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:
- continue to live after bodily death.
- do not really lose ‘departed’ people and pets and can interact with them again.
- are integral, infinite, eternal, and beloved parts of Source Energy / Creator.
- receive assistance / guidance from angels, guides, master teachers, evolved energies.
- are sacredly interconnected with all people, animals, and nature.
- have special purposes for being on this planet at this time.
- have everything you need to survive and thrive during this earthly adventure.
- possess a magnificent, self-healing body that can optimize your earthly experience.
- can find meaning and trust the timing behind life’s biggest changes such as death.
- co-create how heavenly / hellish your life feels by your thoughts, words and deeds.
- can find silver linings and opportunities for growth and service amidst challenges.
- 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:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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: they can have physicality, visit earth, and are still human in meaningful ways.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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Evidence-Based Teachings About the Nature of Reality
Please do not read any further if you are happy with answers that your religion provides about your earth experience, bodily death, and afterlife. If you are a true believer in a very conservative or fundamentalist denomination, this article may confuse, frustrate, or even anger you.
Read on if you are searching for sensible and evidence-based answers to your biggest religious / spiritual questions.
Many people have been turned off by traditional religions — especially those of the fundamentalist variety — that teach simplistic, fear-based, and/or bizarre concepts. From my theological school studies, I learned this historical fact: theBible has been significantly changed over the millennia by various additions, deletions, interpretations, translations, and updates.
For more information about these well-documented changes, I recommend books by Bart Ehrman, PhD, Karen Armstrong, Bishop John Spong, and Neil Douglas-Klotz, PhD.
I have some knowledge about and have benefited from Hinduism, Buddhism, liberal Judaism, Sufism, and native spirituality wisdom sources. However, I am most familiar with Christianity: I was raised a Lutheran; attended Nazarene services; studied Biblical history and pastoral counseling at a Methodist theology school; and attended services at Unity, Unitarian-Universalist, United Church of Christ (UCC), Spiritualist, and Centers for Spiritual Living (Science of Mind and Religious Science).
The following conservative Christian teachings are, for me and many other people, most difficult to accept:
- There’s only one way to salvation, heaven, and God.
- Because Adam sinned, all people are born into sin.
- God loves you but will send you to – or allow you to choose – hell if you think, speak, or act in a certain way.
- Certain actions such as suicide and blaspheming God are unforgiveable sins that automatically lead to fiery eternal torment.
- Heaven is way up in sky somewhere, while Hell is deep in the Earth’s core.
- God is a huge, mercurial, bearded man in the sky who sits on a throne while judging, condemning, smiting or assisting as He – in His infinite wisdom and power – deems best.
- The Creator and Sustainer of the entire cosmos had only one son. God would / could only forgive humans – that He created and deemed as very good – if this son suffered and died.
- Humans need an intermediary—a pastor, priest, his only son, or angel — to forgive their sins, connect them to God, and assist entry into heaven
My sources for the following statements include: scientific, clinical, and experience evidence about the big picture of life. These include glimpses from scientific studies indicating that ‘departed’ persons are alive, can communicate, and want to help us on earth. Clinical evidence includes reports from near-death experiencers; replicated input from life between lives sessions; information from authentic mediums; after-death communications; and firsthand experiences such as perceptions of angelic visits.
Other sources include ‘the perennial philosophy’ – the overlap of esoteric views from major and native religions. Finally, I consider common sense and philosophical perspectives about how the Source of All Life would most probably act.
1. You are an integral part of Source Energy right now. This realization eliminates any question of there being only one way to God since all people already have unique relationships with It. You are, by your very nature, part and parcel of All That Is. Infinite Intelligence is like an ocean and you are an important part of the whole – like a drop of water in the ocean – but a very important drop. The saying “Truth is one, paths are many” recognizes that there many ways to awaken to this great news.
I and eleven consciousness experts – Raymond Moody, Caroline Myss, Anita Moorjani, Gary Schwartz, and others – discuss contemporary understandings about this and other topics in The Eleven Questions. You also can hear our interviews at Radio Shows. Learn more about this topic by reading article #15: The Nature of Humans.
2. God is not a big guy in the sky. The power and presence behind the cosmos creates and sustains – on an ongoing basis – love, intelligence, energy, spirit, beauty, peace, and much more. Believing in a God created in our image has wreaked disastrous results, especially in justifying mistreatment of those who are different in any way.
I prefer the term E.L.G.O.D. when referring to the Ground of All Being to help break past archaic limiting images. Those letters stand for the ‘energizing, loving, guiding, organizing, and directing’ process that is behind all life and is all life. To learn more about my understandings of Source, read article #13 What Is G.O.D. Really Like?
3. Heaven and hell are primarily states of consciousness. There are many different levels of existence here and in the hereafter. You can experience heaven or hell while on earth or in any other time / space perspective. Your consciousness can manifest different apparent physical realms. If your awareness / way of being is lower energy and chaotic, your perceptions of reality will appear angry, fearful, hateful, depressing, and hopeless.
If you / your level of being is higher and balanced, your world will appear to be loving, peaceful, equitable, exciting, and much more. What we perceive around us is directly created by our consciousness, beliefs, and world view.
Your degree of love and higher energies directly determines whether your life seems heavenly or hellish. That can be true whether you are manifesting an earthly experience now, or one in another place and time.
The only hells that exist are temporary and self-induced. Any doors in hell can be opened from the inside. With help from the Light and your Higher Energy Assistants – which is always a given – you can choose a higher and finer level of existence anytime you are ready.
4. Past religious teachers were doing the best they could with the information they had. Several thousand years ago, people thought the world was flat and the Sun revolved around the Earth. You can imagine their perplexity in trying to fathom the mysteries of this earthly experience, bodily death, and afterlife. They weren’t right about a number of things, but you can benefit from their teachings that make sense and align with contemporary evidence. Discard the nonsensical parts, release any anger toward them, and let go of fears about their erroneous teachings.
Over the years, I’ve spoken with many wise older persons. Many of them said that schizoid messages taught in conservative churches never made sense to them as a child. Trust what your inner heart knows about how an all loving, caring, and wise Source would be.
5. It’s time to forgive powerful political and religious rulers who led us astray. It’s the oldest game on the planet. Some rich and powerful men (almost always men) want even more money and power – no matter how many people they hurt or oppress. That goes on now and did during the formative years of most religions. You can increase and upgrade your personal energy by forgiving their misdeeds and moving on.
6. There are no unforgivable sins. No matter what the transgression, what good earthly parents would send their child to eternal torment? How, then, can any people think that Great Spirit would do this? You can now release any worriesthat your thoughts, words, and deeds could send you to a never-ending hell or separate you from Source. You are inextricably interconnected with Universal Intelligence whether you know it or not.
To be clear, this view does not condone or encourage hurting others in any way. It’s clear that we each must eventually see and feel what we have done to others. Wrong doers experience a temporary and self-created hell – not from a judgmental deity but as a result of their behaviors. This is well documented by life review reports from near-death experiencers. To learn more about this important topic, see article #14 Heaven and Hell: What Are They Really?
Salvation / enlightenment / eternal life doesn’t require earning your way into heaven, joining the supposedly one true religion, or believing certain doctrines. It’s a matter of:
a. realizing you are a unique, beloved, and eternal being who is an integral part of
the One right now.
b. becoming aware that (a.) is true for everyone else and treating them as such.
c. applying higher energies of love, peace, service, etc. in all aspects of your life.
7. You can release old fear-based religious teachings, but still honor their roots. Every religion has remarkably similar core or esoteric teachings:
- Love one another.
- Treat others the way they would like to be treated.
- Serve others and share your special gifts.
- Know that you are one with Source now and always.
- Realize that death is an entry to the next phase of oft-changing, but never-ending life.
8. What churches and spiritual groups do I recommend? Over the years, I’ve found what I consider to be more enlightened, love-centered, and service-oriented denominations. These were listed in the introduction: Unity, Unitarian-Universalist, United Church of Christ (UCC), Spiritualist, and Centers for Spiritual Living (Science of Mind and Religious Science). I’ve also found much wisdom in and guidance from the major religions and native-based spirituality sources.
Other Christian denominations can be good IF they:
- focus more on being like Jesus, Buddha, and other great religious teachers: love, serve, forgiv, heal, and teach the eternal nature of humans and interconnection among all life.
- avoid judging and pretending they possess an exclusive path to God.
- have respect and appreciation for other approaches that try their best to follow (1) and (2)
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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.
