As you know, I’m publishing “Best of Erik” posts on Tuesdays and Thursdays so that I’ll have enough material to last until my sessions with Jamie are not devoted to the book. In November (or maybe even September or October,) I plan to start the celebrity interviews, the regular questions, the great mysteries of the world, the YouTubes and more. My concern today is that I might accidentally publish a “Best of Erik” entry twice! Let me know if that happens, and I’ll laugh, kick myself in the butt, and post something else.  I had trouble keeping Erik on track with this question. What I really wanted to find out is how our senses, emotions and self-concept changes while we’re in the afterlife, but for some reason, I couldn’t get him to go much beyond the comparison of how these differ before and after death. He was a bit distracted. Maybe he felt the question was tedious and boring. Like calculus. Jamie: Hello! Me: Hi Jamie! How are you today? Jamie: Excellent! Erik had a busy morning already! Me: Oh boy. Oh, was he with Iola? Jamie: He was! He knew she called this morning. Me: Aw, that’s so great. She was so hoping he’d be there for the session! Jamie: He was. When he showed up, I told him, “You know your mom’s not calling until like 10:50.” Me: Oh my gosh. Jamie: I didn’t know that Iola was a connection through you. He just laughed at me! I laugh. Jamie: And I saw that he brought along a friend, and the friend ended up being Iola’s son. It was so cute, they all chit-chatted and talked; it was really clear. Me: Aw, that was so good for Iola. I can’t wait to hear about it from her. Hey Erik, how’re you doing, Baby? Erik: I’m ready to rock and roll! I’m doing great, Mom. Me: Oh, good, Sweetie. Everything going well with you, then? Erik: Yes! Home has been so wonderful! Me: Good, good, that makes me so happy. Okay, now the first question I want to ask you, Erik, is about Jamie! Jamie: Me? Me: Yeah. He seems to be really connected to you. For a while, I even thought he might have a little crush on you! It feels like it might be some sort of past life connection. What’s going on there? (VERY tense long pause!) Jamie: Speak up, Erik! I wanna know! (she laughs) (The pressure’s on!) Erik laughs. Me: He just seems so fond of you. Was there a past life connection between you and Jamie, Erik? Erik: That’s what I was just telling her. We’ve had a few past lives together. Um, some as friends, some as being in the family and um— Jamie listens for a bit. Jamie (to Erik): Well thank you! He says he likes the way I communicate, because I don’t take it—well he uses the words—I “don’t take it so heavy.” Me: Oh, okay. Yeah! Jamie: And that’s the way he was in this last life as well. He said what he wanted to, he is who he is, and he says I allow him to be that way. Me: Good, good. I was just curious. Okay, so how do souls meet other souls there? I’m talking about people they know and complete strangers. How do they connect? Do they just think and “poof” it happens? Erik: Yep, they think, it happens. Jamie (laughing): Now he’s doing this whole sarcastic thing saying, “Hi, how are you? My name is Erik,” and he’ll like say, “Yeah, mmmkay.” Me: Anything else? I mean, how does that connection work? Erik: Everything is a big web, Mom. What you think, uh, each thought is like a rock in a pond. It ripples out. And if it pertains or fits to anything you want to communicate to—it’s almost like radio waves. Me: Um hmm. Erik: Instant messages. I can think, “I want to, you know, see a friend from such and such time.” Thinking that, I’ll actually have a response. I’ll instantly have a response within myself. Me: Wow. So it’s waves more than it is a physical energy, uh, web? Erik: Yes. Me: So it’s all wave related. A propagation of electromagnetic waves, I guess? Erik: Exactly, Mom.