Meher Baba on Channeling
When a Master dies he takes no further interest in the affairs of the gross world—not even a Christ. Hence those who imagine that a 'dead' Master is responding to their prayers or watching them, are wrong. — What Meher Baba ‘Really’ Told Paul Brunton: Extracts from Talks in the Orient by Paul Brunton , Glow International, Summer 2012, p. 8. Channeling is communication with entities believed to be not in the material world, and often believed to be advanced souls. Rising as a fad in the 19th century, channeling was very popular in occult circles at the time of Baba's earliest travels, and continues to be right up to today. It shows no sign of abating as a practice even many Baba lovers today associate with spirituality. Moses forbade communicating with the dead. There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necrom