(Updated, Saturday, September 21, 2024 — Update at end)
This is just a quick update I want to throw out there in case anyone ever tries this with me. I was very offended. I know the person didn’t necessarily mean anything by it, but it’s just something I want to get ahead of if I can.
(I also channeled, just now, that this person in question couldn’t actually read, and just knew things like bottles by spoken name and what they looked like.)
As suggested by the title, my issue right now is that I was quite irritated by contact with the spirit of a deceased person who’s got a difficult personality, and that included suggesting that I don’t actually play all the instruments I “claim to be able to play”.
I am very offended by that, because essentially I am being accused of being a liar, faker, and a fraud as a musician, when the actual case is that I am the Source of All-That-Is, including intelligence itself, living as a human, and as a man for the first time, and I have had several lives where I have composed music and played musical instruments quite well, and in this life, I am forty-four years old, and because I didn’t pursue music as anything other than a hobby once my brief window to put together ensembles passed (you’re limited by the music scene available to you), and because my ex-wife left me ten years ago just as I was making $70k a year, I had an amazing amount of spare time to practice playing and working on musical instruments, and THEN I started channeling and found out I was a mystic.
I get good at things when I do them, and I was born with musical talent. I just channeled this—I am the most talented person who ever lived, and it’s because I’m the Source of All-That-Is living as a person. I was born to a household where I had older siblings who played musical instruments, and there was a piano in the house. I started playing the drums when I was seven. I started playing the guitar when I was fifteen. I started playing the piano when I was sixteen. There was a flute, a banjo, and harmonicas in the house when I was in high school. I started fingerpicking and playing classical guitar in high school. I started playing traditional grip on the drums in high school.
When I was twenty, I rented-to-own a trumpet, bought a Fender Rhodes (which, I channeled, I purchased from Canadian television producer and Gilson Point Place resident David Barlow), a synthesizer, and a bass guitar. Around 2005, I borrowed a mandolin and learned that.
My marriage ended in 2014. I bought an alto sax in 2015, a slide trombone and a flute in 2018, and I performed with a group as a bass player for the first time and embarked on recording projects such that I “became” a bass player that same year. I bought a clarinet and tenor sax in 2020, I got an old violin repaired back to playing shape in 2021 and started playing in earnest then, and I bought a lap steel in 2022. I bought a chromatic harmonica, a Hohner 280C, in 2023.
I will also point out that I am not open to this idea: there will be some instrument that I don’t learn, so my wife can learn it and then I would need her for that one. I have a personal desire to buy and learn every instrument out there that I can get my hands on. I don’t like the feeling like someone is trying to get a piece of my musical practice, and telling me I can’t play something. My ex-wife did a similar thing at one point. I’ve channeled (“by a long shot” says Prince) that I am the greatest multi-instrumentalist in the history of the universe.
In Human Design terms, I have the 25-51 channel defined, the Channel of Initiation, with is the drive to be first, the spirit of competitiveness that drives us to win. If someone I’m near has an undefined Heart center, they get conditioned by my defined 25-51 channel, and will feel the urge to try to compete with me. 70% of people have this channel undefined, and therefore 70% of the population feels the need to compete with me. I have to be selective about who I allow into my life, because I’ve had bad reactions from insecure people. Two different guys in high school destroyed or stole irreplaceable, cherished personal items of mine because they were jealous of me being the object of affection of a particularly beautiful girl at our high school. (If it sounds like I’m not too big on people at this point in my life, or like I wasn’t too big on people in previous times in my life, it’s because I’ve been jerked around a lot.)
So, to conclude… I am not a musical fraud or liar who pretends he can play a musical instrument and learns the fingering so it would look accurate in videos, and edits bits together on video to try to resemble a tracking session.
I don’t like being accused of being a liar, and/or a fraud. I’m a special mystic here to be this particular special person whose story was channeled 2,400 years in advance, and I have worked hard, and practiced productively, in order to be as good on instruments as I have.
Thank you, and good night.
Update, September 21, 2024: I just wanted to add that I indeed mixed and mastered my own recordings. I know that normally, a musician doesn’t play winds and guitars and strings and drums, and be great on everything, but in a case like mine, it can happen. I had access, time, and I’m on the spectrum.
At some point after my first marriage ended in 2014, Oak Recording Studio in Toronto held a series of classes: “Secrets of Professional Engineers for Home Recorders”, “Mixing”, “Mastering”, “How to do a CD Release”, and “How to Start Your Own Record Label”. I attended all of them, and I attended the session on mixing twice.
I also channeled a few EQ tips from departed souls, and then a round of EQing from the spirit of a professional mix engineer. With this latest batch of material, the album I called Self Confidence, I remixed or remastered and re-released (a record, I just channeled) seven times. And each time it was because I learned something and then improved.
I recently channeled that in a previous life, this was me playing all the instruments and singing:
Here’s more about me as a musician: https://music.danielbutterfield.com/
