I want you guys to know that I haven’t forgotten about this most recent Ask Erik submission. I’ll put the submitter’s names in a bowl and randomly draw one, then on the 10th we’ll channel Erik’s response. It’ll take time to transcribe, so please be patient! Also, I plan to post Part Three of the alien interview Monday or Tuesday.
One of the blog members requested that I post the interview with Aaliyah Haughton for today’s Celebrity Friday. Well, your wish is my command! She’s such a sweet and happy spirit, as you will see! I wish the interview had been longer, but I probably was running out of time. This took place maybe 2 years ago, I’m guessing.
Me: What about Aaliyah Haughton? She’s the singer who died in a plane crash somewhere in the islands.
Jamie: Was she from Hawaii?
Me: No, I think she was black, but she may have been from the islands. I’m really not sure.
Jamie: He says yes.
Me: Oh, is she here?
Jamie: No, he’s gone to get her.
Me: Oh, okay.
(Pause)
Jamie (chuckling): It’s so quiet when he leaves.
Me: Well, he’s so chatty!
Jamie: Here she is. She’s pretty.
Me: Yeah. I remember she was.
Me: Hello, Aaliyah. I’m I pronouncing your name correctly?
Aaliyah: It’s good enough, yes.
Me: Okay. Do you know why we’re here, why you’re here?
Aaliyah: Erik informed me on the way, but I didn’t know I made the list.
Me: Of course you did, Sweetie! We just hadn’t gotten to you yet! My first question is what was your spiritual mission while you were here?
Jamie: It’s funny. I want her to sound like she’s from the islands or something, but she doesn’t. She has like a northern.
Me: Oh really? Okay! (whispering) I really don’t know very much about her. I don’t really know why I’m whispering either.
Jamie (giggling): I do that too, though! She’s got that kind of northeast rhythm. I want to say New York, but not that heavy New York accent, but she’s just not Caribbean.
Me: Okay.
Jamie: What was she here to learn?
Me: Well, what was her spiritual mission?
Aaliyah: I felt I was here to soak up everything, to learn everything. I never felt that I was done with what was around me, even after a song was done, It always could be better; how could we change it? My character was always to build, you know, to build on it. I loved taking sounds that shouldn’t be musical or just sounds of life and putting them in my music. I was inspired by everybody—anybody—and I was complimented a lot on the way that I loved life. If you’re asking me to pinpoint something, maybe I would have taught other people to look at all walks, all genres, everything—look at everyone. Don’t cut anyone out of the picture, because they could end up being your inspiration, your muse.
Me: Yeah!
Aaliyah: I think that’s mostly what I taught people, but I feel like I was here to learn it all.
Me: Aaliyah, that’s a tall order!
Aaliyah (laughing): Yes!
Me: And do you think you accomplished that?
Aaliyah; Considering my short like, I did a lot.
Me: Yes, you did.
Jamie: She’s smiling. She looks so satisfied.
Me: Aw, that’s good. Now, what sort of insights do you think you gained after you passed?
Jamie: She pushes her hair back. She has longer hair.
Aaliyah: I found that life is gentle. I had a taste of that when I was alive. My parents were very loving—my family.
Jamie (sniffling): It’s so sweet. When she says that, I get a little choke up. She really had a good connection.
Aaliyah: It wasn’t just love. It was conversation; It was teaching. My family, they were really supportive. Thinking about that takes me back.
Jamie: She’s taking a moment. Erik’s so sweet. He’s patting her on the shoulder.
Me: Aw.
Aaliyah: Now, where were we?
Me: Any other insights after you crossed over?
Aaliyah: If was definitely that life is gentle. Even though we see it as so harsh and heavy, and the news just reports all the negativity, the light and the goodness is truly more abundant than the negative. I finally began to see that once I left.
Me: That’s nice. What an uplifting message for us still left in the foxholes here on the earthly plane. Can you share a past life that most influenced your life as Aaliyah Haughton?
(Pause)
Jamie (laughing): Erik! Erik feels very comfortable around her. Erik even joked about the orangutan just then.
Me: Oh, no!
You’d have to read Freddie Mercury’s interview to get that joke! It’s in three parts, and you can do a search using the blog’s search bar.
Jamie: She’s laughing. He’s trying to explain it to her. It’s kind of wild. When we talk about past life, it’s really not a past life.
Me; Oh, that’s right. Since there’s no time, I’m supposed to just say, “a life.”
Jamie: Yeah, because it definitely looks like a life that’s a little more advanced than this one.
Aaliyah: I’m an older man in my late 60s. I’ve become sick with some brain illness.
(Pause)
Jamie): Erik’s asking her questions.
Erik: How did that play upon the life you had recently?
Aaliyah: It helped me prepare for death, because I had such a long amount of time before I was to die, and in the future you can kind of—and I know this might not make sense to you now, but you pick your death date. If you know you’re sick, there are treatments that will, uh, if they can’t heal you, they have treatments than can further the process—
Me: Further what process?
Aaliyah: The dying process.
Me: Oh, okay.
Aaliyah: Once you reach a certain level like a stage four—
Me: They can hurry your death along?
Aaliyah: Yeah, they can progress it so that you don’t suffer. You still have to go through it, but it’s only once you reach a certain level—a certain no return point. So, it’s not Kevorkian. I knew that I would never forget that—
Jamie (to Aaliyah): Okay, hold on. Tell me again.
Aaliyah: I would never forget that life is a drop in a bucket of water. We have so many opportunities and so many chances. I had that moment of clarity while I was alive in a human body that this unity between different versions of our soul is connected, is important, that they shouldn’t be deemed as the end-all.
Erik: How did it help you?
Aaliyah: It helped me realize that when—
Jamie: Oh, so the plane was flying.
Me: Yeah.
(Pause)
Jamie: Okay, so it wasn’t high up. So it looks like maybe it had just took off, cuz it’s low.
Me: Yes.
Aaliyah: She’s showing me that when they knew that it wasn’t going to work, she was the only one who wasn’t afraid.
Me: So that life made her comfortable with death?
Aaliyah: Yes, and I know I needed that for that moment in that life.
Me: Oh, that’s good. Do you have any messages or advice for anyone? For example do you have any messages for your family or messages for humanity?
Jamie (laughing): She says something kind of silly and off the cuff.
Aaliyah: Never stop rocking.
Jamie: Then she takes a few steps back and adjusts herself.
Aaliyah (giggling): I should probably be more profound!
Me: You say whatever you wanna say, Sweetie.
Jamie: So she, um, I know she looks like a young woman to me, but she has this kid humor. Maybe she’s younger than what I think she is. She looks like she’s in her twenties at least, but some of her silliness is very childlike.
Aaliyah (Slapping her hand down) Okay, okay. I would say, message to the world: You know that’s a pretty tall order.
Me: I know!
Aaliyah: I would have to say it’s what people complimented me on: Don’t discredit anyone or anything just for lack of understanding. Let yourself learn even though you don’t understand.
Me: Give everyone and everything a chance, right?
Jamie: She gives this kind of pointy, almost like this little fake gun and says, “You got it.”
Me: Okay. Erik is there anything you would like to ask her that has nothing to do with orangutans?
Jamie: Yeah, thanks, Erik.
Erik: Yeah, are you feeling good, and is everything okay now?
Me: Aw, that’s sweet, Erik.
Aaliyah: Yes. You know it’s been a while.
Jamie: Ten year anniversary? Since you passed? So it’s been over ten years?
Me: Wow!
Jamie: I feel so bad that I don’t really know her. What did she sing?
Me: Well let’s ask her. I’m not sure. Let’s ask her. Pop? Hip hop?
Aaliyah: Girl, I worked with everyone!
Have a great weekend, everyone!
