Our weekend in Denver is approaching, and I want to remind you that when you book the hotel, be sure you mention that you are with the Channeling Erik group so you can get a substantial discount. On the eBoard, Erik told me that everyone would be thrilled with the experience and most would consider it to be life-changing. I have some wonderful news regarding the event. Because of multiple requests, we will include spiritual life coaching as well, so it will be jam-packed! If you haven’t already reserved your ticket, do so HERE.

Many of you have had a session with Kim and have been beyond pleased. I’ve only heard very positive feedback. She’s booked up pretty far in advance, but hopefully she’ll squeeze in more sessions per week or offer group calls. Her fees are very reasonable. If you want to book an appointment, click HERE. Because group calls are much less expensive and the private sessions are booked up pretty far, please answer this poll to help Kim decide whether to do them or not. Thanks!

I’ve tried not to watch the news for the last couple of weeks because this crazy political campaign has made me anxious. I’m so worried about the direction our country will go in regardless of the candidate. Last night I dreamed that Texas seceded from the union and woke up with a smile. Don’t hate me for it, though. I’m a rebel who believes that the federal government needs to stay the hell out of our lives and that the power should remain on the state and local levels. I know what’s best for me and don’t need to rely on Big Brother to tell me how much soda to drink and what bathroom to pee in. I’m not saying any of this to start a shit storm of hateful comments, and my frustration knows no party lines. Both sides of the aisle have done a miserable job. 

Enjoy this fun post about witchcraft!

Robert: Hello.

Me: Hello, Robert Burke. Hello, Erik Medhus. How are you doing?

Erik waves his hand really fast and has a goofy smile on his face.

Me: Oh, gosh. He used to do that. So goofy. Well, we can either do a little potpourri session with small questions that are not long enough for a YouTube, or we can interview David Bowie.

I mispronounce his name again!

Me: Bowie! Why do I say, “Boo-wee?”

Robert chuckles.

Me: Which one do you want to do?

Erik: Let’s do the potpourri questions for now. Mr. Bowie likes to watch.

Me: “I like to watch.” Is he in the room?

Robert: He’s here. I can see him.

Me: Okay, good.

Robert: I mean I don’t see him, but I know he’s here. I can feel him.

Me: Okay, first of all, somebody wants to know about witchcraft. What’s that all about? Is it real? Can they put spells on people?

Erik: Yeah, witchcraft is real.

Robert: For some reason I want to say that with a speech impediment.

Erik: Yeah, Mom, it’s real, but I think most people misunderstand what it is. It’s not about a bunch of women standing around a cauldron with pointy noses and hats and warts on their faces and all that. It’s about a connection to the earth, worshipping the earth itself and all of the things that spring forth from it.

Me: Well why did it get such a bad rap with the spells and evil curses and stuff?

Erik: It’s the worship of nature. All of that comes from the fear of what people don’t know. There are certain divisions just like any religion where people will use it in a way that is manipulative and instills fear.

Me: Like Muslims vs. jihadists.

Erik: Or far right religious Christians vs. someone who’s more in the middle, but with witchcraft, you don’t really see that. It’s a minority. Someone wanting to do evil to someone else is a minority just like it is in religion, really. It feels like a lot of religions are hostile, and they have collectively some messages that may feel hostile, but usually the people who are radical within them are a small minority. They just get a lot of attention.

Me: Well, by worshipping Mother Earth and nature and all that, it’s kind of a pagan type thing, I guess, so did some of the bad rap come from Christianity?

Robert: That’s what he was just about to say.

Erik: Somehow witchcraft itself and any of those pagan religions existed prior to Christianity and a lot of the other major religions that we know now, but it was actually an influence for the other religions we know like Christianity, Islam, Buddhism. No, not Buddhism. There are several others that were influenced by Paganism. The main influence was this theme of love. A lot of religions brought that in from Paganism. They also brought in the sense of worship—worshipping something that was greater than you. When some of the other religions, particularly Christianity, came about and wanted to take root and people in power wanted to use that and establish that within their cultures, they naturally wanted to push out other elements to homogenize everybody to this one way of believing.

Me: Okay.

Erik: Believing that it would bring everyone together. Some aspects were about that. So then, of course, what do you do to push those others out? You start spreading rumors about them and make people afraid of those things, and you outlaw it and do all kinds of things.

Me: Is casting spells really true? I mean, can that happen?

Erik: Yeah, they can do that, but here’s the thing. You have to believe that the spell is going to work.

Me: Yeah, it’s like thought creates reality.

Erik: Right. Let’s bring up this scenario. A spell gets cast on you and you go, “Oh, that’s a bunch of bullshit!” But then things start happening like the spell is working. You know what that’s about? You have a belief somewhere in something that’s rooted in fear, and the spell is somehow tied to that in some way. It’s about letting go of all of that. On some unconscious level, you’re just not admitting to yourself that you do believe it. It’s about honesty. You can lie to yourself all you want, but the truth will always show itself.

Me: Oh I know. So if a witch casts a spell, “I’m going to turn you into a pig,” and somebody tells a joke and you snort and it sounds like an oink. That’s it. You might have poo-pooed the whole thing off, but then that happened and—

Erik: A spell can’t turn you from one creature to another. The way that works is it’s really a mind fuck. The spell itself just brings into your sense of awareness and attention that you had there. In some cases, it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Me: Okay.

Erik: That’s why the whole belief in Hell—when someone dies and they have a strong belief that they’re going to Hell and then they have a near death experience, they feel like they really went to Hell all because that’s what they believed.

Me: Oh yeah. Sure.

Erik: The same thing goes with spells.

Here’s some fun comic relief!