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  • July25th

    Brutal Honesty Needed

    Posted in: Channeling, Death of a Child, Grief, Grieving, Love, Struggles, Suicide

    Hey all,

    I received this email this afternoon, and I need your advice and honest feedback. I don’t know why, but it took the wind out of my sails a bit. I tend to be more vulnerable and fragile on the weekends, because, during the week, I focus so heavily on the blog and work that it distracts me from my grief, which is still quite fresh. It’s only been a matter of months since Erik died, but it’s still very painful, especially during those off days when I have time to remember…  But I see these moments are crucial parts of the grieving process, so I don’t want to wish them away. I have to go through this.

    In the email below, I will address some remarks in italics–thoughts and explanations you might need to come to your own conclusions. I have learned in my 55 years on this planet that every criticism has a kernel of truth. I need help finding that truth so that I can face it. The only reason I think there is some truth hidden away in this email is because it hurt me deeply. If there is no truth in it, why would it hurt?

    I don’t want flattery or defense. I just need objectivity. Hard to come by that commodity when looking through the grey glasses of grief. I know you are all wise and brave and care enough about me to provide me with an honest assessment. Thank you!

    The Email

    Hi Elisa,

    I read the Huff Post article several weeks ago and have followed your blog with interest.  I lost my beloved firstborn son a year ago.  He was older than Erik, but still in life’s prime.  I also channel him, as well as other guides and teachers.  It’s a work in progress for me, too, and I have so much to learn.

    There’s nothing I would like to see more than a long-overdue public acceptance of this sort of thing, but, Elisa, I have some strong reservations about a couple of things where your work is concerned.

    For one, I feel that you are still so very ambitious for your son.  I understand the difficulty in letting go of our ambitions for our children.  My initial reaction to my son’s passing is that it took all of my hopes and dreams for him away.  More importantly, at a human level, it took his. One thing I will say about my parenting style is I’ve always taught my children to do what they love and do it lovingly. Money or status should never be factors. Frankly, they can dig ditches for all I care as long as they do so with pride and love. I even wrote about this in my book “Raising Everyday Heroes,” to point out the dangers of our meritocratic society where external achievements are valued more than internal ones like loyalty, perseverance and compassion. Why would Linda assume I was “ambitious” for Erik? Because it’s very common, especially among parents who are high achievers like physicians, lawyers, etc. I probably would have taken one look at “Dr. Medhus” and assume the same thing.

    I have no reservations about telling people he was and is my heart and soul and a very, very special person.  But please believe me when I say that your frequent references to Erik’s greatness come across as nothing short of deification.  This may turn a lot of people off, as it does me. This does concern me. In the Huffpo article, I made it clear that Erik is no Dalai Lama or mountaintop guru. He has plenty of flaws, just as I do. But that’s what gives his perspective its uniqueness. He’s just like us. He’s not Seth or Abraham or God, he’s just little ol’ Erik. But I do feel like many have elevated Erik to a quasi-deity status that is perhaps not realistic. From the beginning, I’ve wanted this blog to be a journey, first my journey through grief, a means to vent, and then a journey toward truth and purpose. This needs to be about the message rather than about me or Erik. The message is what’s important here, and it’s much bigger than Erik and me.

    Also, I saw your responses on another site to some non-believers.  Your comebacks were uncharitable, to put it mildly.  Within a short time, your responses to them had been deleted.  You seemed to take their comments as a direct assault on your son, and whether deservedly or not, your replies to them came across as quite vicious and personal, not from a spiritual place. Now this is simply not true. In fact, I looked at the site again today and all of my comments are still there and are extremely civil. The harshest it got was simply telling those who called me desperate and pathetic that I felt their remarks were unkind and to remember that my grief is still raw and fresh. Perhaps someone else wrote nasty comments using my name, but I don’t see any. Given the tone of the email, I don’t think Linda would intentionally lie, so this puzzles me. None of my comments have been deleted. They’re all there.

    This is not about us.  Or even about Erik.  There’s nothing to prove or disprove.  The spirit world is what it is and it doesn’t have to prove itself.  Neither do we have to spend the rest of our lives proving that we were good mothers, in spite of our sons’ premature deaths.  My son passed from an accidental prescription drug overdose.  He struggled with addiction, very successfully, for the most part, for most of his adult life.  It only took that one little brief relapse to leave a beautiful and supportive young widow now struggling to understand. I KNOW I was and am a wonderful mother and feel very confident about my abilities. My children all know how deeply and unconditionally I love them. I made that point, much to their annoyance, every day, several times a day. Am I perfect? Heck no, and I mention that in each of the three books I’ve published on parenting. I wrote them so that others can learn not only from my successes but also my mistakes. Unlike some physicians, I really don’t have much of an ego. I’m not saying I have a poor self-worth, quite the contrary. I learned long ago what my limits are flaws are and how detrimental an over-inflated ego is to raising children and doing good. Raising five children is a humbling experience and has tamed my ego considerably. Love will do that, I suppose. So I don’t have to prove myself or Erik to anyone. Now, I have felt the need to prove spiritual truths to myself and it has helped me to receive confirmation for spiritual phenomena from you, the readers. Remember, I started as a skeptic, so this has been a huge spiritual journey for me. Many of you are more evolved and enlightened than me and your wisdom has been a tremendous help. So the spirit world may be what it is, as Linda points out, but I needed to found out what “is” is! I needed to find out where my boy had gone and if he was alright.

    The message will either find its mark with people eventually or it won’t.  There’s nothing wrong with taking the time to let this ripen a bit.  We all have a lot to learn about life after death, and Erik and many other souls have much to teach.  You achieved what you’ve achieved in your life through a great deal of study and effort.  I’m sure you expect nothing less from your children.  But, Elisa, I come away from your blog feeling that you’re demanding more and more miracles from Erik before he can even recharge.  It comes across as, “Come on, Erik, you’re not churning it out fast enough!  I have my book, my radio show, my tv show to think about!  Let’s get this on the road!  Oh, and if you can help a few people by checking out their loved ones, that would be really great, too.” I would like to ask Erik if he wants to continue this. As you see from the channeling transcripts, he’s taken the lead, recommending a book, a movie, a TV show. I’ve been the passive and reluctant spectator dreading such onerous projects when I still struggle with decision like “paper or plastic” and “live or die.”  I can recall Erik saying (through Kim) “Chop, chop, Mom,” because he knows I’m procrastinating. So if anything, Erik is pushing his worn out old mom to “churn it out faster.” I wonder if Linda has really read every entry. It seems she has not, but I hope she does. Plus, with projects like those, I run the risk of being tossed into the limelight, which I do not want. Once that happens, it all becomes about Erik and me rather than the message and the help it’s meant to deliver to those in need.

    I think you have a tremendous desire to help people, and as many as you can as fast as you can.  You’re in a service profession, after all.  You’ve spent your life helping people, and the room just kept filling up with more and more patients.  So I get it that you’re accustomed to that and I also get it that that’s just Elisa.  And as you and those you’re trying to reach now have witnessed, there’s an incredible hunger and need for this sort of thing.  But I’m sure you learned early that before you could take care of the patient, you had to take care of yourself.  You were as ambitious for your patients as you were for yourself in your drive to achieve.  And maybe you’re not as personally ambitious for yourself or Erik as it would seem.  Maybe your efforts are almost totally altruistic.  But that’s not what comes across.  And if you’re going to advance the “cause,” I think you have to take the time to grow as you go.  You’re here for your own spirituality and you have to take care of that first.  You want to do more than run a messenger shuttle for others, although that’s a noble endeavor, too.  The point is, this blog is for my spirituality. It IS how I take care of myself. Perhaps that is a bit selfish, but I have to do what I have to do to want to go on. I don’t care if I’m just the secretary in this. Someone has to do that, after all. And as I’ve said, healing others heals me. It really does. Many of my years of medical practice involved pure charity on my part. Those years were and are the best. To me, Medicine is a calling, not a career. Although is has been uplifting to know how many people have been helped by the blog, I can say that it comes at a price. Four different people have confided in me that had it not been for the blog, they had planned to take their own lives too. So it’s very difficult to turn anyone away. I just can’t do it. I can’t deal with another loss. I don’t know why Linda says it doesn’t come across as altruism. Am I missing something?  Except for the fact that it helps with my own healing too…I supposed there is some selfishness in that. Plus, I’ve used this, at Erik’s request, as a venue for him to find a purpose and feel fulfilled, to pay a karmic debt and progress as a soul. He may be dead, but I am still his parent. A parent’s main job is to help their child find their purpose, to find personal fulfillment and to be a decent and compassionate and loving human being.

    It was disheartening and somewhat surprising to see the degree to which you were vilified in the comments to your Huff Post article on their site.  It’s a given that most people are going to be derisive and cynical about this and the metaphysical in general.  But I think — and this is just my opinion — that much of it was and is in response to the ego that spoke louder than the words.  I remember thinking when I read it — and when I read your blog — that you’re still wearing the bumper sticker that says, “My kid sold your honor student all of the answers to the tests!”  I know that’s not the way you want to come across. Linda may be projecting a bit here, but again, I think that’s a natural response, given that I’m a physician. Most physicians and those in “high achievement” careers have been pushed into it by their own parents who wanted to hold their children up as trophies giving proof of their own success. I’m sure Linda came to that conclusion for those reasons. I probably would have come to that conclusion myself. Yet she didn’t have all the information and it’s a bit dangerous to communicate based on assumptions rather than intimate knowledge of that person as a human being. We’re all different and should not be stereotyped.

    I wish you the very best and don’t intend for this to be a negative communication, not at all.  I wholeheartedly endorse what you’re doing.  You’re an incredibly brave person to put yourself out there like that, as a very tall lightning rod, braver than me and most people.  I just hope you’ll consider my perceptions and also consider pacing yourself — please — as you and Erik continue your loving relationship with this wonderful new spiritual dimension that has such promise for us all.  I want it to be just as successful as you do. All in all, I believe Linda wrote this email with good intentions. Perhaps some was projected based on her own grief after losing her child, but it was very courageous of her to send me this. It can’t have been easy, and I believe she sent it with love in mind. She seems like a very enlightened person.

    That said, the sting is still there so a truth must be somewhere in here hiding like a needle in a haystack. I know it will take courage on your part, but your honesty is important for my progress in this life. I love you all! Sorry about any typos. I’m just not up to editing right now.
    All the best,
    Linda

  • July24th

    Donna’s Gift

    Posted in: Channeling, Communication from the dead

    I don’t ordinarily post anything on the weekend, but this wonderful gift from Donna F. moved me to tears. I believe this is important to share because I feel like it’s been channeled to Donna for a reason…to give us all encouragement and hope. I don’t know if this was channeled by Erik or by Donna’s guides, but it makes little difference. Regardless of the source, it touches the heart. I’ve included the lyrics and the mp3 file. Please enjoy and know that I love you all. Thank you, Sweet Donna.

    BELIEVE – Trans Siberian Orchestra -

    So after all those one night stands
    You’ve ended up with heart in hand
    A child alone
    On your own
    Retreating

    Regretful for the things you’re not
    And all the things you haven’t got
    Without a home
    A heart of stone lies bleeding
    And for all the roads you followed
    And for all you did not find
    And for all the dreams you had to leave behind

    I am the way
    I am the light
    I am the dark inside the night
    I hear your hopes
    I feel your dreams
    And in the dark I hear your screams

    Don’t turn away
    Just take my hand
    And when you make your final stand
    I’ll be right there
    I’ll never leave
    And all I ask of you
    Believe

    Your childhood eyes were so intense
    While bartering your innocence
    For bits of string
    The grown-up wings you needed
    But when you had to add them up
    You found that they were not enough
    To get you in
    And pay for sins
    Repeated

    And for all the years you borrowed
    And for all the tears you hide
    And for all the fears you had to keep inside

    I am the way
    I am the light
    I am the dark inside the night
    I hear your hopes
    I feel your dreams
    And in the dark I hear your screams

    Don’t turn away
    Just take my hand
    And when you make your final stand
    I’ll be right there
    I’ll never leave
    And all I ask of you
    Believe

    I never wanted to know
    Never wanted to see
    I wasted my time
    ‘Til time wasted me
    I never wanted to go
    Always wanted to stay
    ‘Cause the person I am
    Are the parts that I play

    So I plot and I plan
    Hope and I scheme
    To the lure of a night
    Filled with unfinished dreams
    And I’m holding on tight
    To a world gone astray
    As they charge me for years
    I can’t pay
    Yeah

    I am the way
    I am the light
    I am the dark inside the night
    I hear your hopes
    I feel your dreams
    And in the dark I hear your screams

    Don’t turn away
    Just take my hand
    And when you make your final stand
    I’ll be right there
    I’ll never leave
    And all I ask of you

    Believe

  • July23rd

    Ask Erik: Julie’s Question

    Posted in: After Death Communication, Channeling, Communication from the dead, Contact with the dead, Death of a Child, Guardian Angel, Kim O'Neill, Life, Love, Pranks from spirits, Psychic medium, Spiritual presence, Struggles

    Before I post this, the last entry of the day, I’d like to share the wealth: While I was lying down in my bedroom with my grand daughter watching a Baby Boost DVD with her for the 1,576th time, a distinct aroma wafted through the air, finding a home in my unwitting nostrils. It was the unmistakably noxious scent of Erik’s nasty socks…like the ones that stayed so long on his feet, they’d have to be surgically removed with a pair of 10-foot forceps. Ugh. Funny, before Erik died, I’d do anything to barricade that smell from within 100 yards of my body. But today, I inhaled deeply through my nose as if to assess the bouquet of a fine Cabernet. I couldn’t get enough of it, nearly passing out from the deep, repetitive inhalations and exhalations. Once my olfactory receptors were too overloaded and numb to continue their dubious calling, I thanked him sincerely for the gift.

    And now for Julie’s story:

    Julie’s Question

    Elisa,

    I just discovered your blog and your work with Erik and Kim through your article at Huffington Post. I am anxious for guidance. Beginning in January 2006, as if it was meant to be, I found myself back in touch with a friend–just as he was about to begin his second deployment to Iraq. We shared a great deal during his months at war and after. Then, last October, we had a very emotional conversation. Since then, I have only heard from him once, months ago now. I feel a great loss. I learned so much for myself with him, about love, fear, grief. These past months, I keep losing my balance in confusion and grief. Can Erik offer me any guidance on how to understand what is meant to be now?

    Thank you so much,

    Julie

    My Response

    My Dear Julie,

    I’m so sorry you’re struggling right now, and I’ll do whatever it takes to help you. Do you believe or know that your friend is deceased? All I need for the medium is your approximate age and the city you live in. If you want to know about your friend, I need to know his first name and age, and the city he lives in or, if he has passed, what city he was in. This helps Erik and Kim locate him faster, I guess. Also, if you could give me 2-3 specific questions, that would help prevent us from getting generalized information. I have channeling sessions with Kim once a month, my next one is mid July. If you go to the home page of the blog and sign up for email notification, you’ll find out the minute your answers get posted. I will also contact you directly right after the session to paraphrase what he said because it takes a few days for me to get the recording of the session from her, then a week or so to type up the transcript and post everything.

    Erik and I are here for you, Sweetie.

    xoxoxo

    Elisa (and Erik)

    Julie’s Response

    Dear Elisa,

    I’m so glad to hear from you, and so grateful to you and Erik..

    I am 51 and live in Geneva, FL near Orlando. My friend’s name is Jerry and he is 38. His current home base is Los Angeles.  I can’t be sure where he is right now, but I know he is alive. The last time I know he was in combat was last August; but, there could have been missions since I last spoke to him in October 2009. He was last in touch with me at the beginning of this January.

    As I’ve tried to make peace with Jerry’s choice to be silent and out of touch these past months, I think these questions represent the uncertainties that haunt me:

    1) How should I understand Jerry’s choice to cut off our connection these past months?  What truth is at the heart of this sad outcome?

    2) Should I accept that Jerry and I have shared what we were destined to share in this lifetime and are now going our separate ways? Or, can I hope for and expect healing and reunion for us?

    3) For me: If I am to both bring the love and happiness of an intimate relationship into my life again and fulfill my life purpose:  What should I keep in mind and what actions are the most important to attend to in the days ahead?

    Jerry and I do not have an easily predictable history. I want you and Erik to know that Jerry and I met over 20 years ago in roles as student and teacher. We had some contact, now and then, in the years after we finished our primary work together in those roles. In 2006, we reunited after years apart–aided by a push from my intuition and the wonders of Google searches–and now he was the soldier at war, and I was his lifeline.  He has survived great stress, personal loss, and danger; he has witnessed war’s horrors.  I have tried to be there to give him love and hope and support while he did his duty as a soldier and kept the dream of life after the Army alive. Now, after so much, we seem to have lost each other.  I thought our bond was too strong for that. I thought we had the power of Love sustaining us, guiding us through.

    I appreciate your kindness and support so very much.

    Thank you,

    Julie

    Channeling Transcript

    Me: Okay, Erik, ready for another one?

    Erik: Yep.

    Me: This next question is from Julie. She’s 51 and lives in Geneva Florida, She has a friend, Jerry, who is 38. He’s a soldier, but his home base is in Los Angeles. They’ve been friends for a while then got back in touch with one another in 2006. During those months, they shared a great deal about his months at war and then afterwards. Then last October they had some sort of emotional conversation, and since then she’s only heard form his once. She feels such great loss, because she learned so much about love, fear, grief, etc. She wants to know how to interpret his going AWOL so to speak…then she also wants to know…

    Erik (interrupting): First of all, the reason he came into her life was because they were supposed to be student and teacher for one another.

    Me: Oh my gosh! That’s exactly what Julie said!

    Erik: Yes, they were to be student and teacher for one another, so it’s great she’s aware of that. He was to teach her about…he was to demonstrate to her what a good teacher she is, because she’s a good listener. She’s very evolved; she’s someone who is very nonjudgmental; she has a wonderful sense of being able to pick up on people’s potential, but then she’s not judgmental about them when they make choices that don’t represent their level of enlightenment. She’s amazing! She’s here to be a teacher and a healer! She needs to write books. So Jerry was to learn from Julie about improving his self-worth and self-esteem, oh, and forgiveness, forgiveness! That a big one, forgiveness. Forgiving those who acted like assholes. And she helped him understand that what we experience on the earthly plane is by Divine Design. We draw to us what we need to learn from. And she helped him find his voice and share what he experienced. He’s never shared any of these things with anyone but Julie. For him to feel that level of intimacy and security with her was very healing for him. He was able to do a lot of healing just be talking to her about what his experiences were. And then there was also some forgiving that had to do with his growing up: his parents and people he knew in the military. He was able to accomplish a lot of healing with her, so once he learned all that he was going to learn from her, the relationship was to break apart again. He was to go his way, and she was to go her way. Julie is going to have a number of students in this lifetime that she’ll feel a soulmate connection with, but that doesn’t mean they’re supposed to be in her life long term. She needs to focus on what she needs to do for them while they’re in her life and not her expectations for what the future could be with them.

    Me: Okay.

    Kim: Sometimes we can have an intimate relationship with someone spiritually and emotionally for 15 minutes, and then we never see them again.

    Me: Yeah, that’s true!

    Erik: Okay, she has another question that she didn’t ask, but here it is. Should she try to contact him? No, no and Hell no! Let go of the relationship. She needs to ask her soul to stop mourning the loss of what she thought could have happened like that they would remain friends forever. And she was able to connect with him in a way that she hasn’t connected with other people, because they’re soulmates.

    Me: Okay.

    Erik: Julie is surrounded pretty much by students, and that’s why sometimes she feels lonely and that nobody can see her for who and what she is. Jerry could. But the universe wants to make best use of her gifts by surrounding her, this lifetime, with students she’s supposed to impact and help and teach and mentor.

    Me: Okay, she also wants to know if she’s to find love again, what should she keep in mind?

    Erik: The best thing she can do is develop her channeling abilities so that—and practice once a week for half an hour—so that when people come into her life, she knows why they’ve come in. Are they a student? Is this supposed to be a platonic friendship? Is this gonna be a romance? Are they a student? Is this a romantic learning experience? Or is this Mr. Right? She needs to figure these things out pretty quickly and not to expect more from the relationship than what’s meant to be.

    Julie, I hope Erik, Kim, and your guides have shared information that will enrich and light up your path. As for all of my readers, thank you for your stories, your wisdom, your friendship and your love. We are all part of something big and beautiful, so let’s enjoy the ride together!

    Julie’s Response

    Elisa,
    In Erik’s answer to my inquiry, he has stepped in as my teacher with a very personal and meaningful lesson.  I certainly could not have asked for more.

    For a person to truly take in a message and accept it, there has to be trust.  You bring a spirit to this work that engenders trust; you set the stage for healing and learning. Now I have the gift of this message from Erik.  It is so laden with significant references to my experiences with Jerry, I have to trust all its content. Even more importantly, I have to trust in the potential we all have to be in touch with souls and guides who are available to us though they are not embodied with us.

    My Response

    Oh, Julie, I’m so happy this all helped you! I hold my breath each time, worried that the reader asking the questions will be disappointed, because your disappointment would be mine too.

  • July23rd

    Ask Erik: Karyn’s Question

    Posted in: After Death Communication, Channeling, Communication from the dead, Contact with the dead, Crossing over, Ghosts and Spirits, Guardian Angel, Heaven, Kim O'Neill, Messages from the dead, Psychic medium, Spirit visitation, Spiritual Boarders, Spiritual presence

    Karyn’s Question

    I feel there are people/spirits/beings around me all the time. I am terrified of them. Sometimes I think it’s just my grandparents, or people I’ve loved that are just missing me and visiting me … but sometimes I feel like it’s bad things – I’d like to know the difference. I’d like to know if I am just paranoid and watching too many Ghost Stories on TV or if I am really sensitive to such things…. and if there are any messages from my family. I’d like to know that too.

    I am 34 (almost 35 in August) and I live in Houston. My grandparents I was talking about all lived in South Carolina. I am originally from there.

    Karyn

    Channeling Transcript

    Me: Now the next question comes from Karyn. She’s 34, almost 35, and lives in Houston. Her deal is she feels beings around her all the time, and she is terrified of them. Sometimes she thinks it’s just her grandparents and other deceased loved ones of hers, but other times she feels like there are bad beings around her. She wants to know what’s going on. And she also wants to know if there are any messages from her family.

    Erik: The reason that Karyn  feels like she’s surrounded by so many spirits is because she is! There are so many spiritual boarders living where she does.

    Me: What are those?

    Kim: Wherever we live, we have our guardian angels around and everybody else’s guardian angels that live with us and…

    Me: Oh, so boarders, like people who hang out there?

    Kim: Exactly. And we have our departed loved ones in spirit, and there are also the spirits of individuals who used to be human and went to Heaven after their physical body died, and then they choose –they’re not stuck here—they choose to come back to the earthly plane and hang out in certain areas.

    Me: Oh, okay.

    Kim: Now, what’s interesting is some places have a huge congregation of spiritual boarders. Maybe there was a wagon train going through that area, and they were all killed, and they go back to that same place. So when homes are built in that area, the occupants are going to feel the presence of a lot of spiritual beings.

    Erik: If they are intuitive like Karyn is. Karyn is very intuitive, and this is something her angels recommend she build and develop. So she’s continue to pick up on all the spiritual beings around her, but it’s all of her guardian angels, it’s her departed loved ones who come to visit and all of these boarders, these spiritual boarders. They don’t mean to scare anybody. They want to be left alone, and they want to leave you all alone. When you’re intuitive and can pick up on them, it can be a little distracting.

    Kim: We can hear them; sometimes it can be a little frightening if we mistake these spiritual boarders for a human being, you know like when you’re home alone and you’ve got some spiritual boarders who are doing something downstairs. You hear them and you’re like, “Did somebody break in?”

    Erik: I’d tell them to split the rent if I were Karyn!

    Kim and I laugh.

    Kim: Exactly. Oh that’s so funny!

    Me: Well, does she need to move or anything?

    Erik: Oh no, no. She doesn’t have to move or hire anyone to come in or buy any equipment like smudge sticks or…

    Me: Well is she supposed to be there? I mean, is it part of her destiny to live there so she can develop her abilities?

    Kim: Very good question, Elisa. I’m hearing no.

    Erik: All she needs to do is say, “Okay, spiritual boarders, those of you who aren’t guardian angels or my departed loved ones, I need you to leave,” or “I need you to be real quiet,” or “I need you to go outside.”

    Me: Okay.

    Erik: That’s all she needs to do.

    Me: So they’re not bad then?

    Erik: Oh God no! And they’re not trying to hurt her; they’re not trying to distract her. They don’t even want her to acknowledge their presence. It’s just that as she’s getting more and more intuitive, she’s picking up more and more on these spiritual beings, and sometimes it is like Grand Central Station. Sometimes she might think she’s crazy, but she’s not. She’s just developing an awareness of the world around her as it really is.

    Karyn’s Response

    Wow, thank you SO much. It’s so generous of you to share your limited time with Erik with the rest of us. I meant to tell you that!

    I fully believe we can open ourselves up to some of those things. For me it started reading novels by Heather Graham. They are sort of mindless reads – sort of mystery/romance/paranormal- and they always seem to center on a murder and that victim showing themselves to someone and either helping that person or getting help … anyway and these books seemed to open my mind.

    Next thing you know I am dreaming of sitting around with my grandparents – or sitting in a room and suddenly KNOWING I am not alone and at the same moment having my dog raise up on the couch and stare off into the distance. Then I started watching John Edwards and Lisa Williams  – and it really started happening all the time. My personal favorite (NOT) is being awoken from a deep sleep by a voice that says HEY KARYN! … happens a lot. So …  I was just wondering WHAT is going on and am I crazy and do I really feel something? :)

    When my husband goes out of town I lay there all night long because I KNOW I am not alone and it completely freaks me out. I wanted confirmation that some of those people/spirits are people who love me and would never let anything hurt me. Maybe I WILL ask them for rent … and I will for sure try to be more open and start researching on how to be more intuitive!

    Thank you so much, Elisa. I wish you continued healing!

    Karyn

    As promised, I plan to post two Ask Erik entries a day whenever I can, so look for Julie’s Questions next!

  • July23rd

    Erik Travels Abroad

    Posted in: After Death Communication, Afterlife, Astral Projection, Channeling, Communication from the dead, Contact with the dead, Death of a Child, Dreams, Heaven, Messages from the dead, Spirit visitation, Spiritual presence, Visitation

    I can now understand, even more fully, why Erik was so “tired” a couple of days ago. Read this wonderful email I received from an obviously highly gifted and evolved reader, Damian.

    Hi Elisa,

    My name is Damien. I have to say yours’ and Eriks’ Blog is one of the most compelling heart warming things I have ever read. My mother suggested i read it just over a week ago and since then have caught up with all the posts and even had some interesting experiences I believe with Erik. I felt compelled to tell you about them.

    I guess I should start out by letting you know my background. I’m 25 and from Ireland. My Mother has been a great spiritual teacher for me. Encouraging me to listening to our Angel guides and following my destiny. Every since I was about 13 I knew what I wanted to do with my life and have been repeatedly called and placed in situations or come across incidents where people needed help. Since then I have qualified as a Paramedic and get a deep fulfillment helping people. For the last year my Spiritual side has been getting stronger and I have gone from using angel cards to communicate with my guides to being able to clearly channel with angels. It came from a desire to talk to my two little sisters ( my guardian angels, who never made it to be full-term). I have early memories of these angels Pranking me and being close to me.

    From instances of a plugged out tv turning on, and from walking down a street one night and feeling a desire to hold their hands. my hands would not close fully and heated up on this cold night. they were holding my hands as we walked. Over the last year I have left behind depression which mediums and angel guides have told me spelled from past lives. This I believe has led to enlightenment and different view on life. Most interestingly though, in the last few months I have been waiting for major changes to occur in my life, namely emigrating to Canada. I have been worried about how long this will take and have been trying to get answers from my guides. All answers are positive and soon.

    On Sunday night last i was laying in bed, just after reading the blog. I felt a presence and Strong american Accent in My head. I asked out if this was Erik. He answered “yeah it is, whats up”. I then started a dialogue with him asking him about his experience and how touching the blog is. He is such a kind, genuine soul. I feel honoured to have been able to channel with him. I decided at this point to confirm it was indeed Erik. Knowing he has been practicing with energy to make his presence known, I asked him to move something. no sooner had I stopped speaking when a loud bang came from downstairs. with everyone else asleep and the cat out of the house, I knew instantly it was Erik. (the following morning I found a box on the ground which had been moved form the counter top. Just to spell disbelief, if this had of fallen by physics the box would of landed away from the counter. instead had be tucked neatly in against the counter under the ledge.) I was amazed!!!!

    As my conversation continued with him, he suddenly remarked, that singer you know, shes a real catch. He was referring to my girlfriend in Canada who is a successful singer. due to long distance the realtionship is “on hold”. But Erik went on to say that we are soulmates and have been been together in past lives. He told me in my first two lives I searched for her, in my third and fourth we spent our lives together…In the sixth, I died in WW2 shortly after we met. This is my seventh life he assured me. Then the most amazing thing happened which has left me amazed, truly amazed. Erik asked me if “I wanted to know how far my girl was from me right at this moment”. I said sure….He said “she is 4056km from you right now”….then he said “go on check, I dare ya” with a real cheeky grin on his face :) so I googled the distance from my address to where she was and it was 4050km. I laughed and told him i’d give him the 6km. It was incredible. I had a meeting in work over something the following morning and i was worried about it. Erik told me to “remain calm and not to worry that I wont need the job cause ill be the leaving the country soon”.

    He then brought my sisters forward to talk, and he assured me my girl loved me and that she was waiting to hold me and we would be ok. he assured me im on my destiny and am suppose to be a healer.

    Your Son is incredible and a true gift to this world. You both are. I thanked him and felt exhausted and went asleep. Sure enough next morning the meeting went well. I thanked him the following night. I asked him why he appears to a lot of people and helps them. He said simply ” you took the time to read my story, I wanna help you out”. I was very taken aback. He’s a true gent. He then went on to tell me that i need to cherish the time with my friends and family as ill be leaving the country very soon. The next day in your blog, you commented on how he said he was busy helping people the night before. He truly was. I sincerely hope i get to befriend Erik through channelling. I only wish I could of known him in this plane. Your family story has touched me deeply and I will forever be a supporter of you all. I certainly await urnestly the projects you and and Erik are working on. I also have added the link to my facebook.

    I hope you and your family are doing well. You’re an inspiration and true gift from the angels and god to this world. I have long believed in the afterlife, reincarnation and what heaven was like. Erik and You and have confirmed everything I believe in. Thank you. It certainly makes it easier to deal with death, when we can’t save patients. I cannot say thank you enough for being strong enough and brave enough to post this blog. I cannot wait to see what further insights Erik and You have for us in our search for enlightenment.

    Yours Truly

    Damien

    After reading this letter, I could tell that it was indeed Erik paying a visit to another reader. All I could do was cry with joy and with pride. Damien, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for sharing your story.

  • July22nd

    Michelle’s Dream

    Posted in: After Death Communication, Astral Projection, Bereaved, Communication from the dead, Contact with the dead, Death of a sibling, Dreams, Ghosts and Spirits, Grief, Grieving, Loss of a sibling, Love, Messages from the dead, Sibling relationships, Spirit visitation, Spiritual presence, Visitation

    Since Erik’s death, my second eldest daughter has felt a bit dejected and frustrated, because she has not experienced the same spiritual visitations from him as some other family members have. I understand her despondency, because she and Erik were extremely close. Not only did they have a lot of fun together, they also got into a lot of trouble together. Not serious trouble, but trouble none the less. Let’s just say they were cohorts in crime.

    Last night, however, the sense of alienation Michelle has experienced all these many months came to an end with a wonderful dream. Instead of her usual dreamless nights, Michelle had her first vivid one…a meeting with Erik. In her dream, she was peering out of Lukas’s bedroom door into the game room where she saw Erik sitting on one of the sofas. His head was tilted back, his eyes were open, and he seemed to be in a state of peaceful relaxation, absorbed in his own thoughts.

    Overjoyed, Michelle bolted into the room and stopped right in front of him, shouting, “Erik, you’re here!” She knew he had died and didn’t harbor any delusions that that had changed, but she was just so happy to see him.

    Erik responded with a startled look of disbelief, then said, “Michelle, you can see me?”

    Michelle said, “Yes, I can see you!” and with that, Erik stood up abruptly and wrapped his arms around her in a warm embrace. He felt so real, so solid.

    Erik has said many times that he hangs out at the house a lot. It doesn’t surprise me that he was relaxing on the sofa, given how busy he’s been lately. And how nice to know that his noble efforts to help so many has been rewarded with a sister’s love.  How nice to know that Michelle enjoyed the end of a long and lonely dry spell.

  • July22nd

    Ask Erik: Jodi’s Questions

    Posted in: After Death Communication, Bereaved, Channeling, Communication from the dead, Contact with the dead, Death, Death of a pet, Death of a sibling, Heaven, Kim O'Neill, Loss of a pet, Loss of a sibling, Messages from the dead, Past lives, Pets in Heaven, Reincarnation, Sibling relationships, Spirit visitation, Spiritual presence, Struggles, Suicide

    Jodi’s Question

    I lost my older sister to a self-inflicted gun injury to her head, when I was 10. She was in her  early 20′s. I believe Sandy was 22 when she died. She committed suicide in the Visalia, California area. My family has always told me I am very much like she was, and that she loved animals the same way I do.  I wonder if she has influenced my calling? I have to think she has.

    I do have one particular pet that I still agonize over, the circumstances leading to her death and the fallout after. Her name was Pinkie, a very small Chihuahua that we acquired from a rescue in March of 2007.  I am 49, I live in Bend, Oregon.  Pinkie was a rescue, so we don’t know her exact age, but we estimated she was about 10 years old. She dies here at home, in Bend. She was so special; she couldn’t walk well, and had no teeth, but her personality shined. She was my shadow; she rode in my garden cart when I worked in the yard, and I could just see how much she enjoyed it. She loved the second chance at life she had been given.  In February of 2008, my husband and I left town for a medical conference. I made a point to say goodbye to Pinkie, and tell her I loved her, I’m not sure why it was so important at that time. I remember the look she gave me as I walked out the door, it haunts me. That Tuesday afternoon we received a call from on of my associates; Pinkie had accidentally been dropped on her head, and had been seizing. Did we extend her suffering by treating her? Did she know we were there with her, trying our best to save her? Did she know we were there, loving her as we injected her with the euthanasia solution, did she see how much we cried as she passed? She is buried in our back yard; does she hear me when I talk to her, and tell her how much I miss her?

    Jodi

    Channeling Transcript

    Me: The next questions come from Jodi. She’s a veterinarian. She’s 49 and lives in Bend, Oregon.

    Kim (with a gasp): Ooo, what a beautiful place! Wow!

    Me: Anyway, she had a sister, Sandy, who also died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head when Jodi was 10. Sandy was 22 at the time and died in Visalia, California. She wonders if Sandy influenced her in any way, because, like Jodi, she also loved animals very much.

    Erik: No, not at all. This was Jodi’s destiny. Jodi has been a healer for animals in many past lifetimes. Now it’s something she and Sandy have in common, but Sandy didn’t dictate what her destiny would be in this life.

    Me: Okay, any messages from Sandy?

    Erik: Sandy works as a sort of assistant for Jodi. They’ve been together in many, many lifetimes. Lot’s of times, Sandy has been her assistant like a nurse when Jodi’s been a physician. Sandy spends a lot of time around Jodi now helping her with difficult cases. I’m hearing that Jodi does surgery sometimes and Sandy is there to assist her. So they have a very close relationship in spirit going on. So Jodi needs to know that Sandy is always there with her. There have been some cases where Jodi feels like providence stepped in to help her with where she was able to share the lives of animals and Sandy was there to help her. So this is a relationship that transcends time and space. And as long as Jodi is practicing as a vet, Sandy will be there to assist her.

    Me: Okay, good! She’s really been having a hard time, because she loves animals so much that when they die, it really gets to her a lot. One in particular was a little Chihuahua named Pinkie. She was adopted as a rescue so Jodi’s not sure how old she was but she was probably around 10 years old when she died in Bend, Oregon. Jodi and her husband were away at a medical conference and left Pinkie in the care of an associate. She says she made a point of saying goodbye before she left, and the look Pinkie gave her still haunts her today. Anyway, the associate taking care of her dropped her on her head. Apparently she died from a skull fracture.

    Erik: Oh, Pinkie is here. She’s really cute! And she’s really looking forward to coming back to Jodi…

    Me: Oh!

    Erik: …and what Pinkie would like is for Jodi to…Pinkie was very close to Jodi. They had a real special relationship, and Pinkie has been with Jodi in many past lifetimes. They’ve got this soul connection. So Pinkie is just waiting for Jodi to adopt the body of another dog. She’d prefer to be a dog, a female. She wants to be a small dog, but not as small as she was. Then Pinkie will go into the body of the dog Jodi adopts. Pinkie’s body already was unhealthy and if the truth be known, she squirmed out of the assistant’s arms. Pinkie squirmed, so it wasn’t that the assistant was neglectful. She squirmed in her attempt to go back to the Heavenly plane. She knew she would die, the physical body would die, but wanted to come back in a healthy physical body. What Pinkie is recommending is maybe like a small Collie. That’s the information Jodi needs because Jodi feel haunted, guilty, like Mommy Dearest…

    Me: Did she know Jodi was there, trying to save her? Did she know that Jodi was loving her as they were injecting the euthanasia solution…

    Erik: Oh, her soul had already left the body way before that. And tell Jodi the reason Pinkie looked at her that way is cuz she was saying goodbye to her. Pinkie wants her to know that. She was trying to tell Jodi, “Now this is the last time we’re going to be together like this, but please adopt another dog so my soul can go into that. So Jodi was right. That look did mean something. It was a “goodbye” and a “hope to see you soon” and “please adopt another puppy” kind of look.

    Kim: Isn’t that interesting!

    Yes it is, Kim. Yes it is.

    Jodi’s Response

    Elisa and Erik,

    I am beyond grateful for the messages I received about my sister Sandy, and my beloved little dog, Pinkie. I cannot begin to tell you how much this means to me! The peace it brings me, well, it’s like a HUGE weight has been lifted from me. Now I know Sandy is with me always. And I know now, that when I least expect it, another pup in need will steal my heart, and Pinkie will be with me once again.

    Love and hugs to you both,
    Jodi

    Hate to do this to you guys, but my daughter, Michelle just shared an amazing experience with me. I’m going to have to write a third entry today. It’s short though, and well worth the read. Love you all!

  • July22nd

    Ask Erik: Marcelle’s Question

    Posted in: After Death Communication, Bereaved, Channeling, Communication from the dead, Contact with the dead, Death, Death of a Parent, Death of a sibling, Dreams, Energy, Ghosts and Spirits, Guardian Angel, Heaven, Kim O'Neill, Messages from the dead, Reincarnation, Spirit visitation, Spirits working with Energy, Spiritual presence, Visitation

    These next several posts come from the channeling session that took place July the 16th. I just received the CD recording in the mail yesterday. I know you all are eager to find out the word for word information Erik and various guardian angels provided, so I will try to post two a day, unless I’m completely swamped with the often menial chores of my so called life. ;-)

    Marcelle’s Question

    My question is directed to my mother and niece who are both gone and almost died the same day but not the same year.

    I want to know, if possible, do they come to visit any family members and if so, who and how often are they here. My mom’s name is Joann and my niece’s name is Nichole. I am 47 and Nichole was 22 (not sure, sorry!) and Joann was 57, city is Cleveland

    Thank you, Erik!

    Marcelle

    Channeling Transcript

    Erik: Hi Mom!

    Me: Hey Sweetie! How are you doing?

    Erik: Good, I’m good.

    Kim: Well, Elisa what would you like to start with today?

    Me: I have a lot of “Ask Erik” questions, so many, in fact, that I’ve had to temporarily suspend it on the blog. So many people are either hurting or hungering for information or both!

    Erik: Bring it on, Mom.

    Me (laughing): Okay, the first one is from Marcelle. She’s 47 years old and lives in Cleveland, Ohio. She wants to ask about her 22 year old niece, Nichole and her 57 year old mother, Joann. Both died in Cleveland.

    Kim: Okay now Erik is bringing Marcelle’s guardian angels forward so he’s going to have them provide that information. Sometimes he gives us the information himself and sometimes he likes to defer to the guides.

    Me: Okay, that’s fine.

    Kim (laughing very loudly): Erik is showing me this picture…he is SO FUNNY! (laughing continues for awhile) He’s sitting in what looks like a throne, and he’s sitting there, and he’s got what looks like a crown on, and he’s chuckling about being “ready to receive his public.”

    Kim and I both laugh.

    Kim: Such a cute sense of humor. People who did not know what a cute sense of humor he has might think, you know, that he’s serious about it. But of course he’s so irreverent, it’s just so funny!

    Me: That is too funny, and so like Erik!

    Erik: Marcelle’s angels say that the mom, Joann has come to visit her a lot. She’s visited her in her dreams. She’s also been present during Marcelle’s waking hours. It’s when Marcelle has believed in her peripheral vision that she’s caught sight of shadows or beams of light, and she’ll turn and there’s nothing there. But she knows there was something in her peripheral vision. This is the beginning of her being able to tangibly interact with her mom. Now, her mom, Joann, is getting ready to come back to the earthly plane, and when she does, she’ll no longer be available to speak with Marcelle. It’s gonna be like June or July of next year, 2011. So if Marcelle wonders, “What happened to Mom? We’ve been talking; I’ve developed my ability to channel her over the last month, how come she’s gone?” That’s because she reincarnated.

    Me: Oh, yeah, sure. That makes perfect sense.

    Erik: Now, her niece. Let’s see what Marcelle’s guides say about her. (pausing to listen) Nichole is going to remain here in Heaven for some time to come. She’s not returning to the earthly plane for a long, long time. She was really happy to shed her physical body. She was only 22 years old, but boy she was happy to get rid of her physical body! She was depressed and was in pain before she passed.

    Kim: Elisa, do you know how she died?

    Elisa: Oh, no I don’t. Sorry.

    Erik: Depressed and in pain. That’s what they’re saying. It was her destiny to live that length of a life and retreat back to Heaven. She’s very happy and stays real busy here. She’ll be here when Marcelle passes in many, many years to come. Oh, and I know you have lots of people on your list, Mom, but Marcelle’s angels want her to know this: It’s very important for her to go for regular mammograms, because she’s gonna have a lump taken out on the right. But this is not something that has already happened. This is why they wanted to come through and give us all the information.

    Me: It’s not happened before?

    Erik: No, it is yet to come. That’s what they’re saying. She doesn’t have anything wrong now.

    Me: Okay, that’s very important information! Thanks Erik.

    Erik: No problemo.

    Stay tuned later today for the answers to Jodi’s question!

  • July21st

    Lukas’s Past Life

    Posted in: Channeling, Kim O'Neill, Past lives, Reincarnation

    Sherry, a member of our Channeling Erik family, asked me if I believe in reincarnation. Of course the answer is a resounding yes. But although most of my spiritual discovery unfolded after Erik’s death, the roots of my belief in past lives stems from an experience that occurred many, many years ago. I had almost forgotten all about this until Sherry jogged my “memory,” a term I use quite loosely.

    My fourth child, Lukas, now seventeen, suffered from a severe bout of pneumonia when he was only four years old. His fever was very high and he had only just started the antibiotics. I was cradling him in my arms sitting on the sofa waiting impatiently for the fever to respond to the Tylenol liquid I had just given him. Just as he was about to drift off to sleep, his eyes opened and he started to recount an amazing story. Fortunately, one of my daughters was there to witness the entire monologue and wrote much of it down. Here is what he said, nearly word for word.

    “Mommy, I used to be a little girl, but I died.”

    What the heck? First of all, Lukas has always been proud to be a boy and would never had volunteered this as fictitious information. If this had all been a “fever fantasy,” I would have expected him to say he was a boy, at the very least as a point of pride. No little boy would EVER admit to being a girl. Highly curious, I prompted him for details.

    “Yes, I was a little girl, but Pappa was my mommy and Maria was my daddy.”

    Maria is now our housekeeper. She’s been with the family as nanny and friend for twenty years, and only recently did I discover we have had many lifetimes together.

    “We were in Jamaica and we grew stuff and sold it.”

    Possibly plantation owners?

    “I remember I had a pretty, new dress on, and I was twirling around.”

    Yet another statement no self-respecting little boy would share unless it was the gospel truth.

    “We were having a picnic by a pretty waterfall, and I was singing a song, twirling in my new dress.”

    At this point, he started to sing parts of the song. It had something to do with sailing on a ship in the big blue sea. The details escape me.

    “Then I fell into a big lake, and I remember seeing Mommy and Daddy looking down at me, and I saw little bubbles go up and up from my mouth. Mommy jumped in to try to get me, but she died. Then I woke up in a dark wet place. It was warm and cozy. Then I was Lukas like I am now.”

    In a channeling session with Kim months later, she verified everything Lukas said, except she said he suffered from epilepsy and fell because of a seizure.

    From that point, I began to read everything I could on past lives, including anything having to do with Dr. Ian Stevenson’s research. Dr. Stevenson set out to prove or disprove the existence of reincarnation. He went all over the world, selecting subjects under the strictest of conditions. For one, they had to be under a certain age to decrease the probability that the person would be exposed to story elements that could be used in a fabrication. Second, the child would have to come from a small village with little or no communication with the outside world. Third, they cannot have traveled outside of that village. This helped avoid “contamination” of the subject with spurious facts, suggestions, etc. Fourth, the child’s family must demonstrate a shyness about the child’s claims of a past life, perhaps even ashamed. Fifth, of course the child must have made the claim of having been reincarnated.

    The stories Stevenson shares are astounding, really. I especially like Carol Bowman’s book, Children’s Past Lives. Once I read that, given Lukas’s account of his life as a girl in Jamaica, there was no going back.

    Now, if Lukas had claimed he was the reincarnation of Napoleon, I might have had my doubts, but…

    Thought I would share this with you. Don’t forget to share as many entries as you can via Facebook, etc. The more hits and readers, the more likely Kim and I can produce that radio show and channel and reach out to more, still for free, of course. Again, my hope is that you and I (with the help of Kim and Erik, of course) can help to comfort and enlighten as many souls as we can. There’s a lot of hurt out there.

    Lukas Medhus

  • July21st

    Channeling Session 7/21/10

    Posted in: Channeling

    Hey all. Today’s session was no short of amazing. However, Erik was speaking very slowly and Kim asked him why. He answered that he had a big night last night and was low on energy. Well, Kim and I assumed he was just partying with his friends as any 20 year old boy would do, but no…he was working hard the last few nights! He was bringing forth departed loved ones to some of you, most notable a child to grieving mother, Melanie who just sent an email to tell me her child finally appeared to her in a dream for the first time since her passing! He’s so amazing! He says he’s going to have to figure out how to meet everyone’s needs efficiently and quickly without sapping too much of his strength.

    On the downside to his hard work, we only got through eleven people on the list. I will be contacting them by email today. Those included in the session (I’ll use initials for names that are too identifying): Chelsea, Ryan, Jennifer, Ingrid, Shelley, Maggie, Craig, Sylvia, and A.L. from the Netherlands.

    I’m so sorry for those who didn’t “make the cut” yet, but the wait will be well worth it, because Erik just keeps getting better and better at this. I’ll try to see if I can get back on Kim’s waiting list in case another cancellation comes up. I want to thank you all for your unwavering patience.

    Kim brought up a great idea, by the way. Maybe you can provide me with some feedback. She’s had a great deal of experience in radio and thinks she and I should create our own nationally syndicated radio show, “Channeling Erik.” Not only will she channel Erik and various guides for callers (for free) we will also discuss scientific evidence for the afterlife, the immortality of the soul, and other quantum aspects of spirituality. In addition, Kim will teach listeners how to channel on their own! What do you guys think?

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