Channeling Erik Team Visualization Exercise #4

Channeling Erik Team Visualization Exercise #4 Jan. 07-10, 2011

(*note: Sorry for the odd formatting. Merging text files was difficult~j)

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Hi E-team! It's time for our Semi-periodic group channeling practice with

Erik!

This week we are adding Channeling blog member Sherry to the group. Know

anyone else that channels Erik, please ask if they want to be included in

these emails. Remember Channeling means many things, brief images to words,

to smells, to experiences. How this works is: Your read the vision below

and then see if you can see, hear, feel, or experience anything more. Erik

will try to give you a message. It could be silly and nonsensical, or it

could have meaning to you, or have meaning for the group, OR nothing at all.

That's OK too. Just forward your answers back to me, and I'll compile them

and sometime this weekend I'll send them back. Participation is voluntary.

:) Imagination is KEY. Just let it come and trust and accept that it has

meaning... or not. There is no right or wrong answer. It's about

imagination, belief, trust, acceptance, visualization, practice, and fun;

what does it all mean to you. Red the following paragraph. Go somewhere

where you'll be alone. This could be in the bathroom or even before bed.

Think of this visualization. Close your eyes and take 2-5 min. and ask Erik

if he will elaborate. Just write down ANYTHING that comes to mind. Even if

it's fleeting and doesn't make sense. We'll see afterwords if he will

elaborate! :)

OK.... Last night after my Reiki practice I had a vision. I was laying in

bed when all of a sudden I saw him in my mind like a waking vivid dream. It

was extremely clear. Erik was dressed in late nineteenth century attire. He

was In a big city. It felt like New York or Chicago. He was leaning on a big

metal fence, with brick at the bottom. The air smelt smoky. And I heard city

noise in the back ground. He was a young adult. Older teen maybe. He was

wearing a brown berae and a light tan tweed coat. A plaid brown and tan

sweater and pants that went down past his knees long brown ribbed socks, and

brown leather shoes. He had really curly hair. Super short on the sides and

back. He took off his hat and bowed to show it off-smiling. Below him was a

box made of wood. It's opening was on it's side and open. The lid off. And

a girl with blond long straight hair came out and ran around him. she was in

a little kids sailor outfit. and she said. ta daaaaa ! I had a hard time

telling if she was younger or not. But it was odd. I honestly thought Emily

when I saw her. Although it may not be. He said it's the message not the

image that matters. He looked very much the same in the face only he had

lots of freckles.

Ok, remember the game is to see if;

A) he shows you more visualizations, images or moving images.

B) he shows you a word, phrase, or speech

C) relate anything else that happens.

D) relate what if anything it might mean as it pertains to life, your life,

or those around you

E) any inspirational message it might have

F) anything funny that might happen

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Erik says:

"Ur unique vision is the communication. The phrase "Ta-da" is the concept of "validation vs/ the mundane". The concept of "looking for the

"here we are" in the mundane" --Is your Spirit and our Spirit trying to manifest in the everyday of your mind."

"The very next step for you all, is to take your every day visualizations and re-visualize them. Look at them and imagine whoever is in them.

Now in your head 'ask the person or thing in your vision a non yes or no question' Non black and white. And try to accept any thing that happens. Think about anything that happens next. Don't assume you know what any answer means. For in looking for secret hidden meaning you may miss a simple, 'Hi-I love you. You're not alone.' Try not to make assumptions or you might miss out on a message".

"Each individual alteration of the visualization is that which is 'YOU' interacting with 'US'. The more you accept this, the more you pick up on communications, which are the original creative thoughts behind the images. You can either blow this off as internalized wishful thinking and self assessment or you can take the next step and believe and accept that this is a meeting of thought, heart, and soul. A key to Spiritual mastery is the faith that bridges these two aspects. It really is all about what do you want to believe. For your belief will create your reality."

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BeFreeMyAngel:

As soon as a I read the group email I pictured Erik in 17th century attire in England.

The only other flashes I've had when meditating was Erik making a kissy face. It was a really quick flash, then gone. My daughter was gardening this afternoon, Ariel, and she wanted to go get some soil, well she is neo pagan, does blessings and offerings and had this box without a lid that she has the goddess symbol etched onto. She was bugging me about going and I was watching ancient aliens on history and was really into it. When I got up she had brought this box into the house laid it sideways and I immediately thought of the box Erik had.

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Elisa:

I get that Erik was son of a banker, the girl was his younger sister. He

also has an older brother, Frederick. His mom passed away from Listeria

after giving birth to the youngest. He smokes a pipe but his dad frowns on

it. I smell sweet tobacco. I see a girl looking out of a window, his

girlfriend, or more like he WANTS her to be his girlfriend. She has medium

length dark brown hair. It's pulled back in a french braid/bun. She has a

half smile, I only see the upper half of her dress, It's white. Erik

whistles with his fingers and a dog comes over to him, looks like a terrier.

He rubs under the dog's chin and the girl flounces on the dog giving it a

big hug. Cobblestone streets. Ha, Erik shows me that he often pees in the

alley. One time, a cop caught him and admonished him. But his dad is pretty prominent and so... He likes to go to the wharf and hang out with his

buddies. Drinking involved. Might be prohibition, so they might be drinking

moonshine. I see them playing cards, maybe poker. He's kind of a rudderless dude. His dad wants him to go into the same business (banking, or could be textiles, maybe both. I see a factory with weaving looms so I don't know if that's a family business or if it's just an investment. Erik really wants to be a sailor, join the navy, not sure. He's very close to his little sis.

The older brother is from another marriage. They're not that close. He's a

boxer, in and out of jail. I smell a dead animal somewhere. Some dare

between him and his buds about doing something with it, touching it or

getting close. Looks like a big dog. Erik shows me the word "Goldilocks."

His sister's nickname? He talks in an Irish accent. The girl in the window

teases him by calling him Mickey because of that. He likes to say "Hello,

Doll," to all the ladies. Very charming guy. Basically, he ran off to join

the navy and the message is, follow your dream, not someone else's.

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Steve:

Ok, I'm about ready to start this. I am not going to re-read the

visualization as I want whatever Erik sends to me to be unique and not

related to your vision. I will spend about 5 min in meditation and see what

happens, then relay it here:

Of course my dog was making all kinds of distracting noises and bugging me

during this, but Erik came through.

First, it was blank. I saw nothing. Then a beige room and an old beige couch

came into view. Erik was lying on his back on the couch, blowing one of

those New Year's Eve things. You know, the ones that blow out a tube a

paper, it curls back up, blows back out again. He then stood up and said,

"There, I got your attention." He kind of wandered over to my view and put

his face right up to me as if he was in front of the camera, pulled back,

squatted down on his knees, then stood up again. He proceeded to lecture me

about being too set in my ways, too stuck in my routines, to afraid to live

outside of the box, take chances. He said I am getting these colds because

I'm bottling up too much of my energy inside my head and getting into a rut

with my routines. He told me to stop and smell the roses, have more fun, try

new things, not be so stuck in my safe little rituals of life all the time.

To laugh more, to chill more, to play hooky and be cool with that. To skip

doing the laundry one day, etc.

That was it! I definitely needed to hear that. It is certainly something my

subconscious would say, and I know I need to work on this :)

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Sherry:

Funny, I knew he was wearing a beret before I read it.

I saw Erik dancing, it almost looked like tap dancing. As I write that he

says "Right on Dude!" After he dances, he puts his arms out at an angle and

says "Ta Da!" Than he blows me a kiss.

The little girl is jumping rope, faster and faster.

Now they're linking arms and dancing around in circles together. Her hair is

flying out behind her. Than they both take bows.

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Sharon:

Hi. I am going to have to try again in the morning for the visual.

If tomorrow morning is anything like this morning it'll be good. I tried

twice already today and I think I am trying too hard. When i got this

mornings visual I didn't have to try. I think my brain is clearer in the

morning and i am more relaxed.

The first time I tried I saw Erik exactly as you described and I loved Eriks

hair like that. I also saw the street scene you described. It felt crisp

and cool and felt like fall. I was unable to progress because the little

girl you described was not a little girl to me. She was a woman with blond

hair like the mom from Bewitched. An elegant woman wearing a red dress. I

should have relaxed and kept going but I couldn't because I couldn't place

the little girl.

The second time I tried I was trying way too hard. Nothing really showed up

although I saw a dark haired man with a handlebars mustache. I don't know

who the man is but he shows up in my visions from time to time.

I am going to have to try again in the morning for the visual. If tomorrow morning is anything like this morning it'll be good. I tried twice already today and I think I am trying too hard. When i got this mornings visual I didn't have to try. I think my brain is clearer in the morning and i am more relaxed.

The first time I tried I saw Erik exactly as you described and I loved Eriks hair like that. I also saw the street scene you described. It felt crisp and cool and felt like fall. I was unable to progress because the little girl you described was not a little girl to me. She was a woman with blond hair like the mom from Bewitched. An elegant woman wearing a red dress. I should have relaxed and kept going but I couldn't because I couldn't place the little girl.

The second time I tried I was trying way too hard. Nothing really showed up although I saw a dark haired man with a handlebars mustache. I don't know who the man is but he shows up in my visions from time to time.

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Ceridwen:

When Erik bowed to me, looking up and smiling while doing so, I tried to get a bead on his face, but it kept changing! It would go from Erik from the pictures, to one of those young British school lads from those old Scottish movies, to Alfred E. Newman from MAD, to Ronald McDonald, back to Erik again - continually moving like a kaleidoscope. The message seemed to be that what you look like is irrelevant, and you can look any way and wear any face you want to take on any persona you wish...

As for the girl, as she ran circles around Erik, she moved at all different speeds - super fast so she was just a bright blur going around him...and then in super slow motion, giggling very slowly as well! The message seemed to be that time is relative and elastic, and you can make it any speed you want by your intent and belief...

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Jason:

When Erik first showed me the vision I related; It came as a sudden flash

before my eyes as I was getting ready for bed. Nothing else happened or showed. Then I rolled over and went to bed.

The next day, I revisualized it and saw myself as an 8 or 9 year

old. With a huge mess of curly hair. I was wearing a tweed coat and had torn

britches. And I was dirty and scuffed up. I was running from a pack of older

boys. They were chasing me out of an immigrant section of a big city. Like Chicago or New York.

I got the distinct impression that this was the same lifetime I shared with my guide Jeffery.

The life in which I had a vision about living a life as a street artist and dying of the Spanish flu.

Like I said, I was running from a pack of street kids who were gonna beat me up for something.

I was running to Erik for protection. His message to me via that for this life was "that I can stop running because he is here now".

I made the impression that the girl was Emily helping Erik out with the visualization. In my re-visualization;

as I was running to Erik, she jumped out and put her fists up to the boys chasing me,

as though she was our sister and was going to help protect me.

This vision made me think about why I was running. What might I have been running from, what might I be running from. It caused me to self examine my life history and actions from this point of view. It made me analyze what I might be running from. So I thought back to all the past dramas and traumas and made a list of them. It made me re-evaluate them in light of my current understanding of the world around me. I confess I got a little depressed about it all. I said that I didn't like feeling like that. Erik said, "Then don't. Change your outlook. What do you want to do about it". A re-evaluation, a change of perspective.

Everyone of you have also helped me to do this. You hold your own light up in the dark. It helps illuminate my own path. Each of your lights help me see that I am not alone. That we are all seeking Spirit. Each in our own way shines a light for the other.

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********************* Food for thought ***********************

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Doubt of the "Vision" --Of your own Visions can define your reality.

What do you personally do; Or, how do you personally handle doubt from

others. I am trying to be brave in the face of doubt. How do you personally deal with this? Is this just a normal part of being human with free will? Something built in. It seems like doubt is not something that can be alieved in others and still hold on to that original experience.

So much of Spirituality is a private journey. One that must be made alone. People must must come to terms of that which is within before they can fully embrace that which is without.

Vision, visualization, imagination are all a part of original creative thought that is a direct reflection of the Divine within each of us. It is a form of mediumship. It is a force that communicates, interacts, and creates the world around us. This is the same process that Spirits use to interact with and create.

Medium-ship is a big struggle for people to accept. They want to categorize it and put restraints on it. It has many aspects, many forms and uses. It has been a big struggle for me. It used to be more so back in the

day. (just 10 months ago) I didn't believe any of it. I thought I was going crazy. Experiences just kept building up that I couldn't deny anymore. And I started to believe. I think belief creates reality. Once I surrendered, gave in and embraced this belief; the experiences started increasing.

Today I have no more personal doubt. But in the face of others doubt I still struggle. I count on all of you to help keep the faith. One thing that really helps me keep the faith is, I step back and remember what Elisa once told me. "In 100 years will any of this really matter." That helps me look away from feeling bad, look up and refocus on what I believe. So I turn back to the so called inner visualization. The dream, the imagination that doesn't feel like me.

To those who are not yet sensitive or channelers; guides, angels and loved

ones use the subconscious and unaware minds of people. I know that those of us associated with the Channeling Erik site are aware of this or at the very

least on the precipice of acceptance. This gives us all a leg up to help

bring others along. To start jump-starting everyone's journey. For we as a

society having mastered awareness of self are moving to becoming aware of that which is 'other'.

Awareness of others and our place amongst the 'other'. That which is

beyond our own self; Spiritual, global, and in the universe.

That is exactly what a vision is. Inner Awareness. Part of this is a waking dream that the spirit world uses to get across communication. Everything is energy. Everything, including that which is our inner minds. It is the bridge between worlds. It is where our body's chemicals, neurons, cells go smaller and smaller and smaller down to molecular and electrical, down to atomic exchanges. Down at this level it is able to interact with the other! It is this subtle function, where it all happens for communication.

People have a hard time understanding this or quantifying

it; or they are unable to create something tangible with it

so they pass it off as over exaggeration at best or flat out crazy at worst.

That's when we have no choice but to fall back on faith, acceptance, belief,

and perception. We use this to evaluate the so called message.

Then we decide what if anything we want to do with that message.

This become problematic for many people who

naturally lean to the materialist side of world views. For them, they want

Spirit to materialize solid right in-front of them and hit them in the head

with a fry pan and then go on national television and say "Ta da" here we

are. Now everyone get along, everyone make the world a better place, and all

hold hands for a new happy universe. (Well that was totally sarcastic on my

part, yes); But Spirit wants us to know such validation interferes with our free

will as individuals and as societies. Free will is one of the most sacred laws

of the universe. Interfering is a big no no.

Where does that leave us? It leaves us trying to interpret the world around

us. Are inner vision and various communications simply the delusion of the

ego, the id, the super id, the sub conscious; a mistake of bio-chemical

reaction or perhaps a Mal-adjusted person? Or does the subtle experiences

add up in synchronicity that have special proofs and meanings for our

life's? Faith.

If so, If this all adds up, what are we going to do about it. Why are we

seeking? No matter on what side of the fence we sit, Spirit wants us to own

our convictions and live them. For in owning our beliefs we begin to

understand that which is us, and this understanding is a key to spiritual

progress. I hope all of us, and society can embrace these ideas. For it

often leaves me confused. How can we accept Religious beliefs but not

mediumship? It's because people do not want to think for themselves.

They want the grand reveal. The "Ta Da". Even those of us in the thick

of things frequently blow off aspects of mediumship that we can't explain.

For me, there came a spiritual turning point to all my experiences. They had

reached a crescendo of experience that created a set of doors. I had to go

through one of them. One led to anti psychotics; one let to denial, inner

pain, drama, the wreckage of a soul; and the other led to this-- Acceptance

of a Spiritual journey. Belief. Faith, Hope-manifested as reality. A change

of perspective.

Love you! Jason

ps. I'll share something that Erik told me to tell Sharon the other day about vision.

"At his point its not so much about careful listening, as it is about trust, faith and willful intent of the process. You want to talk to him (Erik) so it is him. It will progress much smoother that way. "