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Me: Hi Jamie.

Jamie: Hello!

Me: You were telling me [earlier] that the stuff on your wall was your grandfather’s?

Jamie: My grandfather and my great grandfather. Carpenters.

All sorts of antique saws and other cutting equipment are hanging on the way in back of her.

Me: That’s cool.

Jamie: Most people don’t find it friendly.

Me: Well, it is kind of intimidating, uh huh. I thought you ran a torture chamber in your basement.

Jamie laughs.

Jamie: That’s what I do over here!

Me: There we go. All right. Erik, how are you doing, my main man?

Erik: I’m doing incredible. I love you, Mom. Hi, everybody who’s watching. I have a lot of ideas up my sleeve.

Me: Good. Ideas for this video or…

Erik: No, for beyond the video. Stay tuned later. You’ll find out about it then.

Me: Oh, okay.

I give him a choice of topics and he chooses how to let go of fear, then I scoop up Bella and wave her paw at the camera.

Me: Say hi to everybody, Bella!

Jamie: Aw.

Erik: Mom, do super dog.

I make Bella fly across the screen like Superman.

Me: Super Dog!

Jamie laughs.

Me: So, you want to talk about letting go of fear?

Erik: Yeah. How to let go of fear.

Me: Yeah, that’s a good topic because we are so fearful right now with what’s going on in the world. It just seems like we’re not as safe as we were; I don’t know if that’s true or not. I always get fearful comments from blog members like what’s going to happen in September 2015, the whole 2012 thing, is the world going to end? Is a meteor going to strike us? All that. We are so entrenched of fear in our society. Take it away!

Erik (holding an invisible mic): Thank you very much.

Me: Do a mic drop!

He does it for me.

Erik (hands up in the air): Letting go of fear, as easy as dropping a mic.

Me: Great segue!

Erik: Thanks.

Jamie: He’s taking about several kinds of fear.

Erik: There’s the fear that’s kind of like a phobia.

Me: Okay.

Erik: Spiders, shit like that. Then we have the fear in the world of “what if” almost like a conspiracy like, “This is going down,” and then we have the fear of protection like a survival mechanism. I think that’s the one that’s most heightened these days because we have so many of the—

(Pause)

Jamie: That didn’t make sense. He’s talking about terrorism, the ISIS group, individuals who are—

(Pause)

Jamie: Erik, you have to either—just stand still and take a breath. Talk.

I don’t think he can do that!

Me: Too much coffee.

Erik (pointing to me): You’ve had too much coffee.

Me: I have never had enough coffee. Are you kidding me?

Jamie laughs.

Erik: There are people who don’t feel safe enough in their environment that they kind of go a little crazy. They collect the guns and feel like they have to take matters into their own hands. That’s driven out of fear as well, the fear that somebody else can’t take care of them. We’re noticing more of that because of these new war tactics or fight tactics that terrorism has brought to TV, marketing, and has really used the, “If you’re afraid of me, then I’m in control of you.” They’re doing a lot more in the public eye to create mass fear.

This morning, the LA school district closed because of a terrorist threat, so yeah.

Erik: This drives the conspiracy and the “I don’t feel safe” fears, but it doesn’t really drive the phobia fears. All that’s fucked up, and each one has its own good story. Letting go of [fear.] we talked about it a while ago.

Jamie (smiling): He won’t stand still! I’m just going to look down.

Me: Erik, you’re going to make her dizzy!

Erik: We talked about it a while ago. To let go of fear, you need to recognize what you’re responsible for. Do you have control over what other people do to you? No. But do you have control over how you’ll react, or do you have control over how to protect yourself, how to communicate what your needs are? That’s very important. There’s a really fine line between letting go of fear and using risk management. People can really lose their fucking minds trying to risk manage everything. They think they don’t have enough, and they have to prepare for the world collapsing for their own survival. There needs to be a little more understanding of the strength and value of energy, energy that holds us—

Jamie (stretching her arms out and waving them around): He’s using really big gestures today. It’s one of those days where you recognize how long he is.

Me: Lanky. Spiderman.

Jamie: He’s got a big wingspan.

She laughs.

Erik: If we get too wrapped up in risk management, we don’t identify the common thread of energy that runs through everything and that there is so much more truth to accepting All That Is rather than accepting right and wrong. To really let go of fear, we’ll have to look at our belief systems.

Me: What do you mean, “The energy that runs through it?”

Erik: The energy runs through all of us. That’s what makes us all the same, Mom.

Me: So you’re saying we should concentrate on being a part of All That Is instead of an individual?

Erik: Yes, but I also think that messes with people’s heads because the concept is a little bit too large to believe in.

Me: Yeah, and it’s impractical to use on a daily basis.

Erik: Right, and who wants to feel like they’re connected to ISIS? Who wants to feel connected to the guy who came into a school with a gun and killed 14 people? Not many, right? But there needs to be a bottom line understanding that we all come from the same Source, and if we can finally see that there is no true right or wrong, negative or positive, that it is what it is, then we can accept that—

Jamie shakes her head, confused.

Me: That’s a tall order.

Jamie: Yeah, he’s going off on a rant, too. You’re going to get some letters!

Me: Oh, god. No hate mail, please!

Jamie laughs.

Erik: And the hate mail turns into understanding.

Jamie: He’s trying to make a good twist out of it.

Erik (hands around his head): When we can really grasp how we see ourselves, how we define ourselves, then we can start to recognize that we’re safe no matter what.

Well, we are eternal beings. There’s that.

Erik: Fear, whether it’s in our belief system, mental, is not needed to motivate or create an answer. In fact, it hinders, it anchors, it gets in the way and it paralyzes so you can’t react. So let’s say you’re a mom, and ever since you had your babies, you’ve been afraid that your kids are going to die in a car accident. Like that’s just always been on your mind. I’d say first of all, your kids aren’t even old enough to drive.

Well they can just be passengers, but he’s got a specific example in mind, so…

Erik: So set it aside. Then when they get old enough, why don’t you decide what kind of driving lessons they take or maybe they have to take a defensive driving course before you allow them to get their permit or you hold it a year back. Just come up with some sort of plan that you can implement when the time comes so that you do feel like you have some sense of awareness wrapped around it, and it’s kind of a partial risk management, but you’re not changing your whole life. There’s some kind of belief, and I think some people would like to use the word, “faith,” but not everyone is a faith-going person even though I think it’s a great label for allowing All That Is to be. I think it’s a great word, but most people see it as a religious word. Then we get into emotional fear that goes into anxiety or shuts down our ability to express what we’re feeling, what our emotions are. My little tidbit of information, my two important cents is that when you have that fear reaction, you need to step in closer because you’re obviously standing in the fucking dark, and when you’re in the dark, you can’t see shit and you don’t know what it is. Of course that creates way too much mystery, and that fucks with you right there when you don’t know shit but you’re standing close to it. That can create more fear. I say go a little deeper. If it’s a logical fear, ask for more information. Ask if it’s reasonable. Ask if you’re in control of it. Ask if you’re fucking responsible for it or not. If it’s an emotional fear, ask if it’s reasonable. Where is it coming from? Why are you being triggered in this way? Is it because you don’t want it to happen and it is? Fucking get over yourself, then. It is happening so manage it in the moment so it won’t get to be too overwhelming. A lot of people go into the fear mode because they don’t want to accept what’s happening. You know how a lot of fear is also created?

Jamie backs away.

Jamie: You don’t have to get so close.

Stay tuned for Part Two to find out!