Yay, this is the last of the accidentally published posts! Before you read on though, I have some announcements. First, no one guessed Erik’s first set of wheels! 🙁 It’s a baby walker! (although the baby in the photo is not him.)

 

I’d also like to announce that sweet, sweet blog member, Amy Cofeltt, extended such a wonderful offer. She’s giving away 10 of my books to future contest winners. She requests that, when you finish reading it, you pass it along to another person who might benefit from it. By “passing it forward,” we can, over time, reach hundreds. I see Erik beaming in my mind’s eye. So, when you do pass it on, please let us know so we all can bear witness to the kindness of our Channeling Erik family. You can email me the person’s name (or their initials) to emedhus@gmail.com.

Here’s the next contest question: What was Erik’s favorite beer? Be sure not to post your answer in the comments section. Just email me. 

Last but not least, we’re ready for our monthly Ask Erik submission. Please email me yours and it will be picked from the others randomly. Remember, I’m looking for a story. The first one, from Marcie, is a perfect example. Share your struggles or someone else’s so that we might learn from our own. 

Me: Well, you know, we come here to struggle, and you described why. It’s so difficult! Why can’t we just evolve in the spiritual realm, and make it easy!

Erik: Seriously? You want to make it easier? Make it easier by choosing to surrender to the human life that you’ve chosen? Helloooooo! You’re waking up in a human body, so obviously, there’s something you need to be doing. If you were going to make it easy, you wouldn’t have done the extreme sports by getting into a body in the first place. So, if you didn’t need to have this body that you’re in, then you may feel extremely happy about or extremely trapped in—if you weren’t supposed to have this, then you’d be waking up in the afterlife (he tugs at the top of his sleeve like he’s all that.) where I’m chilling.

I giggle.

Jamie (smiling): I love it when he tugs at this sleeve like that! God, he cuts me up sometimes where I can’t even think about the train of conversation.

Me: I bet not!

Erik: So, if you’re waking up human, there’s something that you should be doing. There’s really no easy or hard part about it, Mom, and we talk about if we’re looking at it to be one way or another, then we’re carrying around some assumption that easier is better, and we’re still carrying around that there should be some kind of judgment that we should be placing on what we’re doing or what we’re not doing. Really, we have to learn—or remember—in our human lives, how to pull out, extract these expectations and judgments. If we can live honestly that way—emotionally honest that way—all of these trivial experiences that we’re going through and these questions that we seek the answers to are going to arrive. We’re really getting in our own way. Correction. You are getting in your own way.

Me (pretending to be appalled): Well, thanks a lot!

Erik: I meant you all! You (air quotes) humans, you emotional beings, are getting in your own way, cuz some of them, you know, they got it down, but a lot of them have this belief that if you’re going into this lifestyle with no expectations and no judgments, then you have no fucking backbone, and that’s totally fucking untrue. You can have a backbone. You can still have an opinions and direction and boundaries and shape and have no expectation for the situation or who’s coming at you or what’s about to occur and still be able to be you. You know, I really think we could go down this rabbit hole. What else do you want to talk about?

Me: Well, is it like we’re coming down to act in a school play, playing these roles? Is that what it’s like? Is this whole thing an illusion of some sort?

Erik: An illusion of some sort.

Jamie (smiling): When you mentioned school play, he goes, “I’d always end up being the fucking tree.” No lines. Just standing still on the stage because I’d fuck everything up!”

Me: Or you’d be the little sidekick. The funny sidekick. The expendable sidekick.

Erik: Life should know that if it’s giving me lines in a play, I’m going to take over! Okay. Enough about the play.

Jamie: What was the original question?

Me: Well, the way that I see it is that we split off from God Source so that we can experience duality. You can’t know hot without cold. You can’t know forgiveness unless you’ve been betrayed—that sort of thing. So, we have to act out these roles in order to learn forgiveness.

Erik: “Remember”.

Me: Okay. “Remember.” Sorry.

Erik: Yeah. Remember, cuz we already have all this shit before we even come into this life. You come in already like a baby bird. You know everything. You know how to fly. You know how to nest. You know how to eat. You know how to take care of yourself.

Eventually, yes.

Erik: All that shit. But, we have this thing called—

Jamie bursts out laughing.

Jamie: I’m supposed to imitate him, but I’m never going to get it right.

Erik (in a very deep and serious voice and with a lot of emphasis): THE BRAIN.

Jamie and I chuckle.

Erik: And the brain is getting in our way of connection with True Source, true soul, right?  And [we’re getting in the way of ] all of that intense information that we carry with us. We’re subject to our belief patterns. They’re actually shaping our ability to know and our ability to react honestly. We get up into our head too much. So, we come back, yes, to learn dualities—the extremes at either end. But, remember, it’s not learning the dualities so that we can take this and have an expectation or judge somebody else’s experience or have somebody else’s experience judge us. So many of us, because of all this marketing bullshit that’s being done throughout the whole world—we watch what’s on TV and say, “Fuck! I should be looking like that! I should be doing that!” That’s total bullshit. You’re the only one who knows what you should be doing. You have the best compass. You have the best inner guidance, but somewhere along the line (shrugs shoulders) you gave it away, for whatever reason. So, you’re coming back to this life not just to learn dualities but to learn, when is it best for you—for your health, for your wellness, for your honesty in that extreme—in that pendulum’s sway. (He makes an arc with his finger, mimicking the course of a pendulum.) Is it here? (Pointing to one point in the path), is it over here? (Pointing to another point in the path). Is it over there?

Jamie and I giggle.

Erik (with hands thrown up): Who knows where it is?

We both laugh hard.

Jamie (running her fingers through her hair): He’s ruffing his hair up.

Erik: But that’s the fun of it.

It didn’t escape me that he used the word “learn” several times in his last rant. Ha!