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)
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Tony has devoted his life to helping others lead a joyous, healthy lifestyle. He is the author of 10 books on healthy living, wellness and personal empowerment; TV and radio host, and a humanitarian who can be heard daily on national radio. In 2001, he was awarded “Man of the Year” by the Leukemia Society.
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I was invited to the International Foundation for Survival Research's group this weekend to talk about my research and film and best selling book "Flipside: A Tourist's Guide on How to Navigate the Afterlife." Had an hour to speak, and a half hour to answer questions. If you're interested in the topic, here's the 90 minute version. Enjoy!
Had an hour to talk about the research and my journey to it, as well as a few tidbits from the new book "Flipside Two" - I tend to speak from the hip and the heart in these events, I don't have anything prepared when I walk in to speak on the topic, as I like to figure out first how much the audience knows about the topic. In this case, few knew of Michael Newton's work, and after an abbreviated introduction to his research, I speak about my own path to it, and where its taken me since.
Again - these reports are not based on any philosophy, belief or religious tenets - these are reports from over 7000 people about what they claim happens in the afterlife, what our journey to it is, and I've personally filmed over 25 people under deep hypnosis, and found their reports remarkably similar in synch with the ones that Michael Newton has conducted over his career as well as reports of near death experiences (NDE). In light of this weekend's Oscar celebration, there's an interesting discussion of the Latin phrase "Vanum populatum" that came to me in a dream - annihilate vanity. ("I live in LA, where to begin?")
But since these reports claim we all come from the same place, we all choose our journeys based on that place and our relationships in it, one could argue that we all "win" when someone is honored for their work on stage or screen - as we are all part of their journey. I'm a fan of Solomon Northup's amazing account of his life and struggle - (His book "12 Years a Slave" is free online if you search for it via unc.edu) and moved by the idea that only 180 years ago, he documented the lives of Patsey and himself and others, and how they live again in our hearts and minds.
There's also a discussion in the talk of how people claim that a lifetime over here feels like "a few hours" over there. So when people consider for a moment that time is relative, it really could be that Solomon and Patsey were enjoying last night's celebration of their lives, as well as Matthew M's dad "dancing with a Miller Lite" when he won his award (and Ron Woodruf cheering him on as well). Editing the next book, waiting for the interviews from Professor Thurman and others to include, as well as some other unusual tidbits from the "Flipside" about our path and journey. Thanks for all your donations, as they are most appreciated, and have kept me in the hunt, so to speak.
Or a person who is the last on your Valentine's Day list,
you can give them a copy of the book and say "Too bad, we don't die, you'll never be apart from me!"*
Got someone on the Flipside you'd like to give a copy to? We haven't figured out how to do that... yet.
But the good news is that it's love the permeates the universe, it's love that binds the universe together and keeps us all part of each other - the reports are consistent, they're replicable, and they're worth repeating. On a day that celebrates LOVE celebrate the idea that LOVE NEVER DIES.
Oh, okay, just what you need - another jaded way to send a Valentine.
Happy Valentine's Day George Noory!
Give the gift that keeps on giving, in this lifetime and the next!!! *
Happy Valentino Day. My grandfather's name is Valentino (as is my nephew).
So reach out and touch someone. Give them flowers, chocolate, champagne.. and a big piece of your heart.
We're only here on the planet for a short time in this costume, playing this role, being this part - it took a lot of work for us to get here, to be here, to do this work that we're doing. Celebrate that! Set aside that we come back here (and other places) over and over again to teach and learn and love again. You're here right now. Swing for the fences!!!!
Give that Valentine, make that call, tell that person you love them that should be told that you love them, that you've forgotten to tell that you love. Whether they're here on the planet or not - THEY WILL HEAR YOU.
And on that note: LOVE YOU!!!! HAPPY VALENTINO DAY!!!
Flipside Redux: Received an amazingly generous donation from a Pulitzer prize winning author for the sequel to Flipside. How cool is that? I'm in the midst of transcribing interviews with neuroscientists (Mario Beuregard, Bruce Greyson) interviews with scientists (Gary Schwartz) with hypnotherapists (Pete Smith, Scott De Tamble) about the latest research and reports from the afterlife.
I made a documentary (FlipsideTheFilm.com) about what thousands say about the afterlife under deep hypnosis; the book became a best seller in its genre at Amazon (#1 twice - FlipsideTheBook.com) and I took to crowd funding to help finance the sequel. I've been filming between life sessions with a number of friends, strangers, also gathering sessions from therapists nationwide, and interviewing post materialist scientists about their findings that coincide with the research I've been doing.
The new book explores near death experiences and how they coincide with between life hypnosis and scientists weigh in on the evidence they've found that consciousness can exist outside the brain. There are some other surprises inside, interviews with folks I didn't know I'd be able to reach. Right now it's weighing in around 500 pages, and I'll pare that to something that won't hurt your hands or mangle your kindle.
The research is basic, the results less so. What they report is;We don't die. That's the good news. The bad news; we don't die. Meaning, we've got a mountain of new lifetimes, adventures, and lessons to learn about why we chose this particular lifetime, those we've affected or helped (or hurt) during it, and how in the future we can learn from those explorations.
The book is not based on belief, philosophy or a desire - just eyewitness accounts from people who've taken this trip, and the scientists who corroborate what they're saying. Shy of a near death experience, it's the closest I've found where people have a consensus about what happens in the afterlife. Stay tuned, and thanks for the support. http://www.gofundme.com/FlipsideTheSequel
With the death of the great actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman in the news, it's worth noting that there are a number of things about his death worth noting.
“I try to live my life in such a way that I don’t have profound regrets,” Mr. Hoffman told The NY Times. “That’s probably why I work so much. I don’t want to feel I missed something important.” A lot to be missed. Family. Friends. We'll miss his craft. I curse the poppy in the field, I curse those who sell it, I curse the needle, trying to capture a feeling of bliss or nothingness; if only ODs could see the day after. No judgment here, only compassion for friends and family, for the lessons he chose to explore and learn from this all too short journey. RIP http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/02/03/movies/philip-seymour-hoffman-actor-dies-at-46.html?_r=1&referrer When someone we love dies, it doesn't take the pain away to realize that they might not actually be dead. We experience loss, we experience pain in the way we're built as humans to experience it. But when we examine the reports of consciousness existing outside the brain (see post below) or we examine accounts from people who have died and come back to report their stories, it's worth noting that all of these reports are not faked, or false. Take for example Annie Kagan's "The Afterlife of Billy Fingers." Billy was a person who struggled with drug addiction his whole life - and yet when he passed over, he came to his sister and recounted the reasons behind his addiction and life in a very direct way. In "My Life After Life" written by Dr. Ken Stoller, his son Galen died at 16 and came to him to recount what he was experiencing in the afterlife. Interesting to note that the realm or region he seemed to be in - the place he was reporting from - was a place where a number of other people either weren't aware they were dead, or were having a hard time adjusting to it. In Dr. Medhus' "Channeling Erik" she has full and detailed conversations with her son about people and events that are uncanny in their scope. Personally, I experienced one of those sessions as she allowed me to supply a series of questions to the people involved, questions that I alone know the answers to, and they were accurate. So I'm convinced that these conversations with her son are happening - whether they're 100% accurate, or whether they hit or miss particular events are subject to the odds of anyone getting stories 100% accurate - suffice to say I've yet to come across any account from any story that was 100% accurate since no one can take into account all the differing points of view to any event. Be that as it may - here we have another Doctor, trained in materialist science, who is communicating with her son in the afterlife.
In the numerous accounts I've researched and reported on, people recall past lives where they died in some fashion where their minds were altered - and they claim that it takes awhile to gather up the ability to focus your energy so you can realize where you are, and what's happening to you. There are a myriad of reasons why people take their lives. Some can't handle the pain - that they signed up for. It's a bit like walking off the field in the middle of the Super Bowl - "nope, sorry, these guys are just too big for me to play against." (I'm actually surprised that doesn't happen more often). But we can't judge why someone sticks a needle in their arm - any more than we can judge why the poppy flower delivers such pain and sorrow to so many and retains its beauty. Start with the idea that between lives people (for the most part, and always at some point) experience a blissful kind of existence that's beyond any bliss they've ever felt as humans. One can argue that drugs (and addictions) are a way to try and recreate that blissful feeling - which of course, we get to experience for eons between lives. So what's the hurry?
I'm reporting on this topic because I think it's important - it's important to realize that we're not going to die, if only to realize that we have a lot of work ahead of us - we aren't just in it for this one 8 second ride aboard a bull - we're in it for multiple rides, multiple lessons, multiple fractures each time we take the bull into the arena. And that's why we sign up for it. I heard Scott De Tamble (Lightbetweenlives.com) speak in Orance county to an iands.org group (institute of near death studies) and he said "You are the courageous ones. We don't have to come here, we don't have to incarnate, but yet you had the courage to do so - to come here to this planet to experience all the difficulties life has to offer." So here's to the courageous ones. It takes courage to come here in the first place, and whatever reasons Mr. Hoffman had to check out early are part of his own journey and are only known to him and his soul group. My two cents.
Proof consciousness exists outside the brain. Given two years ago by Dr. Greyson of UVA, (interviewing him for the next edition of "Flipside")90 mins of scientific (peer reviewed case studies) evidence the mind works just peachy when our noggin is switched off. In some cases better. Why does it matter? Think about it. And don't shoot the piano player. http://youtu.be/sPGZSC8odIU
As long as materialist scientists rule the allocation of funds for studying this sort of thing, we'll see materialist results. However, scientists like Dr Greyson, Dr Kelly ("Irreducible Mind") or Dr Beauregard ("Brain Wars") neuroscientists, psychiatrists, physicists are allowing the data to lead them in a new direction. Looking for funding outside the box of traditional sources is the way of the future. As Dr Greyson says in his talk, it was xerox founder Chester Carlson who funded his program at UVA. Tons of money gives people access to new ideas, and there are folks who want to help science find the light at the end of the tunnel. If you can, watch the entire talk - it's prettyMIND BLOWING. Dr. Greyson is pretty much the foremost authority on near death experience, (NDE) and is the foremost scientist studying it. This talk is from his nearly 1000 cases. As he says in the talk: "this evidence is not accepted or known by most American scientists – nevertheless it is there, and it is reliable and reproducible evidence – we have cases of people whose brains have been deteriorating for years suddenly think clearly on their deathbeds, people who function normally sometimes with high intelligence who have virtually no brain tissue, NDE experiencers who think more clearly than ever when their brains are not functioning, and we have very young children who can barely speak, who talk about their past lives with accurate details. These phenomena, all well investigated by modern scientific methodologies, and building upon decades or centuries of prior research, strongly suggest that under extreme circumstances, consciousness can be produced and can function without the intercession of the phsycial brain." If you'd like to invest in the next edition of "Flipside" please click on this link: http://www.gofundme.com/FlipsideTheSequel
Award-winning filmmaker Richard Martini explores startling new evidence of life after death via the "life between lives," where we reportedly return to find loved ones, soul mates and spiritual teachers.
The film is 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. Included are interviews with hypnotherapists from around the world trained in the method pioneered by Dr. Michael Newton, along with filmed past-life-regression sessions.
Many thanks to NY Times, Pulitzer Prize winning author,Bill Vlasicfor making a generous donation to the completion of this next edition of "Flipside." His"Once Upon A Car" is a must read to understand the history of Detroit, the bailout, and what's behind the politics of that arena. A generous fellow! Thank you!
Speaking of "Flipside" am nearing the end of my interview phase with scientists. I had an amazing chat with Mario Beauregard, a neuroscientist in Montreal who explained what "post materialist" science is about, and his theory that the human body may function as a kind of television set for consciousness, complete with its own set of filters (V chip?) for accessing certain kinds of information. His book "Brain Wars" talks about the research he's done using EEG and fMRI to understand more fully what's going on in the brain when someone is having a near death experience. He cited 5 studies that have examined 100's of cases where are person has died during cardiac arrest, there's no blood to the brain, and yet they come back to life with accurate reports of what they saw in the operating room, conversations doctors had, even in adjoining rooms in the hospital.
Just got the great news that I'm going to be able to submit some questions to Dr. Bruce Greyson and Dr. Edward Kelly - authors of "Irreducible Mind" - Both at UVA, Dr. Greyson is considered "the father of near death studies," and Dr. Kelly is a cognitive neuroscientist who has written extensively on consciousness outside the body. (Their 800 page book on "Psychology for the 21st century" is required reading) I'm hopeful to get their opinions on this research into the idea that consciousness exists outside our mental framework.
I had a lively discussion with an Oxford trained Neuroscientist who teaches at one of my alma maters, who telling him about "Flipside" repeatedly said "I don't believe a word you're saying." He also lumped me in a group of "Hollywood people trying to cash in on new age nonsense." But he revealed that he once had a mystical experience where he was in a gymnasium and felt Jesus was jogging alongside him. I pointed out that there's no rational logic for why he thought that to be the case (He agreed, and felt he'd imagined it) but when discussing the actual "feeling" of knowing that someone was running next to him, he said the same words people do under hypnosis, or during an NDE about things they witness; "I just knew it was him."
I pointed out that "knowing" implied that he'd met the fellow before, else how would he "know" someone unless he'd met them previously? And further, people claim to see Jesus often during NDE's - of course non Christians don't - but how do these people know that it's Jesus they're meeting? Is he wearing a name tag? Could it be someone else pretending to be Jesus? Again - they have this feeling of "knowing" who is in front of them - I don't doubt that, but how can you know who someone is if you're meeting them the first time? (unless it's not)
Which is what I'm trying to explore. If we can experience things outside of our conscious minds that include "knowing" or "remembering" or "reliving again" or "between lives" - logic tells us either they're accurate or they are not. If they are not, then why have thousands had nearly the same experience when they've not met each other, read anything that related to their experience, or for other reasons could not be making it up? (I point to some of these cases in "Flipside"). If they are accurate - or are based on some universal objective truth - then they bear further scrutiny. If only to understand what the heck we're doing on the planet.
Someone sent me this pic - oddly looks like me, but not me.
Oddly enough, is me.
Again, thanks for your contributions - I know this is an odd way to ask for support, but it came to me - if Lorenzo de Medici could pick artists out of an academy and tell him he'd like to support them (as in the case of an 11 year old Michelangelo) is it that much of a leap to imagine artists of any era should find create ways to help fund their work? We're not talking "the David" here - but most folks don't know Michelangelo won that piece of marble in a competition, found a flaw in the marble, and built the statue around the flaw by following it to its end and beginning there (David's left knee, according to my professor sculptor Peter Rockwell when I took his class in Italy). And young Buonarotti was only 25.
I'm just looking for the flaw in the idea that consciousness exists only in the brain and beginning there.
Here's
a pretty dramatic "Flipside" moment, and I will endeavor to interview
Chaz Ebert about it for the next book. I knew Roger Ebert, my brother
Jeff worked with him at the U of I on the school paper, and Roger had
given me a brutal "thumbs way down" review of my film "Limit Up" which
literally killed it while it was in the theaters. I thought he'd
appreciate the story about a guardian angel who helps a woman become the
first female soybean trader at the Chicago Board of Trade and Ray
Charles played her boss, God; I had no idea he was an atheist when I
insisted to the studio that they get Roger a copy of the film for his
review. One of the many errors I've made in my film career. (No really,
it's a fun movie; Danitra Vance, Ray Charles, Brad Hall, Nancy Allen -
just hard to find.)
However, he was always friendly when I
saw him at Cannes or other fests. I met his wife Chaz a few years back
as well - a lovely couple. So when he was pronounced dead and then
revived some years ago, he wrote how Chaz reported she heard him saying
"I'm still here." She insisted the Doctors revive him - and they did.
He went on to live another four or five years with her. It didn't
change Roger's opinion of an "afterlife" as he wrote a column about what
happened - how he wasn't conscious of calling out to her, but she was.
I noted how funny it was that the proof there is "consciousness after
life" actually happened to him - and to the person he loved the most on
the planet - but he was blind to it. And six days ago, this appeared in
Esquire, Chaz's recollection of his final days. He was experiencing
what so many have experienced - some in near death experiences - and
some while under deep hypnosis as pioneered by Michael Newton and
outlined in my first book "Flipside."
Take a moment to read
this description of Roger's last moments on the planet. "The one thing
people might be surprised about Roger said that he didn't know if he
could believe in God. He had his doubts. But toward the end, something
really interesting happened. That week before Roger passed away, I would
see him and he would talk about having visited this other place. I
thought he was hallucinating. I thought they were giving him too much
medication. But the day before he passed away, he wrote me a note: "This
is all an elaborate hoax." I asked him, "What's a hoax?" And he was
talking about this world, this place. He said it was all an illusion. I
thought he was just confused. But he was not confused. He wasn't
visiting heaven, not the way we think of heaven. He described it as a
vastness that you can't even imagine. It was a place where the past,
present, and future were happening all at once. (http://www.esquire.com/blogs/news/roger-ebert-final-moments)
Funny how he reviewed his glimpse of the nature of reality; "It's all a
hoax." He could have said "It's all a movie" or "It's all a theatrical
piece" which would have been a bit more accurate (according to the
research). "Hoax" implies there's someone behind the curtain pulling the
strings, and pulling something over on people. "Illusion" is accurate,
but again, so is film; funny he didn't make that connection. But when
you examine the "Flipside" you find that there's no one but you pulling
the strings - albeit with help from spirit guides and other resources -
but we experience events and problems in our paths because we put them
there, to examine them, to learn from them - to learn compassion for
others. We are directing the hoax, so to speak, and when we experience
the vastness, the "stepping outside of time" that one can experience
during a near death experience or under deep hypnosis, we see the past,
present and future as other events to experience. And we experience the
vastness, as Eben Alexander did in "Proof of Heaven" as a "glittering
darkness" where we are all connected at the same moment. But don't take
my word for it; take Roger's. Two thumbs way up.
Send it to your relatives who already think you're off your rocker.
Send it to relatives who you think need to hear about this research.
What the heck, make a donation in their name at GoFundMe for the sequel!
Either way, Happy Holidays from this side of the Flipside... and as we honor and remember all the amazing or lousy experiences we've had over countless holiday seasons (you know the ones I'm talking about - like driving around for four hours trying to find a New Year's Eve Party when I was in high school - which we never found - but was like looking for a ghost in the ether that we couldn't find).
Then imagine that you've had dozens, perhaps hundreds, even thousands of lifetimes! Oh my! What holiday fun!
And remember; Santa is more real than you think.
Santa is reflected in quantum theory - at least in the quantum butterfly effect. The good that you do on the planet, the good intentions and gifts that you give, are like an energy wave that goves out and affects other people. And when you consider that Santa is part of our hearts - it's easy to understand how he can be in two places at once, travel through portals that wouldn't make sense in a materialistic world - and because we emanate his kindness from our own hearts, our own sense of kindness and love and compassion - then he exists as a reminder to see that we are all connected. So the gifts that you give this holiday season will continue to gift and help others, and the love that you create this season, will live on long after you - like Santa.
And like The Overview Effect, once you've experienced Santa, then your perspective on the planet changes forever.
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