COAST TO COAST tues 9-11 11 pm - 2 am

I think I might have been driving from SF to LA one night and in Fresno, tuned into George Noory's "Coast to Coast AM"  -- I know it was a show that was either out there, or almost out there, and when I got an email the other day asking if I'd like to come on the show and speak about "Flipside" - I thought - "well there you go."  Here's what they have on their site already: Tue 09-11  Navigating the Afterlife

• Richard Martini

But on the other hand, I tuned into the show a few nights ago, and listened to this guy describe something that really wasn't very believable.  And after George asked him a few questions, he took phone calls - and there were people calling in around the globe talking about the same problem this guy was having.  And at some point I realized I had gone from skeptic to skept....  I wasn't convince it was actually real, but I was convinced it was worth looking into...



Which is the experience you're going to have tuning in to listen to me speak about "Flipside: a Tourist's Guide on How to Navigate the Afterlife" on 9-11-12 from 11 am to 2 am east coast time.  I'm also going to talk about my film "Earhart's Electra: Eyewitness Reports on What Happened to Amelia Earhart's plane."

I don't think you have to tune into the site at that very moment - or go to your local radio show - they put all the shows up online, so if you want to wait a couple of years before hearing it, be my guest.

At this point, I'm not even sure I can stay up past midnight any more (ah, those days of all nighters in college!), and if you hear me breathing heavily into the phone, please think WAKE UP RICH.

I'm flattered to be invited, I think to myself - ok, having written for Variety, Premiere, Inc.com - having written and directed a number of feature films - what the heck am I doing on Coast to Coast?  I guess you'll have to tune in to fine out.

Best,

Rich

Flipside in Virginia Beach

Hi, just got back from a trip to DOPS at the University of Virginia where I got the rare opportunity to speak to some great scientists about the research in "Flipside."  We had a really interesting, lively discussion about the possibility of examining this work from a more scientific point of view - I'm happy to say they were open to what I was saying - even though it's not in the scientific lexicon to use hypnosis as a form of investigation - but we discussed possible ways it might be able to be studied in the future.

Then I was able to speak to the Virginia Beach IANDS group (International Near Death Studies group) at the Edgar Cayce institute A.R.E. about "Flipside" - a two hour chat that was videotaped and will be available asap.  In the afternoon we screened the documentary and spoke about it for quite some time.

For those of you not familiar with Virginia Beach, it's the only place I've ever been where people speak about past lives, and spiritual journeys in the same breath they speak of the weather.  It's an amazing group of really interesting people who've had some really interesting experiences - I was invited to a pot luck dinner and the conversation went from a gentleman who remembered a past life where he was murdered on a slave ship to a person who had a Near Death experience that changed her life, to a woman whose son had passed away the week before and he had appeared to her just afterwards to say "stop crying mom, I'm ok, I'm fine."

They invited me to their fellowship meeting on Sunday morning where they shared prayers and songs and wishes of good hope, and I spoke for a half an hour about practical methods to deal with helping people in spiritual need, talking about the Tibetan meditations - "the Jewel Tree of Tibet" as it was taught to me by Tenzin Robert Thurman, and "Tonglen" as it has been studied by Richard Davidson at the University of Wisconsin, where he's used science to prove it to be an effective antidote for depression.

If you enlarge you'll see odd "orbs" on my head that are in many
 pix from this event. I think I know what they are, I mention them in "Flipside"
but never saw any pix of myself with them floating about. (Pic: Dick Dinges) 

Here's a letter of recommendation that was forwarded along to me - in case someone would like me to come and speak about "Flipside" wherever you are....

I am the President of Virginia Beach Friends of IANDS (International Association for Near-Death Studies). Our group hosts speakers who have had transformational experiences, and we present them once a month to an average audience of around 50 people at Edgar Cayce's A. R. E. in Virginia Beach, VA.

I have been scheduling speakers for the last several years.This past Saturday, Sept. 1, Rich Martini of Santa Monica, CA was our speaker, and he was wonderful. His topic was perfect for us, and his delivery was exciting. One of our Board members, Jeff, told me that Rich was the best speaker we have had so far. I can't think of anyone I enjoyed more.

Rich lost a friend to death, and wanted to be in touch with her if he could. His path led him to be regressed in the manner Dr. Michael Newton taught. Rich went into his regression as a skeptic, but came away convinced that what he experienced was real and true. He saw his friend. After that he interviewed Dr. Michael Newton. He filmed many regressions and interviewed many people on their experiences. Now his passion is to tell what he has learned. This is what he feels is the purpose of his life

Rich tells his story in his book, FLIPSIDE: A TOURIST'S GUIDE ON HOW TO NAVIGATE THE AFTERLIFE, and documentary movie of the same name.

I am writing not only to recommend a speaker who has become a friend, but also to promote what I feel is the new perspective on the meaning of our lives. (I write this as an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ who taught from the Bible for most of my 26 years of pastoral ministry.) This is how I understand it. Our lives on Earth are dramas we create together in our soul groups in the spiritual realm. We write the parts, we put on the human costumes, and we live out the dramas. Then our physical bodies die and we return to spirit to find among other things that the villains in our dramas were really only other actors in our soul group. Then we work with our Guides and group to create a new drama for fun and growth in our capacity to love.

There is no fear in this perspective. There is no division. We are all part of the Oneness. We have unlimited opportunities to experience all the facets of life. That's what thousands of people say after having been regressed. What a message for the world! I want to help promote that message. That's why I am recommending Rich Martini .

Rich speaks spontaneously and enthusiastically. He has a hundred stories to tell and he doesn't need any notes. He speaks with humor and expressive body language. Finally, let me describe one incident that Rich reported in his talk. Rich was observing a regression. The subject asked his Guide, "What is God?" The Guide answered. "God is greater than the human mind can comprehend. But God can be experienced by opening up to everyone and every thing."

Dick Dinges, Virginia Beach

Rich Martini

SEPTEMBER 1: Saturday morning from 10:00-12:00 p.m., at Edgar Cayce's A.R.E.

From 10 – noon Mr. Martini will describe his after-death communication (ADC) with his close friend, actress Luana Anders, which started him on an exploration to understand where we go when we die. That exploration led Rich to the work of Michael Newton, to meeting Dr. Newton, and to his own profound past-life and life-between-life regression. During that session, which was filmed, Rich recognized his present family members and came to understand the role they play in his life today. Suggested donation at the door is $5.

From 2:30 – 4:30 Mr. Martini will present his documentary film, “FLIPSIDE: A TOURIST’S GUIDE ON HOW TO NAVIGATE THE AFTERLIFE,” which goes hand-in-hand with his book of the same name. Admission is $10. Refer to www.vbiands.com for complete information, and Contact Dick Dinges at (757) 575-2759.

In the film, Mr. Martini explores startling new evidence for life after death by documenting the life-between-lives experience. Based on the evidence of thousands of such regressions, we learn that after physical death we return to be with our loved ones, soul mates, and spiritual teachers, and together with them we choose how and when we will reincarnate. The movie and book present interviews with hypnotherapists trained in the method pioneered by Dr. Michael Newton, as well as actual between-life sessions, including Rich Martini’s own session.

Tighar at it again!

No, wait!  We didn't miss Amelia's plane.  We found a debris field near the island where we've been taking people to for the past 20 years!  Hold on!  Don't leave yet!

During the invasion of Saipan, US Marines found her plane.

I can't fathom why the media keeps buying this story. It's hilarious.

Consider the facts.  These trips to Gardner Isle have resulted in a comb, freckle goop, some turtle bones.  Nothing else. Really? You think that if she had actually been there, there might have been anything else?

There's been a deep sea expedition - millions have been spent on finding - nothing.  Oh wait. A debris field. "Could this be the resting place of Amelia Earhart's Electra?" Oh my!





And how did this come about? A photo dug out of the archives, of what may or may not have been Nessie, or a piece of an aircraft in 1937 in the water.  So the guy who took the photo - he didn't notice it, just happened to catch this landing gear bobbing in the water.  What could it be?

I don't even get the logic of what we're talking about here.  A photo of what may or may not be a landing gear in the water near Gardner? What the heck does that have to do with Earhart's Electra?  It's crazy.  There's not a single shred of any evidence, eyewitness or otherwise that she went anywhere near Gardner.

Wow.  Denial is not a river in Egypt.

and now - for some other details - actual eyewitness reports from people who saw her, saw the plane, and saw what happened to it.  C'mon guys - reporters - get out your pencils.  Do some homework, please!

Over 200 islanders saw her or Fred Noonan after 1937 in and around the Marshall Islands.  These people have been interviewed in books and on film. (Oliver Knaggs, many others, Fred Goerner, etc).

US Marines found her plane on June 18th, 1944 at Aslito airfield.  If you watch the film that's referenced here you will see them speak for themselves on camera.   They decoded the message that said they'd found her plane (and not some look alike plane) they guarded her plane, and they destroyed her plane.

Full stop.

Bob Wallack, US Marine, found her briefcase on Saipan in 44.

They buried it off the runway at Aslito airfield.  They covered it in dirt.  The aluminum has not deteriorated.  It is still there.  The runway hasn't changed. The documentary film "Earhart's Electra" SHOWS WHERE the spot on the runway is.  You want to become the person who found AMELIA EARHART'S AIRPLANE?  Don't go to Gardner.  Don't go undersea.  Take some equipment, get some permits and start digging where these US Marines claim they saw her plane, saw it destroyed on the runway.  It's within a fifty yard radius of the maps in this film. It's still there. Waiting for someone with a shovel. Get to work.

End of story.

Honor her memory properly. Tell the truth.

Have a nice trip, and don't forget to thank me at Oscar time.

UPDATE:

Well, here I am on Saipan and we are digging for AE's Electra.. I got a comment from Tom King, the chief researcher at Tighar about this post... from last August.  It's Feb 19th, I've been on Saipan for three weeks, our crew has been here for six.  I've interviewed 15 different islanders who saw a European woman, or an American flyer, or Amelia Earhart after 1937.  That goes along with the 200 or so that Fred Goerner, Oliver Knaggs, Don Wilson, etc have collected over the years.

Don't get me wrong.  I respect the science behind Tighar's research.  I just don't understand the logic of it.

Here's a reply I wrote to someone who sent me Tom King's report on their research about eyewitness reports on Saipan....

I've been working on the eyewitness accounts for 30 years. What Tom King's report is missing is pretty fundamental - Devine was not the first GI to see the plane.  He may have been the first person to report it (and pretty adamantly as well, reporting to his congressman, calling the media and everyone he could find to do so after the war - not exactly someone out to make a buck from his account).  Devine has details in his account that are factually incorrect, but that doesn't make his entire testimony incorrect. For example, in the official govt record on the reply to Devine's accusations, they claim because he inaccurately identified a fisherman's hut at Susupe, his entire account was suspect. (Special agent Patton's report from 1960)  I find this kind of reverse reasoning silly, and not worth examining.  It's not that Devine saw the plane on Aslito airfield - it's that six other GI's saw the plane.  Devine corroborated a number of details that the other GI's claimed.  So that makes his testimony worth examining. The first people to see the plane at Aslito were Marines on June 19, 1944. I know that detail because the wire operator who decoded the message did so for Col. Clarence M. Wallace on that date.  As he said to me during his interview in Tupelo Mississippi "I remember it as if it was yesterday."  Combined with numerous other corroborated details he gives, I found his testimony, Douglas Bryce's testimony, Andrew Bryce's testimony, Robert Wallack's testimony and many others (as recounted in the second of Devine's book (with M. Campbell) where he solicited accounts from GI's who'd been there) credible and verifiable. I'm here on Saipan interviewing people in their 80's who recall these events. Some are chomorro. Some are American veterans. And I've just found a Japanese man who claims he was here when she was executed.  I'm tracking down his details as we speak. So we are left with - why ignore the eyewitness accounts?  It's not just Devine.  So far we have 12 GI's who claim they saw her Electra here.  Are they all liars?  Are they all besmirching their uniform by making up this fantastic detail that her plane was here?  To me it borders on the ridiculous that people would not follow up on these reports.  The only logical conclusion that I can get from people not following up on the over 200 eyewitness reports (from Georner, the priest's extensive interviews with Matilde Arriola and others, Don Wilson's many people, Oliver Knagg's filmed interviews in Mili, Jaluit, Mike Harris's interviews (always incorrectly ascribed to TC Brennan, who was just accompanying Mike) - the only possible reason people have not followed up on these is "egocentric americanism" - if a person doesn't speak English then their account must be suspect. At least I hope that's the reason and not some more nefarious conspiracy to obfuscate the facts.  I choose not to follow that path, as my experience working with people in the defense dept, homeland security and CIA - (during my research for the film "Salt") is they love to solve a mystery as much as the next fellow. I wish the folks at Tighar the best - I'm here on Saipan (EarhartOnSaipan) with a small crew with determination and a desire to know the truth.  We didn't come here with any preconceived idea about WHY she wound up in Saipan. We came because we wanted to follow the evidence.  We are following up on good reporting done by Fred Goerner, by Oliver Knaggs.  We have numerous eye witness accounts that have never been published as to her presence here on the island, we have numerous eye witness accounts by US soldiers who saw her plane, or came across other evidence she was here, we are currently looking at sites that have never been examined before.  And we'll let you know what we find.

Flipside in Torrent!

This is funny.  My documentary and book have been uploaded to Pirate Bay and other torrent venues so anyone can view them for free.  This is both amusing and annoying.

What happens to folks who download torrents illegally

As anyone can tell you, working independently on a film or a book is a labor of love.  And certainly I feel the information in both of these are worthy of examination.  It's hard to complain - who the hell wants to upload a 90 minute documentary on reincarnation?  Or why we choose to be on the planet?

On one hand, the research behind it suggests that we choose our lives, and we choose who we're going to be on the planet, and we act accordingly.  So if we're a person who thinks its ok to download people's work for free, we're the same folks who don't mind lifting or pilfering other items on the planet.

But "Flipside?"  It's $2 on amazon to view, and the kindle is $10.  They both represent five years of my life - not to mention all the people who agreed to let me film them while they're under hypnosis.  Pretty shocking for them to agree to that in the first place, but then there's the physical act of putting the film and book together.  On the other hand, the motivation behind the project is to get people to examine that we do choose to be on the planet, we do reincarnate consciously, and therefore, it makes sense for us to keep the planet a safer place - clean water and air, if not for our children, but for our own return.

Oh well - it's one of those conundrums of modern life.  Enjoy the film and book you downloading fiends!  But if it rings true to you, please go to the donate donut to the right of this post, and make a donation, whatever you can - my family will appreciate it.