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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My Experiences and Lessons
The following stories are not intended to say, “I’m so special” since we each are. I just wanted to share some of my ‘mystical’, revelatory, and really impactful experiences. I hope that reading mine will encourage you to value and share yours. As you read my experiences, reflect on ones you’ve had but perhaps discounted afterwards as imaginary, daydreaming, or too subtle to be really real.
By the way, I put single quotation marks around the word mystical because that is a misleading term. In the past, humans thought that any experiences beyond the usual five-sense-ones were “spiritual, mystical, supernatural, or mysterious.” Today, we enjoy the benefit of merging contemporary understandings with ancient wisdom teachings. Science and spirituality are also working together now, at least some, to expand our views of reality.
We can now better appreciate that there is no separation between you and God/Source. There is no boundary line between earth/here versus heaven/over there. Those were artificial distinctions created by past limited perspectives. Many comforting and empowering insights emanate from realizing it’s just life unfolding and we each are integral and infinite parts of that One Life/All That Is.
So when you have a “mystical” experience, remember that you are just sensing that vast part of reality that’s always been there but most people usually don’t perceive.
Experience #1: At age five, my parents showed me a beautiful sunset and I told them, “That reminds me of God.” They didn’t tell me about this until I attended theology school twenty years later. My parents knew of no teaching at home or church that would have caused me, at such a young age, to associate Creator with a magnificent sunset. Maybe I retained some memories of life before this earth-visit.
Lessons: The Infinite is beautiful, peaceful and awe-inspiring—not a fearsome and judgmental huge white-bearded guy sitting on a throne way up in the sky.
Experience #2: My Sunday school teacher, who is now eighty-eight years old and a dear family friend, still marvels at a question I asked at age six. She had been teaching that God created Adam and Eve as the first and only humans. Later, their two sons married and subsequently populated the entire planet. I asked, “If that’s true, who did the sons marry? And where did the different races come from?” She had never thought about it.
Lessons: Question authority, especially when something doesn’t make sense to you.
Experience #3: Also at age six, I was in Sunday school singing “Jesus Loves the Little Children.” The lyrics included, “Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight. Jesus loves the little children of the world.” Then we went upstairs for the church service and heard hideous scripture readings about a fearsome God, lakes of fire for the unbelieving, and “Thou shall fear the Lord thy God.” Even at that young age, I remember thinking, “Is this the same guy we were singing about downstairs?”
Lessons: As Robert Mueller stated, nothing can be really true that offends the sensibilities of a child. Decades later, I attended theology school as I searched for sensible answers to my religious/ spiritual questions. I discovered that the word ‘fear’ could just as easily have been translated ‘respect,’ conveying quite a different message.
Experience #4: Around age eight, during a hypnagogic state between waking and sleeping, I experienced the following numerous times. Part of me knew that my body was lying on a bed next to my younger brother; but my consciousness — I didn’t really know what to call it back then — seemed to rise out of my body. It went through the roof, above the house, and up into the sky. Eventually, it entered a sort of ‘void’ where everything was black except for pinpoints of light in the distance. No matter how far my mind traveled, and it could do so very quickly, it was still dark. I wondered how I could go so far, but still not encounter any walls or ceiling. At first, this experience was a little scary. However, I soon became used to this different type of experience.
Lessons: Looking back, that was one of the first times I was aware of being ‘out of body’ and experiencing a different state of consciousness. With my current knowledge, I’d say I was accessing the zero point field / the void / The One where all information and energy is stored AND IS. I am proud of ‘young Mark’ for not freaking out but, rather, calmly exploring a new experience. (That is a very important for all of us to do as life changes.) If I could do it over again, I would have asked questions such as ‘Where am I? What are those points of light? What lessons am I to learn from this?’ and others. Luckily, I can do this now with the Ask Your Soul, Angels, and G.O.D. technique. (see article #71 at SoulProof.com)
Experience #5: When I was ten years old, I sat in church looking through the stained glass windows while the minister talked about heaven. “One day,” he said, “we will walk on golden streets and play golden harps forever.” I remember thinking, “Wouldn’t that get old after a while?”
Lessons: Any “holy book” makes much more sense when not taken literally. Also, a constant sameness—even in heaven—would get boring. Humans like different experiences, vacation spots, books, movies, and plays. I’ll bet that we are that way in nonphysical realms. That’s one reason why life is ever-changing even though it’s never-ending. Perpetual change allows us to grow, serve, explore, and enjoy. It’s a great set-up.
Experience #6: At age eleven, I was sitting with my family during church service. That particular morning, the minister was teaching about hell in the context of a fiery eternal place of torment. As he continued, a loving and wise thought or voice resounded within and—it seemed at the time—all around me: “Mark, they are mixed-up about that one. God has no need for such a place in His plan of salvation for all.”
Looking around to see if anyone else had heard this voice, I noticed that my family and other members of the congregation continued to stare straight ahead. Not wanting to seem kooky, I said nothing about what had happened, but life felt noticeably different after that. For the first time, I considered the possibility that ministers were merely passing on what they had learned in their training. I realized they were just people like me and they might be wrong about hell and other topics, too.
Lessons: Trust your inner voice and firsthand experiences, especially about such ridiculous teachings as an eternal hell for anyone. Over the years, I’ve learned that the only hells are temporary and self-induced. And those can be reversed when you forgive yourself and repent: make amends and do better the next time. I also discovered that ‘hell’ was a Middle Eastern idiom. Every village had a burning pit for garbage and parents would try to control their children by saying, “If you’re not good, we’ll throw you into hell.” Over time, particularly during large church rebuilding projects in the Dark Ages, this concept erroneously became misunderstood as a literal place.
Finally, what good earthly parent would pass his child’s finger through a flame for even a second for disobeying? How then, can we believe that the Source of all love would allow or create an eternal fiery place of torment?
Experience #7: At age twelve, I was sitting by myself eating a bowl of cereal and reading the obituary of a prominent local man who had just died. As I looked up, light refracted through our beveled kitchen windows and I went into a deep reverie. A calm loving voice or thought said, “You, too, will die some day, Mark. What will you do with your life in the meantime? Will you leave this world a better place or will you just take up space?” The question wasn’t judgmental or threatening, but seemed designed to make me think deeply.
Lessons: Pay attention to non-ordinary events and thoughts. You have important purposes for being on this planet at this time and special gifts to share. Your earth-experience will make more sense and be more fun when you do so.
Experience #8: Also around age twelve, I was hiking with a few friends outside the city. We could get to where we wanted to go much more quickly – or so we thought – if we walked across a railroad trestle bridge high above rocks and water. It was a long trestle and we couldn’t see the other side because of a bend. We knew we shouldn’t walk across it in case a train came along. But we were twelve and full of our sense of immortal youth. So we listened carefully and, hearing nothing, hurried across the bridge.
Halfway out, you guessed it – we heard a train coming around the bend. With rocks several stories below, there was only one option: run back to where we started. As I ran, stepping carefully on the wooden railroad ties, I realized that I would die if I fell or got my foot wedged in between the ties. The train sounded very close and, as I glanced over my shoulder, I could see the engineer trying to slow down. The grassy bank was just ahead and I sprinted to make it in time. Just as I reached safety, the train roared by. It was the closest I’ve come to dying.
Lessons: While there is some merit to lesson #2 (question authority, especially when it doesn’t make sense to you) there is a lot to be said about listening to one’s elders. Older people have learned the hard way or heard from others who did. Rules such as ‘don’t walk across a railroad trestle’ – especially when you don’t have a clear line of sight – exist because people have died that way. Perhaps there is a happy medium between lessons #2 and 6.
Soon after this, I discovered girls and sports so nothing new to report until . . .
Experience #9: At age 19, I was driving to my grandma’s funeral an hour away. A severe winter storm had left the interstate highway covered with several inches of ice. She and I were very close and I was supposed to be a pallbearer so I proceeded. Cars were traveling at only 10 MPH instead of the usual 70. I knew I wouldn’t make it in time so I passed a semi truck by speeding up to 20 MPH. The righthand lane was just a little better than the passing lane so I eased back over after far ahead of the truck.
As you may know, driving on ice is a horrible idea. Trying to change lanes on ice is an even worse one. My car went into a spin, just like a top. It spun in circles several times and, each time it did, I could see the semi getting closer and closer. As with the train, it was so close that I could see the driver’s contorted face as he tried to slow down without jackknifing. I thought ‘I’m going to die’ and then said aloud ‘Jesus, help me!’ Immediately, my car shot off the shoulder and the semi went by. A mile marker sign kept me from going into a ditch and turning over.
Lessons: Later that year in physic’s classes, I learned that an outside force is required to change the course of a moving object. I considered my rapid lateral movement after repeatedly spinning in a circle to be a sign that my plea was answered. I also took that mini-miracle as a warning to not drive on ice unless it’s a life and death emergency. Perhaps adopting that policy saved my life and/or that of others in the fifty or so years since.
Experience #10: When I was twenty years old, I worked part-time as a respiratory therapist. On one of my first calls to the emergency room, we worked on a five-year-old boy who had been hit by a truck. As we treated him, the story unfolded: he had been walking to his first day of kindergarten and was the only child of young parents. Despite hours of resuscitative care, he died from the severe injuries. In shock, I stumbled out into the hall just in time to see his parents’ faces contort in grief as the head doctor told them the news.
I went outside, shook my fist at the sky, and cursed God. How could an all loving, powerful, and knowing God allow a little one to die so tragically? What kind of world was this where innocent children suffer and die and people experience such losses? Afterwards, I entered a period of agnosticism or atheism and experienced the emotional pain and confusion that accompany a bleak spiritual perspective.
Over time, this and other difficult events in my life motivated me to search for answers to life’s existential questions, such as: “Who am I? Why am I here? Is there a loving and just God? If so, why is there so much suffering? What happens after I die?” I began a quest to prove to myself whether or not soul, God, and the afterlife really existed. After thirty years of intense searching, I assembled sensible, evidence -based answers to these questions that have helped me and many other people.
Lessons: God didn’t decree that the little boy died and it wasn’t His will. From an earthly perspective, it was an accident on the part of the truck driver or the little one. From a cosmic perspective, it was a ticket back Home for his soul. It also was a wake-up call for me and, I presume, others. If it hadn’t been for his life and death, I might not be doing the Soul Proof work. So was his death a horrible tragedy or a powerful service that has helped many people? Like most things in life, it’s a matter of perspective.
Much contemporary evidence and accompanying understandings make it clear that we each are integral parts of God/Universe/Life Itself. As such, no one really dies. An earth experience is just a blink of an eye in the span of eternity. Would you hang by your thumbs for a few hours to help many people? From that viewpoint, his death and his family’s suffering were well worth it.
Consider the possibility that earth-age does not equal soul-age. Children who die may be old or evolved souls who didn’t need to go through a long earthly curriculum. How else would a soul in a younger body return to Spirit-Side except by what appears—from a limited human perspective—to be an accident or tragedy?
Experience #11: In 1974, I was lying in bed staring at the ceiling very early in the morning. Suddenly, I saw a vision on the ceiling that persisted for several minutes. A huge golden sphere had many tiny dots inside and on its periphery. Other dots were distant from the central orb and were connected to it by golden threads. As I wondered what it all meant, a wise voice or thought said: “This is how life is.”
The voice continued, “The central sphere represents God. The many golden dots are like souls in the universe. Some of them fully realize they are one with the One and are inside the golden circle. Others on the periphery are very close, but don’t fully realize their inseparability from Spirit. Still others believe they are quite distant from God. Of those that are outside the sphere, some of their paths are short and straight while others appear far away and convoluted.”
The teaching continued, “The good news is that, viewed from a sufficiently broad or enlightened perspective, the entire assemblage is seen as all One. A perimeter can be drawn around even the most distant dots, revealing the unified nature of all life.”
Lessons: Your higher self is part and parcel of Source Energy right now and forevermore. Really knowing that great news sets you free and transforms every aspect of your life for the better. You can increasingly know and show this truth with time-tested methods such as prayer, meditation, yoga, spiritual study, religious worship, being with kindred spirits, time in nature, service to others, and other ways to remember that you and everyone else are one with the One.
The vision described above also shows that you need not worry about your loved ones for any reason. We each are inextricably interconnected to the Ground of All Being, even though it may not seem like it at times. All paths lead to God, to realization of our true natures as infinite beings of energy/consciousness/love/ spirit. The path of your loved ones may not make sense to you or align with your values, but it’s their path, not yours. So relax, release fear, let your light shine brightly, and enjoy this fabulous earth-journey.
Experience #12: At the age of twenty-four, I was working in a large hospital ICU unit. We were trying to resuscitate a severely ill patient and while looking at the his chest area, I saw a smoky white light emanate upward. The head doctor called the time of death immediately afterwards. The first time this happened, I thought it was my imagination. The second time it occurred with a different patient, I knew I was seeing something leaving the body.
Lessons: Your real self is spirit, consciousness, energy, light, awareness. That is the 99.9% of you that existed before birth and survives physical death. Many sensitive individuals can sense that life-force in various ways. I did twice and it really exists.
Experience #13: At age forty, I experienced the grace and beauty of an angel’s visit. Early one morning while working on my first book, I was looking for a Biblical quote and couldn’t find any Concordance references. I suddenly felt ecstatic for no apparent reason and heard a slight rustling. Through my peripheral vision, I saw a white gauzy form like the fine lace-work of a wedding dress. As I turned to see it more clearly, it was gone. I felt energized and interpreted this as a sign that my work was in flow with Divine will and my soul’s missions. Immediately afterward, I opened the Bible to the exact page I needed and my eyes went directly to the verses I sought: Hebrews 2:6-7 states, “What is man, that thou art mindful of him?… Thou madest him a little lower than the angels… ”
Lessons: Stay alert to other 99.9% of reality that usually isn’t detected by your five senses. Visions, signs, and extrasensory events abound if we pay attention. Immediately after the above experience, I mentally wondered why angels and guides don’t assist all of our requests and needs. The following answers came to me in a fraction of a second:
– We first need to ask for assistance and, secondly, realize it may not always arrive how, when, and where we expect it.
– Angels do not impose their will on others, especially if people insist on making poor decisions. They also will not negate important lessons if we have chosen significant challenges for spiritual growth and service opportunities. Life unfolds as it does for reasons that you can’t always glimpse.
– We will never know how often we are helped since angelic assistance may be preventive and undetectable.
– When prayers are answered, we should use that assistance to help others and share the great news of how wonderfully life is designed.
Experience #14: Also at age 40, it was the evening before I finished my first book Balanced Living. I felt a profound peace, as though I was finally doing my highest lifework after many years of searching and working. I had originally planned to become a medical doctor (MD) but a series of events guided me to become a doctor of chiropractic (DC) I felt that these events occurred for good reasons and worked out for the best.
Early the next morning, I started to complete the last few hours of work on the manuscript before I mailed it off to my publisher. Just as I had done nearly every morning over the previous three years, I turned on the computer. The monitor usually showed a black screen for about 30 seconds, then a series of white-lettered 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.
Lessons: This miracle still inspires me to help people fine-tune the temple of their souls. As described in my book Radiant Wellness, holistic health methods—especially specific chiropractic, acupuncture, personalized nutrition, massage, and optimal self-care—can help your inner light shine through always and in all ways.
Your body/mind can be on the same wavelength as your essence, or not. When they are working together, your life proceeds much more wonderfully.
Another lesson is to avoid falling into the “would have, should have, could have” trap that drains so much energy. It’s great to set goals, but remain flexible when new information arises or life seems to throw you a curveball. At my workshops, I ask how many people’s lives have turned out the way they expected. No one has ever raised a hand. So release any preconceived expectations about how your life should unfold. Do your best, check in regularly with Creator and your spiritual support team, and trust the adventure we call a human incarnation.
Experience #15: At age forty-three, I attended a group taught by Dottie Asselin, a seventy-year-old woman who had seen auras and energy patterns her entire life. She read each person’s aura and gave them feedback about how to improve their health and life. When she looked at me, her jaw dropped. Then she composed herself and gave a general reading.
After the class, she came up to me and asked if she could talk to me in private. She said that I had a very unique energy field that she had only seen three other times in her life. I had what looked like a golden hump at the top of my back and it emitted golden sparkles of light. That was interesting to me because one of my childhood names was Marky Sparky.
She had interviewed the other three with similar energy patterns. Each of them had described a magnificent obsession, a deep and persistent feeling that they were to help transform the world in some way. Dottie asked if I had a similar calling.
After my goose bumps subsided, I shared that my vision to awaken myself and others never stopped. Yes, I was always thinking about how, when, and where to best share my greatest gifts. It was a curse since the feeling was so strong and relentless. It was also a blessing because I was so excited about fulfilling my soul’s missions and helping make the world a better place.
Lessons: Listen to your inner callings and follow them. Your feelings may not be as relentless as mine—I hope they aren’t. However, if you’re still living on this planet, you have important gifts to share with others. You may have to work at a day job and pursue your highest missions part-time. But you will feel much more peaceful and fulfilled when you are doing what you, as a soul, came here to do.
Experience #16: At age forty-four, I had a multi-sensory experience of the Source during a long yoga and meditation session.
While silently repeating the mantra OM, a louder and deeper chorus of that sound spontaneously resounded within and all around me. After several minutes of that, I also smelled an unknown but wonderful fragrance despite it being snowy outside. Next, even though my eyes were shut, I saw a very bright but pleasant radiant golden-white light in my mind’s eye. Then I felt what seemed to be Divine love, acceptance and understanding. Finally, a mild electrical current that felt like forty volts coursed throughout my body. All this was so overwhelming that tears welled up in my eyes.
Through all of this, I continued to silently chant OM. As all of the sensations continued simultaneously, it also seemed that information and energy were being transmitted or downloaded to me. The power and splendor of all this energy was so great that I felt I couldn’t handle such a high current. I murmured aloud, “Oh my God!” and started laughing and then the experience was over. But that sweet memory helps carry me through life’s challenges and reminds me I’m always walking with Great Spirit—even when it doesn’t seem like it.
Lessons: One teaching from that event is that I was not prepared to directly experience higher frequencies for very long. That level of power blew my body/ mind’s circuit breakers. My nervous system wasn’t strong enough to handle the current. That experience motivates me to live as healthy and refined a life as possible so I can increasingly sustain that energy level.
Another take away is that the Divine is everywhere just as radio waves are throughout the air. You don’t have to reach the Source, save your soul, or earn salvation since you are already part of the Light and in eternity right now. The higher and finer your energy, the more you’ll realize this great news.
Experience #17: At age sixty, I heard that my architect “Don” was in hospice after medical treatment had failed to help his leukemia. I hadn’t seen him for fifteen years since he designed my office but my intuition told me to visit him. He had been a vibrant person with long dark hair and beard. Don was passionate about creating architecture with functionality and beauty, his family, and life in general.
When I entered the hospice room, he and his wife “Roberta” were alone. He was asleep and she was sitting with her head in her hands. I almost didn’t recognize Don because of his disease and ravages of chemotherapy: he was bald, had lost a lot of weight, and looked so tired and old.
After catching up a bit, I told them about the Soul Proof book and documentary film and gave them a copy of each. The collective evidence, I assured them, leaves no doubt that we each are indestructible souls who visit Earth for a very short time. When our reasons for being here are over, no matter what our age in earth years, we move on to the next phase of eternity. Life is never-ending, but ever changing.
In the best of all worlds, everyone would live as long as they wanted and then pass on peacefully in their sleep. However, this was not the case with Don because he was only fifty-nine years old and had much to live for. “Keep in mind,” Roberta said, “that our life was totally normal until just three months ago. Since then, it’s been a whirlwind of symptoms, diagnoses, and cancer treatment. Now here we are, at our first day in hospice and we don’t know how to handle it.”
They both had many questions about spiritual topics. Don shared that his father had died when he was ten years old. He wondered if and how his father would recognize him in the next life and vice versa. Roberta shared a similar concern: would she recognize Don when she passed on and would he know who she was? They asked why people have to die at a relatively young age and suffer so much. Roberta said her grief felt unbearable and asked how she could go on living without him.
I answered all these questions and much more. They were the same questions I’ve heard from many people around the world. After an hour of talking, laughing, and crying, Don was exhausted and it was time to go. Before I left, Roberta said, “It’s as if an angel came into our room, answered our toughest questions, and gave us just what we needed to get through all this.”
Don didn’t die in hospice and, in fact, lived another month while enjoying being home with his loved ones. On the day he transitioned from this world, Don was sketching architectural designs that he hoped to build in the next realm. He was energized, inspired, and comforted by the Soul Proof evidence. Likewise, it helped Roberta find the strength to face each day before and after Don’s passing.
Lessons: Trust your intuition, especially regarding helping another person. And, too, realize that you can be an earth-angel to someone. Once you’ve been called that once, you will be hooked. Don’t hide your light, share it and let it shine brightly.
Again, a primary goal of this article is to help you remember that you—and everyone else—are unique and special. I encourage you to review from your own “mystical” experiences. I hope that reading mine will help you value yours and share them with others.
Experience #18: At age sixty-four, I began awakening from a deep sleep. As I opened one eye, I realized there had been a profound thought repeating in my mind. I wanted to capture it so I closed my eye and continued to breathe deeply. That ’round’ of a deep thought occurred again and I immediately wrote it down. This high thought continues to shape and inspire my life every day. Here’s the message: ‘This earthly experience is a totally safe, meaningful, and magnificent adventure amidst eternity.’
I suggest that you post this saying where you’ll see it often until you’ve memorized it. Like other messages ‘from spirit’, it’s short, clear, and very deep. Based on all the evidence I know about the nature of reality, it’s very true.
Experience #19: At age 70, 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.
I hope that reading some of my experiences will help you value yours, learn lessons, and share them with others. I encourage you to evaluate / reevaluate your lessons that remain in your heart and mind. Get centered first by saying a prayer and/or setting an intention to become aware of lessons from them. Share them others so they can learn from yours and better appreciate their special experiences.
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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
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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.
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