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. 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.
Eleven Ways to Help Yourself, Others, and Our World
Achieving the goals of this title may initially sound impossible to you and that’s very understandable. However, in this article, I’ll share my holistic and practically achievable program for reaching personal and global harmony. Unprecedented opportunities for widespread conscious living now exist due to the collective inspiration, actions, and guidance from:
1. four categories of awakening people
2. the SoulPhone Project
3. ‘The Great News’
4. visionary organizations
See keys #8, 9, 2, and 11 below – respectively – to learn more about these sources of much hope, inspiration, and empowerment.
After working with many suffering and dying people over the last 50 years, I know there are many big challenges and much suffering. However, adversity can shift your resolve to make things better. Life’s difficulties can make you reach down deep and realize who you are, why you’re here, and Who walks beside you always. Seemingly senseless and tragic events can be like birthing pains for people to awaken to the big picture of life.
Some clinical evidence – for example, that of Michael Newton PhD who pioneered Life Between Lives research – indicates that about 85% of people living on earth are beginner souls. Their experiencing what they don’t want is a great way for them to learn what they do want. (People / souls with intermediate to advanced levels of consciousness are willing, out of love, to endure suffering to help these less evolved ones.)
To be clear, the list of difficulties above are NOT punishments from or the will of a big guy in the sky ‘god’. The Creator and Sustainer of All Life is the source and repository of love, joy, creativity, and all higher energies, emotions, and ways of being.
Rather, they ARE the predictable results of many people with lower energies, emotions, and ways of being. Earth is a classroom, not the crown of creation.
Some languages – Egyptian and Chinese, for example – reflect the truth that the flip side of adversity is opportunity. This observation is reflected by common sayings such as ‘there are silver linings to every cloud’, ‘when one door closes, another opens’, and ‘suffering is grace’. A Navajo word for fear also means ‘become stronger’. Some Native American tribes didn’t even have a word for the concept of fear.
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During a Helping Parents Heal (HPH) webinar on 9/3/24, I presented to a group of parents. I shared my growing feeling that ‘meta blessings’ can result from:
- many “children” who have changed worlds and are working from higher energy realms.
- inspired actions by their family members and friends who – as a result of the child’s passing –awaken to the big picture of life, and resolve to find and share the blessings that always accompany challenges.
- others who are inspired by #2 and similarly take the high road no matter what.
At the moment I said that, I recalled a fleeting but clear vision I had during a HPH conference talk I gave on 8/22/24. I was talking to many parents about the ‘your children can help heal the world’ theme. At that moment, I saw and felt legions of ‘kids’ hovering around the 30-foot ceiling and in many layers above into the clouds. It was as though they were seated in a tiered stadium rooting us on. They were smiling, cheering, and very happy that I finally got it.
I hadn’t thought of that vivid perception since it occurred and hadn’t even shared it with my fiance Andrea Lee who is an RN, doctor of acupuncture, and evidential medium. (At the time of my vision, I was so focused on my presentation that what I briefly saw didn’t fully register. That was the first day of the conference and the next four days were a heavenly blur. That’s why I forgot such a sublime visual experience.)
As I shared this with the HPH group, Elizabeth Boisson – co-founder and president of that group –excitedly added: “The phrase that kept resonating within me after my son Morgan transitioned was: ‘Our connection with the children on the other side will ultimately save the world.'” She later wrote to me: “I heard this phrase frequently, but didn’t understand what it meant. Now, with time and reflection, I understand.” In the ten plus years we’ve worked together, I never heard Elizabeth talk about this.
Top evidential mediums working with the SoulPhone Project have recently heard from luminary postmaterial persons about contributing to helping many people and our world. All this suggests that this goal is an interdimensional one and the time is right for its fruition.
In 2023, I recently interviewed Jeff, a dad whose son Austin transitioned from earth in what seemed to be a horribly senseless way. This twenty-four year-old had been away from his Wisconsin home for six months while working as a financial planner in Arizona. During that time, his parents moved to a different house in an area that Austin wasn’t familiar with. Austin came home in the winter to celebrate his brother’s graduation and see family and friends.
After visiting with friends, he tried to go home via an Uber. However, due to GPS complications from a severe winter storm, he was dropped off at the wrong house. A second Uber also delivered him to the wrong place. After that, Austin’s cell phone died due to severe cold so he couldn’t call his parents. He knocked on doors of several homes, but no would let him in or listen to his pleas. Austin tried to flag down cars but, likewise, no one stopped to help. Eventually, his body succumbed to the severe cold and froze to death.
The night of that interview, I slept for a few hours before awakening suddenly with deep feelings of sadness and rage. I immediately thought of my interview with Jeff and what appeared to be such a senseless and preventable tragedy. What kind of world has ours become when a fine young man – or anyone for that matter? – freezes to death because no one helps? How have we, as individuals and a society, become so calloused, hopeless, and afraid that we allow this and many other horrible outcomes to occur?
As is always my intention, I quickly pivoted to searching for silver linings. I shared this heart-breaking, at least from a limited human perspective, story with Gary E. Schwartz PhD director of the SoulPhone Project whose work I’ll describe later. After wiping tears from our eyes and feeling a gamut of emotions, we realized: in addition to predictable benefits from the SoulPhone Project in 2025, this tragic event and others like it can become rallying points and wake-up calls to find and share meta-blessings that always accompany tragedy.
You can watch my interview with Jeff (the ninth set) and other Shining Light Parents at Helping Parents Heal.org / YouTube Videos / Affiliate Leader / Caring Listener Interviews. Visit HelpingParentsHeal.org / Resources / Shining Light Resources for those with a child who has passed on.
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This article provides an overview of a practical path for achieving the goal of helping yourself, others, and our world. That may sound impossible to you but please keep reading . . .
As you well know, life on earth can be very difficult at times. In 2024, wars rage in the Ukraine, Gaza, and elsewhere. Mass shootings have become so commonplace that some people barely notice. Climate change has worsened as records for heat, cold, drought, rainfall, and violent weather are set every year. So-called leadership is often characterized by divisiveness, statements without evidence, and little to no positive action. Many people are starving, ill, impoverished, and suffering in various ways.
Others – who have the basics of health and survival covered – feel lonely, depressed, and alienated from others and Creator. I work a lot with grieving persons including parents with children who have passed on. All of this reminds me, on a daily basis, about the big questions and tough challenges that many people face.
This article describes a practical and powerful path for helping yourself, others, and our world. Doing this creates benefits three ways:
- YOU feel higher energies, emotions, and ways of being. Over time, you resonate with and more often choose advanced ways of thinking, speaking, and acting. (These are eternal benefits since upgrading your consciousness improves the quality of your life now AND after you change worlds.)
- OTHERS receive guidance, assistance, and love from you whether they are living on earth or other space-time dimensions.
- OUR WORLD positively transforms via meta-effects of #1 and 2. When people know and feel better, they do better and share their greatest gifts. As enough people make this shift, our world becomes a better place.
Here’s a powerful example of how helping others creates ripples of healing and love. A mom at the 2024 Helping Parents Heal conference shared this story with me after my presentation in which I emphasized the transformative impacts of helping others. A single parent I’ll call Judy, her 18 year-old son and only child passed on suddenly and unexpectedly. They had been very close and she felt that she just couldn’t keep living on earth. The next day, Judy sat on the floor with a bottle of vodka in one hand and a bottle of pills in the other.
Just as she started to take that lethal combination, her son’s cell phone rang. Judy paused and thought she should see who was calling. It was her son’s best friend who flew into town to surprise him. She sorrowfully told him that her son had passed on. The friend cried aloud and Judy consoled him. He came over and they spent the afternoon crying and talking. Eventually, they started telling favorite stories about the lovable young man who had transitioned from earth. At the end of the day, they both felt better. As the friend prepared to go, she said ‘I just wanted to tell you that you saved my life. When you called, I was going to pass on by suicide.’
Soon after, Judy decided to volunteer at an animal rescue sanctuary to help pets and people in her son’s honor. A young lady, who appeared very depressed and anxious, came in and wanted to pet a lovable dog. Judy talked with her at length and the young lady hugged the dog while crying for half an hour. Before leaving, she said: ‘I just wanted to tell you that you saved my life. When I woke up this morning, I decided that I was going to choose suicide. I just wanted to hug a pet and feel some love before doing that. Thanks to you and the dog, I’m going to stay on earth. I’ll be back for him tomorrow.’
Multiply the power and hope of her story by millions of awakening souls / people around the world. Realize that you and they can help reach a tipping point, a threshold that enables widespread conscious living on earth.
Note: All articles mentioned in this article are free at SoulProof.com/Articles
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The eleven keys to helping yourself, others, and our world include . . .
1. Know Who You Are
Wise teachers across many cultures have given this advice: Know Thyself. From the perspective of your limited human brain and sensory organs, it appears that you are just a mortal person who is separate from others and Creator. However, current scientific and clinical evidence indicates that your earthly body is much less than 1% of who and what you really are. You and everyone else are timeless beings of energy / consciousness who cannot perish. Yes, your human form dies but that is a very small fraction of your real self / totality of being that continues to live.
Knowing this provides more peace, joy, hope, compassion, gratitude, and other higher energies and emotions for you to enjoy and share. That, in turn, can improve every aspect of your life no matter what your past or current circumstances. This can include keener perceptions of postmaterial persons (PMPs) or so-called ‘departed’ persons. Why? They are living in realms more characterized by love and light compared to earth. Choosing, moment by moment, higher thoughts, words, and actions puts you closer to the wavelength of your beloved postmaterial family, friends, and pets.
For additional information, see article #15 The Nature of Humans, #31 What Is a Postmaterial Person? and #118 Who and What Are You Really?
2. Know ‘The Great News’
The term ‘The Great News’ refers to ten evidence-based descriptions about the nature of reality. To date, humans have suffered needlessly because of partially or totally false teachings about how life is set up. In 2024, we know much more about the big picture of life . . . and it’s all great news. These expanded understandings about the nature of reality are primarily based on scientific and clinical evidence. Experiential evidence based on firsthand experiences, and supporting religious / spirituality teachings also contribute to current knowledge about what is most probably true. Dr. Schwartz and I compiled this list while writing our book Greater Reality Living. These views were also shared in our book The Big Picture of Life with Katta Mapes MA, MEd.
‘The Great News’ is that you and everyone else . . .
- are a being of consciousness / energy who continues to live after your earthly body dies.
- can interact with postmaterial loved ones now and after you pass on.
- are integral, infinite, eternal, and beloved parts of Source Energy now and always.
- receive guidance and assistance from angels, guides, master teachers, and soulmates.
- are sacredly interconnected with all people, animals, and nature.
- have special purposes for having this earthly experience now.
- may simultaneously manifest in 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 peace, joy, meaning, growth, and opportunities for loving service amidst your toughest changes and challenges.
- co-create how heavenly or hellish your life feels – whether living on earth or elsewhere – via your predominant thoughts, words and actions.
Really knowing this great news and integrating it into your life is magnificently transformative for you, others, and our world. To learn more, see articles #16 Evidence-Based Teachings About the Nature of Reality and #19 ‘The Great News’
3. Remember Who Walks Beside You Now and Always
Contemporary evidence validates what many ancient religions and spiritual paths have claimed. The Creator and Sustainer of the Cosmos is the source of AND IS love, joy, peace, creativity, and other high-energies. Many open-hearted people, especially when they are children, have felt the same message from within about The Light. However, very vociferous fundamentalist denominations have scared and confused many people by preaching about a judgmental, angry, and punitive big guy “god” in the sky. Developing a personal relationship with The Ground of All Being helps you reject those fear-based teachings and know how very much you are loved, understood, and assisted by Source.
Much clinical and experiential evidence now indicates that every facet of life – people, animals, and nature – is an integral, eternal, and beloved part of The One. Knowing this is a HUGE key to increasingly loving and caring for yourself, others, and our world. (#13 What is G.O.D. Really Like?, #100 Enlightenment, and #83 Am I a Christian?)
4. Identify and Share Your Greatest Gifts
Living without a purpose can lead to fatigue, depression, and other signs of creative discontent. You came to earth with special gifts that some Native American spiritual wisdom teachers called ‘give-aways’. When you share our greatest gifts and special talents – even a little – you feel more joy, peace, and fulfillment. Those higher energies and emotions, in turn, fuel even better thoughts, words, and actions. They create an upward versus a downward spiral.
Your essence / energy probably isn’t limited to just this earthly incarnation. Put another way, your life-force is likely manifesting in more than one place at the same time. The question then arises: why did part of your life-energy volunteer to visit earth at this time? It’s an extremely important question that I encourage you to answer to your satisfaction. The short answer is to do one or more of the following: love, serve others, have adventures, grow, learn, and enjoy.
My audio program Identify and Fulfill Your Purpose AND Enjoy Your Greatest Life helps you gain clarity about this. This technique uses deep relaxation with guided imagery to quiet your brain and access your inner wisdom. To learn more, read article #21 Identify and Fulfill Your Highest Purposes and #75 Multilocation / Parallel Realities / Simultaneous Experiences.
(Note: My ten audio programs and eight books at SoulProof.com/Shop are very inexpensive, but some people truly cannot afford them. If that is true for you, contact me at mark@soulproof.com and we will send free digital products.)
5. Fine Tune Yourself Holistically
It’s very difficult to know and show your inner light when you are tired, depressed, ill, disabled, and suffering with multiple mental and physical symptoms. While a holistic physician for 35 years, I saw firsthand that many people feel this way. The good news is that the great majority of these symptoms are preventable and treatable with natural methods. That’s why it’s so important to care for the temple of your soul, the earthly vehicle that gets you from womb to tomb. Your total self is much more than your human form, but a healthy body / brain is very helpful for helping yourself, others, and our world.
My book Radiant Wellness: A Holistic Guide for Optimal Earthly Experiences shares my insights and knowledge after helping many, many people in different health care settings for over 50 years. Following tried and true guidelines is especially important if you are more sensitive / empathic and/or evolved. (To learn more about this distinction, see articles #23 Are You More Evolved and Sensitive / Empathic? and #117 You Might Be More Evolved If . . .)
General articles on this topic include #12 Holistically Fine Tuning Yourself, #64 Drugs, Alcohol, and Greater Reality Living, #87 Natural Health Care, #88 Whole Food Way of Eating and Supplements)
6. Relax, Rest, Recharge, and Revitalize Yourself
Life on earth is definitely not for those who want everything to be easy. Cumulative emotional, mental, and physical stress can diminish your personal energy and power. Too much exposure to negative, sensationalistic, and skewed news sources can also make you feel hopeless and helpless. That’s why it’s so important to regularly take time to revitalize yourself. The extra time and lowered stress will provide more effectiveness, clarity, and well-being.
Making a shift to helping yourself, others, and our planet is an incremental one. Please don’t feel like you have to make a lot of changes all at once since that could lead to burnout and feeling overwhelmed. Make just a few changes and enjoy the resulting peace, joy, love, gratitude, and enthusiasm. Then consider what to do next.
To learn more, see articles #51 Meditation, Yoga, and Relaxation, #77 Centering Practices, and #110 ‘Five R’s’ for Life’s Changes and Challenges)
7. Release Old Wounds, Needless Fears, and Limiting Beliefs
Many people have suffered from abuse, prejudice, and judgment. They often were also exposed to limiting or wrong teachings about the nature of reality. As a result, they needlessly fear all sorts of things – for example, separation, unforgiveable sin, and eternal hell – when none of these really exist. Fortunately, the factors in this subheading can be eliminated or, at least, minimized over time. How to do that is explained in Greater Reality Living by me and Gary E. Schwartz PhD. A young person’s version of this is The Big Picture of Life written by us and Katta Mapes, MA, MEd. (#49 When You Have Been Abused, #67 Contrast Souls, #79 Holistic Breathing Technique, #111 Release the Past For an Optimal Now)
8. Expand Your Circle of Kindred Spirits
It’s very helpful to have others in your life who are ‘on the same wavelength’. You and they may not agree on everything, but at least you can have respectful discourse and appreciation of differences. Expanding your inner circle of family and friends also makes you feel less alone and more connected with ‘your tribe’. Releasing old ‘broken’ relationships may be required before forming new ones. If you don’t have more evolved relationships yet, I’ve found great ways to find others with open hearts and minds. One key is to get involved in service organizations since more evolved persons often help others. (#52 All Life Is Sacredly Interconnected, #61 When a Relationship Breaks Up, #66 Optimal Relationships for More Evolved People)
More evolved people / souls especially benefit from interacting with people in one or more of the following categories:
- Near-Death Experiencers (NDErs): After clinical death, millions of people worldwide have remembered seeing The Light and the big picture of life. They sometimes experience rapid, profound, and lasting positive transformations in multiple aspects of their lives. For example, they deeply know they are one with Creator and that all life is sacredly interconnected. (to learn more, visit IANDS.org and see article #94 at SoulProof.com/Articles)
- Shining Light Parents (SLPers): After moving through ‘the dark night of the soul’, many bereaved parents are powerfully transformed. They resolve to honor their children by finding and sharing ‘silver linings’ with others. They can sense their children better when taking this high road that blesses them and others. (HelpingParentsHeal.org and articles #82 and 93)
- Spiritual Transformation Experiencers (STErs): Many people have awakened to the big picture of life via a variety of ‘triggers’: meditation, being in nature, the birth of a child, being in love, a sublime piece of music, or other stimuli. Collectively, they can help change our world when informed, possessing resources, and sufficiently inspired and hopeful. (article #17)
- The 15%rs: This term refers to the approximate number of more advanced souls / people on earth at this time. This percentage is supported by clinical research by Michael Newton PhD and his team of researchers doing Life Between Lives sessions. This group of people may need reminded about who they are and why they are here before ‘awakening’ to the task of helping themselves, others, and our planet. (articles #23 and 117)
9. Learn about the SoulPhone Project
Research at the Laboratory for Consciousness and Health at the University of Arizona provides much comfort, inspiration, and knowledge about the nature of reality.Dr. Schwartz, a former professor at Harvard and Yale, is now professor emeritus at the University of Arizona.
He directs the project with a team of electrical engineers, software developers, evidential mediums, and luminary PMPs. I’m a research assistant and spokesperson for the project. I also direct the SoulPhone Foundation, a nonprofit that exists to educate others about afterlife evidence and raise funds for the project that has:
- Scientifically proven that life continues after bodily death. Official announcements about this are planned for 2025 after all the infrastructure for that is in place.
- Demonstrated communication with postmaterial persons with highly accurate and reliable Yes / No responses via the SoulSwitch. That device will be a component for production of the SoulKeyboard that will provide a greater quality and quantity of input from postmaterial scientists. After that, we hope to achieve talking with PMPs via SoulVoice technology, then seeing and hearing with SoulVideo. To learn more about, visit Anticipated SoulPhone Devices at SoulPhone.org/About.
Scientific findings over the last 15 years, and especially the last several years, allows me to responsibly make these admittedly big claims. These two events could be like the ‘penny floating in the air’ moment for Demi Moore’s character in the movie Ghost. Widespread awareness of (a) and (b) above, and working with organizations listed under #11 below, can sufficiently dissolve fear and engender hope to make our world a better place.
To learn more, visit SoulPhone.org and sign up for updates via free newsletters. (#35 The SoulPhone Projectand #44 SoulPhone Project Updates)
10. Focus on Higher Energies, Emotions, and Ways of Being
As discussed, life on earth can seem dark, senseless, and hopeless at times. There are tough times and challenges during this earthly experience, no doubt about it. However, you can increasing CHOOSE to find and share the silver linings by:
- knowing the information in this course
- using recommended resources
- taking relevant action steps
This isn’t just wishful thinking that amounts to sticking one’s head in the sand. Rather, it is a powerful shift to focusing on the beautiful, inspiring, and empowering; it’s all around you if you just look. Choosing to appreciate just one positive aspect can be the first step to creating the greatest life you have envisioned.
I’ve done this myself and have seen many people take the high road despite enduring incredibly difficult circumstances. As Helen Keller, who had her share of adversity and then some, said: “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.”
Her excellent perspective aligns with an epiphany I awakened with many years ago. I had just opened my eyes, looked at the clock, and realized that a profound saying had been repeating itself in my mind. I quickly closed my eyes to catch this thought before wakefulness whisked it away. Then I wrote it down to benefit me and others: ‘This earthly experience is a totally safe, meaningful, and magnificent adventure amidst forever.’ I try to live by that truism no matter is happening to or around me. Perhaps you’ll want to make this your intention as well. (article #108 Higher Energies, Emotions, and Ways of Being and #112 Creating the Greatest Life You Have Envisioned)
11. Join Groups to Evolve Personally and Globally
It’s easy to complain about how bad things have gotten and how horrible ‘those people’ are. However, as an old Eastern aphorism notes: ‘It’s better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. We never know how much something we say or do today may help others tomorrow.’ You can share your unique gifts by working with religious / spiritual and/or service-oriented organizations that seek to help others and our world. In the process, you can also meet kindred spirits and expand your tribe of like-minded people.
Many love-based religious / spiritual groups have long taught important truths, for example:
a. love, help, and forgive your neighbor AND yourself
b. don’t fear change and death . . . those are just part of life
c. you’re one with The One right now
d. share your greatest gifts and let your light shine
e. you have more guidance, assistance, and love from all around than you can imagine
Open-minded, service-oriented, and enlightened spiritual / religious groups that have helped me the most include: Unity (Unity.org), Unitarian-Universalist Association (UUA.org), United Church of Christ (UCC.org), National Spiritualist Association of Churches (NSAC.org), and Centers for Spiritual Living (CSL.org).
I’ve also found much wisdom in Hinduism, Sufism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Native Peoples spirituality. Find ones that most resonate with your heart, mind, and understandings of reality. To learn more, see article #16 Evidence-Based Teachings about the Nature of Reality
Other religions and denominations can be good IF they:
* try to be more like Jesus, Buddha, and other spiritual masters who knew they were one with Source.
* recognize the sacred interconnection among all life .
* don’t pretend they possess an exclusive path to God.
* have respect and appreciation for other approaches that recognize the above.
I’m honored to be part of the following groups that can help many people and our world. I’m sure there are others and welcome learning about them. (in alphabetical order)
Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterial Sciences (AAPSGlobal.com) was founded by Marjorie Woolacott PhD, Gary E. Schwartz PhD, Larry Dossey MD, and other experts in the field of survival of consciousness. Members of the academy include scientists, university professors, physicians, psychologists, and other professionals. Hundreds of these professionals share the view that consciousness is primary and persists after bodily death. That view contrasts with those of ‘mainstream’ scientists who are nihilists (don’t believe in an afterlife) and/or atheists (don’t believe in a guiding, organizing, and designing power behind all life). As such, many of them believe – despite much scientific and clinical evidence to the contrary – that consciousness is a temporary by-product of brain function and ends when the body dies.
Club of Budapest / The Laszlo Institute (ClubOfBudapest.com / TheLaszloInstitute.com) Started by legendary author, critical thinker, and professor Ervin Laszlo, both organizations are dedicated to facilitating and providing direction for a global shift toward a more peaceful, equitable, and sustainable world. Working toward this objective is a network of independently operating national clubs in America, Europe, and Asia. The enormous challenges that humanity is currently facing can be overcome by building bridges between science and art, ethics and economy, old and young, and the different cultures of the world.
Essentia Foundation (EssentiaFoundation.org) Their website asks: “Do we really live in a fundamentally physical universe? Are we essentially material beings? Essentia Foundation is a new force in the cultural dialogue about the nature of reality.” Further, they state: “The cultural prevalence of metaphysical materialism has myriad—and arguably dysfunctional—implications at both individual and social levels: it impacts our sense of meaning and purpose, our value systems, our understanding of health, disease and death, as well as the way we relate to others, the planet and even ourselves.” As with AAPS, this organization is strongly academic but focuses on improving life, personally and societally, by exploring the nature of reality.
Eternea (Eternea.org) is an organization with the goal “To help humanity join together in cooperation and collaboration to make these the best of times, not just for a privileged few, but for everyone.” Eternea was founded by John Audette MS and Eben Alexander MD; their current chairman is Raymond Moody PhD, MD. (Dr. Schwartz and I met through this organization in 2015 when he was the chairman and I was the vice-president.) Visit their website to discover how you can assist their vision that is similar and complementary to the others.
Evolutionary Leaders (SourceOfSynergyFoundation.org) The book ‘A Moment of Choice’ with 43 evolutionary leaders states: “Our moment of choice is at hand. There has never been a more urgent moment for humankind to come together and prepare for the task ahead.” This organization calls upon all of humanity to be united in purpose, and be cocreators of a just, peaceful, and thriving world. Their list of evolutionary leaders is a ‘Who’s Who’ of leading experts on consciousness, optimal living, and positive global change.
Gaia (Gaia.com) This wonderful organization shares documentaries and films, yoga and meditation classes, and articles. Topics covered include health and healing, spiritual growth, expanded consciousness, unexplained, and more. They also provide streaming content and events taught by world leaders in personal development and global transformation.
Galileo Commission (GalileoCommission.org) The Galileo Commission was founded in 2017 with a view to expanding the worldview of science beyond its limiting materialistic assumptions. A central and widely held assumption, which is seldom explicitly examined, is that the brain generates consciousness and is therefore extinguished at death. Following widespread consultation in 2018 with 90 advisers representing 30 universities worldwide, they published the Galileo Commission Report: Beyond a Materialist Worldview – Towards an Expanded Science. Based in the UK, this organization also examines the implications for widespread conscious living.
Greater Reality Living Groups (GreaterRealityLiving.com) The term ‘greater reality’ describes the totality of life and all that exists. The term greater reality living invites people to consider how they might treat themselves, others, and our world when they really know ‘The Great News’. I founded this group in 2019 after many people expressed a desire to meet with a group of open-minded, open-hearted, and service-oriented people. They wanted a safe, inclusive, nonjudgmental, and respectful place where they could learn ‘The Great News’ and supportive evidence, share their personal ‘spiritual’ experiences, learn meaningful answers to life’s biggest questions, meet kindred spirits, evolve personally, and make our world a better place. Twelve groups started in several different countries in early 2020 until you-know-what preempted local meetings. We will resume online and local groups after the two events described above in #8.
HeartMath Institute (HeartMath.org) From their website: “Since 1991, the HeartMath Institute has developed reliable, scientifically validated tools that help people reduce and avoid stress while experiencing increased peace, satisfaction and self-security. Research at the HeartMath Institute shows that, adding heart to our daily activities and connections produces measurable benefits to our own and others’ well-being.” Their vision is to help promote a kinder, heart-centered world where we care for one another and live harmoniously in peace. Their mission is to co-create a kinder, more compassionate world by conducting interconnectivity research and providing heart-based, science-proven tools for raising humanity’s baseline consciousness from separation and discord to compassionate care and cooperation.
Helping Parents Heal (HelpingParentsHeal.org) This wonderful group was started by Elizabeth Boisson and Mark Ireland, both of whom had children pass on. HPH now has over 40,000 members in about 30 countries. There are currently 165 Affiliate Group Leaders (for local meetings) and 35 Caring Listeners, a service I started and provide clinical support for. Their free daily webinar classes and bi-annual conferences have helped many deeply grieving parents become shining light parents. (To learn more about this remarkable and awe-inspiring shift, see article #82 Journey FROM Deeply Grieving TO Shining Light) These parents are among the most joyful, loving, and caring people I’ve met; collectively, they provide much hope for helping all people and our world.
Humanity’s Team (HumanitysTeam.org) was started 20 years ago by Neale Donald Walsch, author of the Conversations with God books, and director Steve Farrell. They offer a wide variety of programs and resources to reach widespread higher conscious living by 2040. Visit their website to see their amazing list of experts on conscious world change, and breadth and depth of their outreaches. They offer a variety of free courses and others for a sliding-scale fee. My video course will become a part of their offerings in the autumn of 2024; it’s entitled ‘Greater Reality Living: 5 Keys to Knowing and Showing ‘The Great News’, Creating the Life You Have Envisioned, Sharing Your Special Talents, and Making Our World a Better Place.’ I know . . . the subtitle is very long, but it fully describes what I teach in this course.
Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS.org) was started by Apollo 14 astronaut, MIT doctorate, and futurist Edgar Mitchell ScD. Strategic pillars of IONS include: studying the effects of transformative practices and experiences on well-being, self-transcendence, and extended human capacities; delivering experiential programs that provide tools and practices to access inner wisdom and experience interconnectedness; a multidisciplinary research program to reliably and robustly demonstrate the influence of human intention on a physical system; and more. The teachings of Willis Harmon PhD, former president of IONS and author of Global Mind Change, were of pivotal importance for me many years ago. Their staff includes the esteemed scientist Dean Radin PhD.
International Association of Near-Death Studies (IANDS.org) was formed by Ken Ring PhD and John Audette MS in the 1970s. Near death experiencers (NDErs) is a term for those who nearly died, saw the Light, had a life review, and encountered ‘deceased’ loved ones and angelic help. Many NDErs returned as a much better person: alcoholics immediately became sober; abusive husbands became loving ones; and fire-and-brimstone preachers shifted to sharing about a God of unfathomable love and understanding. Many millions of people worldwide have reported NDE / NDE-like experiences. Plato, after hearing of a colleague’s visit to The Light, proposed that leaders be drawn from the ranks of NDErs. Two millennia later, that is still a great idea.
Near-Death Experience Research Foundation (NDEFR.org) Founded by Jeffrey Long MD and Jody Long JD, this site shares over 5300 near-death experiences reported by people around the world. Impressively, some of these reports have been translated into 40 languages. This site states: The perfect mix of science, community, spirituality and service! Their mission statement: “If enough people read about love, peace and hope, maybe they can change to become more loving, compassionate people who truly live their lives without fear. We can then change the world to become a better place like heaven on earth . . . as above, so below.”
Seek Reality (SeekReality.com) Their website states: ‘Discover profound insights from our extensive research and begin a journey of understanding and enlightenment. Your loved ones are alive and fine in the next life. They are waiting patiently for you to finish your time in Earth School when you will have a wonderful reunion. In the meantime, they are anxious to communicate with you about their lives now and your life.’ This organization is an extension of the Afterlife Research & Education Institute started by Craig Hogan, Susanne Wilson, Roberta Grimes, and Wendy and Victor Zammit.
SoulPhone Foundation (SoulPhone.org) This organization was described above in #9.
Soul Proof (SoulProof.com) My website has much information and resources to help you, others, and our world. This include FREE 122 Articles; 25 Radio Shows with stellar guests like Wayne Dyer, Michael Newton, and Anita Moorjani; newsletters; and Soul Proof documentary film. My 8 books and 10 transformative audio products at Shop are inexpensive; however, as mentioned above, we will send free digital copies of these to people who can’t afford them. Over the last fifty years, I’ve learned much about holistic health care, spiritual awareness, having an optimal earthly experience, and creating heaven on earth.
The Shift Network (TheShiftNetwork.com) This organization aims to help many people and our world via superb education, media, and events. They seek to accelerate the shift to a world where everyone has the opportunity to liberate their full creative potential. The vision of The Shift Network is to upgrade human operating systems to co-create a healthy, peaceful, sustainable, just, and prosperous world. They have featured over 3,100 thought leaders while serving over 3 million people in 180 countries.
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Thank you for sharing this lofty but practically attainable goal with others. This helps you better understand and internalize the program. That can improve every aspect of your life AND helps those in your sphere of influence. This effect, when magnified by others doing the same, helps you, many people, and our world. It really can be that simple.
Start by discussing this topic with friends and family who you know are more open-minded and appreciative of respectful discourse. Consider sharing this topic with your church / spiritual group, then brainstorm how you can make a difference in your service group and community. Post this article on your social media sites and respond to comments. A grass-roots expansion of this vision and path can be the tipping point for all people and our world.
Conventional wisdom says ‘I’ll believe it when I see it!’ However, as Wayne Dyer and others have pointed out, it can be true that ‘You’ll see it when you believe it.’ Could it be that many people and our world suffer needlessly when the understandings and actions in this article could remedy things? I know that helping yourself, others, and our world SEEMS like an insurmountable task, but the formula shared in this article can make it a reality. And that can happen much more easily and quickly than you might imagine!
I used to run 10K and 20K events and have watched many races involving my children and grandchildren. Over the decades, I’ve noticed an almost universal event: runners, who look like they’re ready to fall over from exhaustion, spring to life when they SEE the finish line, HEAR the crowd cheering, and KNOW they made it.
They had more – sometimes much more – energy, ability, and strength than they realized.
Similarly, you can do better in all aspects of life than you might realize. That’s especially the case when you see hope and hear encouragement. Your close friends and family members, postmaterial loved ones, angels, guides, master teachers, The Light, and your higher self are rooting you on every day. I hope this article helps you do what you came here to accomplish.
Again, remember that you’re not alone on this quest – especially during this quest. Your part in this magnificent journey is recognized and aided by all levels of beings.
Much love and assistance are available from shining light parents (article #82), near death experiencers (#94), spiritually transformative experiencers (#17 and #68), and more evolved people / souls (#23, #66, and #117). In addition, the organizations and religious / spiritual groups listed above assist reaching the goal of helping yourself, others, and our world. Finally, omnipresent guidance, assistance, and love exists from The Light (#13) and Higher Energy Assistance (#73 and #108).
Helping yourself, others, and our world is the ultimate adventure. If this call to action resonates within, your involvement is needed and welcome.
Together, we can do this!
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Your life, and that of others around you, will be more enriched when you:
Let it shine,
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 . . .
– 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)
– 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.
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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.
