So yeah, my mom has this blog called Channeling Erik. She needed to vent her grief, and she felt like she could do that best by reaching out to a community that needed to do the same. The blog also helps her continue to explore ways to heal. The need to heal was a soul contract that she carried into this life at birth, a contract her soul had designed for itself.
Even though the blog grew directly from her pain, it’s grown into something so much more than that. And even though it started out as a way for her to address her own needs, it fed everything I needed too. I wasn’t asking that of her, and I wasn’t encouraging her to do it. Eventually, it proved to be something that maybe I wanted even more than she did. Part of my purpose as a guide is to reach a lot of people, so I have to have some sort of platform for that to happen. Since it came from within her, the blog’s her baby, but it also gives me a place to do my thing, so I guess I can call it my baby too.
My mom had everything in place to do something like this. She had already published books. They’re about parenting, and I probably gave her a lot of material for them. Raising five kids kind of makes her an expert. She’s already respected in her community as a doctor too, so that also helps. I’m glad she chose to create the blog because it’s something that gives me the voice I need to help people in really practical ways. I guess if she didn’t make any sort of soapbox for me, I would have found other ways to help people on Earth, and I still would have communicated with my family. Still, it’s nice to have this working relationship together.
I love every single one of the blog members. I love haunting them; I love helping them; I love when they first stumble across the blog and they don’t even realize how they got there in the first place. I also like it when they get to the part where they understand that I can be a little bit of a dick and that I like to harass people sometimes. I think it’s funny as fuck. Humor’s important, even—sometimes especially—when you’re a spirit. Even if we never post anything from this day forward, the blog’s going to live on the internet forever and people will find it. When they do, I hope it will continue to be the answer some people are seeking.