I want to express my pride and gratitude for the Channeling Erik family for rallying in support of our dear Lynette. I’m sure you’ll continue to keep her in your prayers, sending her the healing energy she needs. I met her in Atlanta during the first CE event, and she’s such a gentle and loving soul.
And now, here’s a question from a blog member: Where did our Erik begin?
Me: Here’s another question: Do you know how you began, Erik?
Erik: Began this journey or began this life?
Me: I’m not sure what he’s asking. I think he’s wondering if you recall how you began your entire journey as the personality known as Erik. I think that’s it. Or is there even a beginning? Since we see ourselves as linear in that we are born and then we live and ultimately we die, we assume everything has a beginning. Maybe that’s a misconception.
Erik: Oh, so like The Big Bang?
Me: I guess? The Big Erik Bang.
(Pause as Jamie listens to Erik)
Jamie (giggling): Erik! (to me) He makes a sexual joke!
Me: Typical.
Jamie: About the Big Bang.
Me: I can only imagine. The Big Gang Bang?
Jamie (grateful that I rescued her from having to repeat his words): Yes, you got it right.
Erik: That’s how life starts. If the guy wants to talk about the beginning of creation, I don’t think I’m the one for it. I just don’t know right now, but I think it’s probably safe to assume consciousness is a sentient energy that has always been. No start, no end. And that makes sense since they’re no time here.
Me: Do you think there’s an Erik that’s stuck on a lower plane that needs help?
Erik: Nope.
(Jamie laughs)
Me: And I guess the biggest question I have is this: Does he even care about these things? I mean, when we leave this plane, do we actively pursue these questions, or do we just get thrown into the eternal present where all this stuff becomes irrelevant? I think you already answered that. You really don’t care.
Erik: Yeah. It makes no difference. By the way, I was that Erik that needed help.
Me: I know, Sweetie. I figured as much!
The Erik Who Needed Help
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Me: Here’s an interesting question from a blog member: “I am curious if Erik has met or has knowledge of all the various Erik incarnations happening at the same time. Can Erik still influence the Erik that passed on in this latest incarnation?” I love that question. Can you, Erik? Can you meet and influence all of your incarnations past and present?
Erik (laughing): Damn that makes me sound like a super hero, doesn’t it?
Me: You’ll always be my super hero, Baby.
Jamie laughs.
Erik: Yes, um, being in the spirit world where I am, I could go out and meet myself if I wanted to do that, but when you’re here, you kind of find that it’s not necessary, because you’re actually connected anyway.
Me: Oh, okay.
Erik: You pick up on it, but—
Me: Can you still influence the Erik—my Erik—before you passed on?
(Of course what I’m really asking is, ‘Can you prevent yourself from pulling that trigger so Mama can have her precious boy back.’)
Erik: Yes.
(Long pause)
Me: Okay.
I think, ‘Is that all ya got, Erik? Please give me more!’
(Awkward pause)
Me: I mean, you could obviously save your own life or make changes to it so you wouldn’t be dead. How would that work?
(Pause)
Jamie: He’s kind of tugging at his hair on the side.
Erik: I knew you would go there.
Me: Yeah, yeah. No, I’m just trying to figure out, because then this life would be completely different for both of us and the family and of course our Channeling Erik family. It’s not supposed to happen, I guess.
Erik: That’s the thing, Mom. If it were an accident, then that kind of time travel shifting—you could come and change things and, you know, heal. But if it’s meant to be that way, then no, you can’t really shake it up that way.
Me (solemnly): Yeah. And you wouldn’t want to, or you couldn’t do it?
Erik: I wouldn’t want to. It’s not like we don’t really get in trouble, but we can!
Me: Ooo, principal’s office! But whom do you get in trouble with?
Erik: Our guides.
Me: Okay. Darn. Thought I’d ask.
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Me: Okay. Now, someone brought to my attention that recently there have been some feet washing ashore in Vancouver, and they have tennis shoes on. Like a dozen disembodied feet. What is that all about. Kind of gross. Just sayin’.
Jamie: That is kind of gross! He’s talking about it being murder—
Me: Like a serial killer?
Jamie; Yeah, where they’re releasing the bodies in the same place each time, but it doesn’t look like a mass dumping. It looks like it’s been going back and forth for a little while.
Me: Okay.
Jamie: Two, three trips with several different people. But this is from a long period of time.
Me: Where are they dumping it, in Vancouver? Or maybe it’s from Japan?
Erik: Nope, not that far.
Me: Must be joggers since they all have tennis shoes on. That just proves my point that jogging is bad for your health!
Jamie laughs.
Jamie: Especially in Vancouver!
Me: I know!
Jamie: He’s showing me it’s in that local area. It’s not from far away and washing up.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: Blog member, Lynette, from Augusta, Georgia needs help from her Channeling Erik family. She has been recently diagnosed with uterine cancer and will be scheduled for surgery soon. Until then, she will not know what stage is it. Please send her as much healing energy as you can. She’s a lovely woman, and Erik has a very special fondness for her.
Here are several questions posed by readers back in September. Sorry about the lack of editing but I’ve been hit by a major grief tsunami. They come and go and are part of life’s landscape now. You know how that can be. No pity required. It just is what it is–and unwelcome houseguest that never leaves! Ugh.
Me: Okay, here’s another one. Very interesting. What’s up with spontaneous human combustion? Is that for real? You know how people just go “whoosh” and burst into flames?
Erik (laughing): I bet more than half of them is a fable or myth or story.
Me: What about the other half?
Erik: It’s a low number. Spontaneous combustion, like bursting into flames—
Me: Yeah, they just incinerate.
(Pause)
Jamie (fussing at Erik): Stop laughing, Erik, and tell us!
Erik: At the cellular level, the mitochondria—
Me: Oh my god, that just popped into my mind!
Erik: Yeah, those organelles just over work and it’s like getting a fever or being boiled. And when this trigger happens in the body, it does just that, and it has no place to go to except into flames, because it’s such a contained situation inside the skin of the body. Just like water being trapped in a sealed container, it’ll burst. The energy doesn’t have room to grow, so through that expression, it creates spontaneous combustion.
Me: Interesting. Okay, here’s another quick question. With our life review, we feel all of the feelings of those we’ve hurt, but what about with animals like pets and what about plants? Do we feel the pain and any of the emotions elicited when we harm them?
Erik: Get in line.
Jamie laughs.
Erik: Absolutely every living thing. When you’re doing your life review—that’s what it is.
Me: Even if you accidentally step on little ants?
Erik (laughing): C’mon Mom! It’s kind of not like that. It’s not all or nothing.
Me: Good, phew!
Erik: But if you’re purposely frying them with a magnifying glass, then, Hell yeah, you’re going to feel everything they felt.
Me: So it only happens when you have the intent of doing harm.
Erik: Yeah, exactly.
Me: Amy N. wants to know if we should have our own Channeling Erik show on the Oprah Network with you, Jamie, Robert, Jason, Ryan, and the other Channeling Erik psychic mediums—oh, and of course you, Erik! Do you think that would be feasible and helpful to people?
Erik: Helpful? Hell, yeah! I can only imagine the hours they’d put it on. Midnight, one A.M.
Me: I know. So the world is probably not ready.
Erik: Yeah, you know that’s not gonna fly.
Me: Well, people better pull their heads out of their ass what with the Shift coming and all. Wait, John Edwards had that show, Crossing Over and it was very successful.
Erik: Yeah, but that dudes totally alive. What, you think they’re going to have a dead host on TV?
Me: Yes, actually! That’d be cool, different!
Jamie (giggling): He’s laughing!
Erik: You know what, I say go for it, talk about it, push it, but it’s not going to go for another several years.
Me: Okay, that’s fine. Now, Nancy J. wants to know if hemp extract could be a cure for cancer.
Erik: Yes it can. It’s not the end all, be all. You have to change the chemical belief in the head. The person’s perspective and the person’s belief have to get control of the cellular level of the body.
Me: Okay.
Erik: The reason I like the hemp is because you can smoke it, vaporize it, eat it, use it for oil, make it into clothes, whatever.
Me: So you can pretty much use it all.
Erik: Yeah, because that helps you get rid of some of the logical demon in the left brain hemisphere people carry around that says, “That’s bullshit.” It helps that person relax into that unicorn and rainbows world.
Jamie laughs hard.
Me: Awww! I just got an image of rainbows and unicorns and Skittles shooting out of someone’s butt. Great. That’s sooo gonna give me nightmares.
Erik: It’s gonna help you believe that, yes, you are capable of this and you do have the power to meditate and other things.
Nikki tipped me off to this wonderful lady who will take Erik’s (and of course other’s) o’d t-shirts and makes them into cozy quilts. Imagine wrapping yourself up in that kind of love! And it looks reasonable too–between $150 to $175! Her telephone number is (636)225-1967. I’m hoping Rune gets the hint and gets one made up for my Channeling Erik sanctuary and if we have enough t-shirts, one for my downstairs sofa so I can wrap myself up in his smell and cry from time to time. (Hint, hint: please don’t wash them first!)
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Good news: the Doubletree Hotel Channeling Erik Weekend link is up on Jamie’s site: http://doubletree.hilton.com/en/dt/groups/personalized/A/AUSLNDT-CEW-20120228/index.jhtml?WT.mc_id=POG. So, you can book your room at a much reduced rate. If you need a roommate, email me at emedhus@gmail.com and I’ll play matchmaker. If you haven’t signed up for the Austin event, but sure to. It’s going to be amazing–life-changing–and I really want to meet you guys. We can accommodate only up to 50 people, because we want the group to be an intimate family. We also hope to have blog member, Doug, talk about and demonstrate past life regression, and we may have someone discuss induced after death communication. It should be chock full of all sorts o amazing skills, experiences and information so that your life will never be the same again. Again, sign up is on Jamie’s site: https://withloveandlight.com/shop/channeling-erik-weekend-of-enlightenment-austin-tx-32-34/
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And now of Mr. Samurai, himself, John Belushi:
The more we got into the interview the more I found his answers indirect and confusing. He often didn’t answer the questions in a concise and direct way, but this is the best he could do. As I transcribed this, I wondered if drugs can alter the energy of the soul in an adverse way, although it didn’t seem to have an adverse effect on Chris Farley, Bob Marley and others. Robert? Jason? Anyone else have any ideas? This entry, he was pretty clear, but as the interview progresses, you’ll see what I mean.
Me: Well, Erik, who should we interview next, Jim Morrison, JFK, Jr. or John Belushi?
Erik: The one that’s most eager and easiest to get a hold of is John Belushi.
Me (chuckling): Oh, okay! Go fetch, Boy!
Jamie: Yeah, go get him, Erik!
(Pause)
Jamie: That’s funny; he sort of looks like Marlon Brando.
Me: I don’t remember.
Jamie: Not the shape of his body. Just his face.
Me: I don’t know. I can’t even picture him. Didn’t he do the Samurai skits on Saturday Night Live?
Erik: Yes, Mom! I can’t believe you forgot!
Jamie: He’s here. He’s not as tall as I expected him to be, but he’s solid built, kinda chubby.
Me: Yeah, he had some meat on his bones.
Jamie: And scruffy! Don’t you shave up there, John?
John: Who needs to? Who am I trying to impress?
Me: Yeah, really! Hello John!
John: Hello, beautiful!
Me: Aw, you’re so sweet! Okay, I’d like to ask you some questions; you probably know the drill. Can you tell us what you believed in regarding death and the afterlife before you died?
John: Oh, I was spoon fed what my parents thought was best. What child isn’t? Isn’t that the purpose of having kids, so you can have a few puppets around?
Jamie and I laugh.
Jamie: You didn’t have any children, did you?
John: No, I didn’t get around to it.
Jamie: He’s talking about being orthodox. What do you mean, orthodox? Were you Jewish?
Me: Well, it could be Greek, you know. There are all sorts of orthodox religions. It just means conventional or traditional. They just really stick to the tenets without liberal interpretation.
Jamie: Yeah, he said it was very strict. He’s talking about being eastern orthodox.
Me: Okay.
Jamie: And he said some crazy word that starts with an A. Sounded like a sneeze!
Me: Oh, he was probably an Ashkenazi Jew!
Jamie: Ooo, say that again?
Me: I don’t know if I’m even pronouncing it right. Ashkenazi?
Jamie: No, it sounds like it has more syllables than that.
Me: Ashkenazi-wazi? I give up!
Jamie laughs hard.
Jamie: Oh my god, he loves that! No, it’s like “automobile” and then something else.
John: It wasn’t the most loving place you wanted to find yourself. It’s no surprise that I came out with much more of a dark side than a bright side.
Me (with sympathy): Aw, yeah. You mean because of your religious upbringing?
John: Yes.
Me: Okay, so when you crossed over, how did those beliefs change?
John: I found that maybe humor was the way to really—
Jamie: He rubs his face and his hair when he talks.
John: I found that humor really was the way to celebrate life, and in celebrating life, you are celebrating God.
Me: Mm hm.
John: But I really found out that what I learned was a lot of bullshit.
Me: Ah oh!
(Pause)
Me: Okay, So what was your transition like for you? Was it peaceful, painful—
John: Hmm. Confusing. I really can’t compare peaceful or painful, because I really wasn’t raised in any other family. What my family was is what they were. They were survivors, and my dad always lived in survivor mode. It wasn’t really about loving or caring for your children; it was about teaching them how to survive.
Me: Oh, wow!
John: And when you end up in America, that natural instinct to survive is not as needed. It’s pampered out of you. But yet we didn’t get that nurturing that you see on TV with—
Jamie laughs at what he says before going on.
John: —the fucking Leave it to Beaver and things like that.
Jamie (to John): I always have to giggle when you guys cuss! I will grow out of it, I promise!
Me: Oh, no! Don’t grow up, Jamie!
Erik laughs.
Me: No, what I mean by transition is death. What was your death like?
John: Fireworks!
Me: Fireworks?
John: There was a lot of drugs! Racing heart! Lights in my eyes! It was fireworks!
Me: Okay. What went on in your mind as you were dying and right after you crossed over?
John: Yeah, yeah, I thought that was the greatest high I had ever had! How amazing! I didn’t realize I had gone past the point of no return.
Me: Oh, I can see that happening.
John: I was still going! God, it just kept getting better and better, and then I realized I wasn’t coming off of it. Then I realized I didn’t have my body anymore, and I realized how much I had just been fucked.
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Me: Very good! What are you up to? Getting ready for your big trip to Japan?
Jamie: I have one month before I take off.
Me: It’ll be here before you know it!
Jamie: I know! Oof! I just got back from California and Colorado.
Me: Wow, you’ve been quite the globetrotter!
Jamie: I was out two weeks for that, and it was very quiet! You know, I haven’t seen Erik in so long! Normally I get these random little visits and lately, nothing!
Me: He must be pranking other people; who knows?
Jamie: He’s been busy with you, is what he tells me.
Me: Oh yeah. I’ve been swamped with all sorts of crises, but that’s all over with for now. So, hi Erik!
Erik: Hi, Mom!
Me: I love you! Happy birthday, belated!
Jamie: Holy cow! Really?
Me: Yeah!
Jamie: That’s spooky.
Me: Tuesday was his birthday, two days ago. Why?
Jamie: Really? Oh, man! Dude, I was just fixing the light bulb, and I was on a ladder, and he came in and I said, ‘Erik, don’t screw with me; I’m on a ladder.’ And he goes, “You know, you could tell me happy birthday!” So I say, ‘Why?’ I don’t know when his birthday is! But he didn’t tell me the date or if it was coming or past or whatever. I’m freaking out that you just said that!
Me: Very cool! He got a lot of well wishes from the blog members, so that’s good.
Jamie: Aww, how sweet!
Me: Now, my first question today is why do our deceased loved ones come to visit more at first, then their communication sort of wanes in frequency. For instance, Erik, when you died you used to come all the time with pranks, visits and smells, but now those visits haven’t been as frequent. I do get an occasional rank smell, but…
Erik: I think it’s for two reasons. It’s to help the person who’s passed over say goodbye and have closure and grieve—
Me: Well, why do you have to if you’re not really gone?
Erik: —and it’s to help the human say goodbye, and be comforted by the fact that we’re not totally dead.
Me: Okay, but what’s wrong with just visiting anyway, because we know you’re not gone. Why would you have to move on and have that separation?
Erik: A lot of people, that’s what they believe in. It can only work within the person’s belief system.
Me: Ah! On both sides of the veil, right?
Erik: Yep. That’s the sticky part.
Me: I see. Well, you can visit me any time you want!
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My sister, Laura, and several blog members suggested I convert Erik’s room into a mediation room/sanctuary. I could put most of his nonessential belongings in storage and give some things away while keeping the important memorabilia to showcase in some way, museum style. The guitars, hats, riding equipment, and other things could be hung on the walls.
A 50 inch flat screen and comfy chair would be perfect for Rune and Erik to watch motorcycle races together on the SPEED channel. Maybe I could finally learn to channel Erik there or meditate and chill with him. I could have my phone sessions with Jamie and help her host the conference calls there. Perhaps Robert could hold his future radio interviews or channeling sessions in “The Erik Room, too. So many possibilities to lesson the pain, all thanks to you guys. What do you think? Any other suggestions?
Great news, everyone. Jamie has agreed to channel Erik every two weeks for one hour phone sessions. She wants to keep the groups to a maximum of 10 so that everyone gets a chance to ask questions and we’ll assign and refer to each person by number rather than name so that the recording can be posted. That way, everyone can learn from the answers to those questions. She requests that no guides be brought forth because that drains her energy considerably. Erik is quite easy to channel, so sure has no problem with that, but some guides can be very taking. SHe also has no problem channeling deceased, because Erik helps her with that as well.
Last but not least, I received a bid for a Channeling Erik smart phone app. It will contain functions that will not be available in the web version, but is costly for me to construct. How important would this be to you and would any of you be willing to pay 1 to 5 bucks to help defray my costs? Is that too tacky to ask? Know that I don’t make any money from Channeling Erik and in fact spend over a thousand a month, but I consider that Erik’s college tuition, room and board, wedding, etc. (hee hee).
Here’s the third part of our interview with the great Bob Marley!
Me: What insights did you gain once you crossed over and had that broader perspective as a free soul in Heaven?
Jamie: He just smiles so big at me! You know, his face isn’t really shaven, but it’s not like a full beard or anything. Kinda scraggly. When he smiles, you see a full set of teeth.
Bob (talking through his smile): I was just thinking about dis de other day!
Me: Oh!
Jamie giggles.
Bob: My focus and my life was more for community, for unity—to pull people together— to learn to live with each other. I wanted it so bad dat I created my family. My family is large. I have many children with different mothers—
Jamie (to Bob): What is that word?
(Pause)
Jamie (giggling): Use a different word, because I don’t know it.
Jamie (to me) Probably some Rasta word! It means like wonderful or delicious.
Bob: It’s delicious to be in love. So, I found love with so many women and created families with dem and children. I felt dis was a calling for me. And what I recognized here where I am—blessed to be here—I focused so much on community dat I unknowingly didn’t focus on de individual enough. I missed knowing more about my children as dey grew, because I saw dem as part of a whole instead of as an individual.
Me: Fascinating. What do you think you were here to learn?
Bob: I was here to learn how to rise a nation—to motivate, to speak from de heart and belly of de soul and not from de eyes and de mouth.
Me: And that is a perfect segue into the next question: what were you here to teach? That must be exactly what you were hear to teach, right?
Bob: Yes. I was here to teach de people to live from de heart.
Me: Any regrets?
Bob: Dat goes back to my children and seeing dem as individuals.
Me: Okay. What was your proudest—
Bob (laughing): And because I died so young, not being able to fall in love with more women!
Me: Oh, boy! What a womanizer! You have plenty of women over there, I’m sure! Right?
Bob: Oh, yes! Love is everywhere!
Me: Now, while you were in the physical, what did you feel was your proudest accomplishment.
Bob: Every song that went on a record.
Me: Good! And now that you’re in heaven, do you still consider that your highest achievement?
Jamie: Um, he’s kind of tugging at his black headband with his fingers.
Me: Okay.
Jamie: He adjusts his hair a lot!
Bob: Looking back with dis new perspective, I can see my proudest accomplishment is de changes people made when dey listened to my music. When I was on earth, my proudest accomplishment was creating de music. Now, as an observer, I can see de reaction to my music. (Pause for effect) Now DAT is my proudest accomplishment!
Jamie: He takes a deep breath, then kind of squints his eyes. He moves his hair back. Funky hair! (She giggles.)
Bob: My transition was a blessing. It pulled me away from my music, which nurtured me while I was alive. It was my time; it was my contract; I knew. I knew I would not live trough what I was going trough.
Me: Yeah. Did you suffer a great deal?
Jamie: Weird kind of question.
Bob: It took me a long time to let go and pass away.
Me: You had skin cancer, didn’t you? Melanoma?
Bob: That’s right. And yes I did suffer, but mostly it’s dat I had a hard time letting go. It went to my lungs, my brain, so der was pain.
Me: So, when you transitioned, tell me what you saw and what thoughts you had once you realized you had passed on.
Bob: I rejoiced! I called God to come to my side! I called everyone I knew to come to my side.
Jamie: He sounds like he was very much in control!
Me: Yeah!
Bob: We sang; we embraced; I knew my pain was over.
Jamie: He’s saying he had a short life.
(Pause)
Jamie (to Bob): How old were you?
(Pause)
Jamie: Thirty-Six! Really? I thought you were older than that!
Me: Aw. Can you describe what you saw when you first crossed over?
Bob: I saw light. I think what resonated mostly with me is dat I heard light and I saw music.
Me: You probably thought that was one hell of a trip!
Bob (chuckling): I really tot dis was de nicest way to go.
Me: Yeah. Now, was it your destiny to die when and how you did? You were awfully young.
Bob: Yes.
Me: Why is that? Why did you have to die the way you did and so young.
Bob: God blessed me with de chance to heal myself if I would pay attention to myself and give up de stage. If I would give up de people, and serve myself, then I would live, but dis is not something I was willing to do. I know it was de test and I was de sacrifice. I did not give it up, so I was very comfortable knowing dis was de end.
Me: Okay. Why cancer?
Bob: I don’t know why cancer. Maybe you should ask de Mon.
Me (laughing): I’ll get right on it, sir.
Jamie and I giggle.
Me: Well, can you describe your afterlife right now—the one you’re in? And what all do you do there?
Jamie (laughing hard): God I just wanna imitate him!!
Bob: It is beautiful, mon, beautiful.
Jamie giggles.
Me: That’s good, Jamie! Keep it rolling.
Jamie (giggling): I keep feeling like it might offend him if I keep imitating him. But you just want to do it so bad! He talks about the beautiful buildings and the colors that rest on them.
Bob: De colors of gold, de embrace dat your heart feels when you’re in dis place. Dis is truly de, heaven among heavens and earth is truly de hell among hells.
Me: Tell me about it! What do you do there, Bob?
Bob: I help what little light shines on earth shine bigger—mostly through music and inspiration.
Me: So, you are a muse working with other musicians?
Be sure to sign up for the Austin event before it gets filled up! Can’t wait to see you all there!
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Love you all!
For those of you who didn’t get a chance to listen to Robert and Erik’s interview on Follow Your Bliss, please do. Erik shouts out “MOM!” at exactly 52:38. It sounds like him as a little boy. The quality is very “EVP-ish.”
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One last thing before Freddie takes center stage. Erik came up with a “lovely” slogan for the Channeling Erik event in Austin. He asked me to design t-shirts with that slogan, so I did. I also made some bumperstickers and buttons if anyone is interested in spreading the word. Otherwise, it’s just good plain fun knowing that Erik is still on his game.
And now, part two of our interview with Mr. Mercury.
Me: Can you describe your thoughts when you realized you had crossed over?
Freddie: You know, I really did ask, ‘Where the hell are the bloody angels!’ I said it really boisterously.
Jamie, Erik and I laugh hard. We could just hear him.
Freddie: And what followed soon after was laughter. I knew then that I had the right heaven, that I hadn’t gone to hell.
Jamie and I laugh.
Freddie: My family was there. It was a white room with no walls, but I knew it was a room. I knew I was contained somehow.
(Pause)
Jamie (sounding a bit choked up): Aw, the emotions that come across are way heavier than the words themselves.
Freddie: I took a moment to release; I took a moment to cry.
Jamie: The energy that comes out of him kind of chokes me up a little bit. That’s how much he was looking forward just to die.
Freddie: Yeah, my body ate me alive.
Me: Oh, what an awful disease. Well, was it your destiny to die when and how you did? If so, why?
Freddie: I believe it was. You know, I don’t think I would have been happier growing old and not being able to perform. I only wanted that life on the stage, and I got that right up until the end.
Me: Were you meant to die from that particular disease?
Freddie: I think it was very selfless of me to follow through with this. It wasn’t until my death that this disease really got mapped, got noticed.
Me: So you were meant to bring AIDS awareness and understanding to the world?
Freddie: Yes.
Me: Was that meant on a different level than for your own personal reasons? Was it also to teach us about compassion and acceptance toward groups of people who are often targeted and maligned and who often bear the brunt of fear-based emotions and thoughts?
Freddie: Absolutely. A lot of people like to categorize me as a gay man. I think I appropriately fit the category of a man who loved whomever was best for me—male or female. Bisexual doesn’t do it do it justice, because there was nothing in me that was divided that way.
Me: Interesting.
Jamie (laughing): He likes to call it “all sexual”!
Me: There we go, and all sexual man! So, can you describe your afterlife now? What do you do there? Do you have a life’s work? What does it look like? You know the drill.
Freddie: I have a place to come home to, but I rarely find myself doing so. Most of my passion is devoted to working with artists who are still living who find an inspiration in me, and I help them with the writing of the music, the singing of the music, the expression. I feel a bit like everyone’s mother in the fact that I want to keep them out of the limelight’s harm.
Me: Oh, yeah. Did you gain any new insights once you were in the afterlife?
Freddie: I gained that what I wanted to believe about heaven while I was on earth actually exists.
Me: Anything else.
Freddie (chuckling): I think that should cover everything.
Me: So, you shared what you were here to learn; do you have anything else to add to that?
Freddie: No, but I really think I was here to teach the all sexual thing.
(Pause as I wait in vain for him to expound.)
Me: Do you have any regrets?
Freddie: Actually, when I look back, when I was alive, I still have a little regret for not handling my band mates with more respect.
Me: Okay. What past life affected this last life the most?
(Pause)
Jamie: Um, he’s kind of joking with Erik right now. I’m not really in the conversation with them, but they’re joking about a life where—
(Pause as Jamie eavesdrops further)
Jamie: Are you guys for real!! Just tell me if this is for real or not!
(Jamie giggles)
Jamie (to Erik and Freddie): You’re joking? Okay. I’m gullible! I’m gullible, I know!
Me: I am too.
Jamie: They were talking about a life of being an orangutan, and Erik and him are just slapsticking back and forth. The smell and the hair of the orangutan and what the sex is like!
Me (Laughing): Oh my god!
Jamie: I’m gullible. You got me, boys. So tell me a past life for real!
(Pause as Jamie listens to Freddie)
Jamie: He shows me this image of a blond-headed, curly, curly-haired girl. She’s probably four or five years old. Kind of still has some baby fat features, you know, round cheeks. Kind of like a blond Shirley Temple.
Me: Okay.
Freddie: I recall vividly in that life—
Jamie: I asked him, ‘Where was it’ and he shows me snow and ice that goes on forever!
(Pause) Jamie: Oh, he jokes. He says it’s probably close to where you have your cabin. Like a Nordic region.
Me: Yeah, in Norway!
Freddie: I remember being told in that life that the water was hot and not to touch the water and that the ice was cold and not to be out in the cold too long. There were rules that were more about life and death to protect you and keep you safe, because it was such a harsh environment. And I remember thinking, ‘Why are they telling me this? Why can’t they just let me be?’ I just wanted to be on my own.
(Pause and Jamie listens more)
Jamie (to Freddie): Well that’s not a great story.
Me: What?
Jamie: He tells me what happened was that he continued to go against what his parents were saying. He had a mother, father, large family. (counting) One, two, three, four—five children. He was one of five. He’s the youngest. Doesn’t really get paid attention, can do his own thing, walks out into the snow and didn’t dress appropriately. So, he froze, died in the snow.
Me: Aw.
Jamie: At such a young age.
Me: Aw, how sad.
Freddie: I remember leaving that life, saying, ‘Why couldn’t I trust those people?’
Me: Ah!
Freddie: I was really hard on myself for doing that and thought, ‘Maybe some people actually do care!’
Me: So, maybe you learned how to trust?
Freddie: Well, I didn’t learn it in that life, but it definitely sat really heavy with me to listen to people in the life that I came into. And I didn’t have any outlet, musically or otherwise. It was a very bland life. So, I thought the complete opposite would satisfy me. That’s when Freddie Mercury was created.
Me: Ah! And there was nothing bland about your life as Freddie!
Before Freddie takes the mike, as only he can do, I’d like to introduce two new and upcoming psychics over the next two days. The first is Kent Lehman. As is often the case, he embarked on a new path because of Erik. I only found out about his connection with our boy through a third party, and one phone conversation later, I feel honored to know him, pleased that Erik and he are friends, and excited to share his story. He and his wife, Cindy, also have a wonderful band, The Eclectic Verve. I’ve already downloaded their music on iTunes.
After “stumbling” upon the Channeling Erik Blog when I was searching for a name for our band (I say “stumbling” in quotes because I believe there are no coincidences), I began reading and was fascinated by what Elisa was posting. It reignited a basic belief that I already had but had gone somewhat dormant in my mind’s priorities. This belief being that our souls have a continuation from life into death and there is a greater consciousness of which we are all a part.
Following the loss of several family members and friends who crossed over, one of the ways my wife Cindy and I sought to work through our grief was by communicating with loved ones through mediums that we had learned about on the Channeling Erik site. This led us to Jamie Butler and Jeannie Barnes. As we healed through the messages they delivered, there was also a consistent theme that we, too could communicate with Spirit.
We have received training through The Aspen Program of Psychic Development http://psychiciq.com/ and have also received guidance through Jamie connecting with our guides. Through Jamie, we have repeatedly been told by Spirit that part of our path in life is to be conduits to help people receive messages that they need as well as help Spirit(s) deliver the messages they want to give. After struggling for several months over finding the right time to start (as well as work it into our busy schedule), Cindy and I decided that we just had to put ourselves out there because the “right” time may never come. As a result, at the beginning of December, we started doing practice readings. We are currently in the midst of providing a Spirit Communication session daily for 14 days in a row to hone my sensitivities regarding how Spirit is communicating with me. I have been floored and humbled by the response thus far, including several cameos from Erik.
In addition to our Spirit Communication, I also work in my family’s small business, and am a singer/songwriter. Cindy and I released our debut CD last June for our band Eclectic Verve. Following is a link to a video for a song I wrote for my cat of 19-1/2 years that was released in December. http://www.eclecticverve.com/gallery/video/ Writing the song was instrumental in comforting me and healing my grief after my cat passed. Originally, the intent of the song was simply to describe my relationship with my cat, but the purpose expanded into a message about the spiritual nature of our animal companions and what we can learn from them.
If you are interested in scheduling a session, please contact Cindy at soar@eclecticverve.org or (720) 248-8396. For more information about us, or what Erik has termed “The Colorado Couple’s” Spirit Communication practice, please visit our website www.eclecticverve.org.
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And now, Mr. Freddie Mercury:
Me: Erik, let’s see if we can get Freddie Mercury for us. Jamie and I are big Queen fans.
Jamie: Oh, Erik just left. He didn’t even say anything.
(Pause)
Jamie: And here he is. Mr. Freddie Mercury. He’s got his moustache!
Me: Oh good! Hello Mr. Mercury!
Mercury: Hello ladies.
Me: We’re friend. I mean fans—and friends, of course. You were—and are—so incredible. Such power from the heart when you sing. I just don’t know how to describe it.
Jamie: He says thank you very much, but does he have a lisp?
Me: A little bit of a lisp, yeah. He did.
Jamie: Huh. Really? I never heard it, but of course I guess you don’t really have a lisp when you sing.
Me: Yes, isn’t that something? The same thing with stuttering.
Jamie: All right. Sorry. Go ahead.
Me: Okay, what beliefs did you have about death and the afterlife while you were alive? What did you think was going to happen?
Freddie: I thought that you would die, and the gods would come for you. Then, they would judge you on the life that you lived and that would determine how well you lived in the afterlife.
Me: Really? How interesting. What kind of religion is that?
Freddie (laughing): I think it’s a bit of my own!
Me: Wow, not too many people create their own religion, Freddie!
Freddie: Where I grew up—
Jamie: It’s weird. It’s kind of like Catholic, but not in a Catholic place. Let’s see if that makes sense. Can you explain that to me, Freddie?
(Freddie gives details to Jamie)
Jamie: In a different country? So he says he was raised Catholic, but in a country that was not Catholic in itself. So he heard multiple viewpoints on religion as a young boy and kind of put together the two, because when he was younger, he said anyone who could give me multiple viewpoints on the same topic just proved to him that nobody really understood it.
Me: Ah!
Freddie: So, I just threaded together what I liked about all of them. I guess that was for my own comfort, because I didn’t believe in what the school was teaching.
Me: After you passed over, how did your beliefs change?
Freddie: That didn’t happen at all!
Jamie giggles.
Me: Surprise!
Freddie: Thankfully, I wasn’t judged for who I was. If I had been, I clearly would have defended myself. I felt that I lived a life that most people wanted, because I did what I fell in love with. It didn’t matter if it was proper or improper, if it was boys or girls, I did what my desires led me to do.
Jamie: He laughs. He kind of recants his words.
Freddie: There was a good sized portion of my life where I was very selfish. As you know, when I became ill, that part I also did all that I desired, but it wasn’t selfish. It was very unselfish. I know you’re going to ask me what did I learn; that is what I learned how to do.
Me: Oh, okay. Now, what was your actual transition to heaven like for you?
Freddie: I believe I smiled.
Me: Aw.
Freddie: I was in my room. I remember there was never a quiet moment. You could always hear the people outside.
Jamie: Oh, you had people outside?
Freddie: Yes, sometimes I would have someone hold up a mirror so that I could see out the window and down.
Jamie: He must have been on a hill or up in a second story room. It’s not clear, but he looks like he’s up higher. He wanted the mirror to held in a way that he could see what was happening.
Freddie: I always felt loved by the people who enjoyed my music. I never felt like I was being stripped or robbed of my creative expression.
Me: Aw, that’s good! So your death wasn’t very painful? It was peaceful, then? Like a release? Is that what you’re trying to say?
Freddie: Well, the medications helped. I think without that, it would have been very painful, and my body—I was never once afraid. I knew it was coming; I welcomed it. I had been sick for a very long time, and I just wanted death to come rescue me.
What a poignant and spiritual song. One of my favorites:
Mark your calendars for Erik’s interview (through Robert) on Following Your Bliss radio program Sunday beginning at 3:30 CST, 4:00 EST, 2:30 PST. I’m pretty sure Sharon will take call-ins!!
Here’s the final segment in our interview with Mr. Dirty Dancer himself:
Me: Okay. What insights do you think you gained given your new perspective in heaven?
Jamie (giggling): His first response is that he’s going to do it again!
Me: Oh boy, some people are gluttons for punishment.
Jamie, Erik and Patrick laugh.
Me: So you want to come back and live here again. Wow. You know, you seem like the type of guy who just loves the earthly plane and the human experience. Maybe that’s why you’re so good in athletics. You just adore life on earth.
Patrick: Absolutely. And thanks so much. I tried to seize the day with everything I did from music to art to other forms of expression to dancing, anything!
Me: What movie or role or endeavor do you think you’re most proud of?
Jamie: He said he became a pilot. He took flying lessons or something?
Me: Oh, okay!
Patrick: That’s the role I was most proud of. It was something I was slightly afraid of—
Me: But you fought your fears.
Patrick: Yeah, and I ended up enjoying it a lot.
Me: Well, that’s great? Do you have any idea what you were here to learn this lifetime?
Patrick: Trust in oneself.
Me: And do you think you accomplished that?
Patrick: Yeah.
Me: Oh good! What do you think you were here to teach?
Patrick: I wasn’t teaching like you would consider in front of a classroom, but definitely I taught by example.
(Pause)
Me: To fight for life, to embrace life, to pack it on end before you die? Can you elaborate?
Patrick: Well, I like how you say “embrace life.”
Me: Okay, you taught people how to embrace life by the way you did so in your own life.
Patrick: Yes.
Jamie giggles.
Me: What?
Jamie: Just, Erik.
Me: Oh, boy. What’s he doing now?
Jamie: He’s talking to Patrick, and I’m not on the same page, so I don’t know.
Me: Oh, okay. What do you think your proudest accomplishment was while you were in the physical?
Patrick: Finding my soul mate.
Me: Aw! And clearly you two are soul mates. Can you tell us about a past life that might have affected this last one as Patrick?
Patrick: I can think of a few.
(Long pause)
Jamie: He’s showing me being a little girl. It looks like it’s in India. Dirt floors, dirt road, the buildings are close together. She’s probably four or five years old, walking by herself.
Me: Oh!
Patrick: I was, uh, my mother was injured. She couldn’t walk. So, every morning I was given the money to go purchase the bread for the day. It was only around the corner, maybe a half a block, but to me it felt like a mile away. I felt like such a little adult.
Me: Aw!
Patrick: And I remember my mother became pregnant again, and I was coming back with the bread, coming into the room—
Jamie: He’s showing me a mother sitting on the ground, but there’s fabric and clothes and cloth, and the woman is pregnant. She’s all covered, you know, the face, everything.
Patrick: I remember when the door was open, she’d keep her face covered, but when the door was closed, she’d bare her face for us. And she told me that she didn’t think she was going to make it through the pregnancy. I remember believing that I had to be a big girl for my mom to be confiding with me in this way.
Me: Yeah.
Patrick: She told me she didn’t trust my father to take care of me, that it would be up to me to take care of myself and to take care of my older brother, and she started to teach me things in the house, what needed to be done. She taught me how to be strong. And sure enough, it was six months later when she died. I know better now. What happened is she hemorrhaged.
Me: Oh no.
Patrick: She lost her life, but the baby survived. We gave the baby to a neighboring woman who was still nursing, so she had milk. As a girl, I didn’t have to raise the baby, but I did have to take care of an older brother and a father. I was just about 5 or 6 years at the time.
Me: Oh my gosh.
Patrick: It helped me not only have a strong heart because grieving wasn’t allowed, but it taught me how people that you think are strong can actually be weak. It’s the people who open up to you and show vulnerability like my mother did to me who are the strongest people.
Me: Exactly. It takes a lot of courage to open a heart.
Patrick: Yes, and that is what would carry through and affect me in this life, that I would only choose to have these types of people around me. I wouldn’t settle for anything else, and that is what I found.
Me: Very powerful.
Jamie: The visuals! Man, he can show the colors and how the blankets were sewn on the edges to keep them from fraying or unraveling. I mean, everything was just so visual and with amazing detail.
Me: I guess some spirits are better at relaying information visually. Interesting. Now, was the baby a girl or a boy?
Patrick: A little girl.
Me: Did you have any contact with her, your sister, since she was in the same neighborhood.
Patrick: Yes, I could see her and play with her, but she never lived with us.
Me: Okay. Now, Patrick, from your newfound perspective, do you have any messages for humanity? Do you have anything else you’d like to share?
Patrick: For such a simple question, it sure is a tall order.
Me: Mm hm.
Patrick: My message would be this: If you are not feeling that you’re doing the right thing, then you’re doing the wrong thing by yourself. In acknowledging how you feel, you’ll be acknowledging your strengths, but you’ll also be acknowledging your weaknesses so you can correct them.
Me: Exactly. Feelings and intuition are such great cattle prods, you know?
Jamie: Yeah. He agrees with you. It’s so sad; he got so somber when he was giving that story.
Me: Oh. Yeah, but what a beautiful story, though. Sometimes hardships hold the most beauty because they contain the most powerful lessons.
Patrick: Yeah, very true.
Me: So, Erik, do you have anything else to ask Mr. Swayze?
Erik: No thank you.
Me: Okay, well thank you so much Patrick. Is there anything you’d like me to tell Lisa?
Patrick: My wife knows exactly how I feel.
Me: Okay. Thanks so much for your time.
Patrick: Thanks very much.
Jamie (chuckling): He tells Erik to keep it cool! They shake hands, but it’s kind of ghetto-y; it’s not like the business handshake.
Me: Oh yeah, yeah.
Jamie: It’s like this slap kind of—I don’t even know how to describe it.
Me: We’ll just call it a slap and grab.
And now, enjoy two of my favorite scenes from Ghost: the pottery scene and the ending. Trust me, Yin and Yang = balance (and comic relief).
On October 6, 2009, my 20-year-old son Erik, took his own life. Since that sad and tragic day, an overwhelming sense of grief and despair propelled me into a search for answers. Answers that would provide me and others with comfort and hope. Some of those answers came from the many books I bought, but many came from an unexpected source…Erik, himself. read the story »
WHERE TO START
If you're new to Channeling Erik, I recommend you read the backstory first.
Then, I suggest you start with the very first post. In doing so you can follow my journey just as I did, through the inexplicable, inconceivable, and yet utterly undeniable surprises that I have encountered since my son''s death.
