Hitchhiker's Guide to Humanity

Hitchhiker’s Guide to: The F*ck Around Era Ends Here

Erica M. Chapman Season 2 Episode 16

In this final episode of 2025, I’m saying goodbye to a year that felt like a collective trash fire, and hello to 2026 with cautious hope and intention. 

This episode isn’t about pretending everything resets when the calendar flips. It’s about how we carry what we’ve learned forward.

In this conversation, I reflect on:

  • Intentionality and why it's so damn important
  • Why the f*ck around era is the transition to the find out era
  • Angelic energy and human imperfection
  • Why you’re not here to save the world, you’re here to be you
  • The importance of humor, whimsy, rest, and nervous-system care as the world goes through it's inevitable tower card moment
  • The great slow down in 2026

Thank you for listening to me ramble on about spirituality, my own journey and the world and all its flaws. YOU are what kept me sane, knowing my voice found an audience. It means so much that you're here. I will see you next year with all new fun things to explore in the world of Humanity!

As we head into 2026, Don't be afraid to fight for what’s right, but don’t burn yourself out. Put the phone down. Choose hope. Build new systems with care. 

And most importantly, don’t forget to be human.

Until next time, peace and love to you all!

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Your host, Erica, is an Energy Healer and author of Teach Me to Forget (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers). Raised on a 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 patterns, she makes spiritual insights both relatable and fun.

Don't Forget to Check out: Hitchhiker’s Guide to: You’re Already the Temple, So Why Are You Praying for Escape?

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Peace, love, and interdimensional shenanigans to you all!

Hello and welcome to Hitchhiker's Guide to Humanity. Today we're talking about saying goodbye to twenty twenty five and hello to twenty twenty six.

Okay, so. There are a lot of people who are rightfully so who are like by twenty twenty five, you, you know, don't let the door hit your ass on the way out. And, you know, I get it. I get that, um, it's completely valid. Let's just say that it has been a tragic year, full of change, full of pain, you know? But it's also at the same time as showing the disgusting terribleness of human like humanity. It's also shown us the beauty of humanity. When we are down, we are at our best. I know that sucks and I know that I. I wish it was some other way. I wish there were other ways to get people's attention other than just shoving all this shit in their face. But some people just don't look up until there's something in their face. And if it could be any other way, I would welcome that. And it doesn't mean I agree with anything that happened this year anywhere around the world. I am a pacifist. I don't like war. I think it's stupid. I think things can be solved in other ways. I don't understand it at all. And I, I don't comprehend. What inside you would would tell you it's okay to take out multiple thousands, millions of humans. For what? What is the reason? So I'm leaving. Twenty five, twenty five twenty twenty five with hope that we have learned. I think it's the fuck around ERA is twenty twenty five and the find out ERA is going to be twenty twenty six. It's not going to be easy. I know, like we can't just ring in the new year and go, that's it. Everything bad that happened is gone. That is a myth. It follows us where we go. But as I've said millions of times. And different places. Maybe not millions. Thousands. You get to decide how you react to something. You get to decide whether something is going to change you or not. That is all up to you. And if you listen to my last podcast about, I think it's called Losing My Religion and Living with humor or something. Um, I should know this. I should know my own podcast names, but I don't. The last one, I talk about the fact that when you put your belief system in a group and you don't agree with everything that group does, you're stuck almost if you want to keep the group mentality, if you want to stay within the group, you have to do with the group says. You have to believe what the group says. And anyone else, you're out. Right. And that is a powerful tool manipulation tool. When you believe that you are the only one who believes a certain thing. Woo! It is hard. It is very difficult. I've gone through that this year because I found out that I have an angelic soul. And it's weird. It's really weird. And it's not the only version I have in here. Like, I believe that everybody has different types of souls that come from different realms, that have different energy frequencies. And I have an angelic energy frequency, and that has been a really hard thing to wrap my brain around, because humans don't consider that to be a regular thing. And because I never saw myself as particularly angelic. Um, but as I've learned through this year, my legs are electrifying. As I've learned through this year. Angels are, uh. They don't have wings. We we don't have wings. And we aren't perfect. We aren't ethereal, perfect beings. That was never the goal, right? Because even angelic souls came down here to be human. So I'm going to make mistakes. We're going to make mistakes. We're going to do stupid shit. We're gonna. We're gonna try and fail over and over and over again. And I can't tell you the distinguishing characteristic of what makes someone an angelic soul or not. That's for you to figure out. Right. It's never one and done. Like it's never. This is it. This is for everyone. It is so individualized is what I'm learning that humanity, what we have inside, is individualized. It's ours. And it doesn't matter what someone else thinks or believes. I know in my heart of hearts, in my soul who I am. And even though it's not the quote unquote norm here, that's okay. I don't have to live up to any mythical standard that was put in place by humans. I know what frequency I operate at like it's fine. I don't talk about it openly that often because it's just part of my soul, right? Like, and there are a lot of angelic souls out there. I've met. I've met many, you know, you can tell they're the ones who, despite everything, get up the next day and do it right. They're the ones who everyone tells all their secrets to where they feel differently in their presence. They make friends with people in seconds. Not hours, not weeks. They're both introverted and extroverted. They're all colors, all cultures, all types. And that goes for any type of frequency, any type of soul that someone has. I truly believe this. There is not a hierarchy where someone is better than the other. We are all just melting pots of souls and uniquely came here during this time of massive change during this revolution. And so we each have a place in this, and it doesn't have to be visible to everybody. It doesn't have to be something where you have to perform, or you have to do this certain thing, or you have to save the world or anything like that. And once you go through your spiritual, you know, growth, awakening, whatever you want to call it, you have that moment where you're like, okay, now I know this. Am I supposed to save the world? And I truly mean that because everybody who goes through this has that moment like, oh my gosh, what do I do with all of this? And the thing is, you're just supposed to be you. You know, and that's what I figured out in twenty twenty five. You're just supposed to be you be you. Wonderful, flawed you. That is why you're here. That is why everyone is here. And everyone is on their own timetable. Some of us figured this shit out years ago. Some are figuring it out now. Some haven't. Some are being born now who already know way more than we do. And. The kids are all right. We're going to be all right. We just need to, um. Without a better way of saying it. Uh, take certain mindsets, uh, to the grave along with some of those people. And that's part of the deal. And if you're like me and you believe that we are infinite beings, death is not the end. It's just a transition into the next wave of experience that we have. Right? And I don't know if I'll come back here. If you listen to my very first episode, by the way, we're coming up on a year that I've been doing this, which is wild because I hardly ever stick with anything, I'll be honest. And you've probably noticed that because sometimes they're sporadic. My, um, postings are sporadic. I'm just not someone who's like, every Tuesday, this is your podcast. Like, I just don't operate like that. And so once I got out of those constraints of I have to do it weekly, I have to do this, it's all for I was able to let myself go and just do it when I want. Right. And whoever hears it, it's meant to be heard by you. And thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you for listening to my discovery of all of this, to my foray into podcasting. It has been a lot of fun. I want to get more. Less. Um. What's the word I'm thinking of? I want to talk to you, too. Um, and get your thoughts. And so I will be next year at some point, starting to interview people. Kind of like, you know, that, um, account that's like people on the street. What is it called? Oh, I can't remember. But they just stop people and ask their story. Right? So I had this idea that I would interview regular people that I know and don't know, maybe, and just ask them why they believe what they believe, you know, and. Why they what their you know, I'm I'm not going to get into it now but just a different. I've had this year to just do this alone. And it's been wonderful. And I won't say that I won't do any more alone. Um, there's something really freeing about going, oh, wait, I should do this. And it takes me probably about an hour to do everything. Um, if you're wondering, like, I record in GarageBand and then I put it into Adobe Audition, and then I put it into Adobe AI and add the music, and then I put it back into Adobe Audition and removed the breasts and all the crap that I don't want you to hear, because you don't need to hear me going, you know, um, I don't do that. But the breasts in between can be a little distracting, so I remove those. I might remove this whole thing. You never know. Anyway, it's been a joy to speak to you and to have over a thousand downloads, which I know doesn't seem like a lot for little Ole me, though. I'm impressed by that. It's only like thirty. I think it's thirty something podcasts. So that's I mean, for me, that's a great goal to have hit before the end of the year, especially because I do not advertise this like hardly at all. I mention it once in a while. So a lot of this is word of mouth. And so I have to thank you for that too. And I need to get better at advertising, I realize that. Um, okay, so twenty twenty six. What I have felt Is that like I said, the fuck around and find out the find Out section is twenty twenty six. There will be consequences. I sense this with everything. I got it. There's consequences, but they will not come. Conventionally, there will be work that has to be done. And I know we're all tired of boycotting and protesting and doing all this stuff, but it's working. It is absolutely working and it is on its own timetable. And as I've said before it, the universe is an energy exchange. It has no bias. It goes by what energy it's being fed and what is coming out, and it has to balance. And so we're trying to balance the energy again. That's why a lot of us are here. And so twenty twenty six, I feel like twenty twenty five was the chaotic, you know, trash fire year. Let's just call it that. And then twenty twenty six will be the integrating and of how we can take this chaos and start to not just survive, but start to figure out how to live with some of these things, to figure out how as a community, we can build networks and and systems that can work that are different from the patriarchal capitalist bullshit that we've been living in. That's what I see twenty twenty six as twenty twenty seven will be the real. There's a lot of predictive astrology, predictive spirituality that says twenty twenty seven is the year that the planet will shift. It will shift in a way, and this could be figuratively or literally. Something is going to massively change globally in twenty twenty seven and I don't. My legs are electrifying. I don't deny that. What that is I don't know. And I don't think anybody can know because that timeline is still being set. We we regularly jump timelines personally and we fairly regularly jump timelines collectively. And so we are in this particular timeline. If you're listening to me, you're in this one. Maybe I don't know how it works when you're not in it, but I'm pretty sure you couldn't listen to me unless you were in my timeline. And so. Each timeline is going to experience their own version of whatever happens in the next two years. And. How you react to what happens around you and where you put your focus will be everything. It will be everything. Put the phone down. Put the phone down. Stop watching the news. Take time to have certain times during the day that you check on certain things. Find your trusted resource. Check and then go. Don't stay. Don't stay unless you have something to say. something, to change a cat picture to share. You know, a loving, wonderful human moment. Whimsy. We need so much more whimsy in this world. We take things so seriously. Let's bring whimsy back. I'm fine with that. I love it. I say good morning to the sun every morning. I am a whimsical type person, but you would never know that because I don't really do that. I don't really do it anywhere else, you know. And since. You know, I'm not partnered, I it's just me and my cats that experience my whimsy. And so these are the things that will matter in twenty twenty six. Whimsy. Humor. Slowing down. Making things intentional. There is a very strong, intentional vibe going into twenty twenty six. It needs to be intentional. Say no if you don't want to. Whatever it is, say no. Those of us who haven't gone inside enough. You go inside, feel your feelings. Somatic somatic therapy and somatic all of that is going to be very important because we're all going to be traumatized from all of the things that are happening right now and that have been happening since. Who knows how long. Two twenty sixteen twenty twenty birth. And so once things, once the consequences are doled out. Once we start integrating our new communities systems, your body is going to go into a type of, um, let's say shock, but it will slow down and we'll need a lot of rest. And I've, I did that this year. I think a lot of us did that this year. But there's going to be a group that does it next year and the year after. Right. I think it's going in waves. And so. It will slow down. And there are there is reason to hope I will never give up hope ever. I may call this timeline a trash fire. I might, you know, sarcastically say something, but when I wake up in the morning, I have hope and optimism that we're going to make it through you. I could be burning down and I will still be like, there are people who aren't me that are going to make the world better. It is how it is and we are here to burn it down. Not literally. Figuratively. Right. To take it all down. All that does not belong. This is the tower moment for the planet Earth and her people. It's all coming down. But it needed to. And you see? You see the. I can't remember the word. I'm going to end it here. So for twenty twenty six I want you to keep the hope. I want you to. Monitor your reactions to things. Monitor your time spent in negative energy. This does not mean. And I want this very clear, that you are not a member of humanity, that you do not fight for what is right for humans. It doesn't mean you bury your head in the sand, but it means you do it intentionally. You do everything intentionally, and when it's too much, you stop. Our nervous systems need a break. So fight for the revolution. But go home. Watch some crappy reality TV show and go to sleep. It doesn't have to be twenty four over seven. It's not necessary. It's time to slow down. This will be my last one for the year, obviously, because today is is. Well, today is December thirtieth, but I'm launching it December thirty first. I wish you all a wonderful new year, a safe new year, and here's to twenty twenty six. Thank you so much for being here, for this, for me in many ways. This is what kept me sane, is being able to do this. So I'm so grateful to you. Thank you. I love you. What do I normally say at the end? Oh, crap. Until next time, peace and love to you all.


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