Yes, you are on the right track! We are all vibration, we are vibratory beings. Everything is on a vibration. So if you are wanting to speak to someone in the non-physical realm you have to be on the same vibration. I call it "higher" because my physical mind seems to understand that better, and physically that is what it feels like I am trying to reach, and when Seth taught me in the beginning of my becoming, to practice by imaging a ladder, and when you have that image, climb up 3 steps onto a platform. And on that platform you can imagine whatever you want to be up there - a town, a village, a scene from something, you can create your platform to be anything you want...and so, for me, it is a raising up of my consciousness.
Technically, there is no "distance" between us, he is here sitting next to me the minute I think of connecting to him. Jesus also told me, the minute anyone thinks of him, he is there next to them. So "space" is a weird thing. Dimensions really is maybe more explainable to our thinking. We just live in a different dimension than they, and the dimensions all are vibrating on different vibrational frequencies. Oh, have I got a video for you. One of my favorites. I tend to give this one to others a lot, but is fun an uplifting. Abraham, on How you can Channel Abraham
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ilomKaFyw0
Sorry, I digress.
So, yes, when you are in the zone you are channeling your inner being, the part of your soul you are. We, what makes up our consciousness, "house" a small part of our larger soul, and only a small part of our soul came into the physical into this lifetime, making up ourself. Your "inner being" is what you tap into whenever you are creating anything. Everyone channels everyday, they just don't know that they are channeling their inner self, their inner soul. But when you are on that wavelength, it feels amazing, the energy of it feels amazing. Our bodies are just the car, but we are the driver of this wonderful, beautiful car, and our bodies themselves are amazing and help us to create what we are wanting, so it is like, we have to find the instruction manual on how to drive our car, because our car can do so much more than we are told that it can. There are many ways to think about that, but you can use your own imagation - I don't want to put too many of my beliefs into this. This is just information I have learned along the way.
Tesla, Einstein, Jobs, they were all tapping into frequencies, vibrations, that are around us.
Ooh, also, on you tube there are "videos" but they are audio of vibrations on a different vibration than the one we are usually on. They are very fascinating to listen to a bit of. Called megahurtz or something.
When you listen to a channeling, and you listen for longer than about a minute or to, you can feel your vibration raising (if you are paying attention). If you listen to a lot of Abraham videos "audios" on you tube, and there are thousands, they are approx. 15 minutes long, because that is what Esther allows, you will feel better. It just is. In the beginning of that, you might not notice it, but I can listen to a channeled audio and feel the energy of it. We are energy vibrating.
Oh, it is fun to play on different vibrations. That is really all that channeling is.
As far as finding a lost treasure, that is an interesting subject. I love treasure hunting, I do a lot of it. It is part of my quest, because I find it fascinating. However, the Other Side is not going to give me a map and put a big X on it for me, but they will guide me to it. Therein lies the difference. A nudge to go that way, then that way, etc. If you follow your instincts, that is how they are guiding you, or a random thought that you suddenly have about something you are interested in, go that way. They are calling. Are we listening?
People that are departed that can be channeled: because time is a construct, we are not our bodies, we are consciousness, we are all a piece of God, the larger G, our soul is that piece of God, together we make up the whole of God. Now who all is included in that "together" I certainly don't know. But we are all connected. You can feel that if you try. That's an interesting thing to do.
I was standing in line one day at the 99ct store, many years back, when I was unemployed at that time. And I was learned about vibrations, and raising mine, and I was in a lovely place within myself and feeling such energy moving through me, and I had the thought that I could send loving thoughts to those people around me that were also standing in line. I remember the thought was something along the lines of, any one standing in this line could have job if they wanted (in a very loving way). It just was something that occurred to me to do. And a lady who was a few people in line in front of me, while I was sending these loving thoughts, turned around and directly stared at me.
Sort of freaked me out at the time, I must say. I wasn't expecting anyone to feel the thoughts I was sending. It's a small miracle, that we can uplift each other just by having the thought of it. A smile is a small miracle, because we are loving beings. We are all love, it is just we have forgotten :)
Personal imagination is channeling a different vibration that what you currently operate at (your body mechanism). You teach your body to drive a car, and then it always knows how to drive, or ride a bike. Then you don't have to think about it when you are driving (consciously). Your body makes the movements to drive the car. Imagination is freeing yourself from your body in a way, and just using your mind. Your mind's eye. Your mind's eye is your consciousness, not your body. I can have a complete conversation with myself (LOL) in my head, and my body didn't do anything. That is your conscious mind. That is what lives on, after the body dies. We never die. We are eternal beings.
Time is why we can access others whose bodies have died. Space time, as Einstein found it. Ooo, there are a series of videos that a very popular quantum physicist put out a few years back. Those are very interesting. Quantum physics is learning about the things that Seth taught many years back, but they are finally understanding what time and space have. Time is not real, and space is not what we think it is. So, if you take time out of the equation, you will get your answer. The answer remaining is space, and we are just in a different dimensional space than they are. But they exist, we exist, etc.