Happy 8th, peeps. What a glorious day it is here in Houston, Texas. Mostly sunny, around 75 degrees and a perfect day to sit outside and clank away at the keys of my laptop. Some exciting news: the publisher has given me permission to post an excerpt from the book. I’ll do that after this three-part series. I can’t wait to see what you think.

Also exciting: Jamie is going to have her next webinar on the 15th of this month. It’s targeted to all of you healers in the Channeling Erik family–and I know there are a lot of you! Click HERE to see if you might benefit from the class. Some of you might not know or are unsure that you are healers, and this class might help you make that determination. The price is very reasonable, and they’re always a lot of fun. Plus you get the recording afterwards. 

Now for Part Two of the ins and outs and the life and times of Sir Pestermeister.

Me: What’s your reputation like over there?

Jamie (laughing): Yeah, what is your reputation?

Me: We know what it is here!

Jamie: That is such a cool question.

Erik: I am known and loved by all.

Jamie: Oh, come on!

Me: I’m sure you are!

Jamie: And?

Erik: Well, I’m known to be a prankster. I’m known to, well, you know, maybe not be trusted so much, but very good in letting other spirits know where I am at all times. Actually, spirits smile when I’m around. They know when I’m coming in. They know I’m going to get them to laugh and hug them. They know this is going to happen. When they see me now, my hugs almost like this expectation, and I love it a lot.

Me: Why did you make the decision to do what you’re doing now, to do your work?

(Pause)

Jamie: It should come with words, Erik.

Me: Yes, please.

Erik: It’s all about you. You started it. (In a playful accusatory tone) You started it; you started it!

I chuckle.

Me: So basically, creating the blog is how you decided to do what you’re doing.

Erik: Yeah.

Me: Okay. Cross that one off my list. What was your spiritual mission while you were on Earth?

Erik: My spiritual mission. It should have been to survive.

Me (solemnly): Yeah.

Erik: It’s not as cool as my spiritual mission now because—I say that because my mission on Earth was more internal. It was about learning about struggle and balance and acceptance of myself.

Me: Mm hm.

Erik: But here in the afterlife, it’s not the me, me, me. It’s really about the bigness, the grandness, how I can be that person that I always wanted to be on Earth and open myself up to everyone.

Me: Okay. Very good. I guess that’s a “ding.”

Erik: Ding!

Me: Was helping me or others from the afterlife part of your original life plan, or did you just make that decision after you passed?

Erik: It was discussed as an opportunity, but it wasn’t set as a destiny type path. It wasn’t this massive contract between us. It was based on how you were going to view your healing after losing a son.

Jamie (To Erik): What’s funny?

Me: There’s nothing funny about that.

Jamie: Yeah, he started laughing and said, “She didn’t lose me!”

Me: I know, but physically.

Erik: It’s just ludicrous how people on Earth think that when a person dies they’ve lost them.

(Getting back on track)

Erik: Okay. So it was going to be based on that, and if you were going to take on the challenge and get loud about it, I was going to hop onboard.

Me: Okay. Now what was I to learn from that contract? What is my role in all of this? Let’s start with the first question.

Erik: It takes two to tango. No, what were you to learn from having me leave early?

Me (again, solemnly): Yeah.

Erik: That was about loss. That was about separation and not having control, and that fed into the smaller contracts that you had growing up, not having the ability to have control. Then after I left, I was supposed to give you every opportunity to have control so learning self-trust and confidence, all of those things pushing at your door to make it readily available. Ding.

I chuckle.

Me: Tell us about your other roles. Do you have any other roles besides pranking us and teaching us and helping us? For example, do you help other spirits communicate with their loved ones on Earth? Do you help suicidal teenagers, help people cross over, heal people? Give me the rundown.

Erik: At first I was going to say, ‘Need there be war?’ But the whole teaching part, I would say that. When people reach out to me, and they’re talking about being suicidal, I want to be there for them. I want to talk to them about why they see it as an option. So I do that work, but I consider that teaching like it’s an opening. I do help people communicate with their loved ones, and not in the way you think. My favorite thing is to help the dead communicate with the living, and all you guys are thinking about is having the living communicate with the dead.

Me: Some of them have trouble I guess.

Erik: Yeah. Yes. They like get all up next to them, you know, their loved one on Earth who is still living and they go, “Holy shit! I do the same thing you do, and it’s not working! They did nothing!” So I’m like, ‘Dude, it’s like this.”

Jamie laughs.

Jamie: So you do tutorials? (To me) He gives tutorials on how to communicate with the living.

Me (laughing): Communication 101.

Erik: Maybe I should author a book for the dead!

Me: That’s good. (in jest) They read over there, huh?

Erik: Not really. It’s only the people who just recently passed over, and they’re still thinking with human thoughts. They’re not looking at all of a sudden what you thought was impossible is completely possible, and I give them the answers that should be used. So I just kind of help them out. It’s a lot of fun.

Me: Aw. That’s good.

Erik: Oh, oh, Mom. I also help heal. I’m better at healing emotional pain and mental confusion, but the physical healing like diseases and things like that? I tend to pass the buck to others.

Me: Do you help deceased blog members when they die? Do you show them the ropes?

Erik: If they need me to. Sometimes they have people who have passed before them who know what’s up, and of course if that’s the case I’m going to let family help family.

Me: Oh, sure.

Erik: But sometimes there are people who die and decide not to cross over, and that’s what we end up calling the ghosts.

Jamie laughs because she perfectly imitated the way he said “ghosts” in a goofy way.

Erik: I like interceding—

Jamie: Is that a word.

Me: Interceding? Yeah.

Jamie (covering up her face in embarrassment): It is?

Me: That’s a big word for a little boy! Ludacris, interceding.

Erik: [I help] the spirits who decide not to cross over right away, the ones who are lost, but curious. The ones who don’t cross over and who are not curious? We gotta leave them alone until they ask for help.

Me: Okay. What are your aspirations and plans for the future? I know that there’s no future there, but in terms of Earth time.

Jamie: He just turned, flung his legs over the armrest and pretended to straighten his tie.

Erik (in a self-important tone): My aspiration for the future, Mother, are—

He pushes his nonexistent long hair back as a way that spells, “I’m all that.”

Jamie: He has no baseball cap on today.

Me: Oh.

Jamie: And no tie, either. He’s just playing around.

Erik: So we’re looking at Earth time, you know, that future you feel you haven’t been a part of yet, and it’s totally going to be a surprise when it’s arrived, right?

Me: Mm hm.

(Long pause)

Jamie: Your answer, Erik?

Erik: My future aspiration is to help science and spirituality converge.

He wiggles his fingers as he interlaced them.

Erik: And start publications, start giving examples, start helping science identify our subtle energy, you know, that they think is such a fucking mystery—but it’s not! I’ll push for that because I think that if people understand it in a more scientific view, it becomes part of their belief system and then—bam!—I would guess—

(Pause)

Jamie: He’s making some kind of noise.

She mimics it. It sounds like a hum and mumble at the same time.

Erik: –I don’t know, maybe 43% of grief, sadness, separation, anxiety, things like that (snaps his fingers) gone! They’ll know that there’s not this real separation.

Me: Do you nudge these scientists or what will you do? How will you bridge that gap?

Erik: By dancing in front of them, naked.

Me: Well that should do it.

Erik: That should do it. That should change the world.

Me: Dance naked, change the world! That’d make a great bumpersticker.

Jamie: He’s going to get their attention.

Erik (kidding): Mom, we all nudge in our own way. Don’t judge.

Me: No, really. How do you nudge them?

(Long pause)

Jamie: Uh, he’s giving me pictures, and I’m asking him for words.

Erik: There are already groups of spirits that do that. What’s fun is there are ones who used to be scientists, and they’re interested in this path and normally come here into similar threads. They have knowledge from the future, the past and now. They form groups of spirits and start working with those scientists so that they bring this information about. So it’s not just this one nudging. It’s groups of us affecting the environment to change the outcome of what the scientists are trying to do. Does that make sense?

Me: Yeah.

Erik: Apparently I’m the only fool who dances naked in front of them.

Jamie and I laugh.

Me: Do you really do that?

Erik: No!

Me: Okay, good!

Never can tell with that boy.

I love this photograph of my sweet little boy. His expression so captures his Erikness.