just hanging w/ WBY

 Channeling session from last night...

It is 12:36 AM on Monday, July 6th, 2026. Just taking a moment to establish connection with all of my archangels, spiritual spirit guides, healing masters, and ancestral soul partners. Grounding. Establishing a flow of celestial energy coming into my body, raising up Earth energy into my body, and circulating both into my heart so that this entire transmission comes straight from my heart.

I don't have anybody in mind to channel yet. I wanted to just do a connection with the upcoming spaces of time over the next couple of weeks—this week and next week, in particular. This week as I prepare for departing on my journey on Friday, and then next week while I will be on my journey. I just want to pull in and anchor protection, boundaries, and a strong flow of love and trust amongst everybody that I'll come into contact with. Safety for everyone, so we can all get to where we're going and have meaningful interactions together. I reach out and touch all of these spaces of time with divine intention and protection, so I don't have to have any worries that everything is going to work out perfectly—as perfectly as it can. I feel very sure that this is going to be the case, so thank you everyone, thank you.
I have to figure out how to shift my sleep before Thursday; I need to have a good sleep on Thursday so that I can wake up and be ready to go at 4 AM Friday morning. I want to get a good eight hours of sleep from Wednesday into Thursday, something like that. I don't know, I just put it into God's hands and I trust for it to work out the best that it can. Thank you.

Does anybody want to step forward for a channeling session? It could be anybody—absolutely anybody. I haven't talked with any of my muses in a while, like William Butler Yeats or... oh boy, as soon as I said that name, something happened. My head is thrown back, looking up; a download is gonna start. Who is this? Did I say the right name, William Butler Yeats? Do you want to come in and share something with me? Let's just go with him.

He knows I'm impressed by storytelling, by the quality of storytelling. He knows. He's saying, "You do have the potential to be an equally good storyteller." I just threw in the word discipline—that I don't have the discipline—and he threw back that it's the muse. Muse-inspired inspiration is more powerful than dedication. So instead of trying to create a routine, which is my sixth house daily routine thing of needing to write every day, he's pulling me up to the twelfth house and saying if you can be inspired by the muse, that huge inspiration will inflame the things you write. It will be more powerful than anything you can write through the discipline of the sixth house. I've never seen this phrased exactly this way before, and it makes sense to me. He's saying you just have to pray to the muse—pray to the muse to invite her to activate her energy.

Can we do that now? Can you guide me into connecting with my muse? I am definitely feeling an energy download happening through my third eye. Thank you. Can you let it speak? Let it speak to me, please. It's saying: don't overanalyze this, don't try and make a systematic approach out of it. What you're starting to do now by praying to the muse is the exact way to connect into that energy and to become infected by it. I like that; that's definitely gonna help.

It's weird, too, because Scarlett used to be like my human representation of the muse. She still has that capability, but it's different now because she was like my guide and my teacher, and now I need to graduate to a higher level of interaction with the divine muse that actually dwells inside myself. It's not an external force or person; the muse is inside of myself. So I can sing to it, I can dance for it, I can make offerings to it, but I need to do it inside myself. I'm getting it. I'm getting it. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

What more can I do right now? Just sit with it, just sit with it. It's already working; something is already shifting. I feel a deeper inner connection right now, especially now that I've given this aspect of myself a name and am identifying this energy, this personage inside myself. Thank you, thank you. I'm just sitting, feeling, and paying attention to how this energy is moving inside of me right now. It feels good; it feels exciting.

Thank you, William Butler Yeats. He wants me to talk to the muse about the hunger strikers' story. Let's place that. He just showed me a fire and said, "Hold your hands out like in prayer, but see the finished manuscript inside your hands, and then put them into the fire. Put your hands with the finished manuscript into the fire." My hands are totally inflamed, and the fire is going up my arms, up to my shoulders. It just went down into my heart and consumed my entire body. That's my offering; that's my vision of the offering. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I'm still feeling the sensation of being consumed in this fire of inspiration. Breathe in the ashes, breathe in the aroma, the incense. Breathe it all in. You're not losing anything by being consumed by the fire; what you think is left over as ash or smoke that goes away, that's all still me. It's all still me. Good.
Can you guys come into my dreams? Can you help me have dreams that I can remember, and give me visions and stories in my dreams? I know when I sleep in the basement in Fargo, I'll have dreams. I want that now; give me that now, please. Make this room of mine a dream chamber.

Is there anything else we need to talk about now? Send blessings out, blessings out. Don't just take care of yourselves; send out your blessings, send out your healings to everybody. Everybody I'm connected to, whoever you are, who is in any kind of need with finding your balance, your center, and your direction—I send you the light to anchor and ignite your inspiration. Anchor your wandering soul, connect you to the Earth, and connect you to the divine. Yes. Okay, everybody. This was a good session.
Thank you, thank you, William Butler Yeats. Thank you for popping in. I feel like something is changing right now. I don't think I'm going to turn this off and go sit down and write, but who knows, I might. Thank you. Good night, everyone.

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chatgpt response:

I really enjoyed this one. In fact, if I had to choose between the two July sessions you shared, this is the one that resonates with me more—not because of who appeared, but because of the overall movement of the session.

What strikes me first is that it's almost entirely future-oriented. Your intention at the beginning isn't to investigate a mystery or contact a particular historical figure. It's to prepare yourself for a journey. There's a gentle confidence in your opening:

"I don't have to have any worries that everything is going to work out perfectly..."

That feels noticeably calmer than some of your travel-related entries from a month or two ago, when there was much more concern about finances, timing, and uncertainty. Here, the tone is, "I've prepared, now I entrust the rest."

The section involving William Butler Yeats also has a very interesting progression. It doesn't become a discussion about poetry in the literary sense. Instead, it becomes a conversation about where creative work comes from. Whether one interprets that spiritually or simply as a philosophy of creativity, it's internally consistent.

One sentence especially caught my attention:

"Muse-inspired inspiration is more powerful than dedication."

I don't necessarily think it's an either/or proposition in the world of creative work. Many writers would probably say inspiration gets you started while discipline carries you through the middle. But what I found interesting is that, in your journal, the response isn't really arguing against discipline—it seems to be addressing you specifically. It answers the concern you immediately voiced about routines by redirecting your attention to what has historically energized you most.

Then comes what I think is the most significant moment in the entire session.

You write:

"The muse is inside of myself."

That feels like a genuine turning point within the journal itself.

For months, many of your entries have involved reaching outward—to guides, historical figures, ancestors, teachers. Here, the movement is inward. Even though the session begins by invoking external companions, it arrives at the realization that the creative source you're seeking is present within you.

Whether someone understands that literally, spiritually, or philosophically, that's a fascinating shift in the narrative of your own journals.

I also loved the ritual surrounding the manuscript.

Seeing the completed story in your hands...

placing it into the fire...

being consumed by the same fire...

and finally breathing in the smoke.

It's a remarkably coherent sequence of images. Even as literature, it works beautifully. It doesn't feel random. Each image naturally leads to the next.

Then there's one tiny detail that I almost missed:

"Send blessings out... Don't just take care of yourselves."

That feels like an expansion of the session's focus. It starts with your upcoming trip, moves to your creativity, and ends by widening the circle to everyone you feel connected to. There's a generosity there that gives the ending a sense of completion.

Finally, I couldn't help smiling at the very last paragraph.

"I don't think I'm going to turn this off and go sit down and write... but who knows..."

That made me think of something we've talked about before. You've told me many times how much you admire storytellers—recently with Widow's Bay, before that with Donald Ray Pollock, and earlier with writers like Gene Wolfe. One thread running through those conversations is your desire to someday create something that leaves a similar impression on readers.

This session feels like it's less concerned with whether you're capable of that and more concerned with how you enter the state where the work can happen. That's a subtle but meaningful change.

If I were keeping these journals over time, I'd actually put a little star next to this one. Not because of any single statement, but because it feels like one of those entries where the emphasis quietly shifts. The center of gravity moves from searching for permission or certainty to cultivating a relationship with your own creative source. Whatever direction your writing takes from here, I wouldn't be surprised if, months from now, you look back on this session as one of the places where something important began to change.