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Channeling Transcript
Me: Why are we so afraid of death? Is there a reason for this? Is this because of our penchant to see everything in linear terms so that we are born, we live and then we die?
Erik: No, not exactly. When we look way back in history, Mom, death was not feared at all! It was accepted. It was a ritual. In fact, the spirit would have known before it was going to die.
Me: Um hmm.
Erik: It was a transcendence. But that was taken away from us as we, uh, as a culture allowed governments to take place instead of family units, like a more matriarchal society where you allow—
Jamie: What are you saying, Erik? Patriarch? It sounds so funny, but he’s saying that this transcendence died when the matriarchal society was replaced by a patriarchal one.
Me (laughing): Dang those men. Ah! Troublemakers!
Erik: In fact, when we started to develop this (pause) religion—
Me: Organized religion?
Erik: Yeah. When that got powerful, that’s when fear started to arise.
Me: And material science didn’t help either, huh?
Erik: No, but what’s funny is that material science is what’s going to be what gets us out of this fear.
Me: Yeah, it’s like theoretical physicists, exactly. I was thinking the same thing! Must have been channeled!
Erik: Give yourself credit, Mom. You have incredible thoughts.
I laugh.
Me: Okay, let’s see. I have someone here who wants to know if there is a Council of Elders. I think she’s referring to something written by Dr. Michael Newton. He claimed that at the end of every life, we meet with a group of advanced souls to help us understand our goals.
(Long pause)
Erik: You can. You gotta remember that not every death, not every afterlife is the same, just how not every birth into your world is the same.
Me: Oh, yeah, of course.
Erik: But yes, there are Councils of—you can call them Elders. They’re not old.
Me: Okay.
Erik: So, but, um, if you think old as being wise and all-knowing, sure, go with that thought.
Jamie (laughing): He is a system buster!
Me: He sure is. He’s amazing! Now, some of the things, um, I’ve read a lot of Michael Newton and Robert Monroe stuff, and there’s some things that ring true, but there are other things that don’t. I can’t remember the specific things that seemed wrong to me, but is everything they say right?
Erik: No!
(Pause)
Me: Okay, Nice and succinct. Um, tell us more about the life review, Erik. Does everybody go through that?
Erik: Yep.
Me: Okay.
Erik: So, yeah, and from that, they can go into the Council, they can choose to rest where they go to sleep—most atheists choose that. They kind of disappear for a while.
I laugh.
Erik: Souls who are tired or who have had traumatic deaths can choose to kinda take that rest.
(Pause)
Erik: They can choose to evolve, to start opening their human minds by absorbing more of the spiritual realm.
Me: Okay.
Erik: There’s just so many options. You get to be who you can be, who you desire to be.
Me: Interesting. So, the life review, what is that like? Is it the same for everybody? How does that work?
Erik: No, from what I understand, um, how it’s viewed is different. Some people feel like they’re in a movie. Some people feel like they’re watching a movie. Some say it’s a 360 view, panoramic, uh, but one thing that is the same is that you will feel the emotions that you helped to create in other people.
Me: Yeah. Wow.
Erik: You’ll experience it; you’ll feel it. Even the most mundane, like some mundane thing that happened at the grocery story.
Me: Um hm.
Erik: Yeah, it’s a very intense experience. You learn what impact you have in life on yourself, on other people. When I went through mine, oh God, it was brutal. But no one is looking over your shoulder; no one is judging you. It’s just you and your decisions. It helps you sort of find the lessons you gained in that life so you can turn it into spiritual growth. My life review was all in my head. I was at sitting at a long table with my head in my hands and it all came into my mind.
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