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:
- continue to live after your earthly body dies.
- can interact with ‘departed’ loved ones now and after you pass on.
- are integral, infinite, eternal, and beloved parts of Source Energy now and always.
- receive guidance and support from angels, guides, master teachers, etc.
- are sacredly interconnected with all people, animals, and nature.
- have special purposes for having this earthly experience now.
- may manifest in other simultaneous time / space realities now and after bodily death.
- have everything you need to enjoy an optimal earthly experience – no matter what your past or current circumstances.
- can find meaning, as well as opportunities for growth and service, amidst your toughest changes and challenges.
- co-create how heavenly your life feels – whether living on earth or elsewhere – by your predominant thoughts, words and actions.
- 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Will use the terms changed worlds, passed on, transitioned and others that aptly describe a continuation of consciousness after bodily death.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Humans are energetic beings who create the quality — and perhaps the quantity of our lives — by the vibrational frequencies we create. These frequencies are created by our predominant thoughts, words, and deeds. You have a moment-by-moment choice to choose to focus on higher or lower energy emotions.
Higher-energy emotions include love, peace, joy, compassion, gratitude, enthusiasm, hope, acceptance, and enlightenment. Consciously focusing on these higher energies and ways of being is vital for a meaningful and totally successful earthly experience.
Lower-energy emotions include hatred, guilt, fear, anger, hopelessness, revenge, self-blame, and excessive grief. When focused upon too much, these can engender poor choices, illness, self-destruction, and other negative results that you don’t want in your life.
Again, emotions – and their underlying energies – have huge consequences for your time on earth. They shape your view of reality now AND after you change worlds. For example, feeling angry a lot increases the intensity and frequency of angry thoughts and words. Over time, that can result in lower-energy actions toward yourself and others. Collective lower-energies of humanity are considered to be one cause of extreme weather, violence, and other disasters on our planet. To learn more, read Power Versus Force by David Hawkins MD, PhD. Also do an Internet search for “Hawkins Map of Consciousness” and study it thoroughly.
One basic way to remember the importance of higher-energy thoughts, words, and deeds is to remember: always reach for the highest feeling thought. I first heard that advice in books and audio products by Esther and Jerry Hicks, but it has been echoed by other wise ones over time.
Most people — including myself — don’t fully know and show they are one with Source Energy and sacredly interconnected with all life. This earthly experience can help us learn and demonstrate that more deeply.
Why weren’t we created completely knowing this? If, upon arriving on earth, you automatically and fully remembered your real nature, you would be a pre-programmed robot. Put another way, if you were created completely aware of and in alignment with good and G.O.D., you would be an automaton and Creator would be a cosmic puppet master.
You also couldn’t learn and grow from lessons borne from searching and struggling. It’s easy to remember who you are and act accordingly when living in sublime realms where higher energies abound. Deep realization and internalized knowing are heightened after experiencing the blood, sweat, and tears involved in an earthly visit. Consider difficult lessons you learned as a child. For example, your parents warned you to not touch something hot, but their words were meaningless until you experienced what hot is.
Similarly, how can you freely choose love, peace, joy, compassion, and other higher-energy emotions and ways of being until you’ve experienced their opposites?
Visiting earth is a great way to awaken. If you are suffering, you are more likely to ask key questions that you wouldn’t have if everything were perfect. If you are a beginner soul, manifesting part of your life force on earth provides opportunities to have spiritually transformative experiences. If you are an intermediate or advanced person, this earthly experience can help you evolve further, serve others, and enjoy unique adventures and pleasures.
This earthly incarnation is a voluntary experience that helps you evaluate and demonstrate how much you really understand. Again, it’s easier to learn lofty ideas in a safe and totally supportive nonearthly environment. The real test — where the rubber really meets the road — is during earthly experiences where it appears you are separate, weak, vulnerable, and can die.
Below are my answers to questions that directly involved the topic of higher and lower energies, emotions, and ways of being . . .
Q: Do we create our own realities? If so, do we come to earth to have more ‘real experiences’ versus ‘mind-imagined ones’ on the Other Side?
A: I would say you co-create your reality since some aspects of your life may already be in motion. For example, choosing to visit earth requires that birth, death, and at least some suffering is built into the package. However, you likely can co-create the quality and quantity of your earthly visit.
Before coming to earth, influences are exerted via: (1) pre-birth planning; (2) past experiences; and (3) your level of consciousness. After arriving, additional co-creative factors include: (1) how well you listen to your inner guidance and that of higher-energy assistants and Source; (2) daily choices about how you think, speak, and act; (3) taking responsibility for your life; (4) how quickly and well you learn from ‘mistakes’.
In general, the degree to which you understand ‘The Great News’ and live accordingly determines whether you seem to be paddling up or down stream during your earthly experience.
As indicated by your quotation marks, the word ‘real’ is a tricky one, isn’t it? This supposedly real / solid earthly experience is just as illusory as those in more just mind-imagined / etheric realms. My current thinking is that all experiences, whether they seem to be formed or formless, are mind-imagined. They may best be considered as virtual reality experiences that timeless energy / souls choose for purposes of service, adventure, growth, and enjoyment.
However, the illusion of solidity, separateness, and death can be very convincing during an earthly visit. Those seem so ‘real’ that many may reject this discussion as nonsensical.
That can create a dense, uninformed, and fearful mass consciousness with resultant effects on people.
Earthly experiences may have a greater intensity and sense of physicality versus those on other planes of consciousness. My guess is that whether sensations seem more ‘real’ or ‘mind-imagined’ depends on the experiencer’s level of awareness. Those with advanced energies might enjoy chocolate, lovemaking, and sunsets in other dimensions just as much as on earth.
Whether an experience seems formed / physical / solid OR formless / spiritual / ethereal is ultimately in the eye of the beholder. A limited nervous system in an imbalanced body / brain will usually only perceive lower and slower energies that appear solid. But there is so much more to life than that.
Regarding the “realness” of an earthly experience, Ram Dass said: ‘You know how a dream can seem so real until you wake up? Well, just wait until you wake up from this one.’
Q: I am very sensitive and that makes it tricky to participate fully in this world. Part of me really doesn’t want to be on this planet. What can I do to get more grounded, fulfill my missions, and enjoy this earth journey?
A: Thanks for your candor and stating those goals so clearly. I had to smile when I read your note. In my early twenties, I thought there had to be a mistake that I was living on earth. While hiking in nature, I raised my arms up and yelled toward the sky: ‘Beam me up, Scotty. There’s been a mistake!’ Over time, I realized that I could enjoy a heavenly state of being no matter whether I’m on this planet or elsewhere. Approaches for fulfilling your goals . . .
- Read relevant articles at SoulProof.com
- Use the audio programs Holistic Breathing and Ask Your Soul at SoulProof.comlShop.
- Optimize your body / brain with prayer, meditation, yoga, time in nature, and other centering practices. (To learn more, see article #77)
- Regularly exercise, eat a whole food diet, rest, and use other tips in article #12 and my Radiant Wellness book.
- Each day, express gratitude for all the love, support, and assistance you receive from your higher-energy assistants and The One. Affirm that you are always shielded, guided, protected, centered, and balanced. Envision being surrounded with a cocoon of love and light so you aren’t sapped or zapped by people with lower energies.
- Enjoy time with kindred spirits at open-minded and open-hearted spiritual centers. Activities that draw awakening people include: meditation, dances of universal peace, music, chanting, drumming, service outreaches, and holistic workshops.
- Learn more about the nature of reality and how to embrace it fully. (My favorite website for this is SoulProof.com, but I might be a little biased.)
- Serve others. Helping others creates an opportunity for sacred alchemy as you transmute lower-energy emotions and ways of being into higher ones.
Wise teachers ranging from the Buddha to Vince Lombardi have been quoted as saying, ‘Fall down seven times, get up eight.’ Those words describe how you can choose to react to adversity. (Another great quote by Coach Lombardi: ‘Perfection is not attainable but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.’)
Like many people, you may love books, movies, and plays in which the protagonist overcomes seemingly insurmountable odds. Why? Because those stories remind you of a common reason that people visit earth: to remember and demonstrate in a challenging environment how wise, special, and powerful you are. The Star Wars series is a great example of how much people are inspired by adventures.
The words of Princess Leia have become immortalized: ‘Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi! You’re my only hope.’ Actually, however, there is always hope and each of us can be heroes. Realizing this enables you to take the high road no matter what is happening to you or around you. Joseph Campbell taught this ultra-important lesson in his books The Hero’s Journey and An Open Life.
Remembering who you are and shining brightly in this sometimes dense and difficult place builds strength of spirit. Common sayings capture this vision: the strongest metals have gone through the hottest fires, and that which doesn’t kill me can make me stronger.
Q: I have gone through so much abuse and suffering in this life that it’s difficult to be positive. What do you suggest?
A: The first step is to realize you are not a helpless victim of bad luck or cruel fate. There are a number of reasons why you may have chosen to endure such abuse:
- You have / are an evolved consciousness who volunteered to let people with imbalanced and immature energies to experience – now or during their life review – to see, feel, and know the ripples of their negative actions. As a result, they will hopefully do better from here on. (article #100)
- You may embody intermediate energies and want to grow and serve more. You knew that the abuse could – not necessarily would since it depends on how you react – achieve that.
- You may be a beginner soul who chose to go through all this because you abused others in another time and place. This karmic boomerang effect isn’t retribution, it’s an opening for deeply learning how to treat yourself and others. (article #65)
Holistic methods can help you transmute your pain and sadness into joy, peace, meaning, and empowerment. It’s a sacred process of alchemy that is easier and more possible than you might imagine. To start with, I recommend changing your focus FROM ‘Why do other people have soulmates and love, but I don’t?’ TO ‘How can I develop wonderful and loving soulmate relationships?’
As always, focus on what you want, not what you don’t want.
If you choose to take the path with heart, you will need to make changes and you will need allies. Here’s how I would start if it were my adventure. And, although it may not seem that way to you, this relatively illusory earthly / virtual reality experience is an exciting adventure.
- Read articles at SoulProof.com associated with suffering and take appropriate action steps.Having a breakthrough instead of a breakdown will require a multifaceted approach. Make a few changes at a time and pace yourself. You can journey FROM where you are now TO where you want to be.
- Listen to my free Radio Shows at SoulProof.com as I and top experts discuss why there is so much suffering and what you can do about it.
- Use my very affordable audio products.Start with Holistic Breathing to release old wounds, negative emotions, etc. Let yourself cry, yell, pound the mattress, and massage tight muscle areas that may store lower energies.
- Read article #66 and use the four-step formula for finding optimal relationships.
Over time, these steps can help you open to and attract others so you can enjoy healthy and loving relationships. You deserve those and the world needs your highest self.
Q: How can I work with suffering people without taking on their painful energy?
A: Learn how to shield yourself. Being able to help others without paying for it emotionally and / or physically can be a bit of a balancing act. It’s best done one moment and one person at a time. I’ve served many suffering people for fifty years and learned how to not take on their lower energies.
One key to doing that involves understanding the nature of material persons. Although people appear to be solid, they really are mostly empty space with high energy particles whirling around. You and everyone else are comprised of energy and information. Clinical and scientific terms for this are mind, consciousness, and awareness. More religious terms are soul or spirit. That’s who you and everyone else really are.
Info-energy can manifest in higher, positive, and more refined ways. Thoughts, words, and actions of people on this wavelength predominately focus on peace, joy, compassion, love, gratitude, enthusiasm, and enlightenment.
However, info-energy can manifest in lower, negative, and grosser ways. People who operate more at this level experience lower-energy emotions and ways of being such as anger, fear, grief, hopelessness, guilt, and shame. Less evolved and less aware people may sap / drain or zap / attack others without being aware of it. They deserve love and compassion, but must learn that they should not hurt others. They need patient teaching and care as they learn self-responsibility. It’s both difficult and freeing to know that we create the quality of our lives.
This view of the nature of people can help you make an important distinction: everyone is doing the best they think they can given their current level of consciousness, information, and resources. When people know better, they do better. Beginner souls and imbalanced people who act inappropriately often were abused and / or taught limiting and erroneous information. They were often wounded, misinformed, and stuck in those lower-energy ways of being. But all that is reversible.
Some people are overwhelmed by life’s changes and need temporary help to dig out. Just today, I received an email from a woman with six close family and friends who changed worlds in three months. People like her want to change but need more information, support, and resources to do so.
Unfortunately, I’ve found that only 1 in 10 people really want to work on themselves. Many aren’t really ready to improve themselves. As soon as they get relief of their worst pain, whether physical or emotional, they stop treatment and self-care. They may feel that they get more ‘secondary gains’ by talking about how bad they have it than taking their life to a higher level. No judgment or criticism, it’s just the way many people are.
To protect yourself from people who are stuck in lower-energy emotions, try the following:
1. Maintain distance from them whenever possible.
2. Cross your arms over your chest to shield your energetic heart.
3. Wash your hands with cold water as soon as possible after interacting with them.
4. Shake your hands briskly as if throwing water off them.
5. Use the ‘Lion’s Breath’ technique (see YouTube searches) and breathe deeply.
Do all you can to diminish suffering and ignorance / misinformation. But remember that much of what your brain reports about reality is wrong. Don’t bring your work home or get too involved in the trauma-drama. Remember the big picture of life and take time to enjoy the journey and wonderful parts of life.
The task for healers and teachers is to live with one foot on earth and the other in higher realms. Doing this as impeccably as possible is considered a shaman’s / master’s path to higher service, growth, and enlightenment.
Working with those who are suffering invites you to achieve this seemingly impossible task: keep an open heart and do everything possible to relieve suffering AND, at the same time, maintain compassion and remember the big picture of life. The following messages have been very helpful for me:
- Ram Dass: To become a more awakened divine-human: Love, Serve, Remember.
- Sri Chinmoy (from his poem Revelation): “No more my heart shall sob or grieve. My days and nights dissolve in God’s own Light. Above the toil of life, my soul is a Bird of Fire winging the Infinite.”
- Buddhism: Do what you feel called to do, but don’t be attached to the outcome.
- Esther Hicks who channels a higher collective consciousness called Abraham: ‘Don’t take score too soon.’ From a limited earthly perspective, you can’t fully gauge what game you are playing, let alone know if you are winning or not. Reach for the highest feeling thought every moment, and focus on what you want – not what you don’t want.
- Joseph Campbell: “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 . . . I say follow your bliss and don’t be afraid.”
I hope this article helps you to focus on high-energy emotions and ways of being no matter what your past has been like or what is happening to you now. This is a huge key to enjoying a heavenly earthly experience and beyond.
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Your life, and that of others around you, will be more enriched when you:
- read this article again within a few days so you really own it.
- discuss it with trusted family members and friends.
- take recommended action steps that seem right for you.
- 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.
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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.
