Last shot of the day on a film set, also the last name of the author of this blog. Martin - Latin singular, those soldiers who work for Mars, God of War. A smith. In this lifetime of words, music and film. AKA "The Afterlife Expert" (Coast to Coast AM) If you want to reach me, I can be found on FB, LinkedIn, or Gmail under MartiniProds (my youtube channel)
Friday
Excellent case of Xenoglossy
Good Friday and The Second Coming
" What's so good about it?"
In the ongoing interviews we've had with people who report that they can access Jesus, or the frequency of Jesus, or the fellow himself, the comment has come up that "If Jesus returned to see what folks were doing in his memory, it would be celebrating the worst day of his life."That may have come from a comedian - but the point is apt.
The guy lives a life of love, loving, being loved, spreading love - and the symbol we use in his honor is from the worst afternoon of his journey. 'Hi Jesus! Look, I'm wearing your cross!" "Um, that's not my cross, actually, those Roman fellows made that thing."
Allow me to be heretical for a moment.
Tiziano Vecellio |
To be clear, scholars agree he was on the cross for a day.
Perhaps an afternoon. Scourging aside - there is a sequence of events in his story that can be examined. He's put on a cross alongside two other fellas who'd been there longer. Perhaps all week long as was the custom.
He's given some gall - wine mixed with myrrh - by a soldier and a few moments later appears to give up the ghost. (Passes out or is knocked out, it's a debate.)
Meanwhile Joseph of Arimethea is in Pilate's office asking for the "living body of Jesus" off the cross. (According to the original Greek and Aramaic, the word "Soma" he used was for a living person.) Pilate reportedly replies, "you can take the corpse down. (Ptoma) " And then they do. Estimates could be three hours, perhaps longer out there in front of everyone.
Soldier reportedly stabs him in the side - and water and blood flow out. (See Livor Mortis) Well, that usually indicates someone who is alive - as blood generally doesn't flow from dead bodies, but be that as it may, the next piece of the story is that he's met at the cave by Nicodemus with 75 to 90 pounds of Aloe and Myrrh.
Interesting detail - myrrh being the same thing brought to Jesus at his birth - but it represents not an ointment for the dead (else why bring it to Mary after she's given birth?) but an ointment for the living. A restorative. As it still is. Same goes for aloe.
Since there's never been a Jewish tradition of anointing the dead (despite the good book's admonition and claim there was) with any oils or paste or goop. They bury their dead before sundown so they don't have to pack them in salt or goop or smelling salts. Never have. Never will.
So the only logical thing is that our pal Nicodemus has brought along a whole bunch of bags of restoratives to this cave. Not "anointed the dead" products. Who needs 75-90 pounds to do that? I mean, can we say "overkill?" ("Nico! Enough with the ointments already! You could have brought a pound - but 75 pounds?")
And then what happens?
According to the guards, who reported to the Sanhedrin, "his followers came and took him to another cave." According to the gospels, they claim this was a lie - and that the guards, who were working for the Sanhedrin were covering up for being "asleep on the job." (That's a quote, literally. They were lying because they slept on the job.)
‘His disciples came by night and stole him away while we were asleep.’ Matthew 28:11–15
But hang on. The next day - when a posse shows up to find him - where'd the 75 pounds of aloe and myrrh go?
Every report in the good book has an empty cave. Empty except for a cloth. (Reportedly the shroud.) A couple of accounts mention angels (one account has them standing, another has them sitting. Must get tiring flying around all the time. But I digress.)
Never mind that the shroud shows someone who is alive (the dead don't bleed, and whoever was in the shroud was bleeding) and then when his pals show up at the cave, it's rolled away and he's gone... or in the garden disguised as a gardener - but either way - no one mentions the 75 pounds of aloe and myrrh. Or the bags they were carried in. All used on one afternoon? Really?
Where'd they go? Vanished into thin air? Lugged out the back of the cave? No one mentions them.
Based on dozens of interviews with people who claim to recall either a lifetime in that era, or being a witness to events on that day - it's not me claiming these reports, I'm only filming them - according to these reports from people both under hypnosis, not under hypnosis, or somehow accessing this "past life memory" - they claim the same thing.
That with the help of his pals, followers, some of the Roman legion, he was allowed to escape. He figured out a way and method to survive the ordeal. He used his incredible healing powers as well as conscious abilities to not get killed on the cross.
He didn't "escape" or leave the region immediately - people claim the aloe and myrrh was used to restore him prior to going to visit his apostles, which was at least 80 miles away from Jerusalem - so it's not like he left the cave on Sunday for supper with his pals. Reportedly, it took months for him to heal.
As reported, his followers were as astounded as anyone to see that he still existed.
Who else would stick his finger in someone's wound and say "Is this really you?" I mean, c'mon Thomas.
(Reportedly Jesus returned the favor to Thomas - in the "Acts of Thomas" from the Gnostic Gospels, Jesus tells Thomas to go to India to preach, Thomas refuses, so Jesus sells him to an Arab trader to work on his ship.
Thomas claims he was forced to go to India, where he landed in Kerala. The spot where he landed became an ancient church, a new one exists next door (despite the Catholic church claiming it didn't happen). Those Kerala Christians follow a form of Christianity closer to what Thomas preached.)
The St. Thomas Church near where he landed near the ruins of an ancient church built in his honor in Kerala. Lots of Christians not recognized by any Church (other than Thomas) |
That he had survived this ordeal, with the help of some pals, with the help of his ability to heal, with the help of his years traveling the silk road and learning esoteric yogas that allow for consciousness to be outside the body (see "the six yogas of Naropa" for examples) - they claim, I don't claim - they claim that he survived this ordeal.
So - the good news is - he reportedly survived.
But in retrospect it was a miracle that he did - survived a Roman crucifixion.
And to do it with style, grace and love for everyone involved (including his pal Judas, who in the Gospel of Judas claims that Jesus came to him and said in effect "You have to turn me in, in order for this ruse to work." "If you love me, you'll do as I have asked." Quoting Judas now.) The story has many levels of grace as shown.
(Never mind that the Qur'an reports he survived. He's called "Issa" or "Isa" in that book, as he was known throughout the Middle East. People in the reports about him have called him Esaiah, and even "Essie.") (See "Hacking the Afterlife" for those reports)
Hacking the Afterlife |
The reports continue that he traveled with his "wife" (Mary of Magda, reportedly wed in an Essene ceremony prior to his ordeals) and together with their family (at least one, later 5) found his way to Kashmir and lived out his days as a preacher who continued to speak about life everlasting, and how the flipside is a kingdom where everyone is welcomed. Again - not my story. I am reporting.
But that's another story.
This story for today is to say, when we think of "Good Friday" maybe it's good because we can challenge the narrative with this other story - how some pals figured out a way to save the life of their friend, and his unique ability to be a healer and someone who understood reality on a different level, he was able to live out the rest of his days in relative obscurity. Happy. Still preaching, albeit to a different flock.
During one of the sessions that I filmed of speaking with him, when asked "why are you allowing this alternate story to emerge of what happened to you?" he replied "It's not alternate if it's truth."
And then we have the people who claim he still exists - that he has come to them in dreams, visions, near death events - and given them new information. People who claim he's accessible to anyone - that he "never left" because no one "leaves" - we step outside this realm and into another one. That we can incarnate from, reincarnate from, and that he's done so since then.
Not gone. Just not here. |
It's not my belief, opinion or theory that people say these things consistently. I just film them doing so.
Here's an interview with him via Jamie Butler (from the Channeling Erik Website). I've filmed another interview with Jamie and him sometime later, have yet to post the transcripts of that interview. It's equally mind bending.
So when we think of Easter - perhaps think of the idea of resurrecting this fellow's life, becoming aware that he still may exist, that reportedly he's available to anyone who needs his help, that's he eager and willing to help anyone who reaches out for him.
It's an odd way of saying "Happy Easter" - because it includes the idea that we can all resurrect him by examining his story in closer detail.
That the "Second Coming" may be our awareness that he never left. Or that no one "leaves" - they return "home" to the "kingdom of home" where everyone reports a feeling of unconditional love.
But they actually use the word "home" instead of "heaven."
Again - I am just reporting.
Graphic from the shroud with filters |
When asked during an "interview" why it was that he had such a profound effect on people who have seen him since then (hard to breathe, tears, red faces) he said "I brought more of source with me to this lifetime. When people are near me, they feel that unconditional love." ("Hacking the Afterlife" Chapter 18: "People who claim to have met Jesus.")
To which I replied "Not so much with the Romans."
And the person who was accessing him in the interview (in "Hacking the Afterlife") said "He's laughing. He just laughed when you said that."
Which is a small Easter egg unto itself.
Hacking the Afterlife with Jennifer Shaffer, her dad, my dad and others
Monday
Hacking the Afterlife with Fellini, Giulietta, Marcello & Fiammetta
I had the impression that the great director Federico Fellini stopped by my place a few days ago - so I invited him to come by our class.
Fred and Giulietta |
I had studied his films in college, and later when living in Rome there were sightings of him all over the city. Later, I met a number of people who worked with him, including the Roman actress Fiammetta Baralla, the aunt of a fellow film school student Luca Bentivoglio. I got to know Fiammetta well, and her dog Romeo who was famous in her home town of Roma.
Me and Luana near Via Veneto |
As a result, I felt fairly confident that we could chat with Fellini, because Fiammetta knew him, worked with him - and I am a fan of his work, his wife's work - Giulietta Masina - and her work with Anthony Quinn. Some years later I worked with one of his sons Francesco. Once Francesco told me that his dad loved our film "Cannes Man." (For the record, Anthony Quinn was Mexican American as he mentions)
Francesco's dad |
So this is a Italian celebrity filled session - Marcello Mastroianni stops by as well... which would be incredible to any fan of Italian cinema, but for many - like Jennifer, they are only vaguely familiar with these icons.
Ma che fai? |
The discussion is fun and lively - given on March 11th, the day before my birthday. My birthday gift to myself was to have the amazing Jennifer Shaffer access people that I knew about and wished I might one day meet - and they report things that only those on the flipside could know.
Fiammetta Baralla |
Boh!
Wednesday
What or Who is God?
Question popped up on Quora today - with regard to why God would let people choose the lifetimes they've chosen, or if that was possible...
My answer, based on the flipside research:
"I suggest opening up the idea of what or who God is. Not a person, entity or programmer per se - but it shows up in the research as this: I brought a skeptic to a session to film a past life regression/between life session (with a Newton Institute trained hypnotherapist.)
On the way there I asked if she had any questions to ask if she met one of her guides: she said “I’m a skeptic. I’m an atheist. I don’t believe in any afterlife, I don’t believe anything you’ve told me about the research, I don’t believe in guides.” I said “So why are we doing this?” She said “I’m having surgery on my ovary, and the doctor said it would be a good idea because it will help me to relax.”
We got to Scott’s office (lightbetweenlives.com) and I handed over a couple of her questions; “What or who is god?” was the one she decided to “ask in case she got somewhere” even though she didn’t believe she’d go anywhere. I didn’t tell him she was a skeptic - I didn’t tell him anything, just set up the tripod and put the camera on it.
In 15 minutes we were in Arizona in 1820 and she was recalling the lifetime of this rancher (details I was able to historically verify) and what a cranky fellow he was. She had a wild session (It’s in “It’s a Wonderful Afterlife”) and then she met her guide in her Akashic library. (Akashic means "invisible" "energy" or "etheric" in Sanskrit) And the librarian said “I'm busy, but I’ll answer whatever questions you have.”
So Scott repeated her question.
Michael Newton - one of the hypnotherapist
who trained Scott De Tamble
The guide (speaking through her - she’s saying “He seems like he’s busy and can’t be bothered, but he says he’ll answer my questions.”) He said in reply “God is beyond the capacity of the human brain to comprehend, it’s not physically possible to comprehend.”
I thought that was the end of it - he was literally ducking the question. He didn’t use any gender or objective pov - just said “God is beyond anyone’s capacity - because it’s not physically possible for the human brain to comprehend what that means.”
But he continued;
“However, you can experience God by opening your heart to everyone and all things.”
Now I knew the person saying this was not a Buddhist, or religious - she remains a jaded skeptic of a Hollywood film producer, responsible for behind the scenes production on some big blockbuster films. To this day she doesn’t remember saying it - and that’s why I’m glad to bring a camera. Because I recorded her saying it.
Look at the sentence.
No reference to a being or person. No reference to a creator or creators - just a reference to an experience. And if we want to experience that experience - have that epiphany or that apotheosis - we can.
But to do so we have to do something literally impossible for humans to do.
Some do it with pets. Some do it with family members. Open their hearts in such a way that it constitutes “unconditional love.” Opening your heart to someone is literally that construct. No conditions on that love. Open heart to everyone.
But he added something interesting - and I’ve thought a lot about it since then. Not just “open your hear to everyone” - which could be heard on a pulpit (even when they don’t mean it - because it implies opening up hearts to people they fear or dislike or don’t agree with) - he said “open your heart to everyone and all things.”
So start there.
What does it mean to “open your heart to a thing?” Why would anyone suggest that “opening one’s heart” to an object - a table, a chair, a keyboard - this monitor - a plant, a blade of grass… how could that be an experience of God?
Because by becoming aware of how consciousness functions - how incarnation works - we get the awareness of the idea that quantum entanglement exists not only between objects created in the same space - but between all objects, all things, all people.
And that “holding of space” that atoms do - agreeing to hold space in a piece of wood, concrete, earth - those atoms are all there agreeing to occupy that space… and our awareness that we are connected to all things is like turning on a massive light that illuminates every drop of water in the ocean.
So the idea of “god” punishing, doling out warrants, judging people - isn’t in the research.
What is in the research is that people who claim to have an experience of “god” or being near “god” or being near someone who has more source energy than most - someone who embodies “unconditional love” - they are consistent in their reports of having an experience of “unconditional love.”
So in essence - in the sentence, this librarian on the flipside, via this jaded skeptic of a Hollywood film producer, has revealed that the “path to God” is not only good works, not only being kind or generous or compassionate - but the path to “knowing god” or “experiencing god” is by way of “opening their hearts to everyone AND ALL THINGS.” (Italics and caps added for emphasis.)
Easy to say but next to impossible to do on this planet of negative/positive, yin/yang, dark/light experiences - because opening our heart to all of them means that we love them all equally, embrace them all equally, and share that connectivity.
This is one of those answers that seems to be beyond sense - or all over the map, but inside of it is the “flipside code” as I call the subtitle for “Architecture of the Afterlife.”
It may offend those with a vested interest in a person, object or thing that they deify - but within the answer is the observation that we are all part of that thing we deify, we are all part of that wisdom and compassion, we are all part of the journey - all beings just walking each other home.
We do choose to come here - and the reasons are often based on multiple lifetimes, on knowing the person who asked us to show up over many lifetimes, on reasons that are beyond our stage persona’s ability to contemplate, but completely make sense to our higher self - the rest of our conscious energy sitting in the theater - applauding.
By the way, check out Dr. Greyson's book “After” as an example of how a scientist approaches data that doesn't fit the paradigm. Because its hard to comprehend doesn't mean we shouldn't examine. As he quotes social scientist Raymond Wolfinger: “The plural of anecdote is data.” (Pg 61 “After")
Friday
Hacking the Afterlife with Jennifer Shaffer and Ian Stevenson
Monday
Friday
Hacking the Afterlife with Jennifer Shaffer, Larry King and Lady Gaga's...
Saturday
Hacking the Afterlife with Jennifer Shaffer, Luana Anders and Larry King
Wednesday
Autism and the Flipside
A person on Quora asked the following question in the "Hacking the Afterlife" forum.
I am sharing the answer in the hopes it may help someone.
Do people with autism receive a compensation for their hardship in the afterlife?
My answer:
"Its a complicated topic but based on the research, our notion of reward and trauma is skewed. People who can refer to their previous lifetimes, either through hypnotherapy, meditation or mediumship claim we bring about a third of our conscious energy to a lifetime.
That the rest remains “home.” So the bulk or roughly two thirds of who we are is always home.
In the reports of people who recalled having a lifetime with some form of the spectrum, or accessing the higher self to ask questions about a sibling or relative, they report the same things.
That a person may have brought less to this lifetime. ( The number when asked “how much of your conscious energy was in that lifetime?” The answer is often around ten percent.) It's hard to discuss if one isn't aware of how incarnation works or consciousness functions.
But the most eloquent response I've filmed was during a conversation between a medium and an avatar, someone considered the epitome of love.
Question was asked about their granddaughter's autism and the response was “consider their life as a window of love. Their life is closer to source because its unencumbered by the normal things humans stress and worry about. Their journey is one of love on a more profound level.”
It brought to mind the Mormon tradition where they reportedly consider autistic children as “angels, closer to God" because of how they experience the world and how they encourage others to love unconditionally.
Based on the research, its the “older wiser souls" who volunteer for the more difficult journeys. So the person currently in this physically challenged journey has reportedly volunteered to help teach others lessons in empathy, compassion or love.
But again, its a temporary condition, as are all physical conditions. Consciousness doesn’t arise from the brain, and when people return home they are aware of why they made that decision to experience life in that fashion. My two cents."
Today, I heard this response from a mom on Quora:
"As a mom, I can speak for most parents of a low-functioning autistic, and often difficult children, the perpetual grief is never-ending with areas of reprieve. The parents may ask themselves, “what did I do in this life or any life to deserve such hardships?” We have moments of feeling punished even when we fiercely love and protect these helpless human beings. The thought of a pact with my son before we were mother and son is a view I’ve never had and thank you. “We are all just walking each other home” are words to live by."
So, this morning, I realized that in my most recent, yet to be published book, there's an "Interview with Jesus" where he addresses this topic. So I'm sharing this unpublished portion of an interview I filmed in 2016 just after publishing "Hacking the Afterlife" (and why it's not in that book but will be in an upcoming book.)
"Thanks for sharing your son… I can only point to the research. I found it interesting to learn how in Utah, they consider children on the spectrum as “angels closer to God.” Oddly enough - that appears to be accurate.
I’ll share part of this interview that I filmed with medium Jamie Butler, who was accessing “Jesus” in a room filled with attendees a couple of years back. It was after the book “Hacking the Afterlife” was published, so I didn’t transcribe or include it in the research… until recently when someone bugged me about it.
This is from my unpublished book “Finding Jesus on the Flipside” - I’m sharing it because, I found it an odd confirmation of what the research indicates in this area.
Again - we are in a room of people who have come to see medium Jamie Butler speak. When I went to see her on a Friday night, I told her that someone had emailed me and said “Jesus appeared in my kitchen last night while I was washing dishes and told me to tell you to go and see Jamie speak.” Which is an odd email to get- and even odder to discover Jamie was in my home town that weekend.
So I went and mentioned this odd message - and Jamie said “Well, come back tomorrow and let’s see if we can “dial him up.”
Jamie in the woods |
The following day, I filmed Jamie channeling a Victorian age woman (her muse, “Grace”) who often helps her with difficult conversations - and in this one, after about a half hour of her directly answering questions on Jesus’ behalf (personal questions that Jamie could not know, but he did) - one of the women in the audience asked the following question:
Question: “Could you help me understand what I can do to help my son who is autistic?”
Jamie as “Grace”: “He says for others to listen to this, “Because it is not just a mother’s love for a son, it’s a love to help another.” He says, “When they (a person with disability) are not having an equal experience of life that you are, when you can see someone struggling in ways, it cannot be compared to you and your experiences.”
He says “I bring this to your attention, because I want you, every time you want to reach out to mend, to heal, to help, to cure; to step back and look at your hands.” He said, “Notice that they’re empty. They’re empty for a reason; you are not to do the work for them.”
“You are to be present with them, you are to encourage them to find their answers. Now if you’re wondering how a mother to a young son is to give the power to a young child, what good would this do? Autistic children come into this life, and they keep their light closely linked to the beyond; to "home." They engage in this world as if they were on TV but sitting in a room at home in heaven.”
(Important to note; “Step back and look at your hands. Notice that they’re empty. You are not to do the work for them.” We come to the planet to experience life, and by taking over the steering wheel from our children they can’t learn to drive. Also, he mentions the word “home” – as in not being here, but back “home” where we all come from.)
“They’re not really on Earth. So for them to act like you, or to have experiences like you, that is not what is needed. That is not the level of success; the level of success is to be next to the person that holds the issue - the suffering, the disease, the mental imbalance, the need.”
“Advocate for them in the ways that they want, pay attention more to the child, to the person who needs, and not to what the doctors speak of. Though they are brilliant, though they are studied and very intelligent,” he says, “what is most valuable is (to ask) “What does the child need?”
“This experience is all for great reasons. It is not about suffering, and it is not to understand what loss is, it is to understand what light is, that is why this experience is in your life.” He says “Thank you. I love you.”
(Note: Hearing Jesus say that children with mental issues are “not really on Earth” is mind bending to hear. But it is in line with the research. People report we bring about “30%”’ of our conscious energy to a lifetime, but those who have dementia, mental issues use roughly “10%” of that energy. That the rest is “back home.” So this comment is in line with the research. I can’t emphasize how startling this is to hear him say. Also, Grace the channeler can be archaic. Staid is defined as “Sedate, respectable, and unadventurous. Old English from 1557.” Britannica)”
Again, I’m sharing this because some folks may need to hear it.
I found this passage to be in line with the other reports and research - the fact that I’m hearing it from Jamie, who is channeling “Grace” who is channeling “Jesus” - must give us pause. It’s interpretation layered upon interpretation. But what makes it life affirming, is that if we consider the possibility, it allows us to explore things in a different fashion.
My two cents. Here's Jamie Butler's webpage:
Monday
HACKING THE AFTERLIFE with Stanley Kubrick and Napoleon
TALKING TO NAPOLEON AND HIS PAL STANLEY
This is an excerpt from the book "Backstage Pass to the Flipside 3" (Homina Publishing, 2020, All Rights Reserved.) Book is available at Amazon, Engram Spark, all online outlets.
Reason I'm posting it is recently a wag on Quora noted "Everyone who has a past life regression thinks they were Napoleon."
I pointed out statistically that's not the case - in the 100 cases I've filmed, or the 2750 clinical case studies by Dr. Wambach, or in the 7000 reported by Michael Newton and the Newton Institute - not a single person recalled the life of Mr. Bonaparte.
Further that we had "chatted with Napoleon" and that he pointed the finger at the culprit who poisoned him. This person got upset that I reported that - called me a "fraud" (a surefire ticket to the cornfield in the forum "Hacking the Afterlife" on quora), and I left the story at that. However, for those who are curious about this "chatting with the afterlife" process - I dug up the interview.
Having worked for an Oscar winning screenwriter, remaining pals and demonstrating to him how we can access people on the flipside, one day he casually mentioned he was curious about a detail about Napoleon's life. I suggested that we might see if it was possible to ask him questions. I said "Let's pretend we can. What would you like to ask him?"
The construct is this; I work with Jennifer Shaffer, who works with law enforcement agencies nationwide on missing person cases. I've demonstrated in our work, weekly for six years now, that people can access loved ones on the flipside, get new information from them. (For examples, see the film "Talking to Bill Paxton" on Gaia where I converse with my old pal via three different mediums, asking the same questions and getting the same answers.) Jennifer solved a case for NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton which got her a ticket to NYC where he grilled her as to how or why she knew details about the case - how she could accurately describe what forensically happened.
The screenwriter and I have a mutual friend in the flipside - Luana Anders, who helps us facilitate these conversations. How Luana and I met is covered in "Flipside" and that fact she passed in 1996 is unusual - except "it is what it is." She started showing up with new information from the flipside, and somewhere around 2004 I began studying how that could be. And it was through Luana's intercession that I went to work for this screenwriter out of film school.
So how do we get to Napoleon? How to "dial him up?"
Well, that would be through his pal Stanley. Stanley Kubrick wrote a script about him and we had seen Stanley in another interview before - he talked about his love of his dogs (a detail I wasn't aware of and turned out to be accurate) - and Luana worked with a number of actors who worked with Kubrick... so in the "six degrees of separation" - the process is this: if you know someone on the flipside who knew someone in life, the ability of them to access those folks on the flipside is easier.
No other way to put it.
Luana knew actors who worked with Brando, who were friends with Brando, who knew James Dean, who knew everyone... etc. So we have a lot of actors in the class. I worked with Ray Charles ("Limit Up" he plays God), so when Ray shows up in the "class" every musician who knew or liked Ray is accessible.
I know that's problematic for some - but I'm not here to pave the road, repair the fences. Just reporting.
So when the writer of Chinatown asks me to ask our mutual friend Luana to access Napoleon, I can only guess that Kubrick has probably already sought the Emperor out after spending so many years on his life writing about him.
That conversation follows:
(Filmed in Jennifer Shaffer's office or in the restaurant Fishbar in Manhattan Beach. Sometime in 2019 or 2020. Excerpt from "Backstage Pass to the Flipside 3" page 175. All rights reserved.)
The Louvre: Napoleon.
NAPOLEON
STANLEY KUBRICK
Another day, another trip to the fieldhouse on the
flipside. In this session, I decided to
see if I could call upon a historical person, someone I knew that I had no
possible connection to. The questions I
asked him were related to questions posed to me by an Oscar award winning
screenwriter.
Rich: I talked to somebody yesterday who
we interviewed in your office. My old boss, the screenwriter Robert Towne;
friend of Luana’s.
Jennifer: He came to mind.
I told him what we were doing and I said
if you could talk to anyone on the flipside who would you like to talk to?
His dad just came through but I know
that’s not who he wanted to talk to.
I told him “You can talk to anybody.” I’ll tell you this, it’s a historical figure.
The first person that showed up was Abraham
Lincoln, but I don’t think it was him.
Well perhaps Abraham can help us. Luana
knows who this is, because it was I was talking to.
Was he a soldier during the Civil War?
He was a soldier but not during our Civil
War. I’ll tell you that he wasn’t from this country.
Winston
Churchill?
No, longer ago. If I give you a hint,
you’ll get it.
Mohammed
Ali just showed up as well.
He’s got to talk to us at a later
date. 200 years ago my dear. I have to think about this – we normally have
someone in our class who knows someone who knows someone. Luana has to ask her
friend.
When was Napoleon?
That’s it. (Ding!) He was around 1820.
Napoleon! How many tries did that take?
It doesn’t matter. (For those keeping
score, it was five.)
It’s frustrating. Finally they showed me
Napoleon.
Who showed you Napoleon?
Luana.
Can we talk to him directly?
Um... He’s a little bit of a shit. Give me
a second. Yeah, I guess we can. Mmm-hmm.
What do you see in your minds’ eye?
He’s actually kind of handsome.
Can you see his face?
I see his lashes – he’s actually quite
handsome.
Can you touch his hand?
There’s something on his hand, felt like
there’s a wound on his hand.
Lets ask him – how did you get this wound
my friend?
It feels like psoriasis – everything was
cracking.
Look around the class; is this unusual for
you to be here?
Yes it is. He was here like 3 times before
when we were talking to George Washington.
So you recognize a few people in this group?
“Yes.”
So you guys in our class that know him,
can you help?
They are.
Mr. Napoleon – I apologize for having to
take time out of your day, but I have some questions for you.
I keep getting ... based upon the paintings
I’ve seen of him – he had lighter eyes.
Let’s ask him – what color are your eyes?
They’re blue.
(Note: “His eyes,
deep-set, were reportedly gray or gray-blue.” Wikipedia.)
They’re dark on the outer iris and blue
inside.
Who was there to greet you when crossed
over?
“His mother.” He showed me there were 2
days he was going in and out of consciousness.
What were you ill from?
I want to say it was something around here
(gestures) in the stomach.
Was that natural issue, or was that
something given to you that you died from?
“I felt like it was... transmitted. I also got an image of the plague.” I don’t
know what that means.
Who transmitted that into your body?
Felt like “It was in the water.”
So let’s talk about that – did someone
administer that stuff in the water, or was it natural from the place you were?
“It was not natural,” he says.
So somebody put it in your water or food?
“Yes; felt like a drink.”
Tell Jennifer what it was.
“It was poison.”
Someone in class, can you put it in her mind
what kind of poison that was and who administered it?
“Someone very close to him – first I got a
female, then I got someone who was trying to overrule him. Felt like somebody
he trusted, like a captain or something.”
A man?
“Yes, maybe it was the nurse that
administered it.”
I’m going to ask you about a woman who was
there when you died.
He’s telling me “Serafina.” Sounds like Serafina.
I’d like to ask you Betsy Balcome.
“She was a child. It felt like there were
three kids. It felt like there were three kids associated with Betsy. She was
like 9 when she met him.”
That’s about right.
(Note: She was 12. She lived on St. Helena with her
two siblings and befriended Napoleon at age 12.)
“She could actually see – she was clairvoyant.”
What makes you say that?
I saw information coming from the heavens
(waves her hand)
Napoleon, was Betsy giving you messages
from the flipside? Or were you friends?
“Yes,” he’s saying “He protected her. He
was like a mom to a child, brother and sister, he protected her.”
It’s reported your last words were you
reporting for duty.
“Yes. He saw his horse.”
(Note: Reportedly, Napoleon’s last words were, “France. L'armée. Tête d'armée. Joséphine ("France,
the army, head of the army, Joséphine").
I noted in “Flipside” that it sounds like he’s reporting for duty, and
then sees the love of his life.)
There was a woman you had a long
relationship with.
“16... like 16 years.”
(Note: Napoleon married Josephine, the widow of a man
killed during the reign of terror, they were together as lovers and then
married for 16 years. She died in 1814, he died 7 years later in 1821.)
They said you called out her name. Her
name was Josephine.
“Sara Josephine” – which is my sister’s
name – “Serafina.” That’s why I was hearing “Serafina.”
Let’s talk about your journey – have you
incarnated since?
“No. I saw a picture of (current
President) and started freaking out.”
I suspect you are talking about these individuals
in terms of the negative energy they represent. Were you part of that energy?
“Yes.”
What was up with you and Russia? Is that
the Trump connection?
“Yes.”
Millions died while you tried to conquer Russia,
what were you doing?
“Trying to take over the world.”
What could you possibly gain?
He says “In his demented mind he thought
it would bring more peace under one rule.”
Who did you say thanks to?
He made a “poof” sound.
That’s very French. (Italians say “Boh!”
and the French say “Poof!”) He did have a lot of ego, is he still carrying that
around?
He says “No more than Prince.”
Touche’ - okay, what actor might represent
you on the planet?
Joe Pesci.
Were you Etruscan? Like Danny DeVito, they were notoriously
short.
They were well bred. No; it was like his
father’s father that was short. “Somebody ruined the gene pool,” he said. Why
is Joe Pesci showing up? He’s showing me he had Joe Pesci’s attitude as
depicted in movies; killing people. Now he’s showing me a screenwriter, how
they try to take over the world with movies. He says “I had a lot of blood shed,
more people died. It’s easier to make movies where people die and they don’t
bleed.”
I’m aware a couple of filmmakers have
tried to make a film about you.
He knows that. Who was the guy that was in
the “Ten Commandments?”
Charlton Heston?
“He’s over there.”
Have we talked to Stanley Kubrick yet?
I don’t know who that is. We’re not done
with Napoleon!
It’s okay, is Stanley around?
Yeah, he is. He says “He’s a step ahead of
you.”
Stanley; this is Napoleon. You wrote a
long movie about this fellow.
Native son.
I asked “Did you get the story right?” and
he said “No... the ending was wrong. That’s why there were blocks about getting
it made.
The ending was wrong? You mean the truth
about Napoleon being poisoned?
“Yes. They always wanted it to be an enemy
but it was his best friend.”
Okay, I think I know who that is – the guy
who invited him to St. Helena.
“Yes.”
Here you are talking to Stanley who wanted
to make a movie about you – and Luana’s friend Jack wanted to make a film about
you...
Jack Nicholson.
Correct. And yet Jack appeared in another
one of Stanley’s films.
Was that the redrum movie?
Very good.
He just showed me Jack’s head. “The Shining.”
Who was there to greet you when you
crossed over Stanley?
When did he pass?
Like ten years ago. After the Tom Cruise
movie came out.
“Eyes Wide Shut” Stanley?
Yes, Clockwork Orange, The Shining... Who
was there to greet you when you crossed over?
He’s showing me his dog. Kind of
grayish... first I saw something blond...
A hound?
It’s bigger... really big. I’m not sure of
the name – I don’t know breeds.
(Note: This is accurate in terms of Stanley’s
affection for his dogs. According to a recent documentary, he moved to a larger
home specifically to make room for his dogs and left detailed instructions
about each one and how they should be fed. “At home, children and animals would
frequently come in and out of the room as he worked on a script or met with an
actor. Kubrick's many dogs and cats, toward which he showed an extraordinary
affection, were often brought onto film sets or editing rooms.” Wikipedia)
What do you miss about being on the
planet?
“The smells, the tastes, the frequency – I
have to tell you more about that too.”
You were famous for not flying... was that
OCD?
He showed me having panic attacks, but now
he knows it was a past life thing. Now he does. He’s showing me how his mind
works.
Who do you wish you could talk to?
Everyone’s laughing because he said
“Luana.”
Why?
“Because it’s like you have to take a
number to talk to her. You have to take a number.”
Who do you want me to reach out to?
Jack.
And say what?
“Stanley wants Jack to know that he’s
okay.”
You want me to tell Jack that he’s going
to be okay?
“Yes.” He’s showing me the letters that
were found in the furniture at Jack’s home.
That was a copy of Marlon Brando’s will
that Jack found hidden in a chair. Marlon, do you want to weigh in on
this?
“Yes.”
(Note: Brando’s will was found in a chair in Jack Nicholson’s home (he lived next door.) Jack didn’t know how it got there, but made a copy and sent it off to Marlon’s attorney. A friend of mine showed me a copy and it clearly was altered (Marlon’s signature isn’t his signature). I mentioned this when we interviewed him in “Backstage Pass to the Flipside.” I won’t belabor the point here but reportedly (from him) his heirs didn’t get what he wanted them to get.)
You were very quiet the last time we talked
to you.
“I don’t say much anyway. I don’t need to.
I can feel it.”
Well, Jennifer’s got to run, sorry we have
to let you go Marlon. Napoleon thanks for coming in to see us...
He says “He’ll haunt you in your dreams.”
Stanley we’re all fans of yours.
Was he a Buddhist?
He may be now. Anything you want us to
tell your friends?
He says “He loves Nicole and Keith (Urban).”
Were you a fan of Nicole?
“Huge.”
Our pal Jan Sharp was close to her.
“Yeah.”
Okay, next time! Thanks class.
It feels like we’re bouncing around the playground,
but I’ve found that by just filming and transcribing, it’s the overall effect
that makes these interviews notable. They consistently say the same things
despite being years apart in some cases.
"Everyone gets out of here alive."
We all go "home." We are always accessible, even if we've reincarnated (returned.) We only bring about a third of our conscious energy, so two thirds is always "back home" and accessible. Even if it's that fellow from France.
My two cents.
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