Religious fanatics often choose to see it as the devil's work. If I had not already been awakened by meditation training and was raised relatively free of religious indoctrination, I do not know how fully I would have embraced channeled material. Taken as a whole, it is the most enlightened and loving genre of literature that I have encountered. I believe that speaking in tongues was an ancient form of channeling, as was the process by which Richard Bach wrote his masterpieces. The Koran seems at least partly channeled.
Automatic writing is a form of channeling.
God's voice coming from a burning bush or from a cloud in peals of thunder is a close cousin of channeling. That voice in my head that told me to study business and move to Seattle to meet Dennis Lee was a form of channeling. Dennis' inspiration, Einstein's and Tesla's and other geniuses' breakthroughs are related to channeling. I have found that those who dismiss channeling do not understand it or have ideological reasons against it. Eventually today's genre will die off as we all learn to bring our own wisdom through our consciousnesses.