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:

  1. continue to live after your earthly body dies.
  2. can interact with ‘departed’ loved ones now and after you pass on.
  3. are integral, infinite, eternal, and beloved parts of Source Energy now and always.
  4. receive guidance and support from angels, guides, master teachers, etc.
  5. are sacredly interconnected with all people, animals, and nature.
  6. have special purposes for having this earthly experience now.
  7. may manifest in other simultaneous time / space realities now and after bodily death.
  8. have everything you need to enjoy an optimal earthly experience – no matter what your past or current circumstances.
  9. can find meaning, as well as opportunities for growth and service, amidst your toughest changes and challenges.
  10. co-create how heavenly your life feels – whether living on earth or elsewhere – by your predominant thoughts, words and actions.
  11. 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:   

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  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.  That is, they can have physicality, visit earth, and are still human in meaningful ways.
  7. 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.
  8. 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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What Do I Eat?

Introduction
I am often asked what I eat.  The body that my essence inhabits was born in 1953.  (Notice that I didn’t say ‘I’ was born then, just my earth-suit that takes me from womb to tomb in this earthly experience was.  That’s a supremely important distinction.)  Deeply knowing who you are – and Who walks beside you always — is a big part of the equation about how you eat.  Living optimally on earth requires less dense foods when you know you are an integral, infinite, eternal, and beloved part of All That Is.  Deeply  remembering that also helps you treat your body like the temple of the soul that it is.

I feel happy, healthy, and energetic almost all the time.  When I don’t, I can usually evaluate the cause and correct it.  I weigh only five pounds more than when I graduated from high school.  My nutritional program is an integral part of all that.  I’m not bragging or saying I’m so great.  I am sharing keys that can help almost everyone to enjoy those sublime levels of being.

The way of eating I’ll describe may seem boring or difficult to you.  I love great tasting foods, but many years of eating healthfully have altered my definition of what tastes good.  Almonds taste sweet, fresh berries are heavenly, and I love my health drinks.  Most importantly, feeling great almost all the time is much more important than eating unhealthy foods that are sweet, fatty, processed, and convenient.

Except for occasional small servings, I avoid wheat, soy, sugar, and dairy products from cows.  Those often cause a day or two of depression, fatigue, brain fog, sinus drainage, and/or intestinal upset.  I also avoid nonorganic foods since those are chemically laden and grown in nutrient-deficient soil.  For over forty years, I’ve refined this way of eating that works very well for me.  I have eaten a nutrient-dense, semi-vegetarian diet for most of that time.

Note: I regularly enjoy prayer, yoga, meditation, and time in nature.  Every aspect of my life is working wonderfully: great health, loving relationships, prosperity, meaningful lifework, inner peace, happiness, and spiritual awakening.  All of those factors increase, balance, and refine my energy.  As a result, I don’t need the quantity of heavy foods, especially animal products, that I once did.

I also pray over my food — just a brief giving thanks and honoring the life force in the food that is being transmuted.  Nothing prolonged or showy so I can do that in public.  I like to briefly put my hands over the food as I send this thanks and recognition that all life is one.

I believe in the following credos: ‘Eat to live, not live to eat’, ‘You are what you eat’, and ‘There are other ways to get energy besides eating.’  I also am aware of the good evidence that we each are part of Source right now and sacredly interconnected with all people, animals, and Life Itself.  As such, I strive to eat so that no animals die.  My diet also contributes to planetary sustainability since a plant-based diet doesn’t require deforestation, fecal pollution, methane gas release, and other deplorable agri-business practices.

My whole food maintenance supplements from Standard Process and the daily number in parentheses include: Catalyn (6), Trace Minerals B12 (3), and Cod Liver Oil (3).  I take CardioPlus (3) for my cardiovascular system and Symplex M (3) for endocrine support.  Cataplex B (3), Cataplex G (3), and Cataplex B12 (1) support my numerous system and are important because of my vegetarian diet.

Because of these supplements and what I eat, I feel pleasantly full after eating less food.  My body isn’t always hungry ‘for something else’ and searching for key nutrients that can’t be found in devitalized foods.

Some people believe they can’t afford organic foods.  However, you might be surprised at how little you spend when you primarily prepare healthy meals at home.  In addition, ‘convenience’ and junk foods are expensive.  Finally, as mentioned, you will need less food when you follow this way of eating.

You may wonder how much time it takes to prepare meals this way.  Breakfast is super quick.  I can prepare two days-worth of my mid-day meals — Vitality Drinks and Protein Smoothies — in 20 minutes.  Listening to music or audio-books while preparing the drinks makes that seem like even less time. I store them in insulated containers like Hydro Flask in the frig so they are fresh for a day or so.  I usually work from home but can prepare those drinks and take them with me if I’m not.

For dinner . . . my fiance is an excellent cook and created tasty and super-healthful meals 3 – 4 times per week.  Andy makes granola and crackers in a dehydrator with raw seeds, nuts, and dried fruits.  She makes wonderful soups, chili, pesto, pottage, etc. from ultra-vibrant looking vegetables, herbs, legumes, etc.  As an RN, acupuncturist, essential oil clinician, yoga teacher, and nutrition-based practitioner, an optimal diet is also a priority in her life.  Her website is AndyLLee.com; her favorite recipe sources are:
1. NYTCooking.com

  1. Food52.com
  2. VegetarianTimes.com
  3. Rawterian.com
  4. MedicalMedium.com
  5. Rawsome by Brigette Mars
  6. How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman
  7. Raw & Simple by Judita Wignall
  8. Cleanse to Heal by Anthony William

Listening to music or audio-books makes that seem like a vacation.  If you don’t want to or can’t cook, pickup healthy soups and food at whole food restaurants and groceries.

I don’t recommend completely switching to my way of eating overnight since it is such a big change for most people.  However, I strongly encourage doing so if you desire to lose a significant amount of weight, heal yourself of serious symptoms or a named disease, or enjoy more vibrant living.  Otherwise, consider incrementally moving in this direction.

As always, I’m not recommending this to replace advice from your medical doctor.  I am sharing what works for me now.  My diet has changed over time and I feel it’s been a natural evolution.  Please check with your health care team before making dietary changes, especially if you have a diagnosable disease or significant symptoms such as truly high cholesterol or blood sugar levels.

I recommend the following practitioners on that team: integrative medical doctor for crises who understands the power of natural health care and works with your other team members, chiropractic physician, acupuncturist, deep tissue massage therapist, and nutrition-based practitioner.  Visit Nutrition Response Testing or Applied Kinesiology to find the latter in your area.

The foods I eat are healthfully raised with sustainable agriculture methods whenever possible.  The foods are organic or beyond organic, fresh, GMO-free, chemical-free, and not radiated, and mostly raw.  The term ‘raw’ means the foods were not exposed to temperatures over 115 degrees Fahrenheit so nutrients, enzymes, and cofactors aren’t devitalized or destroyed.

I’ve used an ‘intermittent fasting’ approach for eight years.  I usually eat dinner by 7pm and don’t eat solid food again until 12 noon.  That schedule may differ for you depending on when you arise, how active you are, your weight and health status, and other factors.  I take a handful of wholefood supplements three times a day with 16 ounces of water.

That, my diet, exercise, and a healthy hormonal system are the biggest reasons I am trim at my age.  Wait until your stomach feels empty before eating the different drinks at breakfast.  Then wait until you feel hungry again before your lunch and dinner meals.  Feeling hungry can be a little scary at first but, in time, it feels great to be lighter versus bloated and stuffed.

If I don’t feel like having the vitality and protein drinks on a certain day, I eat meals from the Light Evening Meal list, but that rarely happens.  I usually travel with my VitaMix so I can enjoy the drinks even while away from home.  Note: see Healthy Drinks* recipes below. 

My Real Food Way of Eating

Morning
I start with 16 ounces of pure warm water with juice of a freshly squeezed lemon.  An hour later, I have a drink that contains good fats and little glucose; this encourages my body to burn fats instead of sugar.  Those drinks include:

  1. Breakfast Butter Tea*
  2. Golden Milk*

That takes me to noon or thereafter when I’m ready for my mid-day meal.

Mid-Day (I usually eat the following but sometimes have something from the Evening list)
1. 32 oz. Vitality Drink*

2. serving of green tea with a tspn of honey IF my body weight is good; no honey if not.

3. 32 oz. Protein Smoothie*

Evening (I usually eat by 6:30pm to avoid indigestion / reflux at night)
1. large mixed vegetable salad, nuts, fresh fruit, and avocado if desired

  1. gluten-free Middle Eastern, Asian, Indian, or other ethnic foods
  2. yogurt from almond or coconut milk with fresh berries, granola, and nuts
  3. steamed or sautéed vegetables with brown rice/noodles, or quinoa
  4. soup with vegetables, grains and/or legumes
  5. hummus or guacamole with gluten free crackers or chips and sliced vegetables
  6. trail mix with raw nuts, seeds, granola, and dried fruit
  7. healthy — for example, from Standard Process or Garden of Life — protein bar with raw nuts
  8. rice cakes or toasted Ezekiel bread with raw almond butter and fruit jelly without sugar
  9. gluten-free cereal with chopped nuts, berries, and almond or coconut milk
  10. raw goal cheese with gluten-free crackers or melted on Ezekial bread
  11. healthy muffins with non-gluten flour, nuts, seeds, and fruit

“Snacks” (I usually have these late afternoon but with an early movie once or twice a week)

  1. three times per week: healthier snacks listed, usually dark chocolate or popcorn with pasture-raised butter and brewer’s yeast. Also gluten-free healthy potato chips, corn chips, pretzels, or other relatively healthy snack
  2. gluten-free pizza once or twice per month
  3. rarely, a decadent dessert such as healthy ice cream, gluten free chocolate chip cookies with nuts and dried fruit, or flourless chocolate cake. Just being able to have it sometimes helps me to usually not want it.

Bedtime
If I’m hungry, a cup of Bedtime Butter Tea* but I almost never need this.

*Health Drinks

Vitality Drink
42 ounces pure water, scoop of Garden of Life (GOL) Raw Greens, ½ lemon, 1 stalk celery, 4-inch section cucumber, ½ tsp. Sea or Himalayan salt, 4 Hawaiian spirulina tablets, 4 chlorella tablets, handful spinach leaves, 1 TB pumpkin seeds, 1 TB sunflower seeds, 1 TB hemp seeds, 1 TB chia seeds, 1 TB black sesame seeds, 1 large carrot, 1/4 small beet, 1 small apple, few sprigs of parsley, 2-inch piece of turmeric, 2-inch piece of ginger, handful of sunflower and/or kale sprouts.  I also add two servings of the best seasonal powdered mushrooms such as Reishi, Chaga, or Cordyceps.  Makes 64 ounces of nutrient-dense drink with extraordinary energy and satiety.

Protein Smoothie
32 ounces water, 8 ounces berries, 40 grams raw plant-based protein powder or whey protein from GOL or Standard Process (SP), 1 TB flax seeds, 1 TB Calcifood Powder (SP), 1 tspn Calcium Lactate powder (SP), 2 TB collagen from Great Lakes Gelatin, handful raw nuts, ice; 1 TB coconut oil (two if memory loss) unless you drink Butter Tea / Coffee (makes 64 oz.)

Cacao Energy
24 oz water, 3 TB almonds, 1 TB coconut butter, 1 TB cacao powder, 1 tspn Lacuma powder, ½ tspn Mesquite powder, dash cinnamon and sea salt.  Makes two servings.

Green Tea: 12 ounces water, serving of green tea, 1 tspn raw local honey  

Breakfast Butter Tea / Coffee
16 ounces pure water with tea or coffee, 1 tspn pasture-raised butter, and 1 TB MCT oil.  (If weight isn’t an issue, you can use 1 tspn Artisana coconut butter as well.)

Golden Milk
32 ounces of hot water, 2 TB. of raw almond butter, 2 TB. of coconut butter, 2 heaping tspn. of tumeric powder, and a few dashes of cinnamon and cardamom.  Blend at low speed in a Vitamix or blender.  Makes two 18 ounce servings.

Bedtime Tea (If you have trouble staying asleep because of hunger)
12 oz water, relaxing herbal tea, dash cinnamon, tspn raw honey, 1 tspn coconut butter

Note:
1. the first three drinks are best made with Vitamix blender (Vitamix.com)  A certified used model is about $300.  It lasts many years and is a great investment.

2. all ingredients should be raw, non-GMO, and organic (chemical free).  These drinks provide a wealth of nutrients in convenient and tasty ways.

3. ThriveMarket.com and Amazon.com are great sources of many of the dry ingredients

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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 . . .  

FREE ARTICLES, RADIO SHOW, AND E-NEWSLETTERS

– Articles for Transformation and Healing (top tab Articles at SoulProof.com) address the most common questions, concerns, and challenges about life, death, and afterlife.

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– Books and Documentary (Shop at SoulProof.com) provide information and strategies to help you more deeply realize and demonstrate:

  • you are a forever being of energy / consciousness
  • the many wonderful benefits of realizing this
  • how to reflect this great news in every aspect of your life — even when confronted with big challenges and changes

Webinars and Workshops: to learn about these, subscribe to newsletters at SoulProof.com and SoulPhone.org (Classes & Interviews at SoulProof.com)

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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.