Yesterday, Erik did lots of crazy stuff during my session with Jamie. The first thing he did was make both of our FaceTime windows spin. Then, on Jamie’s screen, he turned me into an old man with gray hair! Why couldn’t he have made me look young and beautiful! From the corner of my eye, I could see my “picture in a picture” change, but the recorded video only shows a white film appearing over me. There were other quirky odds and ends during the session, too. I think he’s so happy with how well received his book is that his naughtiness has reached new heights! No doubt he loves it when you guys write rave reviews, share the love on your Facebook timeline, recommend the book to your family and friends and more. This is your way of showing him love and appreciation, something he didn’t think he got much of in life. Thanks, guys. This means a lot to me.

Great news! Jamie is going to trance channel Erik for us online. To participate, sign up HERE, and be sure to get online early to get your question for Erik on the top of the list!

Here’s Part One of the Sonny Bono interview. Many of you may have watched in on the Channeling Erik YouTube channel. 

Me: Now, I’m going to let you choose between these two, Jamie. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross or Terrence McKenna, the guy who was into psychedelics.

Jamie: Is that the LSD guy?

Me: I think. No, that was, um, I’m blanking. It’s hell to be old. Well, Terence McKenna, I think he believed in like opening up the mind and the pineal gland and that with DMT and other things, but I heard about him from the blog members, but gosh, I can’t remember for the life of me what they said about him. Also, there’s Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, too or Jack Kevorkian. You choose.

Jamie: Wow, he’d be so intriguing!

Me: Yeah!

Jamie (laughing): Erik’s here. He’s introducing me to someone whose name we did not mention today.

Me: Oh, okay. That’s fine. Who ya got there, Buddy!

Erik: Sonny Bono!

Me: Sonny Bono.

Jamie: Is he on the list?

Me: Yeah, he’s on the list. It’s fine. Okay, but next time, Jamie gets to pick! All right. Hello, Mr. Bono.

Jamie (giggling: It’s his voice!

Me: Oh, my gosh!

Jamie: He’s so polite.

Me: Aw.

Jamie: He’s got a blazer on.

Me: Oh, wow. (I had expected tie-dyed or psychedelic hippy garb that would glow under a black light.)

Sonny: Hello, and thanks for putting this together. This has really turned out to be a wonderful experience. I met Erik at a music gathering, and Erik mentioned to me that you were putting together a book, and I told him I was very interested in participating.

Me: Oh! That’s wonderful!

I feel goose bumps on my right leg. It must be either Erik or Sonny making sure I’m transcribing this accurately! Back seat scribes!)

Jamie (to Sonny): So, this is why you’re here today, cuz you just met each other?

Sonny: Yes.

Erik (reaching over to tap Sonny’s shoulder): It’s ski season coming up, too.

Jamie: That’s so bad!

Me: Oh, no! You’re so bad!

In case you didn’t know, Sonny died in a skiing accident.

Jamie: He takes a joke really well—Sonny. He’s not, um—

Me: Oh, I can imagine. He was such –he is such a delightful person. Sonny, what kind of belief system did you abide by when you were here?

Jamie: He was joking before. He said he lived through four marriages; he can definitely live through this small interview with your son.

I laugh.

Jamie: So, pretty much he can dish out anything that you want.

Me: Of course.

Jamie: He can handle it.

Sonny: I grew up in an Italian family; I was raised Roman Catholic. You really didn’t have a choice. Nobody sat down with you in my family in a room and said, “Here are the beliefs systems. What would you like to choose?”

Me: So, no smorgasbord?

Sonny: None. Nothing. It was what you were given; it was what our family had always been, and it was what you were going to do, too.

Me: Okay.

Sonny: It’s instilled in a lot of the choices I make today—the practices of the Roman Catholic world.

Me: Interesting. Did your beliefs change in any way after you crossed over?

Jamie: No, he was talking about as he got older, Scientia—scienti—

Me: Scientology?

Jamie: Scientology. He got into Scien—scientology, and it helped him find a voice for a lot of the things he was experiencing that the Roman Catholic world wasn’t open to.

Sonny: Now, after I passed away, what a relief!

Me: Hm!

Jamie (to Sonny): What do you think is so funny? Kind of bizarre. “What a relief!”

Me: Aw!

Sonny: It was nice to know that the confinement that I was taught all this time—that I should go along with religion—just didn’t exist. It was such a joy to me to realize that you could behave the way you wish, love the way you wish, experience God the way you wish, and you’re always going to be in the right.

Me: That’s awesome!

Erik (to Sonny, joking): That’s so awesome, you should make a song about it!

Me: Oh boy. They’re already fast friends. Sonny, tell me what your transition was like. I can imagine it was pretty quick.

Sonny: I tell ya, I tell ya—

Jamie (giggling): His hands are out with little short gestures.

Sonny: I tell you, I did not see the tree coming.

Me: Well, of course not.

Jamie: So he was in a ski accident. That was why the joke was funny. He was not out of control and not able to steer away. It was not that kind of accident.

Sonny: It was complete surprise.

Me: Okay. So the transition was quick. Bam! You were suddenly in the afterlife? Is that what you’re saying?

Sonny: No, I lingered in the body for some time.

Me: Oh, okay.

Sonny: I could remember seeing the white of the snow, the white of the snow, and then I saw white—again, white. I thought it was still the snow, but then I recognized that I wasn’t lying down, that I was somehow upright; I was standing.

Me: Oh.

Sonny: It was none of the surroundings of the mountain I was on, but everything was white. So, it went from the white snow on the Earth to white light in the heavens.

Me: Oh. How interesting. Was it very painful or, hopefully not.

Jamie (laughing): No, he has no recollection of pain! He’s telling me he remembers saying again and again in his head, “What the hell was that?”

I laugh.

Sonny: It was such a quick surprise; I didn’t have any time to feel the pain or identify what caused it or what was about to happen. All I had time to do was say, ‘What was that? What the hell was that?’

Me: Oh, my gosh.

Erik and Sonny laugh.

Sonny: About that time, everything else started happening as well, you know, when you start to realize that you’re not in pain, that you’re not hurting and that it felt more like a dream than it felt like in life. So, then you start to wonder, ‘How did I get here.” That’s when it dawned on me that something had gone wrong, but I didn’t want to cry about it. I didn’t feel sad about it. I didn’t hurt about it.

Jamie: He straightens up his jacket.

Sonny: You embrace it, and you embrace it not because you think that’s the next thing to do—that that’s the next step. It overcomes you in such a way that every part of your body—not just the outside, but also the inside—it drops before you and wants to embrace everything that’s around you. It has to be one of the most beautiful experiences I’ve had in my life—more so than being on stage, more so than being on TV, more so than my children.

Me: Wow.

Stay tuned for Part Two tomorrow!

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