Here’s Mr. Hudson’s Grand Finale:

(Again, this is only a short excerpt. Gotta wait for the book.)

Me: All right. What insights do you think you gained, Mr. Hudson, now that you have a new perspective from the afterlife?

Rock: The biggest insight I gained was the proof I wanted all along when I was alive—that we are our own worst enemies. We are the ones who will injure ourselves. We are the ones who will bury ourselves, and not once—

Jamie: He’s kind of straightening himself up.

Rock: Not once in the journey of life do we stop and live in a consistent manner. It’s not us against everyone else; it’s all of us together.

Me: Oh, yeah!

Rock: I think this is the demon that makes us our own worst enemy.

Me: You’re talking about the separation illusion, I guess?

Rock: Yes. We’re not separate, so how can we be against everything else when they are also us?

Me: Ah, I got it. Do you have any regrets?

Rock: No. I can honestly say I lived in the way I knew how to.

Me: Good. What past life can you share that most influenced the life we’ve been talking about?

(Long pause)

Jamie: Um, okay. You say past life, but he says it’s a life that—it sounds so weird—a life that has occurred in the future.

Me: Oh yeah. I see. The future can affect the past and the present, because it’s all happening now.

Jamie: Which still blows my mind!

Me: Me too!

Jamie: So he’s talking about a life in the future. He was, is—I don’t know how to say that—in the future. I’ll use past tense. He was a boy, and he’s showing me about 12 or 13 years old.

Me: Okay.

Rock: You’ll find the future to be amazingly similar to what you’re living in now. Technology grows, but human evolution takes longer.

Me: What time are you talking about. In earth time, what year are you referring to.

Rock: 2079.

Jamie: He’s showing me more imagery than explaining it.

Me: Okay.

Jamie: There’s a lot of protection like, it’s weird, more things are indoors than outdoors. It has that feeling. And so he’s walking from in to out, and he’s recognizing that outdoors is actually becoming better than being indoors. But nobody wants to acknowledge it because of what they’ve created indoors. So he begins to speak up and try to get people back to their own roots.

Me: Right.

Jamie: It’s not a trash matter.

Me: Ozone, maybe?

Jamie: Yeah, it looks like the temperatures are slightly different, the air is different.

Me: But he feels like things outside are okay?

Rock: It was always okay to go from point A to point B, but nobody stayed outside all day. You’ll find that we’ll all start to migrate indoors instead of being outdoors. I remember seeing it at that age, but no one would listen. So, I gradually started to create outdoor spaces as a kid, and I grew into that design element of getting back to the roots. And just keeping that idea and coming into the life that I had that we’re discussing—I had to go back to my roots. And for that it was looking at, ‘Who am I?’ It goes against everything everybody else says I should be. But I knew that if I tried bit by bit and created an honesty within myself, then I would achieve that publicly.

Me: All right. Do you have any messages for us peons still stuck here on the earthly plane? We’d love to give you a voice. Is there anything you’d like to share with the world?

Rock: Again, it would have to be part of the same message we’ve been discussing the whole time. It’s part of my lesson, part of why I came, part of my achievements that I define myself by, and that is: Do not change yourself to please another.

Me: Gosh, yes. I think that’s got to be one of the most crucial lessons for anyone to learn.

Rock: Yes, any one of any age. It’s extremely important for parents to instill that in their children.

Me: That’s right. And that’s the basis for all of my books, so we’re on the same page, Rock! So, Erik, do you have anything you’d like to ask Mr. Hudson?

Erik: No thank you.

Me: Okay. Well, thank you, Mr. Hudson. I appreciate your time. Your insight will help so many people.

Rock: Thank you, and I wish you all the best on your projects.

Me: Thank you!

(Pause)

Jamie (chuckling): He doesn’t say goodbye. He just kind of walked away.

Me (giggling): I love him! He’s awesome!

Jamie: He’s a MAN.

Me: Yeah, he was always a manly man in his acting roles, so it was a bit ironic that he ended up being gay.