Part One
An In-Depth Interview with Author and Channeler Sharon K. Richards
Learn about the beginnings of Sharon’s path to become a first class channeler of the Ascended Master Teachers
Introduction
I have recently had the opportunity to conduct an interview with one of the most fascinating people I have ever known — Sharon K. Richards.
Sharon has been channeling the Master Teachers publicly for ten years. She has channeled three books of the Ageless Wisdom Evolving series, where the Master Teachers introduce new teachings as well as update prior teaching for the 21st century lightworker. There is currently a fourth book in the works that focuses on new and extended Ageless Wisdom teachings, and a fifth book in the wings.
She has compiled thought-provoking articles from four female Ascended Master Teachers in Lightworker Within, and has recounted her personal journey into channeling with, Voices for the Ascended Masters — Masters don’t view channeling the way we do.
Sharon has also been fortunate enough to participate in two different research studies of trance-channeling at the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
For a deeper look into what channeling is and how it personally affect me, please check out the article below.
The Interview — Part 1
Please note, I have decided to publish this interview into 2 separate articles. This first part will discuss the beginnings of her path into channeling. The second part will further delve into what the Ascended Master Teachers are hoping to accomplish for the human family in the future with the assistance of Sharon, other channelers and lightworkers around the world.
1. Please tell the readers a little bit about yourself growing up, the time before you discovered you could channel.
To give that answer a fair context, I’d like to start with a brief flashback to my pre-incarnation planning.
Most people who channel receive pre-incarnation preparation at the soul level. My soul, however, did not want to channel in this life. When Jeshua approached and requested me as a channel, my soul declined. He persisted. My soul owed him a karmic debt and finally agreed to give him an option on my channeling abilities. If, without pre-birth preparation, I could hear him when he spoke to me, and if I agreed to channel for him of my own incarnate free will, then my soul would alter my life plan to include channeling. But he’d have to train me because there would be no pre-incarnation preparation.
Jeshua accepted. I entered this world with a soul contract to teach and to produce four books of poetry.
My mother guided my spiritual education. While I was sent to Christian Sunday school off and on, the Tibetan Master’s Great Invocation was my first prayer. I was brought up to believe that reincarnation and the journey of return to Source was the way the universe worked. I learned that there were Ascended Master Teachers who guided humanity from behind the scene and that channeling was a deeply entrenched taboo.
I wrote my earliest spiritual poem at a tender age, eight or nine I think. It was about hiking up a mountain alone, following shining, white-light footprints. There were at first thick layers of muddy footprints almost obscuring the white light beneath, but as the mountain grew steeper, more and more footprints were drawn off the path for material things or were turned aside by obstacles like thorn bushes. In my poem, I too was drawn aside. Once off the path, I couldn’t return and was left to sadly wonder who had made those footprints of light. I wondered, in my poem if anyone had ever followed the light to the top.
2. How did you determine that you had the ability to channel the Ascended Master Teachers?
I always laugh and love to tell this story. Science fiction books and TV shows like Star Trek were my favorites. Telepathy and other psychic abilities, like the empath healer in one of the original Star Trek episodes, were perfectly believable in my worldview. Channeling, however, was dangerous, to be avoided at all costs.
When I was a computer systems analyst for a Fortune 500 company, I was once at a department picnic where we played Trivial Pursuit. My turn came. An anonymous voice gave me answer after answer after answer until my colleagues stared at me in disbelief. They knew perfectly well that I had no idea whatever about the year Stan Musial made the Baseball Hall of Fame. But the voice did. The voice kept giving me answers until one question when I thought I knew better. When I gave my answer, not his, I heard a frustrated, telepathic “Aachk!” and felt the abrupt exit of someone pulling free from my energy fields.
But you see, that wasn’t channeling. That was just telepathy. Whoever it was did not return. Years later, after an early retirement, I’d heard so many people talking about the importance of dreams that I began to record my dreams and attempt interpretation.
One morning, I sat at my computer, completely stuck. The dream defied interpretation. “Do you want some help?” came a telepathic voice. I thought about it for maybe three seconds and returned a telepathic, “Sure.”
I didn’t know if the voice was my soul or my subconscious self or even some mischievous astral being. I was willing to listen one time.
That was the beginning of months of almost daily telepathic dialogs. The voice told me of some of my past lives and about my body’s energetic structure. (Ray structure for those familiar with seven-ray teachings.)
The voice did not hesitate to tell me I was unfair to a friend and impatient with my mother. I considered the comments and realized his advice was valid. Okay, I had to make a few changes in my relationships.
One day, I can’t remember why, I became suspicious of this telepathic process. I took a deep breath. “Is this channeling?” “Yes,” came the answer.
My heartbeat suddenly hurt. For some years now I had been comfortable with the fact that the Master Teachers channeled through select individuals. I’d read the Tibetan Master’s books and one of Master Morya’s Agni Yoga series. But me?! Channel?! The taboo I’d learned early in life washed through me.
However, I was no longer a child relying on her mother for the truth. After a short burst of panic, I concluded that what I had been taught about channeling was inaccurate. The information I had received was beneficial, not dangerous.
So, there I was, channeling. Not only channeling, I was channeling Jeshua!(I’ll skip over the circuitous road to that discovery.) Thank goodness no one else knew about this.
I actually thought it would stay that way. But I didn’t know the teachers so well then as I do now. They don’t invest that kind of time to help someone interpret dreams. They have work in mind.
3. How did things change once you knew you were channeling Jeshua? What things did Jeshua have you do to improve your channeling abilities?
Jeshua first spoke through me when I was deep in hypnosis during a between-lives regression. Telepathy was one thing. Using my voice was another! Somewhere hypnosis didn’t reach, I was surprised and a bit frightened.
The hypnotherapist guiding my regression, however, knew him well. They had a friendly chat until his energy began to overwhelm me and he left.
I was even more surprised a few days later when he asked me telepathically if I would channel him again sometime. Me?! With all the people already channeling him, how could he possibly need me? But the words spilled out from my heart.
“If you need me, I will.”
In honesty, I didn’t expect to hear another word about me channeling. Again, I was wrong. Two months later, he returned explaining that he was going to train me. Three lessons a day at 10, 2 and 6. That’s 90 lessons in the first month.
He was patient, strict and determined, teaching me one technique after another. One of the first techniques he taught me was a process he called Explorations in Time, a combination of remote viewing into time and channeling those I meet there.
The most unusual exercise was alternating lines of nursery rhymes to develop my ability for verbal dialog with a teacher while I was in channeling trance. Jeshua would channel a nursery rhyme line or two through me and I had to voice the next line on my own without losing channel trance.
4. What did Jeshua and the Ascended Master Teachers want you to do with their messages in the beginning?
I was still in training with about 100 lessons on my resume when the “public” outings began. The first two or three were channeling messages one-on-one to influential spiritual and human rights individuals I had contact with. Each message was about international expansion of their healing work.
At one point, Mother Mary said she wanted me to speak to a group that gathered weekly for healing work and psychic intuitive training. The instructor agreed and my channeling was no longer one-on-one.
Training continued. Jeshua’s next request was for me to build a website and channel his teachings. He named the site ThoughtsFromAMaster.
After that was up and running, a group of nine Master Teachers asked me to build a site and channel them for panel discussions. The purpose was to demonstrate that they worked from a common core of teachings and each of them expressed themselves differently. Their site was called WeSeekToServe.
I think we will stop here for this article. We hope you, dear readers, are finding this interview interesting and want to hear more about what the Ascended Master Teachers have in store for the future!
Please read Part Two to hear the rest of this in-depth, informative interview with Sharon K. Richards. And we thank you for taking the time to read Part One.
Blessings!