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. 

 

‘Five R’s’ for Life’s Changes and Challenges

The past year has been full of changes for me . . .

  1. I retired from providing holistic health care that included chiropractic adjustments, clinical nutrition, physical therapy, and recommending optimal self-care strategies.After serving many people that way for 37 years, I wanted to spend more time on SoulProof.com and SoulPhone.com outreaches.  Even so, it was a big transition: I missed patients and staff, I was no longer the director and senior doctor of my clinic, and I stopped using the skills that took many years to master.
  2. My body reached the 70 year-old point.That’s a big number, even though I resolutely know I am much more than this earthly form.  Despite an exemplary life style most of my life, I increasingly look like an old guy even though I feel and act much younger.  This is a little difficult to observe, especially when I know this body is less than 1% of who and what I really am.
  3. My fiance Andy finished a doctorate in acupuncture. When she started, she wondered why more people her age didn’t earn advanced degrees. After a very grueling program, she now knows why.  She put in about 40 hours per week plus saw patients two days a week.  As such, there was little time for travel and fun.
  4. The SoulPhone Project slowly but surely improved. Research and development at the University of Arizona led by Dr. Gary Schwartz should, hopefully by the autumn of 2023, provide two major breakthroughs: (a) scientific proof of life after death, and (b) technology enabling communication with postmaterial persons (the so-called ‘deceased’). I direct the SoulPhone Foundation and assist with research on the project so it’s been an extremely interesting and challenging time.
  5. FIVE loved ones, including my mom, passed on in a two month period.  (Was there a special offer going on in heaven or what?) There was some sadness despite knowing we would see each other again.  There were also a lot of visitations, memorial services, etc.  I was aware of helping escort at least two of them into the light.  All this required some time and energy.

During this time, a simple but powerful formula arose that I wanted to share with you.  Feel free to share it with your loved ones.  I call it ‘Five R’s’: Relax, Recharge, Release, Remember, and Respond.  Here’s a brief overview of those steps and additional resources for delving more deeply into each.  (Note: Article numbers listed are at SoulProof.com.  My book Radiant Wellness: A Holistic Guide for Optimal Body, Mind, and Spirit is very helpful for all five stages.)

 1. Relax 
This ‘R’ also stands for rest and renewal. Gift yourself time for this during and after big changes and challenges in your life.  That will help you handle optimally and prevent the ‘I’ll collapse after all this is all over’ stage that many suffer from.  There are many different ways to cover this base; review the following articles and see / feel which action steps are best for you:

#51 Meditation, Yoga, and Relaxation

#77 Centering Practices

#86 Breathing Techniques

#91 Pause and Remember

2. Recharge
Other ‘R’ words for this are revitalize and rejuvenate. There are a number of ways to achieve this so, again, consider what seems best for you. After my changes / challenges, I used more frequent meditation, yoga, exercise, audio programs, and more.  (Audio programs included my Holistic Breathing and Ask Your Soul, G.O.D., and Angels techniques; The Shaman’s Heart with Hemi-Sync by Byron Metcalf and Steve Roach; and Cosmic Womb from Sacred Acoustics).

As usual, I benefited from regular chiropractic adjustments, deep tissue massage, acupuncture, energy balancing, whole food supplements, and a real food diet.  Working outdoors with my hands and feet in the dirt provided ‘grounding / earthing’ benefits and quieted my brain.  Clearing and landscaping areas on our five acres was very restorative via strenuous exercise and cleansing sweats.

#12 Holistically Fine Tuning Yourself

#32 Nutrition-Based Healing

#54 The 90 Day Program to More Energy, Clarity, and Fitness

#87 Natural Health Care

#88 Whole Food Way of Eating and Supplements

#90 What Do I Eat?

3. Release: Synonyms for this term include eliminate and clear. Another way to describe this step is to get rid of dirty laundry that you don’t have to carry around for the rest of this earthly experience and beyond. Some people get stuck in pain and sadness after seeming losses when, for example, loved ones pass on.  They hold onto it, talk about it to anyone who will listen, and use it to justify their perception that life is cruel and hopeless.  I’m not criticizing since I believe everyone is doing the best they can given their current level of consciousness and available resources.  I am, however, suggesting a higher path.

(Note: I italicized ‘seeming losses’ because life and love are eternal.  We don’t really lose beloved people and pets; they’ve gone ahead but not gone away.)

Other people move, as quickly as they can, toward higher energy emotions and ways of being such as Appreciation for the time they had together, Realization they’ll see their loved ones again, and Transforming for the better.  My A.R.T. Technique helps you do this quickly and easily.

Everyone is unique so, as before, intuit what approaches are most needed and helpful for you.

#41 The A.R.T. Technique

#64 Drugs, Alcohol, and Greater Reality Living

#70 Holistic Breathing Technique

#71 Ask Your Soul, G.O.D. and Angels

#82 Journey FROM Bereaved TO Shining Light

#89 My Prayers

4. Remember: This term refers to knowing who you are, why you’re here, and Who walks beside you always.I know . . . that’s a huge subject but a vitally important one while you are going through big changes and challenges. That’s why wise teachers across antiquity have advised: ‘Know Thyself’.  Depending on where you are with the journey of enlightenment, this could be an ‘Aha, I see the light’ moment or a ‘I knew that but temporarily forgot.’  The more you remember the big picture of life, the better you can handle anything.  You flow with life’s adventures and know that, truly, ‘It’s all good, it’s all G.O.D.’

In the midst of my changes listed at the beginning of this article, remembering ‘The Great News’ listed in article #19 was easy.  My faith and resolute knowing never faltered as I retained high levels of peace, joy, and gratitude.  It was a great demonstration of the Biblical verse in John 8:32 that states, ‘You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free.‘

Gary E. Schwartz PhD is a former Harvard and Yale professor who is now a senior professor at the University of Arizona.  We wrote the book Greater Reality Living to convey how wondrous life is and how you can always know and show that no matter what is going on around or to you.  With Katta Mapes MEd, MA, we wrote a young person’s version called The Big Picture of Life.  I also recommend my book Ask the Soul Doctor: Holistic Solutions for Life’s Biggest Changes and Challenges.  (I mention these books since realizing the nature of reality and living accordingly is difficult for many people.)

Recommended articles for remembering include:

#14 Heaven and Hell . . . What Are They Really?

#15 The Nature of Humans

#16 Evidence-Based Spiritual Teachings

#19 ‘The Great News’

#20 Revisit Your ‘Mystical’ Experiences

#68 The Big Picture of Life

#100 Enlightenment

5. Respond
The last of the ‘5 R’s’ addresses how you live after covering the first four bases. What action steps will you take after relaxing, recharging, releasing, and remembering? Ideally, your response is in alignment with your purposes for being on earth at this time.  That is, what you do is hopefully ‘the highest use’of your consciousness / energy / light.  Only you can decide what to do after big changes and challenges you’ve gone through, but I do know this: after working with many people for over 50 years, there are always silver linings to every cloud.  Put another way, there are available blessings that can help you and others IF you look for them.

Articles to help you optimally respond include:

#21 Identify and Fulfill Your Highest Purposes

#49 When You Have Been Abused

#50 Choosing Action Over Discouragement

#58 It’s Just a Game

#74 Is Your Life Unfolding Perfectly?

#101 When Reaching a Fork in Your Life’s Road

I hope this article helps you better handle big changes and challenges in your life.  The time period during and afterwards can be a very fruitful one for awakening, serving others, and enjoying the greatest life you have envisioned.  You deserve to have much peace, joy, love, and more AND the world needs your greatest gifts. 

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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.

– E-Newsletters (sign up on any page at SoulProof.com)

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.