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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The Nature of Humans
Much clinical and scientific evidence indicates that humans — AKA material persons — are beings of consciousness and energy – not just physical bodies. This article shares religious and spirituality views that point to the same conclusion.
Note: Material Person is my preferred term for ‘human’, ‘those living on earth’, or ‘earthling’. Why create another new term? Material person contrasts nicely with postmaterial person (PMP). These terms emphasize that – except for the earthly body – PMPs are not so different from material persons. Even though their earthly form has perished, PMPs are still human in meaningful ways. For example, they can appear in a familiar earthly guise when working with researchers. PMPs can also visit earth or stay there for extended periods of time. Finally, the term ‘earthling’ is too anchored to discussions about aliens who say: ‘Greetings, earthlings. Take us to your leader.’
More accurate understandings of the nature of Creator – love, peace, creativity, wisdom, joy, compassion, and much more – assist a fuller realization of our own. As a human being / material person, you are a magnificent creation and contain a spark of the Divine within. Realizing this and living according gives you the potential to become a bright light in our world. This message is difficult for some, especially those with fear-based religious teachings, to hear. As such, I will quote wise teachers from different religions and spiritual wisdom sources.
The first chapter of the Bible described the nature of humans. Genesis 1:27 stated, “So God created man in his own image . . . ” Psalms 82:6 says, “I have said, ye are Gods; and all of you are children of the most High.” In I Corinthians 3:16, the apostle Paul asked, “Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you?”
St. Paul said in Ephesians 4:6, “One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.” Emphasizing the word ‘all’ four times in one sentence makes it pretty clear: we each are one with Infinite Intelligence. Looking beyond the five senses reveals that we each are integral parts of Source Energy.
In Liberal Judaism and Its Standpoint, O. Lazarus summarized a Reform Jewish attitude toward death: “There is that within us which is immortal and it is not bounded by time and space. It is this, man’s soul, as it is called, which continues, so we believe, to live after the death of the body. To it, death is but an incident of life.” Kabbalistic and Mystical Judaism also believe in the immortality of the soul for all people.
In Discover The Power Within You, Unity minister Eric Butterworth stated: “You can never be separated from God because you are an expression of God, the self-livingness of God.” Speaking of Creator, British poet Alfred Tennyson wrote: “Closer is He than breathing and nearer than hands and feet.” Indian spiritual teacher Meher Baba said, “To attain union with God is so impossibly difficult because it is impossible to become what you already are!”
Christian mystic St. John of the Cross said: “Oh, then, soul most beautiful among all the creatures, so anxious to know the dwelling place of your Beloved that you may go in quest of Him and be united with Him, now we are telling you that you yourself are his dwelling . . . his secret chamber and hiding place.”
Denominations from every religion teach our essential oneness with Great Spirit. In Sufism, it is said: “I looked into myself and saw that I am He.” Referring to God, the Hindu Upanishads proclaim, “I am everywhere, shining forth from all beings.” Christianity states, “The Father and I are One.” Islam said, “All is Allah.”
‘Isness Is’, ‘God is One’, and ‘I Am That I Am’ are other ways of stating: there is no separation or duality in life. As Joel Goldsmith wrote in The Infinite Way, “That which I am seeking, I am.” These timeless quotes can help expand your perception of what humans really are.
In To Know Your Self, Sri Swami Satchidananda wrote: “Know that it’s not the Self that needs Yoga. It’s always tranquil. But the limited mind goes through these practices to expand and see the Self clearly. Then, when the Seer sees his Self and rests in his true nature, he sees the real face which is never disturbed. You are the image of God. You are the Infinite by yourself. Remember the goal: Aim at something great. All of you can be Buddhas, Christs, Mohammeds, great sages, and saints.”
Neil Douglas-Klotz PhD is a religious scholar, poet, and Sufi teacher. In his book Prayers of the Cosmos, he related varied Aramaic meanings of the first line of the Lord’s Prayer “Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.” These include: “Radiant One: You shine within us, outside us — even darkness shines — when we remember. Focus your light within us — make it useful as the rays of a beacon show the way. O Birther! Father-Mother of the Cosmos, you create all that moves in light.”
Many viewpoints agree that we each are one with the Light. It’s not a matter of attaining this status but, rather, realizing and demonstrating it. In Matthew 5:13, Jesus is described as speaking to the multitudes at the Sermon on the Mount: “Ye are the light of the world.” He encouraged them to let their lights shine to glorify God.
From a more contemporary perspective, I don’t think the Creator and Sustainer of all life needs unending praise. The whole reflects the parts; All That Is expands and evolves as more people do. That is the greatest respect and gratitude we can show.
Good evidence suggests that you can reflect your inner light and energy in more than one place and time. To learn more about this exciting possibility, read article #75: Multilocation: Are You Having Simultaneous Life Experiences Now?
I and eleven consciousness experts – Raymond Moody, Caroline Myss, Anita Moorjani, Gary Schwartz, and others – discussed contemporary understandings about the question ‘Who am I?’ in The Eleven Questions. You also can hear our interviews at Radio Shows.
Commenting on our essential soul / energy natures, eminent theologian and psychologist Dr. William James stated: “Only when I become as nothing can God enter in and no difference between his life and mine remain outstanding. This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the Absolute is the great mystic achievement. In mystic states, we become one with the Absolute and we become aware of our oneness.”
Again, with the perspective of living in 2021, my view is that we each are already one with the Absolute; our task is to become aware of that and reflect that in every aspect of our lives.
I hope this article helps you realize who you really are more deeply. You are a being of energy, consciousness, spirit, awareness. You lived before being born on earth and will continue living after your physical body dies. This understanding, needless to say, is a huge benefit as you experience life’s changes and challenges.
Knowing your true nature allows you to enjoy this brief earthly experience as an adventure. Remembering your real identity helps you grow, learn, serve, and enjoy – no matter what is going on around you.
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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.
