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through him or her. By channeling, I mean being in touch with and

bringing through the wisdom and creativity of your own deepest
source. Being a channel is being fully and freely yourself and con-
sciously knowing that you are a vehicle for the creativity of the uni-
verse.
Every creative genius has been a channel. Every masterwork has
been created through the channeling process. Great works are not
created by the personality alone. They arise from a deep inspira-
tion on the universal level, and are then expressed and brought into
form through the individual personality.
A person may have great technical skill, but without the abili-
ty to connect with a deeper source, his work will be uninspiring.
The difference between a technician and a channel was clearly
demonstrated in the movie Amadeus. The composer Salieri knew
how to write music but he didn’t know how to tap into the creative
source. Mozart wrote music that was both technically perfect and
wonderfully inspired, and he did so easily, spontaneously, without
thought or effort. From his early childhood on, music just seemed
to bubble up and overflow from within him. I’m sure he had no
idea how it happened and could not have explained to anyone else
how to do it.
Such genius has always seemed mysterious and unexplainable, a
God-given talent possessed by only a few. It seems to come and go
at will — sometimes it’s there, sometimes it’s not. Because of this,
many creative people fear their talent will suddenly disappear.
They don’t know how they got it so they have no idea how to
recover it if it vanishes.