Everyone know someone who’s lazy. Maybe it’s one of your children. Maybe it’s a co-worker. Maybe it’s a sibling, a spouse or even YOU! But you might want to feel a little compassion for the lazy dude, because the underlying reason has spiritual roots. Take a look:

Me: What’s behind laziness? Why are some people lazy? I guess some of it might be triggered by past life.

Erik: Some of it’s fear of the responsibility and some of it’s fear of the failure.

Me: Yeah.

Jamie: He’s talking about the life of a general in a war who had to make the strategic plans and the plans the gentleman made were a failure. Most of his men died so now in this life when there are ideas of taking responsibility and leading or organizing or planning, he avoids it at all cost, because, for him, it meant the death of his tribe.

Me: Oh, no.

Jamie (chuckling): Tribe. He’s making it really old school.

Me: Well, I guess some people would rise above and work their asses off to over-protect and all that, but there are some that would be like shrinking violets that would become lazy, shirking and avoiding failure and responsibility. That’s what you’re saying, Erik?

Erik: Yes.

Me: So, basically, the spiritual aspects of laziness are, um, obviously a lot of it comes from past lives like you said as well as fear of failure and responsibility.

Erik: Yeah. And in some cases, laziness was revered. It’s a social hierarchal thing in some past cultures.

Me: Well, you haven’t exactly been slovenly Erik. I don’t know how you do it. Can you be in two places at once?

Erik: Oh, yeah.

Me: You must be better and better at that. You split yourself off, I guess?

Erik: It’s weird. It doesn’t even feel like that. It feels like dream state like I’m sitting in one room, and I’m dreaming about doing something else.

Me: Um hm.

Erik: But I’m actually still sitting in the room, and I’m physically in the dream. That’s as easy as I can explain it. As much as you can comprehend is as many times as you can do it: Ten times in one place, whatever.

Me: God. How do you keep your conscious awareness and do different things and have two different conversations or three different conversations? I don’t get how it can happen.

Erik: Well, when you divide your energy, they’re both part of a whole and you maintain your character. You don’t have to have one brain that can controls it all.

Me: Okay.

Erik: It can be, “Hey, we trust that the division of myself will speak clearly for who I am,” and you just kind of let it go. It’s a hologram.

Me: Wow! Okay.

(What a golden-tongued devil I am. Gotta work on my vocabulary.)

Erik: Collectively, Mom, all of the information kind of goes throughout your divisions.

Me: Oh, I see.

(Sigh. It just keeps getting better and better.)

Erik: I can do it a lot—

Jamie (giggling): I love it; he kind of shrugs his shoulders and drops his head down a little bit, and says, “Do I do it a lot? Yeah. Yeah, I do, cuz it kind of shortens my workday a little bit.”

Me (in gest, laughing): Ah, let’s talk about Erik’s laziness now!

Erik: Yeah, but if I do it in a short amount of time, I can go play and prank people.

Me: Well, that’s okay, isn’t it?

Erik: Yeah, I think it’s great.

Me: It’s not frowned upon, is it?

Erik: No, no. Not a bit.

Me: Good!

Erik: Oh my god, Mom, you should see what the angels are doing! It’s crazy.

Me: Oh, tell me!

Erik: Thousands and thousands of holograms for just the one soul. It’s so intense, the abundance of energy they create and possess and divide to help people on Earth. It’s insane.

Me: Oh my gosh. How awesome.

Jamie: His eyes just light up when he says that: “It’s insane.”

Me: Is this also what all spirit guides do?

Erik: Yeah, yeah. Most of us can, but if we’re designated to somebody like before you come to Earth and you talk to your buddy and you’re like, “All right; you’re going to catch my back?” “Yeah, sure.” Most of the time, that’s just a one-on-one job. It’s really intimate, because we really want you to experience that kind of attention. Plus, when you’re on Earth, you so think you’re not part of the whole. You are alone. So, to have that one-on-one energy, you know, it feels more respectful.

Me: Yeah. That makes sense.

By the way, E. J. Daniel and Erik have finished another novel, Just Sayin’! If you’d like to download a free copy, email the author at ejdaniel@q.com. NOTE THAT IT’S Q.COM NOT G.COM! If you haven’t read the prequel, Second Chances, please request that as well. Their both short reads and excellent. Erik is very proud of his work.