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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6 Ways to Discern Your Inner Wisdom

How can you best discern your inner wisdom and that of your spiritual support team?  That question is ultra-important for the quality of this earthly experience.  I’ll define a few terms before proceeding . . .

  1. The word ‘you’ in the bolded sentence above refers to your higher self / consciousness / soul / awareness / life force – not just your earthly body.
  2. The term ‘inner wisdom’ refers to your inner knowing / still small voice within / soul’s input / higher knowing.Whatever you call it, this source of wisdom and guidance often exceeds that of the human brain.
  3. The term ‘spiritual support team’ refers to your angels, guides, master teachers, soulmates, and the Creator and Sustainer of all that exists in the cosmos.(If those terms are too religious for you, replace them with more secular ones such as higher energies, creative intelligence, or cosmic consciousness.  (To learn more about these topics, see articles #13 What Is G.O.D. Really Like? and #73 Angels and Higher Energy Assistance.)
  4. Your brain-based consciousness (BBC) – that consists of your central nervous system and five senses  –  perceives less than 1% of reality.  Your BBC has a very obstructed view of reality, that is, an extremely limited ability to detect what is really real.  On the other hand, your transcendent source of consciousness (TSC) – as described in #1 and 2 above – has a less obstructed view of the nature of reality.  Your TSC accurately and reliably reports data about the big picture of life and how you can optimally participate in it.  The degree to which your TSC and BBC work together has profound effects on the quality of your earthly experience. 

You may wonder what all this to do with you and your earthly experience.  To make it more relevant, I’ll share a few examples from my life when I first heard my inner voice but didn’t act upon it.  (In my defense, I didn’t know much about this topic back then.  Given my current awareness, IF I could go back and replay these moments, I would have acted differently.  I’m not proud of how I handled these situations, but I am proud of how I learned from them and found the silver linings.  Instead of continually feeling regret and self-blame, I eventually focused on finding and sharing the blessings with others.)  

     A. During my junior year of college, it was clear that my first-love girlfriend of four years was breaking up with me.I had planned to visit her during the Memorial Day weekend but she cancelled it.  Scared, sad and lonely, I asked an acquaintance who sold pot to sell me $5 worth.  (I had tried it a few times before and wasn’t especially impressed.  I also had seen how it could become psychologically addictive, engender amotivational syndrome, and deter people from their goals.  However, I was in pain and wanted to stop it.  Pot helped temporarily, but caused more problems in the short and long term.) 

As I stood in front of my sock drawer  – marijuana was illegal in 1974 and what narc would think to search there? – a strong and clear voice / knowing said: ‘Mark, don’t do it!’  I didn’t listen and smoked some instead of dealing with my challenges head on.  That became a once or twice weekly habit for six years until I realized how it was disrupting reaching my highest potentials.  (I finished undergrad and attended four years of grad school, but could have done even better with all parts of my life.  I quit using pot after that and haven’t used anything since.)

     B. Several years later, I made a commitment to marry a woman after dating her for only six months.(Actually, her mom asked me to marry her daughter but it’s a long story.  I was still heartbroken from my first love breakup, but wasn’t aware of that – in part – because I smoked pot occasionally and my judgment was obtunded.)  As the wedding approached, my inner knowing whispered that I was making a mistake.  However, I had already agreed and was determined to see it through. 

While knotting my tie in front of a mirror before the ceremony, I noticed how very serious and unhappy I looked but even that didn’t register.  My best man and long-time dear friend pointed this out and pleaded with me to not go through with the wedding ceremony.  I grimly said that I made a commitment and would honor it.  A few years later, the relationship mutually dissolved after we realized that we really didn’t know each other and weren’t a good match.  My lack of awareness hurt others more than it would have had I listened to my inner knowing. 

     C. In early 2000, all of my investments were in tech stocks. I was aware of warnings that techs were in a bubble and Greenspan’s ‘irrational exuberance’ opinion about that market sector.  However, my financial advisors said I would be fine long term after a normal correction.  A few days before the now historic tech crash, I was looking at my investment positions on my computer.  A sudden knife-like pain was accompanied by an inner knowing to play it safe and get out.  But I ignored that voice and listened to the so-called experts.  The ramifications of losing so much of our savings were many and long-lasting.

On one level, these were some of the worst moments in my life.  However, the resultant suffering motivated me to better listen to and follow my inner guidance.  And that, my friends, is an eternal benefit that became part of who I am here and now as well as in other time-space slices of life.  As such, it was well worth the cost, but I wish I would have learned my lessons more quickly.  That’s one reason why I share this topic with others: to minimize their pain and suffering so they can have a more happy, peaceful, and fulfilling time on earth. 

Fueled by these and other less-than-optimal events, I began a quest to detect my inner guidance.  I’ll share the tips I learned at the end of this article.       

Sensing and then following your inner voice can improve every aspect of your life.  That includes becoming more aware of guidance and assistance from your TSC and spiritual support team.  The more evolved your consciousness becomes, the less you think there really is a distinction between ‘your’ and ‘their’ guidance.  You can increasingly realize that you are sacredly interconnected with all life including highly evolved beings and G.O.D. 

I’ll share a recent experience that highlighted this opportunity for me.  Two months ago, I was quite ill with pneumonia and who knows what else in this marvelous post-Covid world.  While laying on a Bio-Mat, I listened to my favorite shamanic journey audio: The Shaman’s Heart with Hemi-Sync by Byron Metcalf and Steve Roach.  Before starting, I set an intention to find and share the blessings that accompanied my illness.  (Silver linings always exist, but you may have to look for a while.)  I also prayed that I would be protected and assisted by higher energies of peace and joy, love and light. 

Soon, I was in a hypnagogic state – that level of awareness between sleep and waking.  In my mind’s eye, I saw a team of beings sending me energy and healing.  They seemed to be psychically cutting out portions of bone on the left side of my skull.  (Interestingly, that’s where my sinus congestion and pressure was the worst.)  The pieces of bone were displayed in my field of vision and I saw they were forming the words: Act As a Team!  

I’ve long known that I receive guidance, assistance, and love from my angels, guides, master teachers, soulmates, and the Ground of All Being.  However, there are different levels of knowing; that experience greatly increased my degree of certainty that this guidance is really real.  It was, to say the least, a deeply moving experience, and I’ve posted a sign with those words that I see daily.  I’ve also incorporated the ‘Act As a Team’ reminder into my daily prayers and meditation.  You’re welcome to use it as well. 

6 Ways to Detect Your Inner Wisdom and That of Your Spiritual Support Team

To prepare yourself, pray and intend daily to become more aware of wisdom and guidance from your higher self and spiritual support team.  Spend at least 15 minutes of quiet time each day so you can detect that.  Seated meditation is best for some people, but others do better with ‘walking meditations’ or other activities while in nature such as gardening.  (To learn other ways to quiet your brain’s over-activity and remember the wisdom that you are, see articles #51 Meditation, Yoga, and Relaxation, and #77 Centering Practices.) 

Over time, this prepares you to optimally benefit from the following specific approaches . . .  

  1. Before falling asleep, ask for clarity to know what to do about a certain situation.Set an intention that the answers will ‘pop up’ and ‘float in’ before your waking consciousness fully engages.  (See article #89 Prayers)
  2. After meditating or otherwise getting deeply relaxed, ask that you receive a clear and instant ‘Yes’ or ‘No’ answer to a question.Don’t let your brain get into the act with ‘Hmm, let’s see, what is the correct answer.  Just let a quick answer pop up and float in.  (Use your primary sensory orientation: If you are more visually oriented, see the answer come in; if auditory, hear it; if kinesthetic, feel it; if cognizant, know it.)
  3. Use the Ask Your Soul, Angels, and G.O.D. Technique on a regular basis. This session involves very deep relaxation and guided imagery as I ask you the ten most commonly asked questions people wonder about.  In addition, there are several ‘fill in the blank’ questions you can ask.  After each of these, several minutes of silence allow you time to detect your input and that of your support team.  (To learn more, see article #71 Ask Your Soul, Angels, and G.O.D.)
  4. Set an intention to clearly know the optimal answer(s) to a specific question.Then use the Holistic Breathing Technique without thinking about your question.  At the end of the session, a surprisingly wise and comprehensive answer will likely float up.
  5. As described above, setting an intention before starting The Shaman’s Heart audio program. This powerfully soulful approach has become one of my ‘go to’ techniques for clear contact with my inner self, spiritual support team, and The Light.
  6.  Most importantly, be aware of clear and concise input that arrives rapidly and seemingly out of nowhere. For me, this input arrives most often while I’m working in nature, exercising, meditating, taking a shower, and around 3am while sleeping.  My messages ‘from spirit’ are often short and to the point.  They seem much more obvious and important than usual waking thoughts from my brain.

As with many things, practice makes perfect.  Give these approaches some time and notice how discerning wise input eventually becomes normative for you.  Caution: don’t make big decisions based on your initial efforts; rather, try little things and see how it works out.  To assist that process, write down what arises so you have objective records to review later. 

I hope this information and resources help you, an awakening human, remember what your higher self already knows quite well.  I also hope that this process will improve your relationship with higher energy assistants so you always act as a team. 

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Your life, and that of others around you, will be more enriched when you:  

  1. read this article again within a few days so you really own it.
  2. discuss it with trusted family members and friends.
  3. take recommended action steps that seem right for you.
  4. 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 . . .  

FREE ARTICLES, RADIO SHOW, AND E-NEWSLETTERS

– Articles for Transformation and Healing (top tab Articles at SoulProof.com) address the most common questions, concerns, and challenges about life, death, and afterlife.

– Radio Shows (top tab Radio Shows at SoulProof.com) share his and top experts’ answers to life’s biggest questions: “Who am I? Why am I here?  What happens after I die?  Is there a God?  Why is there so much suffering?  Why do children die?” and others.

– E-Newsletters (sign up on any page at SoulProof.com)

AUDIO-PRODUCTS, BOOKS, AND DOCUMENTARY FILM

– Transformational Audio Products  (see Shop at SoulProof.com) provide quality sessions at home for a fraction of the cost of an office visit.  These CDs and digital audios use deep relaxation, visualization, breathwork, and/or other techniques to: access your inner wisdom, visit with “departed” loved ones, release old wounds and lower energy emotions, evaluate your pre-birth planning, have past life regressions, and other goals.

– Books and Documentary (Shop at SoulProof.com) provide information and strategies to help you more deeply realize and demonstrate:

  • you are a forever being of energy / consciousness
  • the many wonderful benefits of realizing this
  • how to reflect this great news in every aspect of your life — even when confronted with big challenges and changes

Webinars and Workshops: to learn about these, subscribe to newsletters at SoulProof.com and SoulPhone.org (Classes & Interviews at SoulProof.com)

Greater Reality Living Groups: these local and online groups share information from Dr. Pitstick, Dr. Gary Schwartz, and other experts on consciousness and holistic wellness topics.  (Visit Greater Reality Living at SoulProof.com)

Coaching / Counseling Session: meet with Dr. Pitstick by Zoom to gain answers to your toughest questions and holistic solutions to your biggest challenges.  (Shop at SoulProof.com)

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.