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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Karma
Karma . . . some people think this topic is complex, mysterious, and/or difficult to change. From my perspective, it’s quite simple.
Before diving in, I honor various religious and spiritual wisdom sources that have addressed this subject for millennia. However, in 2020 we also have the benefit of contemporary clinical evidence that clarifies how this might work. (I say ‘might’ because I don’t pretend to know everything about this or any topic.)
My sources for this article include insights from:
- Near-death experiences (NDEs), particularly reports about ‘the life review’
- Life Between Lives reports from Michael Newton PhD and others
- Input from evidential mediums (highly specific and accurate mediums with high integrity who have been validated by blind evaluations at a university and/or institute)
- Folk sayings that reflect long held beliefs and understandings
- Religious and spirituality teachings, especially from early translations
I’ll share a bit about each category before addressing specific questions about karma.
Near-Death Experiences (NDEs)
Those who nearly die and recall their experience often consider the life review to be one of the most transformational aspects. During that part of their expanded awareness of the Light, people see and feel highlights of their good and bad thoughts, words, and deeds while on earth. NDErs generally report this as designed to teach, not punish.
During the life review, angels, guides, and Source Energy are NOT perceived as being judgmental or vengeful. Rather, they convey unfathomable love, caring, and understanding. (Forgiveness isn’t in the equation because they don’t condemn in the first place.)
The good news? You don’t have to be perfect to have a mostly heavenly life and avoid ‘bad karma.’ Many people are so needlessly afraid about God and the afterlife because of archaic and erroneous past teachings. People fear that a few poor decisions will doom them to a fiery hell forever or, if reincarnation is true, a long cycle of karmic retribution.
Would you design the universe like that if you were the most wise, caring, loving, and understanding Power / Presence that created and sustains All That Is? Of course not. Supposed religious teachers who seek fame, fortune, and control by scaring others blaspheme the Divine and ensure going through more fear and worry themselves.
Those reporting life reviews during their NDE also say that intention is very important. Did you truly mean well? Did you do your best? This observation recognizes that we each are like children who sometimes fall down while learning to walk, then run.
Again, during a life review, you see and feel the repercussions of your thoughts, words, and deeds. If those were mainly good, you will experience a more heavenly life review and life to come. If they weren’t, your life – whether while on earth or in the next phase of life – will feel hellish for awhile. You can then rest, learn, repent, grow, and try to do better the next time. You have eternity to get it right, but why wait that long?
Life Between Lives (LBL)
LBL sessions involve long sessions under deep hypnosis as the therapist assists the client in recalling the time just before coming to earth. That LBL sessions are more than one’s imagination is indicated by the strong similarity of reports among many thousands of clients from around the world.
During these sessions, it’s obvious that life is very much like a classroom. People evolve by trial and error learning. When you don’t listen to your parents about touching a hot stove, you burn your finger. The chances are better that you’ll remember the next time. From the LBL perspective, difficulties are seen as chosen by the person – not a punishment from an all knowing and controlling God. Souls know that they can grow more fully and quickly by taking advanced lessons that may involve challenges and change.
Some people think that karma is designed to punish. But LBL clients say that it’s all about love, growth, and service. Suffering doesn’t necessarily mean you have done something wrong. From the LBL perspective, advanced souls may choose to suffer so that beginner souls can learn to be better caregivers. Those appearing to be horrible people may, in fact, have assumed a ‘contrast soul’ guise to assist the growth and learning of others. The clarity, simplicity, and equity of how life is set up is sometimes stunning from this view.
Input from Evidential Mediums
As with NDEs and LBLs, evidential mediums often report that life is set up more fairly and exquisitely than we can imagine. Many of the top mediums agree with the saying: ‘It’s all good, it’s all God.’ But people aren’t created as robots without choice. Having a series of experiences and making poor choices allows us to know firsthand what feels good / godly versus what feels bad. Over time and through firsthand life experiences, we learn to gravitate toward peace, joy, love, and gratitude instead of disharmony, unhappiness, hate, and hopelessness.
‘Departed’ loved ones who communicate through these mediums convey that souls choose to endure trials and tribulations to learn how to best live. One who commits murder may volunteer to be murdered or have the earthly body of a dear one taken by violence. The intensity of their experience greatly increases the chances that they won’t murder again. Those who impulsively pass on by suicide sometimes express remorse to those still on earth. They don’t have to come back and confront the same challenges. But some choose to do that with hopefully better outcomes. This is not suffering negative karma, but learning and growing even after the worst of the worse.
Folk Sayings
Certain sayings get passed down from one generation to the next because they contain kernels of truth. Several that I’ve heard about the law of karma include:
- you made your bed, now you have to sleep in it
- what goes around comes around
- if you want to dance, you have to pay the fiddler
- the old cosmic boomerang strikes again
These familiar sayings recognize that we each have to – sooner or later – take responsibility for our actions.
Religious and Spirituality Teachings
The ‘you reap what you sow’ teaching was viewed differently among major religions. For some, the punishment or rewards were delivered on a judgment day after just one earthly experience. For religions that believed in a cyclical series of lives, punishments or rewards arose in other times and places.
A few religions have been the primary source of fearful beliefs that we must eternally burn for our sins. These teachings arose in the B.C. era when survival was very difficult. Nomadic tribe members needed to strictly adhere to rules or the entire tribe might suffer. As such, there was little room for understanding nuances, exceptions and special circumstances. From this time period came the famous saying: ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ The ‘kill or be killed’ mentality was, again, usually necessary to live another day.
I am most familiar with Christianity after being raised Lutheran and attending Methodist theological school. The perspectives in the previous paragraph arose from the Old Testament, but Jesus purportedly taught new laws as described in the New Testament. Loving God, your neighbor, and yourself, and following the Golden Rule predominated in these love versus fear-based teachings. However, some Christians – especially fundamentalist and very conservative ones – continue to focus more on hell fires and a vengeful God.
Seven Recommendations to Improve Your Karma
You can change what you may choose to experience later based on your past by living more authentically as who you really are now. You are an eternal and infinite being of energy, spirit, consciousness who is an integral part of Source Energy now. Deeply internalizing this great news helps you more consistently choose – on a moment to moment basis – peace, joy, love, gratitude, and enthusiasm over lower energy feelings.
When you fall down, get back up and do better the next time. Be aware of what you put out into the world. Improve thoughts, words, and deeds that fall short of how a loving and compassionate person would live. Five practical steps to do this include:
1. Increase your awareness via regular centering practices such as prayer, meditation, quiet time in nature, service to others, reading quality literature, listening to inspiring music, playing with pets and children, fine-tuning yourself in body / mind / spirit.
2. Use a mini life review. Just before falling asleep, think about your day. Consider where you excelled and where you could have done better. Pat yourself on the back for when you did well. In instances where you fell short, visualize yourself taking the high road instead. Doing this on a regular basis increases the chances that you’ll do better the next time you are in a similar situation.
3. Identify and fulfill your missions. Your brief time on earth will make much more sense when you are aware of why you are here and follow that path at least part time. This is a big subject; to learn more, see article #21 at SoulProof.comand use the Identify and Fulfill Your Purpose audio program.
4. Find other members of your tribe. Living on earth can feel lonely and discouraging for those who have intermediate to advanced energies / souls. To find others like you, attend a religious or spiritual center with other open-hearted and open-minded people. Provide service to those in need. Attend activities that you enjoy, for example, drum circles, martial arts, art and theater showings, holistic health care classes, nature hikes, etc. These steps provide opportunities for expanding your circle of kindred spirits.
5. The Life Review Technique recreates the closest scenario you can have without an actual near-death experience. This session allows a firsthand glimpse of what your life review might be like if your body died today. You can better realize what amends to make and how you can upgrade your life. Then, when you really do pass on, your life review will reflect the new and improved you.
6. The Holistic Breathing Technique is another way to increase your awareness of how you can live better now and avoid piling up additional negative karma. Set an intention to become more aware of how to release bad karma and accumulate better energies. Then start breathing and see what pops up.
7. Other Ways: visit SoulProof.com/Shop to see other transformational audio products that can help you improve your here and now AND subsequently, your life review and karma. Depending on your needs and interests, you may want to use Ask Your Soul, Pre-Birth Planning, and Past Life Regression.
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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.
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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.
