Heather, Cara, Kim and I, along with some others, have an idea. It’s one that I’ve ruminated on for the last 4 years but put on the back burner to wait until the time was right. So here it is: we create two online schools devoted to Erik’s teachings. One will be for adults and will focus on spiritual coaches. The other will be for children and will focus broadly on spirituality. We’d teach them about energy, chakras, emotional honesty, meditation, nonviolent communication, grounding and centering exercises, the importance of vulnerability, how to use energy healing techniques on themselves and much more. If we do this, I’ll ask you guys what you would like your child to learn and what you, yourself, would like to get from a spiritual coaching class. So what about a poll? I know. I’m the crazy poll lady. 

Here’s the first half of the last Ask Erik column:

Hi Elisa,

I have a question for Erik. Can he please explain what spontaneous human combustion is all about? What is actually happening to the body when this occurs? Is it a spiritual thing like a burst of energy from the chakras or just a weird physical, medical phenomenon? My son and I are interested to have this mystery unraveled please! Thank you!

–Lisa and Jake

The soul’s energy is connected to the body’s energy in the hollow spaces in these little structures in our cells called microtubules. When we die, the energy between the soul and the body build up until it kind of sparks and separates. Some souls have a hard time disconnecting because there’s a stagnation of energy. Imagine jumper cables where one end is connected to this powerful source of energy and the other end isn’t connected to anything so there’s no outlet for the energy. Eventually, the energy backs up into its original source. But the cells can’t hold on to that amount of energy so—poof—the body combusts. Two types of people are prone to this: people who stifle who they are and live as a façade of themselves and people who don’t process emotions but instead, suppress them. It also happens a lot of people who hold onto things in general. Hoarders are an example. What I’m saying is that it’s all about not being able to move and process different types of energy, emotional or otherwise.

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How can we remove subconscious blocks so that we can see or actually hear spirit during meditation?

Thanks Erik & Elisa,

Deb Brown

Oh, this is a good one! A lot of times, it’s not about removing a subconscious block. Instead, it’s about the need for education. This block comes about from the way you attempt or propose things. Let’s say you’re trying to meditate, but you can’t connect to your Higher Self. Part of it is because of your expectations about how you think you should go into the meditative state. Expectation, like everything in existence, is a form of energy, but it’s a very dense one that other types of energy have a hard time flowing through. I want to teach people how to avoid this whether it’s in mediation, manifestation or channeling. A lot of times, people don’t even realize that they’re setting expectations, and once they do, they can let go of them to get the results they’re trying to achieve. Think about a person who wants to manifest something. He might say, “I keep telling myself I’m gonna to manifest more money, but it never comes! How come?” Well, if you keep saying things are “gonna,” then you’re going to be in that perpetual state of “gonna.” The same thing goes for meditation. So let go of expectations to release those blocks.

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Hi Elisa,

I hope you and your family are doing well. I enjoy reading and rereading your blog daily! Thanks for all you do!

My question to Erik is this: Is reincarnation optional or is it forced on a soul? For instance, a person has a really shitty life, dies, and it turns out that the soul has more work to do on the earthly plane. Can that soul choose to stay in the spiritual plane, even if they have more learning to do, or are they eventually pulled back into a human body whether they like it or not?

–Kat Mullaney

You’re never forced to do anything whether you’re incarnate or not, and I’m using linear Earth time to simplify this even though all lives are happening at the same time. When you’re Home, you’ll have a higher understanding of the best way to learn whatever you think you didn’t achieve. If you think you can learn it better where I am, you’ll be given that opportunity. You have complete free will on how you want to learn your lessons.

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Hi everyone,

I wonder if you can ask Erik about the future of education? How should schools change? What should kids learn? What should high schools and universities look like?

I hope that makes sense.

Best,

Marco

Oh, I like this one, too. If enough people paid attention to this question, we could change the world and the future. No offense to all the educators out there. I appreciate what you’re doing, but if students relied more on their natural instincts and intuition, we’d have more harmony in the world. The more you rely on books and external sources like that, the more kids learn to rely on an external compass instead of themselves. What we’re doing is encouraging kids to seek answers outside of themselves. Of course you need resources to get information, but it’s important that the student learn to rely on themselves throughout the process of attaining and analyzing that information. They need to rely on themselves to decide how they’re going to assimilate that information into their lives, whether it’s valuable to them or not, how they’re going to best absorb it and things like that. We’re not teaching kids that now. We’re not teaching them to learn under the guidance of their inner compass. On a bigger scale, if shit was to hit the fan and all technology was wiped out, only a third of humans would be able to use their natural instincts to survive. So, first rely on your inner compass as a means of navigating through the many, often confusing, external beacons of information.

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Hi Elisa,

I have a “Jesus” question that I have wanted to know the answer to for many years: What did Jesus do and where did he go from the age of 13 to 30 when he wasn’t accounted for in the Bible? I have heard that he may have gone to India to study Buddhism.

Thank you so much for all you do!  Erik, you and Jamie have changed my life.

This question really touches me because for a lot of people this will make or break their faith. During that time, what happened was very similar to what Buddha experienced. Jesus secluded himself from all external stimuli: people, communities and events. He did this to seek a higher understanding of himself so he could maintain his divinity. Buddha found happiness by going without, and Jesus did so through seclusion. That’s how he was able to not only maintain his divinity, his connection with God, but to understand it more deeply. In other words, it allowed him to understand who he was and why he was here.