I spoke to Erik through a medium my wonderful publicist uses yesterday, and he wanted to relay an important message to all of you. He says that his book is infused with a great deal of powerful love energy. This energy doesn’t just come from him. Many spirits on the other side helped him with the book over many months and therefore helped confer this special energy to it, so please keep your copy with you close by–in the car, by your bed, in your bathroom. From time to time, hold it next to your heart or head and allow that healing energy to merge with your energetic field. Feel its power, and allow it to give you strength. If you don’t have a copy of the book or you’ve given your copy away, please get one HERE. It’s very inexpensive given the impact it has had on its readers.(You can get it for as little as $7.82.) Several of you have said it’s the best book you’ve EVER read, not just of that category–of all books. I’m so proud of Erik. Oh, and I just found out that the audiobook version will be out soon. I feel sorry for the narrator having to use that salty language of his!

Here’s the second and final part to the post about power.

Me: It’s almost like you’re talking about two types of power: One is about control and the ego and the other is our true power. We have innate power as souls.

Kim: He’s just shaking his head. He’s not saying anything. He’s just agreeing with you.

Erik (with both index fingers upright like goalposts): There definitely is, Mom. There are two. Power over yourself and power within yourself. (Laughing) It’s very powerful. But then there’s another “bad” power that comes in and makes you want to have control, and that’s where people get off track.

Me: Okay.

Erik: But power within yourself is important because you need to be able to control yourself. That’s the “good” control.”

Kim: He goes back to the seed.

Erik: It’s really about humility.

Me: Humility is how you tap into your real power, right?

Erik: Yes, and people need more of that.

(Pause)

Me: Okay, anything else on that?

Erik: When you can really shed—

Kim: He’s talking so fast!

Erik: Forget about thinking of what people think you look like, what you sound like—any of that. Shed all of that. Who cares about your looks, your racial class, your financial class. When you can really shed all of that and look through and past all of it, that’s where you find humility, and that’s where we all relate. That’s where we’re all one.

Me: That’s where the connections occur.

Erik: Exactly, and that’s what we have to get back to. We’re getting there. There’s a shift. People are wanting to make more connections. People are seeing their own damage, and they’re reaching out more.

Me: Good.

Erik: People are feeling isolated and realize it. They’re trying to reverse that. They’re starting to acknowledge humility again because we’ve been so concerned with having power. It’s hard for people to shed that, but they are.

Me: That’s good. What about the loss of looks? Of course, just getting old, you don’t look as close to society’s standards of beauty or if you have a disfiguring burn on your face. What can you tell people who feel like they’ve lost their looks? This is going to be a little session on loss today!

Kim: The first thing he does, his heart is pounding, and he makes my heart pound, so he’s just conveying sympathy and empathy for those people in that struggle. That’s the first thing he wants to say. He feels for those people because it’s not easy.

Erik: That really boils down to self-love because no matter what you look like, if you love yourself, people will see that. It’s very hard because we do attach to what we look like. We identify with what we look like, so if you become disfigured, you lose a sense of self-identity, but it’s actually a lesson to teach you to connect to yourself on a deeper level and learn self-love no matter what you look like.

Me: Ah, okay.

Kim: He’s walking with a cane and saying, “I really don’t want that shit. I really don’t.” He’s acknowledging the difficulty of growing old.

He’ll never know.

Erik: You lose your independence, and that also allows you to re-identify yourself. “Now I can’t rely on myself to do this and that.” Again, it’s about learning self-love no matter the perspective—whether it’s an elderly person losing their youthful looks or someone who’s been disfigured.

Me: Back to perspective. So what is my old age going to look like besides getting horribly wrinkled and nasty looking? Am I going to be pretty much independent towards the end or is it going to be like it was with my mom who really required a lot of care?

Kim: He gives me the word, “spitfire.”

Erik: No matter how you age, your voice is going to stay young.

(Long pause)

Kim: He just keeps repeating that.

Me: I just don’t want anybody to have to change my diapers! Tell me they’re not going to have to do that.

Kim: No, he makes me feel like they’re not going to be able to hold you down.

Erik: You’re go, go go, and you’re going to keep going, going, going.

Me: Awesome! Well, you didn’t have to worry about getting old, Erik, sadly.

Erik: I know that, Mom, but if I need to experience that to understand that perspective, I can.

Kim: He shows me himself bent over, holding his back with a walking cane. Again, he’s conveying compassion for those people.

Erik: Think about it. If you have someone who’s so physically active—

Kim: He shows me a soldier again.

Erik: –so in shape and active, and then they grow older and lose that, even the mind if they lose the ability to have clear thought processes, I feel such empathy and sympathy for them because it’s not easy to go through.

Me: It’s a loss of power.

Erik: It’s very confusing when your mind starts to work differently than it has for so long, and it’s exactly what you said—a loss of power, self-power. If you don’t feel like you have power over yourself or control of your body—oh shit. Now we’re going to open up a whole new can of worms.

Kim: He brings up the word, “hopeless.”

Erik: Then it becomes this hopelessness that people start to experience. That’s a whole nuther can of worms we can get into, but –

Me: At a future time. Anything else because I also want to let Kim share a little bit about herself? Do you want to be called Kim or Kimberly?

Kim: Kim’s fine. I’ve read Erik’s book, and that’s about it. I don’t even know if his father is still living or deceased, but he shouts out to him.

Me: Yeah, he’s here.

Kim: Okay. He just said to give a shout out to his father when you said, “Anything else?”

Me: Tell me about your gift, your journey.

Kim: Okay. I’ve been seeing stuff, hearing stuff all my life. I didn’t know what the hell was going on. Just a few years ago, probably 4-5 years ago, I started to be able to understand it and process it. Then my husband got deployed, and I still wasn’t understanding what happened, so before he got deployed, I put it out to the Universe that I don’t want to see anything; I don’t want to hear anything. I can’t handle this while he’s gone.

She laughs.

Me: Oh yeah.

Kim: So then he got home, and I told the Universe, “Open up the floodgates. I’m ready for help.”

Me: Good.

Kim: And that’s when it all started happening. Just in the last three years I’ve read as much as I could get my hands on about the afterlife, metaphysics, quantum physics, really trying to understand what was happening. So I opened up my own business where I could have a sacred place to do readings, reiki, massage, incense, sage and jewelry—all that good stuff.

Me: Awesome.

Kim: People ask, “Well why did you open a shop? You can do readings from anywhere. Why have a business?” It’s the bigger message. There’s so much more than just the readings. There’s so much more out there that I want people to see and understand. I hope in some way I can help that happen.

Me: It sounds like you already are.

Kim: Thank you. [Unintelligible] think for themselves and try to experience instead of doing what they’re taught. So hopefully we’re going to break the mold.

Me: Good! Does Erik pester you a lot?

Kim: Yeah, he has been picking on me. Like he’ll cuss a lot in readings because of course he knows I’m uncomfortable with that, and he thinks it’s hilarious.

Me: Of course.

Kim: Now I’m getting used to it. Yesterday—this may be weird for you or maybe you’re past it—I had been talking to him all week, asking him to stay close, and yesterday I was at the grocery store. I looked down the drink aisle and was like, ‘Yeah, I don’t need anything,’ but there was a woman bent over getting beer. I didn’t think twice about it, then I turned and, as I was going down another aisle, I heard Erik say, “Oh, titties!” (She laughs.) And I was like, ‘Oh, that’s Erik!’ I could feel his energy next to me.

I laugh hard.

Kim: She was bending forward, and she had a low cut shirt on.

Me: Oh my god. He’ll never get tired of titties.

Kim laughs hard.

Kim: But it was so funny because in that moment I was thinking to myself, ‘Erik, stay by, you know, when you’re here.” And just like that, I heard him say that so I’m like, ‘Okay. He’s here.’

Me: Well at least he didn’t shop for you. For Robert, he’ll sling things like Twizzlers and really sugary cereals off the shelves into his basket. They’ll just fly off the shelves and land in his basket. Robert is kind of a health food nut, so that’s funny.

Kim: That’s funny. That’s what Erik did with his book. The book was a gift, and I had it for months. For whatever crazy reason, I was scared to read it. I was home alone, and there was a very distinct sound of a book falling off a shelf. I went to my bedroom, and his book was on the floor. I picked it up and go, ‘Okay, Erik. I’ll get to you.’ I put it back on the shelf. The next day, the very same thing happened: Home alone. Book fell off the shelf, and I was like, ‘Okay, Erik. I get it.’ I still didn’t start reading. That night, he came to me—it was a dream, white mist—and he stepped forward and handed me his book.

Me: Wow!

Kim: Okay, so the next day I read his book all in one day.

Me: Oh my gosh!

Kim: Oh yeah. I couldn’t put it down. A few other things like last night it was crazy. I had a lucid dream about seeing him everywhere, and it was different phases of his life.

Me: Right.

Kim: I was aware that I was dreaming, but I asked Erik, ‘Give me something to let me know that you’re here.’ That was the first time I saw a dragonfly. It was showing everybody, “This is how Erik makes himself known.” And I think I told you about the frog thing.

Me: Yeah, that was cool.

Kim: I was thinking about him while I was mowing the grass, and there was this frog stuck to the side of my house. I was like, ‘Okay.” Then a couple of nights later when I was emailing you, he told me to ask you about the frog.

Me: Yeah, that was the frog that got stuck in my watering can nozzle. It got out, thank god, then it went back there again! I guess that’s his little home. It’s a bit of a shock when you’re trying to pour water, and it doesn’t come out, then all of a sudden this toad jumps out.

Kim: I think that was Erik’s way of saying, “Hi Mom.”

Me: I think it is. Well, bye, Erik. I love you.

Erik: Thank you.

Me: Miss you.

Erik: I miss you more.

Erik blows me kisses.

Me: Thank you, Kim!

Kim: Yeah, I hope we can connect again soon. I’m going to keep working with Erik to develop myself in any way I can. I told him, ‘Make me your student. Whatever I can do.

Now for some comic relief!

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Have a great weekend everyone!