Here I sit, surrounded by puppies, a couple of which seem bent on helping me type with their tiny little paws. They make fewer typos than I do, so it’s all good. After I type this post, I have to do the dreaded Christmas present wrapping. I hate it. I’m terrible at the job anyway, so I don’t know why I’m the appointed one. The tape doubles back on itself, box corners poke through the paper, and sometimes I wrap something and then forget what it is and therefore who it’s for so I have to start all over again. The big boxes are the worst because the wrapping paper is never big enough, so I end up having to tape big squares of it on the sides. All that hard work for a couple of hours and come Christmas Eve (which is our real day of celebration,) it all gets ripped off in a flash. Still, I love Christmas!

By the way, I’ve closed my call out for questions to ask Erik for the next column. I’ll pick them randomly. If for some reason yours doesn’t get answered, don’t worry because there’s always next time. If you’ve submitted your questions for two cycles with no luck, let me know, and I’ll see what I can do. Also, please forgive me for not answering the emails that have your questions. I do copy and paste them in a file though.

Now, let’s see if you’re a lightworker.

Me: Hello, again!

Jamie: Hello!

Erik: Hi, Mama.

Me: Okay, this is the last third of the hour-long session that we’re doing today, and I have one topic I want to talk about, but I don’t know if it’ll fill 15-20 minutes. Lightworkers. Tell me about Lightworkers. I can always add something else in.

Erik: You mean Lightworkers on Earth?

Me: Yeah. Why? Are there others?

Erik: Yeah, the ones who aren’t on Earth.

Smart ass.

Me: Oh. Where are they?

Erik (counting on his fingers, in a funny voice): Dead.

Jamie laughs and I imitate him.

Jamie: You sounded just like him!

Erik: Dead, spirits, different multidimensional beings like aliens. There are many other types of Lightworkers.

Me: Okay.

Erik: Before we get into the topic of saying Lightworkers on Earth, I want people to know that they’re not just human.

Me: Okay. Can they be animals?

Erik: Yes. It could be the dog, the cat, the tree in your front yard, backyard; it could be the flowers blooming in a certain meditation garden or maybe it’s in your little park. A Lightworker is, by general definition—

Jamie (laughing): You’re full of sound effects today!

Erik: Boooooom.

Jamie: And a lot of hand gestures.

Me: Uh huh. He’s so animated!

Jamie: He is really animated. This is fun, Erik.

Erik: I’m always fun! By general definition, it’s an entity—animal, human, trees, etc. –who moves bulk energy belonging to All That Is freely.

Me: Oh!

Erik: Like it doesn’t get bottled up; it doesn’t saturate them; they don’t break down from holding it. It’s an entity that can handle an abundance of All That Is energy. It’s not like the person who has a big old straw and they just soak up a mouth full of coke and hold it and that’s their abundance and then they use that coke to help—

Jamie laughs.

Jamie: Different topic.

Probably a drug reference.

Erik: It must be the energy that’s from All That Is. You can say energy from the Universe. If you have a particular religion, you can say the energy from God, God Source, whatever your belief system is. It’s an entity that has the ability to flush that energy through to give back. You are the straw. You don’t use the straw. You are the straw. It’s coming in, and you are moving it through and putting it out to those around you. That would include your environment, animals—it’s a respect for all living things. Does this general definition help?

Me: Yeah, sure! So, give me some examples of how they would move that energy and to what end, what purpose.

Jamie: What did you just say? Sorry, I got distracted.

Me: Give me an example of how they would move that energy and for what purpose.

(Long pause)

Jamie: What’s that song? He’s so messed up today! All the Single Ladies?

She moves her hand palm forward, then palm backwards over and over as in the music video for that Beyoncé song.

Jamie: He’s doing this with his hands in front of his face!

Me: Oh, is that what he’s doing?

Jamie (laughing): I got so distracted!

Me (chuckling): What are you doing, Erik?

Erik: Hot hands.

Me: Oh.

Erik: Cuz some Lightworkers, their hands, that’s the trip. They get hot.

Me: Yeah.

Erik: And that’s the energy moving through their body and out.

Me: Yeah, I remember when I was with a patient—and this was long before I believed in anything like this—I was examining this patient, and she said, “Oh my gosh, you have the hands of a healer,” cuz my hands get so hot. I go, ‘Um, okay.’ I thought she was a little batty, but now, in retrospect, I’ve seen that in other people. Their hands get really hot.

Erik: Those are natural Lightworkers.

Me: So are all healers Lightworkers but not all Lightworkers are healers?

Erik: Yes, I agree to that.

Me: Okay. What other things do Lightworkers do?

Erik: Besides being able to move that energy?

Me: Yeah, tell me what that looks like. They would move the energy to do what, for example? Give me an example besides healing a person.

Erik: Well, kind of like a Lighthouse when the light shines to give guidance or warning, Lightworkers often do this, but without knowing. They’ll talk to total strangers. “Hey, how’re doing?” and they just talk and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Me: Oh God. That’s me.

Jamie laughs and points at me.

Me: My husband will say, “Why don’t you tell them your social security number while you’re at it!” He just can’t understand why I talk so much to complete strangers.

It’s weird, though, because deep inside I’m very shy and have to force myself to mix at parties. Oh, yeah. Like I go to those.

Erik: It’s amazing, though, Mom, because that connection you felt—“Hey I’m going to go talk to this person; I feel comfortable enough to talk to this person, and I’m going to share what’s on my mind, what’s in my heart,” whatever—the effect that it has on the stranger is amazing. We’ll find that we’ll approach people who aren’t always asking to be approached.

Me: Yeah.

Erik: It’s not like they’re going (waving both hands and grinning like an idiot,” “Hi! Come over and talk to me! Yeah, I’m a stranger!” It’ll be in grocery stores and everything, and what the Lightworker, like my mom, is doing is she’s giving—not guidance verbally—but she’s giving attention and energy and showing value for that person’s life in a sense of community, a communion of conversation.

Me: Uh huh.