Me: Erik, how do you fetch people for these sessions? I guess fetch is more of a southern word; how do you get them. Is it about focusing on them with a certain level of intention like you talked about with the plates? How does that all work?
Erik: Yeah! You get the person’s name—but really it’s not the earth name that matters, but that’s what can link back to the soul name. You focus on it, and then all of a sudden you feel yourself being pulled. It’s almost like from your gut, like up under your ribs. Then, you’re speaking with them wherever they are, and you say, “Come with me!”
Me: Very cool.
Erik: That’s it. It’s very much like Star Trek.
Me: Beam me up Scotty! Is it kind of like, I mean, do most of them know what’s going on as far as what we’re doing here?
Erik: Yeah, by now, because what I’ve done is I’ve taken that list you’ve put together—I didn’t do it with everyone; I just did it with some of the pop culture celebrities—and I started telling them, ‘Hey, this is what we’re doing; I’m going to be talking to you soon.’ That’s working pretty well.
Me: Good.
Me: Erik, were Jamie and I anything in a past life?
Erik: You’ve been business partners, friends and sisters
Me: Okay! Now, what color light do I send people to heal them? Do I send them blue or green or what? For instance, what color to I send to Dr. Doug’s hips, and what color do I send to my mom who has Alzheimer’s?
Erik: Well, if you’re not sure what to send, send them white light. For your mom, use blue and indigo.
Me: What about people who upset you? Can I just send pink light to their heart or green or something like that?
Erik: Let’s look at the way they’re upsetting you—
Me: Well, nobody really upset me. I rarely get upset except for a few instances of blog-related drama, but for example, let’s take Michelle. What color light can she send to someone who upsets her?
Erik: Yeah, yeah, in general. If somebody is attacking you, they’re throwing out these threads of energy and they’re kind of using it like a vampire, attaching to the other person’s energy. They want to tear it down, pull it apart and it makes them feel good to see the other person fall apart or get angry or get frustrated or confused. With that kind of interaction, either visualize or say in your head, “I cut all ties from this person. I am completely independent from this person energetically.” Then you surround yourself with white light, and you surround them with white light. Wrap ‘em like a mummy.
Me: Ah, good!
Erik: You’ll notice it’ll put their fire out; it won’t be causing a reaction in you anymore, and you’ll win. But if it’s just an honest hurt where that person is just being open—
Me: Yeah!
Jamie: “Honest hurt,” I have never heard that!
Erik: Yeah, that’s where you’re completely being open, and you’re not trying to attack; you’re just trying to explain.
Me: Okay.
Erik: And you’re having these reactions that you don’t want, be it sad, angry, confused. That’s when you don’t need to cut ties; you just need to embrace them, like you said, Mom, in pink light. Pink, green, and then white is just the most beautiful combination.
Jamie (to Erik, laughing): You are just smiling so big, young man!
Me: Aw.
Erik: Well, it just feels really good.
Me: What about gold light? What’s that for?
Erik: Ah, golden light—very knowledgeable and very protective. So, if you want to protect somebody, let’s say they’re traveling to another country, and they may be going to have a hard time, then you can put gold light around them for protection.
Me: Okay.
I guess that’s enough Erik wisdom for one week. Have a great weekend everyone! Keep sending Lynette all the healing energy you can. I look forward to the conference call next Thursday!
On February 16th at 1:15 EST, Jamie and Erik will host their next biweekly small group conference call. This time there will only be ten spots so that every will have plenty of time to visit with their loved ones, asked for guidance in their life, address health issues, etc. If you’d like to sign up, do so at: https://withloveandlight.com/shop/channeling-erik-call-out-216-115-215-pm-est/ These spots fill up quickly!
Also, those of you coming to the Channeling Erik event, prepare to have so much fun! Jamie, Erik and I keep adding new surprises to the mix. I just signed my family up and can’t wait until you meet “Mr. Elisa,” the kids and grand baby Arleen! Here’s the registration link: https://withloveandlight.com/shop/channeling-erik-weekend-of-enlightenment-austin-tx-32-34/
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.
Me: Can you talk about a past life that may have influenced your last one? These are always fun!
Jamie: They are, aren’t they?
Bob: Der are so many!
(Pause as he considers the question)
Bob: I liked being an old mon.
Jamie (to Bob): Asia? So, where in Asia? (pause) Chinese. You’re trying to tell me you’re a Chinese old man?
Jamie laughs.
Jamie: That was his visual.
Bob: I was an old Chinese mon. I made wooden instruments. I carved dem.
Me: Uh huh.
Bob: And when you would strike de different part of de wooden box or—
Jamie; He’s showing me them to be long and thin, and when you hit or tap different parts of the box or the tongues that are carved into the box, it would make sounds.
Me: Hm!
Jamie: It’s very , um, I mean, I can see it so clearly.
Me; I can see it too. Cool.
Bob: I remember being too old dat I couldn’t carve any more. So, I would sit with my two sons, and we would talk about de movement of de grain in de wood. If you wanted de wood to work with you and your design dat you see—it’s not about controlling de wood and cutting and carving. It’s about following de grain of de wood and allowing de sound de wood wants to make to come up. You’ll always get de sound dat you wish. You use a piece of wood, and sometimes der were plenty of mistakes and a lot of time was spent. My life was dat way; it was very understated. I spent most of my time sitting and standing and working with tools. I never had de chance to perform. Dat wasn’t what I was known for. I was seen as de—
Me: The craftsman?
Bob: Yes. And dis led me to have a deep desire to learn to play and to teach to other people what de wood had taught me—what de wood had taught my fingers and my ears. And dat lesson was dat you can’t control nature or use design as an ultimate plan. You must be open from de heart and see with your fingers to be able to know what can be given to you. And den, from der, you create what you want. You create from de heart, de soul.
Me: Wow. Very profound!
Bob: Force is never needed in life.
Me: Yeah, go with the flow! Exactly.
Bob: I cherished dat lifetime. Very understated. Very simple.
Me: Yeah. So, you are such a wise man. Do you have any messages or advice for humanity? Then, I’ll give the mike to Erik!
Bob: I’ve said it before: You must live life with your heart and not with your eyes.
Me: Okay. Well, you can’t top that! Erik, any questions?
Erik: Yeah. Why?
Bob (turning to Erik): Your eyes are your biggest liars; dey will only see what dey know to see, what dey want to see, and dey will manipulate what’s around you.
Me: Ah!
Bob: Sometimes, out of de goodness of itself, it will not give you de true perspective of what is around you. Know dat you must move forward with your heart.
Me; Yes, but how do we do that?
Bob (laughing really hard): It’s not about everybody going blind!
We all laugh.
Bob: But it is about everybody closing der eyes and opening der hearts.
Me: And listening to their intuition, being guided by their intuition? Is that what you’re saying?
Bob: Yes, it’s about knowing how you feel. And if you cannot give love to a person or a situation, it is your responsibility to be authentic to yourself to know why you can’t. Dat’s de lesson inside of you dat you do not like! Dat’s de lesson dat you often refuse to do. You need to know why.
Me: Hmm. And the lessons from Bob Marley go on. Well, thank you, Bob, for coming back and letting me interview you again! Consider it your curtain call, your encore.
Bob (laughing): You’re very good people, good people.
Me: Aw, you’re good people, too, as we say here in Texas. Bye!
Soon, Jamie will post the link for the hotel reservations for the Channeling Erik event in Austin. She and I are cooking up some big surprises for you guys! We also hope to have two people discuss and perhaps demonstrate past life regression and IADC (induced afterlife communication)aside from the already full agenda. So, it should be a very fulfilling three day event. We can only accommodate 50 attendees and the deadline will be three days before March 2nd so be sure to sign up as soon as you can. Please let us know via a comment if you you’d like to share a room with someone! It’s a good way to save on costs and make a new friend for life.
Also, Jamie will soon be announcing the next of her phone conferences. She’s decided to host them every two weeks. She wants to keep them small and short: no more than 10 to 13 people, one hour long, but every two weeks. Should be fun!
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!
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).
Enjoy the last session of the abridged interview of guru, Sai Baba.
Me: I feel funny asking you this, but do you have any regrets?
Sai: No.
Me: Because?
Jamie giggles at his answer.
Sai: I never took a step in my life without consciousness. This is why I have no regrets.
Me: How wonderful! Not many can say that. Can you share a past life that may have influenced your most recent one?
Sai: It was a life where I was a turtle. I lived for over a hundred years in the heat and the rain, and I loved only one. And it was through this patience that was forced upon me because of the size of my body and by the—
Jamie (to Sai): I’m sorry. I don’t know that word. Condemption? It’s almost like being condemned to live a long life.
Me: Oh, okay.
Sai: Yes, I was condemned to a long life, and because of my size, I moved slowly. This allowed me to understand the subtleties of the earth and what she teaches us. Through this I gained the wisdom I needed to know how to be the human I wanted to be.
Me: Were you one of those gorgeous, huge Galapagos Island turtles?
Jamie: That’s exactly what he’s showing me! Don’t they live a really long time, like a couple of hundred years?
Me: Yes. Really long lives. Fascinating. My dad once rode a Galapagos Island turtle. I’ll have to find that picture.
Jamie: Really?
Me: Yeah. Now, have you reincarnated yet or do you plan to?
Sai: I will return to earth after the change is made to be able to sustain the people’s needs and desires.
Me: Okay. Can you tell us a bit about your afterlife?
Sai: Life is expansive and so is my afterlife. I stay in the constant state of meditation and—
Jamie (stumbling to say a word that starts with a d): Can I say it in my words?
Erik: Go for it, Jamie!
Jamie (to Erik, giggling): No, Erik. I’m asking Sai Baba!
Everyone laughs.
Jamie: It’s confusing. His words are very graceful, but he’s sharing that he stays in meditation so that he can divide himself and work with thousands of people at a time. He’s constantly manifesting for centers and individuals and groups on earth to communicate with them and continue his teachings that he had on earth.
Me: Wow.
Sai: It was my will and my desire and my time to leave. I was told it was my time. I knew. Therefore, I agreed to it and accepted it, yet I still enjoyed the role of showing.
Me: So, before you passed away, you were already dividing yourself and manifesting yourself in various places, just like you did when you appeared before Jamie and the others while you were still alive.
Sai: Yes.
Me: Fascinating. Now, what do you think about the state of humanity now?
(Pause)
Me (in the high-pitched voice of a begging child): Be gentle, please!
(Pause)
Jamie sighs.
Sai: Thoughts and words and deeds shape others and they shape you and they have shaped the governments of every country. There should not be any dislike or distrust on language, age, sex, race, nationality, and socioeconomic status.
Me: So what you’re telling me is what you envision the state of humanity to be if it were perfect? It sure isn’t like that now!
Sai: To be clean, to be pure, one must first clean out.
Me: Clean out what?
(Long pause as Sai Baba explains to Jamie.)
Jamie: Ooo! He’s talking about cleaning out the judgments that humans think they have the right to hold.
Me: Yeah.
Sai: For so long, the children of the world were set free, and they gained a false sense of security and power. Now we must learn the untruth. You cannot and do not get attached to worldly pursuits and things. Be in the world, but do not let the world be in you.
Me: Wow. Any other advice or messages for us?
Sai: Everyone wishes to seek enlightenment, but the spiritual process is right living.
Me: Living right?
Jamie; Yeah, living right.
Sai: Good conduct, moral behavior, honesty—these are the spiritual progress; these are enlightenment.
Me: Okay, last but not least: Erik do you have any questions you’d like to ask?
Erik: What do you want to tell mankind? I know you’re already told them a lot.
(‘Gosh, was Erik listening?’ I thought.)
Sai: For what the people need now, I wish I could go to every person and tell him or her that patience is all the strength that man needs.
Jamie: When he says man, he’s referring to men and women.
Me: Yeah, humanity. But who are we kidding? We know it’s mostly men who need that, right, Jamie? Women are perfect!
Jamie (giggling): He smiles and then laughs.
Me: I’m just kidding, of course.
Jamie: You know he’s not really that straight-laced. He’s very relaxed in his posture. He looks comfortable and shifts his weight from one hip to the other.
Me: Well, thank you so much. I look forward to meeting you in the future.
Jamie: He puts his hands together and bows.
Me: I can just see him! Thanks so much, again.
Sai: Thank you, and I look forward to visiting you soon.
Me: Oh, I hope so! We’ll try to spread your wisdom to the masses.
Sai Baba leaves.
Jamie: That’s so cool! He said thank you, and he gives blessings on your book.
Me: Aw, thank you!
(Enough with the thank you’s already!)
(Pause)
Me: Wow. Just wow. The whole turtle thing just blew me away.
Jamie: That was really, really awesome! To hear him talk! He’s got that big hair! Big fuzzy hair!
Me: I don’t know what he looks like. And fuzzy hair? Really, Jamie? Isn’t all hair fuzzy?
(Again, this is only a short excerpt. Gotta wait for the book.)
Me: All right. What insights do you think you gained, Mr. Hudson, now that you have a new perspective from the afterlife?
Rock: The biggest insight I gained was the proof I wanted all along when I was alive—that we are our own worst enemies. We are the ones who will injure ourselves. We are the ones who will bury ourselves, and not once—
Jamie: He’s kind of straightening himself up.
Rock: Not once in the journey of life do we stop and live in a consistent manner. It’s not us against everyone else; it’s all of us together.
Me: Oh, yeah!
Rock: I think this is the demon that makes us our own worst enemy.
Me: You’re talking about the separation illusion, I guess?
Rock: Yes. We’re not separate, so how can we be against everything else when they are also us?
Me: Ah, I got it. Do you have any regrets?
Rock: No. I can honestly say I lived in the way I knew how to.
Me: Good. What past life can you share that most influenced the life we’ve been talking about?
(Long pause)
Jamie: Um, okay. You say past life, but he says it’s a life that—it sounds so weird—a life that has occurred in the future.
Me: Oh yeah. I see. The future can affect the past and the present, because it’s all happening now.
Jamie: Which still blows my mind!
Me: Me too!
Jamie: So he’s talking about a life in the future. He was, is—I don’t know how to say that—in the future. I’ll use past tense. He was a boy, and he’s showing me about 12 or 13 years old.
Me: Okay.
Rock: You’ll find the future to be amazingly similar to what you’re living in now. Technology grows, but human evolution takes longer.
Me: What time are you talking about. In earth time, what year are you referring to.
Rock: 2079.
Jamie: He’s showing me more imagery than explaining it.
Me: Okay.
Jamie: There’s a lot of protection like, it’s weird, more things are indoors than outdoors. It has that feeling. And so he’s walking from in to out, and he’s recognizing that outdoors is actually becoming better than being indoors. But nobody wants to acknowledge it because of what they’ve created indoors. So he begins to speak up and try to get people back to their own roots.
Me: Right.
Jamie: It’s not a trash matter.
Me: Ozone, maybe?
Jamie: Yeah, it looks like the temperatures are slightly different, the air is different.
Me: But he feels like things outside are okay?
Rock: It was always okay to go from point A to point B, but nobody stayed outside all day. You’ll find that we’ll all start to migrate indoors instead of being outdoors. I remember seeing it at that age, but no one would listen. So, I gradually started to create outdoor spaces as a kid, and I grew into that design element of getting back to the roots. And just keeping that idea and coming into the life that I had that we’re discussing—I had to go back to my roots. And for that it was looking at, ‘Who am I?’ It goes against everything everybody else says I should be. But I knew that if I tried bit by bit and created an honesty within myself, then I would achieve that publicly.
Me: All right. Do you have any messages for us peons still stuck here on the earthly plane? We’d love to give you a voice. Is there anything you’d like to share with the world?
Rock: Again, it would have to be part of the same message we’ve been discussing the whole time. It’s part of my lesson, part of why I came, part of my achievements that I define myself by, and that is: Do not change yourself to please another.
Me: Gosh, yes. I think that’s got to be one of the most crucial lessons for anyone to learn.
Rock: Yes, any one of any age. It’s extremely important for parents to instill that in their children.
Me: That’s right. And that’s the basis for all of my books, so we’re on the same page, Rock! So, Erik, do you have anything you’d like to ask Mr. Hudson?
Erik: No thank you.
Me: Okay. Well, thank you, Mr. Hudson. I appreciate your time. Your insight will help so many people.
Rock: Thank you, and I wish you all the best on your projects.
Me: Thank you!
(Pause)
Jamie (chuckling): He doesn’t say goodbye. He just kind of walked away.
Me (giggling): I love him! He’s awesome!
Jamie: He’s a MAN.
Me: Yeah, he was always a manly man in his acting roles, so it was a bit ironic that he ended up being gay.
As many of you know, Tupac was no angel here on earth. He suffered many hardships, committed many transgressions, but in the end, he graced the world with his poetry and now, from the afterlife, with his wisdom. Enjoy the last segment of Tupac’s interview.
Me: Okay. Now, what past life do you think influenced your last one the most?
(Long pause)
Jamie: He’s showing me him being a Caucasian male dressed in full cowboy gear—the leather on the legs, chaps. He’s a bit skinny, you know. Not really a brute. Lot’s of facial hair, kind of unkempt. Because he was so skinny in that life, he learned how to shoot really well to protect himself, and he was a really sharp aim.
Tupac: In that life, I used my gun for reasons where it shouldn’t have been used. It’s what protected me, but yet I was known for being impatient and killing people. That impatience carried over to my last life: big ego, big gun. I thought I had rights I really didn’t have.
Me: Good thing you were so skinny. It made you less of a target, right? When the bullets whizzed past you, all you had to do is turn sideways.
Tupac (laughing): I like you!
Me: Well, I like you too, Darlin’. So, I guess it’s almost poetic that you, yourself, succumbed to a gunshot wound.
Tupac: Yeah, damn ironic.
Me: Now, last but not least, do you have anything else you want to share with the world?
Tupac: The wild wild west is over, man. The only thing legal you can shoot anyone with anymore are words out of your mouth, so you better learn to use them well and responsibly. Be careful not to let words fuck up relationships that you value.
Me: Okay. Erik, do you want to ask Tupac anything?
Erik: Naw, I’m good.
Me: Okay. Well, thanks so much, Tupac. I hope to do you proud.
Tupac: Thank you.
Jamie: He just turns and walks away; he doesn’t say bye or anything.
(Pause)
Jamie (giggling): Erik! He’s sitting up on my countertop again.
Erik: I was so intimidated by him!
Me: Aw! Wait, what the hell could he possibly do to you, Erik? I’m mean, after all, you are dead.
Jamie (still laughing): I could kinda tell you were nervous, Erik!
I don’t know how I forgot to publish this. It was supposed to be the entry for Thanksgiving. Sigh.
Mark your calendars, Peeps. This Tuesday the 29th at 7:00 P.M. CST, Erik will once again be interviewed by Sheila Gale on her internationally renown radio show, The Sheila Show. Here’s the link:
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I’m sure I’m not alone when I share the overwhelming sadness I feel as the holidays loom large. Of course there is much in my life for which I am deeply grateful, but it’s so hard to ignore the gaping wound in my heart knowing that Erik will not be sitting with us tomorrow at our Thanksgiving table.
EMDR has done a lot to peel back the layers, but since the first layers are the protective facade, there is a rawness that is exposed to the cruel dig of every sad reminder of a loss that will only find its resolution at the end of my own life. With that knowledge, every day, every hour, every minute seems to drag on at an unbearably slow pace as the flames of grief leap and dance vigorously. The stark contrast of my sorrow to the festive mood this time of year only intensifies the misery. If only those flames didn’t burn so. That said, I shower my love on all of you who suffer like me as I hold you in my heart tomorrow. The tears I shed are not only for my own loss; they are for yours too. So remember you are not alone.
Erik Teasing Grandma
Erik Being Goofy
And now it’s Carl’s turn. He’s been waiting so patiently:
Me: Okay. Now, can you share a past life that most influenced your last one, Carl?
Jamie (giggling): He looks at me and he goes, “Well, it would have to be this one.”
Carl: This life right now with me as a light being.
Me: Oh wow. That’s kind of complicated.
Jamie (sounding a bit overwhelmed): I know, please!
Me: Well that does make sense.
Carl: With my abilities to move intergalactically and then being trapped and so confined with a structured belief system that I felt I did very well at disassembling easily.
Me: Yeah. You sure did. When you look at the state of humanity now, what do you think?
(Pause)
Me (in a meek, high-pitched voice): Be gentle.
Carl: It makes me want to cough!
Me: What? So, it doesn’t want to make you throw up?
Jamie and Erik laugh.
Carl: No, it’s not that vile.
Me: Oh god.
Carl: But it makes me want to cough. It’s just so thick. It’s ill; it’s diseased, and there are only a few beings who are trying to save the millions. We need to start learning that it is our perception; it is how well we use our minds. The perception of life—that’s what’s killing humanity.
Me: Do you have any messages or advice for us?
Jamie (giggling): He and Erik are teasing about how much time do we have!
Me: Oh god!
Jamie: Erik is just glued to him!
Me: Well, that makes sense, because in a session well over a year ago, through Kim, I think, he said he and I used to love traveling to other galaxies together.
Jamie: I-I’m—you ever know that feeling where you are just—you are in a conversation with someone who is just so much smarter than you?
Me: Oh god, that happens all the time to me!
Jamie: Oofff! This guy is so far over my head, I just, I don’t—wow.
Carl: I would tell people on earth that aliens are not mythological creatures. They are real. They’ve inhabited the earth before, and they will do so again, in larger numbers than now.
Me: Okay Interesting. Erik do you have any questions for Dr. Sagan?
Erik: What are you doing for lunch?
Jamie and I laugh hard.
Me: Erik, you understand him better than we do, huh! Smarty Pants.
Erik (chuckling): Oh, I might have one up on you!
Me: Yeah, I guess so! Well, thank you, Carl. I appreciate your time.
Carl: Thank you very much for having me.
Jamie: Really sweet. He kind of did like a slight bow, like a nod of appreciation.
Me: Aww! How nice! Okay, so do you want to—
Jamie: Phew! Talk to someone dumber?
Me: Oh god, yes!
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Now, if you need another dessert recipe for tomorrow, Carl is happy to oblige.
Carl's Recipe for Thanksgiving
Without knowing it, I interviewed Carl three days before Carl Sagan day. What synchronicity!
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.
