In April 2009 when I devoted my life to being a traveling minstrel for God, inspiring songs about my spiritual journey began to pour through me. I've made some home recordings of certain songs, and I share them freely with you here. Under the "Music" section of this blog (you might need to scroll down and look in the side bar), you can download many of the home-recordings that I've done, or that Armelle and I have done together.
Also, some friends have video taped me playing guitar and singing, and have posted those videos on YouTube. Just click here to go to YouTube and type in 'Erik Archbold' or 'Erik Archbald' (my name is often mispelled). I've also embedded some of the YouTube videos below that you can watch now if you like.
Many Blessings to you,
Erik
This first one is definitely the most popular of my original songs, Peace of Mind, which I wrote back in college. This recording was taken at the Miracles Concert in Sweden in September 2010, which featured many musicians that were sharing music based on their spiritual path.
Here's one that Armelle wrote that we'd been working on singing together... unfortunately, the video camera ran out of battery before the song was finished, but you'll get the flavor anyway...
This next song is called "Just Relax"...
"Shine Through"...
And last but not least, here's one taken at the Living Miracles Monastery where I played some music during a spiritual retreat that David Hoffmeister was giving in Oct 2009, just prior to meeting Armelle. This song is called "Rhythm of the Soul"...
Dec 26, 2009
Our path
Armelle: This World Tour is about Healing the Mind, before everything else. It is about our healing, but when I am healed I am never healed alone, as it says in "A Course in Miracles". We are guided to travel to help us undo all our beliefs, whatever they are. And this blog is to share what we are going through all along this path...
October 2009 I received the guidance to go on a world tour together with Erik. I was very nervous at the idea of sharing it with him. We didn't know each other. I'd heard about him, several times, but I'd never had any communication with him at that time. I received the guidance to share it with David, first. He was giving a retreat at the Monastery in Utah, at that time, and Erik was there to play some music too. The moment I was telling Leila that I was called to share it with David, he just called!! So I told him, and he was so happy about my Guidance! That evening, the HS told me to share it with Erik too, so I wrote him an email.
The day after he answered me with so much joy and trust, that I bursted into joy too, and was jumping everywhere in the house. I was so happy! For several years I had been traveling alone. And I enjoyed it a lot, but in the summer I decided that I had traveled alone enough, and that I would like to share it with someone. I dreamt about this world tour for so many years, it was certainly 5 years that that idea of letting go of everything and just following my heart and traveling came into my mind! Now it was given to me... The HS was guiding me to "do" it!!!! I was so happy. This world tour was about sharing our inspired passions, dance and music, without restriction, everywhere (at someone's place, on a beach, wherever...), going into orphenages and sharing with children, and giving gatherings too. Erik was 100% with me, and through his e-mail, I felt his joy, and his trust in my guidance too.
That evening, after a meet-up group at the Light House, we were talking about tattoos in the dining room and Devan said something unexpected. He told me that I would be the next one to have a tattoo and asked me where I wanted to have it. A part of me was saying "no way for me to have a tattoo!! You're crazy". The other part of me felt something was happening. And suddenly I had the vision of a tattoo ring on my wedding ring-finger and the name of Erik appeared at that time, and I felt my heart burning and opening... "Oh no, what is happening to me? I can't share that! It's certainly the ego! It can't be from the Spirit!"
I waited two days before sharing it. I did it first with David, who immediately called Erik and gave him the phone. It was the first time we had ever talked to each other! And it was to share with him the Guidance I was receiving that we were supposed to be married in 15 days!!!
Everything unfolded perfectly. We took the time he was in California to get to know each other by phone. We spent hours on the phone every day. So for me, he was first a voice. And later, this gave me the impression it was the voice of the Father talking to me. During that time, I had the vision of an internet site called "Sharing Love World Tour", coming with an image of the three wise men, a shooting star and the lyrics of a french song "to where you go, I will go. Faithful as a shadow to the destination..." My heart was burning so much, and I felt how much this symbol of our coming together was very strong.
I went to pick him up at the airport 8 days before the wedding. On the way to go, I saw a bilboard where it was written "change your future!" It was what I was about to do, by acting in the present, by following the guidance, by saying "yes"... to the HS, to God through the symbol of the marriage with Erik.
Our "spirit arranged" marriage brought a lot of stuff up for everybody around us. We experienced directly how much it's true that when you do something powerful, you do it for everyone, the whole universe. It had a lot of wonderful effects, and still now, each time that we share the story, it inspires people. I received the guidance that's the way we will be used... sharing about the way to experience a holy relationship for the undoing of the ego and coming to the unconditional love. It will happen through gatherings or workshops as well as through lots of holy encounters.
These last days I went deeper and deeper in the undoing, I cried a lot, without even knowing why I was crying. I seem to be in the undoing of all the pride I was experiencing in the "story of Armelle". I feel more and more humility and the call of the heart coming again.
Yesterday, I started the day by writing a communication from Jesus for me, and later went again into a lot of sadness. I told Erik that I don't know how to love...
And some time later, I felt strongly we will share our inspired dance and music everywhere we will go, proposing improvised meeting where we will be and sharing it with who will be there at the moment. We are guided to record and share it. There will be the major part of our world tour. We are guided to just go for it, with trust and the heart full of love, and Jesus told me that all our needs will be taken care of. He said that we don't have to look for gatherings or workshops; they will be proposed or offered. All that is guided is traveling and following. I was crying all the time I was sharing that with Erik. I couldn't explain why or what happened at that time. I saw us in Jerusalem, and it was very very strong for me...
So if you feel inspired by our path, and that you want to have the opportunity to join us in one place or another, and dance and sing with us, just let us know and stay connected with us via this blog. We will keep you updated every time we change places or we are guided to have a gathering.
We are already happy and grateful for who will be there.
With so much love,
Armelle
October 2009 I received the guidance to go on a world tour together with Erik. I was very nervous at the idea of sharing it with him. We didn't know each other. I'd heard about him, several times, but I'd never had any communication with him at that time. I received the guidance to share it with David, first. He was giving a retreat at the Monastery in Utah, at that time, and Erik was there to play some music too. The moment I was telling Leila that I was called to share it with David, he just called!! So I told him, and he was so happy about my Guidance! That evening, the HS told me to share it with Erik too, so I wrote him an email.
The day after he answered me with so much joy and trust, that I bursted into joy too, and was jumping everywhere in the house. I was so happy! For several years I had been traveling alone. And I enjoyed it a lot, but in the summer I decided that I had traveled alone enough, and that I would like to share it with someone. I dreamt about this world tour for so many years, it was certainly 5 years that that idea of letting go of everything and just following my heart and traveling came into my mind! Now it was given to me... The HS was guiding me to "do" it!!!! I was so happy. This world tour was about sharing our inspired passions, dance and music, without restriction, everywhere (at someone's place, on a beach, wherever...), going into orphenages and sharing with children, and giving gatherings too. Erik was 100% with me, and through his e-mail, I felt his joy, and his trust in my guidance too.
That evening, after a meet-up group at the Light House, we were talking about tattoos in the dining room and Devan said something unexpected. He told me that I would be the next one to have a tattoo and asked me where I wanted to have it. A part of me was saying "no way for me to have a tattoo!! You're crazy". The other part of me felt something was happening. And suddenly I had the vision of a tattoo ring on my wedding ring-finger and the name of Erik appeared at that time, and I felt my heart burning and opening... "Oh no, what is happening to me? I can't share that! It's certainly the ego! It can't be from the Spirit!"
I waited two days before sharing it. I did it first with David, who immediately called Erik and gave him the phone. It was the first time we had ever talked to each other! And it was to share with him the Guidance I was receiving that we were supposed to be married in 15 days!!!
Everything unfolded perfectly. We took the time he was in California to get to know each other by phone. We spent hours on the phone every day. So for me, he was first a voice. And later, this gave me the impression it was the voice of the Father talking to me. During that time, I had the vision of an internet site called "Sharing Love World Tour", coming with an image of the three wise men, a shooting star and the lyrics of a french song "to where you go, I will go. Faithful as a shadow to the destination..." My heart was burning so much, and I felt how much this symbol of our coming together was very strong.
I went to pick him up at the airport 8 days before the wedding. On the way to go, I saw a bilboard where it was written "change your future!" It was what I was about to do, by acting in the present, by following the guidance, by saying "yes"... to the HS, to God through the symbol of the marriage with Erik.
Our "spirit arranged" marriage brought a lot of stuff up for everybody around us. We experienced directly how much it's true that when you do something powerful, you do it for everyone, the whole universe. It had a lot of wonderful effects, and still now, each time that we share the story, it inspires people. I received the guidance that's the way we will be used... sharing about the way to experience a holy relationship for the undoing of the ego and coming to the unconditional love. It will happen through gatherings or workshops as well as through lots of holy encounters.
These last days I went deeper and deeper in the undoing, I cried a lot, without even knowing why I was crying. I seem to be in the undoing of all the pride I was experiencing in the "story of Armelle". I feel more and more humility and the call of the heart coming again.
Yesterday, I started the day by writing a communication from Jesus for me, and later went again into a lot of sadness. I told Erik that I don't know how to love...
And some time later, I felt strongly we will share our inspired dance and music everywhere we will go, proposing improvised meeting where we will be and sharing it with who will be there at the moment. We are guided to record and share it. There will be the major part of our world tour. We are guided to just go for it, with trust and the heart full of love, and Jesus told me that all our needs will be taken care of. He said that we don't have to look for gatherings or workshops; they will be proposed or offered. All that is guided is traveling and following. I was crying all the time I was sharing that with Erik. I couldn't explain why or what happened at that time. I saw us in Jerusalem, and it was very very strong for me...
So if you feel inspired by our path, and that you want to have the opportunity to join us in one place or another, and dance and sing with us, just let us know and stay connected with us via this blog. We will keep you updated every time we change places or we are guided to have a gathering.
We are already happy and grateful for who will be there.
With so much love,
Armelle
Course in Miracles Gathering - Costa Rica, March 2010
We're going to be providing music and dance at this upcoming Course conference in Costa Rica in March. If you want more information, click on the banner below!
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