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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Perinatal Experiences
While getting a bath, a four year-old boy begins to talk to his mother: “I remember when I was in your tummy… ” He tells her specific details about events that happened when she was pregnant with him. Later, the child also correctly reports what happened just before and after his birth: which family members were there, medical instruments used, tests given, and even what clothes people were wearing. The mother is incredulous; she is sure that no one has ever told him these details. How could he know what happened when he was in her womb and just a newborn?
The term perinatal refers to the time period just before, during and after human birth. Research on awareness during the perinatal period suggests that a wise and objective consciousness resides within the newborn baby. The perinatal experience, abbreviated as PNE, is particularly fascinating because it points to a preexistence of awareness that predates birth. NDE research indicates a continuation of consciousness after death; PNE research points to the existence of awareness before human birth.
In Mindsight, Ring and Cooper reviewed perinatal research and noted an emerging picture of a dual nature of human consciousness. First, there is a brain-based consciousness (BBC) that develops as the fetus grows. In addition, however, a great deal of empirical evidence points to a transcendent source of consciousness (TSC) that “predates physical life and survives bodily death.” The TSC is most apparent during NDEs, mystical states of consciousness, and perinatal experiences. But the TSC is usually overshadowed by the BBC that is so predominant in our physical world.
PNE research sometimes involves gathering information using hypnosis to aid memory recall from the perinatal period. Interviewing children who spontaneously recall these events is another source of data. When reading about PNE, keep in mind that researchers prefer the terms ‘mind, awareness, or consciousness” rather than ‘soul or spirit.’
Research Evidence and Cases
Research by Helen Wambach, Ph.D., provided clinical information about the timing of the soul’s arrival in the developing fetus. Dr. Wambach hypnotically regressed over 750 people and had them describe their fetal life. The existence of two separate but simultaneous sources of awareness was reported by 89 percent of her subjects. They identified more with the transcendent source of consciousness than with that of the growing fetus.
Her subjects described themselves as disembodied minds that hovered around the fetus and mother. This consciousness could come and go and had a telepathic knowledge of the mother’s emotions. Nearly 80 percent of the subjects reported joining their preexisting consciousness (TSC) with that of the fetal brain (BBC) just before, during, or after human birth. Only 11 percent reported doing so before six months fetal age.
In her book Soul Trek: Meeting Our Children on the Way to Birth, Elisabeth Hallett, R.N., discussed verifiable womb memories that suggest consciousness extends beyond the ‘birth-to-grave’ time frame. For example, she cited cases of midwives who received accurate communications from babies in the womb.
This information, such as warnings of increased maternal blood pressure or necessary changes in positioning for easier delivery, was often clinically useful. Some nurses have also reported telepathic correspondences during prenatal appointments from in utero babies. These communications revealed important and previously unknown details such as maternal domestic violence, high stress, or history of abuse.
One documented example of a perinatal memory was reported in Babies Remember Birth by David Chamberlain, Ph.D., who stated: “Jason, a three-and-a-half year-old boy, surprised his mother by saying that he remembered being born, that he had heard her crying and was doing everything he could to get out. It was ‘tight,’ he felt ‘wet,’ and felt something around his neck and throat. In addition something hurt his head and he remembered his face had been ‘scratched up.’ Jason’s mother said she had ‘never talked to him about the birth, never,’ but the facts were correct. The umbilical cord was wrapped around his neck, he was monitored via an electrode on his scalp, and was pulled out by forceps.”
Dr. Chamberlain hypnotically regressed ten mothers and their children who had not been told any details about their births. He concluded that their reports were remarkably consistent and “dovetailed at various points like one story told from two points of view.” Validated details included instruments used, people present, time of day, and other specifics of the delivery. The timing of various events was also reported accurately during these independent interviews of mothers and children. Chamberlain said that, considering all the facts, “objectively gathered birth memories appear to be genuine recollections of experience.”
Rev. Jerry Bongard, author of The Near Birth Experience, is a Lutheran minister and counselor with more than thirty years of experience. During his work hypnotizing clients, he found that they easily recall in-womb and pre-womb recollections, that is, memories of bodiless states before joining the fetuses. Bongard believes that support for the concept of pre-existence is strengthened by the therapeutic benefits of pre-birth memories with difficult cases such as post-traumatic stress syndrome in Viet Nam veterans. These experiences allow clients to see themselves as eternal beings, thereby aiding healing of emotional and physical wounds.
Regarding perinatal research, Stan Grof, M.D., author of Beyond The Brain, stated, “I have been able to confirm the accuracy of many such reports… [Subjects] have been able to recognize specificities and anomalies of their fetal position, detailed mechanics of labor, the nature of obstetric interventions, and the particulars of postnatal care. The experience of a breech position, placenta previa, the umbilical cord twisted around the neck, castor oil applied during the birth process, the use of forceps, various manual maneuvers, different kinds of anesthesia, and specific resuscitation procedures are just a few examples of the phenomena observed.”
In The Mind of Your Newborn Baby, Chamberlain shared the case of a child who described in fascinating detail the events during and after her birth. Deborah related memories during the time just after birth with comments suggestive of a preexistent spirit. Her strongest concept of herself was that of an intelligent mind that knew a lot. She couldn’t understand why the birth attendants just focused on her physical needs and acted like that’s all there was to her. Deborah felt frustrated that she couldn’t communicate her feelings and that crying was the only sound she could make.
Chamberlain comments, “The evidence supporting a physically transcendent form of consciousness… suggests that a separate transcendent source of awareness coexists with the fetal consciousness… a close examination of published regression transcripts reveals evidence of two intermittent streams of awareness, one assuming an in utero vantage point, the other one located outside the body of the baby…”
Children in Chamberlain’s research reported witnessing the newborn from two perspectives: as the child and as an observer outside the room. They expressed confusion about this dual awareness and wondered how they could be on both sides of the window.
In a journal article by David B. Cheek, M.D., a young child under hypnosis described an attempted abortion that occurred when she was six months fetal age. The child had not been told about the attempt and verification was obtained from the mother after the session. “[Subject]: It’s before I’m born. My father is shouting, ‘I’m going to kill you.’ (A few seconds later, subject began screaming. She pulled her legs up to her chest as though trying to get away from something very frightening.)… I saw that button hook coming up at me. I knew my mother was trying to get me out. [Therapist]: Then what happened? [Subject]: Nothing happened—only a little bleeding.”
Detailed visual descriptions that are later verified as accurate demonstrate an out-of-body vantage point similar to those reported during NDEs. These intra-uterine visual perceptions are all the more impressive when you realize that fetal eyes are closed within the womb.
Dr. Chamberlain described the case of Loretta who, as a third trimester fetus, sensed her mother and father on the deck of a sightseeing boat. The mother felt seasick and tried to steady herself by holding onto a rail and looking at an island. The father was worried about her and wanted to know if she was all right. The parents never told Loretta about this event after she was born, yet she accurately described many details of their outing.
Another resource on this topic is Coming from the Light: Spiritual Accounts of Life Before Life by Sarah Hinze. She presented over thirty personal stories from parents who described connections with their children before conception and during pregnancy. Interestingly, these prenatal communications also occurred among adoptive parents during the pre-adoption period. (11) This suggests that a deep connection can exist between a parent and child whether by biological birth or other ways.
What are the conclusions thus far about perinatal research? Dr. Wade stated: “When regressed subjects are able to give accurate, detailed visual impressions of events that occurred while they were in utero—as independently validated by third parties—there can be little doubt that some extra-neurological, extra-sensory form of consciousness exists.” After exploring all the available research on verifiable reports of consciousness before the time of human birth, Dr. Wade made the following conclusions:
- As brain activity increases, awareness of the transcendent source decreases, perhaps due to interference or masking by increased left hemisphere function.
- A greater access to the transcendent source of consciousness (TSC) is enjoyed naturally by some and may be aided by advanced meditation, NDE or other encounters with the Light, lucid dreaming, and other disciplines.
- Harmonizing of the TSC and brain-based consciousness allows a greater and more peaceful experience of both physical and non-physical realities.
- The TSC survives physical death, but excessive attachment to material existence and tensions between the two sources of consciousness may necessitate additional life experiences.
- From a level of Unity consciousness, the transcendent and brain-based streams of consciousness operate as one. Any indications of separation or cessation of life are illusory.
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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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