Let’s see what Erik has to say about palatal delights in the ethers.

Me: Someone asks this question, “What is Erik saying about food in Heaven and food in the physical plane? Is food in Heaven bland? I thought if colors in Heaven are more vibrant there that the food would be tastier.”

Erik: Now, c’mon. The taste is way more incredible in Heaven, but it’s not as if we’re fixing a plate of food, and we’re cutting it up, and we’re putting it in our mouths. It’s just not the way it goes. We don’t really need meals.

Me: Okay.

Erik: So, if you want a reminiscence—

Jamie stumbles horribly over the word, so Erik teases her.

Jamie (to Erik): Just shut up.

Me: I don’t know how to say these things half the time either.

Jamie (in a sulky tone): He’s teasing me!

Erik: If you want a reminiscence of the food you had on Earth, you can create that if you’d like: macaroni and cheese, pizza, and it taste like you recall it, but we do have tastes here that are not associated with the tastes on Earth. There’s more of an electric taste.

Me: Hm!

Erik: Like, um, not really a metallic, but an electric taste, and—

Me: What do you mean?

(Pause)

Me (giggling): Like sticking your tongue in an electric socket or what? That doesn’t sound very tasty at all!

Erik (laughing): Yeah, the human body won’t handle that very well. No, when the flavor comes into the body, because most of what spirits do is they digest the energy that’s around them. It’s not about sitting down and eating and nurturing the body, because we don’t have a physical body. We have a spiritual one—and energetic body. We use and consume energy, and it can be done in different ways. It can be emotional energy, environmental energy, or, you know, you can pretend you’re living on Earth again and pretend to eat food to have energy.

Me: Okay. How interesting.

Erik: But the way the energy moves through the body is much like how electricity does. It has a conduit. Let’s pretend like if it touches your tongue you can feel it in your toes. The energy moves through your body, and you can feel it almost like an electrical current. It has different sensation to it.

Me: Okay. Now, this blog member goes on to ask another question. This may be early on when you didn’t know how to create tastes and sensations and textures in your mouth right after your transition, Erik. Are you saying you miss having a full gut or stomach, because the sensation of, well, almost pain from a full gut can’t be experienced there? He or she says, “I’m confused. I only ask, because I love food, especially a double-double animal style burger from In and Out!”

Jamie belly laughs.

Me: But Erik, you can create that sensation of a full stomach, right? You can create any sensation you want, even belly pain.

Erik: Hell, yeah.  

Me: So, there are tastes there in Heaven just like there’s colors in Heaven that do not exist here on Earth.

Erik: Yes.

Me: Okay. I’d hate to think that the food in Heaven is not as tasty as it is here! That’s what I told the blog member. I said you can create any taste you want. And with that you can add the texture, the smell, the visual, the associated emotions and memories, and you can feel it throughout your entire energetic body.

Erik: Yay, Mom. You remember me telling you that before!

Me: Oh, really? We’ve already talked about what I just said?

Erik: That taste here has many layers. Yep. And the spirit in your energy field can experience it, too. Any spirit right next to you, I mean.

Me: Without those pesky calories.