Channeled Information

I've just recently started listening to the Abraham-Hicks people, interested in what all the hullabaloo was surrounding their Law of Attraction stuff. It's nothing I haven't heard before (but always a nice refresher).

What interests me most is the fact that the information is channeled.

This notion of channeling is strange to me. Not sure why. It isn't because I don't believe in non-physical entities, or that I think they can't communicate with us. It isn't because I don't believe that human beings can access those worlds in altered states of consciousness.

Edgar Cayce, Jane Roberts, Esther Hicks -  all people with great messages for us. Should we care about the medium (no pun intended)? Should we care whether or not they are in fact channeling the information? If we are all divine, which I believe we are, then we (as humans) are no less valuable as a source of information.

And if it's good information, should we really care whether or not their source is genuine? If the information helps us, transforms our lives... does it matter which side of the beyond it came from?

It should also be explained (for the uninitiated), that when Hicks channels the entity she calls Abraham, that she takes on a very bizarre Transylvanian accent. This presents a problem for me because I believe accents are of this world, not the other. Do I sincerely think that a Texan, after his or her soul leaves this earth will still retain his or her Southern drawl? No. I don't. This is partially why I take issue with Hicks' channeling of an Eastern European entity (especially considering that this is also a collective of non-physical entities, not a singular one).

The cynic in me can't help but want to scream out and tell her to cut it out. Like Britney slipping in and out of her British accent. It rings false. But another part of me feels a sort of compassion - perhaps she needs to put on this accent in order to access the part of herself that wants to teach, that wants to enlighten. If that is the case then who am I to question it? And what purpose would it serve to expose such a thing?

For those of you who are reading this but have never heard the Abraham-Hicks materials - it's worth looking into. Lots of interesting bits to chew on. That is, of course, if you can get past the accent..