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.

In 2019 – 2020, a series of studies at the University of Arizona definitively demonstrated scientifically that life continues after physical death.  This research was conducted by Gary E. Schwartz PhD and a team of electrical engineers, software specialists, evidential mediums, and postmaterial (so-called ‘deceased’) luminaries at the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health. 

See articles #1 and 60 at SoulProof.com for an overview of the scientific and clinical evidence indicating – with 99.9% certainty – that consciousness survives bodily death.  This collective evidence, along with many firsthand experiences, also shows – with very high degrees of certainty – The Great News that you and everyone else:

  1. continue to live after bodily death.
  2. do not really lose ‘departed’ people and pets and can interact with them again.
  3. are integral, infinite, eternal, and beloved parts of Source Energy / Creator.
  4. receive assistance / guidance from angels, guides, master teachers, evolved energies.
  5. are sacredly interconnected with all people, animals, and nature.
  6. have special purposes for being on this planet at this time.
  7. have everything you need to survive and thrive during this earthly adventure.
  8. possess a magnificent, self-healing body that can optimize your earthly experience.
  9. can find meaning and trust the timing behind life’s biggest changes such as death.
  10. co-create how heavenly / hellish your life feels by your thoughts, words and deeds.
  11. can find silver linings and opportunities for growth and service amidst challenges.
  12. can likely use SoulPhone technology in the future for communication with postmaterial loved ones and luminaries who can help us heal our world.

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.

Upgrading your language can help you adopt a greater reality perspective and live based on the second worldview.  That, in turn, can help you create the greatest life YOU have envisioned, fulfill your purposes for being on earth, serve others, and enjoy the journey.  In my articles, l:  

  1. Will use the term ‘YOU’ to describe the totality of your energy / being. The real you may manifest in different spacetime ways simultaneously. Only 20% of your consciousness may be needed for an earthly experience.  The term ‘YOU’ recognizes both of these possibilities.
  2. Will not use the terms ‘die, departed, deceased, or dead’ without single quotation marks since those have strongly entrenched and erroneous meanings indicating an end of life.
  3. Will use the terms ‘bodily death’ and ‘death of the earthly form’ to remind you that only the earth-suit dies. The rest – all the intelligence, love, personality, memories, preferences, sense of humor, and much more – continues living in other parts of the field of all possibilities.
  4. Will use the terms changed worlds, passed on, transitioned and others that aptly describe a continuation of consciousness after bodily death.
  5. Will primarily refer to those who have passed on as postmaterial persons. That term recognizes the points in #3. I also will use soul, consciousness, essence, and awareness.
  6. Will primarily refer to ‘physical humans living on earth’ as material persons. Why? Because those terms within single quotation marks may apply to postmaterial persons: they can have physicality, visit earth, and are still human in meaningful ways.
  7. The terms lower versus higher energy emotions / ways of being, are not judgmental or subjective. They are based on well-established observations that ‘as you think, so shall you be.’ Those terms are also based on objective measurements 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.  Lower-energy emotions of anger, fear, and guilt calibrate at 150, 100, and 30.
  8. I 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.
  9. 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 (with Schwartz and Katta Mapes MA, MEd).  To experience expanded states of consciousness to heal and transform your life, use the audio programs under Shop at SoulProof.com.

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After Death Contacts

Note: The first term used by Guggenheim and others about this category of afterlife evidence was ‘after death communication’. However, not all ADCs involve communication per se.  For example, some very meaningful dream ADCs involve ‘just’ seeing those who have passed on; they look younger, healthier, and happier.  Eye contact is made and the person on earth awakens feeling more peaceful and assured that their loved ones are very much alive, well, and in contact.  Another reason I use the term ‘contact’ is for ease of translation into other languages.  People worldwide want and need to learn more about afterlife matters, and certainly the word ‘contact’ is more easily translated.  For these reasons, I propose upgrading this term.  We are, after all, quite early in the process of understanding the nature of reality, and accurately describing it.

The term after-death contact (ADC) describes meaningful contact with a person who has passed on.  ADCs may occur via the usual senses or more ethereal ones such as seeing with the mind’s eye, telepathically hearing, or inner knowing.  These experiences can also occur during dreams that seem more real than usual and leave the dreamer with a strong sense that an actual visit occurred.

In the past, many people did not share them for fear of being considered weird or crazy.  Now, more people are now openly sharing these surprisingly common experiences.  ADCs have been reported, according to Raymond Moody MD, PhD by 25 percent of Americans, 66 percent of widows, and 75 percent of parents whose children have crossed over.  When I survey large groups of bereaved parents, nearly all indicate they’ve had one or more ADCs with their child who changed worlds. 

Hello from Heaven by Bill Guggenheim and Judy Guggenheim was the first major book to discuss this phenomenon.

Respected views from religion support the possibility of communication from beyond the grave.  For example, Rev. Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, who earned worldwide respect for his sensible application of religious principles, stated: “I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life.  They who have gone before us are alive in one form of life and we in another.”

Some very conservative Christian denominations believe that ‘the deceased’ sleep until a judgment day.  However, many other Christian and other religious denominations describe an uninterrupted continuation of consciousness.  Much clinical and scientific evidence indicates that life continues seamlessly after death.  As such, ADC reports about visits with / from postmaterial persons are consistent with contemporary evidence and well-accepted theological views.

I first became aware of ADCs when I worked in hospitals as a respiratory therapist. Several elderly and completely lucid patients reservedly told me, “I don’t know why I’m telling you this, but there’s something about you.  Last night I was visited by my late husband.  He stood right there by the foot of the bed, smiled, and told me I would see him again.”  Each time, these patients passed on within forty-eight hours.  Reports of this type involved a visit by their departed spouse or parent.  These patients were very excited about their experiences, but hesitant to tell others.

ADCs often occur during dreams – perhaps because the person receiving the communication is deeply relaxed and usual hectic brain activity is dampened.  These dreams seem more vibrant and real than usual.  The dreamer awakens with a strong sense that actual contact was made with a departed loved one.  The eminent psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung related a personal dream ADC: “Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream… It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first time to think about life after death.”

Eight years after my Dad changed worlds, I dreamt we were together working on a project in my backyard.  It seemed so real.  Later in the dream, he helped me try to find a cat.  Before the dream ended, he packed a suitcase and said “I have to go away for awhile.  It’s been great visiting; we will see each other again.”

Dream ADCs make more sense when you consider that your brain may be trying to make sense of an extrasensory experience.  That is, your dream ADC may involve perceptions not usually detected by your five senses.  The brain bases its judgments of what is real and what isn’t based on what your five senses report.  When a ‘departed’ loved one visits, the brain may make up a story.  It interjects ‘earthly reality’ topics – such as looking for a cat and packing a suitcase – as it attempts to rationalize an actual visit with ‘dead’ person

Two years later, I dreamt I was a young boy at home with my brother and sister.  We found a box with old records and, to our surprise, found several with Dad on the cover.  He wore an expensive suit and held a microphone in his hand with the caption: Bill Pitstick sings his greatest hits.  In my dream, my siblings and I were amazed since we never knew he was a famous singer.  Just then, Dad came into the room.  We asked him about it and he humbly said, ‘Oh, yes, that was many years ago.’  When prompted to sing a song, he belted out ‘On a Clear Day.’

Upon awakening, I remembered the vivid dream and realized I really didn’t know the words to that song.  (I have a severe hearing loss and could only understand the refrain ‘on a clear day.’)  Perhaps the words conveyed a message from Dad in his new abode?  Here they are . . .

“On a clear day, rise and look around you, and you see who you are.  On a clear day, how it will astound you that the glow of your being outshines every star.  You’ll feel part of every mountain, sea, and shore.  You can hear from far and near a world you’ve never, never heard before.  And on a clear day, on that clear day, you can see forever, and ever, and ever more.”

What a beautiful statement of the afterlife.  Perhaps that’s what Dad was telling me but my brain turned it into a story.  You can evaluate your dream ADCs and perhaps find similarly inspiring and comforting messages from your dear ones who have changed worlds.

What is the difference between ghosts and souls who visit loved ones during ADCs? Ghosts may be in a sort of limbo between earth and the next phase of life as a result of several possibilities.  These include intense addictions; strong emotions such as revenge and anger; a sudden or violent death; and limited knowledge about the afterlife resulting in resistance to entering the Light.  Being stuck in this netherworld might be like a purgatory described by some religions.

So-called ghosts can enter the Light anytime they choose, but may be afraid or ignorant about this possibility.  Visitations by these lower energy spirits may be extended, and feel scary or sad, and be accompanied by physical coldness.  They may look darker and feels more hopeless than souls during ADCs.  (To learn more about my understandings of ghosts, see article # 47)

Souls who visit during ADCs, on the other hand, usually make brief visits and exude energies of peace and joy.  They are not stuck but, rather, have successfully made the transition into another part of Life.  Like those briefly on the corner jail square in the game Monopoly, they are ‘just visiting’ earth.  Their voluntary visits are motivated by love and the desire to relay comfort and hope.  Recipients of ADCs consider their experiences to be sacred and are often transformed by them.

Why do some postmaterial persons make contact and others don’t?  They may still be healing and recharging, or in an orientation phase.  They may not be able to energetically make the connection.  (Some experiential and clinical evidence reports that much energy and determination are required to communicate between realms / dimensions.)  Or, they may know you are doing OK so they try to reach others who are less spiritually balanced and awakened.  Finally, your higher self may have chosen to not be contacted to motivate your earthly self to search more deeply, meditate, become more peaceful, etc.

Often, the solution to sensing your ‘deceased’ loved ones better is simply to become a better receiver.  They may be transmitting – trying to contact you – but you need to be on a similar higher energy wavelength to tune-in.  You may not be able to detect them as well if you are overly sad, fearful, angry, bitter, analytical, or otherwise imbalanced.

Shared ADCs is a term for contacts experienced by more than one person at the same time.  Many ADCs occur with only one person at a time; while those are often personally convincing, they may lack verifiable aspects.  Being perceived by more than one person simultaneously, shared ADCs provide an additional validation component.  This more clearly suggests that the contact was not due to wishful thinking or an overactive imagination.

Ted, a long-time patient of mine, passed on after suffering with lung cancer caused by many years of smoking cigarettes.  His wife Elizabeth is a salt-of-the-earth Christian woman whom I have known for many years and trust completely.  She told me about a unique shared ADC that happened after she prayed for a sign that Ted was at peace.  The first spring after Ted’s burial, the family planted flowers by his grave and videotaped the scenery.  As soon as they arrived at the grave site, a sparrow flew to Ted’s monument and perched there, cocking its head and looking intently at the family.

Elizabeth remarked that it seemed as though the sparrow was trying to tell them something, or perhaps Ted was communicating through the bird.  Throughout their visit, the same sparrow chirped and hopped on the grave stone.  Their son videotaped the bird with the idea of showing it to other family members.  When they played the recording at home, there was the grave site, grass, trees, family members, and flowers — but no sparrow!  They considered this anomaly to be a sign from Ted.  (This story also corroborates anecdotal reports that postmaterial persons may be difficult to capture on film.)

Evidential ADCs include experiences in which a person learns something he or she did not know before and, in fact, had no way of knowing.  Information revealed by evidential ADCs provides stronger documentation that these encounters are not illusions.  Evidential ADCs have occurred while people were awake and dreaming.  Visiting ‘deceased’ loved ones have described in detail the location of long-lost objects that were subsequently discovered.  Even more impressively, they have relayed information that was not known to anyone involved, but was later verified.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross MD had an evidentiary encounter with a deceased patient.  She was walking in the hallway toward her office one day and noticed a woman standing in the corridor.  They began talking and Dr. Kubler-Ross led the woman into her office. After a while, the doctor said with considerable amazement ‘I know you!’ and recognized the woman as ‘Mrs. Schwartz,’ a patient who had died several months earlier.  Mrs. Schwartz acknowledged her identity and the two talked for some time.  In an attempt to obtain verifiable evidence of the visit, Dr. Kubler-Ross asked the woman to write a note to the minister who had worked with them.  Afterwards, analysis of the handwriting matched samples written before Mrs. Schwartz passed over.

In his book Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Carl Jung MD reported the following evidential ADC: “One night I lay awake thinking of the sudden death of a friend whose funeral had taken place the day before.  I was deeply concerned.  Suddenly I felt that he was in the room.  It seemed to me that he stood at the foot of my bed and was asking me to go with him.  I did not have the feeling of an apparition; rather, it was an inner visual image of him, which I explained to myself as a fantasy.  Then I said to myself, ‘Proof is neither here nor there!  Instead of explaining him away as a fantasy, I might just as well give him the benefit of the doubt and for experiment’s sake credit him with reality.’  The moment I had that thought, he went to the door and beckoned me to follow him.”

Jung described following – in his mind – his friend to his house.  In the study, his friend showed Jung the second of five books with red bindings on the second shelf from the top.  Says Jung, “I was not acquainted with his library and did not know what books he owned.  Certainly, I could never have made out from below the titles of the books he had pointed out to me, on the second shelf from the top.  This experience seemed to me so curious that the next morning I went to his widow and asked whether I could look up something in my friend’s library.  I stepped up on the stool so as to be able to read the titles.  They were translations of the novels of Emile Zola.  The title of the second volume read: The Legacy of the Dead.”

In Love, Medicine and Miracles, Bernie Siegel MD shared an evidential case involving Bill, a physician with esophageal cancer.  Bill had joined an Exceptional Cancer Patient group but was quiet and distant.  Says Siegel: “Three months after Bill had died of his cancer, a young college student came to my office to interview me.  She said she’d been in a healing circle the night before and since they knew she was going to see me the next day, the medium who was directing the circle had asked if there was any message for me.  She handed me a card: “To Bernie from Bill with love and peace.  If I had known it was this easy, I’d have bought the package a long time ago and wouldn’t have resisted so much.”

Siegel continues, “When I called his wife, she said, “That’s what he always told me after the meetings.  He would attend, but he said he couldn’t buy the package.”  The people in the healing circle knew nothing about who Bill was, yet there was the same phrase he and his wife used.  ‘Love and peace’ is the closing I use for all my letters.  Who else could this note be from?  How can I help but believe and share this belief with others?”

Facilitated ADCs
involve a technique or strategy that increases the chances of having a meaningful ADC.  My Facilitated After-Death Contact technique uses deep relaxation / hypnosis, visual imagery, and other approaches to achieve this goal.  For more information, see article #9 Visiting with ‘Departed’ Loved Ones Now.

As described in his books, Reunions and The Last Laugh, Dr. Moody developed a mirror gazing ‘psychomanteum’ technique based on ancient Greek methods to visit with those who have passed on.  Many grieving persons expressed their desire to see their ‘departed’ loved ones again, even for just five minutes.  This motivated him to research practical ways to facilitate contact with those who have changed worlds.

I was trained and certified by Moody to conduct these sessions involving mirror gazing in a totally quiet and nearly darkened room.  Sensory deprivation and the mirror’s clear optical depth provide an optimal environment for detecting and communicating with dear ones who have crossed over.

Mirror gazing has been practiced on every continent over several millennia.  One hundred years ago, scientists investigating sightings of ghostly apparitions found they often occurred in mirrors or other reflective surfaces.  The technique is safe, time-tested, and there is no evidence that anyone has ever been harmed by an apparition.

A number of validations have surfaced during mirror gazing sessions led by therapists around the world. These authenticated cases further add to the depth and breadth of evidence that there is much more to life than meets the eye.  On a few occasions, several subjects in a large booth saw the same apparition as confirmed by comparing notes afterwards.

During my ‘Soul-utions’ radio interview with him, Dr. Moody discussed another validation case: “I have a good friend in France who is well known as a psychologist and journalist.  He set up the booth for a friend who had lost a loved one and was having a great deal of difficulty about it.  He left her in the booth for an hour.  When he went in to get her, she waved him away and said, ‘No, don’t come in now, something is going on.’  When he looked up, he saw the apparition too, and, heard it talking to her.  So, yes, once in a while, the facilitator also sees the apparition.”

In the following psychomanteum session that I set up, Chris and Mary joined me in the booth.  For clinical objectivity, we purposely did not share any information about whom we hoped to contact.  Twenty minutes into the session, I saw a gauzy female figure forming in the bottom of my peripheral vision.  It looked like someone at the halfway stage of getting beamed up on Star Trek.

First an outline and then the interior partly filled in so that I could see the figure of a female with long brown hair.  I looked at her directly to see more clearly and the image disappeared.  Then I recalled that postmaterial visitors are sometimes best seen with the peripheral vision.  Focusing on the visual images too intently may interfere with perception, perhaps by engaging the analytical left cerebral cortex.

I relaxed and returned my gaze toward the mirror.  Soon, the image began forming again and I mentally asked what name she went by.  A clear thought impression of the names ‘Mary’ and ‘Margaret’ immediately registered.  My analyzing brain complained that the images could be due to an over-active imagination and desire of a successful experience.

I didn’t know the person so I telepathically asked who she came to visit.  After receiving the impression that it was for Chris, my skeptical mind chimed in: ‘That’s a 50-50 chance.  How do you know you aren’t just making all this up?’

Just then, I felt a moderately forceful tap on my left shoulderIt seemed as though I was being asked: “OK, are you making that up?”

Now, to be clear, I had set up the room and knew that no one else was in there.  Through my side-vision, I could see Chris and Mary each five feet away so I knew they didn’t do it.  Several minutes later, I felt another firm tap in the same place and a brisk rubbing along the lateral aspect of my left thigh.  I started to feel a little panicky.  But then I remembered I was facilitating the session and had to remain centered.

After the session, we shared our experiences.  When I mentioned the names that I received and who they were for, Chris covered her mouth and exclaimed: “Margaret is my mother and Mary is my grandmother!  They are who I hoped to contact.”  The combination of seeing the gauzy form, being firmly touched three times, and receiving verifiable information that I did not know was potent proof for me and the others.

Induced after-death communications were described by Allan L. Botkin Psy.D. and Craig Hogan Ph.D. in their book Induced After-Death Communication.  Techniques utilizing eye movement, desensitization, and reprocessing (EMDR) are used.  This approach has been very successful with nearly all clients that hundreds of IADC-trained psychotherapists have worked with.  EDMR works equally well whether people are religious or agnostic, and for recent as well as old cases of grieving.  For more information visit Induced-ADC.com.

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

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

Let it shine,
Mark

Mark Pitstick, MA, DC is an author, master’s level clinical psychologist, holistic chiropractic physician, frequent media guest, and webinar / workshop facilitator.  He has also helped others in pastoral counseling and suicide prevention / education settings.  Mark directs The Soul Phone Foundation, founded Greater Reality Living Groups, and assists research on the SoulPhone Project.  To learn more about how Dr. Pitstick might help you, visit SoulProof.com/About.

Dr. Pitstick’s goal is to help you know and show– no matter what is happening to or around you – that this earthly experience is a totally safe, meaningful, and magnificent adventure amidst eternity.  Visit SoulProof.com for free articles, newsletters, and radio interviews with top consciousness experts.  Other resources include his very reasonably priced books, audio-products, and documentary film.

Note: Because of his many outreaches, Dr. Pitstick can no longer answer complex and/or multiple questions.  However, he has created many resources to answer your biggest questions and provide holistic solutions for your toughest challenges . . .  

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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.