A person who claims to communicate with spirits or supernatural entities; one who channels energy or information.
From 'channel' (Old French 'chanel,' meaning groove or water course) plus '-er.' Gained spiritual connotations in 20th-century New Age movements.
The spiritualist movement of the 1800s popularized 'channelers' during séances, but the word's root meaning—a groove or pathway—reveals the underlying idea: someone as a 'pipe' for something else!
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