I’ve really been enjoying my time here in Los Angeles. We spent the day in Venice on the Ocean Front Walk doing some major people watching. There are so many free spirits here who express themselves unabashedly. Nice. We could learn a lot from them. Or maybe they’re just totally stoned. Whatever.
This is the last part of my channeling session with Jamie on March 25th. Please excuse the lack of spell check and editing. I have to get up off my lazy ass and help Teri and Don make homemade pizza!
I might not be able to post an entry tomorrow, since it’s a travel day, but I’ll try.
Channeling Transcript
Me: What’s the best way to access our innermost wisdom? I guess that’s just meditation, right?
Erik: Yes, meditate, meditate.
Me: Is that it?
Erik: Well, so many things can help like getting rid of energy blocks, having faith in whatever is channeled to you or your own intuition, good nutrition, shit so much is involved.
Me: Okay. So, what about the death penalty and it’s consequences? What do you think about it, Erik?
Erik (sighing): You know, it’s so odd. I think sometimes—and it’s on a rare occasion—
Jamie: He’s standing up; his hands are in his pocket; his thumbs are sticking out. He’s just kind of pacing. He’s really thinking about this one!
Me: Yeah, it’s a tough one. I don’t think anyone should be put to death, but I guess it could be a pre-designed exit point for some. I don’t know.
Erik: Right. It definitely can be a pre-designed exit point that somebody else is to take their life. And so many people put themselves in harm’s way so that happens. It’s the same way, but it’s just done in a little more public way.
Me: Yeah.
Erik: Um, but there are very few cases—there are some—that actually fit the whole definition and lesson and learning and cleansing of having their life taken from them in this way. Over all, no.
(Pause)
Jamie (laughing): Erik!
Erik: Now I do like the idea of an eye for an eye, but not so much for death.
Jamie and I laugh.
Jamie: Erik! He’s giving me an example.
Erik: I feel if some woman was raped, I think we need to bring in some bit ol’ guy to rape the guy who was the rapist.
Me: I can just hear it. “You gon be my bitch!”
Erik (laughing): Can you fucking imagine that? How—
Me: Well, that’s not very compassionate, Erik!
Erik: No, that’s not very compassionate. Yeah, maybe the rapist was abused as a kid or something! You never know! Or maybe it was a spiritual contract between the rapist in the woman to, you know, experience that for some reason.
Erik (belly laughing): I know, Mom, take a joke! Take a joke!
Me: Ha. Ha.
All three of us laugh.
Erik: No, I totally agree with you, but, um, going back to the death penalty, there are those small cases, but honestly, I think the better way to handle it all—death is such a release, keeping them alive is more of a punishment.
Me: Oh, yeah.
Erik: And for the jail structures, great. Someone came up with, you know, a thousand years ago, how to lock someone away as a punishment, but what you really need to be teaching them is how to make a community. You know, we should lock them together as a community—
Me: So they can teach each other?
Erik: Correct. The more dangerous ones can be in a more solitude environment, but the others, we have to reform them; we have to teach them even the simplest things. How to respect their linens and make their beds, how to take pride in the small things they’ve had and what they’ve earned.
Me: Yeah.
Erik: And if they earn a larger freedom, then they move into a different part of the community so that they interfere or evoke jealousy amongst the others.
Me: It just seems like an awful lot of responsibility to give the collective to actually put somebody down, to kill somebody just so they can have their exit point. Oof, you know? That would be a sacrifice on the side of the executioner or the system overall.
Erik: And there’s a lot of narcissistic people who want their names in the paper, who want people watching them when they pass away! It’s just the saddest thing, really. It’s messed up.
Me: Yeah. I agree. So, here’s one more question before we end off. Can the deceased manipulate things on the earth like the weather?
(Pause)
Erik: Well, the weather’s pretty big, but yes, spirits can things on earth like inanimate objects. They can also manipulate people, you know, like, “Don’t turn down that way; it’s not good.”
Me: Oh, yeah, they can nudge us.
Erik: Yes, and your guides are also protecting you from the negative ones who might be whispering bad advice in your head.
Me: That reminds me of the cartoons where there’s a devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other.
Erik: Yeah, but it’s not like they’re making you act like a puppet and doing negative things. There’s a filter. You might wanna put that out there, cuz a lot of people, they’ll just go a little nutty thinking somebody negative is whispering bad things to them. That’s not the case, you know. Love is in place. We’re honoring and respecting you; we’re keeping that away from you.
Me: Okay.
Erik: That’s one of the purposes for why we’re here. Now, thinking about the whole weather, I guess if enough of us got together, then yes. You know, if it’s on a smaller scale like making a wind blow through a room or making the room very cold or very hot, now that’s doable in a contained area, but to change the weather in the whole city, that’s a little bigger and broader, and it depends on other systems happening around country and so on. But if a mass of people got together and put an affirmation together or a prayer together, then yes, we can pull together and change the energetic force of the earth.
Me: So it’s not just deceased; it’s any spirit in or out of the body?
Erik: Yeah.
Me: Okay, Sweetie. I guess we’re out of time. So, Baby, I love you so, so much. Jamie, thank you so much for everything. I guess next time we’ll start channeling the celebrities! Erik can hunt down those guys for us.
Jamie: Great! Wow, it went by so fast today!
Me: I know, it did! We covered a lot, too, didn’t we?
Erik: I love you, Mom.
Me: Aw, I love you too, Baby.
Erik: Bye.
Me: Bye.
