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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Death Bed Visions
Death bed visions have been studied at the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine. Their website states: “Deathbed visions are those visions or other experiences that a dying person may have in the minutes, hours or days before his or her death. Family members or hospital personnel may report that a dying person, previously weak or even comatose, suddenly revived, sat up, stared at a corner of the room and called out the name of a deceased loved one. In rarer cases, a bystander has had such a vision, either alone or simultaneously with the dying person.”
Only ten percent of patients are conscious just before bodily death, but estimates are that more than fifty percent of these experience a deathbed vision. That is a very high rate of occurrence.
On three different occasions while working in hospitals, an elderly female patient told me, ‘I don’t what it is, but there’s something different about you.’ Then they described seeing their ‘deceased’ husbands standing at the foot of the bed. The telepathic messages from their husbands were very similar: ‘I love you. Don’t worry. We will see each other again soon.’ These women were quite ill, but still keen of mind and oriented. They were very excited about what they sensed, but concerned about what others would think. Each woman passed on within 48 hours of sharing their experiences.
In 2017, Stephen Wagner wrote a ThoughtCo.com article entitled Deathbed Visions: Are Dying People Escorted to the Other Side by Loved Ones? He stated: “Close to the moment of death, apparitions of deceased friends and loved ones appear to escort the dying to the other side. Such deathbed visions are not just the stuff of stories and movies. They are, in fact, more common than you might think and are surprisingly similar across nationalities, religions and cultures. Instances of these unexplained visions have been recorded throughout history and stand as one of the most compelling proofs of life after death.”
Wagner continued, “One of the first to examine the subject seriously was Sir William Barrett, a Professor of Physics at the Royal College of Science in Dublin. In 1926, he published a summation of his findings in a book titled Deathbed Visions. In the many cases he studied, he discovered some interesting aspects of the experience that are not easily explained. It was not uncommon for the dying people who saw these visions to identify friends and relatives who they thought were still living.”
Wagner concluded, “But in each case, according to Barrett, it was later discovered that these people had actually died. (Remember that then, communication wasn’t what it is today; it might have taken weeks or even months to learn that a friend or a loved one had died.) Barrett found it curious that children quite often expressed surprise that the ‘angels’ they saw in their dying moments did not have wings. If the deathbed vision is just a hallucination, wouldn’t a child see an angel as most often depicted in art and literature – with large, white wings?”
My mom had two ‘death bed visions’ in 2023 just several days before her passing. She had slept most of the time for two weeks and only awakened a few times a day while mumbling incoherent phrases. However, the following two events suggested that ‘departed’ loved ones were present to assist her journey back Home. During the first, she tried to get out of her hospital bed; her caregiver asked what she needed and mom said ‘Bill and June are here. I’ve got to get ready to go with them.’ (Bill was her husband and June was her beloved sister.) The second time, after another attempt to get out of bed, she said ‘I’ve got to pack. I’m going on vacation.’ The family was heartened by these indications that she was surrounded by loved ones who would aid her transition to the next phase of life.
Marilyn Mendoza, PhD, is a clinical instructor in the psychiatry department at Tulane University Medical Center and author of We Do Not Die Alone. In her Psychology Today blog, Deathbed Visions: Experiences of the Dying, she wrote: “A patient dying of cancer had been very restless throughout the night. In the early morning, she opened her eyes and stared fixedly into the corner of the room where no one was standing. She said, ‘Mom, I’m so glad to see you.’ She smiled. After saying this, the tension in the room from the family eased. After her comment, the patient died peacefully.”
Dr. Mendoza described another case: “A 52-year-old woman was dying of a failed transplant. She was terrified of dying and often spoke about how she was never going to give into death. Two days before her death, she kept looking over my shoulder and laughing and smiling at someone standing behind me. There was no one there. I asked the patient who she was talking to and she told me her dead father. Then she said, ‘OK, all right. It’s OK, I’m not afraid.’ She then died very peacefully, smiling.”
Mendoza noted, “Mothers tend to be the most frequently appearing figure in deathbed visions. Many times, it is the mother who comes to retrieve her child, no matter how old that child may be. Perhaps it is true when they say that a mother’s work is never done. Nurses have reported to me that when the dying start to call for their mothers that death is not far behind.”
Dr. Mendoza said that more than one family member may appear at the same time during a death bed vision as in the following case: “An elderly woman kept talking to her mother and her brother. Both of whom were deceased. She carried on several conversations with them. She would smile and drift off to sleep. Finally, in a conversation with them she agreed that it was time to go home. She died peacefully.”
Additionally, postmaterial pets sometimes arrive with family members to help the person whose human form is dying. Dr. Mendoza wrote: “A 67-year-old woman saw her husband who had died four years previously, with her 22-year-old deceased dog. She stated that her husband had taken her hand and along with the old dog told her he would show her the path to follow to be able to die peacefully.”
Regarding his experience with death bed visions, Melvin Morse, MD, author of Parting Visions, said he has heard such cases for over ten years from numerous nurses and medical doctors. Initially, these dedicated health care professionals were reticent to share what they’ve witnessed with patients just before bodily death. But the growing number of such reports and immediate peace for the patients strengthens the credibility.
Carla Wills-Brandon, MA, author of One Last Hug Before I Go, wrote: “The visitors in the visions were often times deceased relatives who came to offer support to the dying person. In some situations, the dying did not know these visitors were already dead. Many of the individuals who have these visions are not on medications and are very coherent . . . There is one aspect of some deathbed visions that is most difficult to explain and lends the most credence to the idea that they are actual visitations of spirits from ‘the other side.’ On rare occasions, the spirit entities are seen not only by the dying patient, but also by the friends, relatives, and others in attendance.”
Veteran psychical researchers Karlis Osis, PhD and Erlendur Haraldsson, PhD, authors of At the Hour of Death, stated there is mounting scientific evidence for life after death. They conducted extensive interviews of over one thousand doctors and nurses who were present when dying patients reported death bed visions. Extensive computer analyses of their observations were made. The authors collated this compelling evidence that suggests life persists after death of the human form. They observed the following:
- Although some dying people report seeing angels and other religious figures, the vast majority claim to see familiar people who had previously passed away.
- Very often, the friends and relatives seen in these visions express directly that they have come to help take them home.
- The dying person is reassured by the experience and expresses great happiness with the vision. The dying also seem quite willing to go with these apparitions.
- The dying person’s mood, even state of health, seems to change.During these visions, a once depressed or pain-riddled person is overcome with elation and momentarily relieved of pain.
- These experiencers do not seem to be hallucinating or to be in an altered state of consciousness. Rather, they appear to be quite aware of their real surroundings and conditions.
- Whether or not the dying person believes in an afterlife is irrelevant; the experience and reactions are the same.
Can you imagine how our world will transform for the better as more people learn – without a doubt – that life continues after the human form perishes? Sharon wrote the following to me on the day of her son’s funeral . . .
“Your words have helped me feel so much better. I really do feel peace although I miss my beautiful son so much. He fought addictions for years and, as his mom, I carried his sadness and pain deep in my heart. All I ever wanted was for my boy to feel happiness and not suffer. To be free. And now he is. But I always thought that I couldn’t survive if he died. So for me to feel this peaceful today is truly amazing!”
After learning more about the big picture of life, Jill benefited when she received bad news about her health . . .
“I ordered Soul Proof a few months ago and was delighted and fascinated with the information within. A few weeks ago, I was diagnosed with cancer. Interestingly, while the doctor gave the prognosis to me, I found myself calm and surrounded by what I can only describe as love. I honestly feel that reading your book helped marshal my courage and faith to deal with this crisis.”
Combined afterlife evidence from firsthand experiences and clinical research is sufficient proof for many people. However, despite that data, many lay persons and scientists still don’t believe. They say: ‘There is no real scientific research to support the claim of life after death.’
As of 2020, that statement is no longer true!
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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.
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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.
