, that's really hard, isn't it?
- 37:52Especially living in this world of stats and
- 37:56constantly chasing numbers and figures. It's
- 37:58hard, isn't it? Oh, and I struggle with it all
- 38:01the time. Yeah, all the time. It is something
- 38:04that coming from a marketing background of trying
- 38:07to grow my channeling business, I'm constantly
- 38:09looking at those stats and saying, OK, how can
- 38:11I optimize more? How can I do more? How could
- 38:13I have some more? How can I show it better? How
- 38:15could I change the first three seconds of my
- 38:18videos to get that hook in better? And I've had
- 38:20to learn actually, no, it's not going to work
- 38:23that way for me to grow my business and channeling
- 38:27to the place that I really want it to be, there
- 38:30is no amount of hustle that I could do to get
- 38:32it there. It's going to take more than just my
- 38:35energy. And that means that there's probably
- 38:39no point in trying to optimize everything to
- 38:43the inch of its existence. For what? For an algorithm?
- 38:50We are who we are. We are human. Absolutely.
- 38:54Absolutely. And I feel like the external validation
- 38:58is such a inbuilt part of being human because
- 39:01we have a fear of death. Monty talks about that.
- 39:04The reason why we seek external validation is
- 39:06because we don't want to die. And the more I
- 39:08channel, the less I'm afraid of death. It still
- 39:11scares the bejesus out of me. But the more that
- 39:14I channel, the more I'm like at peace with it.
- 39:16We'll see when I get old. Hopefully I make it
- 39:19that long. Hmm, interesting. It's not something
- 39:24that necessarily resonates with me, but I certainly
- 39:27understand where you're coming from or what you
- 39:29mean when you say that. I guess the more you
- 39:33uncover, the more you explore, the more you know
- 39:36and the less scary things are. It's like I know
- 39:38there's an entire team of souls just waiting
- 39:41there for me. That when that eventually does
- 39:44happen, because it will, there's no avoiding
- 39:46it. That when I am disincarnate, I'll be with
- 39:49them and I can be with them here now too. And
- 39:53it's just a continuation, it's just the format
- 39:54changes. You are in active contact with your
- 39:58spirit guide on a daily basis. Do we need to
- 40:02be in active conversation with our guide, with
- 40:05our teams, with our spirits in order to be spiritual
- 40:09people? Absolutely not. No, exactly. That's what
- 40:12I wonder. You don't. Absolutely do not need to
- 40:16be in contact with your spirit guides to live
- 40:18a spiritual life. They're there if you want them.
- 40:20But if you don't want them, that's cool, too.
- 40:23And in fact, like my energy healer that I've
- 40:26worked with extensively, she often talks about
- 40:28she sees most of her clients parentify their
- 40:31their spirit guides. And so for some of them,
- 40:34it can be a really negative experience because
- 40:36then they're like, OK, tell me what to do. I
- 40:38don't know how to make choices. I need someone
- 40:40to be my parent. And that can be a negative experience
- 40:43for some people. For me, it's really positive
- 40:47to be in contact with my spirit guides, but it
- 40:49isn't for everybody. And it's for different reasons.
- 40:52But the one thing I will say of why I would say
- 40:56being in contact with spirit guides can be useful
- 40:58is they have a much higher perspective than you.
- 41:01They're much more in tune with the universe and
- 41:06all of its complexities than we understand. And
- 41:10when you just have no one else to go to, they're
- 41:14there for insights, for guidance. And yeah, they
- 41:17can provide answers, but they won't just say,
- 41:19here's the answer. They'll guide you through
- 41:22that process of making a decision, because part
- 41:25of you making choices, you going through. the
- 41:28experience of living, or what you would term
- 41:30lessons, however you want to call it, but that's
- 41:34the process of why we're here. And they have
- 41:36a deep amount of respect for us because being
- 41:38physical is way the hell harder than being in
- 41:41spirit. It is just simply more difficult in many
- 41:45ways. Energy just moves more slowly here. We
- 41:48have to deal with lots of really horrific things
- 41:51that don't... have the same weight in the non
- 41:54-physical world and so they see us in our own
- 41:58way as masters of energy because we have decided
- 42:00to come here and they have a deep level of respect
- 42:02for us and with that respect comes the understanding
- 42:06that we make our own decisions but that they
- 42:08can help us along that path. So you use what
- 42:13you call semi -conscious trance to bring your
- 42:16spirit guide Monty through. Yes. What does that
- 42:19look like? What is that? What does that mean?
- 42:22What does that look like to you? Can you describe
- 42:24that? Yeah, so semi -conscious trance means that
- 42:28you're not fully unconscious versus a full trance
- 42:31state or deep trance. You are of... absolutely
- 42:34no idea what's going on and the being is in full
- 42:37control. So there are definitely a lot of mediums
- 42:41that are out there that go into full deep trance
- 42:43and they can walk around and have conversations
- 42:47and it's quite amazing. Kevin Ryerson was a really
- 42:50famous one, if you want to check that out, that
- 42:53he is famous because he was a channeler that
- 42:58worked with Shirley MacLaine who in that time
- 43:02period, she's the one that really made channeling
- 43:04famous, is that she wrote her books about channeling
- 43:06and started to bring a lot of awareness to it.
- 43:09So he channels and is still alive today and channel
- 43:12us, I think, four or five different beings that
- 43:14he works with. So for me, when I go into a semi
- 43:17-conscious trance state, I go through a meditative
- 43:20process to prepare my energy that I ground and
- 43:23I set my thinking mind to the side. I let go
- 43:26of all energetic connections. I clear out my
- 43:29space. so I make sure that no other beings are
- 43:31hanging out. I then expand my energy a whole
- 43:35bunch and open up my heart to receive. And then
- 43:39I make connection with Monty or whomever I'm
- 43:42channeling. So I do mostly channel Monty, but
- 43:44I do channel from time to time other spirit beings.
- 43:48But Monte is who you'll see me on social media
- 43:51or our podcast or in our community That's who
- 43:54I work with and in sessions. Sometimes it will
- 43:56also channel other people's spirit guides. So
- 43:58that does happen from time to time but Then at
- 44:02that point I'm using my discernment my consciousness
- 44:05is still in my body and I'm connecting with Monte
- 44:09and he's Usually to the front and left of me
- 44:13and I make sure I know it's him when he first
- 44:15started showing up He had more of a human kind
- 44:18of looking form He has some like fishy qualities
- 44:22to him that make him feel a bit of a caricature
- 44:25to be honest But as I've gotten to know him a
- 44:28lot more he just appears as a ball of energy
- 44:30at this point that has this Quality to it of
- 44:33sunlight coming through waves is how I would
- 44:35describe it. It's really warm. It's really loving
- 44:38really inviting and Once I know that he's there
- 44:41and everything else is away to the side then
- 44:45we will complete kind of the connection where
- 44:48I allow him to come into my body and he comes
- 44:52in mostly through my heart chakra in my head
- 44:55and my third eye in my throat that he's mostly
- 44:56in the upper chakras and as he's doing that my
- 44:59consciousness at the same time I am intentionally
- 45:02kind of bringing it to the back and allowing
- 45:04it to fall backwards. And for me, it usually
- 45:07sits directly behind me and a little bit to the
- 45:10left is where my consciousness is. And I can
- 45:13have a sense of that's where I am. And it often
- 45:17feels like I am observing from the outside. because
- 45:21my consciousness is no longer really it's still
- 45:24within my energetic form, but it's not in my
- 45:26body anymore. It's still within my energy and
- 45:29my what we would call like your or your what
- 45:31Monte terms your energetic center. And it's then
- 45:36at that point that he kind of settles himself
- 45:39in. And if you watch the process of when I first
- 45:43start to bring him in, if you see the whole process,
- 45:46You can see my body starts to shift. I actually
- 45:49sit differently. When he comes in fully, my body
- 45:52language changes. And it's kind of funny because
- 45:55I do get slight back pain because he sits up
- 45:58straighter than I do normally. So it uses different
- 46:00muscles. He will say, you know, this is Monty
- 46:05and welcomes himself in. And depending on what
- 46:07we're doing, you know, he then sometimes gives
- 46:09an opening message or talks to the person. And
- 46:13from there, he just kind of takes the show. And
- 46:15my job then is to make sure that my consciousness
- 46:16is out and that I'm maintaining that connection
- 46:19and that I'm really surrendering and that I do
- 46:23not know what he's going to say at any given
- 46:25time. So we do for our membership. We have a
- 46:28monthly meditation. And that one's usually the
- 46:31most fun for me because I really, he doesn't
- 46:33tell me what he's going to do. And it's kind
- 46:35of like this fun little experiment of I go through
- 46:39the process of helping everyone prepare their
- 46:41vessel to receive whatever meditation that we're
- 46:43doing. Then he comes in and he's like, hello
- 46:46everyone, this is what we're actually doing today.
- 46:49And then takes them through another form of the
- 46:51meditation. and I just get to sit there and watch
- 46:54it unfold. And it's kind of a fun thing because
- 46:58most of the time he kind of gives me an idea
- 47:00of like our podcasts or for our weekly messages.
- 47:03I can see the direction that he's going in and
- 47:06kind of anticipate it or he's asked me for more
- 47:09questions on the podcast topics. But for certain
- 47:13things, I have absolutely no idea. And channeling
- 47:15sessions are definitely like that because the
- 47:17person that comes in many times I don't know
- 47:20anything about them. We keep our cameras off
- 47:22so that way they really feel like I'm not reading
- 47:25them in any way. And I do have my eyes closed
- 47:27when I channel. And those are often the most
- 47:31interesting because Monte will know things about
- 47:33the person that there's no way for me to have
- 47:36looked up online. And I find it as well that
- 47:39we talked about doubt before. Every single time
- 47:42I have a channeling session, it reinforces that
- 47:44for me of, nope, this is definitely real. One
- 47:47of the first channeling sessions that I gave
- 47:49away to a friend. She's a very witchy person.
- 47:53And she asked her spirit guide that I, at that
- 47:56point in time, I was still channeling a lot more
- 47:58people's spirit guides than we do now. I really
- 48:00work mostly with Monty, but at that time period,
- 48:03Monty was acting as a doorkeeper. So he would
- 48:06say, okay, there's somebody on your team wants
- 48:07to speak with you. We're going to switch places.
- 48:09And then I would allow their energies to change
- 48:12while my consciousness is still out. And then
- 48:14they, the other spirit guide would then speak
- 48:16through me. And this other spirit guide came
- 48:18in and gave her really specific instructions
- 48:21for a ritual to do with a purple candle. And
- 48:24I don't know anything about witchy ritual type
- 48:28stuff. It is not something I've studied or really
- 48:30been into myself and admire it for all its detailed
- 48:34nuance. And at the end of the session, she said,
- 48:37you know, it's really funny. Earlier today, I
- 48:40felt intuitively I needed to buy this purple
- 48:42candle and I bought it. And now I have it to
- 48:44do this ritual. So it's Things like that that
- 48:47also continue to prove to me that even though
- 48:50my consciousness is out of the way, it's still
- 48:52not my subconscious. There's too many things
- 48:55that are said or things that are known that I
- 48:58could never know, or weird synchronicities like
- 49:00that, that there's no way for me to anticipate.
- 49:04There's this one question I need to ask you,
- 49:06Kim. How much control, when you're in this state,
- 49:10how much control do you have? Like when you're
- 49:12channeling Monte, Do you control your lips? Do
- 49:16you control your voice, your tongue? From a really
- 49:18academic point of view, what's the sort of percentage
- 49:21that you are in control of? It depends on the
- 49:24day, to be honest. Some days I can release more
- 49:27control. The safer that I feel, the more grounded
- 49:31I feel, the more centered I feel, the more relaxed
- 49:34I feel. the easier it is for me to channel, and
- 49:37then I can go into a slightly deeper trance state.
- 49:40But I am always in control, so I can stop it
- 49:42at any time. And that's why I do semi -conscious.
- 49:45It's never to the point where I don't know what's
- 49:47going on, that I don't have discernment. I've
- 49:49taken a lot of channeling classes, this is how
- 49:51I really learned ultimately how to do channeling.
- 49:55And I would say properly is a judgment word here,
- 49:57but I do have a specific way that I think channeling
- 50:00should be done. And the reason why is that we
- 50:02stay protected in that. Whereas a deep trans
- 50:04-channeling state, you know, entity attachments
- 50:08do happen, and we do have to be cautious of those.
- 50:12And in channeling, you can be accidentally channeling
- 50:15something that is not a higher sense of perspective,
- 50:20not a higher vibrational being. So that's why
- 50:22I chose semi -conscious trans -channeling, because
- 50:25it felt like I could still have that. discernment
- 50:29that I still feel is important, and that I'm
- 50:31not just gonna let anything take over and speak
- 50:34through me. And I only work with things that
- 50:36I know, that I know well. There's other spirit
- 50:39beings that I work with myself, but I would never
- 50:41channel for someone else because I don't feel
- 50:43like I can trust them enough yet. That there's
- 50:46that relationship there. It is something that
- 50:47we've built up over time. In terms of like, can
- 50:51I feel my body moving? Yes. I feel like if you've
- 50:56ever meditated really, really, really deeply
- 50:58before and you kind of have this like foggy sense
- 51:01of connection with your body, that's kind of
- 51:03what it feels like. Okay, Kim, you have answered
- 51:16all my questions. For the human. Yes, the human
- 51:20Kim has, yes. I had some questions for Monty,
- 51:24but as we've gone through this, you've sort of
- 51:25answered those already. You will have different
- 51:27answers though, or a different way of answering
- 51:30them. Well, what I will say is that earlier on
- 51:32when I was thinking of what questions to ask,
- 51:34I just had this thought that whatever question
- 51:36I write down is not going to be the question
- 51:39that I ask. I just had this feeling that whatever
- 51:41I was going to ask was going to be fluid and
- 51:44natural, and I still don't know quite what I'm
- 51:46going to ask. And in case listeners haven't quite
- 51:49worked out yet, you, Kim, are going to step back
- 51:52and allow Monty to speak in a moment. And just
- 51:56to also say that your voice changes. It's still
- 51:59Kim, but there's just something that just sort
- 52:02of changes ever so slightly. Yeah, I don't want
- 52:04to sound like I'm a small, tiny person speaking
- 52:07out of my voice in the same way like some other
- 52:08channels do, yeah. But it's different. Yeah,
- 52:11there's never so slightly different intonation
- 52:13in your voice. It's still Kim, but there's just
- 52:15something that's just slightly different about
- 52:17it. And honestly, one of the funny things is
- 52:20this, when I go back and edit stuff, it'll be
- 52:23like, oh, he moved this way, or he did that,
- 52:27even though it's my body, that it's different
- 52:30enough for me that even when I'm reviewing it,
- 52:32it doesn't feel like I'm watching myself. It's
- 52:35kind of very strange, and it's taken a while
- 52:37to get used to that, honestly, in its own way.
- 52:39So but we'll let him speak for himself and I'm
- 52:43sure he will have stuff to start you off because
- 52:45he usually does. We'll let him come in and see
- 52:49what he wants to share because he I mean he's
- 52:51been here listening this whole time so I'm sure
- 52:53he's got some stuff that he wants like I can
- 52:55tell he has some things that he has some thoughts
- 52:57on. Okay great yeah fire away. Hello it is Monty
- 53:06how are you? Hello Monty I'm Matt nice to meet
- 53:10you. Wonderful to meet you as well. We are delighted
- 53:14to be here with you today. So before you begin
- 53:17your questions, there are a few things we would
- 53:20like to clarify of our perspective. Is that all
- 53:23right with you? Please carry on. Thank you. So
- 53:28what we would say is the most important takeaway
- 53:30for the listeners of this episode is not that
- 53:34channeling is a unique skill to certain individuals,
- 53:38as Kimberly has spoken about, but is something
- 53:40that everyone does and that they are currently
- 53:43doing right now. And that is something that most
- 53:46humans do not recognize is that their soul in
- 53:49its own way is being channeled through your body
- 53:53every second of every day. You are already a
- 53:57channeler. And that is something that we wish
- 53:58to underline because it is important for you
- 54:01to open up to that realization. The more that
- 54:05you can open up to the realization that you are
- 54:08already channeling your soul It becomes much
- 54:10easier for you to become more intuitive to allow
- 54:14other energies as well to come through you The
- 54:17other thing that we wish to clarify is something
- 54:20on the Spirit Guide perspective that not only
- 54:22are we beings of unconditional love organized
- 54:26in such a way that we help one specific individual
- 54:29and that we are on our own soul journeys, but
- 54:32as well, we are of a team. So it is important
- 54:35to understand that not only do we function as
- 54:38specific individuals, but we also function as
- 54:41a collective. And the collective has an overall
- 54:44intention of that we are helping and guiding
- 54:47you, but each respective individual on the team
- 54:51also has specific goals and assignments that
- 54:54vary depending on their. personality, we will
- 54:57say, their specific energetic intentions. So
- 55:00it is important that as you access your spirit
- 55:02team, if you wish to begin to communicate with
- 55:04them and you contact one specific individual
- 55:07versus a collective or group of your spirit team,
- 55:11to ask them what their goal is for your relationship.
- 55:14That way you understand who they are in relationship
- 55:18with you and how they can best help you. So what
- 55:21are your first questions, Matt? I have a question
- 55:25here about lessons and as we were talking with
- 55:29Kim earlier on we were saying that lessons are
- 55:34more like experiences and I guess my question
- 55:37is the experiences that we have as we live through
- 55:41our physical lives are these experiences which
- 55:45our souls have chosen to live through? They've
- 55:49been laid out before us in a certain way because
- 55:51these are what our soul wants to experience.
- 55:55Or do we come here with a checklist of things
- 55:59we want to experience, but whatever comes our
- 56:03way happens. I hope that makes some sort of sense.
- 56:07Yes, we understand your meaning. So what we would
- 56:10say is that it's important to understand that
- 56:12your soul does have specific goals and intentions
- 56:15as humans would term them. for the reason why
- 56:18you are manifest in this particular lifetime,
- 56:21in this particular place, in this particular
- 56:24situation. And it is much less about the format
- 56:27of those things as the energies behind them because
- 56:31at its first level, you are a soul first and
- 56:34a soul is in its pure essence. Energy and so
- 56:37you collaborate with different energies and creation
- 56:40by allowing yourself to have those experiences
- 56:42and to process through those energies many of
- 56:45which are energies that you have worked with
- 56:47in a past lifetime and yet need to work with
- 56:50again to be able to master those energies to
- 56:52master that relationship between you and those
- 56:55different energies your soul does not change
- 56:58we would say but it does grow in the way that
- 57:00it understands what energies it works best with
- 57:02what energies it can create from what energies
- 57:05it and does not prefer and which other ones it
- 57:08could care less about. Now there is as well a
- 57:12certain state of surrender that comes in. of
- 57:15that while you have those specific intentions
- 57:17and you know on a soul level that those things
- 57:19will happen regardless of the events of your
- 57:22life, the conditions of your life, there is a
- 57:25certain amount of surrender because your life
- 57:27is also dictated by sources outside of yourself.
- 57:31There are larger energies at play such as the
- 57:33community in which you live, the environment
- 57:36in which you live, the government. many different
- 57:40things that are outside of you that impact you.
- 57:43Now, your soul can choose to work under some
- 57:46of these certain conditions, but there are many
- 57:48of them that are entirely out of their control.
- 57:51And so thus comes a certain state of surrender,
- 57:54of saying, come what will, I am still here to
- 57:57work with these specific energies, and the other
- 57:59energies that show up are new experiences for
- 58:02me to have that may dictate my future direction
- 58:05in my future lives. That answers my question
- 58:09beautifully, thank you. As you're talking I'm
- 58:13also minded to ask about something that me and
- 58:15Kim have spoken about, spirit teams. Now I don't
- 58:18feel like I'm in active communication with my
- 58:20spirit team and my spirit guides. Kim earlier
- 58:23on was talking about different spirits coming
- 58:25and going and helping at different stages. How
- 58:29do past loved ones fit into that? What is the
- 58:32interaction between those who have passed and
- 58:34who are in our family? And how far does that
- 58:37chain of heritage go back? What a beautiful question.
- 58:43So what we will say is that unlike a spirit team,
- 58:47your ancestors or loved ones that may be of an
- 58:51energetic lineage rather than a familial lineage
- 58:54interact with you and many others that also share
- 58:58similar connections to those souls. So this is
- 59:02the difference between a spirit team member who
- 59:04is basically just for you and an ancestral or
- 59:08energetic lineage that you have where those Connections
- 59:11are for more than just you, it is a community
- 59:14of souls that are collaborating together across
- 59:16multiple lifetimes. So it is a bit more complicated
- 59:20because you need to understand the quantum reality
- 59:23of the soul. You exist everywhere all at once,
- 59:27and so that is why, although someone has passed
- 59:29on and may be reincarnated at the moment when
- 59:32you are speaking with their... We will say part
- 59:36of their soul that you recognize, they are still
- 59:39there and are still available for you to converse
- 59:42with, to interact with, to participate with,
- 59:46because at a soul level you exist everywhere
- 59:48all at once of all of your different existences
- 59:51at the same time. This is something that is difficult
- 59:54for humans to understand, but as quantum is coming
- 59:57more into awareness, it is becoming easier for
- 1:00:00humans to understand. So, the differences beyond
- 1:00:05that a ancestral or energetic line also works
- 1:00:09with a group collective of many different individuals
- 1:00:12that have those same ties or similar ones to
- 1:00:15the individuals to create a group is slightly
- 1:00:19different, but in its goal in essence is that
- 1:00:23you are in a community. where you are together
- 1:00:27growing, changing, learning, evolving, experiencing.
- 1:00:32But rather than one is above the other, you are
- 1:00:36together as equals. And that is an important
- 1:00:40aspect that you learn the more that you go down
- 1:00:42your spiritual path, is that your ascended, we
- 1:00:47will say familial loved ones, are not always
- 1:00:51the highest source of guidance and yet may be
- 1:00:54the ones that you listen to the most intimately
- 1:00:56because they are the ones that you feel that
- 1:00:58you have the evidence to trust. However, they
- 1:01:02are on their own path and journey just as you
- 1:01:05are. And what we would say is that while they
- 1:01:08can provide comfort and insight, if you wish
- 1:01:11to have the highest perspective possible, we
- 1:01:13would advise that you consult your spirit team
- 1:01:16or something even higher than those on your spirit
- 1:01:18team for more in tune guidance. Whereas mediumship
- 1:01:24in the practice of evidential mediumship rather
- 1:01:26helps you feel more connected with the spirit
- 1:01:29world because you understand that you are merely
- 1:01:32in a body for this time and there is an existence
- 1:01:35outside of that. Thank you, Monty. I feel really
- 1:01:40privileged to be able to hear your words this
- 1:01:43evening. I guess the only thing I want to ask
- 1:01:45you now, Monty, is do you have anything that
- 1:01:48you would like to share with the listeners? We
- 1:01:52would. The most important thing for them to consider
- 1:01:58as part of their own spiritual work and path
- 1:02:01is a deep connection with their soul. Ultimately,
- 1:02:05this is the goal of all of the spiritual work
- 1:02:07that you will do is a divine connection between
- 1:02:10you and your soul, because when you are deeply
- 1:02:13connected with your soul, that becomes the pathway
- 1:02:16for you to exist in separation and be able to
- 1:02:20function in a physical creation while also being
- 1:02:23connected to the universe. that that is, in many
- 1:02:27ways, the way that you can live a more complete
- 1:02:30life going forward. We send you great love. We
- 1:02:34are delighted for this opportunity, Matt, and
- 1:02:36we send you great love specifically from us and
- 1:02:40your spirit team and great healing. That is all.
- 1:02:47He kept wanting to call you Matthew. Well, that's
- 1:02:51my name. He loves using people's, like, full
- 1:02:55names. He only ever calls me Kimberly, and I
- 1:02:58think it's funny, and he very often will call
- 1:02:59people by their full names. And I was like, no,
- 1:03:02you've got to call Matt. That's his preferred
- 1:03:03name. Wow. Thank you so much. Not into you, Kimball,
- 1:03:08but both of you for sharing that experience.
- 1:03:12I said to you before that I wasn't sure what
- 1:03:14question I was going to ask. I think I asked
- 1:03:16a version of what I had originally planned. Yeah,
- 1:03:19I just felt called not to ask my original questions.
- 1:03:24What I find really fascinating, again, overuse
- 1:03:26of the word interesting and fascinating here,
- 1:03:29but his answers, there are so many different
- 1:03:32layers to them. My previous guest in the January
- 1:03:36episode, Rob Lomax, He can channel his spirit
- 1:03:40team, but he would say that they are beings in
- 1:03:43other dimensions. And for me, that is really
- 1:03:47out there. But when Monty was talking, it was
- 1:03:53almost exactly the same as what Rob says and
- 1:03:56the way that Rob describes it. The similarities
- 1:03:59are really uncanny. There's correlation. Yeah,
- 1:04:03and that's the thing. that I think we have to
- 1:04:07really take in as we're discerning channeled
- 1:04:10messages because not all channelers are good
- 1:04:13at what they do. Just like not all mediums are
- 1:04:15good at what they do or all psychics or tarot
- 1:04:17readers, it's a skill that we develop over time.
- 1:04:20And you can absolutely be channeling your subconscious
- 1:04:24and think that you're channeling a higher source
- 1:04:26of guidance or be channeling a lower vibrational
- 1:04:29being and thinking that it's something amazing.
- 1:04:32The kind of traits that I have found It's something
- 1:04:36that's generally positive, even if it's something
- 1:04:38that is bad news, that is delivered in a loving
- 1:04:41way. Sometimes it can be very firm, depending
- 1:04:44on the being, but it's still something that's
- 1:04:46helpful. It's not leading us down a road of everything
- 1:04:49is awful all the time. Why do you even try? It
- 1:04:52also needs to come from a place of supportiveness
- 1:04:57and guidance. And even when we're channeling
- 1:05:00higher vibrational beings. So for example, like
- 1:05:03an archangel, They have different personalities
- 1:05:06just like we would and some of them are definitely
- 1:05:08more intense than others and some of them are
- 1:05:11more brash and More straight laced I would say
- 1:05:18as well like Monty can have a very funny sense
- 1:05:20of humor sometimes Archangels I found don't really
- 1:05:23have that personality to them. They're here for
- 1:05:26a purpose. They want to get down to business
- 1:05:28They got plenty of stuff to do They're in, they're
- 1:05:31out. Let's go. That's been my experience with
- 1:05:35archangels. Now other people have different experiences,
- 1:05:37but there's a purpose to what they're saying
- 1:05:40is the other thing of that. It's not just a bunch
- 1:05:43of flowy cutesy words that make us feel good,
- 1:05:47but it is actually helping us in some way to
- 1:05:51achieve something. and that it's not just there
- 1:05:54to make us feel good, it's to help us come to
- 1:05:58decisions and come to a deeper understanding.
- 1:06:01One more thing I want to just add to that is
- 1:06:03that for me personally, and strictly this is
- 1:06:06just me personally, when people start talking
- 1:06:08about angels and archangels. My reaction is to
- 1:06:11go, oh, no, no, no, not for me. As you're saying
- 1:06:14that, I'm saying to myself, Matt, just take away
- 1:06:17that word. Remove the concept and the wording
- 1:06:20of archangel or spirit guide. Remove that concept
- 1:06:24that I have in my mind that I am judging and
- 1:06:27I'm stereotyping. Remove that. And not only does
- 1:06:31it make sense, but it also feels right. Yeah.
- 1:06:34And I agree with that because A lot of these
- 1:06:38different beings have so much human baggage that
- 1:06:41come with them. Especially archangels. Archangel
- 1:06:47Michael, depending on what source you're looking
- 1:06:50to, can be somebody that's really loving and
- 1:06:52kind to some of the modern channelers. But if
- 1:06:55you go to the Bible, he's not someone I would
- 1:06:58want to mess with. and can be used in certain
- 1:07:02ways, you know, with what we have happening in
- 1:07:05Palestine right now, can be used in ways as an
- 1:07:09excuse for genocide. And I do think that we have
- 1:07:12to be conscious of our own human reactions and
- 1:07:16to say, okay, I'm going to set that to the side
- 1:07:19right now, I'm going to allow this to happen,
- 1:07:22and then I'm going to judge it afterwards. And
- 1:07:25that's, I think, the key with channeling and
- 1:07:28intuitive arts, whatever they may be, there's
- 1:07:32a lot of human baggage. The unfortunate bit is
- 1:07:35that channeling does require a lot of discernment
- 1:07:37because once you get down this road it is a slippery
- 1:07:42slope to just wackadoodle stuff and a week does
- 1:07:46not go by that I don't get a message from somebody
- 1:07:48either saying that they are praying for me because
- 1:07:51I've been possessed by demons or that they fell
- 1:07:54for wackadoodle stuff and now they're unsure
- 1:07:57of who to trust. Discernment is the most important
- 1:08:01part and that we have to rely on ourselves for
- 1:08:04that rather than relying on outside sources and
- 1:08:06that includes anything from past human history.
- 1:08:10That stuff is super valuable. I'm not going to
- 1:08:12discredit it, but I have to know my own experience
- 1:08:16and my own mastery of my own energy is more important
- 1:08:19than all of that. Yeah, we all have our own experiences
- 1:08:23and we can only go forward with or we can try
- 1:08:26to go forward with experiences that we have lived.
- 1:08:29Thank you so much for tonight, Kim. It has been
- 1:08:32an absolute pleasure to have you on the Psychiexplorer.
- 1:08:35So sorry for all the technical glitches, so sorry
- 1:08:38for the bird screaming down my microphone at
- 1:08:40you. It's been a fun podcast even with all of
- 1:08:44our tech glitches and the birds and all of the
- 1:08:47different things. It has been an absolute pleasure
- 1:08:49to have this with you and I hope the listeners
- 1:08:51really like it too. Oh, I just know they will.
- 1:08:54Thank you. Thank you so, so much. Kim, where
- 1:08:58can people find you? They can find me at kimtarlson
- 1:09:02.com is the best place because social media being
- 1:09:05social media. You can find me on Instagram and
- 1:09:07TikTok and threads. If you want to talk to me
- 1:09:10as a person, the best place to do that is threads.
- 1:09:13You can sign up to get a free meditation on our
- 1:09:16website that will help you connect with your
- 1:09:18spirit guides for the first time so if you're
- 1:09:19interested in going down that road and you've
- 1:09:21not been able to... to connect with them before,
- 1:09:24definitely check that out. And then if you want
- 1:09:26to go even deeper with Monty, be sure to check
- 1:09:29out our podcast, which is Vessel in Voice, and
- 1:09:31you can find that on your favorite podcasting
- 1:09:33platform, as well as YouTube. And I would recommend
- 1:09:35listeners do exactly that, because every time
- 1:09:37you talk about something new and new different
- 1:09:39topic, there's so many different layers. Every
- 1:09:42time I listen to the same episode, I hear different
- 1:09:44things. So yeah, I definitely, definitely recommend.
- 1:09:47Thank you so so much for tonight, Kim. It's been
- 1:09:50just wonderful. Thank you. Thank you. It's been
- 1:09:53a pleasure.