Many people who come for readings with my guide Ortan, or to take classes with us, ask how I started to channel Ortan. In fact Ortan was the second clearly individual guide that I channelled. Before I started to work with Ortan I had a guide called Iskera. Starting to channel a guide really challenged my sense of myself at a personality level. It brought up a lot of fear, “Can I really do this? People will think I am mad!” Once I started though there was no looking back, it changed my life.

When I first channelled Iskera I found the experience deeply moving and I was unable to hold the frequency of the guide for more than about five minutes. My partner asked Iskera about the purpose of our work together and at that point I lost it. I cried and shook uncontrollably for several minutes afterwards – the physical impact of the energy of the guide was much stronger than I had expected and I had to readjust my energy to accommodate it. The guide too has to adjust to the experience of the material world via the channel and this can take some time.

The information is transmitted in pulses and these can be very concentrated and challenging to unscramble at first. The main thing was the unconditional love and acceptance that channelling opened me up to. This conscious connection with Iskera was made using some of the techniques channelled by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer and which we now incorporate in our Opening to Channel classes. Sanaya and Duane’s work has had a profound effect on my own spiritual development, Sanaya channels a guide called Orin and Duane channels a guide called DaBen. I read all of Sanaya’s books and found them uplifting and very useful.

I started to use the techniques in the Opening to Channel book but I wasn’t always sure whether it was me or my guide when I channelled. I now realise that this is a very common problem at the beginning of conscious channelling. This sort of channelling is where the channel is aware of what is going on. Up till then I had little or now awareness of what I was saying whilst I was connected with the higher realms, their techniques enabled me to develop as a conscious channel.

My work with my present guide Ortan began when my great friend, spiritual brother and teacher was dying of cancer. We had known each other for many years. At that time I was channelling Iskera. This gentle and lovely guide stayed with me throughout the period of my friend’s dying and death and assisted me and others in coping with the funeral. At this point Iskera’s work with me was done. On the evening of my friend’s funeral, I went out into the garden of the house where he had died to watch the sunset. I was accompanied by his partner and his sister. I squatted in the garden and watched the sun, as it faded I became strongly aware of Iskera and saw my friend’s soul as a star speeding across the sky, Iskera explained that he was now free to rise through the planes. Iskera also explained that now our work together was done. It was very sad and I felt such a great sense of loss. I had lost my dearest friend and now I was also losing my dearly loved guide.

Soon I began to channel Ortan. He explained that now it was my time to begin to teach, he was a teacher guide and this would be our work together. At this point I realised that I now had to give up my ‘normal’ life and commit fully to my spiritual path. This was when I started to teach spiritual growth and development classes, meditation classes and so on. My focus with Ortan since then has been on teaching channelling and Awakening the Light Body classes as well as classes for those with fully awakened Light Bodies. Recently, Ortan and I have connected very strongly with the Angelic Kingdoms and I have channelled some really moving meditations for developing that Angelic connection. This connection has been such a gift for me, as it follows on from my childhood experiences with the angels and develops this beautiful relationship.

It was a big surprise when Ortan began bringing through the series of classes on Ascension. At first I thought there was just one class, but more soon followed and we are still bringing new work through as the earth vibrations change in preparation for 2012 and 2025.

My experience of Ortan is as a very loving, wise and compassionate being. When I channel him I am acutely aware of how incredibly loving he is, he stresses the importance of love very frequently, both self love and love for others. He and I have worked so closely now for so long that I feel almost a part of him, but he continually surprises me when we work with those who come for readings with him.
Over the years I have been privileged to give many readings to people, each reading we give is completely individual and I can never predict what will happen. When I am channelling Ortan for these readings I am in a state of meditation, I move into a place of deep, deep peace and harmony and although I am have some awareness of what is being said, I feel little interest in it. After readings it is rather like having had a dream, so that immediately afterwards I can remember what was said, but as time passes the experience fades. I prefer it to be like this as I do not want to carry other people’s problems and issues about with me, and also their dialogue was with Ortan and not with me, I am just the means by which he is able to communicate with the people we work with. I do not monitor what is said as by now I know I can trust Ortan’s tact, loving heart, gentleness and sensitivity to ensure that the person coming for the reading is taken care of, probably better than I could ever do.

Copyright Lita de Alberdi 2009.