There is a big spiritual myth in our culture that a being without a body (a spirit) has more information, knowledge, and wisdom, than one with a body (a person)…actually this is not true and even some very high beings still don't have your innate or unique spiritual information.

The beings people channel have their own agendas and you have to wonder whether many channelers and mediums are even aware of their machinations and designs…I would think that most, unless professionally trained at a clairvoyant institute, are not.

If a being refuses to leave your aura or personal space then you can be sure that it is bullshitting you and does not have your interest in mind; I have even had a friend tell me one being told her "no I won't leave your aura — I'm a goddess, you can trust me." But then when my friend threatened to kick the being out with her visualization tools it turned into something far nastier.

I even personally saw one "healer" that channeled a being that claimed to be Jesus, but it in fact corded every single person at the event and extracted a portion of their sexual energy in return for the "healing." Something tells me it wasn't Jesus

I really don't think you need to know the name of your Angel to begin this rite. I've certainly not got any idea about it. I see the purpose of this rite as to start actively building your relationship, to start forming a link between the two of you (and to start transforming yourself into the kind of person who *can* gain 'Knowledge and Conversation') so I'd say at the outset the expectation is that you'll know very little about your angel.

Personally, I found it useful to create a sigil to focus on and visualise during the rite. I gained this by just sitting, thinking about my HGA, and doodling… it didn't come in a moment of 'revelation', but after a few pages of doodling and sketching I found that certain images or ideas kept recurring, and just felt 'right' to me. I assembled them into a single image and then tried variations on that until I felt happy. Occasionally I returned to it and tried variations again to see if I could come up with a 'better' version, and occasionally I would do so.

An interesting variation on this is that Alan Chapman performed a piece of magick, the intent of which was to receive the sigil of his HGA. The magick was successful, and the Sigil came to him in a dream. You might try something like that.

Good luck with the quest… I wish you great success.

From a practical point of view I try to find time for both each day – at the moment I can usually find half an hour for meditation as well as the half hour for the Bornless Rite. Sometimes I do them together, sometimes in other parts of the day.

But I will think about this further and see what else I can say on the subject.

However, you are also right to say that the path of accepting what you are experiencing and allowing it to pass through you, rather than fighting it, is often the most effective. But to take that step you have to reach the level of insight where you know that you are going to be 'okay' if you allow the feelings in – and you have to accept that it's appropriate to feel them rather than railing against the fact that it's 'not fair' that you feel that way.

Acceptance usually comes with time, but initially distancing is common. I think in what I describe there were other factors at work as well, which I may get into in another post… but there is often an element of trying to control the experiences that are coming up rather than embracing them fully and making use of them.