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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LGBTQI and Spirituality
I am honored to write about spirituality as it relates to people whose sexual orientation is lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning, or intersex (LGBTQI).
Over the years, I have known many co-workers, friends, and family members who are not strictly heterosexual. Without exception, they are among the most loving, creative, intelligent, caring, and humorous people I have known.
Ever since I was old enough to think for myself, I was puzzled by the overemphasis on differences among people. In the 60’s, I saw riots and cars burned as our nation struggled about racial equality. In the 70s, I saw ‘straights’ judging ‘hippies’ — and vice versa — in part, because of differences in hairstyle and dress. People from different countries, religions, and even sports teams were condemned by some as different, unimportant, or enemies.
Today, LGBTQI folks face prejudice and mistreatment because of one relatively very minor factor — their sexual orientation and/or anatomy.
I use the term sexual orientation because, in my opinion, it’s not a choice. As anyone who has worked in pediatric hospitals knows, a variety of anatomical variation exists at birth. Similarly, genetic, hormonal, neurological and psychological differences result in a rainbow of sexuality. Visit Born Gay to view factors about the ‘choice or not’ question that will, no doubt, be endlessly debated by some.
Academic research aside, unbiased observers can see that human sexuality is not a simple matter. It might seem easier to view life from an unexamined perspective, but ignoring the shades of gray that exist actually causes more problems. In reality, a spectrum of sexuality exists and various individuals fall along that spectrum.
Most importantly, the LGBTQI people I have known stress they would never choose to undergo the judgment and ostracism they received. Sometimes they have been shunned and banned from their families. Families have been painfully split apart when one parent finally comes out of the closet.
Homosexual couples often cannot enjoy the same privileges that married heterosexual couples do. Most unbelievably, LGBTQI people – family and friends of you and me – have been beaten or killed solely because of their sexuality.
Who would casually choose a lifestyle given the likelihood of such rejection and hatred?
Societal objections to non-heterosexual orientations are supposedly based upon concerns about the family as an institution. However, well-run studies have shown that children of same-sex partners are just as happy and healthy as those of heterosexual parents. Likewise, the percentages of different sexual orientations for children of same-sex parents are similar to those of heterosexual couples.
Religious objections to LGBTQI people are often based on the Old Testament story recounted in Genesis 19. You can read this curious tale – that has changed mightily over the millennia – and make your own conclusions about whether it is a good source of guidance.
Fear of differences was understandable and important for early humans. Cave dwellers had to distinguish between clansmen and members of warring tribes to avoid injury and death. Survival depended on staying close to others who were alike and familiar.
Later in history, farmers and laborers who produced offspring were more likely to survive because of their children’s labor and, later in life, protective abilities. For these reasons – blessings from religious institutions, familiarity, and stability – laws and customs developed to support heterosexual family units.
In the 21st century, however, such limitations are not as important for physical survival. Instead, close-mindedness to diversity has now become divisive and destructive – physically, emotionally, and spiritually – to the evolution of humanity. Many bereaved parents that I work with report that their teenage or twenty-something children chose suicide because of conflicts and judgment about being their sexuality.
For those with awakened hearts and minds, the high road about this topic is very clear. Whatever the reasons for a person’s sexual orientation, it is none of your business so get over it! I don’t have to justify why I’m heterosexual; why should it be any different for people who aren’t?
As all spiritual wisdom traditions have taught, what is most important is to love one another. Another key is to observe the updated Golden Rule: ‘Treat others the way they would like to be treated.’ Doing this regarding matters of sexual orientation is clearly overdue.
This is especially important given the hate crimes that have occurred around the world against LGBTQI people. The first incident I was aware of involved Matthew Shepard in 1998. I had glanced at the news about him being beaten, tortured, and left to die. My brain quickly categorized it as ‘yet another senseless death.’ Later, while doing a Holistic Breathingsession, my heart opened and I felt the horrible pain and sadness that for everyone involved felt. I could feel the discouragement, pain, and outrage of the LGBTQI community and anyone with an open mind and heart.
In 2016, the shootings at an Orlando nightclub took the lives of 49 people and wounded more. Judgment and mistreatment against people who are different was a factor in that and other shootings. Some fundamentalist churches support such violence by claiming that God is making His will be known.
The Creator and Sustainer of All Life that I know through personal experience and contemporary evidence doesn’t work that way.
During thirty years of research for the book and documentary film Soul Proof, I came across several interesting topics regarding spirituality and sexuality. Researchers such as Michael Newton, Ph.D., founder of Life Between Lives, noted that souls may choose to be different from ‘the norm’ while on earth because of the opportunities for personal growth and service. Challenges and difficulties can build spiritual muscles much like strenuous exercise builds physical muscles. LGBTQI people may have selected, on a soul level, the possibility of being different for those or other reasons.
Brian Weiss MD states that patterns developed during other times and places –past lives or simultaneous realities, for example – may influence how a person lives in this earthly experience. For example, if a soul experienced life as a female for several earthly visits in a row, that could carry over and influence desires while incarnating now as a male. As such, the person today may feel more like a female even though he has male genitalia and hormones.
Over time, different cultures have recognized LGBTQI people as unique and possibly embodying two different souls simultaneously. The term’ two spirits’ was used for individuals who exhibited androgynous characteristics. Indigenous tribes, including American and Canadian Indians, recognized the special nature of these souls.
Non-heterosexual people with fundamental religious backgrounds may fear that they or their loved ones are destined to hell forever. These concerns are ridiculous for several reasons when viewed in light of the Soul Proof evidence and contemporary understandings:
- God isn’t a big judgmental fellow in the sky but, rather, the source and repository of all love, peace, wisdom, power, and bliss.
- We each are one with this One right now and always—no matter who and how we are.
- Do we really think that the Creator and Sustainer of the cosmos cares about the sex life of people on one tiny planet out of trillions?
- A physical and eternal fiery hell doesn’t exist.
- Heaven and hell are degrees of awareness that you are a beloved part of Source, and your predominant thoughts, words, and deeds.
I and eleven consciousness experts – Raymond Moody, Caroline Myss, Anita Moorjani, Gary Schwartz, and others – discuss contemporary understandings about this and other topics in The Eleven Questions. You also can hear our interviews at Radio Shows.
Quantum physics and field theory provide another perspective on how relatively minor one’s sexual orientation is when compared to the totality of ones being. The human brain is a wonderful receiver of information; however, its limitations have been well documented. ‘Light and energy’ is the most absolute description of what people and all visible life really is. If all the light and energy on earth were the size of Mount Everest, the portion perceived by most humans would only be the size of a golf ball.
This fact points to the heart of the matter. What can be detected by human senses is a very small percentage of our totality. As such, it is absurd and patently ignorant to overemphasize one small detail such as a person’s sexual orientation, skin color, etc.
As the collective evidence in Soul Proof shows, we each are eternal beings of spirit / consciousness / awareness. From a religious and spiritual viewpoint, we are beloved children of Creator. Clinical evidence from documented near-death-experiences report that we each are part of Source right now. From a quantum physics standpoint, we are beings of energy experiencing a tiny fraction of the Field of All Possibilities.
However you look at it, we each are unique and important parts of life who are interconnected in meaningful ways.
This recognition calls for respecting and valuing all people regardless of any trivial differences involving sexuality, religion, ethnicity, gender, age, physical appearance, etc. These are inconsequential details in the grand scheme of things.
More and more people are awakening to our essential oneness. Having shaken off the fetters of fear, they are focusing more on the unique beauty and gifts that each person has to offer. From this perspective, we can love ourselves and others more.
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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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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.
