
Hitchhiker's Guide to Humanity
Bite-sized episodes, big perspective shifts.
Hitchhiker’s Guide to Humanity is the weirdest, wildest, most enlightening trip you never knew you needed.
Ever wonder why we’re here on Earth—or why TF we’re expected to pay bills, feel feelings, and heal ancestral trauma with zero instructions? Yeah, same. But don’t worry—turns out the manual is buried in your soul, and this podcast has the map.
This show lives at the intersection of soul, story, and spiritual science. Think Carl Jung meets quantum timelines and a podcast mic.
Created by Quantum Healer, Author, and Guide Erica Chapman, Hitchhiker’s Guide to Humanity is a weekly exploration of consciousness, healing, and what it means to be human in a rapidly shifting reality.
Erica was raised on SNL, Scooby-Doo, and pizza rolls, with a side-eye for authority and a hunger for deeper truth. She’s a certified energy healer with a background in nonprofits, communications, and creative leadership. She holds a degree in Journalism & Advertising from CMU, and is the author of Teach Me to Forget, published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
Let’s navigate this wild ride together. Because Earth School doesn’t come with a manual—but we’re here to write it anyway.
Find her online: @hhguidetohumanity
Support the show: patreon.com/hitchhikersguidetohumanity
Peace, love, and interdimensional shenanigans to you all! 💫
Hitchhiker's Guide to Humanity
Ep. 16: Spiritual Polarity, Ego Traps & The Permission to Be Wrong (and Confused AF)
In this soul-scorching episode of Hitchhiker’s Guide to Humanity, we unpack my dream download that felt suspiciously like an alternate timeline with a big neon sign that read “Soul Attunement: Sign Up Here.” Buckle up as I pull back the curtain on performative spirituality, matrix polarity traps, and why we don’t have to sell our souls (or pretend to trudge through darkness) to be seen as legitimate lightworkers.
✨ Why there’s no “right way” to awaken
✨ The difference between authentic soul service & spiritual ego
✨ Why it’s okay (and necessary) to change your mind
✨ How the 3D matrix is sneaking in through the back door of spiritual performance
✨ The importance of meeting people where they are… without letting them hijack your light
This one’s for the bridge-builders, the timeline drifters, and the humans trying to make sense of it all without being sanctimonious space pirates.
👽 Bonus mentions:
- Marty McFly, timelines, and the weirdness of waking up in someone else’s matrix
- My personal take on “spiritual psychosis” vs. religious conditioning
- A reminder that you are allowed to make mistakes, shift perspectives, and keep showing up
🔊 Say the thing. Even if it’s messy. Especially if it’s real.
Your host, Erica, is a Quantum Healer, Intuitive Guide, and author of Teach Me to Forget (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers). Raised on a steady diet of SNL, Scooby-Doo, and pizza rolls, she brings a side-eye for authority and a hunger for deeper truth. With a gift for decoding both human behavior and cosmic patterns, Erica makes spiritual insight both accessible and hilarious.
Find us online: @hhguidetohumanity
Support the show: patreon.com/hitchhikersguidetohumanity
Peace, love, and interdimensional shenanigans to you all! 💫
Ep. 16: Spiritual Polarity, Ego Traps & The Permission to Be Wrong (and Confused AF)
Hello and welcome to Hitchhiker's Guide to Humanity. Today we're talking about polarity from the 3D matrix and all the spiritual noise that's going on. So, there seems to be a feeling in the spiritual community that there's a lot of performative shit going on. And- It's not wrong. If I'm not seeing watch out because people are trying to blank insert some type of negative entity trying to get to you. Or, darkness is the only way to get to light. You know, you have to trudge. Trudge. You have to trudge through the fire in order to get to the other side. Follow me and you will get there. And the thing is, the 3D matrix that we're trying to escape slash rebuild with this bridge that we're building is It has no room for polarity within the people who are building the bridge either, okay? So, this all came from a dream I had where It was almost like that Back to the Future where Marty McFly, you know, spoiler alert for Back to the Future two but dude, that's been out for like, what is it, thirty years? Anyways, if you haven't seen it, go see it. It's really fun. So, he comes back and everything's all weird, right? In my dream, there was a big old sign on... A building and it said soul alignment or no, no, no. It was soul attunement. Sign up here or something. And I was like, oh my gosh, what's happened? I have entered an alternate reality here. And I got up from that dream, which probably wasn't a dream. It probably really was some alternate reality that I, that I quantum, you know, jumped to. And I thought, nope, no. I don't want to do it. I don't want to have classes for attunement. Now, please understand, I am not against people, spiritual practitioners, making money in the 3D. We gotta live, y'all. Like, that is not what this is about. This is about selling your soul for it, you know? The people who are making money are finding creative ways to do that and they're actually helping people. That's not who I'm talking about. I'm talking about the people who want followers. The people who want to deify themselves in some way. That's who I'm talking about. The people who have let their ego take over in the name of spirituality. And you're seeing it now. I certainly am. This is not... Me being all high and mighty and being like, okay, now that we've seen this, let's rise to the top and no. Here's what we do. We don't leave anyone behind. This isn't the freaking rapture here. We help people with what they need help with. But we can't do that if we don't know what it is. And so, in tapping into this collective that I am seeing, there is a lot of confusion because spirituality has no rules. And that is something I believe in wholeheartedly. That my guides, the angels, spirit, source, they all have said the same thing. There are no rules. I'm here to break them. I'm here to change perspective in some way. That was my mission. And I do that by being me. Yeah. Who takes that direction and they're like, okay, got it. We'll see you later. It's confusing. And so if other people, other spiritual practitioners are getting this same message, just be you, then there's a lot of confusion going on. They probably don't know what that means. I sure as hell don't. I'm trying to figure it out. The only thing I know is it has to do with my words. So here I am saying them. But the thing is, There are people calling something spiritual psychosis that really isn't spiritual psychosis. It's believing in something bigger than yourself. If spiritual psychosis is a thing, then religion has been doing this since the dawn of time. So let's just call it what it is. And the religious people don't have a problem taking money from people. I'm just saying. So, There's this weird polarity I'm seeing because I don't think religion is bad. You know, if you want to believe in religion and Believe in it. It's your choice. Everyone is allowed to believe in what they want to believe in. Inside their own little world. I will never take that away from anybody. Ever. And I will never tell you that my way is the only way. I think that's bullshit. And that's what I'm seeing. People selling. My way is the only way. This is the facts. This is how you do this. This is how you don't. No. No, no, no, no, no. You guide your life. You make the rules. You find your light. You're not gonna find it in someone else. It just isn't gonna happen. And you're like, wait, wait, wait, wait. You just said polarities and you're telling us we have to find it inside. Yep. I get that. That's an absolute. But here's the thing. It all comes back to you. Maybe if I want to retract that and say the only absolute is you because that's why we're here. And I will always advocate for people, humans, spirits alike, everybody, to go within the Because that is where the light is. That is where the darkness is. The shadows. Everything is there that you need to integrate to have the life that you want to have. I can't promise it because you're the one that's gonna do the work. It isn't gonna be me. All I can do is talk about it, which is what I'm doing. This podcast is my voice. When I go on social media, it gets drowned out. It's like that is always going to be there because humanity has egos, whether we like it or not. You can say you've had an ego death, but it's still there. I would say it's like an ego retraction like it's sitting in the back seat of the car instead of running it driving it but It is there. And I used to think that it disappeared, too. I was wrong. Did you hear that? I admitted I was wrong. That can happen, too. And that's the thing I think spiritual practitioners fear is if they say the thing out loud, if they do the thing, if they start the thing and they find out That they've changed their mind. They're stuck, right? I mean, that's just humanity in general. You don't have to be stuck though. The whole point of humanity is to try shit out. Create shit. Change your mind. It's okay to do it. What was I talking about? You're allowed to make mistakes. You're allowed to not know something. You're allowed to feel however you feel. But know this, no one's behind or ahead of anyone. There are people who have certain roles here and there are people... Who, everybody has their role. No one's is better than the other. They're all necessary for whatever comes next. But it's up to you to find inside what your role is, whatever that is. And maybe it's creating art for people to see. Purchase, I don't know, building wood statues. Follow your joy and excitement and you will find what your purpose is. Do you think I knew that I was somehow Words McGee coming out here for the universe? Like, a journalist for the universe. I'm sorry, what? I did major in journalism in college, so somewhere I knew words had to do with it, and I'm a published author, so yeah, I write. Words are my thing. They totally are. But if you would have told me that this is what they were for, I didn't know that. I had to follow my joy, follow my excitement, talk about things that I... Was scared to talk about. Go through this spiritual growth period that is absolutely bonkers if you tell anyone about it. And I documented the whole thing. Not on this podcast or anything, but there is a notion that Page out there that has all of this from the beginning of my spiritual, I guess, awakening, we'll call it, to now. I have documented absolutely everything. I have it. I have the map. But in true ADHD fashion, I don't know how to organize any of it. I don't know how to make something out of it. But I am a writer. And so someday, I don't know when, that map will become a real thing. It will be Earth School, which I have talked about. I'm working on it, people. I'm working on it. Anyways, say the thing. Do not be afraid to be wrong. It's okay. Make sure if you are saying something and you are wrong that later you just change your mind. Don't double down on something that you know isn't right. It's okay. Another good thing about humanity is they can be forgiving, especially when someone is sincere and authentic. I am not perfect. You are not perfect. We are flawed. We can change our minds. I've changed my minds with more Minds. Well, yeah. With more information that comes in, I become a better, more informed citizen of the world and the universe. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's okay not to know something. It's okay to project whatever it is that you had and learn something. With awareness and knowledge and just connections with other people that it was wrong. You can see it online. There's people changing their mind all the time. They're coming out and they're saying, whew, I was wrong. Now here's what will be toxic if this happens. I'm sorry. It's happening now. We can't dismiss people who are genuinely sincere about wanting to change their mind and learn. That is a valuable trait to have and that person is going to be a valuable asset to society. Someone who has lived it, right? It's easy for us to be like, fuck you, you believed in this, you know, but that is what They want, and I say they as in the universal, elite, oligarchy, dictator-y people. And they're losing anyway, so they're not gonna win this. But like, these people will still be here in the world. The ones that we were so angry with They're going to be next to us. They're our neighbors. They're our family members. And they're going to, ooh, this is hard for me, need people to be there for them. Ouch. That's a hard thing for this human in me. She's like, oh, no, I want to burn it. But it's just not the way things move forward. And I feel my responsibility as someone helping to bring this bridge with the frequency that I have and the impact my voice has to not Cater to that burn it all voice inside. She will still be there ready with her pitchfork. But we can't I can't believe I'm saying this, but we can't do that. We can't. We don't know everybody's stories. We just don't. Now, does that mean we got to befriend Karen? Like, you know, she's got to be our best friend that we go to the, no, no, you don't have to befriend them. You don't have to give them your energy, but Understand and be aware of the path that they're going to go through when this all starts to end, which is coming soon, by the way. They're going to wake up here in a minute. They already are and they're gonna need us the quote-unquote awakened to help with the transition because it's already confusing for us. It's going to be a really small society here in the quote-unquote 5D New Earth or whatever if there's nobody there. It's just me and some other bridge builders. There's not going to be much of a society. And we're going to be ostracized and, you know, no, we need them to come over too. Just think about that. Start to integrate that into your heart portal. The empathy, all of that. This doesn't mean that you let yourself... Be taken advantage of. It doesn't mean that you let yourself lose value in things that you value. Hell no. Yours truly will never do that. I will always speak up. I will always... Advocate for values that I believe in. But that doesn't mean I have to push anybody else down in order to advocate for those. They can exist too. Even if it's just... In that other side of society. Until next time, peace and love to you all.