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.
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Out of Body Experiences
Out of body experience (OBE) is a term referring to a person’s awareness leaving the body without being nearly dead. This can occur spontaneously, in meditative states, and during intense situations such as childbirth or imminent danger. OBEs can also be facilitated during techniques designed for that purpose.
OBEs provide personally meaningful experiences that consciousness exists independently of the brain. There are also some documented aspects. Experiencers have reported visiting distant places and sensing verifiable details. Remote viewing, an accurate awareness of events and details in far-away places, has been investigated by the Stanford Research Institute.
My first out of body experience occurred at age 21 soon after I started meditating. I laid on the grass on the first warm day of spring. As I meditated, my sense of self – who I am – seemed to be a mile up in the sky. I noticed that I couldn’t feel my arms or legs . . . so much so that I wasn’t at all sure they would be there if I opened my eyes. After about 20 minutes of this wonderful experience, I felt my sense of who I am drift back into my body. I was again aware of my limbs as I usually am.
OBEs can be subtle and brief. They are a reminder that different states of consciousness are available, especially to those who stay alert for them. Take a moment and consider whether you have had an experience in which ‘who you are’ didn’t seem so tied to your body.
Demonstrable physical effects during out of body experiences have been reported. Robert Monroe, founder of the Monroe Institute and author of Journeys Outside of the Body, shared the following example. To explore the effects of actions from afar, he gently pinched a friend who was visiting another country. Later, he asked if she had experienced any unexplainable events. She showed him a bruise where she had felt a rather forceful pinch. Monroe realized his gentle effort had been too much. To learn more, visit MonroeInstitute.org, and the Out of Body Experience Research Foundation (OBERF.org) of Jeffrey Long, MD and Jody Long, JD.
Several profound OBEs have occurred during Holistic Breathwork sessions I’ve led for many people in groups over the last 25 years. This technique involves forty minutes of open-mouthed, noisy, uninterrupted, diaphragmatic breathing. Different types of music and my coaching in the background serve to confound the brain and diminish the over-analyzing perceptual limitations.
For example, while doing the breathwork, a sixty-five-year-old female cried very hard for fifteen minutes while rolled up in a fetal position. She then became so still and quiet that I checked to see if she was still breathing. Afterward, I asked what she experienced. While crying, she felt much sadness and loneliness that had been her companions since her husband, parents, and several pets changed worlds. During the quiet time, however, she experienced visiting them. She told our group: ‘I’m totally convinced that I really visited with them. It wasn’t just a visualization.’ Based on my observations of her during the session, and her deep peace afterwards, I considered that to be quite likely.
As mentioned, intense emotions can trigger these experiences. A ten-year-old girl who attended one of my workshops with her mother described an experience she had at age two. Her mom left her with a babysitter for the first time and gave clear instructions to attend to the child if she cried. The babysitter, however, ignored the crying child who eventually had a strange event.
Even though she couldn’t see out the window from her crib, the little one could see another version of herself on the sidewalk below. This self-described other part of herself reassured the crying infant and said everything would be OK. The child’s experience continued as her awareness floated into the living room and saw the babysitter there. She remembered the babysitter’s appearance and the clothing she had on. Her mother verified the facts later reported when the daughter could verbalize. This ten-year-old seemed quite poised, calm, and wise beyond her years.
Shamanic and other indigenous spiritual practices can allow a person to experience life differently. Of this work, Michael Harner, PhD – anthropologist and author of The Way of the Shaman – stated: “After having personally practiced shamanism, shamanic healing, and shamanic journeying for more than half a century, I can say that there is nothing I have encountered in reports of the spiritual experiences of saints, prophets, psychedelic drug experimenters, near death survivors, avatars and other mystics that is not commonly experienced when following classic journey methods using a drum.” (5)
Don, a longtime subscriber of my Soul Proof newsletter, shared the following. In this case, the therapist used a shamanic-mediated state to obtain significant information. “My father died when I was eleven months old, so I never really knew him. I do have several of his possessions including a tennis racquet that he used. I recently thought about where to store it and, during that time, I thought more and more about him. I scheduled a session with a Catholic nun who is a psychotherapist and uses shamanic techniques. My wife was with me. The therapist asked if a loved one who had died might assist her in spirit during the session. I gave her my dad’s name. At the end of the session, she said my father’s spirit was present and he had a gift for me. She described him holding out his hand with a tennis racquet in it! It was an older version, she said, not one you would find in a sporting goods store today. There was absolutely no way that the nun knew about the tennis racquet – none! I can only conclude that, somehow, my father was present and wanted to contact me with a sign that only my wife and I would understand.” (6)
Skeptics could say the psychotherapist read Don’s mind and picked up a meaningful experience about his dad. They are correct; that is a possibility that has to be considered. That’s why Don’s report is considered a firsthand experience – it couldn’t be clinically or scientifically evaluated. However, hundreds of people have told me similar stories over the last 25 years. The sheer number of these experiential events, and their lasting impact on the people involved is impressive.
I hope this introduction to OBEs helps you consider your own experiences in past. This topic can also further open your mind to the exciting array of states of consciousness available during an earthly experience.
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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.
