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)
Author and award winning filmmaker Richard Martini explores startling new evidence for life after death, via the "life between lives," where we reportedly return to find our loved ones, soul mates and spiritual teachers. Based on the evidence of thousands of people who claim that under deep hypnosis, they saw and experienced the same basic things about the Afterlife, this audiobook documents interviews with hypnotherapists around the world trained in the method.
Tragic events in the news these days. So sorry to hear of the loss of the planet of Reverend Pinckney.
Rev. Clementa Pinckney was one of the nine people to die in Wednesday night’s shooting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in downtown Charleston. In the 2012 documentary, “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.," Pinckney was asked why black political participation mattered. Here’s what he said: “We don’t have the privilege to say our vote doesn’t count, because history tells us differently.”Learn more: http://to.pbs.org/1JYmWII
So amazed to hear of the amount of grace, love and compassion that emanates from that church. "We forgive you." Powerful sentiments indeed. I heartily agree with the Detroit Free Press article that asks "Why aren't people burning the Conferate Flag more?" But burning the flag is just burning who or what we are.... Which brings us to SSRI drugs. (Prozac, paxil, zoloft, seratonin inhibitors) Every single mass shooting since Columbine (that's 70 since 1982, according to Bill Moyers) has had pretty dramatic events in common. Let's examine them for a moment, shall we? White, young men or boys, filled with rage. Check. Easy access to guns. Check. A history of psychotropic drugs use or prescription. Check. Wait, what? Every single mass shooting has had all three elements involved. How can that be? Well, here's some stats.
Eric Harris age 17 (first on Zoloft then Luvox) and Dylan Klebold aged 18 (Columbine school shooting in Littleton, Colorado), killed 12 students and 1 teacher, and wounded 23 others, before killing themselves. Klebold’s medical records have never been made available to the public.
• Jeff Weise, age 16, had been prescribed 60 mg/day of Prozac (three times the average starting dose for adults!) when he shot his grandfather, his grandfather’s girlfriend and many fellow students at Red Lake, Minnesota. He then shot himself. 10 dead, 12 wounded.
• Cory Baadsgaard, age 16, Wahluke (Washington state) High School, was on Paxil (which caused him to have hallucinations) when he took a rifle to his high school and held 23 classmates hostage. He has no memory of the event.
• Chris Fetters, age 13, killed his favorite aunt while taking Prozac.
• Christopher Pittman, age 12, murdered both his grandparents while taking Zoloft.
• Mathew Miller, age 13, hung himself in his bedroom closet after taking Zoloft for 6 days.
• Kip Kinkel, age 15, (on Prozac and Ritalin) shot his parents while they slept then went to school and opened fire killing 2 classmates and injuring 22 shortly after beginning Prozac treatment.
• Luke Woodham, age 16 (Prozac) killed his mother and then killed two students, wounding six others.
• A boy in Pocatello, ID (Zoloft) in 1998 had a Zoloft-induced seizure that caused an armed stand off at his school.
• Michael Carneal (Ritalin), age 14, opened fire on students at a high school prayer meeting in West Paducah, Kentucky. Three teenagers were killed, five others were wounded..
• A young man in Huntsville, Alabama (Ritalin) went psychotic chopping up his parents with an ax and also killing one sibling and almost murdering another.
• Andrew Golden, age 11, (Ritalin) and Mitchell Johnson, aged 14, (Ritalin) shot 15 people, killing four students, one teacher, and wounding 10 others.
• TJ Solomon, age 15, (Ritalin) high school student in Conyers, Georgia opened fire on and wounded six of his class mates.
• Rod Mathews, age 14, (Ritalin) beat a classmate to death with a bat.
• James Wilson, age 19, (various psychiatric drugs) from Breenwood, South Carolina, took a .22 caliber revolver into an elementary school killing two young girls, and wounding seven other children and two teachers.
• Elizabeth Bush, age 13, (Paxil) was responsible for a school shooting in Pennsylvania
• Jason Hoffman (Effexor and Celexa) – school shooting in El Cajon, California
• Jarred Viktor, age 15, (Paxil), after five days on Paxil he stabbed his grandmother 61 times.
• Chris Shanahan, age 15 (Paxil) in Rigby, ID who out of the blue killed a woman.
• Jeff Franklin (Prozac and Ritalin), Huntsville, AL, killed his parents as they came home from work using a sledge hammer, hatchet, butcher knife and mechanic’s file, then attacked his younger brothers and sister.
• Neal Furrow (Prozac) in LA Jewish school shooting reported to have been court-ordered to be on Prozac along with several other medications.
• Kevin Rider, age 14, was withdrawing from Prozac when he died from a gunshot wound to his head. Initially it was ruled a suicide, but two years later, the investigation into his death was opened as a possible homicide. The prime suspect, also age 14, had been taking Zoloft and other SSRI antidepressants.
• Alex Kim, age 13, hung himself shortly after his Lexapro prescription had been doubled.
• Diane Routhier was prescribed Welbutrin for gallstone problems. Six days later, after suffering many adverse effects of the drug, she shot herself.
• Billy Willkomm, an accomplished wrestler and a University of Florida student, was prescribed Prozac at the age of 17. His family found him dead of suicide – hanging from a tall ladder at the family’s Gulf Shore Boulevard home in July 2002.
• Kara Jaye Anne Fuller-Otter, age 12, was on Paxil when she hung herself from a hook in her closet. Kara’s parents said “…. the damn doctor wouldn’t take her off it and I asked him to when we went in on the second visit. I told him I thought she was having some sort of reaction to Paxil…”)
• Gareth Christian, Vancouver, age 18, was on Paxil when he committed suicide in 2002,
• (Gareth’s father could not accept his son’s death and killed himself.)
• Julie Woodward, age 17, was on Zoloft when she hung herself in her family’s detached garage.
• Matthew Miller was 13 when he saw a psychiatrist because he was having difficulty at school. The psychiatrist gave him samples of Zoloft. Seven days later his mother found him dead, hanging by a belt from a laundry hook in his closet.
• Kurt Danysh, age 18, and on Prozac, killed his father with a shotgun. He is now behind prison bars, and writes letters, trying to warn the world that SSRI drugs can kill.
• Woody ____, age 37, committed suicide while in his 5th week of taking Zoloft. Shortly before his death his physician suggested doubling the dose of the drug. He had seen his physician only for insomnia. He had never been depressed, nor did he have any history of any mental illness symptoms.
• A boy from Houston, age 10, shot and killed his father after his Prozac dosage was increased.
• Hammad Memon, age 15, shot and killed a fellow middle school student. He had been diagnosed with ADHD and depression and was taking Zoloft and “other drugs for the conditions.”
• Matti Saari, a 22-year-old culinary student, shot and killed 9 students and a teacher, and wounded another student, before killing himself. Saari was taking an SSRI and a benzodiazapine.
• Steven Kazmierczak, age 27, shot and killed five people and wounded 21 others before killing himself in a Northern Illinois University auditorium. According to his girlfriend, he had recently been taking Prozac, Xanax and Ambien. Toxicology results showed that he still had trace amounts of Xanax in his system.
• Finnish gunman Pekka-Eric Auvinen, age 18, had been taking antidepressants before he killed eight people and wounded a dozen more at Jokela High School – then he committed suicide.
• Asa Coon from Cleveland, age 14, shot and wounded four before taking his own life. Court records show Coon was on Trazodone.
• Jon Romano, age 16, on medication for depression, fired a shotgun at a teacher in his
• New York high school.
Missing from list… 3 of 4 known to have taken these same meds….
• What drugs was Jared Lee Loughner on, age 21…… killed 6 people and injuring 14 others in Tuscon, Az
• What drugs was James Eagan Holmes on, age 24….. killed 12 people and injuring 59 others in Aurora Colorado
• What drugs was Jacob Tyler Roberts on, age 22, killed 2 injured 1, Clackamas Or
• What drugs was Adam Peter Lanza on, age 20, Killed 26 and wounded 2 in Newtown Ct
What to do? The NIMH (Nat Inst of Mental Health) posted A WARNING on its website that psychiatrists were prescribing psychotropic drugs to children, and the drugs had not been cleared by the FDA (or any studies) to prove them to be safe. That post has been taken down, but it was cached, and I included it in "It's a Wonderful Afterlife." Psychiatrists, under pressure from their clients, are prescribing drugs that are supposed to be safe to adults to children, and they're doing so illegally, immorally. So, how can we stop this if the NRA won't allow us to discuss easy access to guns, if the drug companies won't allow us to discuss how these drugs may be affecting children's brains? We discuss the roots of rage until we're blue in the face, but until we address the elephant in the room, it will continue on.
Now, what has this all got to do with Jesus? Recently, I've been gathering reports of what people say under deep hypnosis about Jesus. I've written about them in the book "Flipside" and "It's a Wonderful Afterlife." And there's a clip of one of those stories in the DVD "Flipside." But I've expanded the research into a new area. Since every incident that I've filmed or found includes an event where a person's body suddenly reacts as if a person is in the room, I began to question that part of it. Let me explain. In every incident, whether it was a person having a "past life memory" where they claim "they knew Jesus" - or if it's a medium accessing what can only be described as "the energy of Jesus" or someone who bears a resemblance to him (they're not wearing name tags to be sure, but they describe the same kind of persona) these people have a visceral reaction to this "presence."
Their cheeks turn red, tears fall from their eyes and they claim they "can't breathe." So, thinking that this event can't be random, since it happens to everyone who claims to be in his presence - and mind you, psychosomatic illnesses include people breaking into hives or a rash, all apparently done with the power of the brain - these people describe the same symptoms. So I asked Jesus, "what's up with that?" I mean, I was interviewing a medium on camera, and during our three hour free wheeling discussion I asked if it was possible for "jesus" to appear in the session. She described him in detail, and then I asked for "him to come closer" suddenly her face turned red, tears fell from her eyes and she "couldn't breathe." I asked "Jesus" or whoever this entity was (How do they know its him? I mean really? Is it the toga? Sometimes he shows up in a tee shirt, actually. But he ain't wearing a name tag "I'm Him.") why he had that affect on people who were close in proximity to him. And his reply (yes, I know, it's the medium replying on his behalf, whatever that construct means) was that "i'm energetically closer to the source than many people, most avatars in history are like that, it's just that when you get closer to us, you feel that energy." Meaning the closer you stand to this person or their energy, the more intense the feeling, like standing near a light bulb. Which brings me back to South Carolina. Reverend Pinckney oversaw a church where they spoke of the love of Jesus on a daily basis. I know that to be a fact because of the reaction these people had in the arraignment - "I forgive you" are three of the most powerful words we own, and they said them. This kid has his own path and journey, he was taking drugs, but he's got a long history of rage. But then so do every other mass killing shooter. So the question is, what are we doing about it? I suggest that the events are not separate - we should have compassion for everyone, including ourselves, by examining this research closly and figuring out a way to help our society, our planet, to benefit from its knowledge. My two cents.
Two unusual stories on the net this week. One that is full of awe and shock and surprise, and the other is about a woman in search of an identity. Ba-dum-bum. First let's start with this Gator ridin' Raccoon. What's up here? Is this just a game that animals play when humans are watching them? Like as soon as we turn away, they go back to playing cards and doing high fives?
From the BBC website. Raccoon rides an alligator when no one is looking.
Anyone remember the fantastic Eddie Murphy sketch where he walked around in "white face" dressed like a white guy, ("White Like Me") and as soon as the black people got off the bus, everyone let their hair down, the loan officer offered him money free of interest, and Eddie's eyes were opened to the "true nature of the white world?" Both of these stories remind me of that bit.
Let me break it down for you; Flipside Style. I'm going to assume for a moment that Rachel Dolezal, the former head of the NAACP chapter in Spokane, is a sane, responsible person who just did what her heart asked her to do. Or so it would appear.
First I'm going to follow Dave Chapelle's enlightened response in the Hollywood Reporter to acknowledge first that "she's a person and deserves a chance to speak for herself." Then I'm going to further consider what her son said in an interview today on a morning talk show, when asked "what do you consider your mother?" and he replied "a human being." Is anyone listening? Here's the Flipside deal. Between lives, after we die, before we come back - we're all equal, all the same, all the same stuff that stars are made of. No one is higher, lower, better, smarter, prettier, more interesting, richer... at least that's what the research and the reports tell us. I'm not making this up, it's not my opinion - I'm just referring to the mountains of data and research. That's 7000 cases from Dr. Michael Newton, thousands from Dr. Helen Wambach, thousands from Dr. Bruce Greyson (with regard to near death experiences) and 25 that I've filmed of people under deep hypnosis. They all say relatively the same things about being "back there." They also say the same things about being "over here." That this is 'like a stage' or it's 'the playground' where he don costumes and play roles of various individuals. To what end? So we can learn from our mistakes, from our experiences, from our loves and our losses. Now - I'm sure you're asking, and if you haven't asked, you should - is it possible that Ms. Dolezal is remembering a previous lifetime where she was African American? Well, aside from the psychological influences on her - her parents adopted four black children, she married an african american and has african american children - she went to Howard - she's obviously "self identified" as black or African American her entire life. And if anyone bothers to ask her - likely before that as well. Whaaaat? Excuse me? Let's start with the case of the boy in Ohio who "remembered" his lifetime as a young black girl in Chicago who died in a tragic high rise fire. He gave his mother enough details so she could look up the name and date of that child's death. Does he "self identify" as black? Does it matter? Does he need to? People "self identify" all the time - as in "I feel like I was born a man, but I have a woman's body." In the cases of Ian Stevenson at the University of Virginia, he found people who were born into a family of a different religion than the one they had been in a previous lifetime and refused to eat the food they were served, considering it "unholy." Dr. Jim Tucker ("Return to Life") has taken over Stevenson's research, and has also found cases - where a Korean child remembers their previous life as a Japanese child and insists on getting the food he loved best. So let's start there. Is it possible? Yes. Is she claiming that? No. Is she subconscious aware that she might have had a different lifetime as a black person? I don't know, you'd have to ask her. But is it in the research? HELL YES. Now take this gator riding raccoon. Is this like the story of the scorpion and the duck? (or is it a snake?) where the duck offers the poisonous creature a ride across the river, but halfway across the scorpion stings the duck. The duck says "What did you sting me for? We're both going to die!" and the scorpion says "Eh. It's my nature." But wait a second. Reports from the afterlife about animals (and there are many, and they are replicable) tell us that over there, animals don't fight it out, they have their own realms, their own paths and journeys and our beloved pets are happy to hang out with us in the afterlife. They're just like us in that regard - reports are that we don't generally mix it up with them, they don't appear as humans, and vice versa - there are exceptions that I've heard or read about, but by and large, they're just like us) At least that's what thousands have reported. Don't shoot me. I'm just reporting what they say. So are these two animals, that might be antagonistic on the planet suddenly dropping their costumes to enjoy a ride on the lake together? I don't know, you'd have to ask them. But the point of this post is - WE THINK WE KNOW REALITY BUT WE DON'T. We think we can judge people for their actions but we can't. We think we're aware of what black or white means, what male or female means, what raccoon or alligator means - but we don't. It's not the whole picture. And it's not reflected in the research. Odds are, some in the medical profession would prescribe her drugs to "help her" with her identity confusion. Just like they use to use electroshock therapy to help gay people. (Alan Turing for one, who committed suicide rather than be cured.) Again, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a preacher. I'm just reporting what thousands say under deep hypnosis and have expanded that research into what thousands say after a near death experience. As well as asking questions to people who are no longer on the planet (through mediums, or other means) and getting answers from them that include new information. Meaning information I couldn't have heard, read or otherwise had access to ("cryptomnesia"). New information from the Flipside. So while you chuckle your way through the day's events, please bear in mind - we can't possibly know the motivations for a person's journey or path during their life. We can only know our own. And it's about time we started looking at ourselves to examine what the hell we're doing on the planet - and what we're doing to it. My two cents. Okay, go back to whatever it was you were doing. Enjoy your new day.
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I married footage I shot in Kerala with this radio interview about "It's a Wonderful Afterlife" It's a mash up of India and Afterlife research on Tara Marie Live! from American Latino Radio 154 on SiriusXM. Elephant fest has little to do with our chat about how afterlife research may help heal folks, but gives it a different spin.
Not sure why this page has suddenly lost the links to my books and audio books. (Now all glitches, I assume someone from the Flipside is Frickin' with me. Who knows?) If you search for "Martini Flipside" most links will lead to me. I will try to figure out what the problem is in the meantime, here are some useful links:
My old friend Howie Mandel got "hypmotized" last night on "America's Got Talent." A hypnotist Chris Jones put him "under" and the next thing we know, had convinced him to shake hands with people, contrary to a lifelong phobia of his about germs, related to his OCD.
Most doctors think that phobias are psychosomatic - however that doesn't stop them from prescribing meds that confuse the brain enough to not be terrified of the terrors they bring - not for a moment stopping to wonder if the side effects of the psychotropic drugs might be deleterious... but I digress. Hey Howie! I love you man! We wrote a script together for Columbia pictures (along with Luana Anders) called "Watch Your Step." Kind of a prescient title come to think of it. Howie is hilarious, a funny, funny guy, and I believe he's aware of his phobias and is suffering from them to some degree. We no longer share a manager (I saw our old manager last week, he's great actually) so I don't have easy access to email this to Howie. So maybe the magic of the internet with its "tags" will somehow find its way to his people, or find its way to him. Howie, I'm asking (through the internet, mind you, no germs here, except for all the keyboards on the planet) if you want to stop or end or understand this phobia without the benefit of drugs. I can hear you on the flipside of the screen saying "What? Martini? Seriously? Okay, go ahead, I'm listening." I've been filming people under deep hypnosis for six years now. Not the kind that you went through last night on the show - "stage hypnosis" which deals with a certain level of consciousness. But six hour sessions, where the client determines what they'd like to visit and explore. And I came upon the research that people could cure "psychosomatic" illnesses while under hypnosis. (I'd give you all the cites, but there are many, including Dr. Brian Weiss, Dr. Anita Moorjani and others). People who during a consciousness altering event, were able to examine and "cure" their illnesses. So let's begin there, shall we? If that's possible, to cure, or alleviate symptoms of an illness - and we don't have a word for them, really, because psychosomatic implies being "made up" - but the symptoms are real; the sweating, feeling nausea, etc. Those events exist - it's just that medicine can't tell you what the problem is, so they "send you to a shrink." Well, sometimes a hypnotist. But like the words "healing" or "home" - we all have a different definition of those variations, and that includes hypnosis. One hour session on a couch with someone who tries to convince you to not have fear is not guaranteed to work - but doing a session with a trained hypnotherapist who has done this hundreds of times before, you have a pretty good shot at asking yourself "So what's the genesis of this fear? Where does it come from? Does it come from this lifetime? Does it come from a previous lifetime? And once I examine that, how can I help alleviate those symptoms?" Case #1. Woman with aquaphobia. She's a hypnotherapist in NYC, and has agreed to let me film her "between life" or LBL session. She sees a lifetime where she drowned - was killed by drowning, thrown off a ship actually. She named the dates, place, other details that I could verify (and did so in the book and film "Flipside"). But when she goes to the end of that lifetime, past the drowning part, she sees that there's a reason why this happened. The man who killed her appears to say "You have no idea how hard that was to do to you in that lifetime." She recognizes this man as her father in this life, and remembers how he saved her from drowning as a child. In those moments, she cures herself of her phobia, and some months later, I filmed her swimming in the ocean. She told me "her recurring nightmare" turned into a wonderful dream where she was swimming effortlessly. No doctor or drug could make this change, she made it herself. (Footage of this session is in the film "Flipside" and a transcript of the session is in the book "Flipside: a Tourist's Guide on How to Navigate the Afterlife.") Case #2. A jaded Hollywood manager (mine) agrees to let me film him under hypnosis. (also in the film "Flipside"). Unbeknownst to me, he's had a lifelong kidney ailment he's spent "millions of dollars" on finding a cure (sound familiar Howie?) that Doctors can't seem to cure. During the session, with Scott De Tamble from Claremont, (see below) jaded manager sees a lifetime where his father stabbed him in the back. In that moment he examines those details and the pain in his kidney goes away. Afterwards, he tells me "It's 95% gone, like an echo of what it once was." His Doctor even calls me to ask "what happened in that session?" because his "panels have returned to normal." (Footage of this event is in the documentary and in the book as well, as cited above). Case #3. Woman with pretty severe Parkinson's is an old pal, agrees to do a session. During her session, for about 5 hours, she explores previous lifetimes and examines various reasons for her current choice of a life and situation. During this entire time, her symptoms disappear. No shaking. Just her finger, rhythmically tapping as she speaks. When she's "brought back to consciousness" her symptoms reappear. The hypnotherapist didn't insist that her symptoms should go away - nor did she attempt to do so, rather she examined the "source" of her illnesses, and related it to a dramatic event that she'd kept private and secret since the event - and it was the start of her not giving her body the kind of care and nutrition she needed. So while she didn't "cure" herself of the illness, she did give herself a path to health. (A transcript of this session is in "It's a Wonderful Afterlife: Further Adventures in the Flipside.") So. Howie. Seriously. You want to explore your OCD and your phobia about germs? You can. It's not an illness, or an affliction. It's just part of who you are as a human, and without ascribing any negativity to the choice you made to come to the planet and experience these things, it is something you can dramatically change "overnight." Check it out for yourself. I noted that after the hypnosis session you seemed particularly spiritual - of course the show is likely shot out of sequence - but there was a moment where you said to the father who wrote the song about his son who had passed away "I can feel his presence in the room when you sing." That would be accurate in terms of this research. Hope this missive finds its way to you. And I still have a copy of our script! Meanwhile: Something on topic, but a bit different. This past weekend, I did a book talk for my second book "It's a Wonderful Afterlife: further adventures in the Flipside" at the LA branch of iands, the international association of near death studies. However this time, I brought along two pals, Jennifer Shaffer and Scott De Tamble. Jennifer is a medium/intuitive who works with law enforcement nationwide to help with missing person cases and others, and Scott is a clinical hypnotherapist based in Claremont, CA, and has done 100's of cases. I've filmed a number of them, and he appears often in "Flipside" and "It's a Wonderful Afterlife." I haven't posted the second part, which was a past life regression for all those present, out of respect for their privacy - but we did hear some really unusual tales, including someone from law enforcement who came to check it out, and saw themselves in a previous lifetime and could relate the trauma of that experience (3000 years ago) to a similar trauma that has taken place in this one. Time as they say, is relative. (For me, a distant relative.)
And now for something completely different; "Its a Wonderful Afterlife" book talk with Clinical Hypnotherapist Scott De Tamble, Medium-intuitive Jennifer Shaffer, Bob Siress from iands.org comparing near death experiences to between life sessions, past life memories. 75 minutes which will pique your paradigm. Hang onto your coffee, "we're going in!" https://youtu.be/rUK4mfP_4Fs
And now for something completely different; "Its a Wonderful Afterlife" book talk with Clinical Hypnotherapist Scott De Tamble, Medium-intuitive Jennifer Shaffer, Bob Siress from iands.org comparing near death experiences to between life sessions, past life memories. 75 minutes which will pique your paradigm. Hang onto your coffee, "we're going in!" https://youtu.be/rUK4mfP_4Fs
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