Channeling Erik

January12th

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Body or No Body?

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One favor before I share an extremely interesting segment of the November channeling session: The 2011 Bloggies are accepting nominations now. They have a weird set up. You can nominate a blog for as many relevant categories as you wish, but when you do, you have to include two others. For instance, if you nominate Kristina’s Pretty Shiny Sparkly blog for the fashion category, you have to include two other fashion blogs. I know many of you have wonderful blogs of your own, so if you’ll share them with us, I’ll create a list of choices you can use for each category. The categories I’m interested for www.channelingerik.com include 1) Topical, 2) Religion, 3) New, 4) Best Kept Secret, and 5) Weblog of the Year. For my daughter’s blog: 1) Fashion, 2) Best Photography, 3) Best Designed, 4) Best Kept Secret,  5) Best Writing, and 6) Weblog of the Year.

Of course this is all optional, and I’ll still love you all if you don’t participate–just a smidge less. (Just kidding.) So if you let me know which blogs you want me to include, I’ll post these tomorrow so we can all nominate each other! Here’s the website for the Bloggies: http://2011.bloggi.es/ Now, enough with the self-ingratiating. Let’s dive into a fascinating topic!

Channeling Transcript

Me: Oh, here’s a good one. What new abilities does a discarnate soul gain after shedding the physical body at death, and how do discarnate souls differ from incarnate ones? I know I’m rehashing some of the things we’ve already talked about, but I want to get your perspective through different channels, and I know you might have gained more information about certain subjects between sessions. I want to make sure I have all the details.

Erik: Well, on the spiritual plane, you know, we can manifest anything we want in an instant. Everything is a thought away. We can travel anywhere we want—in heaven, throughout the universe, anywhere on earth. We also have a complete memory and awareness of everything we’ve done in all of our past lifetimes: everywhere we’ve lived, everything we’ve said, everything we’ve thought, all the other souls we’ve interacted with.

Me: Um hm.

Erik: We have a memory of our level of enlightenment, what issues we still need to work on, when we might be going back to the earthly plane, uh, if we are.

(Pause)

Kim: Erik stops there.

Erik: Over here, everyone is expected to have some sort of life’s work, and this is mine.

Me: Yeah.

Erik: I mean, you can just be like a retired person and fish, plant a garden, paint, and lounge around in hammocks, so there isn’t a “life’s work police” that’s gonna throw you in jail if you don’t, but…

Me: Okay.

Erik: We can live alone or in groups. Usually, we interact with the same group of souls over and over.

Me: Okay.

Erik: And those are the ones who greet us when come back here.

(Pause)

Erik: On the earthly plane, we have this spiritual amnesia about who we are, why we’re there, what we’re doing there, what our talents are. We forget we even have spiritual guides with us to help and direct us.

Me: Um hm.

Erik: And on the earthly plane, we forget how to manifest things like we do here in heaven.

Me: Yeah, that sucks.

Erik: We often forget that we’re there as humans to prevail over challenges rather than get derailed by them.

Me: Interesting, yeah.

Erik: We need to use challenges and traumas to fuel our forward movement, not stop it or drive it backwards. Oh, and we forget why we’re interacting with certain other souls. We don’t put an emphasis on figuring out who we are and that we should have self-awareness. That kinda sucks, Mom, because that’s what we need to do to see others for who they really are.

Me: Yeah, absolutely, Erik.

Erik: And if we don’t have self-awareness there on the earthly plane, it’s hard to figure out what our life’s work is and then get into it. So when we get to the earthly plane, it’s kinda like one of those cartoons where, uh, like the roadrunner. Remember, Mom, the roadrunner? Beep beep!

Me: Yeah, that’s one of my favorites!

Erik: Yeah, and that coyote was always there trying to fuck him up, uh, I mean give him grief. Like a big anvil would fall off a cliff and hit the coyote instead of the roadrunner. Remember?

Me: Sure. Wile-E-Coyote. I always felt so sorry for him! He looked so hungry.

Erik: Well, what I’m saying is that’s how a lot of people feel when they get to the earthly plane, cuz they don’t have that self-awareness.

Me: Okay.

Erik: If you don’t have self-awareness and direction, then you’re gonna feel like shit, you’re gonna feel depressed and you’re not gonna know what you have to look forward to.

Me: Um hm.

Erik (in a monotonous voice): Each day is gonna look like the day before.

Me: Exactly.

Erik: That’s when you start asking yourself: “Why the fuck am I here?” A lot of people get stuck in that. It’s really important to know what you have to look forward to, and you can’t really do that when you don’t have self-awareness.

Me: Yep. I think we all go through periods like that. So when we die, what additional information or secrets to the universe are we privy to? Any?

Erik: Anything we choose. Anything we want. Anything we seek.

Me: Wow! But I guess you have to be, you know, open to the possibility that the information is there, right?

Erik: That’s true in heaven and on the earthly plane, Mom. The reason that grandma doesn’t “believe” is cuz she’s afraid.  That’s why I take her around places when she’s asleep. We have a fuckin’ blast visiting people and stuff.

Me (laughing): Wow, I hope you watch your language around her!

Erik: Are you kidding? She loves it and she cusses like a sailor sometimes. Oh, one more thing, Mom. When we get to the earthly plane, we forget all about accountability.

Me: Oh God, yeah.

Erik: We have certain things we’re supposed to do, certain things we’re supposed to say—

Me (chuckling): Some more than others, too!

Erik (laughing): Yes. We forget what we’re supposed to do and say on behalf of others who, uh, help show who we are and why we’ve even gone over there to the earthly plane. Holy shit, Mom, we go to a lot of trouble to go to the earthly plane!

Me: Yeah. Next time, I’m signing up for a trip to Disneyworld. More fun.

Erik But that’s why it’s more difficult being born on the earthly plane than being reborn into heaven.

Me: Yeah.

Erik: Being reborn in heaven, the soul pops out of the body, um, the physical body, you have an immediate memory of who you are, you let go of any physical discomfort—lots of times when people die, they’re in emotional or physical pain, and they get instant relief. It’s intoxicating.

Kim: Erik, you’re being very poetic today!

Me: I’m telling ya!

Kim: He smiles real big, and his face gets blood red.

Me (in a sweet motherly tone): Aw, he was a big blusher. (pause) When we cross over, can we still enjoy physical and sensual pleasures, Erik?

Erik: Yes. People can eat, have sex, snow ski, and do whatever gives them pleasure. Garden, sleep, take a bath—

Me: What do you miss most about the earthly plane, Erik? I know you can’t speak for everybody, but in general terms—

Erik: Well, everyone is different, Mom. Asking me now—

Kim: You know, Elisa, that’s such an interesting question—this is coming from me now—because he’s in a very different place than he was six months ago or a year ago.

Me: Yeah, sure.

Kim: So, as you keep asking him that, his answers keep changing.

Me: Yeah.

Kim: So, what does he miss most about the earthly plane?—

Erik (in a somber tone): Being able to physically interact with my family.

Me (sadly): Awww. I miss that too.

Erik: You, Pappa, Kristina, Michelle, Lukas, Annika—

Me: So you don’t get that sense of touch at all?

Erik: Well, it’s not the same thing. I can touch you, but you can’t touch me.

Me: Yeah.

Erik: I have more of a physical interaction with Arleen cuz she’s still a baby. She can see me three dimensionally. You can ask her, “Where’s Uncle Erik? Where’s Uncle Erik?” and you’ll see her looking around and, um, what I’ll do is—I want you to include this in the blog, Mom.

Me: I always include everything, Baby.

Erik: Ask Arleen, “Where’s Uncle Erik?” and I’ll appear to her and start talking to her or sing a song, and you’ll see her clapping or dancing or laughing or something.

Me: Um hm. That’s already happened lots of times. I’ve seen her being chased by you, and she’ll just start running and squealing. And Amber saw her playing peek-a-boo with you.

Erik: Yeah, I know. That way, you’ll know I’m there. Oh, oh!!! Be ready with the camera or the camcorder, and you’ll capture me in a moving film!

Me: Cool!

Kim gasps!

Me: With Arleen, right?

Erik: Yes.

Kim: Wow! Wow!

Erik: If you capture me talking to Arleen in a still photograph, a lot of people might say, “Well, it’s the way it was developed” or “Those are just your lights,” but if you get me on video, that’s gonna be a tough one to explain away.

Me: Exactly.

Erik: Especially with Arleen interacting with me.

Me: Oh, yeah!

Erik: Cuz see, if it was just me alone, anyone could say you created special effects, blah, blah, blah. But with the baby so obviously interacting with me, everyone’s gonna know you couldn’t have doctored it up.

Kim: Very cool!

Erik: That’s gonna be a film you put on YouTube, and it’s gonna help the book you’re writing and the blog get more investigated.

Me: Oh, that’d be awesome. I’m going to get to work on that for sure!

Well, transcribing that conjures up some guilt feelings, because I haven’t been very good about videotaping Arleen. It’s a full time job just keeping up with her! Plus, the holidays came barreling through, and, oh crap, enough with the excuses. I’ve just been a slacker. I’ll put my nose back to the grindstone and let you guys know if I capture Erik on Candid Camera!

Don’t forget to send me a list of your favorite blogs! Love ya’ll! (WOW, WHEN I CLICKED ON “PUBLISH” IT SAID “PUBLISHED AT 11:11.” COOL!!!!

Teasing Arley

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  • http://www.LatikaTripathi.com Purvi Beri

    http://www.latikatripathi.blogspot.com/

    Put it under any or all the categories…I’m okay, as long as it supports you!!!

    My second book mentions all this (Don’t Cry When I Die…)and recently got the answer that it was channelled to me by Buddha.

    Cool huh?

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      Very cool!

  • Denise

    Is our forgetfulness a result of this place? Do we forget if we were to incarnate onto another planet? I have often heard the earth referred to as muddy in a spiritual sense.

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      I know this might not be what you want to hear, but I do have that question on the list; why do we forget our previous lives when we incarnate to the next one?

  • Nina

    Hey All,

    This may sound like a silly question but, when Erik says,”We don’t put an emphasis on figuring out who we are and that we should have self-awareness” what does that mean?

    What’s the difference between someone who is self-aware, and someone who is not?

    Also…I’ve had some trouble with a family member recently. She’s extremely toxic and hurts everyone she is around. I find it hard to give her unconditional love. The only defense I have is to stay away from her and ignore her horrible comments. Any advice to approaching this in an enlightened way? I mean I’m fairly 100% sure there is nothing I can do to change her.

    I just wonder what the point of our souls traveling down to earth together was (she’s one of my aunts.) Was I supposed to teach her something? Cause she certainly isn’t listening. And she’s malicious and tries to hurt me over and over (as well as other family members.) Or is she teaching me to be brave and move forward with my life and not dwell on it? I’d appreciate ya’lls help. I feel you’re all pretty darned enlightened bloggers :)

    Elisa, you HAVE to catch Erik on video with Arley. That would just be amazing. And he’s right, it will certainly boost your credibility and amount of readers. So cool.

    Love to All,
    Nina

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      Hey Nina, I think what Erik is saying in reference to self-awareness is awareness of who and what we truly are: spiritual beings having a human experience to evolve and progress, that we are all part of a Divine collective, yada, yada, yada. Maybe some of you other readers can add your own two cents.

      As for your toxic aunt, some people are here to teach us. Maybe she agreed to teach you unconditional love. Yesterday I talked about how difficult it was for me to not HATE the Tucson shooter, and slowly but surely, I began to feel pity and compassion for him. Not condoning his wretched act, of course, but he still is a soul, thus part of us.

      When I have a toxic person in my life, I “take them on” only if I have it in me to do so, whether it’s to teach or learn. Sometimes, I just don’t have the emotional where with all to deal with them. Otherwise, I remind myself that those who are most difficult to love are the ones who need love the most. I try to visualize them as tiny newborn babies or very old and feeble, because at some point in their lives they were or will be vulnerable and harmless. Sometimes it also helps to look into their background. What was their childhood like, for instance? What makes them the way they are? This helps me feel more compassion for toxic people too.

      Sometimes, all it takes is open and honest communication, not telling her what she’s doing wrong, but telling her how you’re affected by what she says and does. After all, all we can control is our reactions to these sorts. That’s where our power lies, that’s the part for which we’re accountable.

  • Shree

    Hi Elisa

    Here is mine for the Categories 1) Topical, 2) Religion, 3) New, 4) Best Kept Secret, and 5) Weblog of the Year.

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      Oh, Shree, can you go to the 2011 Bloggies and nominate channeling erik? Erik would be so proud. We’re up against a lot, but if we don’t put it out there, it’ll never happen!

  • M and M

    In response to Nina’s question about how to deal with toxic people, I had a reading with Jamie yesterday that addressed a new way to deal with this. I always felt that I had to educate people on why their behavior was toxic to others or the situation, thinking if they understood it would be of benefit to them, but with some people all that does is fuel their fire. I advised to try a new pattern;

    First, gather the facts and “sleep on it” if needed to cool yourself down. Next, compliment the person as this can disarm the toxic person. Next, give them the simple truth, just state the facts, do NOT give an opinion. Next, tell them how it makes you feel, but do NOT tell them why it makes you feel that way. Do NOT defend yourself. Next, be quiet! (This can be the really hard part). The ball has been transfered to their court, it is now their responsibility. You have minimized their toxic leg to stand on. The really adamant ones will always find a leg to stand on, but at least you haven’t provided it to them.

    All situations are different, but maybe this will help in some. It is certainly helping me come out of a pattern that was just eating me up. Good luck!

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      Good suggestions. I’m always for the “sandwich technique” in dealing with conflict: first say something nice, then state the problem, then close with something nice. How did you like your session with Jamie?

  • Kerrie Aus

    Dear Elisa,
    I have often wondered,”why,” we have to keep on coming back century after century to Earth to learn.If some of us don’t have self awareness isn’t it pointless. Surely there has to be a better method of learning who we are. Something a lot less cruel and heartbreaking. I like the idea of doing what I like in Heaven, with no problems. Why would anyone ever want to leave there and come here.

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      I know what you mean, Kerrie. There are things Erik misses about the earthly plane, so there IS that. But I think that the more heartache, challenge and trauma we endure as humans, the more quickly we progress spiritually–that is, if we choose to use these hurdles as teachable moments rather than potholes. It’s tough, but if we change our perspective so that we see each hardship as a glorious opportunity to evolve, we’ll prevail.

  • Shree

    Sure thing !! Doing that right now … Lots of love to you and Eric

  • Shree

    Sure thing !! Doing that right now … Lots of love to you and Eric

    http://www.conversations-with-my-mind.com

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      Shree, since it asks for a name of the blog author, what should be put?

  • M and M

    Elisa, the session with Jamie was good, thanks for asking. I was really down so I always find those sessions to not be as fulfilling when in that state, but that was my fault and I got some good information. She was very kind and was right on.

    Also- I just listened to the recording of Erik’s voice then went to do my evening meditation practice. I felt in my mind that Erik came to join me, we had fun. He sat beside me and mimicked me making me laugh. He had a big grin on his face and was just having fun. He said “hi” and to tell his Mom he loves her. I promised I would and I sent him love back. He sat there for several minutes and just made me laugh, then he said he had somewhere to go. It was wonderful. You have a wonderful son and we all have a wonderful angel.

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      (smile)

  • http://www.goodmomsarealotofthings.blogspot.com kathleen

    Here’s a blog site which is written by my niece-in-law that I would love for you to enter:
    http://www.goodmomsarealotofthings.blogspot.com

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      What’s your niece’s name, since it’s on the nomination form?

  • nina

    Elisa,

    Its interesting that you say all we are accountable for is our own reactions. I know it seems straightforward enough but I never thought about it that way. That helps a lot. My reaction was sadness at first to her words but then anger. Instead of acting on anger I decided that her energy is never going to mesh with mine. I love her and don’t want anything bad to happen to her but her personality is too toxic. So I just didn’t write her back. Maybe I will just close with a simple, “I’m sorry you feel that way. I love you.”

    Do you guys ever hear people talking at work about how people “did them wrong” and they start gossiping and saying,”I swear if there she was in the middle of a desert with n o water I wouldn’t offer her anything. They can die for all I care!” Or people who are jealous and wish their skinny friends would “blow up” (gain weight)? I don’t understand this thinking. I want good things for all people. I’m not perfect or anything but I never want to see my enemy in pain. Anyone relate?
    *Nina

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      Oh sure, Nina. Those people are all over the place. I’m sure I’ve been guilty of such vitriol at various points of my life. But this all comes from a place of feat: fear that people are going to take something from them: reputation, money, beauty by comparison, whatever. Giving love, however difficult, always strengthens and nourishes the soul. I wish I were better at it, but perhaps over time…

      As for you aunt, sometimes when people attack me, I imagine a plexiglass shield in front of my face and pling, pling, pling, all the insults or ugly remarks bounce off with no ill effects. I also imagine I’m a reporter observing the vitriol and I respond: “How curious that you would say/think that.” Writing is tough because it’s difficult to convey emotion and intent through the written word. I would call her. It might make a huge change in her life. (maybe yours too)

  • Skoshi

    Great session E&E! I really like this one. I’m going to cut and paste it into a file so I can refer to it again. Often I want to go back and re-read a post and can’t find it.

    Hi, Nina. I’ve, unfortunately, had a lot of experience with very toxic people who have had very important roles in my life. They certainly help a person define who they are and what they stand for (not will stand for – take – but what they stand for, justice wise; i.e. my mother was a racist, and being with her confirmed for me that I am not). But NO one can change another person, and many (MOST?) toxic people do NOT mellow as they age. We were taught that as a fact in Hospice training; if they were vicious young people, they will be nasty old people, and Hospice workers do not have to take abuse.

    It does help to consider someone’s childhood and what they went through that made them the way they are or contributed to the way they are, but people ARE born with different personalities. My mother was one of 9 siblings, and all of them dealt with the difficulties of being a large family during the Depression differently; my mother was the ONLY nasty one of her siblings.

    As for personality at birth, for example, a shy person can work to develop skills to deal with their shyness and make being shy easier for them, but they will always, at heart, be shy. They will not become an extravert at their core, no matter how excellent their social skills become. Mothers will tell you that their children had different personalities from birth, and parents of identical twins can easily tell them apart by their personalities.

    My mother was very vicious and was vicious right up till her deathbed. She chose to react to adversity by being nasty; she chose to react to joy by being nasty, etc. I strongly recommend your reading Susan Forward’s “Toxic Parents: Overcoming their hurtful legacy and reclaiming your life.” Even though your aunt is not a parent, she is in a quasi-parental role.

    My mother was emotionally, psychologically abusive and lied to my father to encourage him to be physically abusive (and she could blame the physical abuse on him), and I went on to marry a very emotionally, psychologically, physically abusive man who confirmed my mother’s opinion of me: that I was stupid, unattractive, and less than human because I wasn’t male. I continued having a relationship with my mother because she was my mother and she was so damaged she needed my help. I determined that I would not treat her the way she treated me, but she was NEVER kind, and I was shocked in my 50s when she gave me a compliment. It is the ONLY compliment I ever remember her giving me. My ex-husband, I came to understand how he became the man he was by putting two and two together about his infancy and childhood by seeing his mother interact with my son, BUT speaking to him about the way he made me feel by the things he did and said and begging him to go with me to counseling (for 20 years!) was unproductive. He didn’t love himself and is incapable of loving anyone else. I finally came to the conclusion that even though I understood him, his abusive treatment of others is not acceptable, and I wasn’t willing to die to stay with him and take the “high ground”. Being a martyr ISN’T healthy.

    People can get under the thumbs of toxic people on the job too. People who write about how to deal with difficult bosses also say some people are just so extreme that the smart thing to do is to remove yourself from their sphere of influence.

    It just may be that they’ve had lifetimes of being abusive and you’re in their life to teach them that it is healthy to say “no” to the way they treat people, and their actions have consequences. OR it may be that you and I have had lifetimes of being a doormat and this is yet another chance for us to show a HEALTHY degree of backbone.

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      True, Skoshi. I think a lot of toxic people don’t love themselves so they don’t think anyone else could possibly love them either. So why make the effort to solicit that love? I also believe that it’s not healthy to continue such relationships unless you have the strength and intent to help. Sometimes it’s not our job. Sometimes it’s just up to the Universe.

  • Skoshi

    Whoa! I’m watching Ghost Hunters International, and they’re in a pub and the woman investigator put out two glasses of ice water with bent straws in them: one for her fellow investigator and one for the ghost, and the “ghost” moved the straw and ice in the glass (or MAYBE it was just that the ice melted?). In either event, they’ve caught it really well on film, and they had cold air nearby connected with the phenomena too. Maybe when you film Erik with Arley, you can put out drinks for the two of them and Erik can move the ice and straw in his drink while Arley has hers?

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      Well, only if they’re Margaritas, Skoshi! (Actually, Robert and I are going out tomorrow for Mexican food, so a Margarita will be my vegetable choice.

  • Nina

    Thanks everyone. Elisa, the last bit you wrote actually helped a lot! I think in this case it’s not my job. (and btw, the aunt i’m referring to is NOT the aunt who reads this blog!) No, the aunt I’m referring to wouldn’t know whether to make heads or tails of the stuff we talk about on here. I think it might make her head spin! lol!

    Anyway, thanks for the advice. I’m going to keep the peace…as it should be.
    Smilingly,
    Nina

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      Yeah, you can’t save everyone, Girl!

  • Lynette

    I believe I’ve read every post on this blog, but don’t think Erik has commented yet on this: Why does civilization sometimes seem to go “backwards”, with all the violence, hatred, greed, etc.? Why can’t we remember enough to at least move forward from the last incarnation?

    Thanks,

    Lynette

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      Great minds think a like, Lynette. It’s on the list. I saved a lot of the big questions for the end: more about the Spiritual Awakening, the state of our human civilization and the direction it’s now headed, etc. Can’t wait to hear what he finds out and tells us!

  • Skoshi

    I know people who are aunts and uncles who are verbally (and sometimes physically) abusive of their minor nieces and nephews. It makes a person wonder what’s with the kids’ parents, who have the responsibility to protect their children. It IS the parents’ job to either successfully address the abuse or remove the children from the adults’ lives.

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      Sexual abuse is an issue sometimes, too, isn’t it. Where are the parents then?

  • Steve

    Didn’t via Jamie, the grandmother say she didn’t like the swearing, yet here Erik says she swears like a sailor now?

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      That’s his other grandmother on Rune’s side. Bestemor (grandmother in Norwegian) was very proper.

  • juan

    Hello Elisa;

    This is the blog that I read:

    http://www.desdecuba.com/generationy/

    This Cuban girl (Yohany Sanchez) has been nominated for several international awards including the “Time Best Blog 2009″, for the freedom of speech, she live in a bloody-dictatorship country by the Castro brothers named: Cuba, where I was born (where my soul chose to birth)

    Thanks

    juan

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      Wow, this would be a great one for the Best Latin American Blog!

  • Lisa Potter

    Thank you for following up with that question of why we forget previous lives, Elisa. It really is frustrating to have so little memory and lack of awareness. I remember parts of five other lifetimes, but none of them seem to tie into why I’m here now. I can’t wait to read his answer!

  • mom2bzs

    I really really enjoyed this entry Elisa! So interesting, although they all are.

    Nina, I know what you mean about people being supportive. I have trouble understanding this also. I’m always so happy and supportive for my friends and others about good things. I want the best for others. I too have trouble understanding not being supportive. I also have trouble with people who will tell others the negative things others have said to them and telling the person who was the subject of the conversation. The point of this would be what?!!!

    Skoshi, When I hear about your mother and your ex, I just want to give you a big hug. You’re such a great person. Look at how you’ve endured and triumphed through all that you’ve been through.

    Sherry

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      Maybe it’s those hardships that have contributed to Skoshi being such an amazing pillar of strength?

  • john joseph

    Kerri,

    Were I you, I would not just assume people “have to” come back to the earth plane to re-incarnate over and over again. There are differing views on this, one which takes the position that this is a spiritual misunderstanding – that since spirits have access to each other’s memories, etc, resonating with them one takes another’s experience for one’s own, even in the afterlife.

    I have always intuitively felt there was something “not quite right” about the idea of some mandated return to the earth plane, and I have read August Goforth’s explanation of this recently and it struck my solar plexus as a spiritual truth. He ultmately concludes that “free will” is not conditional, so no one “has” to do anything. No one’s minding the “moral” store, except ourselves and there is always love & help from others, when we ask for it (“It shall be given unto you”.)

    I read the materials here with interest and no bias or judgment and am sure the experiences are true for those involved. However, they aren’t necessarily going to be your or my spiritual reality.

    Blessings,
    john joseph

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      Spot on, John Joseph!

  • Donna W

    Another interesting post. I would be interested in hearing what Erik has to say about the shift. Or is that what you’re referring to the spiritual awakening?
    Skoshi I also would like to give you a big hug for all the abuse you have had to endure in your life. I am sure this is what has made you the strong person and evolved spirit you have.

  • kathleen

    My niece’s name is Kerrie Hinch

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      I changed it on the entry!

  • kathleen

    I should have mentioned that I nominated your website and Kristina’s as well as my niece, Kerrie Hinch, for blogs of the year. Do you understand how the voting will take place? After submitting, it tells me to check back on Feb 1st to vote. How will others be able to vote for these blogs?

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      I don’t know, but I’ll give everyone a reminder on the 1st. Thanks for letting me know your niece’s name!

  • Nina

    2 things: Skoshi is AWESOME. And I wanted to vote for your blogs but I guess I need a total of 3 for each category. Any suggestions for the other blogs? I don’t read very many blogs.
    *Nina

    • http://drmedhus.com Elisa

      You don’t have to put three for a category, you just have to have three different blogs for the entire process. Check out today’s entry for three additional blog suggestions besides Kristina’s blog and this one.

  • Daleywater

    That was touching. So, they also miss not being to physically interract with the family. We need to live with this, either way. Loving them in our hearts is living forever. They remain forever young. hahaha

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