Being a Mystic: How to tell if you're on the Fast-Track to become a Mystic and Channel
“You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don’t”
Something profound is stirring within you. Perhaps you've been questioning everything you once believed, experiencing strange sensations of energy coursing through your body, or finding yourself inexplicably drawn to spiritual texts and teachers. Maybe reality itself feels like it's shifting beneath your feet, leaving you wondering if you're losing your mind—or finally finding it.
If this resonates, you may be on what I call the mystic-channel fast-track: an intense, often overwhelming awakening that transforms you from the inside out. Unlike gradual spiritual development, this is consciousness evolution in overdrive. It's not a path you choose—it chooses you, often arriving like a spiritual tsunami that reshapes everything you thought you knew about yourself and the world.
This accelerated awakening can feel isolating, frightening, and utterly disorienting. One day you're living a conventional life, and seemingly overnight, you're navigating visions, energy downloads, and a complete breakdown of your former identity. It's beautiful, terrifying, and absolutely life-changing.
If you're reading this wondering whether what you're experiencing is "normal" (spoiler alert: it's not normal, but it's real and valid), this guide is for you. We'll explore why this intense awakening happens, what it feels like from the inside, and most importantly, how to navigate this profound transformation without losing yourself completely in the process.
What is a Mystic and a Channel?
A mystic is someone who has direct experience of the divine or ultimate reality, often through meditation, contemplation, or spiritual practices. They feel deeply connected to universal energy or a higher power, with heightened intuitive awareness of reality's true nature. Mystics tend to be empathic, sensitive, and spiritually intuitive.
While mystics aren't necessarily psychics, knocking on the doors to reality's true nature often awakens natural channelling abilities, along with heightened spiritual awareness and healing gifts.
A channel (or channeler) is someone who bridges worlds—the seen and unseen. As a channel, your conscious self steps aside to allow higher insight, energy, visions, or messages to flow through you. You may be a healing channel, messenger channel, or visionary channel.
Why is This Happening?
We are part of a greater awakening of consciousness on the planet right now. The collective consciousness field is rising, affecting and awakening people whether they're ready or not. As a soul, the fast-track method might suit your personality or life stage.
You might have a soul contract to fulfil and need to activate new levels of consciousness to complete your work. Your higher self and spirit guides are waking you up. Perhaps you've had an experience on retreat or in meditation that opened doors that won't close again. Maybe you've been ignoring or denying this part of yourself for too long, and it can no longer be suppressed.
You may have been an atheist who suddenly has an "experience of spirit," or you're in corporate life when a pivotal experience sends you diving into everything metaphysical you can find. Perhaps a healing session unblocked something, allowing you to experience reality on an entirely different level.
It can feel sudden—even if, looking back, events have been building toward this moment. From there, the awakening process intensifies, which is completely normal.
The experience can feel overwhelming and disorienting:
Accelerated processing: You might be working through decades of trauma—from this life or past lives—in mere months, leading to intense emotions of anger, shame, or sadness arising to be released during this rapid inner clearing.
Identity dissolution: Your old sense of self breaks open, causing fear and turmoil as you're pushed through this rapid transformation.
Soul remembering: You might recall agreements, talents, and purposes you came with, often on an unconscious level.
Energetic intensity: It feels like being in an energetic washing machine or having a jet engine turn on inside you. You're trying to function as a normal human while powerful energy moves through you, sometimes causing energetic or physical shaking.
Loss of control: Nothing feels within your control—you're free-falling, unable to hold onto anything familiar. It's happening spontaneously, and you're riding intense waves of transformation.
Questioning sanity: You wonder what's happening to you, feeling unsure if you can handle the experience. It demands intense attention, focus, and energy.
Physical symptoms: Extreme physical tension followed by sudden release cycles.
Intense dreams: Filled with symbols, memories that don't feel like yours, visitors, or messengers.
Synchronicities: Teachers, healers, and mentors begin appearing. You feel drawn to specific books or people. Conversations become charged with meaning and messages.
Intuitive experiences: Seeing or feeling things not present in the material world, sensing divine feminine energy, encountering mythical or angelic beings, receiving visions of future or other realms, hearing messages or thoughts—all feeling strange and unnerving.
Reality shifts: Your sense of reality breaks down before your eyes, with everything feeling unstable.
Moments of transcendence: Alongside the challenges come experiences of profound beauty and bliss as you connect to higher levels of consciousness.
Why the Experience is Difficult
This isn't "normal"—of course, it's hard. Your sense of self is dissolving while your understanding of reality shifts fundamentally. You're holding this inner upheaval while trying to earn a living and appear normal, which requires tremendous energy and focus.
It's frightening because you don't understand what's happening. It's not an everyday experience, creating profound isolation. Who do you talk to? You feel different—not everyone is going through this. Friends and loved ones might be clueless about your experience, and even if they're open-minded, it's difficult to explain something you don't fully understand yourself.
Life often feels like it's falling apart. Internally, you sense your old self dying while a new one emerges, yet you exist in neither state. Externally, you may need to leave your job, move, end relationships, or experience burnout. What once worked but is no longer aligned must end. For some, it feels like taking a bulldozer to your entire life.
You face resistant parts of yourself that you must work with. Deep wounds surface—parts that don't want to exist or be present—yet they cannot be ignored. You're revisiting old patterns but on an entirely different level to create a necessary deeper transformation.
Your intuition comes online powerfully. You might pick up on more than the material world—experiencing visions, encountering non-physical beings, feeling others' emotions acutely, experiencing telepathy, or entering other worlds through dreams. It can feel weird, lonely, and scary. "Am I going mad?" becomes a common question.
You may also be awakening to channelling abilities—becoming aware of ideas, philosophies, or energies wanting to move through you. In this stage, everything breaks down while the new emerges. Nothing feels fixed or steady; your new sense of self hasn't arrived yet, creating deep unsettlement.
Your New Normal: Integration and Embodiment
As you integrate these internal and external changes over time, a rebalancing occurs. A new normal and sense of self emerge. You'll still have periodic healing work, downloads, and consciousness shifts, but this new identity will have arrived more fully. You'll find greater acceptance of your new direction, integration of losses and changes you needed to make, and a clearer sense of purpose, even without all the answers.
However, being in the world while bridging other realms requires specific adjustments:
Lifestyle adaptation: Adjust your life's tempo to accommodate your new energetic and spiritual needs. This isn't selfish—it's necessary for your wellbeing and effectiveness.
Community building: Accept that you're different and seek aligned friendships and communities accordingly. Your tribe exists; they're just not necessarily in your immediate circle.
Support systems: Find guides, mentors, and healers to help you navigate this path. Professional support from those who understand these experiences is invaluable.
Boundary mastery: Learn energetic, interpersonal, and interdimensional boundaries. This becomes crucial for maintaining your sanity and effectiveness in both worlds.
Integration skills: Get comfortable with having intense healing sessions from your guides while grocery shopping, or conducting healing work in other dimensions before picking up your kids from school. This dual existence becomes your new reality.
Embracing Your Path
The mystic-channel path is inherently unusual, discombobulating, and sometimes unnerving. It's a journey into the unknown that transforms you at the deepest levels. But here's what I want you to know: you're not alone, and you're not going crazy. You're evolving.
This awakening, however challenging, is preparing you for something extraordinary. You're becoming a bridge between worlds, a translator of higher wisdom, a healing presence in a world that desperately needs what you're developing. The intensity you're experiencing isn't punishment—it's preparation.
Your sensitivity isn't weakness; it's your superpower. Your ability to feel deeply, see beyond the veil, and channel higher wisdom makes you uniquely equipped for the work you came here to do. The world needs mystics and channels now more than ever. Your awakening is part of the larger healing our planet requires.
Trust the process, even when it feels overwhelming. Find your people—they're out there waiting for you. Get support from those who understand. And remember: you chose this path at a soul level because you're strong enough to walk it.
You were indeed born with wings. This tumultuous journey is teaching you how to use them.
Further reading
Becoming a mystic: Discovering your spirituality
What is Channelling? How Tapping into Higher Wisdom Can Elevate Your Spiritual Business
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