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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Contrast Souls
Has there been a person in your life who was abusive or cruel to you? Who never or seldom expressed love and caring but, instead was mean and critical? A person who may even seemed to be evil?
That word seemed is a key one. Actually, that person might actually have been a blessing.
What?!
Let’s start by defining the term ‘contrast soul’. There are no widely accepted definitions nor does an internet search reveal anything for this term except a video game genre and a brand of loudspeakers. Perhaps I created that term years ago while considering this topic.
Contrast soul is defined as a person who appears to be mean and imbalanced (“the abuser”) but actually is a teacher and maybe even a soulmate. In this perspective, the person being mistreated (“the abusee”) may have asked – before coming to earth – for a volunteer to hurt them.
Why?
To develop spiritual muscles, to potentially realize and demonstrate how strong they are. Any good adventure needs an antagonist to challenge the budding hero. So the abuser agreed, out of love, to play ‘the bad guy’ role even though he/she may actually be quite evolved.
To be clear, there is no scientific controlled laboratory research about this topic. There is clinical evidence from studies conducted by university professors, physicians, and/or psychologists. Categories of these reports include near-death experiencers, lives between lives clients, and recipients of after-death communications. In addition, there is empirical or experiential evidence – supportive evidence based on firsthand experiences.
Keep in mind the assumptions behind this scenario that make it more sensible, that you and everyone else:
- are timeless beings of energy, consciousness, spirit.
- are integral parts of Source / Life Itself now and always.
- choose to come to earth for a very brief visit compared to eternity.
- want to attend earth-school to learn specific lessons and face challenges.
- have twenty-five or so primary soulmates and a greater number of less close ones
- are connected in special and sacred ways with all people and life.
- live in a universe with inherent meaning that humans often can’t comprehend.
- facing adversity can result in growth and service
With this backdrop – that has significant supportive clinical and experiential evidence – transient suffering is well worth these benefits.
If you are considering this topic for the first time, it might seem farfetched or unfair.
However, I encourage you to follow the evidence and logic behind this possibility. It explains a number of earthly conundrums, for example, why a caring and loving Creator would allow such suffering.
Here’s a real life example of how this can work.
A counseling client I’ll call Alice shared her amazing story with me years ago. She was mentally, physically, and sexually abused by her mother and step-father. Both of them had suffered abuse and trauma in their early lives. Born in the early 1930’s, they didn’t know about resources for counseling and healing. In their twisted mental states, they may have believed they were appropriately punishing Alice and her siblings. The abuse occurred in the 1960s when few people – even professionals – were aware of the problem of childhood abuse. Today, their abuse would hopefully have been detected and prison sentences levied.
But Alice didn’t respond as a hopeless, helpless, and bitter victim. She became a wife, mother of two, and health care provider. She created the loving family that wasn’t there for her as a child. Alice used counseling, emotional release techniques, and other natural healing approaches so the abuse didn’t define who she was. As a result, she was able to largely heal the past and optimize her future.
Alice’s mom never said I love you and was usually very critical and negative. However, when her mom was dying, she was confused due to pain medication and other drugs. She thought Alice was a nurse and said to her, ‘Do you have any children? You know, I really loved my children, even if I never told them.’ That helped Alice realize that her mom really did care but was just too imbalanced and uninformed to say and show it.
Shortly after her mom died, Alice was in the kitchen early in the morning. She felt a presence and looked up to see her mother’s full size and semi-solid form smiling at her. There was a bright light behind and around her. Her mom said, “I am very proud of you and I love you.” Then she disappeared. Alice was at first shocked by this tremendously clear and loving after-death communication. Then she felt gratitude. She wondered if her mom might really have been a teacher who helped Alice grow and evolve in ways she might not have if her mom was loving.
This story and others might cause you to pause before making definitive statements about the cruelty of life and God. Could it be that Creator is so wise and caring that even immature and/or imbalanced persons can play positive roles for those who seek silver linings? Might it be that life is so wonderfully designed that even such a tragedy as childhood abuse can result in higher growth and service to others?
Based on the clinical evidence, professional experiences with cases like this, and my personal experience and beliefs, I believe it is.
Side note: I’ve been honored to help some bereaved parents resolve to find blessings amidst the tragedy of their child’s passing, and share those with others. It’s an awesome example of how resilient and powerful human beings can be with the right focus. The goal of these parents is to become shining light parents who know their child is alive, well, and lovingly embraced by the Light. (So is everyone, whether living on earth or beyond.)
These parents are determined to honor their children and serve others in their name. They make moment-to-moment choices to focus on love, joy, peace, gratitude, fulfillment, and awakening. They do this especially when feeling lower energy emotions such as anger, guilt, resentment, hopelessness, and sadness. They still feel the latter list of emotions some, but not as intensely, often, or frequently. That makes a huge difference in how they feel and function.
Those who have faced abuse and mistreatment can decide to respond similarly.
When facing adversity, you can choose to respond positively based on three possibilities:
- Abusive persons are actually contrast souls who are soulmates and teachers. Their apparently cruel and dysfunctional ways can show you how you don’t want to be. They can motivate you to grow in ways that you wouldn’t have otherwise.
- Abusers are imbalanced for reasons that you may or may not ever know and understand. Regardless, you decide to find the silver linings among those dark clouds.
- Life is set up so wonderfully that there may be other possibilities that you can’t see or comprehend. As with #1 and 2, you are presented with a gift to expand your love, wisdom, patience, compassion, and understanding.
Whether or not one or more of these possibilities is true, you have magnificent opportunities to grow, learn, and serve others when faced with adversity.
Here’s another example from Fire in the Soul, a book by Joan Borysenko, PhD, distinguished pioneer in integrative medicine at Harvard. She granted permission for me to share her story in my book Soul Proof:
Dr. Borysenko related a beautiful event that occurred at the moment of her mother’s passing. Her mother had long been cynical about and critical of Joan’s work. Joan and her son Justin were present as her mom passed over. At that moment, the room was filled with light and both realized what Justin verbalized: “I feel like Grandma is holding the door to eternity open to give us a glimpse. Can you feel it? You must be so grateful to your mother. You know, she was a very great soul. And she embodied to take a role that was much smaller than the wisdom in her soul and she did it as a gift for you so that you’d have something to resist against.”
Eight ways to explore whether an abusive person in your life might be a contrast soul . . .
1. Use the Pre-Birth Planning technique to consider whether you set up the possibility of interacting with this difficult person and, if so, why. You can use those insights to improve your life here and now. To learn more, see article #25 at SoulProof.com: Pre-Birth Planning: Did My Soul REALLY Choose That?
- Remain aware and hopeful even when around the hateful person.Like Alice, you might hear or see unexpected clues that suggest he or she is indeed a blessing in disguise.
- Use the Past Life Regression technique to explore if you knew this person in another time and place. Set an intention before starting to clarify who this person was to you and why they are in your life now. To learn more, see article #34 Reincarnation: Evidence of Cyclical Life Experiences.
4. Make a decision to trust Life / Universe / God. After a long earthly experience as a mathematician, inventor, author, philosopher, and more, Buckminster Fuller said the most important lesson he learned was: ‘The universe is friendly.’
5. Use the Holistic Breathing Technique with the intention to release old wounds and the accompanying lower energies. You can become more clear about how to interact with such persons now – if they are still living on earth – or how to forgive them if they passed on.
6. Consult an evidential psychic and/or medium. This may provide insights about your relationship with abusive persons whether they are alive (a task for a psychic) or ‘deceased’ (a task for a medium) To learn more, see article #6: Evidential Mediums.
7. Use the L.A.F. Technique to Love, Accept, and Forgive the other person and yourself. This will help you drop accompanying negative baggage and be more aware of the big picture. To learn more, see article # 40.
8. Know there is perfect retribution. You need not worry about abusive persons getting their just dues. Life is set up so they will experience firsthand what they did to others unless they deeply repent and make amends. However, their life review / karma retribution is designed for growth, not eternal punishment. Even so, it will proportionately feel hellish to them depending on how much they hurt others. An exception would be if they are contrast souls who acted in horrible ways out of love and because you, as a soul, requested their assistance. To learn more, see articles #42, 46, and 65.
Here’s a final example that shows the healing and transformational power of deep relaxation and visual imagery techniques. I led a group of 200 bereaved parents in the Facilitated After Death Contact session. The goal was to quiet the brain, sense more of reality, and enjoy a visit with ‘departed’ loved ones. There are three different sessions in which to visit with those living in the next phase of life. Many parents sensed their children holding their hands, stroking their hair, sitting on their lap, reassuring them, etc.
After the presentation, Ruth, a woman who had been sitting in the front row, came up to me. She was expecting a visit from her daughter whose body was killed by a hit-and-run driver two years before. To Ruth’s surprise, she sensed the man who had been driving and said, “I looked into his eyes and saw only sadness and love. In that moment, I realized he was part of our soul group who volunteered to play the bad guy. Why? To set up this scenario that is playing out.”
Ruth continued, “My daughter was an advanced soul who didn’t need to go through a long earthly experience. Her bodily death spurred me to do what I, as a eternal soul, came here to accomplish. I am now growing and helping others in ways I wouldn’t have if my comfortable life had continued. She is alive and well in another phase of life. We are soulmates and will see each other again and can do so now. In fact, she visited me on the second and third sessions.”
And that, my friends, is a great example of the uplifting power of looking beyond appearances. Might it be that one or more horrible people in your life really are, or were, teachers and soulmates? Knowing this is a possibility may cause you to pause before reacting with anger, hopelessness, blame, and bitterness. I know some people – and I am working on this as well – whose set point is to assume that the universe is perfect.
That doesn’t mean we condone abuse, violence, or any other mistreatment of anyone. It does mean that we realize life may be set up much more wonderfully, safely, and lawfully than we can imagine. And, at the same time, we do all we can to lessen the suffering of others and make the world a better place. Simply put, the path is to live with love, hope, peace, and courage – no matter what is going on within or around us.
I hope this article helps you make more sense of what sometimes seems to be a senseless and unfair world. May you more deeply know and show that this earthly experience is a completely safe, meaningful, and magnificent adventure amidst eternity.
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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.
