Dec 9-10 Visualization game with Erik

*****Well, It Looks like we were able to get almost everyone before 3pm central time. That's ok.. :) ... Erik says he will sing for Robert "real-nice like"... whatever that means......*******

**[edit note: Elisa informs me that this was a signature saying of Erik's]**

When I first thought of this, it came to me out of the blue. Out of boredom, but it suddenly took off with urgency. I hollered the idea at Erik and he got all frustrated. He said, "GHeeezzehh... You want me to sing?!! Could ya have at least given me a little warning. Why couldn't you have asked me to play music... You dont' want to hear me sing..." I said, Oh, sorry, do you want me not to send it? He said, "Nah, it's cool it'll be fun." But he was muttering under his breath and I was worried. I said, well, it's not that many people you have to try to influence.... And he said, "No it's fine, no duty shirking here, I have a mission to do. (Grin)."

Erik says, "Everyone's song is different. The words, how it is presented but to each it is individual. On the surface it can seem silly, contrite, bizarre, or something fun and wonderful. It can seem sad, lonely, or troubled. In the small images we can see, feel and understand the symbols, be it of love, friendship, and loyalty.

This visualization is all about finding that inner song within each of us. That song has meaning. Songs mean many things to many people. Much of the time they have different meaning when listened to during different times. Spirit uses song, music, tone, sound to communicate with us by triggering feelings and reactions to those feelings. Those feelings trigger images and visualization in our minds. It uses our imagination and helps us understand and know the world around us in ways that simple speech can not.

That every song within us is a spark of message, of purpose, of meaning, truth from a certain point of view at a certain point of time. In each of us Song and visualization of that song, no matter what the image presented upon broadcast and reception carries layers of meaning and messages. Symbol, feelings, word and image. We have within each of us the ability to use these tools to grow that spark into flame. To use that light to examine that which is within us and light our Spiritual path, and the paths of those around us. We only have to look at that light with intent and belief in it's meaning."

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Jason's visualization:

Erik jumps out in an Elis suit, the Aloha Hawaii one. The white one. And he snerals and says, this outfit is for you Jason, so you better like it! And then he whips his arm out straight and in a giant circle motions strums his guitar and "SHRIEKS" --- "UH HUH, I'll stand by you! (by the pretenders) only he sings in a halting Elvis kind of way and snearls. And Jillian is down below the stage hollering at him. And everyone in the audience is looking around like, 'what the...?!' and I see Emily sitting next to me with her hands on her hears and she is making 'ewwwieee' sounds....

Erik is saying to me while typing this that, this means, "No matter how bad, no matter how strange the Spritual stuff gets he'll always be there for us, so will all our loved ones. No matter how bad the sound of the music, grief, or pain gets, they will be there wether you want it or not, they are there for you!

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Elisa's visualization:

Okay, I see Erik coming out in little schoolboy clothes like the guitarist for AC/DC. He's pulling on the hem of his shorts because they ride up and mess with his package. He has a half grin, you know, the mischievous one. Jillian is behind the curtain giggling, then gives him a shove on stage because he's a little reluctant. So he does the ahem thing clearing his throat, then belts out Hells Bells very badly, but handling the guitar Jimmie Hendrix style, picking the strings with his teeth, playing the guitar behind his back. Sometimes he laughs and substitutes "Balls" for "Bells." I get some pretty gross visuals when that happens. After, he whips out a rose from thin air and, after pulling her from behind the curtain, he hands it to Jillian with a glean in his eye. Jillian accepts it, covering her mouth, giggling. Sometimes it changes to him as the lead in Rush playing Bad Horsie.

Erik says Hells Bells for him is about non conforming. He's not gonna put up with Spiritual crap. And he cant believe the shit people put themselves through. They think they are dragging them self to hell with all their beliefs. They got the Spirit world ringing hells bells like their being dragged by the so called devil, when all their doing is dragging them self down. He thinks people's Hells are just a bunch of Balls! Get angry, get mad, you are the only one creating the bad. Your in charge! Get pissed and set your strings on fire. They just need to whip out their geeetarrr and toss a rose to their love and let go..Cause when the song it over all that's left is the ecco and memory of the sound and you can hear again! *(oh, and he says the shorts are for Steve!)

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Steve's Visualizations"

This is going to sound strange, so here it is...

Erik walks on stage wearing an old fashioned black tuxedo, top hat, and cane. His unruly/curly hair is long and sticking outside of the that. He's smiling. Music starts - it's Leon Russell's "Song for You." Erik sings this ballad a la Michael Buble, moving about the stage like a debonaire Fred Estair,crooning into the microphone he's holding. At the end he spins around and opens up a red rose bouquet, and throws it into the audience. the bouquet is for his beloved mom, Elisa. Corny, yes! But hey, that's what I got. I don't think Erik even likes this kind of music ("not really," I hear him saying, " but it was what YOU wanted to see, Steve."

Eriks says: "Oh Stevey!, Buddy, this one is so easy! It's you and me man! It's you and your mom! It's all of our relationships, the one we secretly hope to be true..DUDE snap out of it, ITS TRUE! You think what you hear, what you feel might not be real. You fear to loose something which deep down you already had but have just forgotten. Family and love is more and has always been more than you can imagine. Not only are you NOT alone but you never have been. We all are a part of your family and there's so many more, so much more. It's all about remembering and recreating that which was always you. Keep listening to me sing, cause it's not just me singing it to you."

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Ceridwen visualization:

Okay...hmmm...I hear a female voice - possibly Jillian's - announcing, "And now here he is, for your listening enjoyment, Erik Medhus!" The crowd applauds in anticipation, awaiting his appearance...and waiting...and waiting...the applause dies down and people start looking around...and just when everyone starts getting restless, finally Erik slowly walks out on stage, dressed in faded jeans, a backwards cap with his unruly hair sticking out around it, and a blue long-sleeved shirt with a suede vest...looking something like Neil Young...and sure enough, he sang the "After the Gold Rush" song, trying (and not always succeeding) to reach Neil's high notes and voice. Here are the lyrics:

Well, I dreamed I saw the knights in armor coming

Sayin' something about a queen

There were peasants singin' and drummers drumming

And the archer split the tree

There was a fanfare blowin' to the sun

That floated on the breeze

Look at mother nature on the run in the nineteen seventies

I was lyin' in a burned out basement

With a full moon in my eyes

I was hopin' for a replacement

When the sun burst through the skies

There was a band playin' in my head

And I felt like getting high

Thinkin' about what a friend had said,

I was hopin' it was a lie

Thinkin' about what a friend had said,

I was hopin' it was a lie

Well, I dreamed I saw the silver spaceships flying

In the yellow haze of the sun

There were children crying and colors flying

All around the chosen ones

All in a dream, all in a dream

The loading had begun

Flyin' mother nature's silver seed

To a new home in the sun

Flyin' mother nature's silver seed

To a new home in the sun

He sang it with feeling - staring off into space - with an enigmatic smile on his face at the end, and the crowd erupts with applause! He looks at me and I have tears in my eyes...

Thank you Erik - that was beautiful! :)

Erik says, "Finally, someone think of me in a normal outfit. Sigh.. The things I do for you all. I gave Jason a hard time on this one. I ignored him for a while cause I wanted him to think about my silence. The point was to get him to actually read the lyrics. Because I want him to see that when words are combined with music and combined with images that the message becomes many messages. And when fed back to many people they each transform that personal message into their own. We must understand that this message while for each of you is for you alone... The message holds within it, messages for others to own. Spiritual messages are not meant for the few. They are of love and meant for all.

*side note from Jason: I did have a hard time with this one because I was expecting translation from Erik or running commentary while simply stairing at the email. But that didn't happen. Only after I had actually read the lyrics did the message come, and to me it addressed some of my fear issues. As well it made me think about how that no matter how weird, strange and scarry things got, that all in the universe was and is a part of the whole, that we, every aspect of us, are a part of the earth, the natural order, of the divine, of you. And I am not alone. Even aliens! That all around us is a playground made up of dreams.

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Sharon's Visualization:

Hi guys! Here's my visual.. I've cheated a little since I'm leaving for Florida in the morning.

A few weeks ago while I was in my car a song called, You Are Loved came on the radio. I was about to change the channel. But before I could Erik piped in and said, "no listen to it. And while your listening to it imagine (blog member) Jason singing it to you. I felt that the song was hokey but I figured I'd humor Erik. As I imagined Jason singing this to me I got the giggles. I was so glad he shared that with me. I have come to love this song. I hear it all the time now and it always brings a smile to my face.

Erik says, " Slacker! -- Just kidding..Don't get pissed... I love you! Always have always will. Same for all of you, I know you guys can't remember, but this life will come and go in the blink of an eye. Decades will seem like seconds and we will all be together again. That goes for everones families. Sharon thought of Jason sining this to her. But really I've been helping him help us all to see that we are simply love, and loved. ps. don't let him lie to you, he gets teary eyed listenin to it... ha ha. OLD LADY and the water works!! Snicker...."

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Erik says, "Everyone has a song. For them, for you, for me, for everyone. You all know this. You know deep down and you can tell people. Show people. This message, like songs, have meaning. You have this within each of you to share with others, all it takes is visualization, a change in perspective and the right intent. We can feel the love and humor across the heaven if but we let go and see the fun and love within. Do you guys honestly think communication is only available to those who can hear me say shit- word for word? NOoooo.... Just exactly how do you think the Source experiences 'all that is' anyway? hmmm.? DO you all honestly think he's gonna say, we can't talk? Just because people think it's all imagination, all in their heads and silly make believe doesn't mean that it is.. I think this might be a dream.... NO Fuck that... You think therefore you are, What you think-- IS..."

Love ya all!..E.