To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

I've been a ventriloquist since I was 10.

It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy.

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Sometimes I know the meaning of a word but am tired of it and feel the need for an unfamiliar, especially precise or poetic term, perhaps one with a nuance that flatters my readership's exquisite sensitivity.