CHANNELING
Everybody Gets A Vote
What Life Is Like Inside My Head
First of all, I am a psychic channel. If I just say I’m a channel, people might think of the Panama Canal or something to do with waterways. So, I’m a psychic channel. Which I feel is inadequate to describe what happened to me when I was 35 years old.
I started hearing voices. It didn’t just happen. I wanted to make it happen. It took me at least five years after I made many concerted efforts to finally get to the point where I met my Spirit Guide. This is where the woo-woo part of my life really took off. Now, almost 33 years later, I’m pretty comfortable with the whole arrangement. So, no, I don’t need medical help.
I’m looking at the last 20 or so productive years of my life right now. I suppose lots of people come to this point in their life. It’s a long time after you go through the phase of, “I’m going to live forever.” Which, I think, can last from when you are a kid to well into middle age. It’s when your muscles start turning to mush without you realizing that it’s even happening. It’s when you become convinced that you can gain weight just by looking at a cupcake without actually eating it.
So, a couple of years ago, I determined I was going to finally become a published author. Only, I’d already gone the round of seven publishers trying to get a novel published a long, long time ago. Publishing etiquette at the time required that you only submit to one publisher at a time. The whole deal probably lasted 18 months. It was before the internet started, so you can see how long ago it really was.
After that, I didn’t write for a very long time, having had my dreams stomped upon, etcetera, etcetera. So, I busied myself with earning a living working in the administrative area of a business. It was one of those chief, cook, and bottle washer sorts of jobs; I did a little bit of everything. Which was fun, but then I developed diabetes and went through perimenopause and wasn’t very nice for a while. I didn’t enjoy it either. I have pills I still take, which are supposed to keep me on an even keel.
Through it all, I heard these voices in my head. There is my guide, Seth, who came to talk to me in the beginning. I pretty much just talked to him for that first year. When I teach people to channel, I say to them to do the same thing. See, I also talked to others during that time, and I have to tell you, I heard some wild yarns. Was it Seth playing the part of the different invisible folks I was talking to? I don’t know. It could have been. It’s just a recommendation I make until the channel gets his or her sea legs and is not weirded out by all the weirdness there will be. Spirit guides can have a very odd way of teaching.
After that, you can talk to anybody you want to. That’s when things get really fun. So, I find myself these days talking to folks who have passed on. That’s a more polite way of referring to things than folks who are dead.
So, books are on my mind these days. I’ve taken a short detour into no and low-content books, self-publishing them under KDP — Kindle Direct Publishing at Amazon. I’ve written a three-book series (it was one book that kept growing). The series is undergoing the second draft, editing, and proofing process right now. I took them out of order. The second book is done. I’m back to the first book and still need to do the third one. I have been advised by my husband give a month’s time between each publication. That sounded good to me.
I will be making the covers for these books, and I have determined to use Canva.com. I realized I was closing in on the cover part of the process, so I started watching YouTube videos about how to do it. It was at that point that I ran across folks who make notebooks, journals, log books, calendars, and planners at KDP. I was fascinated. Here I could master working with Canva and maybe make some money at the same time selling my books. I’ve made 3 books so far. None of them are available for sale, but I’ve learned a lot doing it. I’m using the proofs Amazon sent me as notebooks but have plans soon to actually publish some of them.
I design the cover and interior in different pdf files and submit to KDP for publication. It takes some time to answer their questions about the book; size, content, description, keywords, things I guess at, paper, ink color, and pricing. The list goes on. The first time I did it, I was so overwhelmed. I’m getting better at it now and pretty much know what I need to do. Once all that is done, KDP gives you a preview of what your book is going to look like. Blast. That’s crooked. Oh, that’s ugly. I need to change that. All sorts of things to change. Once that’s done, you upload the files again and get another preview. Do that as many times as you want, but guess what? Even after you hit the button to ask for a proof which will take at least a week, maybe longer, to get to you (cost for my proofs with 120 pages has varied depending on the ink from $6 to $8), finally having the book in hand is going to allow you to see 15 other things that need to be changed.
It just takes a while. But I’m glad to be having this experience because making a real book is going to be challenging. I just know it. Do I format it in Word or do I go somewhere else, like the Kindle Creator program provided by KDP? Or do I format it in Atticus or Scrivener? These are the pathways I’m going to be traveling before 2023 is up.
Except.
I need to get my author’s website going. Today it hasn’t been published. It has an annoying Coming Soon sign on it, but I’ve gone back to WordPress to figure out how to make it. PaulineEvanosky.com Just my name. I found the tutorials I will need to remember how to navigate the pages, the URLs I want, the links to Amazon once I have books already published, all that sort of stuff. I’ve had the site for close to a year now, but I’ve been busy and stressed with this, that, and the other. Now, it’s time to work on it.
The other thing I’ve been thinking about is to make some books that are just my Spirit Guide and other Folk in Spirit, who want to say something. The idea is that we’re going to think of some topics to talk about, and then I’ll do my dictation thing and will channel whatever they want to talk about.
I figured it would be fair that I could think of five topics, and Seth could pick the other five. When several of them sort of chimed in at once with suggestions. That was when I thought, “Hey, everybody gets a vote.” And, maybe we’re looking at a longer book, or even a series.
Might I interject at this point?
Sure, I sort of thought I was done. By the way, my Spirit Guide Seth is talking now. I’ve put his stuff in a bold italics font to make it easier to read.
Well, you’ve been talking of what I would like or any of the other Folk in Spirit as you refer to them. I thought I might make a few suggestions now, and we’ll have the list underway instead of you mulling the matter over for days.
Are you insulting me?
Not at all. You just have a hesitancy that springs into operation when you get a little bit nervous. I’m trying to teach you how not to be afraid of the water.
Okay, I’ll relax. You go ahead.
Thank you. First of all, I believe the issue of fear needs to be addressed. There are so many reactions you get from people when you tell them you are talking to dead guys that they not immediately think of ghoulish creatures risen from the dead to trail their funereal wrappings across the lawn.
Should I go get a drink?
Never. Forgive me while I come unglued.
What?
Mummies used to be glued into their wrappings. I was just making a point.
Okay, go ahead.
Yes, Fear should be addressed. Also, points of view. Same reality, but how does the reader see it? It’s like the differences between a Democrat and a Republican. Each sees their own view of society. It is sort of like many people who live in the United States tend to think of what people in California are like. There is still a popular idea that “those people” are nuts, crazy tree huggers, pot smokers, and hippies. Another thing to think about would be morals. Or, more appropriately, put Karma. Loose morals can get in the way of good Karmic output and input. That should appeal to people who live outside of California.
I don’t believe you.
Do you doubt this?
No. It’s just sort of strange.
You’ll get used to it.
Okay, anything else?
We could speak of environmental matters. The Earth. And not only the Earth but what is going on out in Space. You’ve polluted your land, now you’re polluting the skies. The ozone layer has been in danger for a long time. The things happening on the earth are contributing to the unraveling. Many scientists say it is too late, which is a defeatist way of thinking. You must still do your part with recycling by becoming more conscious of the footprint you leave upon the face of the earth, much like you do now, where you no longer get dressed. Less laundry to do.
I’m tired, and you’re getting a little snarky.
Fine, I’m not going away. Ta for now.
I’ve got a website at TalkingToSpirit.com I started it in 2001, so it’s been a while. Soon, there will be a book by Seth, though I’m troubled about putting his name on it. Maybe he can be a co-author. I’ll have to pay taxes on whatever we come up with.
I’ve got some tutorials to watch.