A friend called me the other day with a personal dilemma. Her daughter’s boyfriend burglarized her home to the tune of $80,000 in cash and jewelry. He’s an addict, possibly with an undiagnosed mental illness. She has all the proof she needs, but is at odds with what she should do. Surely he needs to suffer consequences and receive treatment and a psychiatric evaluation, but a prison sentence, should he survive it, would essentially ruin the young man’s life. The parents, who have also been enablers in all of this, are willing to recover whatever jewelry they can from the pawn shops and pay cash for anything not recoverable in order to avoid police involvement, but getting off scot free wouldn’t give him the opportunity to seek and receive help. What would you do in my friend’s shoes? Should the police be involved or should she just require restitution along with him going to rehab with the stipulation that if he doesn’t or if he gets back into drugs his recorded confession would be admitted as evidence? My gut feeling is that if the police aren’t involved and 5 years from now he’s back snorting Oxy, the recorded confession would be too stale and therefore useless. Maybe she could plea on his behalf, stipulating that the sentence should include rehab rather than prison, a psych evaluation, random drug tests for 5 or so years and full payback. If the parents pay my friend back for him, he should be required to get a full time job and pay them back. But would a judge be amenable to those stipulations? So often, the penal system does more harm than good, breaking the already broken until the pieces are unrecoverable. 

Today’s post covers two topics because both are pretty short. 

Me: I have an interesting question for you, Erik. People want to know if there’s a Channeling Erik Consciousness. You know how there’s a Christ Consciousness? Now I don’t know exactly what they mean by this, so can you help me out?

Heather: I have a window right here, and he’s leaning up against it, resting on it, and he’s thinking about how each person on the blog has their own definition of what that means to them. (To Erik) So how about you pick one of them?

Erik: You’re smart!

Heather laughs.

Erik: Some of them are thinking that this Erik blog has its own energy so I don’t exist, and everyone’s energy into the blog created this “Erik” entity that comes around to people and does pranks on them. Some of them, it’s to make them feel better because they feel like I don’t visit them or I don’t care about them. So for them, it’s a coping mechanism.

Heather: Wow, big words! I’m proud of you!

Erik: It’s their way of convincing themselves, “Oh, it’s because so many people put so much energy into it that he doesn’t really exist, and he can’t visit me because he’s not real. It’s some sort of consciousness that people have created.”

Heather: What else?

Erik: Or they’re thinking I’m some powerful guru, and I created this huge consciousness. It’s something that’s going to become some type of religion. They think negatively of it.

Heather: But, so how do they stop—is it true, though?

Erik: It’s true for them because that’s their reality.

Heather: Oh, so for the most part, it’s not true?

Erik: No, it’s just the blog. It’s what me and my mom do together. It’s not like the Christ Consciousness. It’s not like that.

Me: I don’t even know what that is.

Heather: I don’t know what it is either. (To Erik) What are they talking about?

Erik: It’s energy, which has become its own thing. So many people feed energy into it that it has become its own thing.

Me: I see. So there’s nothing like that with Channeling Erik? All the energy and thoughts of all the blog members don’t pull together and create some freestanding, living energy collective?

Erik: No, but it’s their reality. Everyone creates their own reality, so to them, it’s true.

Heather: So, is it the truth?

Me: Yeah. Good question.

Erik: What is The Truth, Heather?

Me: Well, there is a Christ Consciousness supposedly, right?

Erik: Yeah, for others there is.

Me: Okay, but what is the real truth? Will the real Channeling Erik Consciousness please stand up?

Erik: I am Erik. I’m here!

Heather laughs.

Erik: This is me. Yeah, I can split myself off and go to different places at the same time, but that’s only because there is no time.

Me: Yeah, that’s true.

So everyone’s truth is their own reality.

Now for the second topic:

Me: Is there a concept of wanting where you are, Erik?

Erik: What do you mean?

Me: Well, so spirits have the sensation of want?

Erik: Sexually?

Of course he’d go there.

Me: No, any kind. Of course that’s probably what you want to talk about.

Heather (chuckling): Yeah, I bet!

Erik: Yeah, we “want.” Where do you think the emotions came from? Just because humans feel it doesn’t mean we don’t. When I come to visit someone, it’s because I want to. When I do a prank, it’s because I want to. I have a desire to do it. I have a desire to make them laugh. I want to spread this information. I want to make people feel good. It’s a want, a desire of mine. If I had no want or desire, I wouldn’t be doing it!

Dur.

Erik: I’d just be some soul just sitting around—

Heather: He’s showing me a blue blob sitting on a swing, all sad, swinging back and forth.

Heather laughs.

Me: Aw!

Heather: That was cute.

Me: Maybe the person asking this is wondering if there’s any longing. That would suggest that you want something that you can’t have.

Erik: No. No.

Me: There’s nothing like that because you can manifest whatever you want.

Erik: Mm hm. Absolutely. That doesn’t exist where I am because you can have whatever you want. You just manifest it.

Me: Is there the concept of hope there? Do you hope for things?

Erik: Yeah, not for very long because, again, you can just make things happen.

Me: Yeah, well of course there’s free will. You might have hoped that I would heal faster than I did.

Erik: Yeah, there’s that.

Heather: He’s talking about in terms of—(To Erik) Stop! He’s putting his finger up my nose!

She looks alarmed and covers her nose.

Me: Uh oh. Stop it, Erik!

Heather laughs.

Erik: I was talking about when you’re at Home, Home base. When you’re dealing with things that are in the physical, you can’t control what humans are doing or want to do.

Me: Oh, I see. Yeah.

Erik: So yeah, I wanted you to heal faster, but I couldn’t make that happen. I couldn’t make you feel better. I had to let you go at your own pace. I had to be patient. That’s where that longing of hope comes in. That comes in when you’re dealing with someone in the physical.

Me: Okay. Fascinating. Anything else on that?

Erik: Nope, Ding!