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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Holistic Solutions for ‘Mental’ Symptoms
I am no stranger to so-called mental symptoms. One of my first childhood memories is trying to help my mom because she was depressed and cried so much. Over the years, other family members suffered with depression and anxiety; they took medications with side-effects such as tremors and brain fog. Others used excess alcohol, nicotine, coffee, and sugar to self-medicate and feel better temporarily.
I have a moderate predisposition to depression and have worked hard — especially during times of stress — to stay balanced and happy. As a youth, I felt depressed and antisocial at family gatherings until I connected my massive sugar intake with the mood changes. When my first love broke up with me at age 21, it felt as though I were falling into a deep, dark hole with no hope of escape. I briefly thought about running my car into a bridge embankment to escape the pain, but fortunately didn’t act on that youthful impulse.
Over the years, I learned about self-care strategies and natural health care treatments that served me well. These approaches may also help you and your loved ones feel happy, vibrant, peaceful, and clear again.
There’s a silver lining to every cloud. Seeing family members suffer motivated me to search for sensible solutions to these common symptoms. I attended theology school for pastoral counseling training. As a clinical psychologist and holistically oriented chiropractic physician, I worked with many patients who suffered with depression and other ‘mental’ symptoms.
In my experience – and that of numerous colleagues – almost all ‘mental’ symptoms can be helped with safe, affordable, natural and effective (SANE) methods IF people regularly follow a holistic program over time. Addressing the root causes takes more time and effort than just popping a pill. The latter may relieve symptoms but can also cause serious side-effects. In addition, the underlying imbalances still exist and can cause other symptoms and diseases.
I will now drop single quotation marks around the word ‘mental’. I initially used them to make this important point: many so-called mental symptoms have common physical causes that can be relatively easily identified and treated.
The Problem
The incidence of depression in the U.S. is approximately 10% with a 5% worldwide rate. Approximately 3000 people commit suicide each day because of depression. News reports regularly tell about a celebrity, athlete or famous person who ‘has it all’ but still suffers with severe symptoms. According to Julian Whitaker MD, of the school shooters whose medical records have been made available, all suffered with depression and other mental symptoms and were on psychiatric drugs. The financial and personal costs of mental disorders are beyond measure.
Eighteen-year-old ‘John’ suffered with severe depression, anxiety and insomnia for several months. He had several plans to pass on by suicide if his symptoms didn’t improve soon. Luckily, his family saw his struggles and sought health care. Their family medical doctor recommended an anti-depressant drug and sleeping pills. I recommended a nutrition-based healing method to:
- detect and remove stressors were causing his symptoms
- identify nutritional deficiencies and provide whole food supplements and herbs
- educate about a real food way of eating and optimal self-care habits
Fortunately, his family chose natural care that allowed his body to heal itself and resume normal functioning.
John had been exposed to chemicals and heavy metals as a child while working at his dad’s auto repair business. He also had a chronically poor diet and mineral deficiency after losing eighty pounds in a short period of time. These factors were affecting his brain function. John’s symptoms were red flags to communicate that something was wrong. I recommended herbs and homeopathic supplements to remove chemicals and heavy metals from his body. He also took whole food nutrients from Standard Process needed for normal brain function.
John felt 50% better within a few days, 75% better in a week, and 95% better in two months. He resumed work, school and a normal life without taking potentially harmful drugs for the rest of his life.
I’ve been shocked to see how many young people suffer from mental symptoms. It’s an epidemic that needs addressed by health care professionals who aren’t overly influenced by the disease care industry. Depending on the source of statistics, suicide is about the number two cause of death in young people. Treatment and insurance coverage should not be governed by pharmaceutical and hospital industries.
Mental symptoms affect all age groups and can have spiritual, emotional, and physical causes. While in theology school, I worked at a suicide prevention and counseling center. The toughest cases were elderly women who were severely depressed, anxious, and suicidal after decades of an empty and/or abusive relationship. They had limited resources, no hope, and were in too deep of a hole to recover. I’m sure some of them eventually chose suicide, or died from a disease in which the body attacks itself.
Years ago, I worked with Bonnie, a middle-aged woman who was very depressed and anxious. Her father died a year before and she dealt with the grief. However, her church taught that those who didn’t believe a certain way would suffer in hell forever. Her father hadn’t been ‘saved’ before he died so Bonnie believed he would burn for eternity. She blamed herself for not getting through to him and felt partially responsible for what she thought would be endless fiery torment.
The Causes
In my experience, the most common causes of depression, anxiety, panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder, brain fog, and other mental symptoms include the following. These causes also contribute to substance use disorders so I’ll comment on that below. (To learn more, see article #12, 32, 33, 36, 37, 38, 43, 54, 64, 87, and 88 at SoulProof.com)
1. Nutritional deficiencies, especially after one or more pregnancies, excess sugar and alcohol intake, severe stress, and a chronically poor diet. People of non-Caucasian ancestry seem to be especially vulnerable to the ravages of poor diet. I believe this is because – until very recently – those races enjoyed active lifestyles, adequate sunshine, and a real food diet.
Fifty years ago, most doctors didn’t understand that pregnancy creates nutritional deficiencies and, sadly, the situation hasn’t changed much since then. Many mothers are told to continue taking their pre-natal vitamins, as though those few synthetic nutrients will do the job.
Post-pregnancy nutritional deficiencies can cause depression shortly after birth or years later. While giving their history, many middle-aged women have told me, ‘My symptoms started shortly after my second child was born and I’ve never been the same since.’ They often have a long list of chronic symptoms that few doctors can solve. They are given ‘happy pills’, hormones from artificial or animal sources, and/or have their reproductive organs cut out or radiated.
This is the 21st century, but the body and its organs are still often treated as stupid and needing drug-mediated stimulation or suppression. Or, worse, a diseased foe that needs poisoned, cut, radiated, and/or burned. Such treatments – that primarily ignore wellness while focusing on eliminating the disease – can worsen the situation and don’t address the underlying causes.
2. Food allergies and offending foods that are chemically-laced, nutrient deficient, GMO, and/or radiated. Wheat, sugar, soy, corn, and dairy products from agribusiness-raised cows are often the worst offenders. Junk foods, except occasionally, should be avoided.
3. Overgrowth / imbalance of microorganisms in the body (viruses, bacteria, yeast / fungus, parasites)
4. Excess electromagnetic radiation (EMR) from ‘dirty electricity’ sources
5. Excess chemicals due to the 2000 plus chemicals we’re exposed to daily
6. Excess heavy metals from body care products, home cleaners, and many other sources
7. Skin trauma — scars from surgery, cuts, animal bites, body piercings, tattoos or IV sites — that interfere with normal sympathetic nerve transmission
8. Excess waste products and toxins in the body, especially eliminative organs—the liver, colon, skin, lymphatic system, lungs and kidneys
9. Chronic insomnia and fatigue
10. Misaligned spinal and cranial bones that put slight pressure on the spinal cord and brain.
11. Boredom / creative discontent due to not following one’s purpose / missions.
12. Prescription drug side-effects. Antidepressant drugs, for example, can have major side-effects including increased suicidal or homicidal behavior. That’s why the FDA requires a ‘black box warning’ on some anti-depressant drugs. Psychiatry, the least scientifically based branch of medicine, still uses primitive therapies such as electro-convulsive shock therapy to treat depression so beware.
13. Prolonged and excessive stress that imbalances adrenal glands, brain and immune system
14. Chronically poor relationships that are unfulfilling, negative, and / or abusive
15. Lack of deep personal relationship with Creator and negative influences from fear-based religious denominations
16. Lack of exercise and all the negative factors of being out of shape
17. General poor health due to poor self-care such as smoking, excess alcohol, drugs, inadequate rest, too much time on the computer/ video games/TV, etc.
18. Diseases and injuries can contribute to mental symptoms and may require orthodox medical care. (Medical treatment is miraculous and indicated when emergency or crisis conditions are involved. However, for many common symptoms, the disease care approach can cause worse problems and doesn’t fix root causes.)
19. Emotional crises: symptoms can occur after the death of a loved one, loss of job, disability, financial loss, chronic stress, empty nest syndrome, etc. This is especially likely if a person was not healthy and balanced before. Natural healing approaches can usually help.
20. Lack of sunshine and vitamin D: in cold northern climes during the winter, lack of sunshine can lead to lower vitamin D levels and less activity outdoors. In areas predominated by cloudy and gloomy skies, that may also contribute to more depression.
Now you understand why mental symptoms are often not successfully treated. There isn’t a ‘one size fits all’ cause or treatment.
Keep in mind that a person can be affected by more than one cause at the same time. That’s why holistic health care providers consider various possible underlying causes and treat the whole person. It also explains why medical specialists — who primarily focus on one organ or system — often don’t understand core causes of mental symptoms and resort to drug treatments.
When seeing the list of potential causes, some people feel overwhelmed at the prospect of addressing them all. That’s why you need a health care professional who can evaluate which ones are affecting you and your loved ones. You don’t need to change everything at once, but you do need to incrementally address the major causes.
Holistic Solutions
Your holistic health care professional will recommend one or more of the following to help you feel happy, vibrant, and healthy again. (Again, to learn more, see article #12, 32, 33, 36, 37, 38, 43, 54, 64, 87, and 88 at SoulProof.com. Chapters listed are in my Radiant Wellness book.)
- Nutrition-based healing methods can usually address the # 1 – 8 causes listed above. Find a practitioner near you at Nutrition Response Testing or Applied Kinesiology. If there’s not a practitioner near you, suggested supplements are at the end of this appendix. (Diet, Inner Cleanse, and Natural Care chapters)
- Spinal and cranial adjustments (Natural Care chapter)
- Release stuck emotions (Awareness chapter)
- Have happy, loving relationships. (Awareness chapter)
- Exercise (Activity chapter)
- Identify and follow your heart-felt missions (Awareness chapter)
- Get into the flow of life. Excess isolation can cause depression and anxiety. Even if you don’t feel like it, interact with others at community events, church / spiritual center, yoga and meditation center, etc. (Awareness chapter)
- Enjoy the real food way of eating. (Diet chapter)
- Remove excess chemicals and heavy metals, and avoid additional exposure as much as possible. (Inner Cleanse chapter)
- Counseling from licensed therapist, and / or pastoral / spiritual counselor (Awareness chapter)
- Have integrative medical doctor on your health team. (Natural Care chapter)
- Know who you really are, trust your inner voice, and be yourself. (Awareness chapter)
- Regularly use centering practices (Awareness chapter)
- Adequate sunshine (Appendix M: Seasonal Affective Disorder in Radiant Wellness)
- Visualize what you want and attract it. (Awareness chapter)
- Develop or deepen your personal relationship with Source. (Transcendence chapter)
Here are a few real-life cases of people who regained their health and their lives when the root causes of their mental symptoms were addressed . . .
‘Larry’ experienced depression, anxiety, brain fog and severe headaches for many years. His history revealed neck and head trauma from falls and auto accidents. I found significant misalignment of the upper neck vertebrae and skull bones. These were exerting slight, but impactful pressure on his spinal cord and brain. After just a few weeks of specific and gentle adjustments, Larry started feeling better. After a few months, his symptoms were gone.
‘Kathy’, a chiropractic patient for many years, had just given birth to her second child. I could tell something wasn’t right as soon as she walked into my treatment room. She said, ‘I just wanted to say good-bye. I’m going to drive my car in any direction until I run out of gas and then start walking through the woods until I die.” Fortunately, I knew how to help.
She didn’t need a spinal adjustment that day; she needed replacement of vital nutrients that had been lost during her second pregnancy. With a personalized program of whole-food supplements, she quickly regained her normal cheery disposition. Years later, we shake our heads at how close she came to making a poor decision with an imbalanced state of mind.
‘June’ suffered with significant depression and anxiety, and was considered mentally ill by her medical doctor. I found several causes for her symptoms. She smoked too much and her diet was poor. Her marriage wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t meeting her needs. June was bored and had too much time on her hands.
We tuned her up with nutrition-based healing and chiropractic care. She quit smoking and began exercising. With her renewed energy, she started working part-time and spent more time with family and friends. She communicated her need for a better relationship with her husband and, to her surprise, he responded positively. Soon, her mental illness . . . well, I guess that was a misdiagnosis, because she didn’t have those symptoms anymore.
Regarding substance use disorders, I have worked closely with many parents whose children have passed on and a significant percentage of them had addiction issues. Their bodies died from related health problems, and accidental or intentional overdoses. Many of these parents describe their children as like old souls who had difficulty being on earth with all its cruelty and challenges. They tried to self-medicate and numb out by using alcohol and/or drugs. In my experience, this is a dynamic for people of all ages who struggle with substance abuse. (To learn more about more sensitive and evolved souls / people, and the difficulties they have with being on earth, see article #23 Are You More Evolved and Sensitive / Empathic?)
(Note: I say ‘their bodies died’ because only the earthly forms of ‘the deceased’ actually perish; over 99% of who and what they are still exists. Even though the language may seem cumbersome, it is very important to make that distinction.)
There are a number of underlying causes for these problems that, fortunately, often can be addressed by holistic and natural care. By the way, these solutions can also help those who struggle with hopelessness, depression, and lack of purpose. I recommend the following steps . . . (some of this will overlap the information above but repetition is the essence of learning)
- Regular Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and/or Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meetings for him, and Al-Anon for you. Politics aside, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. admits to using drugs and alcohol for 14 years after his uncle and dad were assassinated. He’s been sober now for 40 years, but still attends AA meetings daily.
Community and support help people; there are many alternative recovery groups like SMART, HRW (Harm Reduction Works), Buddhist-based, Pagan-based, and many other groups. What works for one person may not work for another. Medications for opioid use disorder can significantly decrease death rates.
- Read my book Radiant Wellness, especially the Diet and Inner Cleanse chapters, to learn about core causes and natural solutions for substance abuse.
- Find a Nutrition Response Testing practitioner near you by clicking on this link.These nutrition-based healers are specially trained to handle substance use disorders with natural methods at a fraction of the cost of traditional medical treatment.
- Use acupuncture to assist his sobriety and return to wellness.
- Help from a mental health therapist who has training in this area.
- Involvement with open-minded and open-hearted persons at a church or spiritual center
- Reading the following article that relate to the approaches above AND address spiritual topics that young people are searching for but often can’t find.They know the conventional explanations about the nature of reality are crap and want to learn more about the big picture of life.
Articles for more information about this include:
#13 What Is G.O.D. Really Like?
#16 Evidence-Based Spiritual Teachings
#26 Holistic Solutions for ‘Mental’ Symptoms
#37 Detoxing Chemicals and Heavy Metals
#51 Meditation, Yoga, and Relaxation
#66 Optimal Relationships for More Evolved People
88 Whole Food Way of Eating and Supplements
#89 Prayers
Summary
Please remember that there are multiple causes of mental symptoms and substance use disorders. Work with your health care team to identify the causes and design your healing program accordingly.
Don’t feel overwhelmed by all this. Enlist help from supportive family, friends, and pets. Make some positive changes to increase your energy and clarity. Then use that as a springboard to make further refinements. Your body and mind will thank you for small initial improvements and reward you with more peace, joy and vitality.
You can do it. You deserve to feel happy, healthy and energetic, and the world needs your greatest gifts.
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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.
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 film.
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 . . .
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- you are a forever being of energy / consciousness
- the many wonderful benefits of realizing this
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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.
