Hacking the Afterlife Year End; Jennifer Shaffer, Luana Anders, on how to survive the holiday season!

Our year end podcast, talking to Luana Anders on the Flipside, interviewing folks in her class, and hearing the topic they want to discuss: How to help people meditate their way through the stress of the holidays!!!
In this podcast our moderator from the Flipside suggests "connecting with a "sparkly moment" from one's youth - before the trauma of later years, and focus on that moment. Why was one filled with joy? Then move forward to something later in life that made one laugh or be filled with happiness. Examine that moment and what caused it, and relive it as fully as one can."

Thanks for all the support for our podcast, thanks to all of Jennifer Shaffers followers - there may be some spots left at her WINE AND SPIRITS events in Manhattan Beach (please visit her website; JenniferShaffer.com) or if folks are itching for a guided meditation, they can find Rich at RichardMartini.com - either way, we're both wishing you a happy, healthy holiday season, and we do this podcast to remind people that are loved ones exist, they haven't vanished, and it's likely they're going to be hanging out with us over the holidays. My advice; toast them in present tense. It can't hurry. Or as Harry Dean Stanton told us during his interview in the film HACKING THE AFTERLIFE (on Gaia) "Tell people to believe in the possibility of an afterlife so they don't waste another minute of their lives arguing about it like I did." Learn to meditate - or pray - whatever form that takes.

ACID FOR SQUARES appearance on Tanya Dahl & Cody Blue Snider's podcast 12-20-25 at 5 pm EST

APPEARING ON ACID FOR SQUARES - Sunday, Dec, 20th 5pm

Some years ago, when I was still helming the DIY FILM FESTIVAL (with cofounder Bruce Haring) in Hollywood, a film came into the fest from Cody Blue Snider.  It was called "All That Remains" and was a powerful short film about an elderly veteran whose dreams were about fighting in World War II and invaded his life.

I still tell people about it - it was powerful, dramatic, brilliant. Cody had worked on films before, and it was clear that his career was going to skyrocket.  Still feel that way.

He won the festival that year, and has gone on to become a talented filmmaker, currently working on a film for Imagine Entertainment.  

He and his partner Tanya have put together this very cool podcast: 

"Acid For Squares is the chart topping alternative psycho-spiritual talk show hosted by 2023 iHeartRadio Award nominees Tanya Dahl and Cody Blue. After life-altering mystical experiences healed their minds and bodies, the husband and wife duo launched a mission to explore the unknown and dissolve the fear surrounding it. Each week, they create an uncensored space for shamans, scientists, sages, scholars, and artists to share their real-life encounters with the supernatural, dissecting the paranormal and decoding the nature of reality in a search for hidden truth."

I am honored to be asked to be a guest on their show, which will air today Dec. 20th, 2025, just in time for the holidays!  Something for under the Hanukkah bush, or the Christmas tree, or just for fun.

I talk about my journey as a filmmaker to being dragged kicking and screaming into the flipside - focusing my work on what happens after - which in turn has informed what happens before and during.  

It's a wide ranging conversation - we I did an on air guided meditation with Tanya which was mind bending - that portion will be featured in their members only section at a future date.

All of it was mind bending and fun.

Life goes on.  We don't die. Our pals are with us offstage. They aren't gone, they just aren't here.

We can take the time to learn to communicate with them via hypnotherapy, mediumship or with guided meditation. It's what I've been filming for over 15 years; examples are on Amazon Prime or Gaia ("Flipside" "Talking to Bill Paxton" "Hacking the Afterlife")  Our podcast HACKING THE AFTERLIFE with Jennifer Shaffer and myself chatting with the flipside can be found on itunes, spotify and YouTube. 

Links to the books can be found to the side of this page: ---->

Happy Christmas, Merry Hanukkah, may your holidaze be long and prosperous. 

https://www.acidforsquares.com/

REQUESTS FOR DOING A GUIDED MEDITATION...

 I've got requests for information about doing a guided meditation with yours truly.

The sessions are via Zoom, take about 90 - 120 minutes; includes an MP3 (audio), transcript of the session and a copy of any of my books. Have been doing these sessions with folks for a few years now, they're always mind bending. People have conversations (learn new information, can't be cryptomnesia) from people offstage (guides, teachers, council members and pals).

The books DIVINE COUNCILS IN THE AFTERLIFE and ARCHITECTURE OF THE AFTERLIFE have transcripts of sessions (anonymously) I've done them with scientists, (Harvard) clergy (A bishop) or doctors (psychiatrist) and folks from all walks of life. (In terms of data, people report Jesus shows up in 15% of NDE's, and though I haven't added up the amount of times he shows up during these sessions, it's higher than that.)

It's a mind bending trip (guided meditation) to have a chat with one's guides, teachers, council members, sometimes pals, relatives who are trying to reach out and let folks know they still exist, or have information to pass along. (Examples are in the films FLIPSIDE, HACKING THE AFTERLIFE on Amazon Prime or Gaia)

What's uncanny is how everyone describes the same hallmarks; classes, teachers, libraries, etc no matter their background or beliefs. Maybe a tune up for the upcoming New Year? A gift for a loved one? Let me know if you'd like to take a mind bending trip without the holiday hangover!

https://www.richardmartini.com/