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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When Your Earthly Body Is Dying
When you are dying, you may be in physical pain. In addition, you may feel scared, angry, resentful, and a host of other strong emotions. While you are going through all this, I also encourage you to also focus on the following . . .
1. You can justifiably release fear and worry about death. The evidence discussed above clearly shows your life doesn’t end after bodily death. The more you really know that, the more you can relax and enjoy every aspect of life – even dying. If that sounds impossible for you, use techniques to internalize this great news as discussed in the book Greater Reality Living by Dr. Schwartz and me.
2. Dying is totally safe. Death of your earth-suit is practically a nonevent. After you change worlds, one of your reactions will be, “That’s all there was to it?” You probably have been through such changes many times so what’s the big deal? For those with faith and knowledge about the afterlife, passing on can be much like walking through a door from one room to another.Dying is just another stage in life like infancy, puberty, young adulthood, middle age, old age, and the next phase of life. (But many say that dying is much easier than puberty.)
I and eleven experts on consciousness topics – Raymond Moody, Caroline Myss, Anita Moorjani, Gary Schwartz, and others – discussed our understandings about this and other important topics in The Eleven Questions.
3. You are in for a grand adventure. People who have clinically died and come back to tell about it say: ‘Recall your one hundred best days on earth: your happiest, healthiest, and most energetic. Now multiple that by a million. That gives you a sense of how great it feels to drop the body and all the restrictions that accompany an earthly incarnation. This is especially true for those who are quite old and/or have suffered with significant physical and mental symptoms.You know how it’s exciting to prepare and pack for a trip to a favorite location? You’re preparing for a marvelous trip . . . a return to the Light, the Really Real Place, Home. Get ready for a return to forever. Or, more accurately, a return to remembering that you are – right now and always – an integral and beloved part of All That Is.
4. Physical death is an important part of life. You may wish you could live forever in your current body. But that would require freezing time so no one aged and things stayed the same. And that would soon become a stagnant samenessdevoid of change and growth. (Most people work best with a deadline so periodic shifts such as physical death also serve that purpose.)
Bodily death is like a reset button, a new start, a fresh beginning in never-ending but periodically changing life. Who you really are – your real self – is immortal, but your physical body is mortal. It’s a great setup when you can glimpse more than the average person perceives with the five senses.
5. It’s your decision when and how to transition. Loved ones may or may not be ready for you to pass on, but that’s your call. Just tell them, your doctors, and your religious / spiritual teacher when you are ready. End-of-this-life medical care is a huge moneymaker thanks to the three trillion dollar per year disease-care industry in the U.S. You don’t have to undergo a “walletectomy” before you die.
Again, you are the boss about how and when you move on to the next phase of life. Options for euthanasia, which means ‘a good death’, are improving – as well they should. Pets don’t have to suffer with intractable pain, incapacity, and terminal disease, but humans do? Who made that one up? To learn more about this topic, see article #55: A Good Death.
To gain more clarity about how to spend your remaining time on earth, use the Ask Your Soul technique. Deep relaxation and visual imagery can likely help you get in touch with your inner wisdom / timeless self and best consider how you want to live and die.
6. Complete “unfinished business”. You’ve probably heard the saying, “You can’t take it with you”, but one exception is your consciousness. (Others aspects that appear to persist after death of your human form include your love, memories, acquired talents, sense of humor, preferences, intelligence, personality, and more.) Don’t carry your dirty laundry with you into the next realm. Wrap up financial, legal, and personal loose ends in your life so you can leave this planet as a free bird.
Doing so removes resistances to passing on in a timely way. It also gives you peace of mind that you’ve finished what you came here to do. Take time to review your life. Express gratitude for and honor what an amazing experience it’s been. Just think of all the activities, memories, and lessons you’ve had. It’s very likely been well-worth the price of admission.
You can more deeply examine this topic by using the Life Review Technique. This session is done under deep relaxation and allows you to review highlights before you pass on. After replaying key times during your time on earth, you can best make amends, heart-felt communications, and other healing acts before you cross over.
7. Throw a “see you later” party. Western cultures sometimes turn funerals into somber affairs with black clothes and mournful organ music. However, many in the west and other parts of the world celebrate when dear ones – family, friends, and pets – complete their earthly lessons. This is very similar to celebrations when loved ones graduate from high school and college.When physical death is near, throw a party and invite all your loved ones. Share information in this article with them so they can release needless fears and excessive sadness. Laugh, cry, and speak from the heart. It’s your party so create it however you want. It will be a grand day and a proper launching into the next page of life’s never-ending saga.
8. Do what you love as long as you can. Walt Disney and Albert Einstein worked on projects almost until their time of passing. You don’t have to cease your lifework or favorite hobbies just because your outer shell is preparing to shed.
Who knows – you might create some of your best work just before transitioning from this world. What a curtain call that would be! Your missions aren’t over until you drop your body so, if you’re still reading this, you still have purposes to fulfill.
9. Design your funeral and interment. Take advantage of the extra attention as you prepare to move. You have an opportunity to share your beliefs and the collective afterlife evidence with others. Create your funeral in a unique way. Play a video of yourself sharing your most important thoughts and feelings. Play your favorite songs and tell the back story about why you love them so much. Quote meaningful poems or sayings and why they are important to you.You may want to read all of my books aloud for those at your memorial service. (Just kidding! It’s important to joke around about death since it’s just an optical delusion around which much needless fuss has been made.)
Design how you want your bodily remains to be handled. Do you want your no-longer-needed shell to be buried in an expensive casket and vault underground? Or do you want to spread your ashes under or around a tree to provide nourishment and minerals? How about a coral reef memorial that helps restore ocean life? It’s your choice. You are a unique being and no one will ever be just like you. Live life your way whether the real you is living on earth or elsewhere.
10. Check in afterwards. Over 75 million Americans have experienced an after-death communication (ADC) in which ‘departed’ loved ones made their presence known. Discuss this with them before you change worlds and set up ways of hopefully letting them know you are still alive and well. Set an intention to visit your dear ones while they are awake, asleep, or in that hypnagogic phase in between.
Before you move on to greener pastures, tell your family and friends about article #9 Visiting ‘Departed’ Loved Ones Now and the Facilitated After-Death Contact technique. Those will increase the chances that your loved ones will perceive your continued presence.
Your ADCs will deepen their knowledge that death is just a new beginning, not an end. As more people drop their fear and ignorance about death, humanity can further evolve toward peace, love, joy and understanding . . . whether living here or in the hereafter.
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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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- you are a forever being of energy / consciousness
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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.
