by Mark Pitstick MA, DC

Note: If you already know the following information scroll down to the article title in maroon below the seven asterisks.  However, I strongly recommend reading this introduction until you really ‘own’ it.  In addition, post The Great News where you’ll see it every day.  

Over the last 15 years, and especially during 2019 – 2024, data from a series of experiments at the University of Arizona have definitively demonstrated scientifically that life continues after physical death.  This research was conducted by Gary E. Schwartz PhD, former professor at Harvard and Yale, and pioneer in the fields of behavioral medicine and energy healing.  

Dr. Schwartz is assisted in this work by a team of electrical engineers, software developers, research assistants, evidential mediums, and postmaterial luminaries at the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health.  (To learn more about the SoulPhone Project and lab, visit LACH.Arizona.edu.  To learn about postmaterial luminaries, see article #31 at SoulProof.com) 

The Demo SoulSwitch is a binary (Yes / No) SoulSwitch device that postmaterial persons (the so-called ‘deceased’) can use to answer questions, verify their identity, and begin providing information to help many people and our planet.  This device should be ready for beta testing by the summer of 2024.  After sessions with project volunteers and larger donors, we will share data that scientifically demonstrates life continues after bodily death.  However, this ‘reveal’ will initially occur as an ‘incremental trickle’ versus a ‘sudden splash’.   Over time and under optimal conditions, we will gradually amplify how widely this news is shared. 

Likewise, demonstrations of this technology will occur in a stepwise fashion.  We anticipate, but cannot guarantee, that full announcements and demonstrations will occur by spring 2025.  These decisions were made in April 2024 after many strategic planning discussions with core project team members.  The many factors involved are much more complex than you might imagine. 

See articles #1, 60, and 115 for an overview of the scientific, clinical, and experiential evidence that indicates – with 99.9% certainty – that consciousness survives bodily death.  This collective evidence also shows – with very high degrees of certainty – The Great News that you and everyone else:

  1. continue to live after your earthly body dies.
  2. can interact with ‘departed’ loved ones now and after you pass on.
  3. are integral, infinite, eternal, and beloved parts of Source Energy now and always.
  4. receive guidance and support from angels, guides, master teachers, etc.
  5. are sacredly interconnected with all people, animals, and nature.
  6. have special purposes for having this earthly experience now.
  7. may manifest in other simultaneous time / space realities now and after bodily death.
  8. have everything you need to enjoy an optimal earthly experience – no matter what your past or current circumstances.
  9. can find meaning, as well as opportunities for growth and service, amidst your toughest changes and challenges.
  10. co-create how heavenly your life feels – whether living on earth or elsewhere – by your predominant thoughts, words and actions.
  11. can likely use SoulPhone technology in the future to communicate with postmaterial loved ones and access wisdom from luminaries who can help us heal our world.  

Statements #1, 2, and 11 are based on definitive scientific research.  The other statements are based on: (a) clinical research: near-death experiences, past life memories and regressions, perinatal experiences, life between lives sessions, shared crossings, terminal lucidity cases, and deathbed visions; and (b) evidencefrom firsthand experiences: after-death communications, out-of-body experiences, spiritually transformative experiences, electronic voice projection / instrumental transcommunication, and other ways of knowing.

This is, obviously, a new and exciting era for humanity.  When understood and internalized – even just a bit – The Great News can help you make the shift:         

  • FROM thinking, believing, and acting as if your time on earth is unfair, meaningless, cruel, and ends with cessation of consciousness or the possibility of endless suffering.
  • TO thinking, believing, and acting as if this earthly experience is a totally meaningful, safe, and magnificent adventure amidst forever.

Conscious language can help you adopt a greater reality perspective and live based on the second bulleted worldview.  And that, in turn, can help you create the greatest life YOU have envisioned, fulfill your purposes for being on earth, serve others, and enjoy a magnificent journey.  In the pursuit of using more conscious / accurate terms, l:   

  1. Will use the term ‘YOU’ to describe the totality of your energy / being. Your real self may manifest in different spacetime ways simultaneously since only approximately 50% of your consciousness is needed to have an earthly experience. The term ‘YOU’ recognizes both of these possibilities.
  2. Won’t use the terms ‘die, departed, deceased, or dead’ without single quotation marks since those have strongly entrenched and erroneous meanings indicating an end of life.
  3. Will use the terms ‘bodily death’ and ‘death of the earthly form’ to remind you that only the earth-suit dies. The rest – all the intelligence, love, personality, memories, preferences, sense of humor, and much more – continues living in other parts of the field of all possibilities.
  4. Will use the terms changed worlds, passed on, transitioned and others that aptly describe a continuation of consciousness after bodily death.
  5. Will primarily refer to those who have passed on as postmaterial persons. That term recognizes the points in #3. I also will use soul, consciousness, essence, and awareness.
  6. Will primarily refer to ‘physical humans living on earth’ as material persons. Why? Because those terms within single quotation marks may apply to postmaterial persons.  That is, they can have physicality, visit earth, and are still human in meaningful ways.
  7. Will use the terms lower versus higher energies, emotions, and ways of being. These descriptors are not critical, judgmental, or subjective; rather, they are based on objective measures by, for example, David Hawkins PhD, MD author of Power Versus Force. He and other researchers found that higher-energy emotions of peace, joy, and love calibrate at 600, 540, and 500 respectively.  Conversely, lower-energy emotions of anger, fear, and guilt calibrate at 150, 100, and 30.  To be clear, energy / consciousness is who and what you really are, not just how you are feeling.  Your predominant energies create the quality of your life and the nature of your earthly or other time-space experience.
  8. Will use single quotations marks with words such as ‘lose and fail’.  The Great News and collective afterlife evidence can expand your worldview about what seem to be losses and failures.  We can’t accurately judge the big picture of life – what is lost or how we failed – with our limited human senses.   

Note: To recognize and respect different genders and sexual identifications, I will alternate using ‘he’ or ‘she’ and related pronouns.  Depending on a person’s orientation, one, both, or neither of those may apply.

The free articles and radio shows mentioned are available at SoulProof.com.  To learn more about the collective afterlife evidence and The Great News, read Soul Proof, The Afterlife Evidence, Greater Reality Living (co-authored with Dr. Schwartz) and The Big Picture of Life (for ages 10 – 16 written with Schwartz and Katta Mapes MA, MEd).  To experience expanded states of consciousness to optimally heal and transform your life, use audio sessions under Shop at SoulProof.com. 

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Optimal Lifework

This is what I call a 15% topic.  That number is an estimate of how many people on earth currently have intermediate to advanced levels of energy / spiritual awakening.  This topic will become more important and relevant as larger numbers of people, learn without a doubt, that life continues after bodily death.

How I learned that we each are here for special purposes:

from family and friends
1. I was often asked by older family members, church members, and neighbors: ‘Mark, what do you want to be when you grow up?’ That caused a certain amount of reflection. By high school, I had it narrowed down to a physician, counselor, and pastor.  I ended up getting training in all three areas.

2. My parents taught, ‘To whom much is given, much is expected.’ It was clear that I was fairly bright, verbal, and in good physical condition. How would I use and share those gifts?

from religious / spiritual training
1. The minister’s Benediction ‘May the peace that passes all understanding be in your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus’ sounded, even at a young age, as something I definitely wanted.

2. Encouragement to ‘let your light shine, don’t hide it under a bushel’ also caught my attention. Combined with ‘love your neighbor as yourself’, it was becoming clearer that helping others was a really good thing to do.

3. At age twelve, I sat by myself eating a bowl of cereal and reading the newspaper.On the front page was the story of a prominent local man who had just passed on. As I looked up in reverie, sunlight refracted through our beveled kitchen windows and multicolored lights shined into my eyes.  A calm loving voice / thought said, “You, too, will die someday, Mark.  What will you do with your life in the meantime?  Will you leave this world a better place or will you just take up space?”  The question wasn’t judgmental or threatening.  Rather, it seemed designed to make me think about fulfilling my missions.

from books
1. While reading Critical Path by Buckminster Fuller, I learned that he had a revelatory moment at age 32. Broke, unemployed, and seemingly hopelessly unsuccessful, Bucky considered jumping off a cliff for the life insurance benefits for his family. However, a deep inner thought / voice convinced him to use his unique knowledge and experience to benefit others.  His success as an inventor, mathematician, author, and philosopher spoke volumes about the wisdom of that approach.

b. In his wonderful book with Michael Toms, An Open Life, Joseph Campbell shared his ‘follow your bliss’ philosophy.  Here is the full quote: “If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living.”

from music

  1. In the Beatles’ song The End, they famously state: “And in the end, the love you take, is equal to the love you make.”These lyrics agreed with the Higher Thought idea that we receive all we give to others and more.
  2. Stevie Wonder’s song Higher Ground on his Innervisions album encouraged people to do whatever they are doing to the very best of their ability: ‘Teachers keep on teaching, preachers keep on preaching, world keep on turning til I reach my highest ground.’
  3. The delightfully energizing and inspiring band Earth, Wind, and Fire reminded us: ‘You’re a shining star, no matter who you are, shining bright to see, what you could truly be.’

The words to these songs and others become like a mantra that played over and over in my head.  Together, they added to my growing belief and feeling that serving others was a high level path.

while helping others

  1. During my six years working part-time in hospitals, I noticed that helping others made me feel better. Like most of us, I went through predictable relationship break-ups, not knowing what I should do, financial concerns, and more. However, those troubles were forgotten during those golden moments when I lovingly helped others who were suffering and dying.
  2. While working in pastoral counseling settings and mental health centers, I realized that one cause of depression was creative discontent.Put another way, some people suffered with an existential malaise because they weren’t in the flow of life and making life better in some way.from Eastern and Native spirituality sources1. Studies of Hinduism and Buddhism introduced me to the term ‘dharma’ that can be interpreted as a right way of living.2. Native American spirituality teachers shared that Great Spirit endowed everyone with a ‘give away’. Part of each person’s daily walk with Creator was to share these gifts.3. At some point, I incorporated the following into my daily prayers and affirmations: Thank you for helping me let my light shine fully, to share my greatest gifts, to do all that I came here to do, and sing all my heart songs

    from my searches for afterlife evidence

    1. Near death experiencers reported that life reviews were a transformative part of their time of being embraced by the Light.

    2. Reading books by Aramaic scholars George Lamsa, Rocco Errico, and Neil Douglas-Klotz helped me upgrade my understanding of what ‘heaven and hell’ were. (To learn more, see article #14)

  3. I created audio programs including Ask Your Soul (article #71), Past Life Regressions (#102), and Pre-Birth Planning (#25). Each of these allowed me to escape the illusion that my five sense detected all that is. They allowed me alter my consciousness naturally and access clues to what my highest missions in this time and place are.

Sharing What I’ve Learned
1. A great way to learn is to teach.  I created the ‘Identify and Fulfill Your Purposes AND Create Your Greatest Life’ audio program so people can address this important topic from a more aware state of mind.

2. In addition, I wrote many free articles that can be read at SoulProof.com including:

a. #21 Identify and Fulfill Your Highest Purposes

b.  #65 Karma

c. #70 Holistic Breathing Technique

d. #71 Ask Your Soul Technique

e. #72 Greater Reality Living

Keys lessons I’ve learned personally and while working with many people about this topic:

  1. Begin to follow your callings, even just part time if you have to work at a paying day job.Your inner self will be less frustrated and more empowered after you start.
  2. It’s not so much how you serve as it is the service itself. For example, some bartenders and barbers provide invaluable counsel to their clients.
  3. As a wise Middle Eastern idiom instructs: ‘Trust Allah but tie up your camel.’  Follow your bliss but also be smart about being able to pay bills.
  4. Identifying and fulfilling your missions is a process that may change over time. For example, after achieving each of my degrees and practicing that craft full time for a while, I felt: ‘No, that’s not it.’  However, the combination of working in hospitals, mental health centers, holistic health care center, writing books, lecturing, etc. prepared me to educate people about the reality of afterlife, how to internalize that great news, and all the benefits therein.
  5. Your apparent failures may actually be training for other time / space scenarios. You take with you what you have mastered into the next phase of life.  So don’t prejudge about the success of your outreaches.
  6. Don’t think your missions have to be world changing. The Aborigines said it was a great life if you helped one other person.
  7. Serving others is a great way to heal and transform yourself.

A formula for finding your optimal lifework:

  1. Daily pray / intend that it occurs in right time and way.
  2. Write out your dream career and don’t hold back.
  3. Share your vision with supportive family and friends.
  4. Stay alert to what pops up
  5. Change your schooling and/or job as your heart and mind instruct.
  6. To become, act as if.
  7. Even if you’re not doing your ideal job, give 110% to whatever you do
  8. Give thanks for your ideal lifework that is coming to you.

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Your life, and that of others around you, will be more enriched when you:  

  1. read this article again within a few days so you really own it.
  2. discuss it with trusted family members and friends.
  3. take recommended action steps that seem right for you.
  4. share it with others who can use it.

Let it shine,
Mark

Mark Pitstick MA, DC is an author, master’s level clinical psychologist, holistic chiropractic physician, frequent media guest, and webinar / workshop facilitator.  He has also helped others in pastoral counseling and suicide prevention / education settings.  Mark directs The Soul Phone Foundation, founded Greater Reality Living Groups, and assists research on the SoulPhone Project.  To learn more about how Dr. Pitstick might help you, visit SoulProof.com/About.

Dr. Pitstick’s goal is to help you know and show– no matter what is happening to or around you – that this earthly experience is a totally safe, meaningful, and magnificent adventure amidst eternity.  Visit SoulProof.com for free articles, newsletters, and radio interviews with top consciousness experts.  Other resources include his very reasonably priced books, audio-products, and documentary film.

Note: Because of his many outreaches, Dr. Pitstick can no longer answer complex and/or multiple questions.  However, he has created many resources to answer your biggest questions and provide holistic solutions for your toughest challenges . . .  

FREE ARTICLES, RADIO SHOW, AND E-NEWSLETTERS

– Articles for Transformation and Healing (top tab Articles at SoulProof.com) address the most common questions, concerns, and challenges about life, death, and afterlife.

– Radio Shows (top tab Radio Shows at SoulProof.com) share his and top experts’ answers to life’s biggest questions: “Who am I? Why am I here?  What happens after I die?  Is there a God?  Why is there so much suffering?  Why do children die?” and others.

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AUDIO-PRODUCTS, BOOKS, AND DOCUMENTARY FILM

– Transformational Audio Products  (see Shop at SoulProof.com) provide quality sessions at home for a fraction of the cost of an office visit.  These CDs and digital audios use deep relaxation, visualization, breathwork, and/or other techniques to: access your inner wisdom, visit with “departed” loved ones, release old wounds and lower energy emotions, evaluate your pre-birth planning, have past life regressions, and other goals.

– Books and Documentary (Shop at SoulProof.com) provide information and strategies to help you more deeply realize and demonstrate:

  • you are a forever being of energy / consciousness
  • the many wonderful benefits of realizing this
  • how to reflect this great news in every aspect of your life — even when confronted with big challenges and changes

Webinars and Workshops: to learn about these, subscribe to newsletters at SoulProof.com and SoulPhone.org (Classes & Interviews at SoulProof.com)

Greater Reality Living Groups: these local and online groups share information from Dr. Pitstick, Dr. Gary Schwartz, and other experts on consciousness and holistic wellness topics.  (Visit Greater Reality Living at SoulProof.com)

Coaching / Counseling Session: meet with Dr. Pitstick by Zoom to gain answers to your toughest questions and holistic solutions to your biggest challenges.  (Shop at SoulProof.com)

Disclaimer: This information is not designed to replace medical or psychological care.  Dr. Pitstick’s remarks are based on his personal and professional training and experience during forty-eight years of helping many thousands of people.  Collective clinical, scientific, and experiential evidence supports some, but not all, of what he shares.  Mark’s views may change over time, and he does not claim to have all the answers or the only answers.

Dr. Pitstick encourages you to consider this information and decide for yourself what makes the most sense.  Note: the articles and other resources at his SoulProof.com site are NOT purely based on scientific research as is the SoulPhone Project.