I know we often use the term, “Higher self,” but since this implies some sort of inferior/superior hierarchy, I now use the term, “True self.” Just an FYI.
Me: Can you take the things you learn in life and, while dreaming, help your other selves? In other words, can you upload information to your other selves?
Erik: Uh, why not?
He says this in a tone that has that, “Duh” quality about it.
Me (laughing): Well, excuse me if I don’t know these things!
Erik: Well, think about it. Everything we talk about that we can do in this life, you can obviously do in those other lives that we’re living. Other selves can come and visit us in this life. Déjà vu.
Me: Ah ha!
Jamie: He’s doing this (she wiggles the fingers on her right hand.)
Me: So, that’s where that comes from?
Erik: Yeah! When two threads overlap, you’ve been doing this—or are doing this—in some other lifetime, and you’re doing it in this lifetime at the same time.
Me: Oh, that’s fascinating.
Erik: Have you ever picked up your cup of coffee and just gone, “Whoa, I’ve done this before.”
Me (Laughing): I do it every morning!
Erik: It might not be that same cup of coffee, but it’s the same concept, similar location, similar thought patterns, your day is starting off the same so, yeah, hell yeah. I think that déjà vu [incidences] are huge signs that you’re doing the right thing. That’s totally what I think they are. You’re in the right fucking place.
Me: Oh, that’s fascinating!
I gotta get a better vocabulary.
Me: What information can you upload to your other selves?
Erik: What do you want to upload to your other selves?
Me: Well, I don’t know. How to do calculus so I don’t have to do it anymore (when I help my kids with it which would certainly lead to a failing grade.)
Jamie giggles.
Me: How about that?
The more I think about it, I’d like to upload an entire set of cookbooks plus the skills to make something without burning it. Or martial arts. That’s a good one.
Erik: Well, that shit in the whole scheme of things, Mom, is not as important.
Tell that to my family come 6 o’clock.
Me: Well, it’s important down here! I would have loved to have had my medical information uploaded to me from another self!
Erik: Yeeeah. No. That’s not gonna work, but like how to keep your ego in check, how to have integrity. Think about emotional values or experiences. We don’t come to Earth to learn calculus. We really come to Earth to have the emotional experiences like what situations are we putting ourselves into? What outcome are we looking for? What kind of internal growth are we going for? The calculus might be a means to an end so that you can get your medical degree, because with your medical degree, you’re going to put yourself in a situation where you’re going to be with this gentleman who thinks he’s about to die, and you’re going to tell him that he’s going to live. This is kind of what the brain is for. The brain is the slingshot—
Jamie (smiling): That’s a weird image. Imagine a Y-shaped slingshot that looks like chopped brain. Weird image.
Um, gross.
Jamie: And the ball is shaped like a little heart.
Erik: The brain is constantly launching off these emotional situations that we’re supposed to interact with and learn from. Like when we go back, we don’t talk about how—
(Pause)
Jamie: I asked him to clarify it. (To Erik) Go back to what, and where are you?
Erik: When you’re older, and you look back on your life, you talk about your successes as being able to understand the environment emotionally, the strategies that you put in place that have integrity, respect, morals. You know, we don’t talk about how we learned to sew or how we learned to add.
Me: Of course not!
Erik: These things are successful for us, but in the end, what matters are those emotional experiences.
Jamie (giggling): He just started laughing and he goes, “So, I forgot the fucking question that we were on!”
Jamie and I laugh.
Me: It’s okay. So did I. One more cup of coffee, and I’ll get there, but no, I think you answered it very well. Is there a difference between personality and soul or spirit, and how is this personality made? What’s the connection between the personality and the spirit?
Erik: The personality is how the head defines what the authentic experience or emotions are doing.
Me: I like that!
Erik: Yeah. It’s also character.
Me: What do you mean, “character”? Like integrity or the role we’re playing on Earth?
Erik: The role we’re playing on Earth.
Me: Okay. All right. How is the personality made? Is it made from experiences?
Erik: Yeah.
Me: Or do you come in with a contract like, “Okay, I want to have this personality”?
(Long pause)
Jamie (chuckling): He kind of purses his lips and goes, “Really, it can be both.”
Erik: When we talk about how we design our lives before we come back, it’s really a loose grid, Mom.
Me: Mm hm.
Erik: It’s a real big, fat picture, and we fill in those missing pieces as we grow, and we turn left and right as we see fit. We have free will, and those little small choices that we make in every moment are what create our personality. It’s head and heart coming to a decision.
Me: That’s interesting. So, is there some sort of connection between our personality and our true self? Is there a connection there?
Jamie: So a connection between personality and true self.
Me: Mm hm.
Erik: The personality is the dumbed down version of the true self.
Me: Okay.
(Pause)
Me: I feel really [mentally challenged] right now.
Jamie giggles.
