So sad to report the passing of my old pal Bill Paxton.
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| Photo: Billy Mumy |
Known Bill him since his Martini Ranch days. (Bill had a hit song in the 80s as part of a duo. No relation.) (First 20 seconds of this clip are from Bill's band "Martini Ranch")
Met Bill in London while he was making Aliens. He said he'd star in my 1st film "You Cant Hurry Love" rewrote a number of scenes. Hilarious. (Unfortunately his agent intervened but the film opens with his music as an homage to him. Some of his jokes remain).
We tooled around Cannes (a few times), lost too much money at a casino, can still hear his booming laugh in the Aero for a screening of "Cannes Man".
Such a distinctive laugh. It was his laugh that I 1st recognized in a pub in London. Grade school pal Lori Axelson knew his then girlfriend Louise; over a pint of Guiness he did his in your face - full frontal guffaw - and I said "Wait a second. You're that crazy brother from Weird Science!"
Our last conversation Bill called driving in from Ojai, said "i'm in the catbird seat now, man. I get to pick and choose what i want to make." West Texas. Beloved brother. Rare individual. Heart of gold. Just at the beginning of the third act man. Sorry to not be able to see that. God speed Billy.
(For fans of "Flipside" and "Hacking the Afterlife" if Billy shows up in any of the research, I will report it here. Not to mitigate the loss of him in any way - his family and friends are in shock - but if Billy does show up in one of my interviews, I will do my utmost to be as accurate as I can to anything he might be able to impart via a medium that I'm interviewing! As you know, a number of acquaintances have appeared during these interviews, and I try to search for "new information.")
For those unfamiliar with the concepts describe here:
Here's the Introduction to my book "Hacking the Afterlife." Available in paperback, kindle, audible, itunes, etc.
Introduction
To Be or Not To Be; That’s THE Question
“Ascent of
the Blessed” by Hieronymus Bosch
This detail has
been cited as an example of a near death experience, complete with a tunnel of
light and souls venturing through it.
A “Life Hack” refers to “any trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty
method that increases productivity and efficiency, in all walks of life.”[1]
Or in this case; “and beyond.”
I’ve been examining near death
experiences, between life hypnosis sessions, out of body experiences and
speaking to mediums and others who report relatively the same things about the
afterlife. These reports point to the
conclusion; that we don’t die, that those who’ve gone before us are accessible
on the other side of the veil.
I’ve been filming people under deep
hypnosis for a decade and I’ve expanded my research to include people who’ve
had near death experiences, as well as interviewing people who appear to be
able to communicate with people no longer on the planet. At some point, by asking
questions about a person’s “memory” of a past life, I realized people appear to
be able to access and explore a “between lives realm” without being under
hypnosis at all.
The unusual premise of this book is
that what or who we are as
individuals does not disappear upon our demise and this bundle of “what we are
or were” is still accessible to our loved ones back here. Reportedly, our core essence doesn’t turn
into bits of fairy dust and vanish after death, nor does our life’s energy
drift into a Jungian pool of unconsciousness. These reports claim our “life
energy” moves from this reality into another “reality,” reportedly like walking
from “one room to the next.” Like using the transporter room from a Star Trek
episode.
Of course, our physical bodies eventually
dissolve, turn to ash. But the energy does not; as the “law of conservation of energy”
argues in physics.[2] Reportedly,
our energy exists here during our
lifetime, like a smaller piece of a holographic image. When the plate of a
hologram is broken into pieces, each part contains all of the information from
that holographic image, but “in a diminished fashion.” Once we are finished here with this lifetime,
our energy apparently leaves the body and “returns home” intact to reconnect
with the rest of the energy left behind.
According to the hundreds of
sessions or cases I’ve examined, dozens of near death experiences, hundreds of
hypnosis sessions, along with the 30 or so that I’ve filmed – when we return
“home” we reconnect with that portion of our energy we left behind coming here.
What was startling to learn, and a bit disconcerting, is that most people claim
we only bring a relatively small portion of our overall life force to our
lives; the average is “about one third.”[3] Further
that each lifetime is a choice.
To
decide to incarnate or not to incarnate. Good question.
This book will explore “life
planning” sessions, where under deep hypnosis, people access that decision to
come to the planet, why they chose their particular persona, and what they
hoped to accomplish in doing so. That our life choice is not based on previous
lifetimes or karma, or difficulties we’ve had in the past – although we
certainly can choose to explore those arenas - but the choice to do so is based
on free will. We can always say “No. I’m
not returning. I have better things to do back here than to go down there with
the rest of you.”
But for some godforsaken reason,
because our soul group convinces us to do so, or our guides convince us that
it’s a journey we should take on behalf of others, we agree to participate.
Indeed, those of us here have all agreed
to come here, to get back on stage, to play our parts as requested of us. We
may not like it once we get back here, but how we perform is entirely up to us.
When we leave this mortal coil – it’s not that we drift like a “wisp of smoke”
into a bardo as Buddhism argues, but a
full third of our energy heads “back home” to reunite with the other two thirds
of our energy that is “always back there.”
It’s bit like the liquid robot from
in the film “Terminator 2.” When a piece broke off, the liquid sought out the
rest of the robot so it could reformulate the whole machine; our energy seeks
out and finds the rest of our energy and melds with it to make us “whole”
again. People have described this event
of “resynthesizing” with their higher energy as “mind blowing” and “intensely
healing.” When we reconnect with our literal
selves, we remember the motivation behind our adventures here, and all of our
previous adventures with other members of our soul group. We can see why we
chose this lifetime, we understand why we chose our previous lifetimes, and
understand the overall theme of all of those choices.
They report that each lifetime
reflects the overall discipline that our soul group is working on. Like being part of a university class in a
chosen discipline; one soul group’s overall theme might be medicine, healing, compassion,
forgiveness, loyalty, any of the various themes that are explored in literature
and the theater.
In one between life session a woman
reported that her “soul group examines what addiction does to people” and
recalled various lifetimes that include addictions in all their forms. She was able to see that the overdose of her
brother, the sexual addictions of her father, and her own life’s addictions all
had a theme to them, of understanding the fundamental energy behind addiction
and how to transform it into healing energy.
In some cases a soul may not want to
return “home” right away, may forestall the trip to stick around and see how
things play out. It’s up to us whether we stay or go, after all, just as it’s
up to us whether we come here or not. We might see these souls who haven’t left
in some energetic, etheric way. They’re usually referred to as “ghosts” and in
popular media appear with eerie music. But in many cases, after a person checks
out, says goodbye to their loved ones, they can’t wait to get back home. They
report they usually can’t wait to return to their friends, “back home.”
To be clear, this isn’t my belief,
philosophy or religious bent. I have a background as a journalist (written for
Variety, Premiere, USA Today and Inc.com) I’m a documentary filmmaker (“White
City/Windy City” “Journey into Tibet”) I’m a film director (“Limit Up,” “Point
of Betrayal,” “You Can’t Hurry Love” among others) and I’m just reporting what
the research consistently says. I’m not an expert on the afterlife, nor an
expert on anything really. I’ve been filming and interviewing people
about their Flipside experiences for a decade.
The reports are essentially the same.
These eyewitness reports are a bit
like the explorers who took ships across the sea, then came back with fantastic
tales of what they’d seen. Some went
with an attitude of reinforcing their religious beliefs, some made up stories
to get money for future trips, while others kept diaries and reported verbatim
what they’d witnessed. But when the reports were consistent and could be
repeated, their destination became “the new world.” What these people report about the Flipside
is both consistent and replicable, which is pretty much what science requires
for something to be considered data.
The main difference here is that
when these explorers return from their trip abroad, they refer to that other place across the sea as “home.”
Further, the research shows that while
we are on the planet, that two thirds of our energy back there, on the Flipside,
isn’t just floating on clouds. It’s reported that our higher selves “attend
classes,” “learn how to manipulate energy,” even report playing “games with our
soul mates.” In one case, a person reported finding her soul group playing an
elaborate “game of tag.”
She said the game required a person
to track down and “capture” six other soul mates. They could hide “anywhere in
the universe;” the added complication was that “everyone is invisible” and they
can hide “in any realm” they wanted to.
Like an incredible multi-engine version of a Google search, but using
their mind’s engine to search for the
energy pattern of invisible entities in multiple dimensions.
They also report that on the Flipside,
our higher selves can tune in, watch, enjoy or be horrified by our performance back
here. A bit like watching a play in the
theater where we are both in the audience
and on stage at the same time.
The people on stage have a filter
that prevents them from knowing there’s an audience watching them, or from
knowing why they chose a particular part or costume or prop, or why they agreed
to the part in the first place. Of
course, it would ruin the play if they spent most of their time shading their
eyes to wave at the audience and say “Hi
Mom. Look at me! I’m in a play!”
From our seats “back home” we can cheer,
applaud, cry, laugh with those onstage acting out these roles. When our friends exit, it’s reported we often
congratulate them for a job well done. When the actor who plays Romeo meets the
actress who played Juliet backstage, he doesn’t chastise her for screwing up
his life and causing both of their deaths. He embraces her, congratulates her
for a job well done. “Great acting tonight, Julie.” “You too Romy; see you at
the after party.”
“It’s not your time to exit the
stage yet.”
Some people have a near death
experience, find themselves “back home” with their soul group, but these folks
are usually told “Hey, get back on stage!
You’re not supposed to be here yet.”
I’ve spoken to a number of
International Association of Near Death Studies groups[4] and I’ve
met a number of people disconcerted they felt so wonderful “back home” and are
upset to be forced “back here.” They saw loved ones back there, experienced the
unconditional love many report backstage and have no desire to put on the
makeup, and step into the limelight.
We live in a world where we try to
own time, manipulate and change time. We may not be happy we have more work to
do onstage, work that we aren’t prepared for, or want to do. But
hang on. What if I told you it’s
possible to “go home” while you’re still here, still on the planet?
What if I told you it’s possible to
visit your friends who are no longer on the planet, and you can ask and get
information that you didn’t know was possible to learn? What if I told you that anyone who has ever
walked the Earth is available and accessible, because their energy never dies? It transforms, as per the first law of
thermodynamics, from one form to the next, but the essence of that form, since
it’s outside of time, will always exist.[5] So if you
want to ask Will, “What did you mean by
to be or not to be? Is that a rhetorical question? Or are you talking about
incarnation?” you can.
We’ve all heard fantastical accounts
about the afterlife. From visions of
satanic fires to angels riding on clouds, we’ve been inundated with these
reports since humans populated the planet. But in reports of the afterlife,
isn’t it unusual that no two of these reports are ever the same?
As scientist Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
points out, a rainbow is different for everyone who sees it. No two rainbows are alike. “The exact Rainbow any of us sees in the sky
is entirely our own -- a personal, yet communal gift from the laws of optics.”[6]
The same is true for visions of the
afterlife. Two people may visit a
“Library of records” but no two descriptions are alike. People may visit a “soul group,”[7] but
exactly where it’s located or how it’s constructed varies from person to
person.
We may even see the same person in
the afterlife others have seen. They may appear to us differently than they
appear to another person, it appears to depend on how they want to present
themselves.
Sometimes we see them as older,
sometimes younger, depending on the person we’re visiting. Yet we have a
feeling of knowing that we’re
actually seeing the person we once knew. I’ve filmed first hand reports of these encounters
with people from all walks of life; different genders, beliefs or lack of
belief - who are consistent in their reporting. With different hypnotherapists,
different accounts of near death experiences, different experiences as we’ll
see; all describe the same “place” in a different way.
Caveat Emptor!
As I’ve mentioned in “Flipside: A
Tourist’s Guide on How to Navigate the Afterlife” and “It’s a Wonderful
Afterlife” a skeptic is someone who “doesn’t believe in the prevailing school
of thought.” I’m a skeptic in the truest sense of the word. Science considers accounts of past lives to
be “cryptomnesia”; something a person
imagined, heard, or read about someone else’s life, that they forgot -- but
their subconscious did not. Or, science argues people may tap into what Carl Jung
referred to as the “universal unconscious” - a place in the universe where the
energy from our lives supposedly comes to rest, floating like an island of non-biodegradable
detritus in outer space. Past life memories are people merely “tapping into”
that island.
Further science believes near death experiences are due to Hypoxia, lack of oxygen in the brain which causes
hallucinations. (As happens in high
altitude.) I know about Hypoxia – I’ve been at high altitude in
the mountains of Tibet and had some pretty fantastic “visions” up there. But science “believes” this because, well,
there’s no data on the topic.
Finally, materialist science believes consciousness begins and ends
in the brain, as if the engrams contain all the information we need to know,
and if someone has enough of them – or a computer does – it can become
“sentient.” To quote my former Oxford/Harvard alum Boston University professor
Julian Baird; “I’d agree with you, but
then we’d both be wrong.”
The simplest way to prove past
lives, out of body experiences, near death experiences are actual events, not
imaginary, is through the evidence of “new information.” If a person sees, hears, learns something
during one of these events that they couldn’t possibly have known - that
there’s no “known example” anywhere in books or the internet or in “some other
person’s mind that perhaps they were accessing” - then it must come from
somewhere else other than the brain.
If that new information turns out to be accurate -- then the person could not have gotten the information from
the Jungian unconscious, from the energetic memory of some previous person, from
the hidden recesses of their subconscious, or from not being able to breathe
atop Mt. Everest.
It’s not up to me to convince anyone
either way. I’m just a reporter here. If
that’s your final answer on the matter, as they say, I recommend putting
this book back on the shelf, returning it to the kindle app or whatever dime
store bin you found it. You should be
able to get your money back. After all, buying books is not like being alive –
they come with a money back guarantee.
There may be solid reasons for you not to venture down this avenue, and I
appreciate that. I’m not writing these books for everyone. No really, if you’re
feeling the slightest bit uncomfortable, it’s going to get a lot more freaky up
in here. Maybe this amusement park ride isn’t for you.
Apologies in advance for syntax
mistakes, typos, and any other errors I make here; someone complained of my reading
of my books on Audible, I sometimes laugh, am overcome with emotion, correct
myself or as one wag put it, could “hear my cat meow” in the background. If
meowing bothers you, then I’m not your guide. Get a refund, please!
That being said, there are people who
may need to hear these reports, and
need to hear it in the tone and syntax I express. For whatever reason. Now, for
those of you who have stuck around: I
invite you into this world of the afterlife, where we can query people no
longer on the planet with specific questions and get some pretty amazing
answers. Care to follow me? But you have
been warned.
Giordano
Bruno, philosopher burned at the stake for revealing his out of body experience where he saw that the earth
goes around the sun.
“L’asciate ogni speranza voi ch’entrate”
“Abandon All Hope Ye Who Turns the Page.”
[1] Detail from “Ascent of the Blessed” by
Hieronymus Bosch. Wikimedia.
[2] In physics, the law of conservation of energy states that the total
energy of an isolated system remains constant—it is said to be conserved over
time. Energy can neither be created nor destroyed; rather, it transforms from
one form to another.
[3] I examined these reports in “Flipside: A
Tourist’s Guide on How to Navigate the Afterlife” and “It’s a Wonderful
Afterlife volumes one and two.” There are many other sources, a partial
bibliography is at the end of this book.
[4] Iands.org is a great place to share and
listen to a variety of experiences like this.
[5] The law states that “energy can be transformed from one form to
another, but cannot be created or destroyed.”
[6] Neil deGrasse Tyson tweet @neiltyson 12:41
PM - 14 Jun 2016
[7] “Soul groups” are spoken of by Michael
Newton in “Journey of Souls.” His reports suggest 3-25 people in the immediate
circle, with the average being about 15.
