Episode Summary

In this episode of Talking to the Dead, I explore the idea that creative writing may not originate in the individual brain, but emerges through a process of reception or channelling. Inspired by a vivid dream in which I discovered a handwritten notebook filled with pages from an already-written novel, the episode examines whether literature arises from a shared or non-local dimension of consciousness.

Drawing on accounts from writers including W. B. Yeats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jack Kerouac, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Philip K. Dick, I explore experiences of automatic writing, trance states, and altered consciousness, alongside psychological concepts such as flow and the collective unconscious.

Approaching creativity phenomenologically rather than dogmatically, this episode considers writing as listening rather than invention—and literature as a conversation across time, perhaps even a way of talking to the dead.

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The books of Talking to the Dead 1 & 2 (a novelisation/biograpy of the discoveries made in the podcast,) are available on Amazon in printed and Kindle formats.

Volume One. Talking to the Dead - Philip Skitch

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Volume Two. Talking to the Dead - Out and About - Philip Skitch

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Further Channeled Reading;

1. Jane Roberts — Seth Material (1970s–80s)

* Channeling a non-physical consciousness named Seth.

2. Jane Roberts — The Nature of Personal Reality (1974)

* Continuation of Seth’s teachings on consciousness.

3. Seth / Jane Roberts — The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events (1970s)

* Dictation on mass consciousness and reality creation.

4. Helen Schucman — A Course in Miracles (1975)

* Inner dictation from a voice identified as Jesus.

5. Alice Bailey — The Externalization of the Hierarchy (1930s–40s)

* Telepathically received teachings from Djwhal Khul, an ascended master.

6. Esther Hicks — The Law of Attraction / Abraham Teachings (1986 onward)

* Channeling Abraham, a non-physical collective consciousness.

7. Barbara Marciniak — Bringers of the Dawn (1992)

* Channeling messages from the Pleiadians, a cosmic intelligence.

8. Neale Donald Walsch — Conversations with God (1995 onward)

* Direct written dialogue with God.

9. Paul Selig — I Am the Word series (1999 onward)

* Channeling higher-dimensional guides.

10. J.Z. Knight — Ramtha’s School of Enlightenment (1980s onward)

* Channeling Ramtha, a 35,000-year-old warrior spirit.