Law of Attraction Magazine Holiday Issue (Nov./Dec., 2018 | Page 40

What is The St r eam?
By David St r ickel
The Stream is a group of beings who are not in physical form that I channel for the benefit of others. They
are the core of what many call Source? pure, positive energy, the highest form of intelligence and the
source of all creation. They are not a religion and are not looking to be worshiped or even obeyed. They
have been flowing through me my entire life and I know now they flow though all creation to varying
degrees and that everyone has access to their own version of this consciousness.
Though I had a rough childhood, I always felt ?different? and, in some ways, special? not superior, just
tapped in. I?ve certainly made my fair share of human mistakes and I continue to live a life of contrast, just
like everyone else. But they have always been there, dropping what I call downloads of thought into my
head, and guiding me to a better way, even after I stubbornly ignored their guidance.
My first solid recollection of these beings was when I was fourteen years old. It was nineteen eighty-two
and I was living in a small town in Northern Louisiana with my divorced mother and older brother, Doug. We
were quite poor and my mother had retreated inward after my father left when I was six. Doug and I had
been left more or less to raise ourselves. I recall at that time telling Doug that I had this idea, that if we
mentally projected ourselves into more desirable circumstances, those circumstances would materialize
around us and our lives would be transformed. He thought I was insane? he was the straight-A student, an
athlete and he studied his Bible every night and even planned on becoming a pastor for a while in his late
teens. I, on the other hand, was an undiagnosed dyslexic, D student who spent my free time parked with a
bag of Ruffles in front of the Brady Bunch every day. Who was I to tell him how to run his life? But I knew I
was on to something? my ?invention? that I now know as the law of attraction.
By the time I was in high school, (I charmed my way there despite never doing homework or even studying
for tests? ever) I was driving a brand-new Ford Thunderbird and wearing all the nicest preppy clothes of
the mid nineteen eighties. I ran around with the wealthiest kids in town, the ones who drove BMW?s and
wore Rolex watches to the tenth grade. I then went home to my roach-infested two-bedroom apartment
where my mother would lock herself in her room every night after coming home from work. I had
manifested the dream life of a teenager externally in a minimum wage, single-parent household.
Growing up poor, you believe that money is the answer to everything. I spent my twenties and thirties
earning a high income and accumulating material things and having the experiences that wealthier people
have. In my mid thirties I saw a medium who told me that my ?invention? had a name? the law of
attraction? and that I had a very rare and strong connection to Source and that I could develop the ability
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