Channeler

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A person who connects with and transmits energy or information from a higher source to others in need of insight
2. An individual who facilitates the transmission of spiritual energy or guidance from higher realms to those seeking understanding or clarity
3. Someone who engages in the act of channeling, delivering messages or energies from spiritual entities to others who require support or wisdom

Etymology: The word "channeler" is simply "channel" plus the agent suffix "-er", meaning one who channels. The noun "channel" itself reaches English from Old French "chanel", from Latin "canalis", meaning a pipe or conduit, and the image of water flowing through a narrow passage is the root of its later figurative senses. The suffix has a longer pedigree: it descends through Latin "-arius", which passed into Old French as "-ier" and then into Middle English as "-ere" and "-er", so the same ending that gives us "farmer" or "carpenter" sits behind the spiritual sense here. The spiritual meaning grew from the older sense of a channel as a medium through which something passes. In the twentieth century, the verb "channel" was applied to mediums who claimed to relay messages from the dead or from other realms, and "channeler" followed as the name for the person doing it. The noun is therefore a recent formation built on a very old set of parts.

Synonyms: medium, conduit, messenger, interpreter, communicator

Antonyms: non-communicator, dissenter, opponent