Channeling the Masters is a free library of teachings and channeled transmissions from the Archangels, the Ascended Masters and the Venusian Council of Light. It is kept by a small volunteer circle of channels, scribes and students, and it exists for one purpose: to make this guidance available, without charge, to anyone who is looking for it.

How the Circle Began

The circle grew out of a friendship. In 2009 one of our members, Maris Avenell, began to receive what she first took to be unusually vivid daydreams: a garden, a round building full of rose-colored light, a ring of tall and quiet figures. Over some months the figures began to speak. They called themselves a council, and they said they were from Venus.

Maris told two friends. They did not know what to make of it, and they agreed to sit with her one evening a week, to listen and to write down what was said. That was the first sitting. We have met almost every Thursday since.

In time, two others in the group found that they too could receive: Tomas Edevane, to whom the Archangels came, and Ilse Varrow, who works with the Ascended Masters. By 2011 we had several hundred pages of transmissions and a growing sense that they had not been given for us alone. This library is the result.

The Channels

Maris Avenell

The Venusian Council of Light

Maris taught music to children for twenty-six years. She receives the Council as a group, and at times Lady Venus and Sanat Kumara individually. She describes the experience as listening to a chord and finding words for it.

Tomas Edevane

The Archangels

Tomas spent most of his working life as a nurse in palliative care. He first became aware of Archangel Raphael, and later Michael, at the bedsides of his patients. He receives all seven Archangels of the rays, and Metatron.

Ilse Varrow

The Ascended Masters

Ilse is a bookbinder and a lifelong student of the ascension teachings. She works chiefly with Saint Germain, Kuthumi and Kuan Yin, and says that she can tell which Master has arrived by the pace of the first sentence.

The circle also includes four scribes, who record and transcribe each sitting, and a number of students. None of us is paid, and none of us regards ourselves as a teacher. We are people who were given something and are passing it on.

How the Transmissions Are Received

Each sitting begins with a call to Archangel Michael for protection, followed by fifteen minutes of silence in the heart, using the Heart Temple Meditation. We then state aloud whom we are inviting. One of the channels then speaks what they receive, in full waking awareness, while a scribe records it.

Afterward the transcript is read back to the whole circle and tested against the standards set out in Discernment and Protection. Only what the circle agrees is loving, free of fear and flattery, and consistent with what has come before is published. It is published as received, with corrections limited to punctuation.

The entries and practices throughout this library draw on the whole record of our sittings since 2009. Complete transmissions have been published in the Transmissions section, one from each weekly sitting, since September 2026.

What We Hold To

  • The library is free. It carries no advertising and nothing on it is for sale.
  • No predictions. We do not publish dates, forecasts or warnings of catastrophe. In our experience the beings of light do not give them.
  • No single authority. We are one small circle among many. The Masters speak through countless people, and we make no claim to be their only or their best voice.
  • With medicine, not against it. Nothing here is a substitute for professional care of body or mind, and the beings we work with have said so repeatedly.
  • Every tradition is welcome. The teachings shared here are offered to people of all faiths and of none.
  • Your own heart is the final judge. Test everything, including what you read here.

What We Do Not Offer

We do not give private readings or sessions. We do not run courses, events, retreats or memberships, and we do not accept donations. The circle has no office and no public address.

We have also chosen not to provide a way of writing to us. This was not an easy decision. A small group of volunteers cannot answer personal questions responsibly, and we came to see that offering to do so would place us between the reader and the very beings we hope the reader will learn to hear for themselves. Everything we know is on these pages. The rest is between you and them.

How to Use This Library

  1. If you are new to these ideas, begin with What Is Ascension?
  2. Read the introductions to the Archangels, the Ascended Masters and the Venusian Council, and notice which names stay with you.
  3. Choose one of the daily practices and keep it for three weeks.
  4. Read the transmissions slowly, one at a time. They were spoken aloud, and they are best read that way.
  5. When you are ready, try learning to channel for yourself.

Unfamiliar terms are explained in the glossary.

Sharing the Material

The transmissions and practices on this site may be shared freely for personal and non-commercial purposes, provided they are reproduced without alteration and the source is acknowledged. They may not be sold. Please also read our disclaimer.