I heard the webinar class with Jamie had a big turnout and was great. I’m glad you guys enjoyed it. It’s amazing how some of the things she teaches can have such a powerful effect on our lives. Today, I’m busy as cr*#. I’m being interviewed on a radio show today at 5:00 PM and I have a Skype meeting with a TV producer and Jamie at 2:00 PM. That’s along with all the other stuff I usually do. It should be fun though. Be sure you check with my Events page for air times on these shows. Okay, gotta two-fer for you. 

Me: Today, I’d like to talk about suicide. I know. It’s (Insert Debbie Downer sound here, but it’s very important. Erik I’d like to say hello to you, sweetie.

Jamie: He says hi, and he’s walking around the room. Pacing as he always has. You know the floor around the kitchen island has a groove in it from his pacing. That guy could pace. All right. The first question I’d like to ask is why are people more susceptible to suicide and why does it seem more prevalent today?

Erik: I love you.

Me: I love you, too.

Erik: Happy Valentines Day to you, and Happy Valentines Day to everyone who’s watching. To answer your question, it’s media, media, media.

Jamie (smiling): He has his hands like this (She puts her wrists together and her fingers curled up.)

(Long pause)

Me: And? Expaaaaand on that please?

Erik: Well, it’s always been like this, yet we haven’t advertised it to the masses. We can look back just a decade ago or even further, and a lot of these suicide deaths were considered accidental, were told to the media to be disease and it was so shameful that people didn’t want to advertise that this had actually happened because this was the worse kind of death that any human could experience.

Jamie: Now he’s got one hand up in the air and he’s shouting, “That’s bullshit!

Me: Tell me why it’s bullshit.

Jamie: Yeah. Sit down.

Me: By the way, I did not teach him this foul language, guys. I just want that for the record.

Jamie laughs.

Jamie: I‘m not saying that. She didn’t teach you to talk that way. You found it.

Erik: Guilty as charged. So a lot of us think that since the media is focused on it, that maybe it’s something in our culture that’s increasing in that way, but if you step back even further, we’re coming out of the Dark Ages. We’re gaining acceptance: Acceptance of gay people. Now we’re accepting the transgender people. We’re into the acceptance of being a woman.

Jamie: Don’t do it! He’s making this awful face and goes (with disgust) “Oh, to be a woman!”

Me: Well not in the Middle East.

Erik: That is true, but we’re looking at our culture, Mom, because this is where we’re seeing publicizing of suicides and it’s like we’re coming out of the Dark Ages. We’re getting into, “Hey, you’re different, and we’re going to appreciate you for that.” Like anything, it starts with accepting people. You can call them the more eccentric people in our culture, and then it winds down to the more earth living people. That’s how marketing is. I know I always boo hoo marketing, but—

Me: I know. You like to.

Erik: But the positive marketing, I really enjoy. Now listen. I’m not saying good or bad. I really want to say that the positive marketing I’m talking about is the kind that says accept you for who you are. You know, it’s not rewarding you for one and dissing you for another. It’s this kind of acceptance marketing or happy marketing—evoking peace and joy in each individual—this is starting to catch on. You’re seeing it in commercials. You’re starting to see it in TV shows and movies.

Me: That’s right. There is a commercial about accepting bipolar disease. I can’t remember exactly who the actress was but they had written on their t-shirts, “I have bipolar disease” or something like that. So it’s good.

Jamie: Yeah, he was also mentioning Super Bowl commercials, focusing on the love of being a man, being the dad, and not putting girls down. There was a lot of positives (air quotes)—I don’t want you people to think I’m saying good or bad—but positive marketing that’s going to help. So getting back to your question. Is more suicide happening? Not really. We’re actually starting to accept people so that they don’t have to resort to techniques for leaving because life is not working for them.

Me: For example, addressing mental illness?

Erik: Mental illness, all kinds of things that make people feel isolated from a community whether it’s the color or their skin, their acne, their inability to perform socially—

Me: And then there’s the “F you, I’m going to punish you” kind of suicide, too. The impulsive one.

Erik: Oh, hell yes, that’s the pit of isolation. There’s not amconnection to anyone else so they think that if they remove themselves from the game, they’ll create pain for other people.

Me: Did you commit suicide for the F you reason?

Erik: Nope.

Me: It didn’t seem like you did. What was your reason?

Erik: To get free.

Me: Mm.

Jamie: He gives me the image of crawling through like an old school lion cage with big bars, pulling the bars out and stepping through them.

Jamie mimics pulling the bars apart.

Somber moment.

Erik: That was my answer. That was the way I found my peace of mind.

I tear up.

Erik: So, what were we talking about?

Me (chuckling): Sorry. We got you off track. I didn’t think spirits could have a bad memory. What’s going on there? I was hoping that when I cross over I might get my memory back.

Jamie laughs.

Erik: No can do. I think I answered the question, but I didn’t know if you wanted it a different way. Ding!

Jamie: That’s the sound he makes when he thinks he’s done with something.

Me: How often is it related to past lives?

Pause, then Jamie shakes her head.

Jamie: He’s leaning back, and he’s got his ankle up on his knee. It’s not like a traditional leg cross. Very manly. It’s taking up the space.

Erik: You know, Mom, we should probably take up the use of the word, “past.” Maybe we should start calling it parallel lives and getting our community to join in to get the concept of time not being linear. Let’s not feed into the illusion.

Me: Well even Einstein said that. He said that time is not linear and that it’s a human construct.

Jamie: He agrees. He says, “What say you about this? What say you about this?”

She laughs.

Jamie: Go ahead and do it. Say “parallel.” Now answer the question.

Erik: Okay. Parallel lives? How much does that influence suicide? A lot, a lot, a lot. Parallel lives help create the personality you have now. They feed your fears, your passions, your love, what you like, what task you want to finish or complete; that’s all based on you. That’s no bigger, greater God going, “Damn you for treating someone poorly in one life! I will punish you in the next.” Nah, that’s something you created and structured. So how you are and who you are in parallel lives play a big part in what your needs are and what your likes are in the current life. Ding.

Jamie laughs and covers her mouth.

Me: Now what?

Jamie (looking totally embarrassed) Go ahead.

Me: Oh come on. Out with it.

Jamie: No, no, no.

Erik: Watch, my mom is going to ask “Can you give me an example or expand on that?”

Me: Yes! God dang. Let’s have an example. Could it have to do with somebody in a parallel life having committed suicide?

Erik: Nice. Yes! It can! Or we can look at it this way. I can be in one life; you’re completely alone, ostracized. Let’s say your whole family got wiped out by the plague.

Me: Mm hm.

Erik: And there you stand, alone. And in this life, you’re trying to understand relationships, but you’re getting fed this really desperate loneliness, and you’ll have these moments in your current life—we’re going to call it (air quotes) current life—of overwhelming loneliness. That solitude. But you know it’s not real. Your family members are there, but all of a sudden you can’t connect to them. So these waves of emotions that have no triggers in your “current life” can absolutely be from the parallel life that’s happening.

Me: Okay.

Erik: Ding.

Me: You got a lot of “dings” here. Well will past life regression help that?

(Pause)

Me: Or current life progression, parallel life progression—

Jamie (looking amazed): How did you say that, right?

I guess Erik was saying that at the same time. That often happens because of our close connection.

Jamie: I’m really gong to just—he’s wiggling around.

Erik: Yes. It will help with that. When you’re doing past life regression, parallel life regression, you’re linking your logic to that life and that experience and your logic—which is a huge human quality to help you stay in the Now of your current life—when it can understand what’s going on in a parallel life, it’ll stop linking it through, and seeing those signals as “this lifetime.” “If I’m overwhelmingly lonely, it must be true. I am absolutely lonely.” and it’s not the truth. So it helps us organize and understand that our thought connection and our emotional connection to ourselves is linked to all of our parallel lives as well as the excess energy around us in our environment. Though (pointing at the camera then scratching his neck)—

Me: You’re making all of his gestures, huh?

Erik: So when we look at our thoughts in this life, they’re not always going to be ours. Just because they show up in your head doesn’t mean you possess them and that they ring true or speak true. You perceive them from parallel lives and the energy from your environment, which means other people as well.

Jamie (laughing): He just said to himself, but I can hear it, “Nailed it.”

We both laugh.

Me: You’re going to break your arm patting yourself on the shoulder if you had arms and shoulders.

It’s all in one place

Here’s an interesting article my publicist sent me yesterday:

Quantum Physics Proves That Death Is An Illusion