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Proof of the Afterlife Part 3 - Mysterious voice in Utah rescue

Allow me to begin by saying that I've heard or reported on a number of "mysterious voices" that came from nowhere to save lives in my books "Flipside" and "It's a Wonderful Afterlife."

One in particular was Harvard/Yale PhD Gary Schwartz's own experience where a "mysterious voice" told him to put on his seatbelt moments before it saved his life in a crash.  I cite the example of Chris Elliot, comedian, who heard a voice say "Wake up skylark!" just prior to watching his niece tumble off the end of a table, where he caught her.  I pointed out to Chris the origin of the term "skylark."  In my own life, I clearly heard my father speak to me after his passing, giving me a list of people he said he was presently with - the names were of friends of his who died in WWII whom I had never heard of, but my mom confirmed were his pals.

So I'm convinced, based on my research, beyond a shadow of doubt that the afterlife exists.  And beyond that, there's a between lives realm where we all return "home" and work out our next incarnation.

Be that as it may.

Some years ago I was called upon as an expert witness in a trial where the key piece of evidence was from a security camera that I was asked to examine.  I blew up the footage, slowed it down, pieced it together and showed clearly what had happened in the video - which from a taped perspective was about a quarter mile away.  But by zooming and slowing down, and highlighting the various parts of the tape, I was able to demonstrate what happened.  I was certified as an expert witness in the case.  

So I have some experience examining filmed "evidence."

So I examined closely the "mysterious voice" heard during the rescue of this baby Lily in Utah.  (I've also contributed a small amount to her recovery, I encourage everyone reading this to do so, it's on the gofundme.com website - Jennifer and Lily.)

In my opinion, what the policemen heard is not what's indicated on the tape.

I learned something from Gary Schwartz, who is a scientist first and foremost.  And he's repeated it a number of times to me.  "It's data. Put it on the table."  We can't hope that data shows us an outcome, we can only hope that data will show us to an outcome.  And in this case, I think the policemen, heroes all, may have misheard what they thought they heard.  My two cents.

Again - if it's research that shows there's an afterlife, it's worth examining.  If it showed the opposite I'd report that as well.  I think there's quite a bit of it out there if people have an open mind about it.  And that's how I approached this account as well - with an open mind.  Hope you do as well!

Proof of Life After Death Part 2

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Here's the CNN clip:

So I've downloaded this film, and I am in the process of examining it.  I'm sending it to a forensic audio unit which can examine audio on a variety of levels and settings to see if they can locate the source of this voice on the audio track.

It happens around the 1:50 mark, after the officer calls for "Meadows" - there's a sound, and he responds to it.

But you can clearly hear "something."  To my trained ears it does not sound like it's coming from inside the car.  I say that because I've listened to a lot of audio tracks, trying to synch lips to lost sound track or trying to match sound to lips, and it's important to "recreate" what it sounds like outside.

However, the police officer responds to the voice that he hears, as if the voice is coming from the car.  The only way to triangulate this audio would be to get the audio from another policeman's uniform and examine it as well.

But did the policeman hear a voice?  Yes.  Can the voice be heard on this audio?  Well it's not clear that it is a voice - but there is some kind of sound that can be heard the comes just prior to the policeman saying "We're coming!"

There's a show on National Geographic channel called "Brain Games" where they took an audio file and scrambled it so it was unintelligible.  And they surveyed a group of people who could not understand a word from it.  And then, they played the tape unadulterated, so you could hear what had originally been said.  Then they played the "scrambled" tape again, and the audience, and everyone in the survey could clearly understand the sentence, even though only moments earlier it had been entirely unintelligible.

In fact, you can't "unhear" the audio after your brain has unscrambled it.  It's as if the dots have been connected in your brain, and they can't be disconnected upon further review.  So I'm going to examine this audio with my equipment, with the equipment from a forensic expert (I wish CNN would do the same) and report back what I can discern.  And let's see if we can't verify that this voice is coming from the "Flipside."

Won't that be fun?

"I Used to Be Somebody Else"

Boy Remembers Previous Lifetime

I met and discussed this and other cases with Jim Tucker who examined this case in his book "Return to Life." Dr Tucker (from UVA) is a scientist and a skeptic in the true sense of the word. He is thorough and leaves no stone unturned. So he's the lead guy in this case, which falls in line with the research Ive been filming the past 6 years. The question is, why did he choose his previous life, why did he choose this one, and what do the two have in common? Eventually we'll be discussing the arc of many lifetimes to understand someone's path and journey.

FROM TODAY.COM
'Return To Life': How some children have memories of reincarnationJake Whitman and Cynthia McFadden TODAY
  It’s not unusual for little boys to have vivid imaginations, but Ryan’s stories were truly legendary. His mother Cyndi said it all began with horrible nightmares when he was 4 years old. Then when he was 5 years old, he confided in her one evening before bed.

“He said mom, I have something I need to tell you,” she told TODAY. “I used to be somebody else.” The preschooler would then talk about “going home” to Hollywood, and would cry for his mother to take him there. His mother said he would tell stories about meeting stars like Rita Hayworth, traveling overseas on lavish vacations, dancing on Broadway, and working for an agency where people would change their names.

She said her son even recalled that the street he lived on had the word “rock” in it.


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Dr. Jim Tucker with boy and his momTODAY / Jake Whitman“His stories were so detailed and they were so extensive, that it just wasn’t like a child could have made it up,” she said. Cyndi said she was raised Baptist and had never really thought about reincarnation. So she decided to keep her son’s “memories” a secret— even from her own husband.

Privately, she checked out books about Hollywood from the local library, hoping something inside would help her son make sense of his strange memories and help her son cope with his sometimes troubling “memories.”


Jake Whitman / TODAY“Then we found the picture, and it changed everything,” she said.
That photo, in one of the books from the library, was a publicity shot from the 1932 movie “Night After Night,” starring Mae West in her film debut.
“She turns to the page in the book, and I say ‘that’s me, that’s who I was,’ Ryan remembers.

Cyndi said she was shocked, and only more confused, because the man Ryan pointed to was an extra in the film, with no spoken lines.
But finally she had a face to match to her son’s strange “memories,” giving her the courage to ask someone for help.


Jake Whitman / TODAY
That someone was Dr. Jim Tucker, M.D., the Bonner-Lowry Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia. 

The child psychiatrist has spent more than a decade studying the cases of children, usually between the ages of 2 and 6 years old, who say they remember a past life. 

In his book, “Return To Life,” Tucker details some of the American cases he has studied over the years, including Ryan's.“These cases demand an explanation,” Tucker said, “We can’t just write them off or explain them away as just some sort of normal cultural thing.”

Tucker’s office contains the files of more than 2,500 children— cases accumulated from all over the world by his predecessor, Ian Stevenson. Stevenson, who died in 2007, began investigating the strange phenomena back in 1961, and kept detailed interviews and evidence on each case.

Tucker has painstakingly coded the handwritten files, discovering intriguing patterns. For instance, 70 percent of the children say they died violent or unexpected deaths in their previous lives, and males account for 73 percent of those deaths— mirroring the statistics of those who die of unnatural causes in the general population.

“There’d be no way to orchestrate that statistic with over 2,000 cases,” Tucker said.

Tucker said the majority of children he has investigated say they remember average lives— rarely do they claim memories of someone famous. He said Ryan’s case is one of his most unusual because of the incredible detail he was able to provide. Tucker, with help from researchers working on a documentary tried to identify the man Ryan pointed to in the book about Hollywood.
After weeks of research, a film archivist combing through original production materials for the movie “Night After Night” was able to confirm who he was. His name, Marty Martyn, a former movie extra who later became a powerful Hollywood agent and died in 1964.

“If you look at a picture of a guy with no lines in a movie, and then tell me about his life, I don’t think many of us would have come up with Marty Martyn’s life,” Tucker said, “Yet Ryan provided many details that really did fit with his life.”


Jake Whitman
After digging through old records— almost none of them available on the internet, and tracking down Martyn’s own daughter, Tucker was able to confirm 55 details Ryan gave about his life.

It turns out Martyn wasn’t just a movie extra. Just as Ryan said, he had also danced on Broadway, traveled overseas to Paris, and worked at an agency where stage names were often created for new clients.

Tucker also discovered Ryan’s claim that he lived on the street with the word “rock” in it was nearly spot on— Martyn lived at 825 North Roxbury Dr. in Beverly Hills. Tucker was also able to confirm other obscure facts that Ryan gave— how many children Martyn had, how many times he was married, even how many sisters he had. While Martyn’s own daughter grew up thinking her father had just one sister— Tucker was able to confirm he actually had two, again, just as Ryan claimed.

Dr. Tucker’s research is not without critics. When his work was recently featured in The University Of Virginia Magazine, some readers shared their outrage in the comments section. One reader wrote he was “appalled” that this kind of work is being done at the university. Another called Tucker’s research “pseudoscience.” 

Tucker said he’s only trying to apply the rules of science to the mystery of reincarnation. Even with Ryan’s case, there was one fact the detailed obsessed scientist thought the little boy had wrong.
“He said he didn’t see why God would let you get to be 61 and then make you come back as a baby,” Tucker said.


Jake Whitman / TODAY
That statement seemed to be incorrect because Martyn’s death certificate listed his age as 59 years old when he died. But as Tucker dug deeper, he was able to uncover census records showing Martyn was In fact born in 1903 and not 1905, meaning Ryan’s statement — not his official death certificate— was indeed correct. Now that Ryan is 10 years old, he said his memories of Marty Martyn’s life are fading, which Dr. Tucker said is typical as children get older. Ryan said while he he’s glad he had the experience, he’s also happy to put to move on, and just be a kid.


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‘I used to be somebody else,’ Oklahoma boy talks about past life in Hollywood
MUSKOGEE, Okla. – An Oklahoma boy is causing skeptics to take a closer look at their beliefs related to life after death. Cyndi Hammons says it all started when Ryan was just 4-years-old. He would wake from horrible nightmares. When he was 5-years-old, he told her something unbelievable before going to bed.

“He said, ‘Mom, I have something I need to tell you,” she told TODAY. “I used to be somebody else.”

The then-preschooler would talk about ‘going home’ to Hollywood, meeting stars like Rita Hayworth, traveling to Paris, dancing on Broadway and working for an agency where people would change their names. “His stories were so detailed and they were so extensive, that it just wasn’t like a child could have made it up,” she said. Cyndi began researching Hollywood, hoping to make sense of her son’s strange ‘memories.’

“Then we found the picture and it changed everything,” she said. “She turns to the page in the book, and I say, ‘That’s me, that’s who I was,” Ryan told TODAY. The photo was from the 1932 movie “Night After Night.” Cyndi says she was even more confused because the man Ryan pointed to was an extra in the film. She turned to Dr. Jim Tucker, an associate professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences at the University of Virginia.

After weeks of research, the family found out the man’s name was Marty Martyn, a former movie extra who later became a powerful Hollywood agent. “If you look at a picture of a guy with no lines in a movie, and then tell me about his life, I don’t think many of us would have come up with Marty Martyn’s life,” Tucker said. “Yet Ryan provided many details that really did fit with his life.”
Tucker was able to confirm 55 specific details Ryan gave about his life. In addition to talking about his work history, Ryan was spot on when it came to how many times he married, how many children and sisters he had, a fact his own daughter didn’t even know.

However, one fact Ryan did not get right was Martyn’s age. “He said he didn’t see why God would let you get to be 61 and then make you come back as a baby,” Tucker said.

Martyn’s death certificate listed his age as 59-years-old when he died. When Tucker dug deeper, he realized Martyn’s official death certificate was wrong. 
Ryan was right after all.

My Birthday Gift to you... my film "Flipside"

Yes, it is the day after the day - when 60 odd years ago, I woke up on this planet.

I can tell you that I've witnessed the event.

When I went agreed to "go under hypnosis" for a 4 hour "between life" session, given by Michael Newton trained Jimmy Quast (www.eastonhypnosis.com) 6 years ago, I did so with the half a mind of "proving" this research to be false.

Meaning I hadn't gone there to be put under hypnosis - I was convinced I could not be put under hypnosis, and despite having read hundreds of accounts of people under hypnosis talking about the afterlife, I had a skeptic's mind.  "Perhaps they were led by the therapist."  "Perhaps they wanted to have an outcome and got the one that they wanted."  

I was determined to not allow myself to be led anywhere.  And if the therapist asked "what do you see?" and I didn't see anything, I was prepared to say for four hours "Sorry, I don't see a thing."

But that's not what happened.  He asked "what's your first memory?" And I saw myself coming from darkness to light and seeing this bright hospital room, feeling the cold air.  Even seeing the Doctor's bright green hazel eyes, with his mask and the weird metal thing they wore back in the 50's.  Only he was holding me upside down, the old "spank them for air" move with his hands around my feet.  But I was fully aware that I was looking at him "rightside up."  I can still clearly see this Doctor's face in my mind's eye (although for the life of me, don't remember his name.)

I saw other things while under "deep hypnosis" the technique pioneered by Michael Newton ("Journey of Souls").

I saw a previous lifetime.  I verified things that happened in that lifetime that I could not have known in this lifetime.  I saw a life between lives where I spoke to and visited with people who are no longer on the planet but gave me "new information" - meaning information that could not have come from my conscious mind.

Since then I've filmed 25 cases (and three more of my own sessions) as well as examined cases of near death experience, scientists on the forefront of consciousness research and synthesized the information into my books "Flipside" and "It's a Wonderful Afterlife."

But none of that would have happened if Michael Newton and his hypnotherapy group, the Newton Institute, not allowed me to turn on my cameras and film them doing their work. 

It takes a brave soul to let the camera into a darkened room - on behalf of the clients allowing it to be there, and those who are doing the session. (If you want to try the process out for yourself, find a therapist that you can speak to over the phone at www.newtoninstitute.org

Picture your own story for a moment.  Would you allow a camera into a room where you were revealing perhaps your most intimate moments of your life?  I'd be hard pressed to agree to it.  And yet, there I was behind the camera.  Sometimes my jaw dropping, sometimes searching for verification while the person was talking ("they're saying they lived in such and such town in Arkansas?  Is there such a town in Arkansas? There is.. and there's this very street they're talking about...")  The books contain all the cites from various forensic research into whether or not people were being accurate about their past life memories.

But it's between life where we find the gold.  Our spiritual gold.

So - this is a long way of saying that this film has been supporting me and my kids, so if you like it and want to share it - please, buy a DVD for a friend, or get one of the books in Kindle, or listen to in Audible - or share it with someone.  

Give this gift that I've been given, to someone else. Share this page. Share the link. Go for it. If in 90 minutes you don't think a little bit differently about the planet than you did when you began to watch, you can have your money back.  

This is a private link to my film.  

By offering it as a gift to you here, I must have faith that there's a reason that you need to see this film today.  The link won't be up forever, and I'll eventually change the link on youtube.  So don't take too long to watch it.

But in the meantime, without further adieu, here is the 90 minute version of my film about my journey into the Afterlife:

Proof of Life After Death

You want proof of life after death?

It doesn't get any more dramatic than this:

The point is: this is "new information" that could not have been in the minds of these three men.  The voice clearly saying "HELP US." 

This is not hard to understand or explain if you just take a look at the research.  I recommend a number of science reports, peer reviewed studies, along with interviews with scientists in "It's a Wonderful Afterlife."  If you really want to understand how it can be that life continues on, these are first person accounts of either people who've studied it, people who've experienced it, or people who are on the Flipside and are speaking to us.

It's the least we can do to listen to them.





'Mysterious voice' led Utah cops to discover child who survived for 14 hours in submerged car after mom drownedBY JOEL LANDAU   NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Published: Monday, March 9, 2015, 12:11 PMUpdated: Tuesday, March 10, 2015, 9:59 AMA  A  A
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Jennifer Groesbeck, 25, died in a car accident Friday night in Spanish Fork, Utah. Her 18-month-old daughter Lily was found 14 hours later and is listed in critical condition.The officers who rescued a Utah toddler from death’s doorstep in a submerged car on Sunday said their adrenaline-fueled heroics were triggered by a mysterious plea.“We could see a person in the front seat and then we heard a voice saying, ‘Help me, we’re in here.’ It was clear as day,” said Officer Tyler Beddoes of the Spanish Fork Police Department, one of four men who pulled an unconscious 18-month-old from a car — which had been submerged in near-freezing water for 14 hours — as her mother lay dead in the driver’s seat.Beddoes and his fellow first responders braved the chilly waters long enough to turn the red Dodge sedan, which was upside down, and pull little Lily Groesbeck out of her car seat, in which she had been suspended since her mother Jennifer Groesbeck apparently lost control of the car the previous evening.“We could see her eyes fluttering so there was some life but as far as movements or consciousness there was nothing that we could see,” Beddoes told the Daily News on Monday.The four officers and three firefighters formed an assembly line and transported the child back to shore. The first responders started performing CPR, and Lily later regained consciousness in a Salt Lake City hospital. Her condition was upgraded to stable on Monday.
KSLSpanish Fork police officer Tyler Beddoes, center, was one of the first people to respond to the scene. He and his fellow officers said they heard a female voice call for help as they approached the vehicle.Jennifer Groesbeck, 25, was driving to her home in Springville, but when crossing a bridge in Spanish Fork, the single mom hit a cement barrier and drove off the roadway, police said.The vehicle crashed into the river around 10:30 p.m., according to a witness who told police he heard the accident. The car was not visible from the roadway, and was not discovered until 14 hours later, when a fisherman spotted it at 12:24 p.m. Saturday and called police.That’s when Beddoes and his partners arrived. The witness told them that he could see an arm through the window, and the four men plunged into the freezing rapids to see if they could find any survivors.Then, suddenly, they started hearing the distinct sound of a woman’s voice, calling to them to help.

We heard a voice saying 'help me, we're in here.' It was clear as day. We replied back 'hang in there, we're trying what we can.'

“We replied back ‘hang in there, we’re trying what we can.’ ”The voice motivated them to push harder because they believed there may be someone inside who was still alive. With their adrenaline pumping they pulled the heavy, water-filled car onto its side and discovered the driver was dead.The officers had no explanation for the mysterious voice that appeared to come from inside the car. Beddoes said he said he wouldn’t believe it really happened had not the other officers heard it, as well.“I don’t know what I thought I heard,” he said. “I’m not a typically religious guy. It’s hard to explain — it was definitely something. Where and why it came from, I’m not sure.”
Mysterious Voice Led Rescuers to Baby Trapped in Overturned CarKSTU - Salt Lake City, UTThe little girl was hanging upside down, but her head was not touching the water. The responders did not even see her, initially, but when they got the car turned over they spotted her and raced to get her out.Groesbeck, the youngest of five children, was enrolled at Provo College and hoped to become a medical assistant, her sister Jill Sanderson told KSL TV in Salt Lake City.“She was very compassionate and a very loving person and always willing to bend over backwards for her loved ones,” she told the station. “Her baby was the love of her life. She was an amazing mother.”The family set up a GoFundMe page to raise money for her funeral expenses and Lily’s medical treatment.

Her baby was the love of her life. She was an amazing mother.

The child was being treated at Primary Children’s Hospital, where a her condition was “stable and improving,” a spokeswoman said Monday.“She is doing remarkably well considering the circumstance. The doctors have been hopeful so far,” Sanderson told reporters. “We would like to express our appreciation to the Spanish Fork rescue team for saving the baby’s life.”Beddoes, who spent at least 20 minutes in the frigid waters, said he and his colleagues were so focused on the rescue they didn’t realize the impact it was having on their bodies. The 6-foot-tall officer said the water level was often at his neck, sometimes higher.“I didn’t feel the cold — I wasn’t paying attention to myself,” he said. “After several minutes in the water I started to feel the effects.”
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Who Called For Help in the Overturned Car?

CNN:  WHO CALLED FOR HELP IN THE OVERTURNED CAR?



"Rescuers are bewildered by the voice they heard calling for help after a car overturned and plunged into an icy river."

These three rescuers heard an "adult voice" saying "Help me." I have some simple questions for them, which Anderson perhaps neglected to ask. 

Was it a male or female voice? When comparing the three accounts, do they all say the same tone of a male or female voice? If it wasn't someone playing a trick (unlikely) then there are two possibilities I can think of. 

Either the mother (who was apparently long dead) or the baby was calling for help. If it was the mother's "spirit" or "consciousness" asking for help, would she have asked for help for herself or her baby? Seems she might have said "Help her" or "Help my baby!" (I'm just saying, it's the logical choice for what to say in such an emergency and you're aware of yourself and a baby.) 

Someone suggested the maternal bonds were so strong that the mother stuck around after death to make sure that her baby was rescued.  That's entirely possible.  But even that would have to be explained, as how does one "stick around" if they're no longer in the body?  Is it, as the research in "Flipside" shows, that we are conscious outside of our bodies?

But the question I have with that scenario is one of sentence construction.  Why say "Help me" instead of "Help my baby."  Certainly the second sentence is more powerful than the first, and more accurate if that was the case.

There is a third possibility, and the likeliest as odd as it may appear, is that the baby was speaking in an adult voice asking for help. The baby was passed out in the back of the car, and had been there for some time. So how could a baby speak in an adult voice? 

Well, if you have read "Flipside: A Tourist's Guide On How To Navigate the Afterlife" or "It's a Wonderful Afterlife: Further Adventures in the Flipside Vol 1 you'd be aware of accounts of people being in touch with their previous lifetimes. But it's not easy to adjust the speed and tone and energy of yourself over there to communicate with people over here - otherwise people would do it all the time (outside of the ghost hunter shows). In this particular instance, a baby's higher self, that higher conscious self that is always with us, always part of our journey, made an effort to speak out loud to these three people, and they all heard that person speak. "Help me." (Not "Help mom," or "Help the baby" - "Help Me.") 

If you're looking for something the proves there is an afterlife or reincarnation, it's hard to try to put together all the wires required to make this theory fly. 

But if you're of a mind that we don't die, (which is what the research shows) and that we do incarnate consciously, that we do have a higher self keeping an eye over us, and can step in to help in times of need - well, then Bob's your Uncle, there's no mystery here. My two cents.

Reviews are in!

Some wonderful reviews for the books.  I've learned quite clearly that the reviews are not about ME, but about the research inside of them.  So I take no bows, break no legs (the Elizabethan version of bowing, one leg behind the other, hence the term "Break a leg") because it's not about my path, or my journey to this material.

It's about your path, your journey to this material. 

I believe sincerely that those who are supposed to see your work will find it.  Of course, you have to actually hit the "publish" key, and you have to talk to folks about the material, and you have to make it accessible to people.  So a sincere "thanks" to those who have taken the time to write reviews of the books, or to share in some small way their experience reading them.

I have a reader in another country who says they can't go to sleep unless they're listening to one of my "book talks."

 

I found that amusing, and just a little bit odd.  But it points to why I'm writing this post - it's not about me.  It's about you.  And in this person's case, they felt that somehow my voice in their ear was "reprogramming" their brain, or helping them to access "higher levels of consciousness."  

I have no idea if that's the case.  But it's clear to me when I'm filming these sessions of people under deep hypnosis, or reporting on near death experiences, and sharing the salient points that are common in all "altered states" - whether speaking to "spirit guides" or consulting with our "elders" or "soul groups" - that I'm helping to facilitate this information to those who need to hear it.

I'm helping to facilitate this information to those who need to hear it.

That may not be you.  That's okay.  That may be someone you know who is suffering from the loss of a loved one, who can't seem to come back to the planet to continue on the path they've chosen.  Perhaps you've found this material so you can pass it along to someone else, or to meditate on it.

I've found a unique phenomenon in the reporting of these "afterlife" accounts.  That when someone has the access to the spirit world, just like those who access the planet Earth from outer space have reported "the overview effect" - people who have visited or been to the spirit realm no longer see the Earth and their path here the same, and further, it's like they've lessened or alleviated the filters that keep them from accessing information back there.

When I ask people direct questions about their travels into the spirit realm, and I take the time to really listen to their account, and tailor the questions to what they saw or heard or experienced - they're able to access the event again in real time. That's amazing.  That's like having a car accident when you're five, and then 50 years later, through a series of questions, while fully conscious, you can access all of the information again.

That's kind of mind boggling.

Anyways, enough about me, how about some reviews of me?  (Old Hollywood joke). 

THANK YOU TO THOSE WHO TOOK THE TIME TO NOT ONLY READ THIS INFORMATION, BUT TO COMMENT ON IT!


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Average Customer Review4.6 out of 5 stars (104 customer reviews)1 of 1 people found the following review helpful5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars, February 21, 2015By Diane Dellinger - See all my reviewsVerified Purchase(What's this?)This review is from: Flipside : A Tourist's Guide on How to Navigate the Afterlife (Kindle Edition)Amazing all the information in just one book on many subjects.Help other customers find the most helpful reviews 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!, February 18, 2015By Carlos Alamilla - See all my reviewsVerified Purchase(What's this?)This review is from: Flipside : A Tourist's Guide on How to Navigate the Afterlife (Kindle Edition)Rich Martini has written the perfect follow-up to Dr. Newton's books. Martini's humor and enthusiasm in pursuit of a first-person exploration into the existence and nature of the "afterlife" is spellbinding. If you've never heard of "Past Life Regression" or "Life Between Lives" or if you're a skeptic about reincarnation, by all means get this and read it!Help other customers find the most helpful reviews 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating for both the seasoned spiritual seeker and the skeptic, February 16, 2015By PamelaLaLa (La) - See all my reviewsThis review is from: Flipside : A Tourist's Guide on How to Navigate the Afterlife (Kindle Edition)I have researched and read about reincarnation for many years including most of the titles that Mr Martini recommends at the end of this book. Thank you for a fresh take on a fascinating subject. Doesn't the author sound like like a wonderful guy to have as a friend? Such sweet remembrances of his friends both living and those who have crossed over. Love to all, Pamela.Help other customers find the most helpful reviews 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful5.0 out of 5 stars Such a Spiritual Book - Loved Every Bit of It!, February 3, 2015By Vondie Lozano - See all my reviewsVerified Purchase(What's this?)This review is from: FlipSide: A Tourist's Guide on How to Navigate the Afterlife (Paperback)WOW. Just finished Flipside. Such a spiritual book! Loved every bit of it. I'm a licensed therapist and hypnotherapist and I've been reading everything I can get my hands on about life-between-lives hypnosis. What I loved most about Flipside is that Rich Martini is a natural story teller. He includes personal stories about himself and his hollywood pals and their connection to the afterlife. But, best of all -- he shares his own life-between-lives hypnosis sessions. You get to experience the sessions through his eyes and you get a sense of what it might be like to have a session -- to connect with your immortal soul and your reason for being who you are on the planet today. Life-changing. Inspiring. Brave. Thank-you Rich Martini.Help other customers find the most helpful reviews 1 of 2 people found the following review helpful5.0 out of 5 stars Everyone should read this book, December 10, 2014By Kindle Customer (Dallas, PA) - See all my reviewsVerified Purchase(What's this?)This review is from: Flipside : A Tourist's Guide on How to Navigate the Afterlife (Kindle Edition)This book has all the information you have been searching for. Richard Martini is a gifted writer. His words can paint pictures in your mind.Help other customers find the most helpful reviews 1 of 2 people found the following review helpful5.0 out of 5 stars Really interesting, November 16, 2014By marilyn L. Campoy - See all my reviewsVerified Purchase(What's this?)This review is from: FlipSide: A Tourist's Guide on How to Navigate the Afterlife (Paperback)sooo interesting! I love this subject.You will never think the same about your life again!REVIEWS FOR THE BOOKS "IT'S A WONDERFUL AFTERLIFE" VOLUME ONE AND TWOMost Recent Customer Reviews Love, love, love. Read this book.
A spiritual magnet of a book that smacks you in the head with the kind of truth that you can only understand with your heart. Read morePublished 2 days ago by PamelaLaLa Three Stars
Just got to get your head around it, But I think it's going on all around us.Published 17 days ago by Steven Walton Great Information!
I have been following this kind of after life research for years and this further reinforces all that I have found out concerning life after death. Read morePublished 18 days ago by Frank Alexander More essential information in negotiating the "Flipside"...
I first found Richard Martini and his initial book, "Flipside" as I was training to become a Transpersonal and LBL Hypnotherapist. Read morePublished 20 days ago by DK Excellent book on life after death of the body
Excellent book on life after death of the body, plus, interactions with those still alive even with the one who has passed.Published 21 days ago by Billy H Interesting Read
I loved the book itself, however I felt the writing itself a bit disorganized. Still it's well worth the read.Published 22 days ago by Mary Reese Five Stars
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I recommend this book to anyone. This is an amazing book, engaging and thought provoking. I believe there is something in it that will "spark" a memory for everyone that... Read morePublished 1 month ago by S. Ingram Loved this book
Loved this book. I have read a lot of books about NDE's and life after "physical death", but I feel this one explored much deeper into the afterlife experience than most. Read morePublished 2 months ago by Connie I enjoyed reading about the work done by Dr
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Selfie in Pelos di Cadore, Italy where my Italian family originatedWhat can five bucks get you?

Hmm. Let's see.  Triple Grande at Starbucks in Seattle with a muffin?

$5 cooked chicken at Pavilions/Vons/Albertson's on Fridays in Santa Monica?




A brownie at a legalized marijuana store in Venice, CA?  (I'm asking)

A glass of Martini Bianco at a bar in Torino?

A pint of Guinness at a pub in Dublin?

Half a plate of spaghetti carbonara from La Tana Dei Noantri in Rome?

A tip in the tip jar at the piano at Monteverdi's in Odeon in Paris?

Half a kir royale at the Ritz in Paris?

A beer at the bar at the Hotel Du Cap?

Shu Mai noodles at a noodle shop in Shanghai?

A burger and fries at the the Indiana couple's cafe in Lhasa?

A couple of flat whites at Carlucci's in Darlinghurst?

A guided tour of the Taj Mahal in Agra?

A flute from a green eyed flutist on the Great Wall of China?

Five minutes on a T line at an internet cafe in Kerala?

Pommes Frites with mayo from a street vendor in Amsterdam?



A tour of a museum in Mexico City?

A toy bow and arrow set from native south american's in the Amazon?

These are all things that I've purchased over the years with a measly five bucks.

And then poured into these three books.

Five bucks for seeing the world from a new perspective?  (That's the red pill, right?)

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This view was free when I took this pic of the Potala Palace in Tibet, but worth 5 bucks anyways.

Live Long and Prosper

One of the great icons of our world has moved to the Flipside this week.  Actor Leonard Nimoy made his last transporter voyage, has dissolved into the ether, and rejoined his beloved friends and family who've been keeping an eye on him for years.

I imagine he may even run into Gene Roddenberry , who created this iconic character, that at first harangued Nimoy, and later made him come to accept that the role was indeed, bigger than him.
Actress Luana Anders didn't do a Star Trek, but her pal Sally Kellerman didAn amazing account of his journey with this role was posted online the other day.  It's the story of how after the show wrapped, he was not part of any of the profit participation, and when his agent called to ask him to be in the film version, he'd said "If you call me again about being in a Star Trek movie, you're fired."

Pretty harsh words, but prophetic as well.

He tells the story of how the studio chief came to see him and tried his best to talk him into the film, or at least hear out what his complaints were, and at the end of the day a check arrived with profit participation, and he did join the cast.

But then, later, he was thinking of directing one of the films, and the studio thought that was a bad idea, and he thought it was a good one.  He bargained with them - "You need Spock, and I need to direct this movie."  He did direct it, it was so successful they had him direct the next film, and then he went on to direct other films, equally fun and enjoyable ("Three Men and a Baby" etc).

So... from a Flipside perspective, was Nimoy destined to be Spock?  His first autobiography was "I Am Not Spock" and yet his second one was "I Am Spock." 

As noted below Ed Sheeran, upon accepted his award at the Brit Awards, said in effect, "When I was a kid, I dreamt of this moment, and now it's happened."

How often have we heard that phrase?  Quite a bit.  And does anyone stop to examine it?

What does it mean?  "I dreamed something would happen" and it did.  Those who adhere to the idea that the things you wish for come to you, and that would appear to make sense on a surface level - i.e., he spent his whole life thinking about how to achieve his goal and he did... but that's not entirely what's being said here.

"I dreamed it.  And then it happened."  In the world of mediums, psychics, they will adhere to the idea that somehow he presaged what would happen.  But then, if that's the case, imagine all of the work involved to make that dream come true.

Stuart Sharp (mentioned in "It's a Wonderful Afterlife") was a cook at a pub in England, and when his son died, the night before the funeral he had a profound dream about music.  And one of the characters in the dream said "We will help you remember this" or words to that effect, and showed him that he would eventually be conducting the very same music he was hearing in front of an orchestra, that he would write the music and it would be performed live.

Never mind that he was a cook, and had little or no experience writing music.  But he changed his life, became a musician, someone heard him playing the song ON THE GUITAR and asked about it, and he told them.  And within a few years, he actually conducted the symphony he'd written, his memory of that etheric, angelic symphony with the London Philharmonic.

I'm not making this up.  

The same story can be heard often and with detail from other people; Pete Townsend of The Who had music appear in his ear which inspired him to become a musician.  There are many famous composers who claimed they "heard the music" before they composed it.  There are also people who walk and talk and think, including Einstein who used to spend time walking and talking with a colleague, and credits that time with the theory of relativity.

Is it there in the ether?  Or is it there in our destiny?  Or what's happening?

We also have people who adhere to the idea that outside of this realm, i.e, in the Flipside, that there's no time.  That when we visualize what's going to happen in our lifetime, it may be based on an accurate reading of the tea leaves of our lives.  There are numerous accounts (in Near Death Experiences, and between life sessions, as reported in "Flipside" and "It's A Wonderful Afterlife") of people visiting "libraries" in the afterlife. 

I've noted that there are no two accounts that are the same of these "akashic record" libraries.  I use the common term Akashic record, but there aren't any during these sessions that call them that, unless of course they're familiar with the term.  They're just called "libary" where all the records of people's lives reside, and are accessible to examine.

But I've also had in depth discussions with people who claim to be speaking on behalf of the librarian, or guides that are in the library, where they explain that these records are "not set in stone" but that they're "energetic records" of "likely outcomes" or memories of previous lifetimes.  And the reason to visit this place is the same reason we visit any library - to open the books of knowledge and see what we can learn from them.

But back to Mr. Live Long and Prosper.

Posted on Twitter by William Shatner
I'd like to nominate this Gene Roddenberry phrase to replace R.I.P.   "Rest in Peace" comes from the Latin, or Roman term, which means "resting" and in some kind of peaceful way, perhaps to avoid the wrath or anger of those who might not be so happy about being sent to the Flipside.  In some ways it's a plea, or a devout wish that a troubled person can actual "rest peacefully." "Requiēscat in Pāce"

What the research shows (and that's including accounts from Dr. Newton, Dr. Greyson, Dr. Schwartz, Dr. Beauregard, Dr. Wambach and other scientists, psychologists and first person accounts) is that we don't die when our bodies cease functioning.  Rather we find in these accounts that we move into a realm that is "more lifelike" where we experience "unconditional love" and resolution of a number of things.  It may not happen instantly - with violins and harps - it may take some time before we get to a place of peacefullness, but eventually we all get there.

Leonard Nimoy's last message on Twitter included 'LLAP' .. 

  Leonard Nimoy        ✔ @TheRealNimoy

"A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP"
11:36 PM - 22 Feb 2015   So when Leonard Nimoy checked out this past week, he indeed go to a place, a garden, where indeed, he will LIVE LONG AND PROSPER.  
(Oddly enough, a bit like the "Genesis" aspect of the "Star Trek" films)

Because its there that we prosper by reconnecting with our loved ones, we prosper by studying and examining the lessons learned during our lifetime, the love that we've given, the love that we've created, the love we've made, and the love we've left behind.  We continue to LIVE LONG because that is the nature of what spirits do - continuing on their path and journey through each lifetime, but also through learning and teaching while over on the other side.  

It's a full and rich experience,  according to the thousands of cases - and the journey in the Afterlife is an experience that ennobles the human spirit, underlines the path and journey we've all taken and indeed is one that's powerful, resonant, and worth talking about.

Live Long and Prosper.

Flipside in the news.... Ed Sheeran Et Al

Just wanted to weigh in on some recent news stories that point to the research in "Flipside" and "It's A Wonderful Afterlife."
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Let's start with the Brit Awards.  While winning his award, the amazing singer and musician Ed Sheeran said:

"Since I was a little kid I dreamed of people all over the world singing my songs and although I've got a long way to go, this shows that I'm stepping in the right direction." Ed Sheeran



Ed Sheeran, photo: Daily Mail UK
I've asked a number of people "their first conscious thought they'd be doing what they're doing" and often hear of recurring dreams, visions, or "always knew" as if the future lies somewhere under the surface of our reality. 

Not that we're destined, as free will reportedly dictates our path (to accomplish or screw up), but the dreams or visions appear to have little or nothing to do with nature or nurture. Genetics or environment seem to only support the outcome, but its the consciousness of knowing your path that puts one in the "right" direction. (Sheeran quote is buried after Madge's tumble)

I've come across many accounts of people who had profound dreams, recurring dreams or visions of what or who they were to become.  It was also in their behavior in the school yard.  

I asked one FBI agent when she first became conscious of what she might want to do in her life.  She said in preschool, because "I started keeping lists on what people did in school every day. What they wore, what they ate."  (As quoted in "It's a Wonderful Afterlife")

Was she seeing into the future?  Or seeing the path that she'd already chosen for her to be on?  Does it matter?  It does if you're a parent or guardian, and your child says something silly like "When I grow up I'm going to sing music to millions of people."  The answer is, "Cool! Let me get a camera and I want you to say that on camera, because in 20 years, it will be very valuable."

Just like Dave Schultz (the Olympic wrestler, whose story is told in "Foxcatcher") told his father when he was 5 that he "wasn't going to be here very long," but that he had come here to "teach a lesson in love."  (A conversation the father didn't remember until he said it at the eulogy.)  That's a hard pill to swallow - but when you consider the growing mountain of evidence that shows that we don't die - that we are here on stage temporarily, and that those we love have not disappeared, or gone into oblivion, it can be a source of comfort to those who would like to know there is data that backs that up.


Dave Schultz told his dad he wouldn't be here long.Then, I found this clip, on the anniversary of George Harrison choosing to be on the planet (his birthday), an old friend of mine posted this link to his speaking about death. George says in the clip:

"What happens when you die? That, to me, is the only thing that's of any importance. The rest is just secondary." "If you want to know anything in this life, you just need to knock on the door. Which I found through meditation. It's all within." (At the end a live version of "All Things Must Pass.")  





"What happens when we die, is the most important thing for us to know while we are on the planet."  

Why is that?

Because the answer will inform how you live your life, how you relate to people, how you relate to fear, to stress, to other people behaving badly.  

And finally, a "Near Death Story" with a different outcome:

In the Independent Newspaper in the UK, there's this story about a fellow who "died twice" and both times didn't see or experience anything (consciously) and they use it to report that "nothing happens after we die." No light, no tunnel. Nada. Zip.


Tunnel? Doorway? Different planes of existence? Pixels on a page?  All of the above.
Au contraire.

One person had that experience - an unconscious one - but thousands have had the opposite experience.

We all have different dreams, different experiences of being awake, widely divergent concepts of what being alive is. Or consciousness is. This fella experienced being dead and nothing came to mind. No tunnel of light. Just blankness. 

Never mind thousands have the opposite experience; scientists like Dr. Bruce Greyson at UVA studying cases for decades, Dr. Sam Parnia's published results of the extensive 7 year Aware Study showing consciousness existing outside of dead people, or the 100 cases Mario Beauregard PhD cites in his neuroscience research where people had no blood to the brain for minutes, and yet saw, heard new information from their "out of body" perspective. 


I got pals all over the planet.  These fellas are in Kashmir. Made me a rug.Some people are actually convinced nothing happens after we die. Sorry to say, it's just not in the data.

Finally, if you want proof of the afterlife, I suggest you watch this clip.  In it, author David Bennett ("Voyage of Purpose") recounts his near death experience where he saw into the future and saw that he would be diagnosed with cancer that would only give him months to live, and then survive it (knowing he would survive it, because he'd already seen that he would). His case has been examined by science: Dr. Greyson at UVA.  I'll let him describe his experience in his own words:



My two cents.

"Flipside" and "It's A Wonderful Afterlife."
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