When channeling, the channeler uses his/her own brain as a translation tool. What's communicated gets filtered through the concepts and beliefs and thought processes of the channeler. It's a spiritual version of the telephone game. Meaning is inevitably lost, a great deal of it, actually. In fact, probably 90% of the meaning is lost, simply because the channeler cannot understand what is being channeled.
It's hard to sell books with very basic spiritual knowledge, even though that knowledge is much more important than the magical stuff, which won't work without a lot of application of the basics.
The end result of all this is that the spiritual usefulness of teachings laid out through channeling is only going to be marginally better than if the channeler had simply made up the entire exchange out of whole cloth.New ideas that didn't exist in the channeler's mind before can be described, but those new ideas are subject to the degree of spiritual development of the channeler.
This is why, given the choice between channeling and one's natural spiritual progression using self-inquiry, the savvy spiritualist with choose the latter every time. Channeling is something serious aspirants will play with but eventually discard, as it doesn't even offer much in the way of personal growth. Other beings will talk to you, as long as you want them to, simply because it's better than nothing, but as long as you're focused on this sort of telephone game, trying to operate based on incomplete information that your own mind has filtered out, you might as well be running in circles.
The channeler is basically having a conversation with the entity, then, out of his or her own words, writes down, not a translation, but her own words describing what they had. It's like that blog where that one guy who spent a bunch of time with UG writes about time spent with him. Reading this guy's blog only describes, but never comes close to having spent real time with UG.
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