I had a weird experience early this morning. Frequently at around 4:00 AM, I hear what sounds like voices coming from a radio show from the 40s. You know how they talked back then in a nasally voice, “It’s a baby, see. I’m the baby’s father, see.” So I was listening hard, trying to pick up what they were saying. Something bowling? I knew I was having a clairaudient moment and wondered why I couldn’t have a clairaudient one, too. Suddenly, I saw the face of an older woman I didn’t recognize. She seemed just as solid as I did. When our eyes met, she looked startled. Then she faded away, and I felt intense goosebumps all over my entire body. It kind of scared me, frankly. Have any of you had something like that happen? 

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Me: Hi, Kim. Hi, Erik!

Kim: Hello.

Erik: Hi, Mom.

Me: Gosh, I have so many things that I could talk about. Maybe I’ll just let you choose, Erik.

I give him a list of 5 choices.

Erik: Mom, let’s talk about haters.

Me: Well, let me just tell you that I was raised by two people who hated almost everyone and everything. Even on the TV, they’d make fun of people who were overweight. Everything was just negative, negative, negative. It can really bring you down, man, especially when the negativity was inflicted to me, personally.

Kim: He’s talking so fast and giving a lot of information.

Erik: First of all, being raised by or even dealing with haters in your life, as hard as it can be because there are some nasty people out there who can be downright cruel, before you react, it’s important to know and understand that any way that they hate on you or try to get you to be like them to jump onboard to anything they hate or bully against, what they’re doing is projecting their own insecurities.

Kim: You guys have heard me use this reference before. Erik uses it all the time. Years ago when the Care Bears cartoon was still on TV, they’d say, “Care Bears, stare!” And they’d all have colors come out of their bellies. Energetically, he’s showing the same thing, but with haters, what they do is project their own insecurities out toward others.

Erik: For example, if someone is hating on someone who is overweight, that’s because that’s something they could never accept in themselves. If they’re hating on someone because they have a certain color hair, it’s because they would be insecure if they had that same color. They’re showing their own insecurities. Mom, this is hugely fear based. So again, if someone is hating on someone who’s overweight, it’s because they’re afraid of that being them or having to have that identity. That’s why they’ll criticize it. Also, when you talk about haters, you have to acknowledge ignorance because ignorance says, “I don’t want to understand. I don’t want to know. This is who I am. This is what I think.” So it’s very fear based. It’s all because of their inability to open up and understand.

Kim: He says…oh, this makes me sad. Erik says he had to deal with haters. He had people bully him. He’s going like this (She taps on her chest) and that’s my symbol for “This defines me. This is me and what I went through.”

Erik: Some people made fun of me because they were afraid of me. They didn’t get me.

Me: Mm mm.

Kim: He’s talking so fast.

Me: Slow down, Erik!

Erik: And you gotta acknowledge their biofield. People who focus on their hate and regurgitate it over and over, their energy field just gets huge because they focus on it and share it. They put it out there. So if you spend time with the hater or someone who’s negative, it can fuck you up. It gets you feeling all shitty. You’re like, “I gotta get away from this person.” It’s the same with someone who’s in love. They reside in love instead of fear. When you truly reside in love, your energy feels therapeutic.

Me: It seems like with haters, it’s also about wanting to be in power and control. It’s so weird because why is it that people think that being nasty is more powerful than being loving, and loving, in our society, is considered as sort of a weak thing by some. By many.

Erik: That’s exactly right, Mom. Again, it all comes from fear. If people are nasty to others, they have that fear, and projecting that anger or hate gives them a false sense of empowerment, of having a foot up.

Me: Yeah, because you’re putting yourself in the position of superiority over the person you’re pushing your hate towards.

Erik: Exactly.

Kim: Well, why do people have a hard time just being loved instead of being in hate?

Me: And why do they see love as weak?

Erik: It all goes back to control and ego and how control feels secure, but it’s false. It’s fleeting. You feel like you have to do it again and again. Once you experience letting go and surrendering your need for control, bullying and hate, and once you let go of judging because of ego, if you just experience that freedom one time, I promise you, you’ll never want to go back to the old you and the sourness in you.

Kim: He’s challenging people.

Erik: I encourage you, if you’re about to say, “Look at that shitty ass parking job.” instead of throwing out that criticism and hate, let it go. Think about it. No matter who you are, if you just expressed negative energy, it stays there, and it can snowball and get bigger. You know, Mom, if you walk into a room that’s empty, but two people just had a fight in that room, they’re not there anymore but—

Me: I was just going to ask that. Can you feel that negative energy?

Erik: Yeah, it snowballs and resonates in that area until it’s cleared somehow. So if you expressed that anger to anybody, you collectively contributing to the vibration of universe. So, I challenge you before you say how your shitty neighbor does this or that, yeah it might suck but your complaining is your need for control. Let go of that. (shrugging his shoulders) It is what it is. Take one day at a time, and let life happen.

Me: And let people be who they are. That’s an important mantra that haters should recite. “I’m going to let that person be who they are.”

Erik: For people who hate on someone who’s overweight, think about it like this. That person may be a little overweight according to the doctors. They may be carrying a little extra junk in their trunk—

Kim laughs.

Erik: –but if they’re secure in who they are and can give love, what makes you’re think you’re so beautiful because you don’t have that junk in your trunk? You’re projecting your fear of not being able to handle being like that. You have to be able to see yourself in who or what you’re hating on. After all, we’re all connected. We’re all one. That person you’re hating on is a part of you and vice versa.

Me: Yeah we’re all part and whole of God Source.

Erik: Exactly.

Stay tuned for part two Wednesday!