White Cloud, Via Channeler, Advises Humanity That Earth Is a Game and Souls Cannot Die

THE ASTRAL PLANE — A message attributed to the spirit White Cloud, channeled by Blossom Goodchild and transcribed by the website Era of Light, was published on October 25 with a familiar assurance: things will change dramatically, though "for a little while yet."

According to the transcript, the entity holds that the change will arrive only when people feel they can bear no more. When it does, the message states, both the inner and outer worlds will occupy a different vibration. Asked by Ms. Goodchild whether scenes of rioting would then alter, the speaker replied that much will have changed. In the meantime, listeners are advised to remain in the heart space and to keep news of the world at a distance.

The central teaching is that earthly life is a game, an experiment or an illusion, chosen by the soul for its own purposes. The speaker acknowledges that people take offense at this, particularly when others are suffering, but says the description is not an excuse. It is, in the message's words, a knowing. The soul, it adds, cannot die, and may elect any experience at all, a cockroach among giant cockroaches included.

The speaker also takes up the matter of his own appearance. He says the Native American identity is merely a label to help listeners recognize him, and that elsewhere he might present quite differently. Ms. Goodchild, according to the text, interjected with a plea that he not say a fork.

The channeler is reported to have confessed repeated bafflement. She says she cannot understand the teaching, and asks readers not to send her questions, as she has no answers. The message closes with a counsel to love oneself and one's life. A note appended by the publisher states that White Cloud, or Mahaska, lived from 1784 to 1834 and was a head chief of the Ioway Nation.