Channeling Erik
  • Past lives
  • January17th

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    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.”

    http://www.blogtalkradio.com/stacey_zzzz/2012/01/15/follow-your-bliss

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    For those of you seeking the gifts of a talented psychic and one with a wonderful relationship with our boy, Erik, please allow me to introduce you to Kristen Moss: RN, psychic medium, hands on healer

    Kristen resides in central Wisconsin with her husband and three children. While in her mid twenties, she received a psychic reading that inspired her to learn more about developing her own intuitive gifts. Weeks later, she was offering readings to her friends and family ranging from mediumship to intuitive guidance. She later was trained in hands on healing techniques of Reiki I, II, and III and Quantum Touch.

    Kristen’s caring and compassionate nature lead to a nearly 20 year career working in healthcare in a wide variety of settings. In mid 2011, feeling burned out working as an RN, she decided to take some time off to spend with her family and nurture her spiritual gifts. She sees clients in her home for psychic readings (mediumship, life direction and past life awareness), and hands on healing sessions. She is also available for phone consultations as well as distant healing.

    To set up an appointment, you may contact Kristen through email or call her directly:
    email: star_catcher02@msn.com
    tele 920.420.8544
    www.whitelightseeker.com

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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.


    make custom gifts at Zazzle

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    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! 

    http://youtu.be/mdXlA6m2qrM

  • January13th

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    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!!

    http://www.blogtalkradio.com/stacey_zzzz/2012/01/15/follow-your-bliss

    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).

    http://youtu.be/4QaFH4rHP6E

    http://youtu.be/895PZQJK5TM

  • December27th

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    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?

    Jamie laughs.

    My Father Riding Sai Baba?

     

     

     

     

     

  • December8th

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    Here’s Mr. Hudson’s Grand Finale:

    (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 thatin 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.

     

  • December1st

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    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!

    The announcement of Tupac’s death

    http://youtu.be/EIwnNe3RPQA

    Tupac’s Funeral 

    http://youtu.be/XQls8WVZ6tc

    Full Length Tupac Documentary

    http://youtu.be/vghFPUk-qEg

    R.I.P. 2Pac

  • November28th

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    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:

    http://InstantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=24454047

    Be sure you share this with all your Twitter, Facebook and email contacts!

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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!

    ***********************

    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!

    Carl Sagan Day

    HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE. I love you all.

     

  • November22nd

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    Thanks so much for spreading the love with those social connect buttons, y’all! We’re getting a lot of new family members.

    Here is the second part of the three part series of the interview with Carl Sagan. Enjoy!

    Me: That was what you were here to teach; were you here to learn anything?

    Carl: I believe it was my destiny to live my life so that in my death I would learn that there is more.

    Me: Ah! Do you have any regrets?

    Carl: Regrets.

    Jamie: He folds his hands in front of him. He’s wearing a blazer, and there’s not a button up shirt underneath, because it doesn’t have a traditional collar. I don’t know what it is. Maybe a turtleneck? I don’t know.

    Carl: No, I have no regrets.

    Jamie: He paused for a while, too!

    Me: Ah, you were really thinking about that one!

    Carl: You have to weigh the options—do you claim ownership for the actions you might label as a mistake or a regret? I claim complete ownership for all of them, and through that, I gained such insight on what I did miss or what I didn’t do—what I should have done. I don’t regret any of the choices that I’ve made.

    Me: So they’re not regrets; they’re lessons for you?

    Carl: Yes.

    Me: Okay. Can you tell us a little about what your afterlife is like?

    Carl: It’s very broad.

    Me: Hmm! Can you expand a little bit more?

    Jamie: He’s a really visual talker, and I think that’s why it just shuts my brain down. But he’ll talk, too, and I know he’s talking simply for me, which I appreciate.

    Me: So he gives you a lot of visuals, huh?

    Jamie: Yeah. I’m seeing space, cosmos, I mean, it’s like I have my own little planetarium here.

    Me: Oh, wow! So, about the broad range—

    Carl: I travel quite a bit. That’s my heaven: stars and planets, other solar systems, other universes, seeing other life forms.

    Jamie: He says he’s living out—oh god, what’s that movie with Jodie Foster?

    Me: Oh, yeah, Contact?

    Jamie (to Carl): You were the author? (and then to me): Was he the author?

    Me: You know, that sounds very familiar! I think he was! So, Carl, are you trying to get into contact with other races, other alien races?

    Carl: Yes, and with much success. I came to find out that the only thing that’s holding us back specifically is being human, being trapped in the idea of only being three-dimensional.

    Me: Oh, yeah. Yeah. And the alien races that you’ve met—have you enjoyed their company? Have you enjoyed getting to know them?

    Carl: Oh, it’s been very intriguing. Most of the races have been very supportive of—

    Jamie (with a short gasp): Oh my god, intergalactic? That is so cool! Intergalactic communication!

    Me: Wow! Now THAT’S what I call long distance! Ma Bell, eat your heart out!

    Jamie: Yeah, he’s talking about him being a light being. He doesn’t call himself a spirit. He’s a light being.

    Carl: Yes, so I have the options of this kind of exploration and this kind of space travel. And I also have the key, now, to use time to my benefit, while before, in my human 3-D world, I was trapped by time like all humans on earth are. 

    Me: Oh yeah. I guess those bonds are illusions. Maybe?

    Jamie (giggling): He thought that was funny.

    Me: Have you reincarnated, or do you plan to?

    Carl: No. I haven’t reincarnated into your time period, and I don’t intend to.  I want to stay a light being for the reunion of alien races with human beings.

    Me: Oh, and when is that going to happen? I know time is kind of a funky thing, but…

    (Pause)

    Jamie (to Carl): I’m sorry. Can you simplify that? He feels that, um. Okay, yes.

    Carl (pointing to Jamie): It’ll be in your lifetime.

    Jamie: So if I live to be eighty, that’s within like forty years. 

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  • November18th

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    Me: Is there a past life you can share that most affected this last one?

    Heath: That’s a very clever question.

    Jamie laughs loudly.

    Jamie: That’s so smart!  He’s comparing talking about other lives to the secrets in your closet.

    Heath: Like when you’re alive, your sexual orientation is kind of what you keep in the closet. But when you’re in spirit, there’s so much honesty and veracity, that the only secret you keep in the closet is, “What lives did you perform or love.”

    Jamie: He’s joking with it. He finds it to be similar.

    Heath: I remember the life when I was an Irishman in a war. 

    Jamie: He’s showing me a horse and a sword and armor that looks completely handmade. It doesn’t look fancy like what we’d see in really awesome movies. It’s like something he made in a backyard blacksmith shed!

    Heath laughs.

    Heath: I’m a younger man in that life. Fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, and I’m excited that I’m going off to war with a few other younger kids my age as well. It was a fine age to be on a horse and fighting, but apparently there was a law passed for boys of that age to stay behind, because that particular war was so gruesome.

    Me: Oh gosh.

    Heath: And they wanted enough young men behind to run the villages and so forth. But no, I didn’t listen.

    Jamie giggles.

    Heath (swinging his arm around acting a bit sheepish): I didn’t listen. Me and four others strapped our horses, took what we thought was good enough, and just when you think the story is going to get good, when we reach the battlefield and charged ourselves up for what we were going to do and how we were going to mask who we are and our ages, we pretty much chickened out!

    Jamie (chuckling): He sort of laughs at himself.

    Heath: With all the best intentions, fear got the best of us, and we retreated. We retreated and vowed to keep it a secret. And we created a lie about a small battle we fought, won and went home. It was in that camaraderie that we could trust each other enough to have this lie and know that it would never be found out. This helped me believe in people, but it never addressed my fear—conquering something I think I needed to do. That has really carried over into many lives. I know I’ve done it again and again and again and—yet again.

    Me: Not conquering fear?

    Heath: Not conquering one’s own fear.

    Me: Well, do you want me to keep this a secret? I don’t want to out your secret here about you bailing out of the war!

    Jamie laughs.

    Heath (chuckling): I think right now, the cat is truly out of the bag.

    Me: Okay. Well, we’ll honor whatever you want. What was your proudest accomplishment when you were alive, and has that changed since you’ve crossed over?

    Heath: I’m very proud of how I was able to reach a level in my career but also maintain a sense of privacy. I worked hard on that, and I asked several other people about it, you know, how they balanced their life in that way.

    Me: And now that you’re in spirit—

    Heath: Now that I’m here, it doesn’t seem that important. Your perception shifts a bit.

    Me: I suppose so. Now, looking from the afterlife, what would you consider your proudest achievement?

    Heath: There isn’t one that I can single out.

    Me: Surely one of them is being a father to Matilda.

    Heath: I agree with that, but I never really got a chance.

    Me: Oh yeah. Yeah.

    Heath: But I am proud that she was conceived out of pure love and how strong her mother is.

    Me: Good. Good. Now, do you have any messages for humanity? Anything you’d like to share with the world?

    Heath: It’s fine to put on other people’s clothes, but it won’t mask who you really are.

    Me: Ah, so very true.

    (Pause)

    Me: So Erik, what would you like to ask Mr. Ledger?

    (Long pause)

    Jamie: Erik kind of went for a personal question.

    Me: Okay.

    Jamie: Hey! (pause) That’s weird! I know he was asking a personal question, but all of a sudden, instead of hearing them speak, it sounded like static or computer malfunction noises.

    Me: That IS weird.

    Jamie: I’ve never, ever had that happen before.

    Me: Ooo.

    Jamie: And so they were specifically making it to where I couldn’t listen.

    Me: Oh my gosh!

    (All I can think of is that “Cone of Silence” from Get Smart.)

    Jamie: That’s my first experience with that! Erik!

    Me: Yeah, Erik! You’re going to have to share with the rest of the class!

    Jamie: I know! That’s not nice!

    Erik: No, it’s cool.

    Me: So that’s it? You’re leaving us hanging?

    Erik: Yup.

    Me: Okay. Well, thank you, Heath!

    Jamie: Thank you.

    Heath: Thank you for your time.

    Me: Oh, thank you for your insight! Hopefully others will learn from what you’ve shared.

    Heath: I think the book, overall, will provide a sense of (chuckling) mild entertainment, but also some security in seeing so many spirits recount their journey and how similar yet truly distinct each one is.

    Me: Yes, absolutely. Well, thanks so much and goodbye!

    Jamie: He gives kind of a stiff wave, almost military in a way.

    A Younger Heath

     

    Daddy with Maddy

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  • November10th

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    Enjoy the final part in the Channeling Elvis series! He starts out sharing one of his past lives.

    Elvis: There was one where I was living in the south of France.

    Jamie: He’s showing me the water, and there are some rocks that lead up to it. No ships, no boats out in the ocean. It’s really just an image of him. He’s a woman.

    Elvis: I was of Greek descend, and I married a French man. I’m a younger woman, and I lost all of my culture in the transition from Greece. I didn’t have any contact with my own family. It was like I was that one grape singled out from the bunch.

    Me: Oh, yeah.

    Elvis: Just plucked and left. So, I chose love over culture and family. And not having that duality of culture AND love—

    Jamie (a bit exasperated): Sometimes it’s hard to follow him. He’s trying to explain the story really well, but I think he’s better at just giving me the visuals. The woman seems extremely sad, almost like she’s dried up with nothing.

    Me: Aw.

    Jamie: Though she loves the husband, she has none of the culture she grew up with.

    Elvis: I tried to bring my homeland culture in and cook the foods, but my husband said, “No. No, you must do as we do here so that you can be accepted.” He was so worried that I wouldn’t be accepted.

    Me: Well, how does that relate to the last life you had? Did you feel similarly?

    Elvis: Yes! It’s why I didn’t want to separate who I was with what I was going in to. I relate it to the marriage of my music—that I had to give up who I was and accept this identity that was being given to me.

    Me: Ah, I see.

    Elvis: But no matter—

    Jamie (tearing up): Aw, Elvis.

    Elvis: —how far into fame I got, I was always connected to my mama. She was my grounder. She embodied my culture and where I came from. And that’s why I was often nicknamed, “Mama’s Boy.”

    Me: Aw.

    Elvis: Because I was just not going to let that go!

    Me (with affection): Just like you, Erik!

    Erik (embarrassed): Thanks, Mom!

    Me: Oh well. Embarrassing you in front of Elvis. That’s a first even for me. I just raised the embarrassment bar for mothers the world over! Not good!

    Jamie giggles.

    Me: Okay, just a couple more questions. What was your proudest accomplishment while you were here in the physical, Elvis? And has that changed since you’ve been in the spiritual realm?

    Elvis: One of my proudest moments was when I got married. It took me a long time to fight for her! I knew it the moment I saw her that that’s who I wanted to be my wife. That was a momentous moment, but I feel that years into it I lost sight of what the fight was for.

    Me: Yeah. Mm. And now, looking back, what’s your proudest accomplishment?

    Elvis: I’d like to stick with that one.

    Me: Okay. So, Elvis, do you have any messages for humanity? Anything else you’d like to share with the world?

    Elvis: That’s a tall order!

    Me: I know!

    Jamie and I chuckle.

    Elvis: But if I had to give a message to everyone, it’d be that being in silence is just as important as being in music. Silence allows you to connect to your heart, while the music allows you to set yourself free.

    Jamie: It’s almost as if he’s saying that as much as you listen to the noise, the music and the chaos of the world is as much as you should listen to silence.

    Me: Okay. I see. Now, do you still eat those yummy fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches?

    Elvis: Yes ma’am, and I no longer have to fly to go get ‘em.

    Me: Plus they’re the lo-cal ones!

    Elvis laughs.

    Me: Erik, do you have anything you want to ask Elvis?

    Erik: No, we’re good.

    Me: Okay. Well, thank you so much, Elvis.

    Elvis: Thank you for your time. Have a beautiful day. God bless.

    Me: You too.

    Jamie: I guess I didn’t realize how religious he was!

    Me: Me neither.

    Jamie (giggling): Bye, Elvis.

    Elvis walks away and disappears.

    Jamie (laughing): He was still standing there and I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, I forgot to say goodbye!’

    Me: He was still standing there?

    Jamie: Yeah. Oh my god, Elvis.

    Me: That was pretty fun for you, huh?

    Jamie: God, yes. 

    And now, from our listeners’ request line, here is what I believe is one of Elvis’s most poignant songs, My Boy.

  • November3rd

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    Enjoy part two of Buddy’s story!

    Me: Can you tell me a little about where you are in the afterlife? What do you do there? What are your surroundings?

    Buddy: I’m with my family. I’m with other friends. Even though I have a personal liking to the music and the power it holds, there are greater things in life to be more aware of, and that’s the structure and the safety of our planet earth.

    Me: Well, earth is our stage to play music while we’re in the human body, so we have to take care of that stage.

    Buddy: Yes ma’am, we do.

    Me: Do you have a life’s work over there?

    Buddy: I don’t personally hold a specific title, but my life’s work is the awareness and the acceptance of the changes that earth is going through now.

    Me: What insights did you gain given your new perspective in the afterlife?

    Buddy: I quickly gained the knowledge of how ego-driven I was! I wasn’t aware of the terminology of it or why I even needed to be aware of that. I was aware that the power of the media and the power of the people’s focus can either tear a man apart or build him up.

    Me: What were you here to learn and to teach?

    Buddy: I was definitely there to learn how to love, to love myself. I was quite the awkward boy. But finding the love in my wife, that was an amazing feat for me.

    Me: What were you here to teach?

    Buddy: I think it runs along similar lines of an answer inspired by John Lennon: Teaching people how to feel, how to be loose and enjoy the release that music can provide. In every old culture, there are many purposes for the strength of music. I was just happy to be a part of it.

    Me: Good. We’re happy you were a part of it too, Buddy. (pause) Do you have any regrets?

    Jamie listens to Buddy, then starts to laugh.

    Jamie: He has a more serious answer, then he got a little silly. It’s cute.

    Buddy: I do regret that I didn’t get to produce more music.

    Me: Okay.

    Buddy: And I regret not being alive during Lasik surgery so I could get rid of my glasses.

    Me (laughing): Oh my god, that’s so funny!

    Buddy: Everybody loved them, but I wasn’t a fan of them.

    Me: Aw. But it makes you, you! I don’t think I would recognize you without those glasses, Buddy!

    Jamie: Well, he has them on now!

    Me: There we go!

    (Pause)

    Me: What past life most affected your last life.

    Jamie: God, he knows it right away. He doesn’t even pause.

    Me: Wow!

    Buddy: I have a memory. It was the moment I knew I loved music, and I knew I wanted to have music in my life. I had the opportunity to be an African boy. I was maybe three or four years old, standing at the edge of our hut. We had grass huts. And we had these carved wooden troughs underneath to catch some of the water that would trickle down the—it looked like a woven grass, then underneath that weave, we had really big leaves so the rain could get through the grass, but not the big leaves. So it would run off, kind of like a gutter system. And the rain would hit these wooden bowls or troughs. Since they were all hand-carved, they all sounded different.

    Me: Oh!

    Buddy: Yeah, different depths, different thicknesses, and when the water would land, it would make sounds.

    Me: How interesting!

    Buddy: So, when it rained, it made the most beautiful, intriguing notes and sounds that I couldn’t replicate in any other way. 

    Me: Maybe that was your connection to the spirit of Mother Earth, too.

    Buddy: Yes.

    Me: And how music is tied to the earth in many ways.

    Buddy: Yes. In many ways, the sounds that she makes—when the wind blows, how it moves the grass on the top of the huts, it makes that maraca sound. And there were just so many rhythms in that small place in the wild that just excited me so. I remember my dad carving me sticks that I could hit on the sides of a tree that would make different notes and sounds and rhythms. I became a very good drummer.

    Me: Good!

    Buddy: But it was that one sound, that one sound that sticks with me, and that’s the moment I knew I loved music.

    Me: What an amazing story. What was your proudest accomplishment while in the physical, and has that changed now that you’re in the spiritual realm?

    (Long pause as Jamie listens)

    Jamie (tenderly): Aw.

    Buddy: My proudest accomplishment was going to be a father, but that never got fulfilled, so I don’t know if I can count that.

    Me: Of course you can count that; you’re still his father.

    Buddy: But of course it did change when I passed over, because I never had the physical memories or status of following through and becoming a father in that lifetime.

    Me: So now, looking back, what is your proudest accomplishment?

    (Jamie listens, then laughs)

    Buddy: All my apologies to my wife, but it has to be when one of my songs played, and it was the number one song. It reached more people and had more listeners that knew me than any other band.

    Me: At that time?

    Buddy: Yes ma’am.

    Jamie: Peggy Sue! That’s what he’s saying the song was.

    Me: Oh, no wonder he apologized to his wife.

    Jamie sings the song in the background.

    Jamie: I could hear him humming it, and I said, ‘I know this!’

    Me: I love that song. Now, Buddy, from your newfound perspective in the afterlife, do you have any messages for humanity? This is your chance to share whatever you’d like with the world.

    (Long pause as he ponders)

    Buddy: Yes ma’am. I would like to tell the world that life doesn’t need to be as complicated as our media and our marketing likes to feed us. Life is as simple and as beautiful as raindrops in wooden bowls.

    Me: Wow. I was thinking the exact thing right before you said it.

    Buddy: My wish is that every person living has that one moment In their life where it all comes to the point of calm.

    Me: Yes, and that’s found in simplicity, isn’t it? There’s so much joy and calm in simplicity.

    Buddy: Yes. Yes.

    Me: Okay, Erik. Your turn.

    Erik (to Buddy): How did you handle the news of your death when you watched it play out on earth? What was your reaction to that separatism?

    Buddy: It was extremely difficult to handle it personally, and the fact that I didn’t handle it personally is what got me through it. God truly embraced me and pulled me away from myself of thinking about personal demise and sadness and sorrow. Without that strength supporting me, I truly believe I would have died again if it were possible.

    Me: Oh my goodness. Well, thank you so much for your time, Buddy. I love your music, and I really appreciate the wisdom you’ve shared with us. It was an honor. I hope we can do you justice in this book.

    Buddy: Thank you so much, ma’am and have a blessed day.

    Me: You too.

    Jamie: He’s shaking Erik’s hand.

    Me: Such manners.

    Jamie: And he leaves.