The book tour looks!! It’s so exciting. I’m going to be busier than a one armed paper hanger, but promise to post as much as I can! Meanwhile, if you guys can help answer those who ask questions in the comment section that’d be great. I probably won’t have time to check them.
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Me: This is from a blog member: “I’m seeing more and more how I am my world, the all of it, the one is the all and the all is the one and I’m not sure how to distinguish when my spirit is telling me something through my environment or if I should just decide for myself what I think is right. When do I use my mind and when do I follow synchronicity and signs.”
Erik: I know. So it’s a question about self-guidance. Even though we all signed up to be part of the One, you still have the free will to paddle your own boat, turn left, turn right, however you see fit for yourself.
Me: Well, I see he has two questions; “For example, a lot of people tell me to do something that I don’t want to do. Should I listen to my feelings and be true to myself and do what I want or maybe I’m learning something and my guides are trying to show me something and I should listen. How do I know? If all is one, how can I distinguish the “misleading” voices from myself?” That’s a hard one.
Erik: It’s not hard. It’s not hard. If you can always stick with what your emotions are, that will guide you to the right timing, the right answer. Thirty people around you might be telling you to do one thing and they’re consistent with it, but your core, your inner body says no. No. No. Then I want you to say no even if you feel like the whole world is dealing this hand to you so that you can put your head down, get your work done, for yourself, do whatever. The answer’s no because you’re not emotionally there. We’re emotional beings. As soon as you say no and you move on with your life—it could be 5 minutes later, it could be 5 years later, you might come to the conclusion that what everybody was saying to you is the right thing for you now, Then you feel aligned with it. That’s when you say, “Okay. Now I say yes.” And you move on. Just because you’re picking up on all the messages doesn’t mean you have to obey all of them in that moment. You have to make sure that your tool, your instrument, your body; your emotions are all being groomed for the right timing.
Me: Hm. That makes sense.
Erik: Yeah. That’s when this self-compassing, self-guiding is so freaking easy, but then again you have to know, are you mentally stable? Because if you’re not mentally stable, meaning bipolar, other kinds of illnesses or diseases, Alzheimer’s, things of that nature, then your mental stability, what it does is it fucks up how you define your feelings, your emotions. It doesn’t give you a very clean slate to work from. It doesn’t give you that emotional honesty to work from. You need to know the clarity of your mind, and if you’ve got that, if you know you’re, uh, let’s just say you’re average, you know. Average means you’re a pendulum. You can swing one way or the other. You can be on the fence. You know, that’s life. That’s being human. Then that’s what you want to work with. But if you know that you’re a little off on that pendulum arc, and you’re taking some meds or doing some discipline work and if you know that if you get into meditative package and that actually gives you mental clarity, then you can look at your emotions. Make your decisions from that spot, not from crazy head spot.
Me: Ah, crazy head.
Erik: I think that was written over my fucking contract when I came back. Crazy head contract.
Me: Well I have a crazy hair contract today. You always had it, Erik!
Jamie bursts out laughing.
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Dear Reader,
The journey on which you’re about to embark will take you through stories that are deeply personal and involves a relationship between a mother and her son.
As a physician raised by two atheists, I had no personal belief system about life after death. In a word, I was a confirmed skeptic. As my journey progressed, my mind opened. It is my sincerest hope that yours will open as well and that you will have a greater understanding of your own life and what’s to come ahead.
Although Erik sometimes paints a rosy picture of the afterlife, time and time again he stresses that suicide is not the answer to one’s problems. If you struggle, please understand that the information in my blog and my book is no substitute for professional help. Please click here for a list of resources for help when you find yourself considering taking your own life. Know that they are readily available when you feel that hopelessness and despair that many of us feel from time to time in our lives.
I refuse all donations and ad revenue on the blog. It is my dream to one day establish a nonprofit organization that delivers a variety of spiritual services for those who have lost loved ones to suicide and cannot afford that assistance on their own. It’s a mission of love, sacrifice, and dedication.
Love and light,
Elisa
