Channeling for Authors

What this course covers and what you will get from it

Before we dive in deep, let me explain what channeling is 'in my book'.

This is a warm up visualisation to ease you into a place where your book is ready to come forward and bubble up into your consciousness

This first step eases you into the channeling state and opens the door for your muse to connect.

One of the sources of procrastination is fear that we hold in our lower mind centres.

Fears are primarily there to protect us but they can lead to us becoming creatively uncreative.

This visualisation is an essential precursor to what is to follow.

When we learn to channel, we can be somewhat fearful of what we might unleash through us.

So this short visualisation is designed to clear any blockages that might get in your way.

If you get stuck

If your fears prove a little stubborn and keep popping up, you can do three simple things: First, thank them for coming along and ask yourself what you can learn about them.

Second, make a note of why and when they appeared.

Third, write about them and make up a story about them, giving them a name, a reason to be and a direction of travel to follow.

Hand write notes of the following

Each day for the coming week, make a quiet time for yourself and listen to the visualisation below.

This process is referred to as passive channeling.

Have a pad of paper and a pen or pencil ready so you can write what comes in when you finish listening.

Optionally on the fifth or sixth day onwards, you can run the script of this visualisation in your head and practice getting into the passive channeling state under your own steam.

One of the best ways to tune in is actually to tune out.

When I write, I channel but I also channel when I compose and create ambient music.

So when you read any of my books or listen to any of my meditations or music, you will naturally enter the trance state - this is spiritual mirroring.

You will learn how to do this for your readers and listeners later in this course.

So here's a 21 minute ambient track from my Soulwaves Album appropriately called "A Calling" for you to freely channel to.

And guess what, the more you practice, the more it becomes second nature.

As you tuned into to your Muse in the last module, did you notice any of the following?

These are typical of what happens when we choose to move up a gear or three.

Remember, if at any point during the course, if you have any queries or even blinding flashes of enlightenment, then I would like to know.

Just pop a question in the comments box at the bottom of this page

In this next part of the course, you will learn the difference between passive and active channeling. Passive channeling tends to have no structure and can become dull and repetitive.

When we define a structure for our book and channel into it, we end up with a start, a middle and an ending.

You will also find that your book starts to be told to you and ideas for the next chapter come your way before you get around to writing it.

So in this module, you will start to flesh out the content and structure for your book.

When we have a framework to channel to, it helps us to know when we are finished and to write a book which engages with the reader.

In the last module, you were just getting used to channelling.

In this module, you are just starting to think about your book and how it might be laid out.

In subsequent modules, we will go into increasing levels of detail on how the book will flow and to the exact words you will write for it.

Note that nothing gets cast in stone during this course.

These exercises are designed to open up gateways, possibilities and potentials.

To help you tune in still further, listen to this visualisation for 2-3 times, ideally on successive days.

Optionally, when it finishes, write and passively channel what comes in while you are in the ‘no-mind’ state.

After 2-3 listens, try and use the script from this visualisation in your head to enter this state under your own volition.

If by the way, your book is starting to arrive in parts, just let it come in.

Anything we write can be used – either in the book itself, as a blog or in future books.

If your Muse is calling, let it come in and don’t wait for the next lessons.

The first step in writing a book is to get all your ideas out of your head and out of the ether grounded into the physical plane.

So get a large sheet of paper (A3 or tabloid) and some coloured pens or pencils before watching this video.

Allow 10-20 minute for this task and note that you can come back to the Mind Map you create at any time.

Also, if you are uncomfortable, or unfamiliar with Mind Mapping, you can just complete this exercise in lists in your journal.

The first step in writing a book is to get all your ideas out of your head and out of the ether grounded into the physical plane.

So get a large sheet of paper (A3 or tabloid) and some coloured pens or pencils before watching this video.

Allow 10-20 minute for this task and note that you can come back to the Mind Map you create at any time.

Also, if you are uncomfortable, or unfamiliar with Mind Mapping, you can just complete this exercise in lists in your journal.

To give you an idea of how pre-planning a structure works in practice, this video deconstructs how I designed the structure for my book Flavours of Thought.

Actually, as you will see, I didn’t actually design it – it was more like it was given to me.

This short visualisation shows how the breath is the pump that powers our creativity and opens us up to our muse

As you complete each module, the tasks from the previous lesson will make more and more sense. Each lesson is designed to tune you into your Muse more and more and act as a precursor to the tasks in the next lesson.

Before you embark on this next step, make sure you have the following in place.

Note that nothing is cast in stone and your book will naturally evolve.

As you will see, with publishing in the 21st century, it is easy to update books and republish new editions as new material comes to you.

In this module, you will look at the book from the perspective of your reader.

This objectivity ensures you write a book that a reader wants to read and one that they can’t put down.

It's time to look at your book from the perspective of the reader.

This objective perspective ensures you write a book that a reader wants to read and one that they can’t put down.

Let me share how to take a reader on a journey through the chakras to help build a balanced business. Note that I have no plans to write this book. I first created this video in 2014 and I did though use this model a few years later to create a course called Heart-full Living, which you will find here.

You will find an attachment below to map out a 12 chapter reader journey, as well as one for the 7 chakra concept

This second video describes a possible fictional version of a Balanced Business.

It's the sort of book that Deepak Chopra might write like his excellent book, The Way of the Wizard.

If I wrote such a book, I probably wouldn't mention the word chakra but just use the essence of each chakra's energy in the tale.

In one model, it's thought that there's a place that we go between lifes called The Akashic Records Office.

It's a place where we review our life just gone and plan our learnings and experiences for the next,

Now this is pure conjecture of course but if we imagine it's real, we can get considerable enlightenment from 'going there'.

In this visualisation, you will be taken there to meet with your Soul Group.

You will also see the ‘book of your life’ which keeps the record of your karmic path – as well as the books you will write.

In this module, we start to channel the content of your book (or project). If you have started already, this is a good thing.

Before you embark on this lesson, make sure you have the following in place.

In this next step, you will write the beginning and end of your book.

If you are planning an introduction and a summary, you will write these.

If you just have a first and last chapter planned, write these.

What you will learn in this lesson is how to channel your future self who knows the words you are about to write. This video explains the theory behind how we are able to do this.

This visualisation takes your consciousness outside your physical body so it connects with all versions of You, past and present.

This meditation helps you to tune into All Time and the version of you in the future who 'knows' the words you are about to write.

I stress that this is an exercise in imagination but it is amazing how well it works.

Shortly, you will actually begin to actually write your book.

In order to entrance the reader, we must write in trance.

So before undertaking the tasks in this module, listen to this visualisation which shows you how to be in the trance state with your eyes open.

As for all these visualisations, always have a paper and pen ready as channellings can come in at any time.

There are a few minutes of brain entrainment music at the end which you can use for this.

From your mind map or journal look at the start state of the reader before they read your book.

Imagine the reader opening your book expectedly and being excited to be beginning to read it.

Next, ask your guide or Muse to come through and start writing your introduction.

Make sure you cover the key points and key learnings.

Listen to the track called The Void which I composed around the 'opening' of my novel Soulwaves. This will help you tune into the channeling state.

Next, rather than moving on to the next chapter in your book, you will write the concluding chapter or summary of your book.

At this stage, you are only producing a first draft and almost certainly you will edit this chapter once the rest of the book is written.

Again look at your Mind Map and tune into the end reader state.

Just imagine the reader having enjoyed and being enlightened by what they have read.

By writing the start and end of a book, it leaves a vacuum of the middle which our unconscious mind likes to fill.

So, in the coming weeks, the rest of the book starts arriving,

If it starts to flow in, don’t wait until the next module before you start writing. At this stage, resist the temptation to edit anything but spelling mistakes and typos.

To get you into the trance state, with headphones on, play this ambient track called Lagrange from my novel Soulwaves. It uses spatial audio to synchronise the left and right brains.

In this module, you will learn how to draft the rest of your book rapidly and how you can also use your sleeping time to ‘write’ your book.

Before you embark on this first lesson, make sure you have the following to hand.

Many people make a great start on their book but then hit the buffers with the enormity of the task ahead of them.

This lesson takes you through an easy-to-follow process that gets your book drafted in what feels like no time at all.

This video takes you through how I wrote an example chapter for the Balanced Business book. The templates used can be downloaded below.

Most of us spend 7-8 hours each day sleeping.

This is a perfect time for our guides and our Muse to connect with us.

They sometimes do this literally and sometimes in metaphor.

This video shows you how to use your dream time to be creative and how to seed, remember and analyse our dreams.

In this lesson, you will learn how to deepen the impact of your book and how channelling becomes a 24×7 activity, once you tune in.

Note that it’s not crucial you have finished the last module at this point but you should at least have made appointments to ‘meet your chapters’.

You can use what you learn in this next step to make your writing resonate even more with your reader.

Once we tune into guidance, we get messages at all times of the day, sometimes in very strange and unexpected ways.

In this next video, I share two examples.

The maxim ‘you can tell a book by its cover’ is especially true in these connected days.

With more and more books to choose from, as publishing has been democratised, authors have to vie for reader’s attention with eye-catching cover designs.

This video outlines a free association Mind Mapping process you can follow to get cover ideas.

Note, before you do this Mind Map, you can optionally go for a walk, as suggested in the video.

Then, once you spot your inspiration, create a free association Mind Map that expands on the key words from your book title and the metaphors you plan to use.

To find imagery you can use, search for Creative Commons image libraries, use AI and also there are many artists you can commission, or co-create with, for bespoke imagery, graphics and illustrations. Just use your keywords while searching these image libraries and you’ll find loads of new ideas for your visual metaphors.

Here's a useful case study is from my book, The Zone.

When I wrote the book, I used the number six and the idea of a hexagon.

I then used the numerology of the number 6 for the structure of the book.

It has three parts comprising 6 Doing Zones, 6 Danger Zones and 6 Being Zones.

Each zone contains 6 sub-zones.

I had no idea that this would lead to the creation of a methodology to help people extract themselves from Danger Zones, like anger, guilt and sadness.

And that this same methodology could be used to create powerful mandalas.

After being drawn in by the title of your book and the cover design and perhaps some reviews, potential readers of your book will probably next read the book description before they make a purchase.

This video takes you through a worked example of how to use key words and take the reader through a sample of what the book has to offer.

Here’s the book description I wrote for Balanced Business with the key words highlighted.

Note also I repeated the words ‘Balanced Business’ a few times but, hopefully, not over much.

This is an entirely new module I added to this course a couple of years ago when I wrote my first novella expressly to show how to use this technique.

Listen to this first chapter to see how loops open not just for the listener but for me, the scribe - the book just had to be finished but I didn't totally know exactly where it was going.

You wil find a link to the rest of the book below.

Use this meditation to luxuriate in the transition from sleep to awaken-ness and allow your next chapter to come in fully formed.

There comes a time in our journey as an author when we have to step into the spotlight.

This can be a scary time and the way I went about it was by becoming braver and braver each time I published a book.

More recently when I learned how to compose ambient music, I published the first track anonymously and many an author has used a 'nom de plume' to hide behind.

These days I also use the moniker 'Töm Evans' as the name on my fiction books.

This last visualisation takes you on a metaphorical journey to somewhere very special – your book launch.

By the time you watch this video, the publishing landscape will have changed.

Indeed, this very platform did not exist when this video was created. Now authors can serialise their books (and courses like this one) and interact directly with listeners.

To help you tune in still further, what could be better than seeing your perfect future?

This is the basis of all manifestation.

Just imagine yourself as a published author and with your books opening doors for you that you didn't know even existed.

To bring this course right up to date as I migrate it to this new platform, here's an update from me along with a downloadable guide on how to use AI in the writing and publishing process.