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Hacking the Afterlife and David BowieI got an email recen...

Hacking the Afterlife and David Bowie

I got an email recently from a friend who is a University professor with a PhD in Philosophy. He'd just begun to read "Flipside."

"One of the more delightfully frustrating experiences that I’ve had over the years is “knowings” in the dream state that “immediately begin to slip away once awake".  Many times my first waking thought is “I must remember this”, and then a few minutes later I can’t even remember what I was supposed to remember.  I’ve sort of made peace with this, and trust that I’ll remember when I’m supposed to. Richard, I’ve finally started reading Flipside.  It’s a bitterly cold day here, and I intend to spend it immersed in your book, sipping hot coffee.  It’s really not “new” information for me, as the “in-between” state is discussed in some detail in the Seth Material, which I read many years ago.  Again, consistency not only from case to case, but also with a large body of “channeled” information. Reading case after case after case firms up the knowledge, and never bores me.  Are you familiar with the work of Dolores Cannon?"

Here's my reply:

I've explored the Seth material, and after finding inconsistencies as well as watching the youtube videos of the channeling of Seth, I've noted that talking to a "higher power" or a "spirit guide" doesn't mean that spirit guide is omniscient.  Further, that the spirit guide is limited to their observations of the world and the number of lifetimes they've observed.  That's a lot of information, and a lot of lifetimes, but it also can be based on inaccurate data.  (For those unfamiliar with the "Seth material" a  Jane Roberts began to "channel" a "higher entity" which became a series of books in the 70's, her husband transcribed what she said, and later filmed some of her sessions.)

For example, if I access my spirit guide, and I ask him to tell me what his experience was like in say, the Roman era, he's going to impart to me by way of images and experience what he experienced.  He's projecting images, thoughts and reflections that are being received by me, and as such are subject to interpretation.  There's syntax, as well as my ability to decipher through my brain and into my vocal chords what I'm seeing or experiencing.  Same goes for the Seth material - someone speaking to us from a different realm.  They're limited by their experiences in their lifetimes (which can be a positive thing) and the woman who is "channeling" Seth is equally constrained by her ability to speak. Also, gauging what the essence of a question might be, and whether the person asking the question can understand the answer.

Recently, I did an interview with Kevin Moore in the UK on his blog.  At some point I asked if we could access his "spirit guide" and we did so, on air so to speak.  And I realized he was claiming to channel Edgar Cayce - later I found that in his meditations he'd been claiming to access Cayce, but I didn't know it at the time.  So my first question to "Cayce" was "Why is it that you were so inaccurate in nearly all your predicitons about the future?"  I figured if he was pretending to channel Cayce, he might try to defend the many mistakes, or if he somehow was channeling Cayce, he would have a logical solution that goes along with the other research I've done. 

Here's the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVaYG9XEZ9A


And "Cayce" said "The future is not set, it's a series of possibilities."  Which is precisely what I've heard and observed, and is contrary to what Seth has to say. So how to reconcile Seth's idea that "time does not exist" with what I've heard repeatedly that "time exists relatively?"  

I got that answer from another spirit guide (interviewing a professor online, during his interview, he accessed his spirit guide who said) "think of time like a string. It's linear.  However when you turn the string to your eye, it is merely a circle that contains all time along its length, but you can't see the length."  So time is relative to the person who observes it.  

I found that to be more helpful than Seth's observation that "time does not exist."  I would argue (with Seth, if need be) that time is relative, and its useless to argue that it doesn't exist when it does exist relatively in terms of spiritual progression.  We have young souls and old souls - and they didnt' start that way, they progress over there in the spirit world as well.

A long way of saying that I have found that body of research in this field has skirted the surface of the iceberg so to speak. Once you get a glimpse on the architecture of the afterlife, then other answers come into focus.  

For example, while asking questions to "Cayce" I asked him "So why were you so accurate when it came to healing people during your trances? Were you accessing a previous lifetime as a doctor, where you accessing your higher self to answer those questions, or was it someone else entirely?"  

He answered "Someone else. A council."  So I asked "Is it possible for this council to come forward and answer some questions?" and "Cayce" said "yes."

I use "quotes" because again, I'm talking to a young man in the UK who claims to channel Cayce during his meditations.  This fellow has never "asked questions" like the ones I'm asking him - and of course he could be making the answers up, could be getting it wrong, or any other number of possibilities.  But it doesn't hurt to ask.

So Cayce accessed this "medical council" that he says he used to help him with his healing predictions while he was in trance.
I asked the council members directly who they were, and they said they had all been doctors or healers in other realms. That they had never incarnated on earth, but had incarnated in lifetimes in other worlds. I asked them a number of questions about their ability to transmit the accurate information to Cayce while he was alive. (and if you check into the accuracy of what Cayce was doing - he was amazing effective in healing people who would write to him from around the planet, he would go into a trance and prescribe some medicine for them, Cayce having had no medical training.) 

However, like I say, when it came to Cayce predicting the future (as people asked him to do - "hey, you're in a trance, why don't you tell us what's going to happen in 100 years?") Cayce was for the most part wrong. Inaccurate.

But "Cayce" freely admitted that was the case, because from this perspective he couldn't see that predicting the future is a fool's game, because the future is not set. There are likely outcomes and sometimes mediums or psychics pick up on those outcomes, but they aren't set in stone because of free will.

Free will dictates the operation of the universe, and there's no amount of wanting the future to have an outcome that can change that.  At least that's why my research shows.

As to Dolores Canon - again, from my research into her work, not a fan.  Yes, I think she fell into accessing the experience people have in previous lifetimes, and the between life realm - but she started to opine about the meaning of these memories, not allowing that everyone's memory of their experience is different, and they may not be related or relatable to our own experience.  In other words, she abandoned the idea of science - observation and comment, in favor of predicting the future, making claims about UFOs and the nature of the universe that aren't substantiated.  So I'm not a fan of her work. 

As I'm fond of saying "Just because there's evidence of an afterlife doesn't mean you have to start wearing a pyramid hat."  People have this general fear of the unknown, and when someone proves to them that the flipside exists, it can lead to people suddenly saying "so what about ufos? what about pyramid power? ancient aliens?"  I suggest taking everything, including what I'm observing with a grain, or healthy dose, of salt.  I offer it not because it's what I believe, or its part of a philosophy of new ageism, but merely because it's in the data.

Thousands of people say relatively the same things about the afterlife while under deep hypnosis, after experiencing a near death experience, or some other consciousness altering event.  All I'm doing in my work is showing how remarkably similar these accounts are. I've filmed 25 sessions with people under deep hypnosis, have done four myself, and have observed the same experiences others have.  Does that make them real? Does that mean I have an answer to an age old question? That's not up to me to argue, I offer the data for others to examine and absorb.

If you'd like to examine some data that corresponds to the research that Michael Newton did in his work, I recommend checking into Helen Wambach's work. I cite it in "It's a Wonderful Afterlife." Dr. Wambach was a clinical psychologist from New Jersey who started using group hypnosis about a decade before Michael Newton and published her results in a couple of books.  Basically she got the same results that Newton did - people claiming that we choose our lifetimes, that we do it sometimes out of a need to help others, sometimes out of a need to understand something ourselves, or even cases of people claiming that their loved ones "talked them into" a lifetime they weren't prepared for.  She also cites examples of "Councils" "Guides" and others in these decisions.  

In terms of the people I've been focusing on lately, I recommend Mario Beauregard "Brain Wars" a neuroscientist in Montreal who is doing fMRIs on people under hypnosis (I put him together with a hypnotherapist trained in Newton's method) and he's getting some interesting data. For example, he's already learned there is no locus in the brain for these visions or memories of previous lifetimes.  In other words, when a person is remembering something from a previous lifetime it's not coming from any particular spot on the brain.  as if it's coming from someplace else.  Interesting.

Dr. Bruce Greyson at UVA is part of the DOPS group - Dept of Percecptual Studies, which includes other scientists who have done excellent research into consciousness or reports of past lives. (Dr. Jim Tucker, Ed Kelly, etc). Their book "Irreducible Mind" is a textbook in the field of psychology. (Written for and by scientists).

My latest focus is on "Hacking the Afterlife."  Once we allow that people who existed here, still exists somewhere - meaning their energetic pattern doesn't dissipate, doesn't disappear, the energy of people who die here, goes back to the other two thirds of their energy that always exists in the between lives realm - if that's accurate, then accessing someone who used to live on the planet is just a matter of asking questions.

Take anyone in history for example.  Ben Franklin let's say.  So Ben Franklin was an individual who chose his lifetime, and came here to the planet to live that experience of being Ben.  When Ben died, he returned to that energy that was the other two thirds of Ben (as noted in Flipside, only about a third of our energy shows up here, generally).  And since then, likely, Ben has incarnated again.  

Recently I've discovered that you don't have to be under hypnosis to ask these questions - anyone appears to have the same ability to do so.  (Here's an interview I shot with a hypnotherapist Scott De Tamble about the technique) But for the sake of the research, let's pretend you're speaking to someone who is either under hypnosis, who has had a near death experience, or some other event happen in their lifetime where the spiritual door was "opened" so to speak.

I'll ask "Can we talk to Ben Franklin?"  The person can say "Yes" "No" or "I don't know."  Some may say "Sure."  And then I ask for whomever it is that's guiding this person to facilitate the conversation.  "Hello Ben, thank you for showing up to answer some questions. I'm going to ask you directly and if possible, you'll answer through our friend here, is that okay?"  Again, the answers are Yes, no and some version of "I don't think so." Then I'll ask "So are you aware of other lifetimes that you had here on earth and if so, what are they?"  I'll ask "How do you think you did in your lifetime as Ben?"  I'll ask "Is there anything that you did or didn't do in your lifetime as Ben you'd like to revisit?"  I'll ask "Have you incarnated again, and if so where or who are you?"  

The idea is not to judge the answers.  After all, it's an exercise in speaking to the subconscious. We can't know if it's really Ben or not, unless we ask Ben to give us an answer to a question only Ben would know, or ask Ben to give us an answer to a question that we know for certain the person answering the question couldn't know, that not even Ben would have known - but is apparent that someone who is outside our frame of reference could see. (Like, "I've hidden a shoe in a barn not far from where we are. What color is it?")  In terms of answers - of course we're never going to 100% accuracy - after all, the ability to access information even from our own minds is difficult.  But if there's a consensus of answers - like we ask Ben and ten other people the same question, what are the odds that we get the same answer?

And that's where the gold is. What if we could ask questions to scientists no longer on the planet who could help us eliminate pollution, find new sources of renewable energy, or change the climate so it's healthier? Even if each answer is different, there might be a response that inspires a scientist on the planet to explore an avenue they hadn't thought of before.

And now for something different, yet similar:

The world lost a great artist in David Bowie. But if you take the time to examine his latest work, "Blackstar" you'll see hints of his observations on the Flipside.  In "Lazarus" literally drifts up into space while singing "Look up, you'll see me."

Condolences to his friends, family and fans.  But he's not gone, he's just not here.  Some great observations from the great artist:
(quotes and photos courtesy Sydney Morning Herald)

David Bowie in his own words DateJanuary 11, 2016Read laterinSharesubmit to redditRock icon David Bowie dead at 69David Bowie has died following a battle with cancer, just days after celebrating his 69th birthday and releasing his final album, Blackstar.Autoplay ONOFFVideo feedbackVideo settingsDavid Bowie was the most articulate of rock stars and always gave great interview. Here's a round up of quotes from an artist who provided better running commentary on his life and work than all his critics combined. On his stage persona "My performances have got to be theatrical experiences for me as well as for the audience. I don't want to climb out of my fantasies in order to go up onstage — I want to take them on stage with me." Rolling Stone , 1971Advertisemnt
3rd July 1973: David Bowie in concert at the Hammersmith Odeon, on 3rd July 1973, the last concert performed in the guise of  Ziggy Stardust. (Photo by Steve Wood/Express/Getty Images) Photo: Getty ImagesOn style"I'm just a cosmic yob, I suppose. I've always worn my own style of clothes."Melody Maker, 1972On robotics"I should like to replace all parts of my body with plastic equivalents. Then I couldn't grow old."Music Scene, 1973On death"I've now decided that my death should be very precious. I really want to use it. I'd like my death to be as interesting as my life has been and will be." Playboy , 1976On sexuality "It's true - I am a bisexual. But I can't deny that I've used that fact very well. I suppose it's the best thing that ever happened to me. Fun, too."Playboy, 1976[image error]
British pop singer David Bowie in concert at Earl's Court, London during his 1978 world tour. (Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)On talent"The worst joke God can play on you is to make you an artist, but only a mediocre artist."NME, 1980On performing a role "As an adolescent, I was painfully shy, withdrawn. I didn't really have the nerve to sing my songs onstage and nobody else was doing them. I decided to do them in disguise so that I didn't have to actually go through the humiliation of going onstage and being myself."Musician, 1983 On addiction"My problem was cocaine, and then I went from cocaine to alcohol, which is a natural course of events. You have to be lucky enough to have friends around you who want you to succeed, but you also have to want to stop yourself. You have to know in your own mind that you don't want to go on like that. That's the biggest hurdle. And if you can overcome that, then you're OK."i-D, 1987On fame"I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants." Q , 1990On Lennon'I loved John. I remember asking him once what he thought of glam rock and he said: "It's just fooking rock and roll with lipstick."'Telegraph, 1997On the future "I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring."On stage at Madison Square Gardens, 1997[image error]
 Photo: APOn death and cigarettes "I can't think of a time that I didn't think about death. There again, I've been smoking all my life so it's hard to not equate the two together."to Jarvis Cocker, The Big Issue, 1997On advice "Any list of advice I have to offer to a musician always ends with 'If it itches, go and see a doctor'."on receiving an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music, Boston, 1999On his songs "I feel that I've consistently written about the same subjects for 35… nearly 40 years. There's really been no room for change with me. It's all despondency, despair, fear, isolation, abandonment."BBC, 2002On refusing a knighthood"I would never have any intention of accepting anything like that. I seriously don't know what it's for. It's not what I spent my life working for."The Sun, 2003
David Bowie performs at the Sydney Entertainment Centre in 2003. Photo: Domino PostiglioneOn drugs and creativity "So many people find it fashionable to say you couldn't write those things if you weren't on drugs and all that. I just doubt that's the truth at all, because some of the best things I wrote in [the 1970s were when] I had already cleaned up." 730 Report , 2004On the afterlife "Questioning my spiritual life has always been germane to what I was writing. Always. It's because I'm not quite an atheist and it worries me."Beliefnet, 2005
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Let It Go and The Revenant

Happy New Year!   The title of the new film "Revenant" is apt for a Flipside discussion - it means "coming back" in French, but the English used it to refer to people who came back from the grave to seek revenge. In like form, according to the research I've been doing about the flipside, we come back here to the planet after a lifetime - not to right wrongs, or correct karma, but because we choose to come back here and learn or teach some lesson. 

The Revenant  The film (and book) is based on the true story of this hunter who was mauled by a bear, but they added more events to ensure a stronger connection of "revenge" for what transpires in the film, and added an actual scene of revenge - when in actuality, after his epic journey back to life, Glass actually returned to find that his principal enemy had rejoined the army which kept him out of his reach of justice - of seeking revenge. 
 How can we take the lessons from the Flipside and apply them to our daily lives?  A person wrote to me recently and noted "What's the point of knowing we reincarnate if there's nothing we can do about it?"  Ah, there's the rub.   According to the thousands of cases of people I've examined under deep hypnosis, or who've had near death experiences, they report that we choose to come here to the planet. So when we allow that it's possible we choose to come here - doesn't it make sense for us to return to a planet that has fresh water, air and land?   

There's gold in them there hills. And every obstacle we overcome. If we are coming back, then keep the campsite clean.  If everyone chooses to come here, and chooses basically what role they're going to play - why do we spend so much time worrying about what role someone else is playing?  We can't tell them not to play the role - we can't stop them from playing the role, all we can do is appreciate how good or bad they are at playing the role.  We can offer them alternative paths to go down - so that they don't have to suffer, fear or feel abandoned while they're here. But we certainly are in no position to judge their choice of a role - they've had many choices over many lifetimes, and we can't possibly know or fathom why a person makes a choice to lead a difficult life.  But we can appreciate that they made a tough choice.
  In the flipside, people report a lack of fear, a lack of angst, evil, or negativity - in fact they report the opposite. A profound feeling of connectedness, a feeling of "unconditional love" that they can't express in words. What does unconditional love mean?  As opposed to conditional love - i.e., I love you only when you're nice to me. If my natural state of being (which of course is not being here, it's offstage, as that's where we spend the bulk of our time) then why can't I allow a bit more of that unconditional love into my daily life? 
And further, when we open our point of view to include the idea that we aren't "only" here - people claim only a percentage of our "soul's energy" is in our body at any given time (most people claim it's about a third of their total energy - and claim that 2/3s is always "back home" or "in the between lives realm") - where we experience other realities, other events.  I know how odd it sounds, but I'm just reporting the data. 
 Just opening our point of view to include that concept as a possibility - that we all have a higher self that keeps an eye on us, we can access guides and wiser individuals - as crazy as it sounds - is in the data.  Thousands of people have said basically the same things about the afterlife - I'm just reporting what they said. And when we start to think of these reports as data - as an algorithm of life - by shifting perspective, we can lose some of that fear, get over some of that anxiety, let go of some of that anger, animosity, resentment, we hold towards other beings for slights known and unknown.
    The Dalai Lama has a great quote that in essence says "You can't control how others behave, but you can control how you react to them."   We can't control how or why others choose to perform on stage, or what role they've chosen and we can't really castigate ourselves for choosing the role we've chosen - even though it may not be self-evident - just knowing that we chose to be here, takes a bit of the sting out of the crazy events that happen on a daily basis.

From Friends of the Dalai Lama So while examining the flipside from this perspective - that based on the data and research from the hundreds of cases I've examined - there are these concepts that we can use to enhance our current life. 

  I'll close with this thought - when beginning this research, I was fairly skeptical, and agreed to do my first between life session to see if I could prove it was false or somehow "directed."  Instead, I had the same basic experience many have - visiting wise elders to have an amazing feeling of meeting people who have been helping guide me for lifetimes.   Consciously I was in a bit of shock - as I watched my "higher self" make jokes with and ask questions to these individuals who gave answers I could never have conceived.  And as the session drew to a close, I asked if there was any concept I could bring back with me, to share with loved ones, or anyone open to hear about what I'd seen.  I heard myself say "just let go."

That's right. Just let it go.   I realized I meant to let go of fear, let go of anger, let go of resentment, let go of prejudice of judgment of others, let go of it all because we're on the path we're supposed to be on.   I'd offer that it's probably the most important afterlife hack that I can pass along to anyone who can embrace it; "just let go." 
  Attached is a talk I did with Kevin Moore in the UK, at some point he begins to "channel" what he says is his spirit guide, so I took the opportunity to ask him a few questions with interesting answers. For more info, or to donate, please check out HackingTheAfterlife.com

Flipside, football, film... and happy new year.

The Flipside, Football and Film.... and Happy New Year to you....

As y'all know, I've spent the past 8 years or so filming people under deep hypnosis. I've reported what they've said in my books "Flipside: A Tourist's Guide on How to Navigate the Afterlife" and film "Flipside: a Journey into the Afterlife," and "It's a Wonderful Afterlife" volumes one and two.  Basically, I've been reporting what people say under deep hypnosis, a technique pioneered by Michael Newton ("Journey of Souls").

I report that when the research is examined, we find reports that are consist across the spectrum of people who have had a near death experience, out of body experience, or some other consciousness altering event.  I've been gathering stories about what people have said about the afterlife, including stories from people who claim to communicate with those on the flipside, in my new tome, "Hacking the Afterlife" which will be out sometime in the new year.

Couple of stories came to my attention recently - and it's with regard to people getting a "sense" that events that have happened in their life might have had more than meets the eye to their occurrence.  Some folks consider this coincidence - but if you're into consciousness studies, you'll find people like Harvard's Gary Schwartz PhD and UVA's Dr. Bruce Greyson are writing and studying "coincidence" from a scientific point of view. But is coincidence really random? Or is it possibly part of a larger fabric of who we are as human beings? On a quantum level?

Yesterday in the LA Times, there was an article about a kicker for Stanford. 

Can Conrad Ukropina give Stanford a closing kick? He's done so, memorably





Stanford place kicker Conrad Ukropina is lifted by fans and teammates after hitting a 45-yard field goal as time expired to give Stanford a 38-36 win over Notre Dame Nov. 28.
(Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP)


Mike DiGiovannaContact Reporter Conrad Ukropina needed a strong leg, good technique and timing, supreme concentration and confidence and endless hours of practice to become the kicker he is today, the starter for a Stanford team that will play Iowa in the Rose Bowl on Friday.

He also caught a few breaks. Literally.

Ukropina, who grew up in Pasadena, about four miles from the Rose Bowl, enrolled at Los Angeles Loyola High in 2008 and won the starting quarterback job on the freshman team.

But a week before the first game, Ukropina got spun awkwardly during a tackling drill and sustained four fractures in his left forearm, an injury that sidelined him for two months.



"That was a bummer, but I had just made 100 new friends on the team so I really wanted to stay with them," Ukropina said. "I had a cast on but went to practice every day. All I could do on the sideline was kick. I would literally kick the ball into a fence when I was bored. I kind of discovered a hidden talent."




Ukropina played soccer but had never kicked a football before suffering that broken arm. In his first game, near the end of his freshman season, he made a 44-yard field goal. By his sophomore year, he was kicking for the Loyola varsity, and by his junior year he was training with a private coach.

During the summer before his senior year, Ukropina won the kickoff, punt and field-goal competitions at Stanford's kicking camp, which ultimately led to a scholarship offer.
Now look at him: A redshirt junior on the sixth-ranked team in the nation, he's made 17 of 19 field-goal attempts this season — including a dramatic 45-yard walk-off kick to give Stanford a 38-36 win over fourth-ranked Notre Dame on Nov. 28 — and all 61 of his extra-point attempts. He might even have a shot at the NFL.

"Isn't it funny?" Ukropina said of his fortuitous break. "I don't want to use the word fate, but there was some sense that that's what was supposed to happen."

Ukropina spent 2013 and 2014 as the backup to Cardinal career scoring leader Jordan Williamson before moving into the lead role this season. He thrived in the spotlight, kicking a pair of field goals in each of Stanford's two wins over USC and his memory-maker against Notre Dame. "He's made some big kicks for us this year," said Pete Alamar, Stanford's special-teams coordinator. "He's handled the stage well.".....

 
Rose Bowl Flipside: "Isn't it funny?" Ukropina said of his fortuitous break. "I don't want to use the word fate, but there was some sense that that's what was supposed to happen." This is a story about a kid who broke a bone, it kept him from the goal - but that break put him on the path he was supposed to be on. 

We can't see how setbacks, breaks, loss, problems in our lives turn us in the right direction - unless we look closely. I've been filming people under hypnosis for eight years saying the EXACT SAME THING. "That setback, that tragedy, that loss was the reason for my change, my life gaining meaning, my victory." Once we take "Time" out of the equation (easy to say, hard to do) we get a glimpse of our lives as a brilliant story conference, with highlights and low-lights planned in advance so we get the most out of it. 

Not every mark is hit, not every goal is made - but we do our valiant best to make it the best damn show anyone's ever seen us do. Make the most out of your new year by looking into these highlights and low-lights as steps along the path that lead you to victory. And enjoy the Rose Bowl too.

Even the actress who stars in the latest Stars Wars film had a "Flipside" feeling that she should audition for the lead in the new film:



"I emailed my agent that I have this really weird feeling; I really feel like I need to audition," recalls Ridley." 

"My first few auditions really didn't feel good, but my last audition suddenly felt like something clicked," says the 23-year-old Londoner.

A version of this story first appeared in the Nov. 13 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe.
Before landing one of the most coveted roles of the decade, Star Wars: The Force Awakens heroine Daisy Ridley had become accustomed to disappointment. In the months leading up to her first audition for Episode VII's female lead, the 23-year-old actress' confidence was shattered. Just one week into a gig with a small workshop, she was told not to bother coming back. And then after nabbing a lead role in the E4 series Youngers, the part was cut down to just one day of filming. "I was kind of used to things not happening, so I just felt the whole way through [the Episode VII audition process], 'I'm going to lose the job. They're going to find someone better than me,'" she recalls. Even her first two Star Wars auditions were underwhelming — at least from her perspective. Remarkably, Ridley kept getting called back, and something clicked in that final audition, propelling her past the horde of hopefuls. Now, she says with a degree of satisfaction, "I've got opportunities I didn't have before." That's an understatement.

Though the CAA-repped actress is well booked with Episode VIII, which begins shooting in January in London, and then Episode IX, she will soon be familiar to a globe-spanning fan base and presumably have her pick of roles and directors. 

But even after seizing the role of Rey, Ridley continued to face rejection. She recounts being turned down for an unnamed film role in the past year after a sweat-induced wardrobe malfunction in front of a casting agent. "I'm sure the star they cast is much better than me," she muses. Perhaps it's that self-deprecating air that helped win over Force Awakens director J.J. Abrams and the Lucasfilm brass. And whether her career trajectory is more Harrison Ford or Hayden Christensen, Ridley has a backup plan in play: She's begun taking courses for a psychology degree. And of course, she's staying put in London, where she lives with her family and her deaf and blind dog named Muffin. "I love to come to L.A. to visit, and then I like to come to rainy old London because it's home," she says. The Hollywood Reporter talked to Ridley about her impossible ascent from obscurity to Next Gen Hollywood force.

How did you land the part of Rey?

I had heard about the role quite a while before I auditioned, and I emailed my agent that I have this really weird feeling; I really feel like I need to audition. Then months went by and the same people were reading for it. But I still really had this feeling of needing to read for it. So I emailed my agent again for an audition. I had four or five auditions over seven months, and it was a very emotional time. My first few auditions really didn't feel good, but my last audition suddenly felt like something clicked. You're so desperate to get a role, but I felt like even if I didn't get it, I did a good job, I'd done myself proud.".....

Feelings of what we should do, or shouldn't do. And then we follow our instincts and realize our path is exactly where we are, where we were always supposed to be.



 We can't see how setbacks, breaks, loss, problems in our lives turn us in the right direction - unless we look closely. I've been filming people under hypnosis for eight years saying the EXACT SAME THING. 

"That setback, that tragedy, that loss was the reason for my change, my life gaining meaning, my victory." Once we take "Time" out of the equation (easy to say, hard to do) we get a glimpse of our lives as a brilliant story conference, with highlights and low-lights planned in advance so we get the most out of it. 

Not every mark is hit, not every goal is made - but we do our valiant best to make it the best damn show anyone's ever seen us do. Make the most out of your new year by looking into these highlights and low-lights as steps along the path that lead you to victory. 

Happy New Year!

May The Flipside Be With You...

Funny how much George Lucas' research into the Force mimics research into the Flipside.


Back in the 1970's, George wanted to make a Flash Gordon movie, tried to acquire the rights, but couldn't. So he set out to tell his own space saga, in the style of the old serials, the kind that Flash Gordon did.  Evil emperors, heroes fighting their way through space.  So George wrote this film as a trilogy with the help of Joseph Campbell, the author of "Hero with a Thousand Faces."

Most people know about this connection - but if you don't, Professor Campbell had studied thousands of different myths, and had synthesized them into simple story lines.  Hero goes off on a journey, travels to far and distant lands, and then returns with some kind of benefit or victory - and there are other darker forces that are included in these myths, including son learning that father is not who he thought he was, mother turns out to be someone else, etc.  It's a brilliant book if you haven't seen it, and I highly recommend all of his books.
Hero with One face. courtesy wiki
But meanwhile George made "American Graffiti" and it won a number of awards, and did great box office.  So at some point they suggested George renegotiate his salary for directing "Star Wars." He was going to be paid something around scale at the time, $150,000 for making the 8 million dollar film (which the original budget had been sliced in half by the skeptical studio.)  Ultimately, the put 3 more million into the finished budget, but when the discussion of his salary came about, George remembered his dream.

He had a dream that he saw R2D2 and his other characters on coffee mugs, keychains, etc.  Now whether it was a conscious dream, or a dream while he was asleep doesn't matter - it's not the sort of thing people see when they're making a film.  (Sure, Hateful Eight lunch boxes, but not likely back in 1976).

So George famously turned down the increase in salary (they offered him $500K) in return for the rights to the sequels and the merchandising.  Today it's considered the smartest business deal ever made in Hollywood - as it turned into a multi billion dollar bet.  No one thought that the film would be so wildly successful, and they couldn't foresee what George did.  Star Wars Everywhere.

But let's examine this for a moment.





They credit Castaneda and Campbell here. But should include Flash.


Who dreams about coffee mugs with their characters on them?  

Not many people.  Being a film writer/director myself, it's hard enough to picture who your characters are and what they're doing - without having to think of ancillary markets.   
But George had this dream - that he saw these creatures and characters on mugs and items.   

Now when you're dreaming or visualizing something - you're not thinking "Gee, how can I market this idea?"  Generally you're seeing things or items, and in this particular dream he saw things that no one else saw or could see.  Tesla was famous for conceiving and testing his inventions in his minds eye - before he ever put them onto paper - and as he attested, "they always worked" once he put paper to metal.

Was George seeing into the future? Or was he imagining the future?  I don't know.  But it's the same thing.


Hasro bro. Originally Parker.

I do know that I played Risk with George once in Francis Ford Coppola's home.  George had come by for Thanksgiving dinner, and I was there with Luana Anders (the inspiration for my Flipside books) who had starred in Francis Ford's first film - "Dementia 13."  They had met while he was still a sound man on Roger Corman films, and he asked Luana if she would star in a movie he was going to shoot in Ireland.  It was on the way back from Luana's Roger Corman film "The Young Racers" with Mark Damon, and Francis did the sound, and his girlfriend, later wife Eleanor did the costumes on that film, and the one in Ireland. 



Same cast worked on Dementia. Francis Ford was the sound man.


And some odd years later, after I'd met and befriended Luana, I met Francis at a screening of Apocalypse Now in Westwood, and mentioned Luana's name.  He asked me to tell her to call him - which I did - which led to 8 years of our going up to the Coppola home for their traditional thanksgiving dinners.  I was a literal fly on the wall - some amazing people came through, I generally hid behind the piano, where night after night, they let me pound away on the keys.  Sometimes Francis would pick up his stand up bass and play along... but one night we sat down to play Risk.

John filmed my first effort
I hadn't played the game before, I think I played a conservative game - as did George, but he was the first one to fall, and then Francis threw all of his armies at my troops, and for some lucky roll of the dice, he failed in disrupting my armies, and fell out of the game as well, and that left me and his nephew
But oddly enough, John grew up to become an accomplished cameraman, (He shot a short film that started my career with "Video Valentino" and shot my film "You Can't Hurry Love" and 2nd unit on "Limit Up") and shot the film "Jurassic World" and of course we all know that this week "Star Wars" surpassed the economic records of that film. 

So what does this have to do with the Flipside? 

Well, consider for a moment that George, way back in the 1970's, had this odd dream that he needed to hang onto the rights to the film's characters and story lines.  And he was right.  With his guidance, the films became the zeitgeist of our world. 

And maybe it wasn't such a dream - but a vision of his own future. In the same way that people envision what's going to happen to them, but haven't a clue as to how or why they're going to go about it.  "I always knew that I would be a _____" is something I've heard alot in this research.  Like the FBI agent who I asked "When did you have the conscious thought you'd work with the FBI?" And she said "Preschool" she said.  I asked "How?" She said "I kept lists on everybody in class - what they wore, what they had for lunch."

The other day, Kathleen Kennedy recounted the story of how she had hired a young J.J. Abrams to help catalog Steven Spielberg's super 8 films at Amblin, and now here all these years later, the film that she once stood in line to see she produced, and J.J. directed.  Another example of the Flipside in action.  Is it a mere coincidence that these people all came together? 

As I'm fond of quoting my old professor Julian Baird (who went to Oxford and Harvard and taught at B.U.) "I would agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong." 

If you examine the research of what people say from the Flipside (flipsidethebook.com or flipsidethefilm.com) - they talk about time being relative.  That events that seem to take forever over here, appear to happen in a few seconds, minutes or hours over there.   

For example in one of the cases in "It's a Wonderful Afterlife" a woman says that her entire lifetime as a British Sailor in the 17th century, felt like "about 15 minutes" from her perspective over there.  That 25 year life where she remembered details about being a Captain aboard a British ship (details which I was able to verify) felt like about 15 minutes over there on the Flipside.  

So if you do that math - 100 years is like an hour.  Star Wars came out a little less than 40 years ago.  And how long ago did that feel to the folks over there? Oh, about half an hour or so.  And when you examine people discussing their "life planning" session - where they discuss or plan what the highlights of their lifetimes are going to be - we see that it's not mistake that George wanted to make a Flash Gordon film.  (I did too). That serial made him remember the life plan he had that would include making Star Wars, and when it came time for him to "take the money" his higher self allowed him to access the merchandising that was going to come in the future.  

The movie wasn't begun when he had the dream about the coffee mugs.  It wasn't in the theaters yet.  It was in his mind.  And on the page.  But there's more than meets the eye to this story. Clearly.

And then finally, when we examine the Flipside with regard to "the force."  The force refers to the "light" that connects us all.  That tapping into that light - or that consciousness - is a way of doing super human feats, or understanding powerful thoughts and feelings.  And is also responsible for why and how people like mediums access the flipside - they're able to tap into the "force" and see visuals and feelings that relate to events they couldn't possibly know.

In the 25 sessions that I've filmed of people under deep hypnosis, remembering previous lives, many of which I could verify, they recount a "between lives realm" that exists in "Now Time" - meaning exists as I'm writing this sentence where they are able to observe and access why and how they chose to come to the planet. They speak of a "light" and "radiance" that connects us all - describing it alternately as "A string of lights" or "beams of light" that connect everyone and all things.

(J.J. Abrams worked on the show "Lost" which existed entirely on the Flipside in "now time."  Between life time where people examined their previous lifetimes.  Coincidence?  Perhaps.)

In terms of the "dark side" of the force - well, that's great here on this realm, and of course is part and parcel of Campbell's Greek myths, and the myths that we all experience here.  The path while we are human includes good and bad, dark and light - but, in the thousands of cases I've examined of people talking about the Flipside under deep hypnosis, in the 25 cases I've filmed - and in the literature I've studied about this realm, there is nearly no mention of there being a "dark force" or "dark entity" that exists over there.  

Evil, as a thing, does not exist on the Flipside. (Or those who've claimed to have experienced some form of it have actually said "in very minute amounts" compared to the light).  I'm sorry if that rocks anyone's boat, but it's not my opinion, or belief - it's just in the data - it's in the research and it is repeated consistently.  If it was different I'd report it - but it's not.

So the idea that someone can "fall into the dark side" does not bear out in this research - because we choose our lifetimes, we plan our lifetime in advance - not down to the nth degree, but on an improvisational level - so that fact that "bad things" happen - or that our loved ones get killed, is beyond our comprehension to understand or comprehend unless we are in their shoes.  

From that perspective I'm sorry that this latest incarnation of the story didn't go further into the Flipside to research that out - perhaps someone will in the future - but the saga that we all go through is thought out in advance before we even get to this universe.  Certainly things happen that seem random, that seem out of the blue - but when you really examine them, they tell a different story.

There are two volumes. Filled with testimony.
So "The Force Awakens" - well, the force never sleeps - it may be that we're so caught up with being human, living our lives and cursing the darkness that we lose touch with the flipside - so I'll offer General Leah's advice (Carrie Fisher) who posted today "The Force has awakened, and now I'm going to go and take a nap."

May the Flipside Be with you.  Meaning may you always be aware of the fact that your loved ones are not gone, they're just not here.  That we are wearing this costume and walking in these shoes for a reason, and that we're doing exactly what we signed up to learn, teach or share.  And that's a powerful thing to wake up within you - so when you think about the Force awakening, think about the Flipside awakening within - being awake to the nature of reality in all its beauty.

My two cents.

And finally, with his permission, I'm reprinting an email I got from a Minister of a large church in big city in a conservative state.  He'd written me asking about my research into reincarnation; ("flipside" and "its a wonderful afterlife") noting that if its driven by karma, as depicted in eastern philosophy, it implies "it doesn't really matter if we're aware that we reincarnate or not." 

I replied that the main difference my research shows from traditional incarnation theory is "free will." That we choose to return here, and if that's the case, its important to leave behind a clean planet. Here's his reply: 

"You make two points that resonate with me. One is that reincarnation does matter if it's true. As you know and write about, there is a lot of evidence that it is true. As you say, it matters because it has implications for how we live. Personally, I find the idea of reincarnation liberating in the sense I can relax and enjoy the show more knowing this is not my only performance so I don't have to try to cram everything into this one performance.

The other point you make is that we reincarnate by choice based on our own goals and our own free will. Reincarnation by free will is a powerful and empowering concept. As you say, none of the religions, ancient or modern, got that right.

By the way, it took me about two months to read your books and it usually only takes me a few days to read similar books. The reason is your books are so dense in the sense of heavy, packed with new ideas, stories, insights and such. Your books also kept leading me to other books and I world go read them then come back to yours. Your books were like reading an encyclopedia in a way. Mind blowing. So it took time to read, digest. Let it sink in. Then read a little more.

I'm looking forward to reading your new book Hacking the Afterlife, when it is done. I hope that project is going well.

Merry Christmas to you and your family, Rich. Keep up the good work." 

I'll endeavor to try. Thanks for the vote of confidence!

Its a Wonderful Life and the Angel who inspired it

A story about an angel.


Santa Monica Sunset
"Its a Wonderful Afterlife" is on sale via Amazon  (www.flipsidethebook.com) 

I watched the Capra film the other night, annual tradition, and I was asked the story that Capra recounted about the genesis of the film (and how I came upon the title for my book.)

Frank says in his book "Name Above the Title" he started deflecting meetings by telling his agent "I'm not feeling well."  He had spent a fortune fighting his boss Harry Cohn for stealing his name and putting it on films in England ("Frank Capra presents" even though he had nothing to do with the films.) Capra was exhausted from the lengthy court battle (which Cohn eventually settled, but the scene where George Bailey screams at his kids and destroys the bridge model is based on what Capra did after losing the first round. He says he screamed at his family, then went up the hill behind his house and was so filled with rage it made him nauseous.) 

Capra said once he started telling people he "wasn't feeling well" he wasn't feeling well, and doctors came to see him and couldn't tell him what his problem was.  But it was so bad, he says he was at death's door - lying in bed,  refusing to get out, or see anyone.  And then one day his assistant Max told him that "someone was here to see him" but the man wouldn't give a name and insisted on coming up to his bedroom.

Capra says he crawled out of bed to go to the next door room where the man was sitting.  He described him as a short bald man with glasses, but a nondescript face.  He had never seen the man before, and neither had Max.  But the man started railing at Capra saying "You have to get out of bed. You're in there feeling sorry for yourself, when people out in the world need your talent."  Capra says that Max had the radio on, and he could hear Hitler shouting in the next room.  The bald man said "You hear that man shouting hatred in the next room?  How many people can he reach with his voice? A million? You can reach tens of millions of people in the dark in a theater."  He told Capra to "stop feeling sorry for himself, to get out of bed and get back to doing what you were put on Earth to do."

Capra says after the man left, Capra called his writing partner and the two of them drove out to Two Bunch Palms and locked themselves into a room until they hammered out "It's a Wonderful Life."  (Capra said the studio purchased a self published book which is credited in the film, but Capra claims it was this little man who inspired his film.)

Years later, when National Security Advisor in the Reagan administration Robert McFarlane tried to commit suicide, he got a copy of the film in the mail from someone anonymously. (Perhaps from Reagan himself? Makes sense). 


Robert "Bud" McFarlane

But watching the film made McFarlane realize he had more things in life to live for - (Bud is still alive, still kicking) - but he says he never knew who sent him the videotape.  

Perhaps a little bald man with a nondescript face?

Merry Christmas! https://youtu.be/lxNXtjGY_Us

Hacking the Afterlife on Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving.


From Southern Cal
It's a good day when we can give thanks, when we stop to consider how we got here.  And a note about HackingTheAfterlife.com

I've filmed 25 people under deep hypnosis now, and just about every one of those sessions, the person asks their "guides" - 

"How am I doing?"

Meaning, "Am I on the right path? What should I be doing differently?"

And nearly every time the guides respond with "You're on the right path. You're doing exactly what you signed up for. Give yourself some credit for getting this far."

How do we give ourselves some credit?

By giving thanks.  By noticing where we are on the planet, and how we got to be where we are at this very moment.  Could be with help from loved ones, family - and a good reason to celebrate them, to honor them, to remember them.

Recently I've made friends with a mathematician.

We were talking about his life and his path and his journey - and I said to him "Well, I know this is going to sound odd to you, but I've filmed a number of sessions with people where they claim to see geometric shapes that the visible eye can't see.  Further, they claim that these shapes or fractals contain information, or data, or somehow are linked to our previous lifetimes here.  People have compared them to "portable hard drives" that travel with us during our lifetimes to help us have access to events that happened previously, functioning as "ball bearings" that help keep our machinery working."


Typical fractal

I half expected him to burst into laughter.  Instead, he said

"I see them all the time."

I asked "while you're dreaming?"  He said "No, I see them when I'm conscious.  Out of the corner of my eye.  And I have a number of colleagues who see them as well.  It's not something we normally talk about, but I have met others."

So here is a gentleman, a man who works in math on theoretical physics, on quantum theory, confirming something that I found in my research while listening to people under deep hypnosis.

That's the reason I'm working on this new book "Hacking the Afterlife."  They idea is to take information that I've discovered there, and then ask people who've never been hypnotized, or who we might not expect to have any knowledge of these events, and see what we can learn from them.

I asked the mathematician to draw one.  He did. Looked like a series of waves over a DNA Hexamer. I asked him what the lines contained.  He said "I don't know. But this is what I've seen."  I asked if it was possible that they contained data.  He didn't know, but figured it was possible.

Yesterday I was talking to someone who works in the medical industry, helping create conferences for surgeons and doctors wordwide. This person's background is firmly rooted in materialist science.  Yet, after a few minutes talking about the research in my afterlife studies, she said "Well, I heard a voice speak to me once - it saved my life."

I told her about Gary Schwartz's experience - the Harvard Professor was driving in a car with his wife when he heard someone say "Put on your seatbelts."  He told his wife to put on her belt, and minutes later they were rear ended, and the belts saved their lives.  He's spent the rest of his career trying to figure out what the science is behind that voice.  (I suggested to him that he might want to focus on "who" the voice was.)

This person agreed with me - as she said she recognized the voice of the person who told her to "slow down" while she was driving in a forest in Europe.  She did, and just missed a car accident.  She said three different times this same voice has spoken to her, always related to driving, always a male voice.  (I suggested perhaps it was time to "slow down" in general.)  But she couldn't place who the male voice was - guessed it was someone close to her - but could not identify the voice beyond that it had saved her life a number of times.

What's going on?

Well, on one hand, by using hypnotherapy, we can get to the source of these questions. Once you understand the architecture of the flipside, the general idea of how things work after we check off the planet, you can ask questions about it.  And ask questions to people who are no longer on the planet about it.

So if you're interested in hearing more, seeing more, please visit and donate to my gofundme page - at HackingTheAfterlife.com

Thanks for all the donations already, and have a great Thanksgiving!!!

RM

Quantum Weirdness, Biocentrism and the Flipside

Some pals of mine turned me on to Robert Lanza's book "Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe."

Excellent tome, highly recommended.  Some observations based on the research that I've been doing into first hand accounts of people no longer on the planet:


Review of Biocentrism by Richard Conn Henry, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University (Journal of Scientific Exploration)

“The heart of [biocentrism], collectively, is correct. On page 15 they say “the animal observer creates reality and not the other way around.” That is the essence of the entire book, and that is factually correct. It is an elementary conclusion from quantum mechanics.

So what Lanza says in this book is not new. Then why does Robert have to say it at all? It is because we, the physicists, do NOT say it–or if we do say it, we only whisper it, and in private–furiously blushing as we mouth the words. True, yes; politically correct, hell no!

Bless Robert Lanza for creating this book, and bless Bob Berman for not dissuading friend Robert from going ahead with it. Not that I think Robert Lanza could be dissuaded–this dude doesn’t dissuade! Lanza’s remarkable personal story is woven into the book, and is uplifting. You should enjoy this book, and it should help you on your personal journey to understanding.


In Dr. Lanza's book (with Bob Berman) goes into how quantum theory works only when consciousness is added to its mechanics.

That consciousness - and the way that Dr. Lanza discusses it, the observer observing phenomena creates that phenomena (because it's translated into phenomena in the brain.)

I've found the same accounts in the research I've been doing into what people say about the afterlife through eyewitness accounts (near death experiences) via hypnosis sessions (memories of previous lifetimes and the between lifetime arena) and mediums (not discussing predictions, but when discussing architecture of the afterlife.)  

I've found that there are some key maxims that dovetail with Dr. Lanza's work. Here's ten of 'em.

1. Everything is energy.

Just so we're on the same page here, it's important to note that - everything, every thought, deed, action, feeling, emotion has its roots in energy. Thoughts are energy, emotions are energy, matter is energy agreeing to hold together in one place.

2. We are energetic beings.

We influence what we're going to see or perceive, or experience, based on our reception of that energy, like a stereo receiver.  And like a stereo receiver, or tv set, we have certain filters that block out other information - either because it's unnecessary, or it would interrup our functioning properly (or living out our lives as we've planned to do so.)  And by the way, in some of the accounts I've examined, people on the flipside claim that when two individuals come together, they can create any structure over there that they want to - classrooms, schools, homes, a bar - whatever floats their boat.  But it takes focus and concentration of energy. 

("Afterlife of Billy Fingers" by Annie Kagan, "My Life after Life" by Galen Stoler, "My Life After Death" by Erik Medhus all contain the same basic concept.)

3. Time is holographic in nature.

Dr. Lanza talks about people revisiting, as he does, their youth and other time frames, noting that they still exist.  They exist in our minds to be sure, but they exist inherently, since time is a structure of our experience.  So previous time periods exist, as well as people who lived in these time periods also still exist.  

4. No one dies.

He notes that this is what his research has proven to him.  And it is the same thing that I've learned in my research - but to take it a step further, no one dies, but everyone is accessible.  Meaning if you had the coordinates of a person - the time frame when they existed in the form that you want to access (not in a present lifetime, or a previous one) you can access these individuals.  And you can do it consistenly with different people in different places.  it's a matter of asking someone to see if they can access someone who used to be on the planet, and then if they can, to ask that person who is no longer on the planet to answer some basic questions about their existence, or more importantly "their opinion" about what's currently happening at the moment.

5. Everything is relative.

I've found this to be true as well.  So if I ask medium A to access a historical figure, they will do their best to speak or observe or translate what they're sensing or hearing.  I then ask medium B to access the same person - and while I get the same basic answers to events in that person's life, I get a slightly different impression of that person - because of the filter that is being used to access that person.  For example, I've done extensive historical research into the life of Amelia Earhart.  I've worked on two films about her life, and know some intimate details about her life that aren't public knowledge.  I've spoken to "Amelia" or a form of Amelia through a variety of different mediums to ask further questions about her path and journey on the planet - about "what happened" and why.  Depending on the skills of the medium I've gotten detailed answers to questions I know for a fact I'm the only person privy to - and further have been told details ("new information") by her that turn out to be true upon further forensic investigation.  


I bring this up not because I've done extensive research into Earhart's life and death, but because I've been able to use this odd method to access information from her. 

6. Time is relative.

I know how weird that sounds - but I've found it to be accurate. First of all, time and space are a construct of our realm.  That doesn''t mean they don't exist in the realm outside this realm - but that it's inherently different. I've spoken to a number of people about time "outside" of time - and one person said "It's relative. If you look at a string you'll see that it goes from left to right - but if you look at it from the end, it's all one piece.  So it depends upon your point of view."

Got that?  --------- is a linear expression of time.  But O is also an expression of time, if O is the end of the string - and you're looking down it. So time is relative as well.

7. If we don't die, then everyone who has ever lived is accessible.

Hard to get your mind around - but think of anyone in human history. Imagine for a moment that 2000 years to someone outside of time might feel like a couple of weeks.  So talking to someone who existed 2000 years ago isn't that hard to fathom.  So how to reach out to that person?  You merely have to ask for them.  How to ask for them?  You need to access the energetic pattern that once existed as them.  Which is back to the hologram of time.  If once we're outside of time we're outside of time - then it's no problem for me to ask a question to Plato, Cicero, take your pick.  They didn't die, they can't die, they aren't dead, so therefore they still exist.

Have they reincarnated? It's likely, it's possible, but it's up to them.  Can we access all of their lifetimes? Why not? I've interviewed numerous people who've seen or witnessed dozens of their own lifetimes, and remember details from all of them.  If we can access our own memory of various lifetimes, then why not access someone else's memory of their lifetimes?

8. There are no questions that can't be answered.

Ah, but that's the rub. How do you ask the question?  You might want to know how to turn salt water to fresh water. Or coal to gold.  Is it possible?  Well, it may or may not be physically possible - but there's no question that can't be posed to those who would know, to those who are outside our time frame, to those who had a hand in the creation of the universe.

9. If consciousness is responsible for the creation of the Universe, then why can't we ask it questions?

We can. I have. I would argue that if you ask one person, or one entity a question of such magnitude, you'll get a complex answer. But if you ask 100 people on the flipside the same question, you'll eventually see a pattern in the answers.  It could be the human being making up the answer, it could be some kind of universal memory of events - but it could also be the answer.  And there's no point in asking a question you know the answer to.  Ask the questions you don't know the answer to.

10. The veil is thinning.

I don't know why this is, but it's been reported often in many sessions. It's been reported by people under deep hypnosis, by mediums, by people on the flipside who when asked "why is it so easy to access you?" the answer is "because the veil is thinning."

What is the veil?  Is it a filter in the minds of humans that doesn't allow us to access other information, the way snakes and bees can access ultra violet light?  Is it a form of energy that allows dolphin to communicate with each other soundlessly to perform complex maneuvers in synch that haven't been taught? Is it the definition of quantum weirdness? Or quantum entanglement where one photon always knows what's happening with the other photon?

I don't know.

But I bet we'll find out.

Some further thoughts for today:

In "Biocentrism" Lanza has opened up a can of worms, or perhaps a panorama of pandorian perplexity.  He shows (it's a "proof" really, a scientific paper that argues for something to be true) that consciousness - or whatever we call mind - is intimately involved in every part of the universe including but not limited to, its creation. It begins with "if a tree falls in the forest does it make a sound?"  (if your ear doesn't hear the sound wave, then "sound" doesn't exist) and moves into quantum entanglement and describes my new favorite branch of science "quantum weirdness." 

What does this have to do with It's a Wonderful Afterlife: Further Adventures in the Flipside? The books interview people who've been to "this other realm" or scientists who examine this "other realm" through near death experiences, out of body experiences or while under deep hypnosis. 

And what they say about the journey dovetails with what Dr. Lanza (with Berman) is writing about - that consciousness does go on, and quantum science is an explanation for it.  But it's a bit like a scientist standing on the edge of a continent and saying "there's land over here!" Everyone and their brother will deny there's land over there, and will argue for not exploring that land for fear of ... perhaps destroying our land. But when you speak to the explorers who've been there - to that land - you get a consistency of reporting.  

They're saying the same basic things about this territory - "it's vast" "beyond the brain's ability to comprehend" "time doesn't exist" (or it exists relatively different) "I saw my loved ones, held their hands" "I saw all of my various lifetimes at once in a flash" "I spoke to my spirit guide who showed me why I chose this lifetime" "I felt like I was close to source, or God" "I loved it so much I didn't want to come back" "there's a feeling of unconditional love over there" "I see now why I chose this difficult life, to help others out of compassion" "I saw Jesus, and he was wearing jeans and a tee shirt" "I met my spirit guide, who has been with me for all my lifetimes" "It's so awesome I can't use words to describe it."  

I've been getting these reports - on film - for the past six years. At first I didn't know what to make of it - "how could all these people who've never met be making up the same story about the journey of souls?"  "How is it that I, who am not trained in therapy at all, can merely ask a series of questions and get the same answers that people give while under deep hypnosis, or from their subconscious about a near death experience?"  

Here, for the first time in my experience, is a biologist who offers some logical conclusions about how consciousness creates our universe - but I would offer - to what end is that happening?


And from what I've learned in this research is that there is a reason for that - it's not random, it's not karmic and it's not willy nilly - there's a logic (and symmetry and beauty) to the entire program, to the adventure, to what it is we're doing here on the planet. 

And my observations are not limited to my brain capacity, nor my ability to ask people unusual questions, or to have a camera in the right place at the right time - we are all imbued with these abilities, we are all spirits living as human beings, and even though a majority of us (Lanza puts it at 75%) will never have an apotheosis, or experience where we see how "all things are connected" (I haven't, but I've interviewed many who have) in this lifetime - that "spiritual awakening" that the NY Times magazine wrote about in 1976 (He quotes it in the book), that doesn't mean that we can't put our minds around it, hone the abilities we have to sense and feel and emote, and allow that all of this research is being done for the betterment of the planet.  

On January 26, 1976, the New York Times Magazine published an entire article on this phenomenon, along with a survey showing that at least 25 percent of the population have had at least one experience that they described as “a sense of the unity of everything,” and “a sense that all the universe is alive.” Fully 40 percent of the 600 respondents additionally reported it as “a conviction that love is at the center of everything” and said it entailed “a feeling of deep and profound peace.”


Berman, Bob; Lanza, Robert (2010-02-02). Biocentrism: How Life and Consciousness are the Keys to Understanding the True Nature of the Universe (p. 34). BenBella Books, Inc.. Kindle Edition. 
My two cents with some spare change.

FLIPSIDE BOOK TALKS

Here's my 'FLIPSIDE BOOK TALKS' page on youtube.  There's some repetition here, but some of this bears repeating.

enjoy!

Interview with Kevin Moore and the Flipside

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Here's an interview I did with Britain's version of "Coast to Coast" with Kevin Moore.  Kevin's got a cool blog, he's an unusual cat, and at the end, we do an impromptu interview with someone who may or may not be the person mentioned - I try not to judge these things - and you'll see from my questions to this "person on the flipside" that I had a couple of things to clarify with him... be that as it may, it's entertaining at the very least. 

 Enjoy.

Jim Carrey and the Flipside

Came across this cool clip today.


Jim Carrey introduced Eckart Tolle and transcendental meditation

Well... you can get back to the flipside. 

A variety of ways to accomplish it - via meditation, between life hypnotherapy, a near death experience, and other consciousness altering events. 

I've been writing about these reports in "flipside" and "it's a wonderful afterlife." When we experience that apotheosis, there's a reason for that occuring, there's a logic to it, there's a sequence that allows that to occur, and the architecture of those events can be studied, examined, and made sense of. 

Not everyone signs up for that experience and with respect, I've observed that we all choose different paths -- but for those who do want to take that flipside journey, it appears to be something we all can experience when we put our minds to examining, understanding or experiencing it. 

My two cents.