We had a little scare yesterday with Bella. We were letting her play in the RV park dog park and she started foaming at the mouth. My concern, especially since she’s such a tiny thing, is that this was a sign of pulmonary edema from altitude sickness. Of course this had to happen on a freaking Sunday. But we actually found a vet that was open, and he went over her with a fine-tooth comb. She checked out. He said she probably just ate something nasty tasting like a bug. She’s a trooper up here close to 10,000 feet. After that, we took a gondola ride up to Adventure Park and let Arleen touch snow for the first time since she was an infant. Then she, Lukas and Annika took a thrilling mountain rollercoaster ride. Today, we’ll probably go horseback riding. We’re having friends over tomorrow and we’ll take our jeep off-roading Wednesday. Then we’ll slowly make our way home starting Thursday morning. I dread the Houston heat and humidity!
Here’s another Best of Erik!
Me: What about agoraphobia, that social anxiety disease as well as anxiety attacks in general?
Erik: Agoraphobia is hand created by the person who has it. Any kind of phobia is hand created by the person who has it. It wasn’t donned upon the by some wizard or fairy!
Jamie and I laugh.
Jamie: He shows me this little fairy tapping a wand on the person saying, “Now you have agoraphobia. Arachnophobia!” He’s showing me all of these things!
Erik: It’s when the personality and the brain can’t line up reasons for why certain triggers or reactions are occurring. So, they start stacking them in ways where it created (unintelligible) that are so unrealistic and it’s based on faults, untruths—
Jamie (giggling): Aw! He said it’s like when it’s like when kids see a horror movie for the first time and the dreams they have that night run with them.
Me: Yeah.
Jamie: They don’t know how lighting and costume makeup and set design are done. They believe it’s a real place.
Erik: Yeah. That same kind of mind fucking, but done without the movie, you know, telling them what to do or think. Same kind of mind fuck. So, they close up. They create whatever their phobia is. And every phobia can be cured. I’ll say that with 100% accuracy. All of us believe in that. That’s just the human interfering in trying the transfer information but it’s totally wrong.
Me: What about Asperger’s? It’s on the autistic spectrum. Some of your doctors thought you might have had that, Erik. They call kids with that disorder “little professors”—
Erik: But with social problems.
Me: Exactly.
Erik: I get it. I totally see why they thought I had it. But I think the difference, just with me, was that I wasn’t interested in all the social stuff.
Me (sadly): Yeah.
Erik: It’s not that I couldn’t handle it, cuz there were times that I could cuz I wanted it. It’s just there were times I wasn’t interested. I don’t—I didn’t have it.
Me: Sometimes I think you just wanted to be lonely.
Erik: Yes. I came out that way.
Me: Yes. I know.
Erik: But there are so many kids in the States that have it. They’re going to start making you test your children when they’re months old, and then like a little over a year old, and then again to see if they have any kind of Asperger’s or—
Jamie: Oh, what’s the other one?
Me: Autism?
Jamie: Yes, autism.
Erik: So that they can help prevent it and manage it. It’s why I encourage families to give their children omega-3, and of course the FDA doesn’t recommend it for children under five or so—
Me: Well, that’s what they include along with prenatal vitamins now, so…
Erik: It’s a must. And the reason it that it’s gotta counteract the—
Jamie: Oh, do you really want to say this, Erik?
Erik: Hell, yes!
Jamie: H’Okay!
Erik: The reason it’s a must for our children to have so much omega-3 now when they’re months old up until they’re at least seven is not just to build their brains and not just because we’re not getting enough nutrition through our food because our food is drying up, but it’s because of the immunization shots.
Me: Oh no.
Erik: They’re competing with our brain function.
Me: They give so many at one time. That always bothered me.
Erik: It’s not right. For the mother’s out there that are going through this, listen, stand up for your own rights. Do one shot at a time. You don’t do two. You do one. This way, you know if your child is allergic to anything, and trust me, your child will forgive you if the shot hurts and they have to go back and get another one. You can deal with that. You can’t deal with it if your child’s brain function suffers. So, stand up for what you believe is right. Now, I’m not going to speak about what shot to do or not to do, because that needs to be a personal thing, and there are so many laws that drown out the truth, but I will say, just one at a time.
Me: Okay. Yes. Now what about Asperger’s? What’s the spirituality behind it? Oh, go ahead. Am I interrupting something? (I can hear Jamie discussing something, obviously with Erik.)
Jamie (chuckling): No, no, no. I was like, ‘Yeah. Erik, get back to that,’ and he says, “That shit pisses me off!” He says he sees so many kids suffer from the toxicity of immunizations.
Jamie listens to Erik some more.
Jamie: Aw! He looks—(to Erik) It makes you look cuter, that’s what it is. (to me) When he defends babies.
Me: Aw, Erik! You’re so sweet!
Erik: I love babies so much.
Me: You always have.
Jamie (to Erik): Okay, you’re just that much cuter to me now.
Jamie (trying to refocus): Asperger’s? The spiritual connection behind it?
Me: Yeah. Or is there?
Erik: Have you watched the TV show “Touched”?
Me: No.
Erik: That kind of plays off. Watch the main character.
Jamie: Is that the little boy that doesn’t talk, comes up with codes or something?
Me: That sounds familiar. I think I’ve seen the trailer or teaser or something.
Erik: Yeah, well they’re basing off that kind of high mental activity, zero social ability, so these kids—yes they come in with this indifference, but intellectually what they’re bringing to the table for us in our future is intelligence and spirituality. You can almost think of them as not so much a leader because they don’t like the people around them but a giver—“I’ll create something and give it to you.”
Me: Oh, I see.
Erik: I’ll build it; I’ll show you how it works. They’re very basic little teachers—basic meaning like one on one, not one to a million. They’re very hands on, and these are the people that we’re going to need in abundance coming into this new shift and change.
Me: Interesting.
Erik: So, I know that’s why there’s this increase of this, but it’s not fair when it’s brought on chemically instead of naturally.
Me: But also it’s not fair that’s they’re picked on.
Erik: It’s another thing—
Jamie (to Erik): Wow, you’re speechless!
Me: Unbelievable!
Jamie: He stumbled over a few words!
Erik: I get so fucking angry when I look at school systems and how they refuse to change and how they’re going to need to change because half of our children can’t handle how they’re teaching anymore. We’ve outgrown the system.
Jamie: Oh, when he said, “we,” he pointed to himself.
Erik: I outgrew that system; I couldn’t handle it.
Me: Yeah. Maybe the school system needs to be torn down, redesigned and rebuilt considered the current state of today’s children.
Erik: Yes, and that’s what started making me breathless when I was talking about it being taken down and torn apart. You watch, Mom. It’s already happened, right—
Jamie (to Erik): We? Who are we? (pause) Spirits?
Erik: Spirits have been announcing that first the banks will fall which they are. Yay, they did. Then the health care system will fall. Has it not? We’re in the process of that. And then you know what’s next? Out government and our school systems are going to be fighting neck and neck for the next collapse, including higher education. They’ll fall.
Me: Maybe they need to.
Erik: Yeah, because they’re all functioning like their head is up their ass. And it’s not fair—
Jamie: Wow, Erik! I haven’t seen you this rowdy in a long time!
I chuckle. I know how he can be sometime.
Erik: It’s not fair that our teachers of our future are going through a broken system. We need to save them. We need to pull them out. We need to teach them life skills again.
Me: Overall, we need some good ol’ fashioned spring-cleaning. Out with the old and corrupt or useless and in with the new and innovative.
Erik: Yeah, but it’s not going to be pretty to sit through it. The only fantastic thing that’s happening through all of this—all of the systems that break apart—is our enlightenment and spirituality and out sense of community will skyrocket.
Me: Yeah, and we’ll get rid of all that clutter, too.
Erik: Yeah, we’ll no longer be that materialistic country.
Me: Ah, how nice.
Erik: Whaddya think about that, China?
Me: Poor things! They’re walking in our footsteps, making the same mistakes.
