It’s so beautiful in Houston. In fact, the energy here around Lake Travis is so wonderful that it might be on my short list for a move in 3-5 years (along with the Carolinas.) The air is much drier than in Houston, although it does get hot, but there’s less concrete and more nature here. The country in this girl is all about that. Plus the traffic isn’t as bad as in Houston, the drivers are more polite, the pace is slower and still no state income tax. I have several years to do my research so we’ll see.

Don’t forget about Erik’s Hour of Enlightenment radio show TONIGHT at 5:00 PM PT/7:00 PM CT/8:00 PM ET. No more than 15 minutes before the top of the hour, call 619-639-4606 to ask Erik your question. Two ways to listen: Click on the “Listen” icon on the right sidebar of the blog or click HERE.

This “Best of Erik” was at a time when I was asking the same questions to three different mediums (Jamie, Jeannie and Kim) to get an idea of who I could most trust in and even whether mediumship was real. Those were during my skepticism years, the first 4 years after Erik’s death. Here, I ask about developmental disorders, autism and other things through Jamie.

This post contains additional information on mental illness.

Me: So, let’s go on to something different. I just talked to you about this recently through Jeannie. Tell me what you know about people who come into this world with developmental disabilities like Down’s Syndrome, autism, things like that. What’s up with that, spiritually speaking?

Erik: Oh, I’ve learned some more about that. Those are souls who go to earth to have a little fucking peace. P-E-A-C-E.

Me: Oh, okay! Wow, what a surprise!

Erik: Yeah, cuz the rest of us are bullied around by our own egos. We’re also bullied around by what society expects from us. But here are these “sweet ones” who come in, and we see them as being “damaged.”

Me: Aw.

Erik: Such a fuckin’ shame. We should really see them as—

Jamie (a bit nonplussed): WHAT IS UP WITH YOU, ERIK?!

Erik (chuckling): Oh, just say it, Jamie!

Jamie: He says we should really see them as the “lucky bastards.”

Me: Oh, yeah, I can definitely see that. Egos, our own and others, can be so exhausting. But sometimes I think, you know—I’ve been in the presence of disabled children and adults, and I always felt this awe of them. It’s like they have this compassion and wisdom that so many of the rest of us don’t have. They’re here to teach the world something special, aren’t they.

Erik: Oh, yeah, I agree. And we talked about this, yeah.

Me: Well, I’m just getting a second opinion here, because last time, an angelic being answered this question.

Erik: But yeah, you can see it in their eyes, Mom. It’s like they know more, but they can’t communicate it to us in a way we’d understand.

Me: Yeah.

Erik: That would just ruin the whole gig for them!

Me: It’s like they can experience joy easier than we can. Are they here to teach us something?

Erik: Ah, simplicity. Sweet simplicity. We’ve forgotten that we’re here to love. We’ve learned how to survive, but now we’re in this whole competition thing. That’s one of the things they’re there on the earthly plane to teach.

Me: Mmm.

Erik: You look at Down’s Syndrome; you look at these mental challenges—there is NO competition. They don’t have this deep separation of “me” and “you.”

Me: How wonderful. What amazing spirits. What about vaccines? Are they linked to autism, diabetes, autoimmune diseases and other diseases?

Jamie: I think Erik took his cussing pill this morning!

Me: His what?

Jamie: His cussing pill. He normally tones it down for me.

Me: Oh yeah, just go ahead and let it out—let it on out! I’ve heard ‘em all, believe you me!

Jamie: Um, well, he just said, “Hell fucking yeah.”

I laugh.

Erik: And these people want to bury it in some factual mumbo jumbo. They just feed us more lies, and we nod our heads and say, “Oh, of course! Yes, that’s how it works.”

Me: Oh, god.

Erik: What’s worse is the doctors wanna keep their jobs and they wanna make their money, and the doctors are being influenced by the medical field, uh, the medicinal field, not by the research field.

Me: You mean the pharmaceutical field?

Erik: Yeah, that. Plus they inject these babies with so much in such a short time. And it’s not enlightening us at all on how to care for ourselves. We really just need to throw our arms around eating plants to heal ourselves, things like that.

Me: Yeah, exactly. Well, I had a feeling that was the case. Okay, so why the increase in ADHD and bipolar disease?

(Long pause)

Jamie (to Erik): Two ways? (Then to me): He’s talking about there being several different influences that cause these to rise, but two in particular. Inter, uh, intervene, (Again to Erik): Say that again, Erik. Because people are older?

Erik: People who are older are people who normally could not carry children before, but they’re doing so now by getting help through doctors, taking medicines while they do. And many people who are purely healthy and can carry a baby are still taking medicines like antidepressants and stuff. Nutrition is a big factor too. People don’t get the nutrients that they used to get. That’s the second runner up.

Me: Okay, but is there a spiritual basis for these diseases? Sometimes I think people with bipolar disease are highly sensitive souls. They just cannot filter out  positive and negative energy. Is that true, at least for some of them, same thing with ADHD?

Erik: It’s exactly the same thing.

Me: Okay, so is there a spiritual reason that they come with these, uh, I won’t call them disorders, but—

Erik: Yeah, and it’s fine to call them disorders, cuz think about it. If the people—

(Pause as Jamie listens to Erik)

Jamie: Erik!

Erik: I’m serious, Jamie! If the people who couldn’t have babies just didn’t, right?  They let nature give them their lesson instead of overriding nature and using science and manmade technology to cheat the system, um, if we all just stuck to that, then we’d have a lot more healthy people in the world.

Me: Hmm.

Erik: Everyone wants to reach that golden dream.

Me: Yep. Or maybe giving birth to someone with bipolar disease is a lesson onto itself.

Erik (pointing back to me): Touché! Way to go, Mom! It can be a lesson.

Me: Yeah, cuz I never had to use technology to have you guys, but I had kids with bipolar disease, OCD, Tourettes, and ADHD, so…

Erik: Right.

Me: Sometimes I feel like some of those who come here with bipolar disease come for a reason. They’re so intuitive and sensitive. But then they get on the physical plane and they just can’t handle it. They can’t use their gift the way they’re meant to use it.

Erik: I see your point, and I’ve met a lot of people who are that way.

(Pause as Jamie listens)

Jamie: Yeah, um, he’s talking about a client that actually had a phone session here.

(Long pause)

Jamie: Anyway, um, I wanna say it begins with a J.

Me: Okay.

Jamie: But she was bipolar too, and very gifted, very sensitive.

Me: Um hmm.

Jamie: And he feels that she fits what you’re talking about where she couldn’t connect the spiritual body to the physical body, and so it just kind of, uh, it miswired and it caused that chemical malfunction.

Me: Interesting. Okay, what about addiction, substance abuse? Is there a lesson t be learned by that or, um, is there a spiritual reason for people to become addicted? I’m talking about alcohol, prescription drugs—anything.

Erik: Pacifiers. These are all pacifiers. Pacifiers, because they don’t have self-love. When you don’t love yourself, you need something else to comfort and soothe you. Without self-love you can’t find self-worth, so you wanna nurse on something, but unfortunately, when we grow up, we can’t exactly suck on the tit, so…

Me: Okay, that sure sounds like you, Erik.

Erik: Yeah, so we nurse on something else.

Me: Does this tend to happen more with people who aren’t as comfortable on the physical plane?

Erik: Oh, hell yeah! Not comfortable in their own bodies, not comfortable with the families they’re in. A lot of people wanna blame it on the situations they’re in like things that happened in their life, but that’s bullshit.

Me: Oh!

Erik: The blame rests with the people themselves. It’s their function. They choose to do the addictive behavior to soothe themselves. But there are some scientists who claim, um—

Jamie (to Erik): What? What do you mean?

(Pause)

Jamie (again to Erik): What, like a sub, uh, that you’re pre-wired for addiction?

Erik: Yeah, there are some people who are pre-wired for addiction. If you repeat a pattern so many times that the body depends on that repetitive pattern to survive—

Me: Okay.

Erik: And so that’s why they can say some people are more sensitive to addiction than others.

Me: Uh huh. (pause) Is it because they repeated the same pattern from one body to the next, from one life to the next? Is that why they come into a life pre-wired for addiction?

Erik: Yep.

Me: Okay.