Flipside In The News

Hi everyone.  Pretty exciting month, after speaking at the University of Virginia to the fellows in DOPS, and convincing them they should start a study on this research (they argued that a study would cost a lot of money, I argued that the study would not - all they have to do is study one person - bring them in and put them under hypnosis using a trained Michael Newton therapist - and if the person said nothing, then they were off the hook - but if the person said exactly what I said that he would say, then they would be up "shit's creek" because they'd have to figure out why that happened!)

Only known photo of Lincoln's casket

Meanwhile I'm working on a future study - something that will follow scientific protocol designed by some of the smartest guys who know how to do that sort of thing.  Not my area of expertise, but hey, I can make a film and a book about it.  So working on that as we speak, will let you know how it goes.

Have continued filming people under deep hypnosis after publishing "Flipside" and putting out the Film.. so there's a second version in the works.  I haven't started organizing it yet - just gathering footage, but will keep y'all in the loop.

There's a new link to the coast to coast interview - you can always join the coast to coast group and view it, but for a temporary amount of time, it's here, so if you want to hear me talk for two hours about reincarnation or at least the study of it - click here.

Have been getting some great emails - a woman on FB (my FB page is here: ) told me that her 3 year old was crying one day and she said "what's the matter honey?" and the little girl said "I'm starting to forget what heaven is like."  Then a couple of years later, her other daughter said the exact same thing.  I mention it not because I agree with the overall concept of heaven - after all, one man's heaven is another man's limbo - but for these kids to use it in a sentence, I think I understand what they're referring to.

Flipside being screened in a class in Germany

After the screening of the film in Virginia Beach I've decided to make some edits to it - not for content, but just for delivery, some rough edges, and the subtitles move too quickly to read.. so I'm moving them around a bit.  I will replace the current DVD with that newer version once I'm done (and it will take a few days to then go online).  Sorry if any of you are trying to download it and can't.

A WORD TO OUR OUTSIDE THE US FRIENDS:

Yes, Amazon doesn't accept credit cards not based in the US.  So if you want to view the film without buying an NTSC DVD thru the links here, then you can watch the film by clicking on the "PayPal.com" link - sometimes that doesn't work!  It's a gremlin - or it's because your browser is having a hard time understanding it - Firefox or Microsoft or Safari seem to work - but if they don't - just click on the donate button, or go to the website, and donate the amount you deem best to me at RichMartini@yahoo.com - I will get the email instantly (unless I'm snoozing) and as soon as I get it I will send you the link to the film.  Sorry for that snafu - but we're in this new global market - so we'll adjust as we can.

This is a photo from Mars - according to NASA. Just liked it.

Thanks for all the positive feedback.  After getting numerous rejections from publishing houses, telling me over and again "we don't know who you are" or "you aren't famous enough to publish" (which I understand - it's an investment after all) I really appreciate hearing that this research is helping people who have found it.  I've been around quite a long time,and aside from the occasional "Your movie made me laugh" I rarely get any feedback on a creative endeavor.  I know this information isn't for everyone - and as I'm fond of saying it's not a philosophy or belief - it's just reporting what people under deep hypnosis have to say about the afterlife.

Enjoy!  Here's a link to the DVD
http://www.amazon.com/Flipside-A-Journey-Into-Afterlife/dp/B0081U6K1Y
to the book.
to the kindle

Rich

Couple of things...

Thanks y'all for making my book #1 Amazon kindle in this genre.

As a first time author, the Catch 22 has been that I couldn't get the big publishers to publish FLIPSIDE - although they all claimed to like it - because I'm not an expert in the field, normally what's needed to ensure getting published.  But now that it's #1 in its field - that makes me a bit of an expert, even though it doesn't make a lick of sense. So thanks, and that will be helpful in my next book - which will be in the same genre, as I've continued filming people under deep hypnosis since it came out.

George Noory

For those of you who haven't heard it, please check out this link for a video posted of the show that aired on "Coast To Coast" with George Noory. I had a blast doing the show - George made it seem like he was interested in the topic, and made my job easier - to fill 3 hours of airtime with tales from the Flipside.

I also appreciate those who've been watching my Earhart film - Earhart's Electra,which is available here: www.earhartmovie.com

That's an entirely different chapter in my life, but like the work in "Flipside" is something that's been in my life.

Dr. Michael Newton

But again, I'm a journalist and a documentary filmmaker - I'm not espousing a point of view, a belief, or trying to upend any belief system.  I'm just reporting what people say under deep hypnosis - in Michael Newton's research, he and his therapists have had over 7000 clients say the same things about the afterlife.  I've filmed 15 - some that I recruited, some who'd never heard of Michael Newton, or were vaguely familiar with his work, some who were convinced they could "never be hypnotized."

Dr. Greyson

I've reported my findings to the University of Virginia where I met with Dr. Bruce Greyson, ("Father of NDE research") Dr. Jim Tucker (Reincarnation studies) Dr. Ed Kelly (EEG studies of psychic phenomena) and some other experts in their field.  They'd all read "Flipside" before our meeting and we discussed how hypnosis as its been practiced for the past 100 years hasn't been a tool of science.  However, because of the depth of Michael Newton's techniques - five and six hour sessions, people were able to attain a transdepth that allowed them to go deeper and further.  The film and transcripts of the book show that the questions asked are not leading or guiding the client to these areas or realms - they do the guiding and leading on their own.

And what they say about the Flipside is uniform - or amazingly the same throughout the planet.  Doesn't seem to matter who the therapist is or who the subject is - they all say relatively the same things when asked the same questions.  So that's the beginning of a study that might be conducted by these fellows.  We'll see.

But again,thanks for checking into the book and documentary - I've had a huge increase in sales and website hits since the Coast to Coast interview - so thanks to George Noory, and Dick Dinges from the IANDS Group in Virginia Beach who wrote an inspired email to Coast to Coast recommending me as a guest.  

#1 Best Selling Amazon Kindle Title (in its genre)

Oh wow. I just saw this on Amazon - "Flipside" is the #1 best selling book of this genre. 

To quote Steven Jobs: Oh Wow.

Thank you Coast to Coast! 

#1 in Kindle Store, #3 in New Age books, #6 in Motivational Books.

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My Life After Life

At the tail end of the "coast to coast" broadcast, I mentioned a book called "My Life After Life" - I'm mentioning it again because of an email I read the other day regarding the book.

Galen's book

It was written by Galen Stoller - a 16 year old boy who passed away a few years ago.  His father, a pediatrician, had a friend who is a psychic and he reached out to her to see if he could contact his son.  He did.  And the son suggested to his dad that he "write a book."  So the dad set about writing one - and after a year admitted that he just couldn't finish it.  The son said "No dad, not a book about you - a book about me, written by me."

So they set about doing so.  He channeled what his son was experiencing in the afterlife and wrote it down.  It's a vivid pretty mind blowing vision of what happens when we die.    I become interested in the book when I read about classrooms in the Afterlife that Galen was attending.  For those of you who've read "Flipside," these classrooms are reported quite a bit - and have been reported in James Van Praagh's book "Talking to Heaven" and other places.  In the film "Flipside" I recount my own between life session where it felt like I visited a couple of these classrooms.

I also wanted to know if the father (or the son) had known about reports of classrooms in the afterlife from any afterlife research - the father told me that he hadn't, nor had his son.  The accounts of these classrooms is pretty uniform - what I've gathered from my own research is that they are usually classes in energy transference - I visit two such classrooms in "Flipside" but from the point of view of an interloper - in Galen's case, he's a student in one of the chairs in his own classes.

But something happened the other day that will give this account further resonance.  The father got an email from a woman in St. Louis whose husband died.  They'd spent 50 years together and were very close.  She has a friend who is a medium, and the medium offered to contact her husband for her.  In the session, the husband said "there's a boy over here, his name is Galen and he's written a book. It has a red cover and a picture of Galen on the cover. I think it would help you understand what its like over here."

In her own words:"I first heard about Galen’s book from my husband, who is on the other side.  I was having a reading and (my husband) started describing a book with a red and green cover and gave the title.  The reader (medium) hadn’t heard about it because it had just been published.  I got the book, read it as fast as I could.  it is a beautiful book.  Then the next reading I had with my husband, we discussed it.  He wanted me to have more insight into what it was like where is now, although he stressed that it wasn’t just Galen’s environment but close... I asked him if he knew Galen and he said no, but the book was known there." -- 

The medium says she'd never heard of the book or the title.  The father had just self published it, so it wasn't widely known.  But the deceased husband said "I'm not in the same place as Galen, but his book accurately describes the journey and passage here."  The woman wrote to Galen's dad to thank him for publishing this book - which her husband had led her to.

For me, I'm happy to know that our work - here or there - can be observed or examined.  Wow. Perhaps bookstores over there are doing better than they are over here!

Coast to Coast

Thanks to all of you who tuned in last night, and have written such lovely notes today.  It's this odd construct - two strangers talk on the phone as if they're old friends, and every twenty minutes or so one friend says "And we'll be right back to talk about fantastic stories from the Flipside and author Rich Martini" - and then you hear an ad for Ancestry.com or Elton John playing "Your Song."  And then you repeat that for three hours.

Did my best to tell the story as it was told to me.  As I'm fond of saying "don't shoot the messenger."  I'm not espousing a belief system here - I'm just reporting what thousands have said while under deep hypnosis about the afterlife - and our journey and choices to come back here.  All you need is love, is what they say. Love is all there is.  Love to all of you.  Here's the clip from the coasttocoastam.com website:

Afterlife & Reincarnation

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Date:	09-11-12
Host:	George Noory
Guests:	Richard Martini, Stewart Rhodes

Journalist and filmmaker Rich Martini discussed his incredible journey finding evidence for the afterlife, life between lives, and "soul groups." He extensively interviewed Dr. Michael Newton, known for his pioneering work on life between lives. Newton put some 7,000 people under deep hypnosis over a 30-year period, and found a number of commonalities amongst his clients regarding reincarnation and the afterlife. For instance, he discovered that people had a specific color associated with them during their between-lives world that was related to their spiritual progression or age of their souls. Martini filmed a number of people's hypnotherapy sessions, including his own. One of the sessions was with a woman who experienced being a holocaust victim in a past life. During her between-lives state, she said she met with a Council of Elders, who surprisingly told her that "it was harder to play the role of a perpetrator than a victim."

According to Martini's research, while in the between-lives world, we conduct a planning session, often with members of our soul group, deciding who is going to play what role in the next lifetime. People typically have between 3 to 25 members in their soul group, and when they find each other, there is a sense that they are "home," he said. A commonality Martini found, is that when people are regressed they say their soul enters a new fetus at around the four months mark. Interestingly, only 1/3 of the person's soul goes into the body and the rest resides in the spiritual realm, and is only reunited at physical death, he continued.

He shared details of his own lengthy hypnotic regression, in which he experienced a previous life as an Indian Medicine Man, and attended a classroom about "energy reconstruction" during the between-lives state. For more, check out a trailer for his documentary, FlipSide. Martini also touched on his extensive research into the fate of Amelia Earhart. He interviewed a number of witnesses who saw her plane in a hangar in Saipan. He concluded that she was held prisoner by the Japanese (who probably thought she was a spy) from 1937-42, and was executed after United States shelled Saipan.

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