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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Why Did God Take My Loved One?
I once counseled a man who had attended church every week, taught Sunday School, prayed daily, studied the Bible, and had a great personal relationship with Creator. Then his young son died tragically and this man became bitter and scoffed at any idea of a loving and powerful Higher Power. He believed that God took his child and wondered why he was being punished.
Upon seeing and feeling his pain and despair, I momentarily felt anger toward Creator. What kind of world is this where little children die and their loved ones suffer so deeply? Asleep at the wheel again, O’ Omnipresent, Omnipotent, and Omniscient One?
And then I remembered.
I remembered the newer and more sensible images of Life Source that have emerged from contemporary spirituality evidence. The Ground of All Being is not a big man in the sky who controls all events: “I’ll smite this one, save this one, a miracle for her, a disappointment for him.”
One Mind is, rather, a life-force, a power, a supreme intelligence and energy that creates, sustains, and pervades all life. This phenomenon is an unfathomable depth of love, light, peace and joy. The Light is all and is in all. That includes you and me and little children who die.
Having remembered, I breathed deeply, recalling once again how exquisitely and perfectly designed this physical experience is for love, service, adventure, growth and enjoyment. Even when it doesn’t seem like it.
(Note: Please substitute ‘my spouse’, ‘my sibling’, ‘my friend’, ‘my pet’, or whatever relationship you had with someone who passed on. I originally wrote this for bereaved parents but it applies to any category of loved one.)
It’s difficult to move away from entrenched meanings of words. That’s why I use other synonyms for God: to help us evolve beyond ancient images of a big vengeful guy in the sky.
My current favorite name for Creator is E.L.G.O.D. The letters E and L, for Energizing and Loving. G.O.D. stands for the universal “guiding, organizing and designing” process in life that has historically been called many names in religions. (See Dr. Schwartz’s book The G.O.D. Experiments to learn more about the love, power, intelligence, and creativity that is behind and withinall life.)
The acronym E.L.G.O.D. captures more of the attributes of this ultimately ineffable phenomena. The letters EL also honor ancient names for the Divine. El or Al – the root words of Elohim, Eloha, Allah, and other sacred names for God – meant That, The One, or That One which expresses itself uniquely through all things.
It’s important to realize that the Light doesn’t make anyone, especially children, die at a certain time. The collective evidence suggests that we live in a free will universe and each soul gets to choose its time of coming and going. This view provides sensible answers to the mournful question, “Why did God take my child?”
To this question, well-meaning ministers over the ages have variously answered: “God works in mysterious ways.” Or, “The child was used by God to save lost souls.” Or, my personal least favorite, “God wanted to be with the little one.”
Needless to say, none of these answers is very satisfying to those who think for themselves, especially those in the midst of grief. In all of them, God becomes a puppeteer or a capricious dictator who mandates every detail of human existence despite the immense pain and suffering caused.
Much contemporary evidence indicates that a child in earth-years may be a very evolved soul. As such, that child didn’t need to go through a long earth school experience. That’s why the name of the Q & A I write for the Helping Parents Heal newsletter is: Evolved Souls Don’t Need a Long Earthly Experience.
We each pass on when it is time from a soul perspective. That is very difficult for family and friends to understand and accept when a child changes worlds. But it is eminently important to do so.
To learn more about this, visit my website SoulProof.com and read related articles. Also listen to the free Radio Shows at the top tab and hear answers from me and eleven consciousness experts to the question, “Why do children die?”
If you don’t yet have a meaningful relationship with the Infinite, take a moment to pray for that reunion. Spend time in meditation, walking in nature, or any other timeless activity that quiets the mind. Attend spiritual or religious services that focus on love and service, not fear. Seek and ye shall find. Ask and you’ll be pleasantly surprised to find the Presence within and all around you.
The resulting faith AND knowledge will help you absolutely know that you are an ageless spiritual being who is forever deeply nestled within the heart of God. And so is each child who dies.
Death at any age is not an end, just a change of worlds at the right time and for meaningful reasons. You may not know the details now, but you will someday. And you will have a wonderful reunion with your departed loved ones. What’s more, if you quiet your mind and go beyond your five senses, you can detect them right now. They are urging you to be happy, to engage fully in life, and to honor their lives by serving others.
Are you listening?
You can blame God as long as you want. He/She/It doesn’t mind. But when you are ready, you can take a higher road to understanding why your child died and how to best live afterwards. And that path, my friends, is the one that your soul and the soul of your child hope you take.
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Thank you for sharing this article with others who can use it.
Let it shine,
Mark
Mark Pitstick, MA, DC
Director of the SoulPhone Foundation
Founder of Greater Reality Living Groups
Research assistant for the SoulPhone Project
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University-based scientific research has now definitively demonstrated that life continues after bodily death. The SoulPhone Project will very likely allow widespread communication with post-material (“deceased”) loved ones and luminaries who want to help us heal our world. How might this great news change the way you live and treat yourself and others?
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.
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.
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 . . .
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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.
