QUOTE (mog @ Nov 17 2008, 07:37 AM)

So with Channeling, you can have acces to the skills of the siprit you summoned. Task or Guardian... and you keep control of your body so you get your magic skillwire....

Channeling allows both the spirit and the host to control the body, but not at the same time. So, if the spirit is doing a task with its skill, the possessed mage could not be doing another physical task.
It isn't clear to me whether the vessel/host mage could cast a spell while the possessing spirit did something else. The biggest issue would probably be whether the spirit was directing the body's eyes in the right direction. A GM might be inclined to assign some kind of negative dice modifier, similar to that from sustaining a spell.
Presumably the mage could set the possessing spirit to a task or set of tasks, and then project astrally, thereby allowing simultaneous action, albeit in different planes of existence.
Peter