Here are several questions posed by readers back in September. Sorry about the lack of editing but I’ve been hit by a major grief tsunami. They come and go and are part of life’s landscape now. You know how that can be. No pity required. It just is what it is–and unwelcome houseguest that never leaves! Ugh.

Me: Okay, here’s another one. Very interesting. What’s up with spontaneous human combustion? Is that for real? You know how people just go “whoosh” and burst into flames?

Erik (laughing): I bet more than half of them is a fable or myth or story.

Me: What about the other half?

Erik: It’s a low number. Spontaneous combustion, like bursting into flames—

Me: Yeah, they just incinerate.

(Pause)

Jamie (fussing at Erik): Stop laughing, Erik, and tell us!

Erik: At the cellular level, the mitochondria—

Me: Oh my god, that just popped into my mind!

Erik: Yeah, those organelles just over work and it’s like getting a fever or being boiled. And when this trigger happens in the body, it does just that, and it has no place to go to except into flames, because it’s such a contained situation inside the skin of the body. Just like water being trapped in a sealed container, it’ll burst. The energy doesn’t have room to grow, so through that expression, it creates spontaneous combustion.

Me: Interesting. Okay, here’s another quick question. With our life review, we feel all of the feelings of those we’ve hurt, but what about with animals like pets and what about plants? Do we feel the pain and any of the emotions elicited when we harm them?

Erik: Get in line.

Jamie laughs.

Erik: Absolutely every living thing. When you’re doing your life review—that’s what it is.

Me: Even if you accidentally step on little ants?

Erik (laughing): C’mon Mom! It’s kind of not like that. It’s not all or nothing.

Me: Good, phew!

Erik: But if you’re purposely frying them with a magnifying glass, then, Hell yeah, you’re going to feel everything they felt.

Me: So it only happens when you have the intent of doing harm.

Erik: Yeah, exactly.

Me: Amy N. wants to know if we should have our own Channeling Erik show on the Oprah Network with you, Jamie, Robert, Jason, Ryan, and the other Channeling Erik psychic mediums—oh, and of course you, Erik! Do you think that would be feasible and helpful to people?

Erik: Helpful? Hell, yeah! I can only imagine the hours they’d put it on. Midnight, one A.M.

Me: I know. So the world is probably not ready.

Erik: Yeah, you know that’s not gonna fly.

Me: Well, people better pull their heads out of their ass what with the Shift coming and all. Wait, John Edwards had that show, Crossing Over and it was very successful.

Erik: Yeah, but that dudes totally alive. What, you think they’re going to have a dead host on TV?

Me: Yes, actually! That’d be cool, different!

Jamie (giggling): He’s laughing!

Erik: You know what, I say go for it, talk about it, push it, but it’s not going to go for another several years.

Me: Okay, that’s fine. Now, Nancy J. wants to know if hemp extract could be a cure for cancer.

Erik: Yes it can. It’s not the end all, be all. You have to change the chemical belief in the head. The person’s perspective and the person’s belief have to get control of the cellular level of the body.

Me: Okay.

Erik: The reason I like the hemp is because you can smoke it, vaporize it, eat it, use it for oil, make it into clothes, whatever.

Me: So you can pretty much use it all.

Erik: Yeah, because that helps you get rid of some of the logical demon in the left brain hemisphere people carry around that says, “That’s bullshit.” It helps that person relax into that unicorn and rainbows world.

Jamie laughs hard.

Me: Awww! I just got an image of rainbows and unicorns and Skittles shooting out of someone’s butt. Great. That’s sooo gonna give me nightmares.

Erik: It’s gonna help you believe that, yes, you are capable of this and you do have the power to meditate and other things.