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. 

Release the Past For an Optimal Present

Facing difficulties, judgment, abuse, and more is usually part of the earthly experience.  Those challenges present sublime opportunities for soul growth, adventures, and service to others.  However, it’s important to release those difficulties after honoring and learning from them.  Otherwise, you’re carrying lower energy emotions around from the past.  This ‘dirty laundry’ can cause your life force to become more stagnant or inaccessible.

Similarly, you have stored many bits of information that are no longer needed.  Trying to remember all those needless details takes up precious storage space in your brain.  I was reminded of this after retiring from providing patient care for 50 years as a respiratory therapist, counselor, chiropractor, and nutritionist.  I realized that much of that data – patient’s names, their history, how to take x-rays, etc. – was no longer needed.  I set intentions and prayed to consciously release any unneeded information that didn’t need to be stored in my brain.  For months after retiring from clinical practice, I dreamed of work-related situations such as I was one hour behind or I had to fire a staff member.  Upon awakening, I reminded myself that it was time to release all that. 

Likewise, some people live in the past so much that the golden present moment eludes them.  They get stuck in the past and primarily identify with who they used to be.  People may rehash old stories about ‘the good old days’, ‘those crazy college years’, or other parts of what happened long ago.  I understand this may be appropriate for very old people who don’t have much going on now.  However, for the most part, it’s not an optimal way to live.

This is especially true when ‘could have, would have, and should have’ is involved.  Playing the ‘if only I could do it over again’ game can be particularly de-energizing when it involves broken relationships, financial losses, and other common events.  Handled optimally, these can inform you and make you a stronger and wiser person.  However, the past can haunt and hobble you when revisited too much and berating yourself about not doing better.

Releasing no longer needed information, the past, and ‘should haves’ can be immensely energizing and freeing.  Doing this allows you to enjoy all the benefits of living in the present moment.

Different ways to describe this releasing process include: getting clear, ridding yourself of dirty laundry, releasing lower-energy emotions, and dealing with uncooked seeds.  The good news is that safe, simple, and time-tested methods have helped many people release past details that aren’t needed.  Pay extra attention after a challenging time, retirement, big change in your life, and as your body – or that of a loved one – is dying.

To release what doesn’t serve your highest self and purposes in the here and now . . .    

  1. Let go and let G.O.D. This old saying is a great one, especially when you remember that you are one with The One and an integral part of Source now and always.  (To learn more about my view of Creator, see article #13 What Is G.O.D. Really Like?)  The acronym G.O.D. stands for the governing, organizing, and designing power and presence that is behind all life and IS all life.  This view of the Divine makes more sense, to me and many people, than the idea of a dictatorial big guy in the sky who decides everything.
  2. Honor, appreciate, and learn from your past. These are key words I repeat anytime I catch myself excessively revisiting the past and how I could have done better.  Chastising myself now about what I should have realized when I was twenty years old isn’t fair to either version of myself.  Instead, I set an intention to bless the experience and use it to help myself and others.  Then I let it go of it as much as I can in that moment since releasing the past is often a process that can take some time.
  3. Use chants and prayers that remind your brain about the big picture of life. One of my favorites is the following Hindu prayer that is commonly used with meditation and yoga.  (You can search for the initial phrase and watch a YouTube video to learn the pronunciation.)  Om Asato Maa, Sadgamaya.  Tamaso Maa, Jyotir-Gamaya.  Mrtyor Maa, Amritam Gamaya.  Om Shanti, Shanti, Shanti.  (Lead us from unreal to real.  Lead us from darkness to the Light.  Lead us from the fear of death and change, to knowledge of immortality.  Om peace, peace, peace.)  Lokah Samasta Sukhino Bhavantu.  (May the entire world be filled with peace and joy, love and light.)
  4. Use the Holistic Breathing Technique. This is one of the most powerful ways I know of to release old wounds / abuse, needless fears (which turns out to be all of them), and past limiting teachings from religion, culture, and family / tribe.  Breathwork has been used across time and cultures to expand consciousness and assist healing.  It harnesses the power of deep, noisy, diaphragmatic breathing and has music and positive affirmations in the background.  This combination confounds the brain’s over-analysis that blocks perceptions of the greater reality.
  5. Pay attention to your dreams. Your brain and consciousness review topics while your body is resting.  Notice which dreams pop up, especially recurring ones.  Talk with trusted family and friends about these dreams to further process them.  Ask yourself ‘Why would I dream that?’ and notice the first answer that floats in without your brain’s evaluation.  This free association approach can provide useful clues about what you should deal with and release.
  6. Create extra room in your life’s cup. Old stories from Eastern cultures teach the importance of leaving room for new understandings and the mysteries of life.  In one, a wise spiritual master was asked by a rich and egotistical man about how to open his mind to enlightenment.  The teacher smiled and said they should discuss the topic over a cup of tea.  As the master poured his visitor a cup, he poured until the tea overflowed onto the table and the robes of the wealthy man.  The rich man shouted, ‘You’re spilling the tea all over.  Can’t you see the cup is full?’  The master stopped pouring, smiled, and said: ‘You are like this tea cup – so full that nothing more can be added.  Come back to me when your mind is more open.’

    In another story, a student of martial arts asked his sensei: ‘How long will it take me to earn a black belt if I train regularly?’  The teacher answered, ‘Five years.’  ‘How long will it take me if I forget everything else in my life and devote all of my time to studies?’ the student asked.  The master answered ‘Ten years.’  This timeless story also highlights the importance of balance.

  7. Avoid putting pressure or blame on yourself.  Hindsight is 20/20.  It’s easy to look back and clearly see what might have been a better fork in the road.  However, it can be very difficult to discern which path to take – even if you were doing the best you could at the time.  When you live in the present as much as possible, you have more of your bioenergy / soul power at your disposal.  The following saying is one way to remember that: The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago.  The next best time is today.
  8. In with the good air, out with the bad. This old saying sounds like deep breathing and for good reason.  Releasing the old and living in the present – which really is a present, a gift from life – is like rhythmic breathing.  Don’t let your beliefs, perspectives, or personal energy become stagnant and diminished.  Keep breathing and remember that it’s all good, it’s all G.O.D.

I hope this information helps you further fine-tune your life by releasing what no longer serves you now.

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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.

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– 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)

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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.