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Speaker 1: iHeartRadio and welcome back to Coast to Coast George Nori
Speaker 1: with her Erica Gabriel with US. First time professional spiritual
Speaker 1: medium teacher with more than fifteen years of experience helping
Speaker 1: others find purpose, direction, and the strength to overcome life's challenges.
Speaker 1: Her mission is to spiritually empower as many people as
Speaker 1: possible by teaching them how to unlock their own connection
Speaker 1: to spirit. Erica has performed thousands of live readings, she'll
Speaker 1: do some of those tonight, and appeared in the New
Speaker 1: York Times, Forbes, Goop in Style, in addition to hosting
Speaker 1: the very popular podcast You Are Not Alone. Erica, Welcome
Speaker 1: to the program. Hello George, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: having me. I'm looking forward to this. How did you
Speaker 1: get involved in spiritual mediumship? You know, it's interesting. It
Speaker 1: really got involved with me, I should say so from
Speaker 1: a really young age. I started feeling seeing and sensing
Speaker 1: spirit and things that really weren't there quote unquote for
Speaker 1: most people. So around the age of seven, I moved
Speaker 1: into a new house with my mom and stepdad, and
Speaker 1: I started seeing a little boy and feeling him and
Speaker 1: sensing him around the house, our new house, and my
Speaker 1: parents kind of started asking around a little bit, didn't
Speaker 1: really know what to do, and they had found out
Speaker 1: that a little boy had drowned on the property. Oh wow. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So from an early age, there was this awareness that
Speaker 1: there's a whole heck of a lot going on that,
Speaker 1: you know, we can't necessarily see at that age. Were
Speaker 1: you comfortable or were you scared? Oh my gosh, George,
Speaker 1: I was so afraid because as a little kid, you
Speaker 1: didn't know really what was going on. And I thought,
Speaker 1: am I'm just a haunted person. So I think I
Speaker 1: slept on my parents' floor out of fear until I
Speaker 1: was like twelve years old. I was afraid of the
Speaker 1: dark and afraid of being alone. So I was very scared. Yes,
Speaker 1: did you see the little boy? I did? And you know,
Speaker 1: my parents still live in that house, and I love
Speaker 1: that house. It's a great place. It's very warm. I
Speaker 1: can still send him even today, many many years later,
Speaker 1: when I go into that home. I was going to say,
Speaker 1: he's still there, isn't he He is? He absolutely is,
Speaker 1: And it's you know, listen, it's not common that a
Speaker 1: soul or a spirit gets really stuck like that, Erica,
Speaker 1: did you ever see a picture of him? I'm wondering
Speaker 1: if he looked like what you saw? You know, I haven't,
Speaker 1: And it's so interesting that you asked that. I have
Speaker 1: not seen a picture of him, and I haven't further
Speaker 1: researched him. It's just this per you know, this this
Speaker 1: energy that I know is there, but I don't know
Speaker 1: too much about him. That's so interesting that you asked that.
Speaker 1: Then how did you begin to develop your mediumship? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So so I really, you know, from there, went on
Speaker 1: a wild goose chase right through through I guess my
Speaker 1: twenties and really started looking into religions, all religions and
Speaker 1: all kinds of philosophies to really understand what what is this?
Speaker 1: What what what is this? And there was no you know, um,
Speaker 1: there weren't a lot of mediums around or on TV.
Speaker 1: I had to really figure out what it was. And um,
Speaker 1: I still throughout that time was having very intense mediumistic
Speaker 1: experiences and even delivering messages to people, but they would
Speaker 1: kind of comment random And finally I saw a medium
Speaker 1: and she said, you know you're a medium, right, And
Speaker 1: I was like no, but yes, But no, but oh
Speaker 1: thank you, you know, thanks for the help, because now
Speaker 1: I understand more. And it was a great moment and
Speaker 1: one that I had been waiting for. And I really,
Speaker 1: I mean I lived right off from Melrose Avenue in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, and within two weeks I had people knocking
Speaker 1: on my door for reading. It was wild. And at
Speaker 1: that point I had to figure out who am I
Speaker 1: talking to? And I had to train myself to understand
Speaker 1: when I was talking to someone's loved one, when I
Speaker 1: was talking to an angel, when I was talking to
Speaker 1: a spirit guide, and when I had bumped into a
Speaker 1: quote haunting. And I really had to work very intensely
Speaker 1: to have boundaries and to understand exactly who I was
Speaker 1: talking to so that I became a really clear medium
Speaker 1: and a medium it really someone that people were safe
Speaker 1: connecting to. Have you ever been demonically tricked? Absolutely not,
Speaker 1: because I have trained myself intensely and now I'm well
Speaker 1: into my career and I have very specific and very
Speaker 1: clear boundaries. So if I start to feel negative energy,
Speaker 1: I have a absolute awareness of what that feels like.
Speaker 1: How easy is it for you Eric to tap into
Speaker 1: this mode at this point? It you know what it's simple.
Speaker 1: It's something I've been doing for so so long. It's
Speaker 1: not easy kind of in general, but for me, I
Speaker 1: have a lot of kind of steps that I do
Speaker 1: to connect in with spirits and now it's it's kind
Speaker 1: of part of me and it's part of who I am.
Speaker 1: So I have to be in a comfortable position, a
Speaker 1: safe place, and I really open and close the door
Speaker 1: to spirit. So I'm not the medium that's like running
Speaker 1: up to someone at a restaurant trying to read for them, right,
Speaker 1: exactly right. I have my doors shut at that point
Speaker 1: and I'm just enjoying my life. And then I really
Speaker 1: focus on opening the door and really getting people's permission, right,
Speaker 1: So I don't read for people that don't want to
Speaker 1: be read. And if people don't want to be read,
Speaker 1: they shouldn't. So if someone really wants a reading, and
Speaker 1: then I opened the door for them and really just
Speaker 1: opened the door to what is available to them. Now,
Speaker 1: when we take calls next hour, people are going to
Speaker 1: ask you obviously about mediumship and what you do, but
Speaker 1: you'll also do a reading, and you need their birth
Speaker 1: date and just a specific question, yes, their birthday, their
Speaker 1: first name, and a specific question and the reason why
Speaker 1: a specific question is so important is because you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not doing a full forty fifty minute reading for
Speaker 1: that person, right, So it's just a moment we get
Speaker 1: to connect. I get to go in and connect a
Speaker 1: spirit for them. So a specific question is always best one.
Speaker 1: It's just when we only have one question together, yeah,
Speaker 1: two minutes stops. Yeah, right, So it's so important to
Speaker 1: kind of focus the energy on the area that the
Speaker 1: person wants to focus on. And what's amazing about mediumship
Speaker 1: is you know, as I said, I work with angels
Speaker 1: and spirit guides and at times of loved ones who've
Speaker 1: crossed overcome through. So what's amazing about this type of
Speaker 1: mediumship is that whatever area the person wants to connect on,
Speaker 1: Spirit is there for them and responds. It's not just
Speaker 1: one part of spirit that I focus on. And that's
Speaker 1: why I trained so hard to really understand and how
Speaker 1: to get the best information and the clearest information and
Speaker 1: utilize all of spirit to support people here on Earth Erica.
Speaker 1: What's really the difference between a spirit guide and a
Speaker 1: spirit who just wants to come to you and give
Speaker 1: you information. Yeah, So a spirit that comes to you
Speaker 1: that wants to give you information is usually the person's
Speaker 1: loved one that has crossed over. And really, really what's
Speaker 1: amazing about loved ones is you know when someone comes
Speaker 1: for a reading, I don't have their loved one with me.
Speaker 1: They have their loved one with them, and when I
Speaker 1: ope them to read for them, their loved one comes
Speaker 1: through with them and I'm able to connect with that person. Right,
Speaker 1: Thank goodness, I don't carry everyone's loved ones with me
Speaker 1: walking around with millions, Oh my god, you never get
Speaker 1: anything done. So it's so great because they're with them,
Speaker 1: and in understanding that your loved ones are with you,
Speaker 1: you can begin to connect with your loved ones, your
Speaker 1: own loved ones, begin to understand any symbols or signs
Speaker 1: that they give you, and really feel that powerful connection
Speaker 1: that continues on in spirit. A spirit guide is I
Speaker 1: almost say like they're They're like a sherpa. Right, So
Speaker 1: when you go to hike an amazing mountain, you get
Speaker 1: someone that's done it before, that's really skilled. And a
Speaker 1: spirit guide is just like that. They are guides that
Speaker 1: help us through this life and through this incredible journey
Speaker 1: of our souls. And everyone has a spirit guide. I've
Speaker 1: never met someone that didn't have a spirit guide, living
Speaker 1: or dead. Living or dead in terms of the person
Speaker 1: who has the spirit guide could be both. Can you
Speaker 1: ask that again? I'm sorry, Well, somebody living or dead
Speaker 1: who has the spirit guide? Oh? Yes, living, we all
Speaker 1: have spirit guides and we can connect with them anytime
Speaker 1: we want. They really meet us in our intuition right,
Speaker 1: our voice within us. Our spirit guides can work with
Speaker 1: us there and they're not our puppet masters. They're not
Speaker 1: controlling us, they don't boss us around. They're there when
Speaker 1: we need them. Are you all walking? And by that
Speaker 1: I mean that we're a rance walks into your body
Speaker 1: and literally takes it over and communicates that way. Nope,
Speaker 1: that is not me at all. And in fact, I'm
Speaker 1: very in charge of my body. I'm very in charge
Speaker 1: of kind of who I'm talking to. So I have
Speaker 1: really really specific and clear boundaries. And again that's so
Speaker 1: I can live a wonderful life. So I work every
Speaker 1: time I read for someone, my spirit guide is with
Speaker 1: me and I'm working with my personal spirit guide to
Speaker 1: help me connect with that person's information loved one spirit
Speaker 1: guide angel. So I am completely protected and safe. Is
Speaker 1: there a heaven? Is there a hell? You know what?
Speaker 1: This is a tough one and I've worked really long
Speaker 1: on this to just really understand the answer. But we
Speaker 1: actually all go to the same place, which is such
Speaker 1: a hard thing for so many people to digest because
Speaker 1: there are so many people that have done horrible things. Right,
Speaker 1: and we all go to the same place, and we
Speaker 1: all go there and have this thing that I call review.
Speaker 1: We sit down and we review our life, our life's journey,
Speaker 1: the things we've done in life, you know, our soul.
Speaker 1: Before our soul comes to this earth element, which I
Speaker 1: call earth classroom, our soul sets out a series of
Speaker 1: lessons that they want to learn, and so we review
Speaker 1: how we did on these lessons. And you know, I
Speaker 1: also believe that we also review the effect that we've
Speaker 1: had on others and what that's like, and what the
Speaker 1: things that we've done. So someone that's caused incredible harm,
Speaker 1: I don't know that they get to get out of
Speaker 1: review because they're having to experience what they caused. So
Speaker 1: is that hell no? But do they have to feel
Speaker 1: what they created here on Earth? Absolutely? I was going
Speaker 1: to say, someone who, lets say, might be a mass
Speaker 1: shooter who kills us a handful of people and then
Speaker 1: commit suicide, Yeah, what happens to that person's soul? Where
Speaker 1: does it go? Well, you know, it's an interesting question
Speaker 1: because you know, we're talking about someone that has done
Speaker 1: something horrible and then we're also talking about suicide. So again,
Speaker 1: they still go to the same place, but they're having
Speaker 1: to review all of the harm and pain they caused,
Speaker 1: not just the people that they shot, but they have
Speaker 1: to experience the pain, loss, and sadness of those family
Speaker 1: members as well. Now, in terms of suicide, that's a
Speaker 1: really important question because unfortunately, during this time in our
Speaker 1: human experience, many people unfortunately are committing suicide. Connected more
Speaker 1: families with someone who's committed suicide in the past two
Speaker 1: years than I have in my entire career. So I
Speaker 1: just want to say that because anyone listening that's, you know,
Speaker 1: experienced suicide in their family, you know you're not alone.
Speaker 1: And I also want to say to people that this
Speaker 1: life is so important and it's so important to be here,
Speaker 1: and that your soul chose to be here and you
Speaker 1: have a beautiful purpose to shine here on earth. So
Speaker 1: I just wanted to add that as well. But even suicide,
Speaker 1: we go to the same place. The thing I've seen
Speaker 1: with suicide is that many of the lessons that we
Speaker 1: may have not been able to complete while our soul
Speaker 1: was here in their life on earth, we will have
Speaker 1: to do again. It's not a punishment, but our soul
Speaker 1: wants to do them again. Do we reincarnate, absolutely one.
Speaker 1: And in fact, sometimes I'm not, you know, specifically a
Speaker 1: past life regressionist, but sometimes in readings past lives do
Speaker 1: show up. And the reason why is because there's something
Speaker 1: in a past life that is currently affecting that is
Speaker 1: affecting the current life. So sometimes we hear things from
Speaker 1: our past life and we're able to let go of them,
Speaker 1: let them kind of you know, leave our soul in
Speaker 1: a way, and then we can move on. So like
Speaker 1: for an example, I've you know, read for people with
Speaker 1: debilitating fears and it has come up, you know, say
Speaker 1: they're afraid as someone was really afraid of crossing bridges
Speaker 1: and it was debilitating because there's bridges everywhere, and her
Speaker 1: guide showed me a past life where she was actually
Speaker 1: murdered on a bridge and then thrown from the bridge. Yes,
Speaker 1: our hauntings real and why do they occur if they are? Yeah? So, yes,
Speaker 1: hauntings are real, and not all hauntings are created equals.
Speaker 1: So there's many different layers and levels to spirit, and
Speaker 1: there's many different layers, layers and levels of ghosts, so
Speaker 1: they're not all the same. So for an example, you know,
Speaker 1: if you go into a place that's many, you know,
Speaker 1: hundreds of years old, right, there are imprints of energy there.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean there's a person stuck there walking around, right,
Speaker 1: It can just you can walk into a room and feel, wow,
Speaker 1: you know this place is old, or you can walk
Speaker 1: in sometimes to a room and feel, oh, this is spooky. Right,
Speaker 1: It's because there's an imprint there of former energy. So
Speaker 1: that is in essence. Some people think, you know, oh gosh,
Speaker 1: this is a haunting, and it's really not. It's kind
Speaker 1: of the energetic imprint of that space ahead. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: yeah no. And then at times you know, which is
Speaker 1: there rare, believe it or not, There are stuck energy
Speaker 1: that couldn't quite cross over. But believe me, it's actually
Speaker 1: more rare than people know. I remember the movie Poltergeist.
Speaker 1: Do you remember that original movie? I've heard of it,
Speaker 1: but I have not let myself watch it. George, to
Speaker 1: be honest, you know what you wouldn't know it. But
Speaker 1: as Erica just plain old Erica, I'm really a chicken.
Speaker 1: I'm really interested. It's really scared of scary movies. Well,
Speaker 1: in the beginning of the movie, something was happening. It
Speaker 1: was a paranormal experience and the medium was trying to
Speaker 1: get the spirit to go into the light, to go
Speaker 1: into the light. And then all of a sudden, the
Speaker 1: medium changed and said, don't go into light. Don't go
Speaker 1: into light. Why would she change that? Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: I you know what, I need to watch that movie. Okay,
Speaker 1: I have to be very brave and watch that movie.
Speaker 1: I don't know why she would have said that. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, the idea about going into the light is
Speaker 1: really if something is stuck and they're saying, crossover is
Speaker 1: the light. Yeah, so when people die and countless and millions, really,
Speaker 1: I mean you can google it, is that when people
Speaker 1: cross over, they see a bright white light and it
Speaker 1: is spirit. It's the other side that they're they're kind
Speaker 1: of seeing and recognizing, and that's the light, the white light.
Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting you ask that, and you know,
Speaker 1: there is this incredible, powerful surge of positive energy happening
Speaker 1: on the planet at all times. Yes, of course there
Speaker 1: is a lot of negative energy as well, but even
Speaker 1: here in life right not even talking about the other side,
Speaker 1: just talking about our life experience. It's important that we
Speaker 1: continue to go towards the light. You know, what you
Speaker 1: focus on grows, So if you're constantly focusing on the
Speaker 1: negative and the darkness, that will grow in your life.
Speaker 1: So the idea is, you know, not only go towards
Speaker 1: the light as a soul and a spirit, but go
Speaker 1: towards the light in your life as a human as well.
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