Me: Oh, good! So your afterlife, what does it look like?
Marilyn: I enjoy my house—
Me: On the earthly plane—
Marilyn: Yes.
Me: Or an exact duplication of the house you had?
Marilyn: On the earthly plane.
Me: Okay. What were you here to learn and teach. I know you talked a little about what you were here to learn, but can you restate it, too?
Marilyn: What I would like to teach is that happiness can only come from within, and it can only be created if you learn how to say no. If you give way to what everyone else wants, you’re not being authentic to who you are. You’re not being true to yourself.
Me: Setting boundaries. Very important.
Jamie (chuckling): She points at me and says, “That’s another way of saying it!”
Me: Yeah. Physical, emotional, and spiritual boundaries.
Marilyn: Yes.
Me: Okay. Wait, was that what you were here to learn or teach? I forgot!
Marilyn: I was here to learn that, but would like to teach that to people now!
Me: Oh, okay! That makes sense.
Marilyn: Maybe what I did learn was how to compartmentalize and how to hide, and that was not my goal.
Me: What insights did you gain after you crossed over?
(Long pause)
Jamie: Um. Erik’s repeating the question to her. She has a great way of blinking her eyes. I know that’s such an odd comment, but…
Me: I can just see that. Kind of slowly like, woosh, woosh.
Jamie: Yeah, it’s really pretty. It’s not normal blinking. I don’t know it she trained herself to do it or if that’s just part of her character. Nice.
Jamie laughs hard.
Jamie: Now she’s giggling at me!
Jamie (to Marilyn): I’m sorry, but sometimes I feel like I want to describe characteristics!
Me: Yeah!
Jamie: Okay, I just took everybody off track. What was the question?
Me: The insights she gained.
Jamie: Oh, yeah. Tell us the insights you gained.
Marilyn: The biggest one that overwhelmed me was that we’re really not alone!
Me: Yeah. Hmm.
Marilyn: And the idea of the ego keeping us so separate from who we are, where we are that when it’s taken away, that’s when you can truly decide if you like who you are or not.
Me: Very profound.
Erik: Well, did you like who were?
Marilyn: For the most part, no, but now I do.
Me: Aw, that’s good, Marilyn. Bravo, Erik!
Jamie: Okay, off the record.
Me: Off the record. Okay, got it.
Jamie: You asked the question what did she do now, where does she live?
Me: Yes.
Jamie: She kept showing me the image of XXXXX. They spend time together.
Me: As friends or as more than friends?
Jamie: As more than friends! Romantically.
Me: Okay, well we’ll keep that off the record for sure. No names. I promise. I don’t want a hit man after me!
Jamie laughs.
Me: What was your proudest accomplishment while in the physical and has that changed since you’ve passed on?
Marilyn: All the money I was paid and the status I go from being in Playboy.
Jamie: So, in your career, you deem that to be the most—
Me: And after you crossed over, was that still your proudest achievement or did your perception of accomplishment change?
Marilyn: It definitely changed, because then I became proud of everything I accomplished instead of just the one marker.
Me: Okay.
Marilyn: When you’re alive, you’re just looking at what’s big THEN!
Me: Oh, yeah. You don’t have that broader sense of who you are and what you’re doing.
Marilyn: Yes.
