by Mark Pitstick MA, DC
If you’ve not already, please read . . .
- ‘The Great News‘ (article #19 at SoulProof.com/Articles)
- ‘Eight Developments for Widespread Conscious Living Now’ (#125)
- Greater Reality LIVING Program: Integrating ‘The 8 Developments’ Into Your Daily Life (#72)
- Greater Reality HEALING Program: Journeying FROM Deeply Grieving TO Brightly Shining (#82)
The evidence-based information and holistic resources outlined in these articles will help you to:
- realize your true nature as an eternal being of consciousness / life-force / energy
- receive guidance and assistance from highly evolved energies and Source / The Light
- heal old wounds, release lower energies, and update erroneous teachings
- create the greatest life YOU have envisioned (YOU = your higher self / soul)
- help others by sharing your greatest gifts
- make our world a better place
As enough people do this, widespread personal and planetary change will naturally unfold.
How Can I Know FOR SURE That Life Continues After Bodily Death?
Many people worldwide have asked me the ultra-important question in the title above. Their motivations for wanting to know – without a doubt – if life really continues after bodily death include . . .
- deeply grieving persons who fear their ‘departed’ loved ones cease to exist
- aging persons who wonder what is in store for them
- those whose beloved pets passed on from this world
- truth seekers who want know more about the nature of reality
My search for the evidence to this question began in 1972 when I worked part-time for six years as a respiratory therapy technician in two different hospitals. I was involved in many ‘Code 4’ resuscitations and saw many adults and children suffer horribly. Sometimes their bodies did not survive the illness or accident and they passed on.
(Please note that my terms might initially sound cumbersome. The patients themselves didn’t die; only their earthly bodies did. The other 99.9% of who and what they are transitioned to the next stage of life. Understanding that distinction, and using more accurate language that reflects it, can make a huge difference in knowing that life doesn’t end.)
Seeing all that close-up brought me to my knees. It made me question everything I had been taught about a Creator who supposedly was all knowing, loving, and powerful. I attended theology school and earned a masters’ degree in clinical psychology in an attempt to find good evidence one way or the other.
Fifty years later, I KNOW WITHOUT A DOUBT – based on a vast amount of scientific, clinical, and firsthand experience evidence – that life continues after bodily death. However, as a mother whose 16 year-old son passed on after an auto accident stated, ‘I need to experience that life continues, not just read about it.’ A dad whose son changed worlds said, ‘I miss my son so much and am struggling to find proof he is alive. I’m terrified that he is not OK or has simply ceased to exist.’
I get it. The thought of never seeing a dear one again is horrifying. The pain and hopelessness generated by this fear can hobble and haunt you for the rest of your time on earth. OR, it can motivate you to investigate the evidence and make an informed decision about this question. You can discover for yourself that who you, and everyone else, really are cannot be destroyed and does not die.
7 Keys to Knowing FOR SURE That Life Continues After Death
The path to deeply knowing that death is NOT an end is usually a holistic one. Embarking on this journey can result in an unshakeable faith, resolute knowledge based on the evidence, and heightened personal experiences. This transformation has been variously described as seeing the light, enlightenment, and gaining a greater reality perspective.
Each person is unique and, as such, may need different information and resources to reach a high degree of certainty that death is not an end. For example, the final piece of the puzzle for absolute certainty may be the scientific research, firsthand experiences, and/or and a deeper relationship with The Ground of All Being.
As you read the information below, don’t feel like you have to learn and apply all of it right away. Relax, take your time, and start with what calls you. Total and sudden awakenings occur on rare occasions but, for most people, it’s a gradual and incremental process.
(Note: the free articles cited (by #) are on the home page of SoulProof.com. The books and audio products described are available at SoulProof.com/Shop. In addition, I’ve created many videos on these topics; search my name on YouTube to find them.)
1. Learn the Scientific and Clinical Evidence
Many people don’t yet know about the vast amount of evidence collected by scientists and clinicians. True scientific research must occur at a university or institute and incorporate the following: double-blind conditions, controlled studies, multi-center replication, and results published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal. Existing scientific research now definitely demonstrates that life continues after bodily death. Official announcements about this proof are anticipated for 2023 during a press conference at a major university. (1 See some of the published research listed at the end of this article.)
Clinical research is defined as that conducted by university professors, physicians, and psychologists in hospitals or other clinical settings.
#1 Scientific Evidence That Bodily Death Is NOT the End of Life
#60 Clinical Evidence That Life Continues After Physical Death
#72 Greater Reality Living
#115 Firsthand Experience Evidence for Life After Death
The Afterlife Evidence book
2. Consider Your Firsthand Experiences and Those of Others
Many people have tremendous glimpses of ‘deceased’ loved ones and afterlife realms. However, they often don’t share those experiences with others for fear of being considered weird or crazy. Over time, their personal perceptions can morph and seem imaginary or like just a daydream. Personal experiences, combined with the research under #1, constitute major evidence that life continues after the earthly form perishes.
#17 Internalizing Your Spiritually Transformative Experiences
#20 Revisit Your ‘Mystical’ Experiences
#28 After Death Communications
#49 When You Have Been Abused
#56 Are You ‘the Weird One’ In Your Family?
Soul Proof book
3. Internalize the Great News That No One Really Dies
Despite the wealth of scientific, clinical, and experiential evidence, some people are blocked from deeply knowing that life continues after the earth suit dies. In my experience, the primary causes of this include:
a. Old wounds from abuse, judgment, major disappointments, and suffering
b. Needless fears and anxiety
c. Past limiting / erroneous teachings from their religion, family, or culture
Fortunately, these can be addressed so you can think for yourself more clearly about the nature of reality.
#29 Suffering
#70 Holistic Breathing Technique
#77 Centering Practices
Ask Your Soul, G.O.D. and Angels audio product
Greater Reality Living book
4. Sense the Living Presence of Your ‘Deceased’ Loved Ones
Postmaterial persons (PMPs) – those whose earthly bodies have died and are now living elsewhere – can, and often do, visit their dear ones who are still living on earth. PMPs may be able to multilocate, that is, be in more than one place at the same time. As such, they can hang out with loved ones and, simultaneously, enjoy being in their new abode. You can likely experience their presence more after using the information and techniques below.
#6 Evidential Mediums
#9 Visiting ‘Departed’ Loved Ones Now
#12 Fine Tuning Yourself
#104 Ghosts / Interim Postmaterial Persons
#108 Higher Energies, Emotions, and Ways of Being
Facilitated After Death Contact audio product
5. Deepen Your Relationship with G.O.D. / Life Itself
Much clinical evidence indicates that you are an integral and beloved part of the Creator and Sustainer of All Life right now. In addition, this research indicates that you and everyone else receives guidance and assistance from higher energy beings: angels, guides, master teachers, and soulmates.
However, for various reasons, you may think this is wishful thinking. You may feel that you are undeserving of or hopelessly separated from The Light. Accompanying feelings of alienation, fear, shame, and abandonment can cause you to mistakenly conclude that life is a cruel and chaotic experience that ends after bodily death. However, whenever you are ready, you can develop a greater reality perspective that reveals you are one with The One. You can know and show just how safe, meaningful, and magnificent life – whether or earth or beyond – really is.
#13 What Is G.O.D. Really Like?
#51 Meditation
#68 The Big Picture of Life
#73 Angels and Higher Energy Assistance
#89 My Prayers
Your Life Review audio product
In addition, favorite songs or chants can help you remember who you are, why you’re here, and Who walks beside you always. Mine range from old Christian hymns – This Is My Father’s World and His Eye Is on the Sparrow – to this Hindu prayer: Lead us from unreal to real, lead us from darkness to The Light, lead us from fear of death and change, to knowledge of immortality.
6. Expand Your Circle of Kindred Spirits
It’s very important to have close family and friends with whom you can discuss your greatest hopes and fears. You can share the information in this article and talk about it with them. If you don’t have people like this in your life, make a priority of meeting others with open hearts and minds. You can share your personal experiences and knowledge of research that clearly shows death is not an end.
Articles below discuss how to meet such people. I recommend attending local and on-line meetings at organizations such as IANDS.org, IONS.org, HelpingParentsHeal.org, Unity Centers, Unitarian-Universalist churches, and Centers for Spiritual Living. Other places that focus on the big picture of life often involve meditation and yoga classes, drum circles, kirtan, and sound healing.
#16 Sensible and Evidence-Based Spiritual Teachings
#23 Are You More Evolved and Sensitive / Empathic?
#66 Optimal Relationships for More Evolved People
#100 Enlightenment
The Big Picture of Life book that I co-authored discusses this topic further. It is designed for ages 10 – 16 but has helped many adults as well.
7. Stay Updated About the SoulPhone Project
This project, and the anticipated technology for communication with postmaterial loved ones, provides much hope and excitement. Research on survival of consciousness has been done for over 20 years at the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health at the University of Arizona and other universities and institutes. As mentioned under #1 above, life after death has now been definitively demonstrated scientifically and will likely be announced for the public and demonstrated in 2023.
#35 The SoulPhone Project
#44 SoulPhone Project Updates
#85 Will the SoulPhone EVER Be Ready?
SoulPhone.com/Research
LACH.Arizona.edu
1 Gary E. Schwartz Ph.D. is a senior professor at the University of Arizona where he directs the SoulPhone Project at the Laboratory for Advancements in Consciousness and Health. Dr. Schwartz was previously an assistant professor at Harvard and tenured professor at Yale where he was instrumental in founding the field of behavioral medicine.
He and a team of electrical engineers, software programmers, evidential mediums, and others have worked on this project for twelve years. In addition, a team of postmaterial (‘deceased’) inventors, scientists, and other luminaries have assisted the research and development. I will share advancements that have occurred since the 2019 and 2020 Updates (see below).
Dr. Schwartz has written the following papers for peer-reviewed scientific journals:
Schwartz G.E. (2010). Possible application of silicon photomultiplier technology to detect the presence of spirit and intention: three proof-of-concept experiments. EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing 6, pages 166-171.
Schwartz, GE. (2011) Photonic Measurement of Apparent Presence of Spirit Using a Computer Automated System. Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing (2011) 7(2) 100-109 DOI: 10.1016/j.explore.2010.12.002
Schwartz GE. (2019). A computer-automated, multi-center, multi-blinded, randomized control trial evaluating hypothesized spirit presence and communication [published online ahead of print, 2019 Nov 16]. Explore (NY). 2019;S1550-8307(19)30552-X. doi:10.1016/j.explore.2019.11.007
Schwartz, Gary E., Woollacott Marjorie H., eds. (2019) Is Consciousness Primary? Perspectives from the founding members of the Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences. Copyright 2019 AAPSGlobal.com
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Thank you for telling others about this article! Your life, and that of others around you, will be more enriched when you:
- read the article again so you really know it.
- discuss with close family and friends to more deeply internalize it.
- take action steps that seem right for you.
- share it with others via social media, discussion groups, and other ways.
Hugs, love, blessings, and let it shine!
Mark
Mark Pitstick, MA, DC
author, lecturer, counselor, and holistic chiropractic physician; spokesperson, research assistant, and strategic planner for the SoulPhone Project; founder of Greater Reality Living, Healing, Helping, and Sharing Programs
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Mark Pitstick, MA, DC is a master’s clinical psychologist, holistic chiropractic physician, and clinical nutritionist. He has also helped others in pastoral counseling and suicide prevention / education settings. His goal is to help you know and show that this earthly experience is a totally safe, meaningful, and magnificent adventure amidst eternity.
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Note: This article is intended as a reference source, not to replace professional treatment for physical, emotional, or mental problems. The author disclaims any liability arising directly or indirectly from the voluntary use of action steps discussed in article.
I created this article while ‘wearing the hat’ of a clinician, counselor, and educator. My statements are based upon some scientific research; much clinical and experiential evidence; my personal experiences; and my best current understandings. This program does not reflect my roles with the SoulPhone Project since those require solid scientific data for all statements.
