Because Erik was plagued by a host of “mental illnesses” while here on the earthly plane, he has so much to say about them. Some are not disorders at all, but rather society’s warped perspective of an individuals ability to connect with Source or absorb the energy of others around them. Let’s see what he has to say about these two diseases.

Me (talking rapidly): What’s behind Dissociative Identity Disorder or Multiple Personality Disorder? I’m talking about from a spiritual perspective.

Erik (talking slowly): Hi, Mom. I love you!

Me: Aw! Hi Baby! I love you, too. I said hello at the start of the session, so I hope you heard!

Jamie: He’s just kind of slowing it to his pace, I guess.

Me: Oh! Okay. I guess I was speaking at warp speed!

Erik: Okay, if we’re just looking at it from a spiritual standpoint, it’s—

Jamie (to Erik): Okay; now it’s your turn to slow down. Back up; back up.

 (Pause)

Jamie: He’s showing me an image of someone who’s at the beach but is unable to get out into the water.

Me: Oh, so that’s like not being able to get back into the body?

Erik: Well, it’s being able to call yourself human but not really being able to experience it at all. Chemically, it can be created, kinda like tears in the brain, tears in the fibers that keep order or consistency within the brain.

Me: Are you talking about energy fibers or actual physical fibers?

Erik: Actual physical ones. It reroutes energy so no matter how hard you struggle to keep one voice or personality in your head, it will always just flake apart.

Me: So, you dissociate from the body, but what about the multiple personality component?

Erik: That’s just fucked up. It’s really hard. What happens—I’m just speaking energetically—when—

Jamie (to Erik): Is that for everybody? (Pause) How do you describe that?

(Pause)

Erik: Some people are so disassociated from their body that they’re capable of latching on to full-on entities. So, other entities will invite themselves to come in and share.

Me: Oh, that makes sense!

Erik: Yeah, and in a way, it’s like channeling—having a timeshare in the body.

Jamie: Oh god, Erik!

Me (laughing): Oh, how funny!

Erik: The body’s boundaries and energy defenses are so weak that you can’t just set it up to say no. It has to be under heavy guidance. But that’s just with some. In general, with most of them it’s a kid’s imagination gone wild where they actually create a change in their own voice and personality, because they don’t feel safe having and experiencing their own. It’s the same way how some people will act shy until they have a drink in them. The drink is the excuse.

Me: Interesting! Okay, now Erik, of course you know you had bipolar disorder. Can you tell me the spiritual basis of the highs and lows of that disease?

Erik: Well, the manic spells were fucking awesome. That’s when you’re most connected to Source. It’s like you’re more aware of that connection, too, even if only on a subconscious soul level. When that happens, when that connection is wide open and rooted, you’re more euphoric and creative. All I can say is, looking back, it’s really a spiritual experience.

Me: What about the lows?

Erik: Well get this. You’ve been connected to Source like that for a week, a month. Then you disconnect. That feels fucking terrible, so of course you get depressed. It’s like being a kid in a toy store or a candy store where he can get anything he want, then he gets yanked out and put in a Turkish prison.

Me: Oh, that does sound miserable.

Erik: But being able to connect to Source is something a lot of people can’t or don’t know how to do so it’s more common in spirits who are more evolved.

Me: You da man, Erik. I get that you’re very evolved and getting so more and more. Still, the disease was your undoing.

Erik: Well, first of all, I don’t think it’s a disease. How could being connected to Source be a disease? It’s just pulling away that sucks. So, I’d say it’s a disease only in the framework of society. Society doesn’t know what to do with people who connect with spirit, so they stuff ‘em full of pills.

Me: Yeah, they really didn’t always work for you. I wish they had.

Erik: Think of it this way, Mom. I’m connected to Source all the time. I’m euphoric 24/7.

Me: I’m glad, Baby. Now is that the case in all people with Bipolar Disorder?

Erik: I’ll say it’s the case in most of them. Not all, but most. 

There are some folks who, when manic, actually become aggressive and angry. Robert explained why, but of course I completely forgot what he had to say. Robert?