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:

  1. continue to live after your earthly body dies. 
  2. can interact with ‘departed’ loved ones now and after you pass on. 
  3. are integral, infinite, eternal, and beloved parts of Source Energy now and always. 
  4. receive guidance and support from angels, guides, master teachers, etc. 
  5. are sacredly interconnected with all people, animals, and nature. 
  6. have special purposes for having this earthly experience now. 
  7. may manifest in other simultaneous time / space realities now and after bodily death. 
  8. have everything you need to enjoy an optimal earthly experience – no matter what your past or current circumstances. 
  9. can find meaning, as well as opportunities for growth and service, amidst your toughest changes and challenges. 
  10. co-create how heavenly your life feels – whether living on earth or elsewhere – by your predominant thoughts, words and actions. 
  11. 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:   

  1. 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. 
  2. 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. 
  3. 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. 
  4. Will use the terms changed worlds, passed on, transitioned and others that aptly describe a continuation of consciousness after bodily death. 
  5. 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. 
  6. 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.
  7. 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. 
  8. 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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Is Your Life Unfolding Perfectly?

Some, perhaps many, people might consider this question to be ridiculous.  However, I encourage you to read on and think about it more deeply.  Obviously, it would be a life-changer if that were true AND you lived accordingly.

Believing that life can unfold perfectly requires seeing more of the big picture of life than most humans do.  In the short term and from a limited human perspective, many aspects of life certainly seem tragic, unfair, and chaotic.  In the long run and with expanded understandings, however, life can be seen as perfect or, at least, containing many blessings. 

Near-death experiencers are embraced by the Light or, perhaps more accurately, remember that love and light is ultimately all that exists.  Many NDErs realize that life is designed so perfectly that it forever transforms them.  Likewise, after a ‘life between lives’ session, many clients report that life is unbelievably fair and sensible. 

After years of interacting with postmaterial persons (‘the deceased’), some evidential mediums agree.  Their enhanced view of life shows them there is a perfection to life that is difficult to comprehend from a limited human perspective. 

Likewise, channeled wisdom sources reassure us to trust that life ultimately has happy endings.  One such unseen teacher, Emmanuel, was channeled by Pat Rodegast who wrote Emmanuel’s Book.  The authenticity of this source was endorsed by Ram Dass / Richard Alpert PhD who worked with them extensively.  Emmanuel said: “This earth plane is neither the beginning nor the end of your existence.  It is simply a step, a schoolroom.  My friends, let me impress upon you how solidly you are planted in eternity, how brilliantly you can shine in your own physical world, how possible it all is, how beautifully the Plan is designed.”

Remember that the human brain is a notoriously poor detector of what is real since it perceives less than 1/1000 of one percent of reality.  That’s why it’s important to educate yourself about contemporary evidence and expand your senses to see beyond what your eyes report.  To learn more about how to do this, see articles #51 and 68 at SoulProof.com. 

Again, from a limited earthly perspective, life appears to be cruel, random, and chaotic.  Any God – if there really is one – seems to be uncaring, too busy, and/or impotent.  However, an expanded view of life reveals this earthly experience to be meaningful, safe, and fair.  When seen with an expanded awareness, it is unfolding perfectly.  

One way to realize the peace, joy, and love that you are and surrounds you now is to regularly help others.  Here’s a real life example.  Chrise is a lovely young lady who is always smiling, loving, and enthusiastic.  Over time, I noticed that she was almost always with her twin sister Katie.  Further, I saw that they would frequently carry on a brief conversation with each other, even when around other people. 

One day, Chrisie came to me for a nutritional healing evaluation and said, “Please speak loudly and clearly right in front of me.  I forgot my hearing aids today and will have to lip read.” 

I could relate since I suffer with hearing loss and must wear aids to hear.

Afterwards, I wondered if she really had hearing aids.  Maybe she needed some help to get them since they are very expensive.  That might explain, I thought, why she and her sister would often huddle up and talk among themselves.  Katie acted as Chrise’s ears and explained to her what was being said.  So both of their lives were being limited.    

I called Julie, my wonderful audiologist, and asked if she might test Chrisie at a reduced fee.  I offered to donate my back-up hearing aids and get new ones. 

Chrisie and my hearing aids were a good match.  She and her mom Iris called me after their audiology appointment.  They had been in the car for 45 minutes crying with joy.  Then it was my turn to have tears.  She could hear much better for the first time in a long while.  Her improved hearing will allow her to share her great gifts with the world and more fully interact in it.  Katie will have more independence since she won’t have to translate for her sister.  

Afterwards, I realized what an exquisite lesson this is.  It’s a great example of why souls choose adversity and challenges.  I wouldn’t have been as aware of her need if I had normal hearing.  Without Chrise’s deafness, Julie and I wouldn’t have been able to be of service and feel the pure joy that comes with loving service to others.  Chrise wouldn’t have as much strength of spirit that she does now. 

And I wouldn’t be able to tell this story.

We each, as souls, choose to experience many different slices of life – both good and bad, happy and sad – so we can better grow in love, wisdom, and compassion.  Those invaluable qualities can best be developed when we’ve “walked a mile in another person’s moccasins.”  Once we’ve internalize those attributes, they become a part of who we are.  It’s easily worth some transitory suffering and struggle. 

My wish for myself and all people is that we can trust life more.  Much collective evidence clearly shows that we each are integral parts of Source Energy right now and always.  The more we really fathom this great news, the more we enjoy the many accompanying benefits.  No doubt about it, this earth-experience is a totally safe, meaningful, and magnificent adventure amidst eternity. 

Remembering that helps us look for life’s blessings instead of falling into anger, discouragement, and other lower-energy emotions.  By all means, do everything you can to make life great for yourself and others.  But when tough changes and challenges arise—as they invariably will—listen to your soul, your inner being that remembers life’s big picture.   It will go on auto-pilot to search and find the blessings.  They are just around the corner.  Just ask Chrise.

The evening before I finished my book Radiant Wellness, I experienced a profound peace.  It felt as though I was finally starting to fulfill my highest missions after many years of praying, searching and working.  I had originally planned to become a medical doctor (M.D.) but a series of events guided me to become a doctor of chiropractic (D.C.) instead.  That evening, I deeply felt that things had worked out for the best.

Early the next morning, I started to complete the last few hours of work on the manuscript.  Just as I had done many times during the previous two years, I turned on the computer and monitor that usually showed a black screen followed by computer codes and prompts.  That morning, however, the monitor immediately showed a vivid display of royal gold and maroon squares.

These colored squares each contained the same two letters.

I rubbed my eyes and pinched myself to make sure I wasn’t dreaming. The letters were DC. This miracle still inspires me to look beyond outward appearances. 

Here are some examples of how the lives of struggling and suffering people may be perfect when seen from a sufficiently wise vantage point:

  1. Parents of an addicted child may need to develop their patience and compassion.  Or perhaps they were addicts and wanted to experience firsthand how horrible that was for loved ones so they would never fall into addiction again. 

  2. An addicted child may have volunteered to help more people awaken to the many injustices and imbalances in our world — many propagated by big business interests. 

  3. A woman who is abused may use that to grow stronger and help others who were abused.  

  4. The abuser may be a contrast soul who is helping the woman under #3

You get the idea.  To be clear, I am not justifying mistreatment of anyone.  However, when suffering occurs, it can be helpful to look past superficial appearances.  

It also helps immensely to have dear family and friends who are on a spiritual path and see things more clearly than average.  They can remind you when you forget and your vision falters.  My partner Andrea and I live with the underlying assumption that life unfolds perfectly.  When it doesn’t seem that way, we set about finding the silver linings and blessings.  If one of us forgets to do this and gets discouraged, the other reminds them about the big picture of life.  To learn more about optimal relationships and how to develop more of them, see article #66.

Victor Frankl MD PhD was a Nazi concentration camp survivor, psychiatrist, and author of Man’s Search for Meaning.  He made a strong case that there is meaning behind all life’s events.  He taught that there is one freedom that no one can take away from you: the ability to choose our outlook no matter what is happening around you.  More recently, the wonderful book The Choice was written by his dear friend and student Edith Eva Edgar PhD.  Like Frankl, she survived a death camp while numerous family members and friends died.  After much struggling and searching, she learned and demonstrated that we always have the power to choose how we look at life.  Do we look at the horrible or the beautiful? 

It can helpful to consider a past experience that seemed horrible but later was clearly a blessing.  I use this technique in my workshops and webinars to help people get in touch with their myopia about how vast and wonderful life really is.  I recommend that you take a few minutes now to do this: think of one of the worst events in your life that happened years ago.  Feel what that was, or still is, like for you.  Now consider the good things that never would have occurred if the ‘bad’ event hadn’t happened.  

Bernie Siegel MD and his grandson Charlie Siegel recently wrote a book of poetry and photos entitled When You Realize How Perfect Everything Is.  That title was inspired by this anonymous quote: “When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.”  I believe this is what Jesus and other great teachers were trying to tell us, for example, in John 8:32 “Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”.  Indeed, we are free when we see past earthly illusions of death, separateness, limitation, and fear. 

While working with tens of thousands of people over the last 48 years, I’ve seen and heard many interesting stories.  I now believe there is a timing to when a person passes.  I’ve seen people who should have died, but didn’t.  Conversely, I’ve seen people pass on from the most unlikely or minor causes. 

I am most impressed by real life examples of people who suffered severe injury, abuse, or paralysis.  Despite this, some of them say afterwards: ‘If I could go back and prevent this, I wouldn’t.  Why?  Because I wouldn’t have met the people I have.  I wouldn’t have learned all I did and grown so much.’  They can see the perfection of what, on the surface, appears very imperfect. 

Doing your best, and communing with Great Spirit / Life Itself every day, increases the chances of seeing that perfection during this lifetime.  Others may have to wait until they change worlds to see that great news.  For example, consider a person who drinks excessively, takes drugs, and doesn’t care for himself.  Over time, the chances increase of becoming ill, having a catastrophic accident, and/or dying.  When the inevitable occurs, was that person’s life perfect? 

My answer to that question is ‘How far back are you standing?  What is your observation point in the cosmos?’  That person may have needed to suffer to learn important lessons.  In the next phase of life, he may remember to care for the temple of the soul better.  If not, he can repeat the tough lessons again until he eventually gets it. 

Or, he may actually be a more advanced soul who purposely took on a limited / imbalanced disguise so others can learn by contrast and learn to be healers. 

Either way, it’s all perfect. 

This reminds me of an old story.  One day, a guy (I use men in these examples because women are usually much more aware) was walking down the street.  Not paying attention, he fell into a big hole and injured himself.  A few days later, he walked down the same street.  Still living with a nearly complete lack of awareness, he fell into the hole again.  Three days later, he made a mental note to watch out for that hole.  However, despite his good intentions, he forgot and fell again.   

Finally, after what seemed like a lifetime of suffering, he awakened to the importance of being more conscious.  The next time he walked down that street, he walked around the hole.  Much later, as his evolved nature began to color all aspects of his life, he brought materials and tools to fix the hole so others wouldn’t fall into it. 

Beginner souls may choose to learn – or be forced into learning because of poor choices – via a series of hard knocks.  Their eventual improvement reinforces the notion that life – even the tough parts – is really perfect.  Advanced souls try to prevent suffering, assist healing when it occurs, and teach there is a better way.  They try to always know and show that this earthly experience is a totally safe, meaningful, lawful, and magnificently perfect adventure amidst forever. 

I believe – based on much personal experience, professional insights, and clinical evidence – that there is a rhyme and reason for how events unfold in life.  Even when it doesn’t make sense to me now. 

Whether or not you believe that is, of course, up to you.  I hope this article gives you a different perspective when struggles and suffering occur as they periodically do.                                    

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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
SoulPhone.org    SoulProof.com    GreaterRealityLiving.com

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. 

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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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.