Kryon (Lee Carroll)

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A former audio engineer says he has channeled an entity called Kryon since 1989, delivering messages on planetary change and personal growth through more than a dozen books. Skeptics classify the channeled material alongside other unverifiable New Age claims.

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Who is Lee Carroll, and how did he begin channeling?

A San Diego audio engineer with a business degree, he says two unrelated psychics separately told him in the late 1980s that an entity was trying to reach him. He began public channeling sessions in 1989.

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What does Kryon claim to be?

He presents Kryon as a being from the 'magnetic service,' said to be adjusting Earth's magnetic grid to support what the material calls a shift in human consciousness, delivering messages through him in first person during live sessions.

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What is 'The End Times', his first Kryon book?

Published in 1993, it presents Kryon's early messages about a coming planetary shift, framed as reassurance that a guiding intelligence remains present through change. It began a series that has since grown to more than a dozen volumes.

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What related idea did he help popularize?

He co-authored a book describing 'Indigo children' as a spiritually advanced generation of unusually strong-willed kids. Critics have noted the traits described are vague enough to apply to nearly anyone, a pattern known as the Forer effect.

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How is this material treated outside his own community?

Skeptical reference works place this channeling and the Indigo children concept alongside other unverifiable New Age claims, noting no scientific study has found evidence supporting either the entity's existence or the traits attributed to these children.

Words to know

ChannelingThe claimed practice of communicating messages from a non-physical entity through a human intermediary.

Magnetic serviceIn this material, the claimed cosmic role Kryon holds, adjusting Earth's magnetic grid.

Indigo childrenA claimed generation of spiritually advanced children, a concept popularized here with no scientific support.

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Forer effectThe tendency to see vague, general statements as uniquely true of oneself, cited by critics of Indigo-child traits.

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Lee Carroll · Channeler of the Kryon material

Since 1989 he has presented himself as the channel for an entity called Kryon, publishing more than a dozen books of first-person messages on planetary change, human DNA, and spiritual growth, delivered live at seminars worldwide.

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Jan Tober · Co-author of 'The Indigo Children'

Writing with Carroll in 1999, she described a generation of children she called unusually strong-willed and intuitive, framing the trait as a sign of spiritual evolution, a claim later criticized by psychologists as unsupported by evidence.

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Robert Todd Carroll · Compiler of The Skeptic's Dictionary

In his entry on Indigo children, a concept popularized through this material, he wrote that no scientific studies support the existence of such children, and that the traits listed are vague enough to describe almost anyone.

A line to leave them with

What a channeled message asks of you is still yours to weigh.