I want to thank everyone for supporting Erik. He was crazy happy in our session day before yesterday, and he said it’s all because of how you guys are loving his book, writing reviews and spreading the word. A number of people who aren’t even blog members have been pranked by him, and so far they’ve all said it was great fun. Please continue the good work for him by writing reviews and sharing on your Facebook timeline!

This entire Fall will be busy with radio shows, print interviews and TV. Fox just contacted my wonderful publicist, Eileen, the other day, asking for me to appear! Eileen is great. She’s very passionate about Erik’s book and feels like it’s part of the important work she’s here to do, spiritually. So she’s a very spiritual woman, driven to do good by following her heart of gold. Erik adores her and she, him. 

I know; I know. I have a lot of announcements during the book launch. My interview on the Journey to the Center of Tammi show will be aired from 1:00 PM CT on. Go HERE to listen. I also have Coast to Coast coming up Saturday at 11:00 PM PT and Live with Lisa Phoenix Sunday. Here’s information about that:

Last thing, and I’m mostly thinking out loud here: I really want to write a “Dear Abby” type column for a magazine where people can pose questions to Erik, personal or otherwise, but am at a loss where to begin. I’ll probably ask you guys for questions, then ask Erik for the answers and create an article to send to magazines like Spirituality & Health. Maybe there are other magazines along those lines. If you know of any, let me know. I also want to do the same thing via radio. I’ve heard that BlogTalk radio isn’t very good, but there are others like OM-Times Radio, Transformational Radio and others with a spiritual bent. If you guys know of any that you like, let me know. Price is an issue, though. I don’t plan on making money with the show. It’ll just be a public service from me, so the monthly fee can’t be insane. Of course if a company wants to advertise and just cover the overhead, I won’t refuse that, but I’m okay with paying it myself. Money, where Erik is concerned, is a very touchy subject with me. I don’t mind having expenses covered like for my publicist, the sessions, web hosting fees, etc., but I cannot, cannot make money beyond that. Then there’s the question of what to call it. “Ask the Dead Dude” might be a little harsh, but it’s Erik’s still. It could also be as simple as “Ask Erik.” Whatever it’s called, it’ll be so nice to open Erik up to the public more. I’ll let you know when I open things up for question submissions. 

Enough, already! Here’s the post for the day!

Me: Here’s a question from a blog member: “If God is and always has been complete, perfect, omnipotent, infinite and unified, why did It ever appear to fragment to create the material world, different universes and ultimately us? If It is truly perfect and complete in all ways, then why would It need to evolve through individualized aspects of itself?” Good question.

Erik: That person is defining perfectionism and flaw-free. All of those flaws, from a spiritual perspective, are what makes things perfect exactly the way they are. So what’s happening, basically, is that everything that exists is going through all the different scenarios like it’s being run through a computer program. There is no end to all the possible scenarios because you can piece and put together in an infinite number of ways. Because consciousness is the driving force behind all that, It gets to experience all of this, and it becomes, in the level of a little bubble of individualism, aware of the infinite collective that It is. When you go into spirit and you’re collected into the collectiveness of who you are—the God part of who you are—you already know all that shit. Some spirits choose to shed their individuality completely and become part of the collective, “permanently.”

Me: Yeah, use air quotes because there is no time.

Erik: They just sit back and chill and become part of every possible experience that can exist—and those are infinite. Those experiences don’t stop because they’re like a rolling ocean. All the different waters are constantly moving in different directions, in every direction.

Me: So you can be your “God Self” and your individual self at the same time since there is no time, right?

Erik: Fuck, yeah, or you can choose one or the other.

Me: But since there is no time, you have to be both or neither.

I’m giving myself a headache.

Erik: Like I said, time is subjective. It depends on what you’re perceiving at any given moment. If you’re choosing to be an individual while you’re in spirit, you have to involve what you perceive as time to a certain degree to create that whole linear progression of things. You don’t label it time, though. I’d have to do that to create the experience of walking through a field like I talked about before.

Me: Okay. Anything else on that?

Erik: I think that’s good.

Me: How did thoughts begin—and creativity? Well, I guess thoughts are a form of creativity.

Erik: From the perspective of the collective, they’ve always been, just like everything has and will always be. So they didn’t begin anywhere. That would imply that there’s time. There isn’t. But from a human perspective? Well, fuck, where do I begin with that, because it can be traced back and back and back to way before the solar system was created. You can trace it back to every iteration of this universe.

I’m completely lost.

Erik: Let me make it simpler by starting with Earth, herself. When Earth was born, the potential for thought began with the very rocks that created her. Then, creatures evolved and those thoughts were in there. In order for those creatures to survive, they needed to be creative. That gets expressed, in human beings, in their own way. When humans evolve into something else, and they will, creativity will be expressed in another way.

Me: Fascinating.

I wish I had asked for clarification. You know how you think you understand only to rethink it and realize you don’t? That’s what happened with me here.

Me: Do other life forms think differently than we do?

Erik: Sure. There are beings that think a lot like human beings, and there are some that think a lot differently.

Me: Give me an example of one that thinks very differently.

Erik: Not on Earth? Let me think.

Me: Or on Earth. I don’t care. How about both? Let’s give an example of each. That’d be cool.

Robert: He shows himself looking through a book. He’s pulling from his own lives or what his soul has lived as other lives. It’s interesting. He’s showing me this little bubble of Erik, and inside of that bubble there are an infinite number of lives going on. They all fall under the umbrella as “Erik.” Then there’s a greater bubble that encompasses that bubble and the same thing is going on inside of that. It’s a hierarchy thing. But then he squishes it all together to show it’s all the same thing. What is that, Erik?

Erik: It’s just a metaphor for how we’re collectively all the same thing. Let me pull up a good one. Ants. Ants are social like humans are. So that’s one way we can relate to them. We live in colonies and things like that. When I lived as an ant—

Robert (chuckling): Were you somebody’s aunt?

Erik: Ha ha, dude. It’s almost like you’re living in this program where you rely on scent like you’re a train on rails. The rails represent the scent patterns. And you just kind of follow that rail everywhere and do what you need to do based on what the chemicals are telling you to do. There’s a little bit of visual stuff going on, too, and a little bit of communication going on in other ways, but it’s a different kind of awareness. It’s all about, I don’t want to say it in a way that makes people judge ants—

Me: No, we love ants!

Erik: I’m trying to pick my words carefully. It’s like you’re following this program based on, “What do I need to do?” “Go pick up that rock. Bring it back to this place. Put it down. Now, go back here. Wait, I need to go over here and grab some food.” It’s this constant state of doing that, from a human perspective, seems mindless, but it’s not. It’s serving the greater good of the colony.

Me: So their thought processes are about doing.

Erik: Right. Pure doing without analysis or judgment.

Me: Or putting emotions to it?

Erik: Well, they have emotions. Everything does.

I’ll have to ask some clarifying questions later.

Erik: Their emotions stay very calm, cool and collective because there are no waves going on. No drama. They’re doing what they know they were meant to do.

Me: What do their emotions look like?

Erik: Like a calm, tranquil lake. There’s just this constant feeling of what humans might call comfort.

Me: So there’s only one emotion?

Erik: When I tap into that life, that’s the only one I pick up on. There’s never any fear. Even when we got into fights with other colonies, it was still like a seesaw that stays balanced.

Me: We could learn a lot from ants!

Erik: Yeah, because they never feel slighted. They never think, “I’m missing out on something!” or anything like that. They feel connected to this greater colony. There’s no distress. Nothing.

Man they look pretty pissed when I accidentally step on their anthill.

Me: We should be more like that.

Actually, I’m wondering if that’d be boring.

Me: Okay, give me a weird example of how thoughts might work in another dimension like an alien one.

Robert: That’s just what he was getting ready to do.

Erik: There are aliens who process their reality and think the way humans do, but it’s more expansive than that. For instance, they accept the fact that what their reality tells them can be different from what another reality of someone from the same or different reality tells them. I’ll go back so you can relate this to human beings. A person who sees ghosts.

Me: Okay.

Erik: In that alien species, if they have someone who sees ghosts, no one else thinks they’re crazy or has to be hospitalized. They recognize that that’s their reality, and it’s different—still as real, but different. They don’t judge how one reality is for another. That’s one example, but I have an even weirder one.

Me: Oh god.

Erik: There are entities that don’t process things visually. They process things numerically.

Me: Weird!

Erik: Yeah. I use numbers because that’s what humans know. So the only way they think is through mathematics.

Me: Wow. Interesting! Oh, I bet Stephen Hawkings was one of those who have come back as a human.