by Mark Pitstick MA, DC

Note: If you already know the following information scroll down to the article title in maroon below the seven asterisks.  However, I strongly recommend reading this introduction until you really ‘own’ it.  In addition, post The Great News where you’ll see it every day.  

Over the last 15 years, and especially during 2019 – 2024, data from a series of experiments at the University of Arizona have definitively demonstrated scientifically that life continues after physical death.  This research was conducted by Gary E. Schwartz PhD, former professor at Harvard and Yale, and pioneer in the fields of behavioral medicine and energy healing.  

Dr. Schwartz is assisted in this work by a team of electrical engineers, software developers, research assistants, evidential mediums, and postmaterial luminaries at the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health.  (To learn more about the SoulPhone Project and lab, visit LACH.Arizona.edu.  To learn about postmaterial luminaries, see article #31 at SoulProof.com) 

The Demo SoulSwitch is a binary (Yes / No) SoulSwitch device that postmaterial persons (the so-called ‘deceased’) can use to answer questions, verify their identity, and begin providing information to help many people and our planet.  This device should be ready for beta testing by the summer of 2024.  After sessions with project volunteers and larger donors, we will share data that scientifically demonstrates life continues after bodily death.  However, this ‘reveal’ will initially occur as an ‘incremental trickle’ versus a ‘sudden splash’.   Over time and under optimal conditions, we will gradually amplify how widely this news is shared. 

Likewise, demonstrations of this technology will occur in a stepwise fashion.  We anticipate, but cannot guarantee, that full announcements and demonstrations will occur by spring 2025.  These decisions were made in April 2024 after many strategic planning discussions with core project team members.  The many factors involved are much more complex than you might imagine. 

See articles #1, 60, and 115 for an overview of the scientific, clinical, and experiential evidence that indicates – with 99.9% certainty – that consciousness survives bodily death.  This collective evidence also shows – with very high degrees of certainty – The Great News that you and everyone else:

  1. continue to live after your earthly body dies.
  2. can interact with ‘departed’ loved ones now and after you pass on.
  3. are integral, infinite, eternal, and beloved parts of Source Energy now and always.
  4. receive guidance and support from angels, guides, master teachers, etc.
  5. are sacredly interconnected with all people, animals, and nature.
  6. have special purposes for having this earthly experience now.
  7. may manifest in other simultaneous time / space realities now and after bodily death.
  8. have everything you need to enjoy an optimal earthly experience – no matter what your past or current circumstances.
  9. can find meaning, as well as opportunities for growth and service, amidst your toughest changes and challenges.
  10. co-create how heavenly your life feels – whether living on earth or elsewhere – by your predominant thoughts, words and actions.
  11. can likely use SoulPhone technology in the future to communicate with postmaterial loved ones and access wisdom from luminaries who can help us heal our world.  

Statements #1, 2, and 11 are based on definitive scientific research.  The other statements are based on: (a) clinical research: near-death experiences, past life memories and regressions, perinatal experiences, life between lives sessions, shared crossings, terminal lucidity cases, and deathbed visions; and (b) evidencefrom firsthand experiences: after-death communications, out-of-body experiences, spiritually transformative experiences, electronic voice projection / instrumental transcommunication, and other ways of knowing.

This is, obviously, a new and exciting era for humanity.  When understood and internalized – even just a bit – The Great News can help you make the shift:         

  • FROM thinking, believing, and acting as if your time on earth is unfair, meaningless, cruel, and ends with cessation of consciousness or the possibility of endless suffering.
  • TO thinking, believing, and acting as if this earthly experience is a totally meaningful, safe, and magnificent adventure amidst forever.

Conscious language can help you adopt a greater reality perspective and live based on the second bulleted worldview.  And that, in turn, can help you create the greatest life YOU have envisioned, fulfill your purposes for being on earth, serve others, and enjoy a magnificent journey.  In the pursuit of using more conscious / accurate terms, l:   

  1. Will use the term ‘YOU’ to describe the totality of your energy / being. Your real self may manifest in different spacetime ways simultaneously since only approximately 50% of your consciousness is needed to have an earthly experience. The term ‘YOU’ recognizes both of these possibilities.
  2. Won’t use the terms ‘die, departed, deceased, or dead’ without single quotation marks since those have strongly entrenched and erroneous meanings indicating an end of life.
  3. Will use the terms ‘bodily death’ and ‘death of the earthly form’ to remind you that only the earth-suit dies. The rest – all the intelligence, love, personality, memories, preferences, sense of humor, and much more – continues living in other parts of the field of all possibilities.
  4. Will use the terms changed worlds, passed on, transitioned and others that aptly describe a continuation of consciousness after bodily death.
  5. Will primarily refer to those who have passed on as postmaterial persons. That term recognizes the points in #3. I also will use soul, consciousness, essence, and awareness.
  6. Will primarily refer to ‘physical humans living on earth’ as material persons. Why? Because those terms within single quotation marks may apply to postmaterial persons.  That is, they can have physicality, visit earth, and are still human in meaningful ways.
  7. Will use the terms lower versus higher energies, emotions, and ways of being. These descriptors are not critical, judgmental, or subjective; rather, they are based on objective measures by, for example, David Hawkins PhD, MD author of Power Versus Force. He and other researchers found that higher-energy emotions of peace, joy, and love calibrate at 600, 540, and 500 respectively.  Conversely, lower-energy emotions of anger, fear, and guilt calibrate at 150, 100, and 30.  To be clear, energy / consciousness is who and what you really are, not just how you are feeling.  Your predominant energies create the quality of your life and the nature of your earthly or other time-space experience.
  8. Will use single quotations marks with words such as ‘lose and fail’.  The Great News and collective afterlife evidence can expand your worldview about what seem to be losses and failures.  We can’t accurately judge the big picture of life – what is lost or how we failed – with our limited human senses.   

Note: To recognize and respect different genders and sexual identifications, I will alternate using ‘he’ or ‘she’ and related pronouns.  Depending on a person’s orientation, one, both, or neither of those may apply.

The free articles and radio shows mentioned are available at SoulProof.com.  To learn more about the collective afterlife evidence and The Great News, read Soul Proof, The Afterlife Evidence, Greater Reality Living (co-authored with Dr. Schwartz) and The Big Picture of Life (for ages 10 – 16 written with Schwartz and Katta Mapes MA, MEd).  To experience expanded states of consciousness to optimally heal and transform your life, use audio sessions under Shop at SoulProof.com. 

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Journey FROM Deeply Grieving TO Shining Light

Many grieving persons have journeyed FROM primarily identifying with being bereaved TO focusing on being a shining light.  I originally created this article for parents but the information and strategies are useful for all who have experienced loss.

Bereaved persons can, over time, increasingly become shining light persons.  The term ‘shining light’ invites you to more deeply realize that your loved one who has passed on truly is a shining light right now.   He or she is enjoying unfathomable levels of love, peace, joy, enthusiasm, clarity, and much more . . . and wants you to do the same.

The passing of a beloved person or pet —at any age or by any means—is one of the most difficult events that can happen to you during your brief earthly experience.

However, the bodily death of a dear one creates an opening – a transformational moment – that can, over time, be a blessing to you and others.  Your tragedy, much like a near-death experience, can trigger a spiritual awakening.  Your life will never be the same again but it can be even more rich and soulful for the experience.

Some bereaved persons recover more quickly and easily while others take longer and suffer horribly.  There’s no judgment from me about that.  I just want you to know that the grief process doesn’t have to be long and awful.  My answers are always offered with respect and love so please do not feel that I am being critical or judgmental of you in any way.

I don’t claim to have all the answers or the only answers for bereaved persons, but I do have some good answers that have helped many people lighten their grief and make more sense of what seems to be a totally senseless occurrence.

My advice is based on much scientific, clinical, and firsthand experience evidence shared in articles #1, 20, 28, and 60 at SoulProof.com.  This data clearly indicates that death is an optical illusion because the essence of a person does not die. Your eyes may not be able to sense your ‘deceased’ loved ones, but they are still very present and alive.

  1. Use conscious language: despite the vast amount of evidence above, many people still erroneously associate the terms ‘death and dying’ with an end or a loss. That’s why I recommend using other terms that more accurately describe what really happens: passing on, changing worlds, transitioning, crossing over, going back Home, graduating from earth-school, or returning to the Light.
  2. Upgrade your image of the Light: use alternate terms for the love, power and intelligence that created and sustains all life. For many, the term God automatically conjures up an image of a huge white-bearded man in the sky who sits on a throne and arbitrarily decides who lives or dies when and how. That image is archaic, inaccurate, and problematic. Alternative terms for Creator include: the Light, All That Is, the One, Source Energy, Higher Power, the Divine, Creative Energy, and Universal Intelligence.  For example, consider the common question: ‘Why did God take my loved one from me?’  That question becomes nonsensical when you realize your loved one’s passing was not decided by a huge guy in the sky.  To learn more about the nature of Creator, see article #13.
  3. Optimal self-careis a huge key to recovery for bereaved persons since the severe shock of the body of a loved one can especially impact the nervous and hormonal systems. If you are deeply grieving, you may not feel like trying anything new. But, if you can push yourself a bit, making just small changes can yield huge positive results. My book Radiant Wellness discusses seven keys to becoming happy and healthy again, no matter what your current condition.
  4. Benefit from a holistic health care team: recommendations include: acupuncture, chiropractic, nutritional healing, psychological and/or pastoral counseling, massage, and integrative medicine. Avoid taking anti-depressants and other potentially harmful prescription drugs unless absolutely necessary. Excessive use of any drug—medical, marijuana, alcohol—can mask your symptoms and prevent you from fully grieving in a healthy way.
  5. Use centering practicessuch as prayer, meditation, time in nature, exercise, music, playing with pets or children, gardening, walking on grass or sand, breathwork, drumming, serving others, spiritual fellowship—basically, whatever helps quiet your mind and keeps you in the now moment.
  6. Use transformational audio-programs: Here are four suggestions available at SoulProof.com/Shop:a. Holistic Breathwork Technique: excellent for releasing pain, sadness, anger and other lower energy emotions so you can remember the big picture of life more.b. Ask Your Soul Technique: access your inner wisdom so you can consider how to best move forward.c. Pre-Birth Planning Technique: learn if you and your postmaterial loved ones may have preplanned the possibility of your current struggles. If so, how can you use these insights to improve your life and help others now.d. Facilitated After-Death Contact Technique: enjoy meaningful perceptions of your loved ones who have changed worlds now and increasingly on an ongoing basis.
  7. Nutrition-based healing: again, the shock of a loved one’s body dying can deplete vital nutrients and lead to weak or imbalanced organs, especially the brain and hormonal system. This is especially a problem with women who already lack key nutrients after pregnancy. That can cause excess depression, crying, anxiety, insomnia, etc.  I recommend Nutrition Response Testing or Applied Kinesiology for personalized nutritional healing.  This Safe, Affordable, Natural, and Effective (SANE) approach to self-healing can literally work wonders.
  8. Learn more about the greater reality. The following understandings about life can give you peace, hope, and comfort:- The body is much less than 1% of a person’s total being. The other 99.9% — the intelligence, memory, preferences, love, sense of humor, and much more – continues on after the human form dies.- A human life, whether five or ninety-five years long, is just a blink of an eye in the span of eternity.- You and your loved ones are integral and infinite parts of Source Energy right now. You both are inseparably one with the One just as drops of water are part of the ocean.  Despite what your limited brain and belief system tell you to the contrary, there is no separation within life.– Life and love are eternal so you definitely will see your ‘departed’ loved one again.– There appears to be a meaning and timing for all life events, even if you can’t see it now.

    – You are always surrounded by a support teamof soulmates, angels and the Light; being in a spiritual/nonphysical realm, your dear one can clearly see that.

    – Serving others in your loved one’s name—in honor of them —is a powerful way to create more meaning and purposeabout his/her life and death.

  9. Use the A.R.T. Technique: your sadness and pain can decrease as you focus more on higher energy emotions such as peace, joy, love, gratitude, and enthusiasm. See article #41 to learn about this simple but powerful approach.Appreciate all the blessings and lessons that came from that relationship.  Think of the many experiences you had with your loved one who is no longer in human form.  What a rich array of events, feelings, and memories that are yours forever.Realize that you will see each again when you pass on and that your relationship can continue now in a different way.  Also realize that your “departed” loved one is enjoying a dimension characterized by peace, joy, gratitude, and enthusiasm.Transform each aspect of your life for the better as a result of having known this person.  Enjoy a spiritually transformative experience by more deeply knowing life and love are forever.  Honor their life by shining more brightly and serving others.  Focusing on appreciation and realization naturally increases your clarity and power.
  10. Stay alert for signs and visits: many bereaved persons have after-death contacts (ADC) in which they sense, while awake or dreaming, their dear one visiting. ADCs can involve the usual senses or more ethereal and subtle ones. You may notice electronic devices malfunctioning, for example, lights flickering on and off. Shared and evidential ADCs indicate that these are not always imaginary or wishful thinking.  See article #9 to learn how to increase your chances of having a meaningful ADC.
  11. Live one day and one moment at a time: while journeying from a bereaved to shining light person, take a few deep breaths and reach out to others when you feel like you can’t go on. Pray, ask for help, ask questions, and be around kindred spirits. See your loved ones rooting you on because they are.  Feel them encouraging you to find your way through the maze of pain and have a breakthrough – not a breakdown.

The simplest answer to why a loved one’s body died is they completed earth-school.   They were here just for a while to brighten your life, serve, teach, enjoy, and experience. Then they graduated into another part of the greater reality.  You will certainly see them again.

Apply this information for just 90 days and feel the difference.  Reentering the stream of life is a day-to-day decision.  I hope you decide to find the blessings, the silver linings, and the opening doors that always accompany change.  You deserve to feel great again and the world need your brightest light.

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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
SoulPhone.org    SoulProof.com    GreaterRealityLiving.com

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 . . .

FREE Articles, Radio Shows, and E-Newsletters

– Articles for Transformation and Healing (top tab Articles at SoulProof.com) address the most common questions, concerns, and challenges about life, death, and afterlife.

– Radio Shows (top tab Radio Shows at SoulProof.com) share his answers and those of top experts 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)


Audio-Products, Books, and Documentary

– Transformational Audio Products  (see Shop at SoulProof.com) provide quality sessions at home for a fraction of the cost of an office visit.  These CDs and digital audios use deep relaxation, visualization, breathwork, and/or other techniques to: access your inner wisdom, visit with “departed” loved ones, release old wounds and lower energy emotions, evaluate your pre-birth planning, have past life regressions, and other goals.

– Books and Documentary (Shop at SoulProof.com) provide information and strategies to help you more deeply realize and demonstrate that:

  • you are a forever being of energy / consciousness
  • the many wonderful benefits of realizing this
  • how to reflect this great news in every aspect of your life — even when confronted with big challenges and changes

Webinars and Workshops: to learn about these, subscribe to newsletters at SoulProof.com and SoulPhone.org (Classes & Interviews at SoulProof.com)

Greater Reality Living Groups: these local and online groups share information from Dr. Pitstick, Dr. Gary Schwartz, and other experts on consciousness and holistic wellness topics.  (Visit Greater Reality Living at SoulProof.com)

Coaching / Counseling Session: meet with Dr. Pitstick by Zoom to gain answers to your toughest questions and holistic solutions to your biggest challenges.  (Shop at SoulProof.com)

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.