channelling

In the context I use it on this series of blogs, channelling is a term for trance – a fairly recent US term, as I understand it. The idea is that the “channeller” (i.e., the medium) is acting as a channel between physical and nonphysical levels by allowing their physical body to be used by a nonphysical entity. The medium’s nonphysical moves out, to greater or lesser extent, and the entity being channelled takes over control of the channel’s body – to greater or lesser extent.

In my case, because I was such a sticky beak it was always lesser extent :)