Updates alert!
Now that I am feeling better after having undergone several sessions of EMDR, I’m working long hours on the first book: Channeling Erik: The Insiders Guide to Death, the Afterlife and the Human Experience (working title). I’m going to need an editor to review the basic organization and then for the final editing pass. I’ve also got ideas for cover art, but will likely need a graphic designer to lend his or her expertise. The title is another issue. I’m not set on it yet.
Also, plans are shaping up for Jamie’s and Erik’s event in Austin the first weekend in March: The Channeling Erik Weekend of F%#@ing Enlightenment. I can’t wait to meet those of you who plan to come. I’m bringing most of my family!
Another thing, sometimes I don’t always answer every comment and sometimes I don’t reply to emails with lengthy prose, but I hope no one takes that as a brush off. Another thing, after the channeling event in California ended, I sort of rushed out. I found out one person was offended, so probably more are. The reason was that Michelle was very hurt by something Erik said and she and Arleen left. I was so upset and worried that I couldn’t didn’t hear any of the rest of the channeling, and I ran out when it was over. What I’m saying is remember that I love you all, and you’ll never have a friend more loyal and dedicated to you. If you think I’m curt or dismissive, it’s a misunderstanding. I love you as though you were my own children (and grandchildren)
Now, here’s what Erik has to say on the abilities of a discarnate soul like him to communicate with those of us who are stuck here!
Me: A blog member poses this question, and it’s a great one: “Erik, can you address how challenging it is for some folks who cross the event horizon to the other side to come back for visits? Some people seem to do it more easily and more often than others, and even with a specific spirit, the experience of them goes from something tangible to something really wispy.” Anyway, is that caused by the vibrational level of the deceased spirit? Let me read her example: “I can always tell when my dad is in the room, because the air feels thick, but my son typically comes through very delicately. Some people I can see, others I can’t. Am I the variable or are they?”
Erik: Mostly, the human is the variable. Not that we’re claiming more stability over here—we’re not—but the emotional connection between each person is very different.
Me: Yeah.
Erik: And I think you can vouch for this, Mom. When you’re a mother to someone who’s passed away, there is a lot more need for a different kind of communication. Often it can’t be given to that level of expectation. It might not be a spoken expectation like, “I want you to do this,” or “If you exist, I want you to give me this specific sign.” Expectation, grief, yearning, these are all very dense vibrations, so it’s harder for people who hold these feelings close to be open and aware of communication from us.
Me: Oh yeah. I understand.
Erik: It’s something that the heart is craving that we often can’t fulfill. There’s a really delicate line that we can’t cross, cuz we don’t want to interfere with your choice to be human. How miserable for us to be so involved in a person’s life that they stop living it and they only long to be dead or to communicate with the dead!
God, that kind of sounds like me. Hmmm. Is this a subtle (or not so subtle) hint?
Erik: What’s the purpose of being—
Me: Alive?
Erik: —stuck on earth.
Me: Exactly. “Stuck” is the operative word here.
Erik (chuckling): I think so, too.
