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)
As promised, I've edited my book talk this past weekend at Center for the Heart in Santa Barbara.
In this first hour, I recount my journey to this work, and why I'm spending time trying to figure out how anyone can communicate with their loved ones on the flipside. That's here:
As you can see from these two clips, I did a variation of my Flipside book talks, with a focus on "talking to our loved ones on the other side." There were two folks that I met just prior to my talk - one was Roxy Angel Superstar, who works at Center of the Heart chapel in Santa Barbara, and the Reverend Maryum Morse. I have never met them before, and neither was that familiar with my work or research. Roxy had seen my speak at the IANDS group in Santa Barbara, where I did a live demonstration with a woman at that even of revisiting her near death experience. However, she felt that the details that we explored were too intimate, and did not want me to share the event with my audience. However, in this case, we weren't discussing a near death event - something that is pretty profound when it happens and can be hard to process. In this case, Reverend Maryum had a vivid dream where she saw her dying father suddenly sit up "out of his body" as a young healthy man - he did it a number of times, and then she became aware of a crowd of people around his bed. I asked if she had a memory of that dream, and she said she did. In Roxy's case, she said she had an out of body experience when conceiving her child - it actually felt like she left her body and was in space. In both cases, I'm not using hypnosis. I'm just asking them to access the memory of that event, and then asking if we can examine it further. The results are here:
The point isn't that I'm accessing the flipside. The point is that they're accessing the flipside in their own visual spectrum. I'm not conjuring anything up, or trying to get someone on the flipside to "talk" - the key here is that neither was familiar with me or my work, had no idea what they'd find, and as you'll see - in both cases they say things that are nearly identical to the research in my books; "Flipside" "It's a Wonderful Afterlife" volumes one and two and "Hacking the Afterlife." I've done this a few times now and it doesn't matter who I do it with - mediums, people who've had near death experiences, people who've had out of body experiences - anyone who's had a dream. It's not for everyone. But I'm posting it here - pretty much unedited for the most part - to show the "Martini Method."
If you're interested in helping me further this research, please consider donating to my new book "The Afterlife Expert" which is being crowd funded through www.GoFundMe.com/theafterlifeexpert Thanks for your support.
It was pretty mind bending - I invited two audience members onstage (the Reverend Maryum Morse, and the Core Council VP Roxy Angel Superstar). I'd never meet either before yesterday. And in a few moments, just asking them questions about their journey - we went somewhere unusual, somewhere that people go under deep hypnosis - but we went there just by my asking a series of improvised questions.
We went to visit their councils, we went to visit their loved ones who have crossed over, we got to ask them questions about their journey and what they're up to these days. For those of you familiar with my research, it's something I've been doing as of late. Asking someone if they've had some kind of altered consciousness event that they're aware of (could be a dream, a near death event, an out of body event, or they're a medium) and then I ask them questions to see what is in their memory.
I've learned the memory is holographic. Meaning we think that it's transitory, subject to interpretation, or some other pejorative associated with memory. I'm finding that's not the case. When you have a memory - you have a 360 degree memory. It included everyone that's around you at that moment in time. It's a holographic memory - I call it that because if you take a holographic photo of something, and then smash it to pieces, each piece of the smashed hologram contains ALL THE INFORMATION from the photograph. All of it. So when I ask people to remember some event that happened when they were children (Tony Stockwell's memory of a ghost child in his room when he was 8) I can ask them to access that memory, and then reanimate it.
In other words - if there was someone in your dream or vision, or past life memory, or if there was some person in your near death event - we can go back to that person and ask them questions IN REAL TIME - in present tense. Not just "How are you?" or "Where are you?" But "Describe to us what you're spending your time over there doing." I've been doing this for months now, and will be part of my new book "The Afterlife Expert." (If you'd like to donate to help its creation in return for a copy and other prizes, please go to www.gofundme.com/theafterlifeexpert) I will be posting the 40 minute video in a day or so, so you can see for yourself how it's done. Does it require my presence to do it? I have no idea. But I'm showing people how it's done. What you do with that information is up to you. Meanwhile.... Was watching "Interstellar" the other night and rethinking the part about the "tesseract." For those of you unfamiliar with the film; here's a clip: For those of you who saw the film, a reminder: Cooper, the intrepid astronaut, goes through a black hole along with his computer TARS to see if they can find a way to transmit that information back to planet Earth. It's a last ditch effort, and appears to have gone haywire, when agent Cooper exists his space craft as it breaks up from the pressure. However, he finds himself in a geometric place - which he calls a "tesseract" - which means "a 4 dimensional cube" - Cooper is looking out through ribbons of energy (roughly). While he's in this geometric shape - he sees all the moments of his daughter's lifetime. Including when he was about to leave her behind, and then the gift of his watch that he gave her. At some point Cooper realizes that the "aliens" who sent information about how to travel through time and space were not aliens per se -they "are us in the future." In other words, human beings, or conscious entities, who are trying to help earthlings from a long time ago, but have found a way to communicate from the future to us in the past to save the human race. It's a shame they don't save Earth - because everyone is on "space stations" by the time Cooper returns (to Station Cooper - named for his scientist daughter). But this is what I'm doing. I'm reaching out to "us." The people not of the future - but the people who are no longer on the planet. I'm using the common tools that we have (mediums, hypnosis, open discussions) to ask questions of people on the flipside. Because WE ARE THE GHOSTS. You see? We don't die. Only about a third of our energy is here on the planet, so two thirds is always "back home." People back home claim they attend classes in "energy transformation" - I've been to a few of these classrooms myself, have interviewed teachers and students alike - and they all say the same things relatively. They are us. They are no longer on the planet. And yet I am interviewing them and trying to gain the knowledge they have to help the planet they've left behind. We are the "ghosts in the machine." Human bodies are like computers or robots that have been animated - but much more interesting. We choose to be here, so we may one day choose to be part of the lifetime of a robot - that's really up to us to make that choice. I'd argue that were millennia away from being able to make that particular journey - because it's taken millions of years for us to figure out how to animate the creatures of this planet with our consciousness. We are the aliens. We are the humans. We are the consciousness that's part of the sentient universe. And we all have access to this information - we just need to go within to access the hologram of our memories... and ask the right questions. Okay, I'll stop now - that's enough to chew on. If you want more, CHECK OUT "HACKING THE AFTERLIFE."
So I've got a new "crowd funded" book campaign. "The Afterlife Expert" How unusual is that?
Praying for Divine Help at Per Lachaise cemetery, Paris
I'm raising funds for it based on crowd funding, which is an unusual concept to begin with. But being a fan of the Renaissance, and art history (My major in college: "The Impact of the 20th century upon the Arts" at Boston University. I was the only Humanities major out of 26K students), I decided that it's a useful analogy to the old fashioned "Patron and Artists" relationship. Instead of going to the "powers that be" to fund my next project (meaning a film studio, a publisher, a record label) instead of going to the Medici family (the bankers of Florence) or the Vatican (the funders of Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Leonardo etc) I go directly to the audience and ask them to donate money into my proverbial hat. https://www.gofundme.com/theafterlifeexpert The first time I did I was "crowd funded" I was about 13 years old. I had just learned how to play "All Along the Watchtower"on guitar. I was sitting on a street corner in my home town, waiting for a friend's mom to pick us up... and I started playing my guitar. I had an old cowboy hat that I'd set down, cars were passing, I wasn't aware of them, and then one car stopped, guy rolled down his window, and threw some money into my hat, then drove away. I thought - "that's weird, that guy was going to fast to hear a song, but he's just offering some money for "the idea of the song."
I've crowd funded three books now. ("It's a Wonderful Afterlife" volumes one and two, and "Hacking the Afterlife") In return for support, I put people's names in my books, and reach out to them via email and in some cases have opened some unusual conversations. (I have unusual conversations all the time, not just with people who've donated to my books, but I'm just saying - I write to the people who donate to ask them about their journey -- and if I haven't in the past, I will do so in the future!)
Praying for Divine Assistance at Mt. Kailash in Tibet.
I must admit, someone posted a complaint last year - "oh, here comes another raising funds campaign from the Flipside guy" and it gave me pause. Obviously not a fan of the work, or not a fan of the idea of patronage in general. Totally understand that. All I can do is allow the universe to guide whatever the heck it is I'm doing. For whatever cosmic or comic reason, I've been put on this the path to examine and explore the Flipside. It's not for everyone. But for whatever reason, it is the path I'm on. But back to the Renaissance.
Cellini was a sculptor, created artworks in pencil, oil, gold and this statue in Florence
Benvenuto Cellini, the great sculptor, wrote a hilarious biography that was made into a film (badly) but his book is still in print. It details his life as an artist, his battles with his patrons, and some pretty crazy moments in his life - when he wasn't paid, he'd confront his patrons in the streets of Florence, pull out his dagger or sword and threaten them - in some cases stab them. He was jailed by the Pope for not finishing an artwork he'd been commissioned - he was jailed in Hadrian's tomb - a secret escape route for the Popes - and when he tried to escape he fell and broke his leg. Then when the French attacked Rome, according to Cellini, he helped line up a rifle atop Hadrian's tomb; with one shot, nailed a French General a quarter mile away (and Cellini saved Rome.)
Hadrian's tomb (also used as a jail by the Vatican)
My books won't last the length of Cellini's art or even have the color and craziness of his autobiography (free copy here: (The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini) but they are made in the same vein. People who have become my patrons, (thank you patrons! Grazie Patroni!) are investing in the research, no matter how crazy it appears!!!!
Cellini jumped and broke his leg to get out of debtor's prison where'd he'd been sentenced by Pope Julian for not finishing a work he'd already paid for. Hint: Guess I'd better finish my books.
So what's the new book about? Well, like the others, it's pretty unusual. I've found that without using hypnosis (I'm not a hypnotherapist, but have taken courses in that discipline, and have a degree from LightBetweenLives.com) I have been able to elicit some of the same results that hypnotherapists get during their 4-6 hour sessions (past lives, visits to a soul group, councils, libraries, etc) The accounts are relatively the same - during a hypnotherapy session, a hypnotherapist asks general questions "Where would you like to go?" but in my version, I direct the questions: "I'd like to speak directly to your guide, is that possible? If so, could your guide appear before you now so we have a reference to address them as male, female, or some other entity? And if so, could your guide put that visual in your mind's eye as we speak?"
"The Afterlife Expert" with Jennifer Shaffer (jennifershaffer.com) and George Noory of Coast to Coast AM
It's an unusual method for a variety of reasons - it's certainly not scientific because I'd have to ask neutral questions and wait for the person to guide me where they'd like to go. My attitude is this - after examining the 7000 cases Michael Newton had over 30 years, after examining the 2000 cases Dr. Helen Wambach had over ten years earlier, examining the 40 cases I've filmed and done 5 of my own - I have a pretty solid idea of what a person is going to find during one of these adventures. And knowing what it is they're going to find - knowing the architecture of the afterlife - I direct them there to that place. The point is this - if during one of these interviews, the person claims "something else entirely is being seen" (visuals that are contrary to these thousands of cases) or "they aren't getting anywhere" - that would be interesting, but so far, that's not been the case. I chose my subjects based on their ability to already connect with the flipside - perhaps they've had a near death experience, maybe they've had a hypnotherapy session, a past life regression, an out of body experience, a recurring dream - something that I can use as a gateway to help them gain access to the flipside.
Luana sees you.
What's interesting about the results is that they're from all walks of life - some have no idea there might be a flipside, some don't believe in an afterlife, some are religious, many are not - it doesn't matter. They may have read my books, or have no clue as to what I'm talking about - that doesn't appear to matter either. What matters is that they're able to talk about "what they're seeing." And while doing that I direct them into the flipside. As I'm fond of saying "You may not know what it is that I'm doing, but your spirit guides do." The other part of the book is direct communication with people no longer on the planet. In this case, I'm working with Jennifer Shaffer (JenniferShaffer.com) an excellent intuitive/medium who works with law enforcement nationwide using her skills with communicating with the flipside. Jennifer and I have been meeting for months now where I film our "conversations." I try to be open to whomever "shows up" during our conversation. There is usually some direct connection between me and the person who shows up, between Jennifer and the person who shows up - or if it's a stranger who appears (or someone I barely know) I'll ask them "why they've chosen to appear to us."
Instead of filming these events in an environment normally set aside for scientific study (a closed room, white walls, detection equipment) I film them wherever we happen to be. Because I've found, it doesn't matter how much noise or chaos is around us - if spirit wants to reach out to her, they do. She interprets to the best of her ability (after all, it's not a cell phone, but more of a sense phone) and I do the best I can to ask them questions like "From your perspective, what do we look like?" "What was the first thing you noticed about no longer being on the planet?" "What do you miss about being here?" I'm in the process of transcribing these sessions. There are about 20 or 30 interviews, discussions, which translates to about 10-20 hours of footage to sift through. The point is that it's going to take me a lot of time and effort to get all of this down on paper. So that's another reason to crowd fund - since a patron has already paid me for the work, it's an incentive to get the work done. (Or I'll find myself locked into Hadrian's tomb with jumping my only escape.) Anyways, hope you understand, and thanks for your support!!!!! Click to Donate Now!Cellini Martini