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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Unforgiveable Sin?
Many people have asked if there is an unforgivable sin. If there really is such a thing, you would want to know what it is so you can avoid it, right?
As is often the case, there several facets to this topic so stay with me . . .
An unforgiveable sin is allegedly anything that blasphemes God. And what would irritate God that He – for a She would never consider such a thing – would send people to a fiery hell forever? Here’s one fear-based religion’s list: burning a religious book; vandalizing a church; worshipping Satan; committing suicide; and stating that God is unkind, unjust or cruel.
Wouldn’t you think the Creator and Sustainer of All Life would be a little less touchy and a little more understanding about how easy it is for humans to become imbalanced and make poor choices?
The concept of unforgivable sin was based on ancient teachings that emerged during – you guessed it, the Dark Ages or earlier. That should raise your suspicions right off the bat, right? What other beliefs from medieval times does anyone living today trust implicitly? In case your memory of history is rusty, that was about 1000 to 1600 years ago.
The notion of unforgivable sin assumes the existence of a judgmental and wrathful God. A belief in unforgivable sin only exists in the most conservative denominations of three major religions. That’s a relative handful from among the many religions and denominations that exist. And, yet, these fundamentalist sects receive a lot of attention because they scare people.
I think it’s blasphemous to imagine that God would even consider such a thing.
I attended theology school, in part, to address bizarre teachings that begged for sensible answers. It’s a historical fact that many significant changes – purposeful deletions, additions, and arbitrary interpretations – have occurred in The Bible. And that doesn’t count mistakes by well-meaning scribes, and translation errors from Aramaic, to Hebrew, to Greek, to German, and then English.
People more interested in control and money than teaching the Golden Rule profited mightily from these changes. Creator may have inspired The Bible, but He/She/It didn’t write it, and definitely didn’t make all those changes.
After a near-death experience, millions of people report that the Light is loving, nonjudgmental, forgiving, and caring beyond human understanding. Further, they see that we each are one with and part of Source Energy right now and eternally – not maybe, someday, if we believe in or live a certain way. To learn more about post-NDE views about the nature of God, read Lessons from the Light by Ken Ring PhD.
After Life Between Lives sessions by Michael Newton PhD or therapists he trained, tens of thousands of people have reported the Presence in the same way. You can learn about their descriptions of the Ground of All Being in Newton’s books Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls.
The question of unforgiveable sin sounds even more ludicrous when using terms for Source such as the Light, the Presence, and the Ground of All Being. Only when a huge patriarchal and mercurial guy in the sky is envisioned does this concept make sense to some people.
Similarly, some evidential mediums describe a Universal Intelligence of unfathomable love that is like a glue that holds together an exquisite tapestry. Each person is an important and interconnected thread in this creation. See The Afterlife Experiments by Gary Schwartz PhD to learn more about these sensorily sensitive persons who have been researched in multiple university settings.
From a commonsense perspective, what good parents would not forgive their child for any transgression? And yet we are supposed to believe that Life Source has a list of unforgivable sins?
Most importantly, many adults report that, as a child, they could never believe that a loving Creator would forever condemn one of Its creation for any reason.
Again, only a vociferous and fear-based minority of denominations teach this concept. Most religious groups stopped teaching about a literal hell – if they ever did so in the first place – a long time ago. The sources mentioned above – near death experiences, life between lives sessions, and reports from evidential mediums – deny the concept of unforgiveable sin.
The concept of eternal torment is usually associated with belief in unforgivable sin. Other denominations view that God may only turn away from a person for eternity. Again, parents, would you ever turn your back on your child?
Let’s consider the issue of ‘sin.’ (I’m not talking about unforgivable sins now, just everyday garden-variety sins.) Different denominations and religions have varying lists of what constitutes a sin. In my Lutheran upbringing, it was only vaguely mentioned. Stern scripture passages were read, but the minister and others in the church were so loving and caring that I assumed God was the same way. The love, understanding, and forgiveness of Creator – I reasoned – was surely exponentially more than the best earthly parents.
In my late high school and early college years, I attended a fundamentalist church for the best of all reasons: my girlfriend went there. This church warned about a long list of sins that would lead us right up to the door of – or perhaps into – the burning pit forever: dancing, swearing, girls wearing their skirts too short, guys wearing their pants too tight, being gay, any kind of premarital sexual activity, masturbation, rock and roll music, pot, drinking, not tithing, not attending church regularly, etc. It was a long list.
But they never clearly specified what the unforgivable sin was. Naturally, I and others feared that whatever we were doing was the big one. Or maybe a combination of ones listed above exceeded a threshold and sent one off to hang out with Beezelbub and his cronies forever.
As I matured – and became more educated about theology, psychology, science, and metaphysics – I realized what a perfect control device the concept of an unforgivable sin was. Obviously, that list was created to control hormone-challenged teens, but it didn’t work very well. You attract more bees with honey than vinegar. People make the best decisions when they know they are important and beloved parts of the creation, not when they are made to feel guilty, prone to error, and evil.
Regarding unforgivable sin, the Creator and Sustainer of all life I know would never imagine such a thing. But humans who seek to scare and control others would. My current understandings about God, heaven, and hell are discussed in articles #13 and 14 at SoulProof.com.
Let me address the elephant in the room: suicide. Some, perhaps many, people believe that suicide is THE unforgivable sin. Let’s think about that one for just a moment with an ounce of common sense. Would the Source of all that exists really pile on those who are already in so much mental and/or physical pain that they destroy their physical body? “You think you had it bad before? I’ll give you something to really suffer about! Off you go to hell forever!” (for more information when a loved one passes on by suicide, see article #4)
This way of thinking and those actions are not consistent with the concept of G.O.D. That acronym stands for the Guiding, Organizing, and Designing presence and power that is behind all life and is all life. Further, in this enlightened perspective based on much clinical evidence, we each are infinite, eternal, integral, and beloved parts of G.O.D. now and always.
In my opinion – based on good evidence, personal experience, an open heart and mind, and common sense – an unforgiveable sin does not exist. But don’t just believe me. What makes the most sense to you now and as a child? Conduct your own research and discover how much powerful political and religious officials twisted The Bible’s messages for their own gain.
Pray and meditate about whether there really is an unforgivable sin. Spend time in nature, playing with children, cuddling a pet, listening to sublime music or outrageous comedy, or serving others. Then consider whether the Birther of All Life really works that way.
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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.
