Maureen’s First Channelling Experience
Maureen recounts her story of her first channelling experience with Archangel Michael.
Transcript:
I don't have the the typical story. I've watched interviews with others where they always say how they knew since they were a small child, that was not me. For me, I always knew there was something intuitive about me, I was interested in intuition but I didn't think of it more than that. And then when I got really sick, with a lump in my neck when I was pregnant with my first daughter; it forced me into the alternative medicine stream. I was very conservative, I wouldn't have ever tried. I thought it was a big deal for me just to try a chiropractor, never mind someone who did alternative medicine, right? So I went from conservative to all of a sudden trying what I thought was crazy - Reiki, and herbalists and anything to get rid of this lump. Because the doctors had said they'd have to take it out surgically, and I'd have paralysis, and I just knew there had to be another way. So I found something called the Bodytalk System, and I did that as a practitioner because we'd gotten rid of my lump, and I was really impressed with it.
And just one day, during a session, they teach you to tune in, they teach you to tune in to the person. And for me, I was always afraid of hurting someone. I was afraid that even though I had taken all my courses, and I was a good student, I was worried ‘what if I made someone worse?”. So even though I wasn't religious, or I would have called myself an agnostic, what I would say before I started was, “Whatever's out there, just help me not make them worse. I just want to really help this person. Help me to do what they need.”
And so I guess without realizing it, I was invoking help! And the particular person that I had worked with that day, she was really religious, and she believed in angels so she was invoking angels all the time. I really think that's partly why Archangel Michael showed up that day, because she probably had him around her all the time. So it was literally in the middle of the session, I'm following the Bodytalk process and all of a sudden I hear this dude's voice and he says “Hello, would you tell her…” And he goes on and labels out all of this information about her that I couldn't have possibly known.
I freaked out - had the hairs of the back of my neck up, you know that feeling of “oh my god there's a ghost!” I didn't think “oh I have an angel,” I automatically thought the worst, “oh my god there's a ghost in here”. But he kept repeating the same information, so I realized he wasn't going to go away until I said what he wanted. So I basically relayed the information, and she started crying and said “oh my god that's so important that you said this, I so understand, what else does he say?” And I was like, “I don't know!” but then he kept talking to me! And so we ended up having this three-way conversation, where she'd ask him questions, and he'd answer and she was asking to clarify who it was. And he just said my name is Michael, and I still am thinking “okay I'm nuts, this is like a ghost, this woman's nuts”. Like I was not happy with the process. And when she left, I was just like “holy crap I'm schizophrenic!” ***
Even though she had been positive about the experience, and certainly didn't mirror back to me that this was weird, I still couldn't handle what had happened. I had no framework for that whatsoever! So I was really lucky, I told a few friends I knew who were kind of spiritual, and they said “oh there's this woman, Anne Marie Melanson, she teaches how to channel angels, as far as writing; so do want you contact her?” So they've been happening a few more times; Michael showed up, Raphael, there are a few angels that started showing up when I do Bodytalk. So I was like ‘they're not going away!’ So I phoned her, and she said “Don't worry, those are angels!”, and told me about Doreen Virtue; who is a very well-known channel of angels. And I started reading books, and from there I realized, “Okay I can do this! This isn't crazy! this is heard of! and I don't know why I can do this, but this is quite the ride!
Because I guess the biggest thing that even though I was scared about, what does this mean by being able to do this the big thing that was cool, was that they have such interesting things to say, and the perspective was so different. So I thought even if I'm crazy, who cares! Then I'll be crazy because they are so interesting I'd be really stupid to shut it down so i just opened up and let it happen.
Additional note added May 2025 by Maureen:
I’ve changed so much in the way I would explain things since when this was recorded in 2013. I cringe at this video but decided to include it as archival proof of where I started. That was 7 years into channelling SAM and I was still so uncomfortable with talking about what had happened. I’m glad I kept this video though, because it reminds me of just how conservative I was. To think reiki was crazy? Or be afraid to go to a chiropractor? Now those two things are completely normal self-care to me. It just goes to show how people change once they go within.
*** I am uncomfortable with the fact that I said “I thought I was schizophrenic.” In 2013, the medical/psychological community was still using that word, and still describing anyone who ‘heard voices’ as schizophrenic. I am happy to see that in 2025, there has been evolvement both in the understanding of schizophrenia (now called ‘schizophrenia spectrum disorder’ and there is much more acceptance that if a person hears voices in their head, that it doesn’t mean you will be given a schizophrenia diagnosis.