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 You Have Been Abused
Many people have been mentally, physically, and/or sexually abused. This article shares how you can survive, heal, and even transform yourself for the better.
In a perfect world, no one would be abused. However, as you may have noticed, earth is not yet a place of complete balance and harmony. The question is: do you want to perpetuate the same lower energy emotions that created the abuse, or rise above it and take a higher path?
No matter what you have endured, you can always choose the high road.
After working with some abusers and many abused persons, I have gained insights into the causes and solutions. One family in particular provided deep understandings. I altered their names and details of their story to preserve confidentiality for the surviving family members. Jeff and Justine were the parents; Alice, Lucy, and Trey were the three children.
As a child, Jeff was mentally and physically abused by his alcoholic father. His parents divorced when he was eight years old and, in the midst of the depression, his mother couldn’t afford to raise both her children. She sent Jeff to an orphanage where he received additional mental and physical abuse. In addition, he may have been sexually abused. Although he denied it, his horrible actions as a parent fit the profile. An aunt and uncle took Jeff into their home when he was a teenager but sent him back to the orphanage.
Justine’s mother was mentally ill. It wasn’t diagnosed in those days and her overly punitive actions were seen by some as stern but fair parental upbringing. But it was mental and physical abuse all the same. Justine’s father was very strict and largely absent. She denied being sexually abused but, as with Jeff, it was quite likely.
In their post-abuse imbalanced state, Jeff and Justine met and ‘fell in love.’ They really couldn’t know what love was but were trying to survive and find acceptance and happiness. Over time, they had three children, decent jobs, and a nice house. They tried to create the stable and happy family they didn’t have as children.
However, as you might guess, eventually Jeff and Justine’s unresolved abusive upbringing began to show through. All three children described being mentally, physically, and sexually abused. The parents may have believed they were not ‘sparing the rod and spoiling the child’. But holding a gun to one child’s head, making the other children watch, and taking photos is obviously a sign of serious mental imbalance.
In modern days, the abuse would probably have been discovered and the parents would have gone to prison. But this was in the 1950’s and that didn’t happen.
Each child tried, as best he or she could, to survive:
- Trey moved far away after graduating from high school. His valedictorian speech focused on how those who hurt you can become your most important teachers. He cut off all ties with his parents and never spoke to them again. He didn’t visit when they were dying and didn’t attend their funerals. Certainly no one could blame him for that. He never had children or grandchildren. Trying to leave the past behind was his way of coping with the horrible abuse. However, Trey suffers with significant mental and physical symptoms.
- Lucy married at a young age and focused on creating the happy family she never had. She succeeded admirably and has a good marriage, four well-adjusted children, and wonderful grandchildren. However, Lucy suffers with moderate anxiety, health problems with psychological causes, and an inability to love herself. She kept in touch with her parents some and hoped they would eventually apologize and express love, but they never did. Staying very busy and keeping things inside was her way of coping.
- Alice became a health care provider and mother of three. Like Lucy, she sought to create the loving family that wasn’t there as a child. In addition, however, Alice sought counseling, energy work, release techniques, and other natural healing modalities so the abuse didn’t define who she was. As a result, she was compassionate and helped a lot as her parents were elderly and dying.Alice knew that forgiveness would benefit her first and foremost. She worked hard to focus on healing the past and optimizing the future. Because of this, Alice avoided sublimating her feelings, being perpetually angry, or seeing herself as a helpless victim. She focused on remembering that she is a timeless being of energy who may have chosen the adversity to grow and evolve. She coped in all these impressive ways.
As a psychologist and holistic physician who knew each family member, I found the dynamics to be fascinating. As Jeff and Justine became older, they supposedly had no memory of their horrific actions when the children were young. They wondered why their children and grandchildren never or rarely visited and called. Their life became empty shells and they sought to fill the void with traveling. Others who met them thought they were normal and sweet people. But their children knew they were monsters who could be like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde around others.
After Jeff and Justine’s passed on, the children had an opportunity to heal, leave the past behind, and find the blessings. The jury is still out on how that will work.
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If you have been abused, the following holistic keys can help you survive, heal, and transform.
1. Don’t blame yourself. It’s quite common for abused people to feel responsible even though they were little children at the time. Abused children and wives – the most common victims – often assume they were to blame somehow. Whenever you become aware of self-critical thoughts, gently say: “It wasn’t my fault. I didn’t deserve it, but I do deserve to be happy and healthy.”
2. Seek help from health care professionals. Having a holistic team is very useful for releasing old wounds and healing.Abuse is so common; your health care providers will not blame or judge you. I recommend that your team include two or more of the following:
a. Counselor: mental health professional and/or pastoral counselor
b. Doctor of chiropractic since physical and emotional abuse can lodge in your muscles, spine, skeleton, and skull. Misaligned bones and chronically spasmed muscles can also cause nerve pressure that contributes to many symptoms such as insomnia, anxiety, and depression. Some chiropractic physicians are trained in emotional release techniques such as Neuro-Emotional Technique (NET).
c. Licensed acupuncturist: traditional Chinese medicine recognizes stuck / stagnant energy /chi from all forms of abuse. This millennia old approach is invaluable.
d. Nutrition-based practitioner who helps organs and systems rebalance via a real food diet, whole food supplements, and herbs. To learn more, see article #32 at com. Visit www.unsinc.info or www.icakusa.com to find a well-trained professional near you.
e. Massage therapist who uses deep tissue techniques and understands that you may have an emotional release on the table.
f. Integrative medical doctor who honors your strong preference to not take mind-numbing and potentially harmful drugs unless absolutely necessary for a while.
3. Ask for spiritual healing: pray for help from the Source, angels, guides, or whatever terms you prefer for higher energy assistants / assistance. Seek and you shall find . . .
4. Release old pain and suffering: my Holistic Breathing Technique allows you to rid yourself of stuck energy, past wounds, and limiting / erroneous ways of thinking and behaving. To learn more, see article #70.
5. Care for your temple. The past abuse has likely thrown off your body and brain in subtle or major ways. Optimal self care can, over time, reverse those negative effects and help you feel happy, energetic, and healthy – perhaps for the first time. The information and strategies involved cannot be covered in a short article. To learn more, read articles #12, 26, and 87 and see my book Radiant Wellness.
6. Lean on others. Share your challenges with trusted family and friends. You don’t have to go through life with a deep dark secret. Kindred spirits can help you immeasurably.
7. Don’t worry about the abuser receiving justice. The universe is exquisitely designed and operates at a higher level of fairness than we can fathom. Don’t waste any energy wishing torment for your abuser; he or she was obviously imbalance and will go through future experiences to learn that we should never mistreat anyone.
8. Look at the big picture. Horrible events like abuse contain the power to awaken you to who you are and why you are here. Spiritually transformative experiences are often triggered by near-death experiences, violent encounters, and other unpleasant but potentially life-changing events. Your abuser may actually be a contrast soul, that is, a soulmate who – out of love – took on a dark guise to help you in ways not possible with an easy life. To learn more about why you may chosen the possibility of this abuse, see article #25 Pre-Birth Planning.
9. Forgive and forget. As illustrated by the history of Jeff and Justine, abusers are often abused when they were young. As a result, they consider it normal or somehow justifiable. As with Alice, you will benefit the most when you forgive and let it be. You can choose to take the high road with this so you and others will benefit from your upgraded consciousness and love. See article #40 The Love, Acceptance, and Forgiveness Technique.
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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.
