Channeling Techniques (Term)

Various techniques that channels perform that were first discovered by trial and error by Rimon Farris and taught in modern times.
Channeling Selyn safely from Gens, and then onto ordinary simes, renSimes, is one of the key talents discovered that Rimon Farris discovered in the novel First Channel, that Simes with the Dual selyn transport nervous systems have the ability to adjust their selyn draw-speed and gently take selyn from a Gen so slowly the Gen does not feel any selyn movement.  This trick is accomplished by drawing selyn into the channel's Secondary System.  When drawing selyn into the Secondary System, a channel is able to stop taking selyn when the channel senses a resistance to selyn flow. Once the Selyn was stored in the channel's secondary system it could then be given to a renSime via transfer.
As with any body of knowledge among humans, there were those who invented techniques, and those who perfected them.  There were those who just learned and performed the channeling duties, without knowing how or why things worked just this way and not that way -- and there were those who couldn't rest until they figured out all the hows and whys governing these processes.
Over the centuries after Rimon Farris, the invention of new techniques mostly came from the Farrises and other First Order channels who learned from them.  Those who studied how and why these techniques worked generally ended up studying the Farrises while they worked. 
With time, a vast army of channels perfected the performance of each technique and taught others.
At first, there was no vocabulary to describe what channels did that was different from what other Simes did, so gradually Simelan vocabulary was adapted and redefined and some vocabulary invented.  For the most part, channeling must be learned by zlinning another channel doing it, then imitating that action under supervision, and finally attempting it solo.  It can't be learned from a book, or by being told any more than a baby can learn to walk by reading instructions in a book, or even just from watching an adult walk.  But practice and experience, and many mistakes, can increase proficiency, efficiency, and elegance in performance.
Read about the education of a channel at Rialite in the novel Personal Recognizance.
These techniques include methods of Healing Gens, of inducing selyn movement in a Sime's nervous system, of arousing or extinguishing Need in a renSime, as well as methods of supporting the birth of known future channels, thus altering the survival rates.  See pre-natal selyn draw and Deproda
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