Okay, guys; it’s that time! I’m collecting questions from you to ask Erik for the next Ask Erik column. No more than two questions apiece, please! Email them to me at emedhus@gmail.com. 

On another note, I’m probably going to take the last few days off this week, given the holidays and all. It’ll give you a break from reading, too!

Last thing: It looks like a huge majority would rather we go to San Diego rather than Los Angeles. 

Here’s the last part to our space series.

Me: How many universes are there?

(Long pause)

Jamie laughs and mimics Erik counting his fingers on each hand, then starting on his toes.

Me: He’s doing that?

Jamie: He’s pulling up his feet!

I laugh.

Jamie (laughing): He’s got a funny bone, today.

Me: Yes, he does! That’s because he’s excited.

Jamie: He acts so happy.

Me: He’s just excited about the book.

Erik: I’m so happy! It’s countless, Mom.

Me: Infinite?

Erik: Yeah, but even that right there’s kind of a bullshit thing to say. If we could just understand how numbers don’t really put a quality on it. If we could just say—

Me: A whole bunch.

Erik: Okay. I’ll sign up for that.

Me (chuckling): I knew he was going to say that! So what’s the difference between a dimension and a universe, then? So there’s also infinite dimensions, I take it? I mean, not infinite. A whole bunch. Whatever!

Erik: Yes. Yes to that.

Me: Well, what’s the difference between a dimension and a universe? I don’t get it.

Jamie repeats the question to herself.

Me: Or is there? You talk about different dimensions like Bigfoot can hide so easily because he can slip into another dimension, flip flop from our dimension to his.

(Pause)

Me: But that’s not a universe, I guess.

Jamie: Yeah, he’s showing me pictures in my head. I always like to say what you’ve said to him: “This is not a picture book!”

Me: Mm mm.

(Long pause)

Jamie (nervously): Oh, I’m going to do my best. Please ask questions if it doesn’t make sense.

She makes a ring with the fingers of both hands.

Jamie: We have Earth, and then we have Bigfoot standing on Earth.

Erik: Bigfoot can resonate between zero and—we’re just making these numbers up so you can understand—

Me: Yeah.

Erik: –zero to eight dimensions. Humans resonate between zero to five.

Me: Okay.

Erik: Sometimes six. So Bigfoot can still stay on Earth but go into a different dimensional plane kind of similar to what I’m doing now, Mom, with you.

Me: Okay.

Erik: I’m still on Earth, but I’m in a different dimensional plane. I have different vibrational energy. Now with that, every time we go into a different dimensional plane, it doesn’t make Earth disappear, but it does, however, if, let’s say a plant only resides on the ninth dimensional plane. Then neither Bigfoot or you are experiencing it.

Me: Okay.

Erik: If you’re not lining up with certain vibrations, then you’re not going to come across each other. When you talk about parallel universes like when you make a decision, yes or no, one part of you continues into the yes outcome and one part of you continues into the no outcome.

Me: Oh, that’s quantum probabilities you’re talking about.

Jamie: I’m glad you know these words!

Me: So when you make a decision, uh—

I struggle for a few seconds.

Me: Different choices you ponder create different universes?

Erik: They create different realities.

Me: Realities?

Erik: Because of the motivation of the energy created into it. It’s like doing 100 miles per hour and then slamming on the brakes. You don’t just stop immediately. You skid, and so the length of that skid, that’s the parallel reality created.

Me: Okay.

Erik: That doesn’t necessarily mean that a whole other Earth is created, a whole other Houston, Texas is created, because that’s where the decision came from.

Me: Wow.

Jamie (Scratching her head): I don’t really know where he was going with that. I was getting caught up in the moment.

Me: Phew! That’s deep! So, do the universes touch each other or do they merge with each other?

Jamie shakes her head and looks at Erik. What mischief is he up to, now?

Me: If so, what happens?

Jamie: Touching butts.

She laughs.

Jamie: Sorry! He’s like backing up and going like, “We touching butts?”

Jamie and I laugh, then Jamie pretends to wring Erik’s neck.

Jamie: Silly.

Me: He’s being silly. Yeah, so what happens?

Erik: Do they ever touch—

Me: Or merge.

Erik: Merge would be the better answer, and yes. Touch implies that there’s a resistance, you know, that they collide.

Jamie bumps her knuckles together.

Erik: The merging is more accurate, and it does do that. Is it designed to do that? Not necessarily, but does it happen? Yes.

Me: Well, what happens when it does?

Jamie: Okay, and you’re asking about parallel realities or–?

Me: No, just universes. What happens if two universes merge—either partially or completely?

Erik (with a dramatic flair): Everything you know will cease to exist!

Me: Oh god.

Erik: It’s not a—

Jamie (to Erik, clapping her hands right in front of her mouth): Stop giving me pictures and start giving me the words!

Me: Yeah, come on, Erik! Poor Jamie!

Jamie (chuckling): It’s really cool, but I really don’t know how to say what I see!

Erik: It’s really difficult because I don’t want to use terminology that makes it not digestible for all of us. But universes can overlap, and these are universes that are in different dimensional planes. On a minimal scale, it can create a little dèja vu. You might get a little extra hint about who knows what where. All of a sudden, you might have a really deep aha moment. Something spectacular happens, but it’s not really with the five senses of the physical body. It feels like it comes from something beyond. In extreme cases, you can sometimes see a change in weather patterns, but mostly, if things are overlapping, they’re on different dimensional planes, different vibrations, so it’s not really knocking the human experience over because it’s too out of reach for us to experience.

Me: Okay. Interesting.

I start asking about the holographic universe but stop when I realize I can’t remember anything about the theory. I look over my list of questions.

Me: So, we talked about this. Does each thought create a probable reality? And you said, “yes.” I’m wondering if different realities can bleed into each other.

Erik: Yeah, they can.

Me: Okay.

Erik: I like to think of those probable realities, the parallel realities, as being as long as a skid mark. They don’t play out—

Me: Skid mark? Please?

My mind went to the skid marks I’d come across in my kids’ underwear while sorting the wash.

Jamie: I didn’t even catch onto that one!

Me: The skid marks of a two year-old.

Jamie: He doesn’t see them playing out for eternity because the way he keeps showing me—

Feedback.

Jamie: Are you still there?

Me: Yeah. I’m here.

Jamie: My video wasn’t working.

Erik: You have to put a certain amount of focus and creation into the outcome for it to work.

So the reality with, say, the no choice—the one that you considered but didn’t pick—won’t play out and remains no more than a skid mark, while the yes reality goes on for all eternity.

Erik: You have to have gas in the car for it to run.

Me: I got it.

Erik: So if these probable realities are popping up every time we make a choice, “Should I say this word or that word?” “Should I turn the chair this way or that way?”

He mentions this because Jamie is constantly turning her chair back and forth.

Jamie (laughing): I have a hard time sitting still.

Erik: Then each probable choice plays out for a certain amount of time, and if it’s not serving the whole, it kind of skids out. The car comes to a stop. It skids to a stop. Then that energy is rerouted and fed back into the person’s life.

Me: Okay.

Jamie: He also shows me this image of a tree growing, and the branches only go so far before it starts feeding energy back to the trunk, getting taller, and all the leaves pop out—all the little experiences and choices and realities—but that nurtures the whole trunk. It was kind of a fast animation image playing in my head.

Me: Interesting. Anything else on that?

Erik: Nope!

Me: I could get a lot deeper, but…

Then Erik talks about how we should all get high and get back into the conversation.

Me: Hm. I don’t know about that!

Yet another great review for Erik’s book. Buy copies as Christmas presents HERE.

This book is amazing and educational! If you want to learn what the afterlife is like and how a day goes in heaven, please read this book! Erik is bringing awareness and help to the world one person at a time, he is touching so many people with his guidance and humor and pranks. I read this book in two days, I just couldn’t put this fascinating read down.

–Sharon Young