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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Centering Practices
The philosopher Cicero said, “Only the person who is relaxed can create, and to that mind ideas flow like lightning.”
On an evolutionary timeline, your brain is a fairly new innovation. That computer has amazing abilities, but most people haven’t learned how to control it. Thus, the saying, ‘The brain is a wonderful servant but a horrible master.’ Many people suffer from incessant thinking, worrying, and reminiscing. Excessive mental activity blocks clear awareness and all the accompanying benefits.
The brain has been compared to a drunken monkey that thinks it’s the master of the house. It runs around, chatters constantly and acts like . . . well, like a monkey. This creates a lot of noise and may even be entertaining for a time. In the long run, though, the house becomes a mess and uninhabitable.
Another analogy compares the brain with a wild elephant that charges around at will and destroys everything in its path. The elephant / brain needs to be tamed and more available for doing useful work.
The brain is so active that you likely perceive life one or more thoughts away from the real experience. You think: “I’m eating now, I’m playing with the kids now, or I’m working now” instead of fully enjoying the moment. An overly active mind constantly labels and monitors experiences so that you may never fully enjoy the real event.
How can you quiet your brain and increasingly become the master of your life? Here’s a hint: watch children at play and observe their total involvement in the moment.
Many powerful centering practices can calm the brain and help you stay in the present moment. Simply take a little time each day to get quiet within. Do activities that you enjoy and help you feel clear and peaceful. The key is to enjoy just being for a while without worrying, analyzing, or otherwise dissecting the experience.
Well established ways to dampen your brain’s frenzied activity include: spend time in nature, listen to music, play with pets, enjoy the company of children, garden, read, make love, watch a great movie or play, soak in a hot tub, exercise, meditate, do yoga, spend time with loved ones, serving others, optimal self care, exercise, drumming, chanting, bodywork, energy movement practices such as tai chi and qi gong, experiential seminars, shamanic trance work, dance, study topics of interest, pray, cook, sew, sunbathe, and relax in a hammock.
Again, these are common ways to quiet your brain and enjoy life’s golden present moments.
You deserve to feel happy, peaceful, and enthusiastic and have those precious feelings carry over into other life activities. This helps counteract the feeling that life is a hectic, hopeless, and endless rat race.
See article #51 Meditation at SoulProof.com to learn more about this and other basic ways to relax, center, and remember who you are.
Meditation and prayer are paramount for clearer perception of the greater reality. William Blake said, “If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” Of the importance of daily quieting the mind, Father Thomas Keating said: “Silence is the language God speaks, and everything else is a bad translation.” Paramahansa Yogananda said, “Why should you think He is not everywhere? The air is filled with music that is caught by the radio—music that otherwise you would not know about. And so it is with God. He is with you every minute of your existence, yet the only way to realize this is to meditate.”
Meditation and prayer temporarily turn down the brain’s chatter and help you realize how safely you are embedded in eternity. Regarding the importance of regularly turning your senses inward, Houston Smith PhD stated: “As bridges to the physical world they (your five senses) are invaluable, but the yogi is seeking something else. On the track of more interesting prey—the interior universe in which, according to reports, is to be found the final secret of life’s mystery—the yogi wants no sense bombardments. . . For the yogi is tracking the underpinning of life’s façade. Behind its physical front, where we experience the play of life and death, the yogi seeks a deeper life that knows no Death.”
Sri Ramakrishna, a great saint from India, was asked: “Do you believe in God, sir?” “Yes,” he replied. “Can you prove it?” “Yes.” “How?” “Because I see Him just as I see you here, only more intensely.”
I had a multi-sensory experience of G.O.D. / Life Source in 1997 during a long yoga and meditation session at 5:30 in the morning.
While silently repeating the mantra OM, a louder and deeper chorus of that sound spontaneously resounded within and all around me. It was so real that I thought I would see a huge choir if I opened my eyes. Then I smelled fresh flowers even though it was winter and there was no source for the fragrance. Next, even though my eyes were shut, I saw a radiant golden-white light in my mind’s eye. Then I felt what seemed to be Divine love, acceptance, and understanding. Finally, a mild electrical current coursed throughout my body.
All this was so overwhelming that tears welled up in my eyes. It seemed that information and energy were being transmitted to me. The power and splendor were so great that, after just a few minutes, I felt I couldn’t handle the current. I murmured aloud, “Oh my God!” and started laughing. Then the experience was over. But that sweet memory helps carry me through life’s challenges and reminds me I’m always Home and one with the One, no matter what the external circumstances.
One teaching from that event is that I was not prepared to directly experience higher energies for very long. That level of power blew my mind and circuit breakers. I felt that my nervous system wasn’t strong enough to handle the current. That experience still motivates me to live a healthy and refined life so I can serve as a conduit for those higher energies.
That’s the main reason for centering practices: not to work yourself toward the Light, for It is your truest nature and thus always available. Centering techniques upgrade the power and clarity of your perception so you can comprehend reality more accurately. Your true and unending nature is energy, love, light, intelligence, peace, beauty, creativity, and joy. Regular centering practices help you remember and live out that truth.
Breathwork is an ancient and cross-cultural way to more deeply know and show your eternal nature firsthand. In the Aramaic and Hebrew languages, the words spirit and breath were used interchangeably. The Chinese word chi and Japanese ki variously mean life force, spirit and breath. Breathing techniques are simple and powerful keys to optimal living. You can experience the Holistic Breathing Technique with my audio product at SoulProof.com/Shop.
Perhaps you’ve seen Oriental art depicting a wise sage standing on a bridge, impassively watching the river flow below. Regular use of centering techniques enables a firsthand experience of the fullness of life. From this watcher state, you can calmly yet passionately participate in all life’s changes while deeply remembering your magnificent nature and potential.
Consider these quotes about the importance of centering practices:
- Pascal: All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.
- Pythagoras: Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.
- John Donne: Wilt thou love God, as he Thee? Then digest, My Soul, this wholesome meditation: How God, the Spirit, by Angels waited on in heaven, doth make his Temple in thy breast.
- Rumi: Secretly we spoke, that wise one and me. I said, ‘Tell me the secrets of the world.’ He said, ‘Ssssh, let silence tell you the secrets of the world.’
I hope this article helps you better realize who you are, why you are here, Who walks beside / within you always, and how wonderful life can be.
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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.
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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.
