Don’t forget that our first radio show, entitled Channeling Erik’s Hour of Enlightenment, starts tonight at 5:00 PM PT/6:00 PM MT/7:00 PM CT/8:00 PM ET. This show is all about listener participation so have a question or two ready for Erik before you click to listen. Again, I’ll try to put a “Play Now” button on the righthand side of the homepage, but you can also click HERE to listen and participate! The call in number is 347-202-0316. For those of you who miss it, I’ll let you know where you can listen to the archived show as soon as I get the link. Should be fun! Remember to be gentle on us. Kim and I have never done this before so there’s bound to be glitches and goof-ups at first.

By the way, I posted a YouTube on ISIS yesterday. Be sure you subscribe to the Channeling Erik YouTube Channel and check it out! But first read Part Two of Erik’s autism series. If you haven’t already, you’ll need to read Part One from yesterday to make sense of Part Two.

Please check out my article about LOVE on Sivana just in time for Valentine’s Day by clicking HERE.

One last announcement: Someone asked for the cities and dates for our upcoming Tour of Enlightenment. Here they are:

Denver: 6/24-6/26

NYC: 7/22-7/24

Chicago: 8/26-8/28

Vancouver: 9/23-9/25

Sedona: 10/20-10/23

Orlando: 11/11-11/13

San Diego: 12/9-12/11

Austin: 1/27-1/29 (2017)

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Me: So, how will this computer thing work? Is it going to print out, “I’m happy now, so give me a peanut butter sandwich!” How will it work?

Erik: At first, it will really be able to highlight brain waves to be translated into emotional values.

Me: So it will help the autistic kid display that emotion?

Erik: Display it, yes, because the facial expressions aren’t there. That’s not part of what they’re able to do, physically, but we’ll be able to see it remotely on our iPad. Maybe it lights up green when they’re loving what’s happening around them. Maybe it lights up blue when they’re tired and distant. So we can then relate to their emotions. As soon as this technology takes off, we’ll be able to see what they’re thinking. We’ll see that they’re seeing an elephant in their imagination.

He sure likes his elephants.

Erik: We’ll see that they want to watch fucking Barney on TV.

Jamie laughs hard.

Me: Yeah. There we go! Are there any other contracts involved with these autistic kids? Do they come here to learn anything?

Erik: They learn patience.

Me: Okay.

Erik: They learn how to surrender, and they learn mostly how to observe.

Me: Okay. What about teaching? Patience for the caregiver, I’m sure. Teaching that there are other types of “normals” as far as connecting?

Erik: As far as society goes, yeah, but they also teach a lot about anger. They have these huge fits, these bursts, these, “I can’t handle being in my body so I’m just going to make sounds and swing and have a fit.” It’s not about saying, “I’m angry at the care provider or angry at the world,” but it’s about how do you love your body when it doesn’t work in a way that you see in people who are functioning just fine.

Me: And they understand that, intellectually.

Erik: Yes.

Me: That’s hard. So what kind of therapeutic approaches—spiritual approaches—are there?

My phone vibrates, but I ignore it.

Erik: Hello??

Me: What advice can we give to the parents of autistic kids?

Erik: Nutrition is extremely, extremely important. Like I said, the omega-3s. Feed them a diet that decreases inflammation in the body. Buy cultured foods.

Me: Okay. What about one of the most potent anti-inflammatories, Chaga mushrooms? Chaga mushroom tea. Would that help?

Erik: Sign them up for that shit. My mama is a high advocate for that. In fact, they should have her photograph next to the mushroom.

Me: Mushrooms! Not the psychedelic kind!

Erik: Mushroom mascot. That’s you!

Me: Exactly.

Jamie laughs.

Me: What other advice can we tell parents. For example, when they’re having a meltdown, what can they do?

Erik: First of all, I’d like people to know that the environment for an autistic person is different from the environment of a “normal” person. So, if you’re setting him up with a bed that’s wooden with nice posts and shelves with books and breakables and shit like that, what the fuck are you doing? Your kid has certain needs. Throw out the “norm.” Dude, get them a big old fluffy bed, a beanbag chair, shit like that that they can throw themselves against to express themselves. Look at all the options, and see that as a motivator for having fun, of having connections. “Is this going to work today? Does my son want something heavy? Does he want to feel embraced? Does he like the color red today”

Jamie: He’s also talking about sound, being able to identify the sounds in the house.

Erik: Dude, get into the head of how that woman did with the cows when they got slaughtered. She was autistic. She heard—

Jamie: Wait. Wait.

She looks at Erik, clearly puzzled.

Me: I don’t know this.

Jamie: Yeah, I was asking, “How did we get on cows? What just happened?”

Erik: There’s this autistic woman who didn’t like how cows were getting slaughtered, and she went through the process herself to see what they heard and how their bodies reacted because that’s how she responded to her world. It wasn’t so much about the language and the ease of the process. That doesn’t work for an autistic person. You have to look at what’s visual. What’s the light like? What is the smell like? What are the sounds? Then she redesigned everything so that the cows stopped panicking before the moment of slaughter.

Jamie: That’s so sad.

Me: That is sad. I’m not going to have a hamburger today.

Jamie laughs.

Me: Well, what do we do for a kid who is having a meltdown. You have a kid thrashing about, even if it’s on a fluffy bed. I hate to see them suffer like that! What do you do?

Erik: But it’s not really suffering, Mom. For a healthy person to have a tantrum like that, that’s suffering. For an autistic person to have a tantrum, that’s a moment of expression.

Me: Oh, okay.

Erik: It’s a moment of a burst of energy, a movement, even if it’s not the accepted behavior we want to see from someone we love, they’re finally blowing up. If their environment is safe and they’re not going to bite their tongue or ram into a wooden wall, then it’s okay. You gotta let them go for it. If they like to throw shit, man, give them stuff they can throw and just say, “You go!” and get you to a safe place so that this can happen. The immediate response is usually to pacify behavior that doesn’t seem acceptable. This doesn’t work with someone who can’t be “acceptable.”

Me: Can you help facilitate connections, help them connect to others?

Erik: Yeah, so in a tantrum like that, if they’re not going to physically harm themselves or anything in their environment, I’d step back and work with smells. Use aromatherapy like nobody’s fucking business. When they’re calm and happy and doing shit they like, spray it. Then, when they’re having a tantrum, spray it again so they remember the calm and happy time they used to have. So every time that they’re happy, I’d spray something, citrus, I don’t care. Whatever they like. Let them pick it.

Me: Okay.

Erik: And then I would also turn on the music that they like to hear when they’re having a tantrum. If they’re responding to it like, “Fuck that. I don’t wanna hear that shit,” turn it off. Respect it.

Me: Yeah!

Erik: The tantrum is going to come and go, and they’re going to feel better for having it. That’s like when a kid cries and you go up to him and go, “Stop crying! Why are you fucking crying? Why are you fucking crying? You don’t need to be crying! Straighten up!” What the fuck? If the kid needs to cry, let him cry! They won’t cry all night, but if you’re doing that shit, they’re going to fucking cry all night. Congratulations!

Erik claps his hands.

Jamie and I laugh.

Me: Any more advice before we close?

Erik: Yeah, if you’re working with a physician who says, “Well, this is where we are. Accept it,” politely take a bow, give him the finger, and find someone else who understands that as your child grows with autism, severe or otherwise, so do the treatments. You keep trying something new until it clicks because once a child understands how to use a program or how to point at images or how to enjoy their room in a certain way because you layed it out in a way that they really want, maybe it took you five years to figure that shit out, but if you hadn’t kept trying, you wouldn’t have had the answer, so if you’re not having a medical team supporting you in this way so that the therapeutic approach changes as the child grows, then—

Me: Get one.

Erik: Get one. Politely bow out of that shit, and get one that’s going to change.

Me: What about energy healing like helping the chakras? Maybe their chakras are messed up. Would that help?

Erik: It’s incredible—color healing, long distance energy healing; it’s beautiful.

Me: Okay.

Erik: Nutrition is huge. You’ve got to harness that physical body and change its growth. Every seven years you get a whole new fucking body.

Me: That’s true.

Erik: So what are you doing? What are you doing when you’re changing it in those seven years?

Me: Okay, last question. Will there ever be a cure? If so, when?

Erik: A cure for those who come in with autism?

Me: I don’t know. Either one.

Erik: There are those who get it—

Jamie: What did you call it? Created?

Me: Oh, congenitally or acquired.

Erik: Some of the acquired ones have been healed with nutrition. Some of them have been like 50-80% healed, but they still have a little something that they just didn’t have before, but it’s totally fine. For those who were born with it, there’s not much progress made because they can’t figure out how to get the brain to start throwing the ball that it never threw before. So it’s more about technological advancements. If they do hook up the brain and the person responds with emotions that they can see on the iPad, then they have a response and the brain’s like, “Dude, we threw the ball!” Then it will start to build connections. The way the program is reading the brain, it’s not necessary because the person’s learning from it throughout the year.

I have no idea what he means, and I didn’t think to clarify.

Erik: It’s slow growth, but, yes, I do see that there are fixes. I wouldn’t say 100% cures, though. It’s extremely hopeful. Here’s where we get to applaud science and innovation and change.

Erik claps.

Me: Yes! That’s awesome. Well I applaud you and Jamie for a great session!

I clap.

Here’s a bit about the “cow lady” Erik was talking about. Her name is Temple Grandin. Can’t wait to talk to you guys tonight!