The Channeling Erik Weekend was absolutely wonderful! I’d share details, but I’m going to put together a video that will give you a sampling of the event soon. After watching it, you’ll probably kick yourself for not attending, but there’s always next year. I think Jamie’s going to host it in the magically spiritual city of Sedona, Arizona. 

Today’s a busy day for me. I guess I have to pay for having fun! Here’s a couple of announcements:

Please join me  on Rainbow Vision Radio with Betsey Lewis today from 8pm to 9:15pm ET.  You can tune in live  by clicking HERE, or you can listen to the archived show immediately after the show ends. 

Also join me for my interview on Mind Matters Radio with Ajayan Borys LIVE from 3:00 – 4:00 PM CT by clicking HERE.

Now for the main event, featuring Kate Sitka channeling Erik!

Me: How’s Erik looking?

Kate: He’s looking really good. He’s got his motorcycle leathers on.

Me: Oh!

Kate: He’s got black chaps.

She laughs.

Me: Hopefully not assless!

Kate (laughing): Yes!

Me: Oh, I knew that was why you were laughing! Oh Erik. I actually –

Kate: He’s showing me the chaps from the front and then behind and he goes, “Oh yeah. You like it, Kate.”

Me: Oh my gosh. You know I did actually have some leathers like that, myself, but I wore pants underneath them! Erik! How are you, Erik?

Kate (To Erik): Most people wear pants unless they’re in the Pride Parade!

Me: Yeah, exactly!

Erik: Hi, Mom.

Me: Hi sweetie. I love you.

Erik: I love you so much, Mom.

Kate: Oh my gosh. He gives me the big bear hug. I’ve actually never felt that from him. I think he has a hug just for you!

Me: Incredible.

Kate: Really strong upper—I feel like I actually have biceps. I wish I could be there so I could give this to you!

Me: Aw.

Kate (choking up): Holy crap.

Me: I love the energy he gives me through his hugs. It’s just amazing.

Kate: Yeah, and I mean I’ve been talking to Erik for a while, but this is the first time I’ve had the connection between you because how I tend to work is I piggyback off of the client’s energy generally.

Me: Oh yeah?

Kate: This is the first time I’ve had that loop between Erik and you, and it’s wild. It’s really crazy.

Me: Interesting. Well, Erik, I guess what I’d like to do, if you don’t mind, is talk about some diseases that can plague a lot of people. For example, OCD—I’ve got a little bit of OCD myself.

Kate: Yes. This is so funny. He wanted to talk about this—

Erik: I was talking about this with Kate while she was on the can.

Kate: No boundaries, apparently.

Me: Of course not.

Kate: He was also wanting to touch on suicidal thoughts and those kinds of things. So we want to start with OCD?

Me: Yeah. I have Obsessive Compulsive Personality, and I get stuff done, but some people are plagued with this to where it really interferes with their functioning in life.

Kate: My partner actually struggled with OCD.

Me: Yeah, it can be really rough. What’s the spiritual basis for it? Are their certain contracts that are made to experience as part of the human experience?

Erik: Okay. It can come up from a lot of things. Sometimes, it’s from past life shit, and it usually has to do with a lack of control. A lot of times it relates to a traumatic death in a “recent” past life. It’s anxiety that you’re bringing over, or it comes from a childhood that’s really out of control and keeping things clean is the only thing that you can control that makes you feel safe. Maybe you don’t feel safe in your environment. Maybe you don’t feel safe in your life because you have no control.

Kate: He’s cleaning a bar of soap with alcohol.

Erik: That’s something you can have control of. You know you’re not giving your body any extra bacteria if you clean that soap until it’s clean and then clean yourself with that clean soap and then clean the soap again.

Me: Oh my gosh.

Erik: It can be a real positive outlook if you don’t want to live like a pig. Personally, I prefer to live like a pig. That’s just me. That’s how I like to live.

Me: I know! I’ve seen your room!

Kate laughs.

Erik: Where it can really get out of control is when people feel that this thing that was giving them control now controls them.

Me: Mm.

Erik: And when they can’t leave the house without that routine or they can’t take a shower without doing these certain things, when these habits that give you control controls you, that’s when it’s a real problem. It’s mostly behavior, habits. Medication isn’t super effective with this kind of thing because it’s all about your thought processes and what’s going on in your brain. That’s where the therapy is really helpful—the “Think-Do” therapy. When you feel the impulse to do something, you go do something else instead so you can regain control.

Me: Oh! Well, some people have inner chaos. Maybe they have ADD, and sometimes, in order to combat that—and I think that’s my situation. I have ADD—I have to create order in my environment in order to compensate for the chaos in my mind!

Erik: It’s to compensate for the chaos; that’s for sure.

Kate: He’s showing me hoarding, people that, like the other end of the spectrum where people accumulate and accumulate and have a fear of throwing anything away.

Erik: That’s also an OCD thing, but it’s the opposite of the cleaning thing. That is—

Kate: Sorry, say that again, Erik.

(Pause)

Erik: It’s anxiety. It’s anxiety. It’s an out of control feeling.

Me: Do some spirits come in with OCD in order to learn something or teach someone else something?

Erik: Sometimes. Usually, OCD is a manifestation of other shit that’s going on that is contractual. It’s often more of a symptom, but sometimes people do come in specifically with OCD. Most psychologists and psychiatrists that specialize in this kind of behavior suffer from it themselves.

Me: Oh yeah. I bet. That’s good because they can empathize.

Erik: Yeah, in that specific case, it’s a contract thing. Only the people that are really good at being OCD are the ones that make the best therapists. They have to hold themselves back sometimes when a client is talking about, “These are the things I do to obsessively clean.” Sometimes, the doctor is thinking in his head, “Well that’s not the proper way to clean that. You should do this.”

Kate laughs.

Me: Oh no!

Erik: They have to pull themselves back so they don’t make their client’s illness worse! But no matter how it manifests, it’s always about internal chaos. It’s about trying to bring balance, but it can throw you out of balance again. OCD also can manifest itself as obsessive exercising—obsessing over your eating and exercising. Sometimes you see some guy, and he looks ripped and he’s really hot, but he’s not healthy inside.

Me: Oh.

Erik: It’s not coming from a healthy place in his mind.

Me: Yeah, I can imagine.

Erik: Date slobs, ladies! Date the slobs!

Kate and I laugh.

Me: I guess if it’s trauma bleeding through from another life, then regressive hypnosis therapy would help.

Erik: Yeah. Yeah. We’re starting to really get a handle on that, and Mom, you’re being awesome. Your work is going to be drawn forward. You’re the Edgar Cayce of this time.

Well, I don’t know about that, but…

Kate: Who’s the guy who first did the—gosh, I can’t remember his name. Brian something.

Me: Oh, Weiss?

Kate: Weiss, yeah! He established the hypnosis. Erik is communicating really visually, so I’m trying to—she laughs.

Me: He does that sometimes!

Erik: When you’re able to operate within certain assumptions, you can work within that framework, and you can integrate Western Medicine. You can integrate the scientific process into it and leap light-years forward in helping people. You can integrate it with the spiritual. (Erik shakes his head.) We look at science, and we think we have to rip the spiritual away from it in order to strip it down and become pure physicality, but until we really understand that physicality is a result of our mental health, our spiritual health and our genetics and what we’re eating and what we’re physically going through, we’re not going to succeed. It’s got to be holistic. Once we get that, and we’re getting to that point because people with MDs are going, “Hey, there’s something to this,” we succeed. We’re right on the cusp of taking a huge light-year forward.

Me: Oh, I hope so. So I guess everyone with OCD might consider hypnotherapy first to see if it’s related to another life. If it’s not, then what?

Erik: The first thing to do is start reading books and see what you identify with because you don’t know. You don’t necessarily know what it’s coming from.

Kate: He’s actually pointing to my bookshelf because, as I said, my partner has struggled with it, and there’s a book she found really effective. It’s called, Brain Lock. There it is. It’s right on my shelf. Brain Lock, by Jeffrey Schwartz, M.D. He’s pointing to his head, “Mind do.” I don’t know if it’s a behavioral cognitive therapy or something, but it helps you to interrupt that cycle of “The OCD is prompting me to do something, therefore I have to do it.” It gives you tools to do something other than what the OCD is driving you to do so that you can start to regain control.

Erik: That’s the book that helps a lot of people. There are a lot of books that can help people. Learn about hypnotherapy. (Pointing to his chest)

Kate: He’s tapping his chest.

Erik: Let your intuition drive you to pursue the therapy that’s going to help you because you’re the one who knows the spiritual ties. You don’t have to be psychic. You know what is best for you. The thing you’re most interested in? There’s a reason for that. Follow that.

Me: Ah.

Erik (Writing a prescription and tearing it up): I’m not going to write a prescription for everybody with OCD.

Kate: He’s showing me a plate of sushi.

Erik: You pick the sushi that looks most appealing to you.

Me: Okay.

Kate: Did he not like sushi, because he made a face?

Me: My other kids like it a lot more than he did! I can’t remember. I don’t think he really ate it very much.

Actually, I don’t remember him ever eating it.

Me: Are there any herbal remedies?

Kate: Hm. This is something else he’s pointing to. Bach flower remedies, not the Rescue Remedy. Is it the Rescue Remedy? What are you holding? It’s got a red cap. I didn’t even know they made one with a red cap.

Erik: It’s special. Flower essences. There are a number of different things you can do. OCD is what happens when you think the same thing so many times that it becomes a habit. So you’re running a really deep rut in your brain, and there are things that you can do that sort of fill up that rut so you can get out of it easier. Flower essences are one of the things that—

Kate: He’s showing me a magnet.

Erik: Your thoughts are creating electrical impulses in the brain. It feels like magnets. The more times you’ve gone through a particular circuit, the stronger the magnetic field gets. The magnet is the pull of that thought toward your habit. The flower essence—

Kate (To Erik): What is that? Is it traditional Chinese medicine?

Erik: Some stuff. (Tapping his chest again) Ask for help because you have specialists specifically for your body that can help you. Ask your loved ones who are looking out for you. Ask the people who are on your team because that team of resources can put that path in your way. Look at soft therapies rather than the hardcore medication because sometimes the side effects can be worse.

Me: Oh yeah. And of course, check with your doctor. Always check with your healthcare provider.

Kate: Oh god, absolutely. Yes.

Me: Anything else on OCD? I also want to anxiety, and then we’ll talk about the suicidal ideation that you want to talk about.

Kate (To Erik): What else about OCD?

Erik: Always wash your butt.

Kate: Oh, Erik.

Me: Oh, of course. Well how many times did you skip out on that one?

Kate laughs hard.

Erik: Look, you washed my underwear.

I chuckle. Racing stripes.

Oh, and Erik’s book is now available in audiobook format! Yay! You can buy it HERE.

Now, for some OCD humor: