So many of us are concerned about animal welfare, that I decided to ask Erik for more details about our relationship with them.

Channeling Transcript

Me: Okay, here’s another one I’ve asked you through a different medium, Erik. How do you talk to animals? How are spirits able to do this? Uh, how does that work?

Erik: Just like guardian angels can, through electrical energy. Mom, animals can see discarnate souls, guides and stuff, and they see three dimensionally just like the way they see us.

Me: Oh, okay!

Erik: And because animals are so open, they don’t have a brain that works the way ours does. They don’t have that part of the brain that can be negative, pessimistic or analytical. They can’t be self-critical.

Me: Yeah, sucks to be human sometimes.

Erik: They don’t get worried, depressed, and—

Me: Because they’re not here to endure the human experience, to evolve spiritually like we do?

Erik: Right. They’re not here to work through issues. So the part of the brain that derails humans so much—they don’t have.

Kim: Lucky for them! They’re brain isn’t going, “This is not hap-pen-ing.”

Erik: And they’re not raised in religions that dismiss or criticize spiritual stuff.

Kim: Just like small children! They haven’t had a rigid belief system indoctrinated into them yet. Same thing with them.

Erik: Yeah, little kids can communicate with animals and spiritual beings telepathically.

Me: Wow, very interesting. So, how exactly does the communication process work? Do you send, uh, and I’m talking about animals in the spirit realm as well as those on the earthly plane—

Erik: Yeah. Animal souls can communicate the same way human souls can—telepathically. They move their electrical energy into our head.

Me: Like those thought bubbles you mentioned!

Erik: Yeah, those are like bubbles or waves of energy.

Kim: They can move their electrical energy through matter too. Sometimes, I can be lying in bed and my kitty, Una, who’s in spirit comes to me. I can feel her jump on the bed, because she was a big heavy girl, and then run across the bed and throw herself into me.

Me: Aw!

Kim: And I can feel her electrical energy. It’s real tangible.

Erik: And they can visit you in dreams while you’re asleep in the very same way, by merging or moving their electrical energy into your field of consciousness. Sometimes you get more visual input from spiritual beings at night when you’re sleeping than when you’re awake.

Kim: Oh, Elisa, you’re going to capture Erik on camera. Now I know you’ve photographed him as balls or beams of light, but you’re going to capture an image of him, well, not in complete, 3-D human form, but pretty damn close.

Me: Oh, good! I’ll have to be a little paparazzi!

Kim: And you’ll post it on the blog, and it’ll be publicized far and wide, because it’s going to help people understand that, indeed, our spiritual beings stay pretty close to us most of the time—not all of the time, but most of the time.

Me: Well, should I go around the house randomly snapping pictures?

Kim: He’s shaking his head no. He says he’s going to give you a head’s up first.

Erik: And Mom, it needs to be you. Not Michelle, you.

Me: Really? Because Michelle was the one who captured you in orb form.

Erik: I want it to be you, because I want to prove to you that I’m really here. I know you’ve been upset that you’ve not been able to pick up on me the way you want to or the way you think you should be.

Me: Well, that’d be cream on the top, because I do derive pleasure vicariously when you visit other people like members of the blog. Some of them are really receptive and can pick up on you so tangibly.

Kim: Wow!

Me: Anyway, back to animals. A lot of people want to know why there is such horrendous animal suffering and cruelty—being skinned alive for fur, abused for lab tests, boiled alive in China, ugh. What’s the purpose of this? Why do they have to endure such pain?

Erik: Well, there are various reasons for animals to return to the earthly plane, Mom. First of all, those that go there to be our family members—

Kim: I hate the word, “pet.”

Me: Yeah, I like “family member” or “animal companion.”

Kim: Yeah, I like that. Animal companion.

Erik (in mock irritation): Ahem.

Kim and I laugh.

Erik: Those chosen to be with us as animal companions are assigned to us; their souls are assigned to us just like guardian angel souls are.

Me: How cool!

Erik: So they will sometimes come to us two, three, four times in one lifetime in different animal bodies. They die, come here to heaven, and wait and wait and wait for us to adopt the body of another animal, and then their soul goes into that body. A lot of the animals we interact with on the earthly plane we’ve known in many, many past lifetimes. Sometimes they’re a falcon or a horse, or maybe an alligator or a big snake or a dog or cat. They can come as any form of any animal. A dolphin.

Me: That’s so amazing, Erik!

Erik: They’re trusting that we are going to treat them well, and they understand that that may not happen. Oh, and sometimes animal spirits come to people who they know are going to be abusive to them just like we choose to have relationships with human beings who we know might be abusive to us—to learn from that.

Me: Why? Why do animals choose that?

Erik: Well, the animal doesn’t make that kinda choice to learn anything. Humans make these choices to either learn, teach or both. Animals choose to be with humans who abuse them to teach, to nurture, to love, to support, to encourage, or just to make us laugh.

Me: What about the ones we kill so inhumanely?

Erik: It’s understood on the earthly plane that animals will be worn and eaten.

Kim: So, Erik, what about those souls? We know about animal companion souls, but what about animals who are going to be butchered for food or made into fur coats or whatever? What about animals who live in the wild?

Erik: The animals who live in the wild choose to come back to the earthly plane to purely enjoy their time there. Nothing to learn, nothing to teach each other, just to enjoy.

Kim: Now, what about the animals who come down to be slaughtered? What about that, Erik? I’ve never had anyone ask that questions in all of my 23 years of channeling! Let me see what he has to say. Just a second, Elisa. I’m just going to listen to him.

(Pause)

Kim: Wow! Wow! (pause as she continues to listen to Mr. Blabbermouth) Wow! Okay.

Erik: Those particular souls will go to the earthly plane, and before they’re slaughtered, their souls pop out of the body and they come back to the heavenly plane. They leave their bodies really easily, cuz they don’t design their deaths as something to experience. Sometimes we want to experience a painful death, but they never do that.

Me: Oh, that’s a relief.

Erik: It’s believed by most over here in heaven that human beings enjoy the most vitality eating animal flesh.

Me: Okay. Hmm, the vegans won’t like hearing that.

Kim: But in heaven, isn’t it considered almost cannibalistic, Erik? (pause) He thinks what I’ve asked is funny. He’s smiling real big, so he’s obviously amused.

(Kim and I giggle.)

Erik: No. No.

Kim (laughing): Oh, okay. I thought you’d have more of a longwinded answer!

Erik: No, animal souls will migrate to the earthly plane to be of service to human beings.

Me: By some sort of mutual agreement?

Erik: Yes.

Me: But why don’t we treat them with more respect? Is it because we’re just not evolved enough yet?

Erik: Yes, Mom. Still on the earthly plane, some people are abusing their own children! On the earthly plane, you’re always going to have people who are numb nuts.

(Kim and I laugh)

Kim: That paints a different picture.

Erik: Well, I thought you’d like a refreshing change from “asshole.”

(Kim and I laugh)

Erik: A lot of humans are very arrogant. They see human life as superior to other forms of life. But you’re also always gonna have people who respect life, whether it’s an animal or a plant or a bug or another human being. They respect life. Now when people encroach on an animal’s property, they might hurt the human; a wasp might sting you, and alligator might bite or eat you, but it’s not a disrespect thing, it’s a survival thing.

Me: Okay, that’s fascinating. (pause) So let me ask you some things about children—

Erik: Wait, one more thing. When there are animal abuses beyond the simple slaughtering of them for their meat or their fur, like using them in cruel lab testing or other acts that cause mass suffering?

Me: Yeah?

Erik: That’s almost always for raising conscious awareness, to teach humankind about mutual respect, humility, and unconditional love. This is usually a joint effort between human and animal spirits. They work together to mainfest these atrocities as learning experiences for the collective consciousness.

Me (teasingly): Atrocities? Pretty big word for a little boy!

Erik: Hey, my vocabulary is getting better. Once I cut out most of the curse words, I had to find something else to fill the void.

Me: Wow, you must have a huge grasp of the English language then!

(Erik and I both laugh.)

Here’s a sad example of the atrocities committed by human hands. Sigh.