Yours truly the substitute teacher has taken note of general good reception to The Committee’s previous Sunday offerings. The stage is turned over to them to select questions and answers they believe serve Channeling Erik readers best. Erik needs no invitation, is invited anyway and he’s just chimed in to say “Let’s call this Sunday Mass at The Church of Erik, Congregation of Latter Day Cranks!” (His website, he can choose the name…I’m reduced to a substitute teacher that doesn’t even take attendance; hmmmm…well, at least Catholic guilt skips this Sunday; I can say I’ve been to mass this week, even though it doesn’t help with my 2,000 or so prior violations. What screw-up is consistent?)
ST = Substitute Teacher
CQ = Committee Question
A = Committee Answer
QE = Question for Erik
EA = Erik Answer
ST QE: Erik, I’ve nudged you to add your thoughts in past “sermons” and you have, after politely waiting to be prompted. We’ve done our Committee session, which follows, and we’d like to start with you this time around. No choosing your questions, I’ll ask and you fire back; deal?
EA: Deal; lay ’em on.
ST QE: This website’s a few years old now and popular worldwide. What’s its future?
EA: It’ll grow and spread; ideas and other things will soon begin developing, what we’ve talked about before, TV shows and a book and it’s all gonna happen.
ST QE: OK, Ford or Chevy?
EA: Depends on the model.
ST QE: Motorcycles; BMW or Honda?
EA: Honda!
ST QE: Vanilla or chocolate?
EA: Pizza.
ST QE: Beatles or Rolling Stones?
EA: AC DC
ST QE: Beach or mountains?
EA: Both, depends on the season.
ST QE: Jeans or shorts?
EA: Swimming trunks.
ST EQ: Conservative or Liberal?
EA: Nobody cares about that shit here.
ST EQ: OK, one last one; chicken or fish?
EA: Steak!
ST: Our most Esteemed Committee, we appreciate all input and information and as you’ve noted, we ask that you choose topics and questions. Much is at hand in the world; we believe we are about to witness the collapse of the Greek economy with rapid effects and we’ve read that Spain is close to requiring bank bailouts for the sector to survive. Could similar effects threatening Greece spread to Spain and across the region?
A: Yes. Economic conditions across the European Union and Euro Zone nations are generally difficult; the European Union is showing the first signs of its breakup. What happens to any one nation in any precise aspect will not alter the trend of fiscal strains, breakdowns, unemployment and eventual return to separate nations and currencies.
CQ: Is this isolated to Europe mostly?
A: No, global economic interdependence will cause effects to reverberate worldwide.
CQ: What about European nations not using the euro currency, such as the United Kingdom and Switzerland?
A: They will feel effects also, not so much directly related to currency and its relative value but certainly to the slowdown. Overall effects will be even and trend downward.
CQ: Mexico, the United States and Canada?
A: As highly integrated economies, many effects are felt in these nations simultaneously and will occur there also.
CQ: Caused by Europe?
A: No, although European economic effects will ripple over, they are not a cause. North America’s economic challenges have been self generated.
CQ: How do these developments relate to the shift, the concept of an upcoming rise in consciousness of humanity?
A: These are all a part of the process; the economic disturbance is the breakdown and reformation of economic systems that have not served the better interests of humanity in an equal way. There have been several movements arising from this. What is called Communism arose directly from perceived inequity and unfairness of economic systems yet devolved into a power structure arrangement; the noble goal put forth by its intellectual creators did not seriously consider human nature and what could be called a universal law. Detractors of the scheme accurately identified this aspect and opposed Communism for lacking recognition of a basic universal ideal, benefit and reward from efforts.
CQ: What will come to replace current economic arrangements?
A: Localized economies and barter will become more common. Remember always awareness will rise and with it will come enhanced appreciation, respect for and genuine enjoyment of possessions for beauty and function. Economic systems have included appearance and rank based upon outward aspects and qualities; purchases include a large component of consideration for status and opinions of observers. This will reduce significantly; this is one small indicator of a larger, paramount alteration where need and function will be emphasized, status lowered many levels.
Economic systems will be localized, in many cases very local. The international, intercontinental aspect of commerce will vanish almost entirely.
CQ: What will happen to society?
A: A large question; an interesting hybrid of policy trends will be created. There is much dispute, mostly pointless, over approaches and positions taken for political gain. One view favors personal responsibility and reliance and this will be much more widespread and accepted. Another view says greed and avarice rule and are used to gain and maintain advantage and must be cut out. Economic changes will force this to the top of the list also. Political adversity will drop off; popular complaints are that common ground and compromise are necessary yet the loudest calls for this often come from the least willing to have it. It’s used to accuse the opposing position in hopes for capitulation, to allow one side to maintain objectives without ceding ground. All sides of political spectrums do this and have done so vigorously; true awareness and compromise will be reached and the previous arguments will appear childish, despite active pursuit as is common at this moment.
CQ: What will happen to families?
A: Family units will become more emphasized and a return to a more family centered life will happen. Reproduction rates will fall and world population will begin a steady decline to last several decades. This will not have immediate repercussions on any group of families, as global aspects will drop off. The way families lived and interacted prior to automobiles will return. It will be positive.
CQ: If global commerce goes away, what economic effects will result from that?
A: Unemployment, certainly. Humanity will again see others for who they are, not what they earn.
CQ: How much unemployment?
A: By current standards of salaried work, ⅓ to ½ will not be employed.
CQ: This will be devastating, will it not?
A: No, it will not. Much value, understood as cost and price, of things deemed basic needs will fall as they are, in many cases, ridiculous. A family must spend more than half its earnings to have just shelter; to pay for the dwelling, pay tax on the income to pay for the dwelling and pay tax also on the perceived value of the dwelling. Similarly clothing, basic furniture and implements for cooking, food storage and other activity cost extraordinary percentages of what a family typically earns. The provider of the product, the device, the service and materials all see a need to earn to then secure for themselves these things. A circle of costs and needs arises; this cycle has become pervasive as human society has developed and in many aspects, is pointless. It does not serve the purpose of life on Earth.
CQ: So costs and value will be less?
A: Yes, by much. Awareness of the soon to be experienced dimensions will frame the ideas about this which have permeated humanity for hundreds of years under current dealings and before that in prior schemes and arrangements. The idea that wealth provides a solid benefit will be changed. Take for example the number of societies that would impose harsh punishments for theft, decry hunger and then punish theft of food. The response we know; we observe with curiosity and sometimes disappointment the responses, such as tolerance would create permissiveness about theft overall. This is true however when did you all become so rigid, relatively uncaring to not consider causes; does food theft feed a vice? Why does this develop? What things paved the route to this point, a society that paves roads with materials brought great distances, using conveyances from across vast oceans yet accepts there are fellow wo/men who must steal to eat? We are often equally disappointed to see reactions that insist on forcing a solution, taking it unwillingly from the most able to provide it. Your newly rediscovered awareness will cast these considerations aside; you will all see your situation as a boat and yourselves as passengers aboard it.
CQ: Why do we not know specific dates and details of events?
A: If you knew such things, you would seek pleasurable by your understanding of that and avoid challenges. How would you have benefit?
CQ: Why don’t we understand our intended role and purpose?
A: This would reduce your life to a school assignment, would it not?
CQ: We all hear often that loss lifts appreciation; we only know what we had after discovering it is forever gone. Is this always the case?
A: This is Earth custom and training; to develop and follow a habit. Habits provide predictability and this implies security. Quiet contemplation has fallen from favor and this is a habit that will return to provide great benefits. The porch rocking chair and the shade tree hammock are two medications many doctors should prescribe.
CQ: Are future events certain to occur as many have described and even warned?
A: You cannot come live on Earth as you do any more casually than could you buy a house. Each of these is deliberate and, while some houses are chosen with little investigation, most are thought through. Your time here at this stage of Earth and the arrival of a new age and elevated dimensions, was precise and deliberate. You understood the trends and will recall that process when time comes for that. There is always control and ability to change course and shift effects, to lessen or strengthen. The way, extent and effect of events are always under humanity’s control; the rise to higher dimensionality will reawaken humanity to this, across a majority of the world’s human population. The occurrence, extent and reach can be adjusted. Always understand you all came with eager anticipation to benefit from experiences, events to occur and the choices you would all make before the circumstances presented.
ST QE: Final thoughts?
EA: I’m planning to give out final scores of a few football games, to get rid of gambling, watch people discover gambling died while bets are still coming in and mostly, show skeptics it isn’t always good to be one.
ST: Committee, our thanks!
