Me: Okay, a lot of people have asked this one, Erik. It’s about possession. Can spirits possess the bodies of humans? I’m talking about demonic or non-demonic spirits.
Erik (chuckling): Is this the part of the book when you need to warn people whether they should read forward or not?
Jamie and I laugh.
Me: Maybe. I guess it all hangs on what you say, Sweetie!
Erik: Yes. Yes they can. Possessions do happen, demonic and non-demonic.
(Pause)
Me: Okay, but are there really evil spirits? I mean—
Erik: Sure. Just as there are evil people, there are evil spirits. After all, there’s still free will. A switch doesn’t get hit that’ll make you all knowing and great ad helpful just because you leave the body.
Me: Ah! Okay. Too bad.
Erik: You still have the free will to use that power to pull people away from Light.
Me: Um hm.
Erik: There are entities who thrive on that. They thrive on separation, on fear, on negative energy.
Me: Oh, did you just push the cat down again, Erik? He just flopped over on his side!
Jamie (giggling): Yeah, he told me he just did!
Me: Yeah, Ringo just totally collapsed like someone pushed him over.
Erik: He loves it when I do that to him!
Jamie and I laugh.
Me: So what about multiple personalities? Do these have something to do with possessions?
Erik: Yeah, it can and it usually is.
(Long pause as I wait for Erik to expound, but I guess that’s all he knows at the moment.)
Me: Well, what about benevolent possessions? Can spirits possess a human to help out?
Erik: Sure, especially healing spirits who will possess a body that’s in a coma state—
Me: Hm! Wow!
Erik: —or if something really traumatic happens, maybe right before they die. Those are two of the examples I can come up with now.
More on this topic through a different medium:
Me: Okay, let’s see. Next question. Is there any such thing as a demonic possession?
Erik: Yeah, there is. There is.
Me: Okay, can you expand on that a bit?
Erik: From what I understand—and I have my angel standing next to me to step in if I say something that’s not right.
I laugh.
Erik: But it’s my understanding that there’s light and there’s dark, and if someone concentrates or focuses on the dark too much, it can come in and take over. It causes a lot of mental illness. It can cause a lot of pain. I thought about it, you know, and I wondered about it for myself.
Me: Wow, so you thought you were possessed at one point?
Erik: Well, I didn’t really think I was possessed, but I wondered, because I was so fucking conflicted—all those emotions running around.
Me: Yeah. Well, what’s the purpose? If everything is God and God is All There Is, how could demons, demonic possessions or dark forces exist?
Erik: It—I’m also told that there’s polarity. There’s light, there’s dark—on this planet. It’s a place of learning. There are other places that have a lot more light. I’m talking about planets and shit. So earth is a place of polarity—light, dark.
Me: It’s the advanced learning playground, I guess, huh? The accelerated class.
Erik: That’s the way I see it.
Me: So the Source, God, the Light, whatever you want to call it, also creates this darkness in order to help us see the light. In other words, it’s hard to see the candle when you’re holding it on the surface of the sun.
Erik: Exactly. The light will always win, though.
(Thank God!)
Me, before my morning coffee
