Digital Social Hour - The Dark Truth About Casinos: Secrets They Don't Want You to Know | Erica Barretto DSH #733

Episode Date: September 18, 2024

Uncover the dark truth about casinos and the secrets they don't want you to know! 🎲 In this captivating episode of the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly, we're joined by the incredible Erica Barreto, a medium who reveals the unseen energies of Las Vegas. Brace yourself as Erica delves into the haunting realities of casino life, sharing stories of spiritual encounters and the hidden tragedies gambling can cause. 😱✨ Tune in now as we explore the mysteries of mediumship, psychic readings, and the secrets that lie beyond the casino lights. Don't miss out on this eye-opening conversation packed with valuable insights. Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀 Join the conversation and discover the unseen side of Vegas and beyond. 🌟 #TarotReading #Spirituality #EvidentialMediumship #MediumshipDevelopment #MediumshipMechanics #Intuitive #MediumshipMastery #SpiritualEthics #MediumshipDevelopmentClass #MediumshipExercises CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Ego is Dangerous 00:26 - Introduction to Erica Barretto 01:17 - Spiritual Gifts and Abilities 02:28 - Palm Reading Techniques 04:01 - Exploring Mediumship 06:16 - Understanding Tarot Cards 09:25 - Connecting with Spirit Guides 11:24 - Communicating with Loved Ones in Dreams 16:44 - Impact of Generational Trauma 18:11 - Trauma and Healing Others 19:48 - Pets in Psychic Readings 22:19 - The Role of Ego 26:51 - Influence of Social Media 29:56 - Investigating Hauntings 33:11 - Insights on Precognitive Dreams 35:19 - Meaning of Nightmares 36:13 - Where to Find Erica APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: [e-mail] GUEST: Erica Barretto https://www.instagram.com/luvnlitehealinghearts https://linktr.ee/Intuitivelyerica42 https://www.tiktok.com/@intuitivelyerica42 https://www.luvnlitehealinghearts.com/ www.youtube.com/@Intuitive_Universe SPONSORS: LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/social Deposyt Payment Processing: https://www.deposyt.com/seankelly LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

or creative side of your mind because that's where a lot of our abilities come from right your ability to expand and just be playful and do the things that you really enjoy because that's what it's about it's about being present and not really worrying about everything that's going on around you because it really takes you out of that element and puts you in an ego so right ego is a dangerous spot to be in. A lot of people are in it. All right, guys, got Erica Barreto here. Welcome to Vegas. Thank you for having me. I'm so grateful for being here. Of course. I'm sure you've been feeling all sorts of energy here in Vegas.

Yes, definitely a lot. All different kinds, especially through the casinos. Yeah. Yeah. I always ask people like psychics that come here, like like what they're feeling they say it's a lot of different stuff absolutely yeah i felt it immediately when we came in and even in the hotel room so definitely can feel it throughout the casinos have a lot of death they do yeah especially with some events that have occurred here in the past so i definitely felt a lot of that yeah there's there's one a week suicide because of gambling but you'll never see it in the news I never knew that yeah people jumping off balconies or whatever it's it's pretty serious that's interesting because we were definitely feeling some stuff there so wow wow have you always had these spiritual gifts well I've experienced a lot

since I was younger I had a lot of spiritual experiences um I want a lot since I was younger. I had a lot of spiritual experiences. I want to say since I was two years old, I had imaginary friends. That's what we would call them. But I later found out that they were actually my spirit guides. So I also do a lot of like precognitive dreams, premonitions, like things that I experienced, but I didn't really get into my full-on practices with actual development and doing it like properly and ethically until about, I want to say, what was I about? I want to say like 2019, 2020 was when I really started to like dive in and just really wanted to learn because I just knew,

right? I just knew something was different. I knew that I was just a little bit more sensitive to different situations, but it does run in my family. Oh, it does. My grandmother, she's a palm reader. She could also do mediumship. A lot of the women in my family are actually very sensitive. So I just kind of honed in on it to make it my, you know, my thing so I can help others. I love that. How does the palm reading work? So I don't do palm reading. It's not my expertise, but I know that you would look at the palms and you would look according to certain lines. They tell you different things like health, marriage. I know certain things like exes tell you like if you're psychic, how psychic you are, even marriage lines, right? So this is what I know. So apparently like

these two lines here on the side, if you can see them, they are your relationship lines and your marriage lines. So you may be able to distinguish like like for me when they told me i have one serious relationship and one marriage because i only have two lines got it so yeah there's nothing else there so so i have like a big line right so that's marriage yes that's definitely marriage okay i'm getting married next year so that makes sense and it's on both hands the same thing. Oh, okay. So that's a rare thing to, to have mirroring things on. Well, yeah, that lines on both. Yeah. So when both hands mirror, according to what I have been like told, that is actually a rare thing, but one, especially on how the person develops this, um, technique of reading because people learn differently. But the lady who I actually got

a poem reading from when I went to Salem, she told me that she learned with two hands. So one hand would be like your younger childhood and the other hand would be your adult life. Interesting. Yeah. Okay. Well, I'm getting married kind of young, so that could be why. Could, could be. Wow. That's interesting. That's cool. So what's your specialty? Because there's a lot of different. Yeah. So my specialty, what I started off with is mediumship, but it's a specific type, which is evidential mediumship, which is based on evidence, right? Being able to bring through specific pieces of information for the people that we read for so that you can, we can just validate the afterlife, right? Because there's so many people

that I want to say, we call them charlatans, which they would be, you know, scammers. But if you're bringing through specific pieces of evidence, there's the proof is right there. It speaks for itself because I bring through information that spirit gives me that only you would know memories, specific items, maybe places you would have visited, right? But it's very specific to you, which makes it, I believe, that much more better so that you can connect better with it. And of course, the healing that comes from it. Right.

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I started my path with that and intuitive tarot, which is, you know, I know what the tarot card meanings are but I also can look at the pictures and they just tell me different things each time depending on what i'm getting psychically and i'll get images or whatever that is just to give whatever i have to give for the person that i'm reading for yeah tarot cards fascinate me because logically you know picking a random card

one out of 50 chance or whatever but it always always seems to hit, you know what I mean? It's crazy. It does. I really love it because I feel like those are tools that are used and they're very specific to you, right? They tell a story and, you know, according to who the practitioner is and how they read, Everybody's different, but you get information, but it's very specific for you. So I love it. Yeah. The psychic stuff is mind blowing. I have a personal psychic that I use sometimes and she predicted when I'd buy a house, when I'd come into money, when I'd get in relationships spot on. Yeah. Because the cards have numbers on them. Each card has numbers. And like, depending on the questions that the client would ask for, if like, for instance, I had a client who asked, you know, when she would

have a baby and I said, well, let's ask the cards. So I was just lining them up and I got a card, which was the number 12. I was like, well, it's showing me a year. And she was like, you know what? That's funny because that's exactly when i'm trying to plan to have a child a year so it's very specific especially you know when you ask the right questions because sometimes if you don't ask the right questions it could be like i don't know it could be all over the place so it's how you ask the questions is how the story will be told with the cards are you able to defy the cards like can you change the prediction ever i don't think you can change the prediction i think that the cards pretty much change it and like it gives you the story right but here's the thing like if i'm pulling cards and i pull i'll pull like five cards right but

now i'm looking at the spread and i'm like okay you know what this one goes here this one here like that's how that would go depending on what it makes me feel but if i'm pulling them out the way i you know just directly pull them out the deck it's just how i feel really and if i feel like okay you know what this goes here this one's there and that's how i tell the story so yeah what are some common problems people come to you like questions they want answered um a lot of love a lot of love a lot of job um finances uh things of that nature and sometimes they'll ask questions about just spirit led which is the ones that i love so much because you're just really leaving it up to the cards to tell you what it is that you need to hear right because it's like sometimes people

have specific questions but when you just let the universe do its thing and give you what it is that you're needing for that moment i think that's way more um i don't know i think that's a better like thing to do because the story that comes out for the client it's like it's it's exactly what they needed to know and i feel like it's so helpful. So I love that. That's cool. You mentioned you saw your spirit guides at two years old. Are those just you from past lives or who exactly are those guides? I have not connected them to my past lives, but what I do feel, cause I see them and for me, they, it's a man. I have a man, a male main guide who is a man. But we have several guides.

I have so many for different areas and things in my life. But I do have one main one that's always with me, as well as my loved ones. I wouldn't say they are my spirit guides, but they are like my helpers. They do help me. But I don't know. I feel like they're just there for... They're not there to do the job that's one thing they're there to just help us guide us nudge us in the right directions but who are they i don't know specifically who they are i don't even know if they had a life on earth because

that's questions you could definitely ask your guides you can ask them like who were you what did you do you never asked yours i did we did a meditation once and in this meditation i got that my spirit guide was a mathematician okay a mathematician from like the 1800s and of course i looked up mathematicians and i got a few of them but i really couldn't that'd be tough to find yeah yeah i but i'm like you know what that'd be funny that you'd be a mathematician because you're always giving me numbers and I'm dyslexic and I just cannot figure it out with the numbers. So I think it's quite, it's like a joke every time I get numbers and I'm like, okay, I get it. I know what I have to do because I have like a specific language, which you could do with your spirit guides. You can

create a language with them and I do it with numbers. So when I see certain things, like certain people think, oh, there's a universal, you know, meaning for one, one, one, two, two, two, three, three. But for me, they don't mean the same thing because I have a different language with my guides. So you could do that yourself. That's something you could do if you are wanting to create that and just not really understanding how to hear them. You can create a language with them with numbers and symbols. Yeah. That's interesting. Sometimes I feel like my guides are trying to reach me in my dreams. They do. You think exactly how they do it. Yeah. Especially for somebody who's not really like, if you're not, it takes a being aware, right. Being aware, being present in order for you to really hear them. Right. And that's where

my next thing was with intuition, because now that's what I really love to teach people because I could you know help you but you can also do it yourself and that's my main goal is to help people so that they know that you could do this too like I'm not special because I can talk to the other side and I can do tarot everybody can do it um it's just really taking the time to be present be aware so that you could you know know, understand the language, the symbols or whatever it is, and they will come to you in your dreams first. So that's like level one of awareness, understanding whatever it is that they're trying to give you, keeping a dream journal, right, which is very important so that you could decipher the messages that are coming

out, whether it's coming from your subconscious mind, or if it's coming from, you know, universal consciousness, which is your guides, and that's where we connect with them. So yeah, that's a, that's a great way. And that's also a way the loved ones come through. Yeah. I've seen some, some deceased loved ones in my dreams. Visitation. So what's the meaning of that? Those are visitations. Those are very valid experiences. They are just as real as me and you sitting here right now. Wow. Those are, I think, they're so meaningful. Because I feel like when you are in that state of awareness in your dreams and they visit you,

you wake up feeling like if you were just right in front of them. There's this attachment of feeling. And I don't know if you've noticed noticed this but they don't talk with their mouths they talk with their minds whoa yeah they've never actually talked to me with their mouth no because they're speaking to you with their minds and that's how you know it's like a it's a visitation it's a valid visitation because they're not going to speak to you and you're going to see their mouth moving no they're going to speak with uh to to you with their minds and you're going to be able to you know know, receive whatever messages or, you know, healing, whatever's needed for you in that moment.

But those are really valid experiences. That is interesting. So does that mean they haven't crossed yet if they're appearing in dreams? No, they definitely cross. So that's another thing that gets told a lot with mediumship. And there's so many different beliefs and so many different practices, you know, because depending on what it is that you do, how you go about your mediumship. I practice the way I've practiced and learned and developed. Spirit does not get stuck.

Spirit immediately goes over to the other side. Now it's like an elevator, right, of frequencies. So depending on, you know, things that they may have experienced, these are the things that they have to deal with. It's called the life review. But everybody goes to the other side. Now for energies that feel like they're stuck here, right? Is what people would say stuck spirits. It's more of just that energy. It's like fractals of energy that people experience that energy of feeling like, Oh, that's somebody here or, and it's also the interpretation, right? So if a medium isn't properly developed and they feel like this person is angry or they went through something, it's going to feel like they're stuck. Right.

But when you really feel into that and you expand a little bit more on that energy, you're going to get this sense of feeling that this is how this person was in life. These are the experiences that they had when they were here. They might have had some mental health issues. They might have had some addictions that they were going through. Whatever life experiences they have, that is what they're bringing you. That's what the evidence is. So it's up to the medium to interpret the message that way. But if you're not properly developed, it's easy to really not get that feeling of, well, you know know what i think they're stuck or they're in a dark place no right that's where they were when they were alive more than likely when they expand more you'll get that sense of feeling that they are in a beautiful place because most likely i've had so many different readings with so many different experiences with people who have

taken themselves over to the other side traumatic passings by other people's hands, right? Different types of passings, traumatic and car accidents. It's all the same. They'll show you things, but they all go to the other side. And sometimes they will explain what their heaven looks like. So whether they like to fish or whether they were somebody who loved rainbows and gardens and trees, that's what they'll show me that's cool but i'll also get that feeling like oh this is blissful this is beautiful this is their heaven yeah yeah so it's just it's about the feeling and it's about the interpretation but i necessarily don't believe that spirits get stuck spirit is highly intelligent they know things that are happening in the future or in the past like there's no time on the other side none whatsoever so i don't know i just can't explain it any more better than they are highly intelligent

and for our egoic minds to believe that we can cross over a soul that's just crazy to me yeah that's interesting that there's no time so 10 years could pass on this earth and for them it feels like nothing like nothing wow like nothing that's crazy and it's funny i don't know if you've ever seen that movie a ghost story me and my sister were just talking about that the other day and it's a real good um storyline where you could see how spirit kind of knows like things from the future in the past but everything's all at once because there's no timeline. So it's an interesting watch. That is fascinating. Do you believe in generational trauma?

Yes, absolutely. 100%. And that's passed down from either side of the, like mother and father? Either side. Yes, I definitely believe in that. And that has to do a lot with the healing work. And as a medium,

I have to say a lot of people don't like fully go through with development because of how much work we have to do as the person who is going to be helping others with healing. We have to do it ourselves. And sometimes when we give readings to other people, there's things there that are like light bulbs that go off like, oh, okay, that makes a lot of sense to me. But I wouldn't say that to my client.

But those are things it's like the healing goes vice versa. Like I'm helping and their loved ones bringing through the reading here to help with that trauma. Meanwhile, it's actually helping me too. Because there's so many things that spirit will bring through, through our own encyclopedia of experiences. And that's why I think there's so many people that can do this, because we all have different encyclopedias of experience. I won't have the same experience as somebody else who's another medium you know they may have had a different type of childhood trauma versus mine but i'm able to relate to the person that's sitting in front of me and that's why i say spirit's so intelligent because i feel like there's a way that they align these meetings up in a way that i'm able to speak to them and bring through the evidence because it's like, I already know it. It's part of my encyclopedia of experiences.

I love that. When you're healing people, do you ever feel like their trauma latches onto you? I want to say some readings have been rough. I've definitely felt some things a little bit after, but I learned to really release that energy at the beginning it was rough because i didn't really know how to properly do it so i would feel it for a while but now so much i don't like i really just you know um i feel like it's about the intent that we put in it we just release whether it's you know whatever practices you do i do like showers i do the smudging the sage sage. Whatever it is that helps me, but I definitely do just energetic things. Or I'll just imagine, what do I call them?

Psychic scissors. I cut the little psychic strings off. So I just do that to clear the energy off. That's important because a lot of healers actually pass away young. And I don't know if they know that they need to be clearing their energy all the time. Yeah. I think that some people, I mean, you know what? That's a good thing.

That's like, I never thought about that. Yeah. A lot of them pass away super young. And they say your pets inherit your trauma and sickness too. Oh my goodness. And they pass away pretty early. So I never even thought about that. I do believe that the pets though, they they do come back especially the ones that we've had and they come back to us and different other like

other pets because um if you look at the pets and sometimes if you had like a pet from the past and there's something that your other pet would have done now your new pet does it but it's like a little bit different so like if they had a little like cough or maybe they were just pickers like it's kind of the same but a little bit cough or maybe they were just pickers like it's kind of the same but a little bit different that makes me feel better knowing that yeah because your pets and pets come through too in reading oh yeah oh my god it's so beautiful they can talk dogs yes they can talk right you know it's just um like they'll give they'll give me like their favorite toy their favorite little like blanket or their little snacks, like whether

it's ice cream or whatever their owner would have gave them and their energy. It feels like, it feels like baby energy. Like it's so playful. It's high, it's high loving energy that the pets come through it. So I love when they come through for clients. Why is the energy so like good when you're a baby and then it kind of you know what i mean with the pets no with human babies like it's so pure and then it kind of are pure we get we get um society man it's it's the way that we are conditioned right the way society conditions us and making us feel like we have to prove ourselves or we have to. It's like the school system as well, I feel.

It really changes us. And I say, like, I believe it's at the age of seven where the consciousness changes. So from that imaginative state, you know, the playfulness, now it becomes the, well, why do I i look like this and why is my hair like this or why is their shoes better than my shoes right you know and there's different things that happen there because now the comparison comes in the ego is developing so now things change because now it's like okay well that that imaginative energy now becomes a little bit lower yeah and frequency because now you're worried about everything else around you.

You're not worried about what am I doing right here in front of me, right? So it changes because now your awareness changes to the different things. So I believe it's society. That's so true. I remember first grade, everyone was friends. And then second, third grade, it started getting a little clicky. Yeah. Wow.

Like your shoes have lights and mine don't. Yeah. That is so relatable. Yeah. I wish we could keep that first grade mindset longer. And you know what? And I think when people are tapping in, like if you are really wanting to work on like your intuition

and things like that, the most important thing for you to do is to be aware, is to be present, but also utilize your creative side of your mind because that's where a lot of our abilities come from, right? Your ability to expand and just be playful and do the things that you really enjoy because that's what it's about. It's about being present and not really worrying about everything that's going on around you because it really takes you out of that element and puts you

in ego. Right. Ego is a dangerous spot to be in. It is. A lot of people are in it. It is. I feel like majority of society is in it. And that's why a lot of things I feel like are going on in the world right now. And people are just so stuck on worrying about what everybody else is doing. How much can I make? And, you know, and I think there's just so much more to life to worry about. Yeah. And especially just not worrying about everybody else, but being helpful, finding something where you can be helpful for people. And I feel like that's where a lot of things get like, I want to say it gets blind for people because everybody's worried about me,

me, me. What can I do for me, me, me? But what could you do for somebody else? And I feel like that really helps, right? Even if it's just, and I call those like planting the seeds. So that's why I love to help people. I love to teach people. I do a free like practice circles and stuff because I want people to learn, to be present here. You could do this too. And when you do that, your life gets that much better. Like I really believe that because when you become aware of the thoughts, you kind of dim the light on the ego. Yeah. Right. And you brighten that up and it's almost like you question everything now. So present is key. Yeah. It's been a battle for me coming from a narcissistic family. That was the way I thought pretty oftenly but i've had to shift

that massively but even now i feel ego creeping up here and there and i gotta just be aware of it that's it that's it you're winning though once you become aware nothing else matters because even if you find yourself and you think oh man i'm an ego again it doesn't matter you just became aware that you were an ego right that right there alone is like you're winning, you're succeeding. So when you do that and continuously do that, right, that will help you to be more expansive. And also looking at people and the way they react, you can tell when people are an ego and you can tell when somebody is being present, there's a big difference. And especially with people who are really successful, if you are doing things in the moment and you are really enjoying what you're doing you're not an ego believe it or not you're because

you're present you're enjoying what you're doing but when you're doing something and i just had this conversation this morning reading a book which is another good book um a new earth by eckhart tolle beautiful book i've heard of it beautiful book and in this book i was actually reading it before here and when you are it's like when you are doing things and you're you're not and you're an ego and you're actually thinking about well how can i be on top of that one how can i get better how can i make more that's ego because you're not worrying about being in the present and just focusing on that one thing that you're good at so So many people think like that too. Yeah. So if you're thinking about how do I get better or what can I do to get one up on this one or just be more successful, make more money, you're an ego.

Damn. That's the mindset of a lot of business and entrepreneurs though. So do you think that's harmful to them? Not if they enjoy what they're doing and being helpful to help other people, right? Got it. Because if they're helpful for other people and trying to i guess pave a little path for them then i don't believe that they're an ego because if they enjoy it and they're good at it yeah there's a balance that's why with podcasting it's the perfect balance for me because i love it money's decent but we're just inspiring

so many people it's awesome like we're saving lives exactly but you see like that's a beautiful thing because you're also planting a seed in people's lives you're also helping them and giving them different perspectives different views open-mindedness right not really focusing on one thing but being very open to different things yeah different um cultures different whatever it is different beliefs right because there's so many different things that everybody has. And that's another thing people think like, well, if you're not this way, then you, you're not good. Right. But there's the good and the bad. That's the ego. So just, just be, just be, just be. Yeah. It's important to discuss multiple things. Like if we had this conversation five, 10 years ago, I would have doubted it. Most people would have,

right. But now I feel like it's becoming more acknowledged it is it's the awareness and the expansion of consciousness on a collective level because I feel like people are just being more aware of things that are going on around them but I think the practices of just I want to say being helpful or just being present and practicing gratitude as well is something that is helpful with that but it's just this level of like worrying about other people and not just focusing on the self. Right. A lot of people compare themselves because of social media. Yeah.

It's dangerous. It is a scary place, social media. I try not to do much scrolling. I don't scroll on my feed. Oh, my gosh. You can't. You can't. It will destroy you.

But, yeah, I've had to learn that that wasn't something i knew right away right i had to learn that and it's been helpful to just do what i have to do spread the message spread the love and retract like just pull back and just let it do its thing it's a dangerous game i remember in high school i used to want a six-pack just so i could look good for photos that's that was the reason just to compare myself to other guys yeah it's crazy right it is it is and so many people do that and i think that's what keeps everybody sad right because you're comparing comparing is the thief of joy if you're comparing yourself to other people you're not being yourself if everybody looked the same that'd be boring right and that's why i also say like with this work if everybody

taught the same exact things it'd be boring and that's why i also say like with this work if everybody taught the same exact things it'd be boring and that's why it's so important especially if you find a teacher that teaches these type of practices whether it's mediumship or you're wanting to learn about psychism intuition i feel like teachers should meet their students where they're at right don't change them and make them a you like don't become me because of what i do be you and i tell that to every one of my students like please just always stay yourself you're gonna have so many different mentors but it's so important for you you might mirror some things that i do which is beautiful but make them your own make them your own take

what you can and continuously grow and just spread the seeds. Continue to help other people because I just feel like that's what this spiritual work is about, right? And that's why I think a lot of practices with spirituality, yes, there's money to be made. There are people, you know, there's several people making hundreds of thousands of dollars doing this. But if that's your main focus, then you're in this for the wrong reason because that's not what it should be about it should really be about the helping the healing trying to reach as many people as you can right and i um that's why i do a lot of free stuff it's a balance right so like i'll do free readings on my social media platforms and i'll do free practice circles and i mentor a few people for free yeah i do that because that's the way i give back and when i do do that, it's, I kid you not, I get to my website and then it's like, bling, somebody

booked with me. So I'm like, thank you. It does. It comes back. And when you give and you give without the intention of receiving anything in return, that's where the magic is. Cause you're giving from your heart. You're giving from a place of love and it balances its way out. Absolutely. I feel that with podcasters too. They shouldn't be in it for money. No, that shouldn't be the main thing. No. They shouldn't be in it for money. No. That shouldn't be the main thing. No, it shouldn't. But it, I mean.

A lot of people start it just to make money, but it's like the wrong mindset in my opinion. And I feel like it catches up. Eventually it catches up because it's either burnout, right? There's the comparison thing again. Yeah. And then they start looking at different ways to do things.

But if you went into something with broadness, right, openness to just different things and maybe staying in a niche, right, just being open to whatever it is, you keep yourself out into that openness to being able to experience different things. Yeah. Have you ever come across a haunting or anything crazy? Oh, my goodness. So I used to work in corrections. Oh, yeah? I was in law enforcement, and this was a story I had told before, but I had walked into an area and I saw somebody upstairs.

And when I looked, I was like, who's that? Why are they out from their cell? Because everybody's sleeping. Why is this person walking around? So I looked back to my officer and my officer was like, well, um, there's nobody officer my officer was like well um there's nobody there i was like what do you mean i looked up nobody there and she began to tell me a story about you know a soul that was there that had taken their lives and threw themselves over and that soul is still lingering around in there and it was a very high profile area with um a lot of different situations that happened with um inmates that were there but that energy is still there like she it's just the energy the fractal not the soul the fractal of the energy but um you just pick up on that like

hauntings and that's what that is that's fractal energy of what you're feeling there oh so it's not the soul it's just the leftover souls over there it's the fractal of the energy that's why some people are like oh well things are moving and why do i hear a knocky a lot of the times that's just your grandma trying to get your attention like you know that's just somebody probably one of your loved ones just trying to say like hey yeah right and it's the same thing like if you hear somebody yell your name like some people some people like oh that's evil no you're not supposed to answer people who yell your name. But that could just be your loved one.

Remember, they're at a different frequency. It's like a radio station. So you have to kind of turn the dial in order to be able to get them at that same frequency so you can hear them. But if you are not aware enough, you're going to hear them like yelling versus saying my name. But you'll hear them yelling. And that's because they're like, can you hear me? But it's not because they're trying to scare you. It's because they're trying to get your attention. Yup. Happened to my cousin in Iraq. So his father passed and he was walking with his best friend and his father screamed his voice. He heard in his ear and he

jumped. Landmine blew up. His best friend died. His thigh got blown off but he survived and similar story with me i'm at the airport and i hear my dad's voice in my ear like sean like just screams my name i'm like what the hell has ever happened before we get on the plane and it gets delayed i'm like what the hell gets delayed again so now i'm like i'm getting off this thing because also my fiance was with me and her dad was in her dreams the night before. Yeah. And he just passed too. So we both got off that plane and it ended up never taken off.

Wow. Crazy, right? Yeah. That's what, because that's what they're there to do. They're there to help us, to nudge us and to give us signs, right? However that is. So I always say, don't ignore it. Don't ignore it because it's always there to help us and guide right? However that is. So I always say, don't ignore it. Don't ignore it because it's always there to help us

and guide us in the right direction. But yeah, spirit has a nice way of kind of getting our attention. I was really upset because I got upgraded to first class. Yeah. So I didn't want to get off. But man, that's crazy.

Well, yeah. I mean, he saved you, right? That was like- It took off, yeah. Probably would have crashed because the stabilizer wasn't working, the wings. Yeah, yeah. So, I mean, he saved you, right? That was like. It took off. Yeah. Probably would have crashed because the stabilizer wasn't working. The wings. Yeah.

So, I mean, there's so many different experiences I've had. I want to say I've felt like I've always felt things just kind of standing there. And I've always kind of known things were with me. I just, I would be kind of freaked out when I was a kid and I didn't really know because I was like, what is that? Yeah. Why do I always feel like somebody is just standing there and I didn't understand it. I used to feel that too. And then after I, like I had to retire, so I don't work no more because I had like a major

brain surgery that kind of like messes with my balance. So after that surgery, things kind of gotten a little bit louder and it was just hard i couldn't ignore it then and i was just like why am i seeing people and i'm just seeing them from the corner of my eyes i am hearing things my dreams were very vivid and i had like a super duper scary like precognitive like premonition dream of like a world event that happened and it happened and i was like, what's going on? Like, why am I seeing these things? So now I don't get so much scared. Now I just kind of see it for what it is. It's not because it's not a nightmare for me. So that's another way of being able to distinguish a precognitive dream versus a nightmare in a nightmare. It's going to feel like a nightmare,

like you're going to be running, you're screaming, you you're frantic but when it's a precognitive dream you are an observer you're calm and you're just looking around and seeing things happening so therefore you can tell the difference in energy like okay okay i see that i see that and you wake up and it's just like what was that like why did i just like had that experience and i've recorded these things which is why i could say they're precognitive and they some of them have you know come true i record them in the dream journal and i write them down and now i can go back and say like check check check those have you know been validated so yeah they can be freaky but yeah sometimes your dreams are so accurate and they end up coming true, right?

They do, a lot of them. And again, that's just another way that we receive messages. So pay attention, right? Because that's how the universe speaks to us when we are not aware enough in the physical to pick up on the signs. Yeah. What do nightmares mean in your opinion? I still have those a lot as a child. Nightmares to me are levels of the subconscious mind of things that we have went through,

our traumas, fears, things that we have experienced where they'll come and haunt us, whether it's like us thinking there's like shark people chasing us or whatever it is, right? It'll come up in different ways. But I also feel like it's just the subconscious mind just playing the fears out to us but it's also helpful right because it's things you need to work on so if there's something there and it's a nightmare try to figure out why is it a nightmare what were you seeing were you seeing bears were you seeing were you in a room that was closing in on you were the windows closed was there water coming in? What dream was it? Try to decipher what it is that you're getting because there's a message there.

Whatever it is, there's a message there. So it's just about paying attention to what it is. Erica, it's been fun. Where can people find out more about you and potentially get a reading? You can find me. I'm on TikTok. I go by intuitively Erica. I'm on Instagram.

My website is loveandlighthealinghearts.com. You can schedule with me there. If you are interested in learning about mediumship and tuition, you can also book free circles there. I have free development and that's at again, loveandlighthealinghearts.com. Perfect. We'll link below. Thanks for coming on. Thank you. Yeah. Thanks for watching guys as always. See you tomorrow.