Exciting news! I’m going to start having giveaways! This is a test (although there will be a winner) so I’m not sure how this will work out or if it will even be successful. In this first one, I’ll be giving away a promotional copy of the new book, My Life After Death: A Memoir from Heaven. It’s not the final copy so it hasn’t undergone the proofreading phase. Still, it’s pretty polished. For those of you who win, can you please write up a review for Barnes and Noble and Amazon and email me the review so I can post it on my testimonials page? Thanks.
As for the contest, all you have to do to enter is “like” the CE Facebook page. The easiest way is to click the like button on the sidebar under “CE on Facebook.” Well, here goes! (Gulp)
Me: All right, so let’s talk about body image. People are told that they need to look lie stick figures, almost, like Barbie Dolls, which are totally grossly anatomically incorrect. So you have somebody who’s overweight, and they feel so bad about themselves. What can you tell them? I mean, some of them have no problem. They just go right into the pack, and they get along, and they love up on everybody and feel good about themselves, but most of the people don’t.
Erik: They think about it all the time. It’s crazy. When you’re here—
Jamie: Where Erik is. Another dimensional plane.
Erik: –you will see more self-hating thoughts on the earth more than anything else. It’s just insane.
Me: Yeah.
Erik: This is the whole spiritual evolution, if you want to call it or the change of perspective that’s happening now. This is what’s going to be most effective, and it’s going to start with marketing. You already see it like in those commercials about loving your body. Now they have plus size models. You know, you just have to be happy with who you are. The big focus is your health. Is it working? You go into other cultures like India, man those women, they love their bellies. They wiggle them and jiggle them, and they’re just awesome. Our culture says, “No, you gotta be in control. You gotta suck it up. You gotta be fit and strong.” That’s how our nation was built, but that’s not going to be what sustains it.
Me: Well, there are health issues, of course, but you make it sound so easy. “Be happy with who you are.” That’s not easy! That’s hard!
Erik: What the fuck, Mom! [Unintelligible.]
Me: What, do the flip on a switch and go, “Well, I’m happy about myself. Yay!”?
Erik: For those of you who are having a hard time just loving yourself, I want you to go get a physical. I want you to look at your allergies to whatever it is, the outside world, the food that you put in your mouth, and I want you to handle those allergies. I want you to eat healthy for your allergies. Avoid the shit that doesn’t feel good anymore, Then if you’re having trouble doing that, you gotta ask why you’re fucking sabotaging yourself all the time? Why can’t you just feed yourself things that make you feel good? Oh, because you like staying weak because you can tell other people, (in a whiny voice) “Oh, I’m just not feeling good today,” and people will go (in a sympathetic tone) “Aw I know. This sucks doesn’t it?” So they feed into it. So why is that working for you? Why do you need that kind of energy? Aren’t you better when you’re like, “Yay hey” like you’re raising the roof,” and everybody flocks around you and are like, “Yeah, me too!”
Erik makes that raising the roof move.
Jamie: That was a dance, by the way.
Erik: And after you figure out your allergies and how to feed yourself, start looking at your flexibility. Can you stretch? If you can’t, learn how to. If you can get these things down, then looking at your body and loving your body becomes a little bit easier. Also I would suggest, for women and men, to find someone who knows how to dress them. Dress for your shape. So many people are dressing their bodies wrong, so they don’t like the way their clothes look or feel or how they’re draped. So then they feel “off.” “I’m too thin.” “I don’t have enough boob.”
Jamie (laughing): Sorry, it’s just funny to hear him say it. He doesn’t have enough boob, obviously.
Erik: “My feet are too big.” So if you can find someone who can dress to the lines of your body, then you know how to shop for yourself. You’re going to be rocking it! And that helps you build confidence and makes it easier to love yourself.
Me: Are their any reasons, spiritually, that people come onto the earth with a body that doesn’t fit society’s definition of what’s normal?
(Pause)
Jamie laughs but then sighs in frustration at whatever Erik’s said.
Jamie (Bracing herself): I’m going to do it. He said so people can walk around like this.
She sticks out her middle finger in that infamous “shoot the bird” gesture.
Me: Oooohkay. Clarify that please.
Jamie: Thank you. When your mom asks, you do it, but when I ask you won’t.
Me: I got the power!
(Pause)
Jamie: The pacing little fool! He just goes back and forth.
When he was alive, he used toe pace ALL THE TIME.
Me: I wish there was a timeout chair over there. He spent a lot of time in the black timeout chair.
Jamie laughs.
Erik: Okay, why people show up like that. Sometimes—you have to remember that I’m speaking in general—some people come back and they’re having a hard time being human, and that’s why they have trouble attaching to their body. They remember heavenly self or they remember alien self, and human self is really fucking strange. So there’s that. File that away. There are those who love being human. Love it, love it, love it. But they don’t know how to live in the physical body. They love everybody else, and they take care of everybody else, and then they overeat to pacify themselves because they don’t want to pay attention to their emotions, or they overeat to punish themselves because they didn’t make the right choice. So we have mental and emotional disconnection. Take that and file it away. There are many reasons for why it happens. Then you have the ones who come in and almost—
Jamie (Shaking her head): What are you, I don’t know that word.
She laughs.
Jamie: Disillusioned? No, distorted. Distorted? Okay.
Erik: A distorted image of their physical body like a disease, like anorexia or bulimia. These people look in the mirror and see a different body altogether. They can’t see themselves. So we have diseases that can destroy the relationship between the soul self and the physical self. And then we have those who just ignore it. They ignore it because—
Me: Ignore what? The physical body?
Erik: The physical body. If they ignore it, then they’re not going to be held responsible if something goes wrong with them. We get this for a handful of reasons. A great example is our smokers. They know that it can create a whole lot of bad shit, but do they want to own up to it? Not really. Nope. So they just ignore it and keep smoking. This creates a distance from the body, and they can’t love their physical body because of it.
Me: Well, what about not just body image, I mean not just being overweight. There are people who come to life who are disfigured in some way like having a clubfoot, having a birthmark that’s really obvious. Why do they come in like that?
(Pause)
Jamie (laughing): That’s a very inappropriate time to laugh right now. I apologize. He’s doing the Austin Powers—is it Austin? I don’t know. Where is it coming from?
(Pause)
Jamie: Mole!
Me: Oh, the mole.
Jamie: The mole thing. Moley, moley, mole. That’s Austin Powers, right?
Me: Yep.
Jamie: He started laying into it. It was really funny.
Erik: Right. When they come in disfigured, handicapped or even –
(Long pause)
Jamie (to Erik): No, do that one separate.
(Pause)
Jamie: Like when they lose an arm or finger later.
Me: Oh yeah. I’m talking about born with.
Jamie: Born.
Erik: I don’t really want to group that into the, “I don’t want to pay attention to my body” thing because most of the time when they come in disfigured or have a large mole on their face or a birthmark that’s very visible, they’re coming into—
Jamie: No, don’t do a visual. Don’t do a visual.
Erik: –With much more energy, much more light around their physical body so that other people can see them, so other people can recognize them. When you come in disfigured, you’re coming in with a challenge or lesson that helps you connect to the physical body, you know like—
(Pause)
Jamie: He’s really wordy with it. So he’s coming back.
Erik: –being different is the greater choice. There’s not sacrifice being made. It’s the “shiny light, brighter than” opportunity.
Me: So they want to be noticed? Is that why?
Jamie: I know. Most people want to avoid it.
Erik: But for their own contracted reason.
Me: Ah, spiritual contract. Okay. As a soul, they want to be seen? Sometimes it’s a lesson for others? Like “Hey, I may be disfigured, but I’m a human being. Please look inside my heart. Judge me from my heart.”
Erik: Yeah, it gives people an opportunity, but it also gives [the disfigured people] the opportunity to overcome their own little challenges. “Are they looking at me for me, or are they looking at me because I’m missing an arm?”
Me: Yeah.
Erik: And all of a sudden when they forget they’re missing an arm, they have no idea that they’re handicapped. They’re just themselves. It’s kind of like what Martin Luther King said in that interview we had with him—that when you look at the true essence, the light that they shine is just ten-fold of the average body person’s shines. But that’s just contractual. It doesn’t mean that the average body person has “less than.”
Me: Of course.
Erik: Please don’t get me wrong.
Me: Don’t piss off too many people.
Jamie laughs.
Me: So one more thing and I’ll close. It seems like there could be instances where it might be connected to a past life. Say you got shot in the face, or—
Erik: Or a burn.
Me: A burn, and then you come in with a birthmark in that same area. Is that true?
Erik: That is very true.
(Pause)
Erik: Oh, you want me to elaborate on that?
Me: Well, just a little bit because we have to close off.
Erik: Oh, Mom, C’mon. Yeah, if it was traumatic enough in another life, and you didn’t finish it in a way that you thought was the best end for you, there can be marks or mimics or parallels that go into the other lives that you’re living to kind of remind you of it, to keep it in the forefront so you can finish that lesson.
Me: Whatever the lesson was in that life?
Erik: Yeah!
Me: Okay. That must be done on a subconscious level because I can’t imagine somebody saying, “Wow, I got this weird birthmark on my neck. Let me see. That was when I got burned in a fire in the 1800s. Let me look at that life.” They’re not going to do that.
Erik: That does sound kind of crazy, but it would be the higher consciousness that feeds the subconscious that information.
Me: Ah! Okay.
Erik: Their conscious could pick up glimpses of. So your parallel lives—they’re not past or future, you know. They’re all happening at once.
Oh yeah. That whole, “There is no linear time” thing.
Erik: That makes it easy to feed energy to all the lives. So you’d be picking up on what your fear was or what your lesson was, what you need to overcome. That would be—
Jamie (looking puzzled): Dripping? Dripping into you? That doesn’t make sense. It comes with a great visual, but the words sound weird.
Me: I understand it.
Erik: It just feeds in a little bit at a time.
Me: But I guess past life regression would help you understand the connection.
Erik: Huge. Yeah. Yes.
Me: And even the body image problem as far as being overweight.
Erik: Yeah.
Well, that’s it for today! Good luck on the giveaway, guys!
