Saturday

Near Death Experiences and National Geographic

David Bennett ("voyage of purpose") quoted here, tells his amazing story in my book "Its a Wonderful Afterlife Vol 1." 

What's fascinating about David's experience is he saw into the future, experienced himself surviving cancer, so when decades later, the doctor came to give him the bad news that he had weeks to live, he recognized this new doc's face from his NDE decades earlier. 

When the doc said "you won't survive this" he knew he would survive it and told him so. "You're in denial" the doc said. Turns out the doc was the one in denial. 

Good to see national geo opening up their field of vision.

From National Geographic's website:

"Coming Back From the Brink of Death"

What you see and feel in a near-death experience can profoundly change the rest of your life.

Photographic pairing showing David Bennett, who had a near-death experience

"One night off the California coast in 1983 David Bennett, chief engineer on a research vessel, and his crew tried to outrun a storm in an inflatable boat. About a mile from shore the boat was capsized by a 30-foot wave, and they were tossed into the chilly Pacific. His life vest was faulty, so his lungs filled with water. He remembers feeling total bliss. Something or someone told him it wasn’t his time, though, and after 18 minutes underwater he popped up to the surface. His crewmates, who were all floating on the water, were shocked to see him."

You can see an interview with David here, that is the source of the chapter in "It's a Wonderful Afterlife Volume One"






Photographic pairing showing Tony Cicoria, who had a near-death experience


"At a family picnic at upstate New York’s Sleepy Hollow Lake, Tony Cicoria, an orthopedic surgeon, had just tried to call his mother on the phone. An approaching storm sent a lightning bolt through the phone into his head, stopping his heart. Cicoria says he felt himself leave his body, moving through walls toward a blue-white light, eager to be one with God. He emerged from his near-death experience with a sudden passion for classical piano, creating melodies that seemed to download, unbidden, into his brain. He came to believe he’d been spared so that he could channel “the music from heaven.”

Photographic pairing showing Tricia Barker, who had a near-death experience

"A head-on collision landed Tricia Barker, then a college student, in an Austin, Texas, hospital, bleeding profusely, her spine broken. She says she felt herself separate from her body during surgery, hovering near the ceiling as she watched her monitor flatline. Moving through the hospital corridor, she says, she saw her stepfather, struggling with grief, buy a candy bar from a vending machine; it was this detail, a stress-induced indulgence he’d told no one about, that made Barker believe her movements really happened. Now a creative writing professor, she says she’s still guided by the spirits that accompanied her on the other side."

Photographic pairing with Carol Burke, who had a near-death experience

"Carol Burke was seriously injured in a car crash in the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport employee parking lot, requiring surgery to remove her spleen and repair numerous broken bones. She lost half her blood. Feeling herself floating near the ceiling of the hospital room, she could see her mother and a friend at the foot of the bed, afraid that she would not return. She remembers feeling nothing but peacefulness and love." 

Photographic pairing showing Ashlee Barnett, who had a near-death experience

"Ashlee Barnett was a college student when she had a serious car crash on a remote Texas highway. Her pelvis was shattered, her spleen had ruptured, and she was bleeding profusely. At the scene, she says, she moved between two worlds: chaos and pain on one side, as paramedics wielded the jaws of life; and one with white light, no pain, and no fear. Several years later she developed cancer, but her near-death experience made her confident that she would live. She has three children and counsels trauma survivors."

Photographic pairing showing Pam Kircher, who had a near-death experience

"Pam Kircher contracted meningitis at the age of six. She remembers being in her room in a small house outside St. Joseph, Missouri, looking down at a girl on the bed. Immediately after she recognized herself, she returned to her body. Fearing ridicule and ostracism, she kept this near-death experience secret for almost four decades, yet it motivated every life decision she made. She became a family-practice physician. Now retired, she works in hospice care and talks openly about her experience, hoping it will bring comfort to people at the end of their lives."


For more information on near death experiences, or to share one that you've experience, highly recommend checking into iands.org - where I met David Bennett.

Friday

Memories, Dreams and Reflections



"Our age has shifted all emphasis to the here and now, and thus brought about a daemonization of man and his world. The phenomenon of dictators and all the misery they have wrought springs from the fact that man has been robbed of transcendence by the shortsightedness of the super-intellectuals. Like them, he has fallen a victim to unconsciousness. But man's task is the exact opposite: to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious. Neither should he persist in his unconsciousness, nor remain identical with the unconscious elements of his being, thus evading his destiny, which is to create more and more consciousness. As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. It may even be assumed that just as the unconscious affects us, so the increase in our consciousness affects the unconscious."  Carl Jung "Memories, Dreams and Reflections."

Carl Jung notes that "Man's task is.. to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious."

He also notes that man's "destiny.. is to create more... consciousness."

Perhaps.

Then on the other hand, perhaps consciousness isn't created solely in the brain, but is experienced by the brain.  That part of experiencing consciousness is reconnecting to who we are - and more importantly - who we once were. 


As I delve into accessing information from the Flipside - the journey I've mapped out for myself in the next book "Hacking the Afterlife" - I find that the more I delve into the idea that consciousness is not only created by the brain - but that it requires access to the "motherboard" - not the idea of a vast "collective unconscious" that Jung suggested - but individual consciousness of each person, that resides back in the mainframe of the computer, and is accessible when we are "outside of our physical bodies" - whatever that implies.

People who've had near death experiences, out of body experiences, under deep hypnosis, sometimes during a drug induced adventure - people are able to "shut off" the filters in the brain that keep us from accessing this information on a daily basis, and allow us to glimpse the nature of things.  That being that each one of us has a vast library of previous experiences, lifetimes to draw from - and that library exists between lives.

But as they say; the veil is thinning.  



As if the mechanical nature of the filters seems to be easing up, or the energetic construction of the filters seems to be adjusting to allow us more access to this point of view, or information.

How can accessing this information improve my life?

That's ultimately the point of understanding the nature of existence - not to realize that "all is relative" and that "I only exist relatively" (even though that appears to be accurate) but finding a way to process this new information about the nature of our existence so it allows us to enjoy and take advantage of what we're experiencing on a day to day basis.

One profound way that it can affect a person is to realize that what appear to be obstacles, setbacks and trauma, may have some genesis in the between lives realm.  Not in terms of "karma" - but in terms of "what kind of puzzle or task can I design for myself that will help me to overcome this issue?" 



If every task, obstacle or steback becomes an "apparent lesson" - then we can see them for what they really are.  Stumbling blocks that allow us to learn lessons by overcoming them.  The dark stone in your path turns out to be the glowing light of understanding once you've accomplished going through it.



What's that got to do with Presidential politics?

Well, imagine for a moment that each person that is running for office represents some part of the human experience.  Vanity, compassion, negativity, wisdom, etc.  And then imagine that whomever is running for office at this particular time is someone who helps people to examine these human characteristics.  Either to fight for their point of view, or to understand through compassion that they need to support someone who is aligned with their own beliefs and life experience.

Hard to imagine that whatever happens on the planet, is part of the learning experience we all go through.  Like classes in college, or a giant university, each one of us learns from setbacks, failures, or learns that working harder brings positive results.  One can only hope that is the case.

My two cents.



Thursday

Flipside, George Martin and El Otro Lado

Flipside in the news, and some thoughts of the passing our loved ones.

I had the great privelege to film and take a hypnotherapy class this past weekend with Scott De Tamble.  If you've read the books, "Flipside" or "It's a Wonderful AfterLife," you'll recognize Scott from his interviews and facilitating between life sessions.

Scott taught a workshop in past life regression, and over the course of three days I heard some fantastic tales of people examining previous lives, examining what it was like the in womb, as well as accessing a "life planning" session.

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Scott De Tamble in action

One person saw his life planning session as a kind of dissertation.  He remembered being in a "library" scanning records of all his previous lifetimes, and as he looked at the records, which were on some kind of disc, he was able to say "Oh, that's right, I need to work on this aspect of myself and "fill in that hole."  I later asked him about the library - since everyone who mentions them gives a different description of them.

He said it was like sitting in front of a massive cabinet, and as he went through the drawers, he could pull out a file, and perhaps like looking at a piece of microfiche, he'd hold up the life record to see if it was something he could learn from or access to find out what other aspects of his future life he needed to include.

Sometimes we see ourselves in a temple, church or auditorium.

And then, after that he found himself in a giant auditorium, on a stage like place.  He was addressing his "council" although he didn't call them that - there were 12-13 individuals in front of him seated in a semi-circle, who listened to his outline of what his future life was going to be (he's working as a therapist now in California.)  He wasn't aware of the symbolism of the "council" - as reported in the thousands of cases that Michael Newton discusses in his books, or the 25 or so I discuss in mine - so he wasn't aware that 12 is a pretty high number of people to have on a council, as in the past people have said that for each "life lesson learned" a new member sits on their council.

And when they examine who these people on their council are - they learn that each one represents a different quality that the person has learned - like having a scientist show up on your panel doing your dissertation, who represents astrophysics.  Sometimes they represent courage, music, acting - there are many variations of topics that the individual has "earned" over their lifetimes.  I asked if he could recognize any jewelry on them - in a couple of individuals he did.  (This is a topic that Michael Newton discusses in depth in "Destiny of Souls.")  The jewelry apparently represents some aspects of the life lesson learned - and this fellow described a symbol on one of his panel that represented "healing" and "eternity."

Michael Newton

He said when he was done with the dissertation of describing what his next life would be, they peppered him with questions.  I asked if they were hard questions, or if it felt like they were dismissive or combative in any way - like "Why would you do that?"  And he said no, they were all supportive questions, but were about the nature of lessons he was planning to learn.

Another person had a similar experience in remembering her life planning session - and in this case so a giant building with pillars that seemed as tall as skyscrapers, and an individual at the top of the stairs that resembled the Lincoln Memorial in size.  In other words, she was human sized, and the individual asking her questions, or observing her choice of a next lifetime was a large as Lincoln.  And she said the only word she could use to describe this individual was "God" - as if he was either the creator himself, or someone who represented them.  She got a male vibe from his presence, and his questions to her dealt with what her path and journey in this life has been to date.

Pretty amazing stuff.

There's a series of events and lessons that have to occur before anyone can get their certificate, a recorded past life regression, and proof of ten other clients, but this is something that one of the students willed into existence.  She bugged Scott to do a teaching, and this was the result.  All I can say is; the results were amazing.


Brian Wilson and George Martin

We lost George Martin yesterday.  Lost is a relative term - he's not lost, he's just not here. But all of his loved ones and his son Giles will be missing him.  However, as I'm fond of saying, he's off on another adventure, likely mixing another kind of musical event as we speak.  He's just in another soundstage.

But the LA Times had an article about George's visit to LA, when he went to visit Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys.  And the two of them had an amazing conversation.  George asked Brian "Where his music came from" and Brian said "from my chest - it explodes out of my chest, you know?" And then he said "It comes from a higher place.  It's not quite in my brain, but in a higher place." And George said "It comes from your heart."  Brian agreed, and then George remixed a Beach Boy song on the spot, and Brian exclaims "You've made it better!"

Here's the clip:




I asked the musician Deron Johnson where music came from.  He said "It's just under the surface, like water, like a large pool, and we're above it most of the time, but we can dip down into it."  I think that's equally interesting as an answer - that it comes from a higher place, that music is like water in a pool that we swim in.  Both appear to be accurate in terms of the Flipside - just another form of energy.

From that perspective - George is working with two Beatles as we speak, and at some point in the far distant future (knock on wood) the band will be together again.

Finally, some translation news.  

"El Otro Lado" is out in Spanish. (just in time to tell Donald Trump that he chose this lifetime, but next time he may choose to be a Mexican on the other side of the wall.)
 

"El Otro Lado" Guía del Turista para Abrirse Camino en la Otra Vida

by Richard Martini
 
"¿Qué sucede después de que morimos? El autor y premiado cineasta Richard Martini explora inquietantes nuevas  evidencias acerca de la vida después de la muerte, mediante la “vida entre vidas”, donde se informa que regresamos a encontrar a nuestros seres queridos, almas gemelas y maestros espirituales."


Flipside is out in Spanish, and is currently being translated into French and Italian as well.  I hope that people who need to find it do so - and I did this process through Babelcube for that reason alone.  If people are meant to find this information, I'm trying to make sure they can.

Peace out.

Visions of the Flipside

Bosch


Heres a "Tunnel of white light" as heard in a high percentage of NDEs. I've heard variations, ball of light, moving through light, towards and into light. Feelings of unconditional love, infinite wisdom and reconnecting with loved ones. 

Dr Bruce Greyson UVA created the NDE scale, appears in "Its a Wonderful Afterlife." Mario Beauregard Phd, using fmri has proven these events, memories aren't confined to any particular place in the brain, or "god spot." 

He's in the book as well. Science shows these religious experiences arent religious at all, although they do inspire people to realize life isnt confined to this realm. In my research i find no two nde's are identical, yet they all point to the same conclusion. Like the word "home" - no one can define it outside their own experience, yet we can all agree it exists within our own journey. Not based on belief or philosophy but the data. 

Bosch's depiction of hell, on the other hand, is not in the data. 

Great to see in his paintings, but the few accounts I've examined, dissolve under analysis. "So why are you experiencing this?" Or "why did you choose to be here?" allows a person to see choice or free will is involved. This tunnel, on the other hand, is the way "home" according to the 25 I've filmed and thousands of cases I've examined. 

MEANWHILE FROM THE DAILY MAIL ON FEB 25TH, 2016:


The following is a news story about a woman who died for an hour, saw her husband during an NDE and came back. I'm posting it as "further data" - and by data I mean:

I'm referring to the thousands of cases Dr Greyson has examined at UVA, the data from the Aware project (2000 cases over 10 years) even your own brothers experience during an NDE. at some point thousands of cases, examined by scientists becomes "data." And this case is no different than those. Sorry. Its just science. But you'd know that if you read Dr Greyson's chapter in "its a wonderful afterlife." Not belief. Or philosophy. Or a story in the paper. Based on thousands of medical cases.

This story is just like all the other stories. Identical. Dr. Greyson is the person who created the NDE scale back in the 80's. Indeed, the medical establishment considers NDE research science and his articles have been peer reviewed and published. He's considered the "godfather of NDE research." 

His book "Irreducible Mind" is a textbook for many psychiatrists (as he is the head psychiatrist at UVA.) Interviewed him for the book (It's a Wonderful Afterlife). There are other scientists who have studied NDE - the Aware project, where a doctor studied NDEs under clinical conditions (hospitals, ORs, etc). 

As Harvard's Gary Schwartz PhD mentions in the foreword to Flipside - "at some point you have to stop pretending" that these cases are not data. Each and every case has been examined thoroughly that Greyson cites - I recommend his youtube talk "Is consciousness produced by the brain" for further cites.

Just because a person in the UK has the identical experience that other NDE people have - that my own brother had after dying in Fort Benning Georgia - which is also reported in the book - these cases all saying relatively the same thing. And that's how Dr. Greyson was able to make a scale of events for near death experiences. 

I've stayed at Greyson's home, and he's given me a tour of his facilities at UVA. I had a conference meeting with his associates at the Dept of Perceptual Studies - including Drs Jim Tucker, Ed Kelley (PhD from Harvard) when you have thousands of people saying the same things about their experience - the same way people collect data on headaches or acne, at some point subjective reports become "evidence" and "data." 

(I refer also to Mario Beauregard's "Brain Wars" for further cites and medical cases) 

I've documented these cases on film for the past 8 years. so I'm not offering that it's data lightly - but at some point, one has to step back from the insistence that its not data to ask - "why wouldn't we consider it data? At what point or degree would you consider it data, if scientists have gone on record saying that it is data?" 

Some folks will never see these reports as anytime but conjecture (for whatever reason). That's their path. But it's not mine. I've examined thousands of these cases, documented 25 on film and dozens in print - so to me - at the end of the day, since they all say relatively the same thing "I knew it was my wife/son/daughter/best friend because I know what their touch feels like, they answered questions before I could ask them" etc... these reports become what science requires: that they be consistent and replicable.

While this woman may have invented this incident, she didnt invent dying for an hour. The report she gives of seeing her husband is consistent with many NDEs. And as I've done, taking people who've had an NDE and filming them under hypnosis allows them to replicate the event. And as noted in "Its a Wonderful Afterlife" what they report is the same event yet with more clarity. They could dispute the memory of the event, but they do not. 

Doesnt matter what religion they are, what gender or background. They consistently say the same things.

HERE'S THE ARTICLE AS REPORTED FROM THE UK:

'Sonia, it's not your time... just go back to the kids': Bingo worker who 'died' for 56 minutes says she was saved by the spirit of her late husband who told her not to die

  • Sonia Burton, 50, suffered a heart attack and had no pulse for 56 minutes
  • Paramedics refused to give up on her and continued to carry out CPR
  • Mum-of-four said her late husband visited her and said 'it's not your time'
  • Sonia thanked medics who saved her when they were reunited on Tuesday
A bingo worker who had no pulse for almost an hour after suffering a massive heart attack says her late husband visited her and said 'it's not your time'.
Sonia Burton was 'dead' for 56 minutes following her heart attack at the bingo hall in Ashington, Northumberland, but paramedics refused to give up on her.
The mum-of-four said: 'The only thing I remember is my late husband coming to me and saying "it's not your time, Sonia, go back to the children". Then I woke up in hospital.' 
Saved: Sonia, who had no pulse for almost an hour, pictured with her daughters, granddaughter and brother
Saved: Sonia, who had no pulse for almost an hour, pictured with her daughters, granddaughter and brother
Message: Sonia Burton with her late husband John. Sonia said she got a message from John, who died in 2004 following a heart attack aged just 37, while she was being resuscitated 
Message: Sonia Burton with her late husband John. Sonia said she got a message from John, who died in 2004 following a heart attack aged just 37, while she was being resuscitated 
'Every day I think how incredible it is that I'm still here,' she said. 'I don't take anything for granted.'
On the day of her heart attack, Sonia had gone about her daily tasks with daughter Rebecca, 30.
She had been due to start work at Gala Bingo Hall in Ashington at 5.30pm but went in early at 4.45pm to talk to colleagues and have a coffee.
The 50-year-old said: 'I mainly work in the dining area and had been heading out of there when I remember getting a pain in my chest and then collapsing.'
Out cold, Sonia's frantic boss Karen Arkle began trying to resuscitate her as an ambulance was called. 
Within four minutes, paramedic Jason Riches and emergency care assistant Gary French were on the scene, taking over CPR from Karen. 
Sonia described herself as a 'living miracle' as she was reunited with the paramedics who saved her lifeSonia pictured with the people that saved her life - trainee paramedic Rosie Priest (left), and paramedics Stephen Eke (second from left) and Jason Riches (right)
Sonia pictured with the people that saved her life - trainee paramedic Rosie Priest (left), and paramedics Stephen Eke (second from left) and Jason Riches (right)
Sonia described herself as a 'living miracle' as she was reunited with the paramedics who saved her life
They were then backed up by paramedic Stephen Eke and first year student paramedic Rosie Priest.
For the next 56 minutes the team worked to save Sonia as she was transported to Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital in Cramlington.
It was while they were trying to save her that Sonia said she got a message from late husband John, who died in 2004 following a heart attack aged just 37.
'I spoke to him and he told me that it was not my time and I should go back,' she said. 'To be honest, it felt very comforting.'
By the time they arrived at Cramlington hospital, Sonia was still unconscious but had started breathing. 
She was then transferred to Newcastle's Freeman Hospital, where she underwent lifesaving surgery to have a stent fitted in her heart.
Eight days later she was back home, being cared for by brother, Mark, and her four children, Michael, 31, Megan, 22, Rebecca and 19 year old Thomas.
'It's strange to think I was technically dead for an hour,' added Sonia. 'If it wasn't for the guys being there so quickly and not giving up on me, it would have been a very different story. 
'My mind is a bit forgetful and I'm on a lot of medication but otherwise I'm doing really well - and, at the end of the day, I'm still here.'
Sonia Burton, pictured with her granddaughter Sophie Murray, said it would have been a different story if the medics had given up on her
Sonia Burton, pictured with her granddaughter Sophie Murray, said it would have been a different story if the medics had given up on her
 Sonia Burton, pictured with her family, was 'dead' for 56 minutes following her heart attack at the bingo hall
 Sonia Burton, pictured with her family, was 'dead' for 56 minutes following her heart attack at the bingo hall
Sonia's brother Mark, who she lives with, had been walking the dog when he received the call to say his sister had collapsed.
He said: 'They were working on her when I got there. It was frantic, there was no life in her at all.
'I said 'please don't stop' and, they never did.
'I couldn't be more thankful for everything Stephen, Jason and Gary did for Sonia that day. To see Sonia like she was that day and to see her now is phenomenal, I can't express just what a good job they've done.'
Paramedic Stephen, 43, said: 'Jason and I have over 50 years' experience between us and neither of us have ever seen somebody come back after that length of time.
'We often get a return of a pulse, maybe one out of 10, but usually it's just the adrenaline that's making the heart work again and as soon as that wears off they go back into cardiac arrest.
'It's unbelievable to see how well Sonia's doing now.'
Paramedic Jason, 44, said: 'You go into this job to help people. It's a nice feeling knowing that we were able to make a difference and even better to see what a remarkable recovery she's made.'


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3418068/Bingo-worker-died-56-minutes-says-saved-late-husband-visited-said-not-time.html#ixzz41Dd8r3qL
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Sunday

Flipside published in India

This just in: 

the Indian version of my book Flipside. Beautifully published by (Prashant Solomon who is a contributing writer on spirituality for "The Times of India") 

"Thinking Tree Publishers." 

Reincarnation, between life stories filmed, transcribed by yours truly, intro'd to the country where the concept evolved. What makes these accounts different is the claim we are fully conscious between lives and we have free will to choose our next life not based on karma, but compassion. 

The desire to learn from or teach lessons to our loved ones, sometimes at their request. 

Book tour to follow in India, can't wait to return to see the Taj, stay at the Taj, while drinking a Taj Mahal.

Flipside in India!!!

Friday

David wants to be a hero.

 
Per Lachaise, Paris


Reportedly David's last words were "David wants to be a hero." This after courting someone who spent his last moments with him - perhaps finding Ayla, the "true love" of this life (and perhaps other lifetimes.) 

We tend to think of things in terms of short, long - but when we're outside of time - on the flipside, there is little discussion of short or long, there's just that feeling of connectedness.  Reportedly, a connection to our loved ones and to those we've loved before, and continue to love. 

I can't explain, or try to explain why David's journey was so relatively short - but if you consider for a moment what thousands have said about the journey (in Flipside: A Tourist's Guide On How To Navigate the Afterlife​ or It's a Wonderful Afterlife: Further Adventures in the...​) that it might be true - that we don't die, that we're here for a specific reason, that reason may only be known to our higher self, to our close loved ones, that others can't fully understand until they too are no longer on the planet - but to consider for a moment that the bonds between us don't fade, don't disappear, and are always with us. 

And those accounts, that data, that research has been reported by many hospice care people, by case workers with Alzheimer patients (as recounted in Dr. Bruce Greyson's youtube talk "Is Consciousnes Produced by the Brain?") that just moments, sometimes hours or days prior to our passing, the filter seems to disappear, and people act like they're greeted by loved ones who've passed, are able to say goodbye to loved ones or are able to speak of themselves in the third person as he does here; "David," David said to his parents "wants to be a hero."  
And David... is a hero.  Continues to be a hero. Applause for his difficult journey, his difficult choice in playing this short but intense role.  In nearly every session of deep hypnosis that I've filmed - I've filmed 25 so far - at some point, the person is asked "where would you (your spirit, or energy or soul) like to go now?" and they inevitably say - on camera - "I want to go home."  

At first my brain scrambled for the meaning of what that meant - did they mean somewhere else on the planet? (or in my own case of filming a session, when I said it, was I thinking of my hometown?) I was startled to realize (in my case as well) that by "home" they all meant another place that's not here.  "Home."  The place that we all know and love, and feel the most happy and comfortable with... a place of unconditional love - a place that no one on the planet can agree is exactly the same - even twins - because we have our own perspective - but the word was used every time it was asked, and I eventually understood what they meant.  Call it heaven. Call it the other realm. Call it backstage.  But call it what it is.  It ain't here.  

Godspeed David, and condolences for his loved ones who no longer get to communicate with him on a daily basis, and Ayla as well.  His soul mate.  She will see him again. (at least that's what the research consistenly shows). 

Not a belief or a philosophy or a religious concept. I'm only citing the data.  It's what people say under deep hypnosis, its what they say after a near death experience, sometimes after a profound consciousness altering event.  It's consistent, and as I've proven in my research, replicable with just about anyone. Or at least 25 so far. Condolences to his folks.  

I would only add - pay attention to anyone who says they "felt his presence" or they experience a "dream" about him that seems "vivid."  These accounts are often found in the research.  And my advice is to not judge them, but honor them for the possibility that they might actually be his way of letting you know he's okay, he's still with you, and always will be.



8-Year-Old Boy Who Found 'True Love' While Facing Terminal Cancer Dies 'Surrounded by Love,' His Mom Says

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8-Year-Old Boy Who Found 'True Love' While Facing Terminal Cancer Dies 'Surrounded by Love,' His Mom Says
David and Ayla


8-Year-Old Boy Who Found 'True Love' While Facing Terminal Cancer Dies 'Surrounded by Love,' His Mom Says
David Spisak, an 8-year-old boy who found his 'true love' while contending with terminal cancer, has died.

"Our little man's last moments were laying with his mommy and daddy in the middle of the night, with a house full of family, friends and loved ones after days of being surrounded by love," his mom, Amber Spisak, wrote in a Facebook group where she chronicled the young boy's cancer battle.

"This day was supposed to come about 9-10 months ago, but David just wasn't done living yet, so he made his own timeline and defied the rules," the post continued. "The almost 7 years of cancer were so very hard, but nothing like the last few days."

Amber wrote that the last clear thing the family heard the young boy from Chesapeake, Virginia say was. "David wants to be a hero."

"I'm not ready to say things happen for a reason or a message of rainbows and sunshine just yet, but our baby boy was a fighter, a beautiful soul, a force to be reckoned with and of all the things, he is most definitely a hero," she continued.

David was diagnosed with leukemia at age two. After undergoing extensive chemotherapy and receiving two transplants, David beat cancer three times. Then, in March, his cancer returned.

Facing this fourth diagnosis, David's parents made the decision to stop David's treatments and allow him to live a normal life away from hospitals and painful procedures.

Doctors predicted that without treatment, David would only live for four to six weeks, but months passed, and David began to look better. When he returned to school to start second grade in September, he met a girl who captured his heart.

He told his parents he had a "crush" on 7-year-old Ayla Andrews, a girl from art class.

"In art class, I told her I liked her and she just had a surprised face so we started dating," David told WTKR in November.

When David became too sick to attend school, Amber found notes from Ayla saying that she loved and missed him. So she reached out to Ayla's mom to plan a date to lift her son's spirits.

David brought Ayla a teddy bear and roses, and she pushed him around in his wheelchair, helped him bowl and shared pizza with him.

"She's definitely had an impact on his spirit, and I haven't seen this side of him in a long time," Amber told WTKR.

She added, "The best part was watching the way they just needed to be close to each other and their conversation never got shy or quiet. That was all they needed to be happy."

At the end of the date, David stood up from his wheelchair and walked for the first time in a month.

"He was just so determined for her, he really pushed himself for her," Amber told ABC News. "Once we realized that this wasn't the typical elementary school crush, once we saw this heartfelt connection that they have, we were so happy that she came into his life and that he came to her life for some reason."

Thursday

Einstein actually was an Einstein

Einstein actually was an Einstein. 

Another of his theories proven accurate, 100 years after he predicted it. Gravitational waves exist. Think of the universe as one giant pool of water; a wave from an event moves out and through the universe like ripples in a pond. But beyond that, like molecules of water, we too may be interconnected. When a wave of positivity, or a wave of negativity moves our way, we feel it, we adjust to it; we may not be conscious of it, but it's there. "There's a Nobel in this discovery" indeed. 


Einstein's theory of general relativity predicted something called gravitational waves. Science has tried to prove their...

Posted by The Guardian on Thursday, February 11, 2016
from the BBC:

Einstein's gravitational waves 'seen' from black holes




Scientists are claiming a stunning discovery in their quest to fully understand gravity.
They have observed the warping of space-time generated by the collision of two black holes more than a billion light-years from Earth.
The international team says the first detection of these gravitational waves will usher in a new era for astronomy. 

It is the culmination of decades of searching and could ultimately offer a window on the Big Bang. The research, by the Ligo Collaboration, has been published today in the journal Physical Review Letters.

The collaboration operates a number of labs around the world that fire lasers through long tunnels, trying to sense ripples in the fabric of space-time. Expected signals are extremely subtle, and disturb the machines, known as interferometers, by just fractions of the width of an atom. But the black hole merger was picked up by two widely separated LIGO facilities in the US.

"We have detected gravitational waves," David Reitze, executive director of the Ligo project, told journalists at a news conference in Washington DC. "It's the first time the Universe has spoken to us through gravitational waves. Up until now, we've been deaf."


Prof Karsten Danzmann, from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and Leibniz University in Hannover, Germany, is a European leader on the collaboration.He said the detection was one of the most important developments in science since the discovery of the Higgs particle, and on a par with the determination of the structure of DNA.

"There is a Nobel Prize in it - there is no doubt," he told the BBC.
"It is the first ever direct detection of gravitational waves; it's the first ever direct detection of black holes and it is a confirmation of General Relativity because the property of these black holes agrees exactly with what Einstein predicted almost exactly 100 years ago."

Ripples in the fabric of space-time


  • Gravitational waves are prediction of the Theory of General Relativity
  • Their existence has been inferred by science but only now directly detected
  • They are ripples in the fabric of space and time produced by violent events
  • Accelerating masses will produce waves that propagate at the speed of light
  • Detectable sources ought to include merging black holes and neutron stars
  • LIGO fires lasers into long, L-shaped tunnels; the waves disturb the light
  • Detecting the waves opens up the Universe to completely new investigations

That view was reinforced by Professor Stephen Hawking, who is an expert on black holes. Speaking exclusively to BBC News he said he believed that the detection marked a moment in scientific history.

"Gravitational waves provide a completely new way at looking at the Universe. The ability to detect them has the potential to revolutionise astronomy. This discovery is the first detection of a black hole binary system and the first observation of black holes merging," he said.

"Apart from testing (Albert Einstein's theory of) General Relativity, we could hope to see black holes through the history of the Universe. We may even see relics of the very early Universe during the Big Bang at some of the most extreme energies possible."Team member Prof Gabriela González, Louisiana State University said: "We have discovered gravitational waves from the merger of black holes. It's been a very long road, but this is just the beginning.

"Now that we have the detectors to see these systems, now that we know binary black holes are out there, we'll begin listening to the Universe. "

The Ligo laser interferometers in Hanford, in Washington, and Livingstone, in Louisiana, were only recently refurbished and had just come back online when they sensed the signal from the collision. 

Prof Stephen Hawking: "This provides a completely new way of looking at the universe."
Prof Sheila Rowan, who is one of the lead UK researchers involved in the project, said that the first detection of gravitational waves was just the start of a "terrifically exciting" journey.

"The fact that we are sitting here on Earth feeling the actual fabric of the Universe stretch and compress slightly due to the merger of black holes that occurred just over a billion years ago - I think that's phenomenal. It's amazing that when we first turned on our detectors, the Universe was ready and waiting to say 'hello'," the Glasgow University scientist told the BBC.

Being able to detect gravitational waves enables astronomers finally to probe what they call "dark Universe" - the majority part of the cosmos that is invisible to the light telescopes in use today.

Perfect probe

Not only will they be able to investigate black holes and strange objects known as neutron stars (giant suns that have collapsed to the size of cities), they should also be able to "look" much deeper into the Universe - and thus farther back in time. It may even be possible eventually to sense the moment of the Big Bang.

"Gravitational waves go through everything. They are hardly affected by what they pass through, and that means that they are perfect messengers," said Prof Bernard Schutz, from Cardiff University, UK.

"The information carried on the gravitational wave is exactly the same as when the system sent it out; and that is unusual in astronomy. We can't see light from whole regions of our own galaxy because of the dust that is in the way, and we can't see the early part of the Big Bang because the Universe was opaque to light earlier than a certain time.

"With gravitational waves, we do expect eventually to see the Big Bang itself," he told the BBC.

In addition, the study of gravitational waves may ultimately help scientists in their quest to solve some of the biggest problems in physics, such as the unification of forces, linking quantum theory with gravity.

At the moment, the General Relativity describes the cosmos on the largest scales tremendously well, but it is to quantum ideas that we resort when talking about the smallest interactions. Being able to study places in the Universe where gravity is extreme, such as at black holes, may open a path to new, more complete thinking on these issues.



  • A laser is fed into the machine and its beam is split along two paths
  • The separate paths bounce back and forth between damped mirrors
  • Eventually, the two light parts are recombined and sent to a detector
  • Gravitational waves passing through the lab should disturb the set-up
  • Theory holds they should very subtly stretch and squeeze its space
  • This ought to show itself as a change in the lengths of the light arms (green)
  • The photodetector captures this signal in the recombined beam

Scientists have sought experimental evidence for gravitational waves for more than 40 years. 

Einstein himself actually thought a detection might be beyond the reach of technology. 

His theory of General Relativity suggests that objects such as stars and planets can warp space around them - in the same way that a billiard ball creates a dip when placed on a thin, stretched, rubber sheet. 

Gravity is a consequence of that distortion - objects will be attracted to the warped space in the same way that a pea will fall in to the dip created by the billiard ball.

Inspirational moment

Einstein predicted that if the gravity in an area was changed suddenly - by an exploding star, say - waves of gravitational energy would ripple across the Universe at light-speed, stretching and squeezing space as they travelled. 

Although a fantastically small effect, modern technology has now risen to the challenge.

Much of the R&D work for the Washington and Louisiana machines was done at Europe's smaller GEO600 interferometer in Hannover.

"I think it's phenomenal to be able to build an instrument capable of measuring [gravitational waves]," said Prof Rowan. 

"It is hugely exciting for a whole generation of young people coming along, because these kinds of observations and this real pushing back of the frontiers is really what inspires a lot of young people to get into science and engineering."


Off the port bow.


WHY IT MATTERS.

The Universe is not composed how we thought it was:Finite objects moving through space.

It actually is more like a pool.

And gravity - is the relation between objects in that pool.  

BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY:

We are all molecules in the pool.  So what happens on one side of the pool effects the other side of the pool.  We are energy. The pool is composed of energy. So if one side of the pool has a bad attitude, it affects our side of the pool.

But we can combat that bad attitude with our own tool of choice: consciousness.  We can affect the rest of the pool by focusing our energy into something that's the opposite of the bad attitude.

Do you see where I'm going with this?

If Tonglen - the Tibetan meditation studied by Richard Davidson at the University of Wisconsin is an actual cure or can alleviate the symptoms of depression - THAT MEANS that by mental imagining, we can CHANGE OUR CONSCIOUSNESS.

Let me say that again.

By using a meditation - and Tonglen is the one that was studied, we can alter the physical structure of our brain - specifically the amgydala, which Davidson's study showed "even one session" of meditation could change the shape of this small part of the brain that retains depression.

So if mental processes can change the shape of the amygdala - then mental processes can affect other areas of the body.

Like a wave.

And by extension - even though THERE'S NO EVIDENCE that mental processes - meditation, etc change those things on the outside of the body, it follows that like a ripple, or like a wave, it eventually will change the energy outside of the brain.

So - meditating on the good health of someone else (a Tonglen concept) helps us... and there's a possibility that it MIGHT help someone else.

The universe is a big pool of energy.

Which is exactly what I saw when I had my own "out of body" experience.  I don't call it a near death experience because I was lying in my bed - I had an awful cold, so I don't think I died, but here is what happened to my consciousness. (It's not unlike what people experience in near death observations, but was years prior to my Flipside research)

As I was drifting off to sleep I felt myself DISSOLVE.

I was conscious of myself dissolving into a SEA OF ATOMS.  I can only call it that, because I was aware of myself turning into a shimmering blob of light - and it was golden.  And it was like a thousand fireflies in my mind, and a tingling sensation of utter joy and connectedness.  Overwhelming that I was going to faint from the joy.

But I consciously thought "I need to expore this! What is this?"  So my conscious mind still existed within this framework to allow me to want to explore.  And I willed myself to continue to be "awake" as it took effort not to pass out.  I saw this eddy of golden light move and dissipate - and then as if looking from one end of a pool, I saw that there was this giant vast sea of energy all around me.  

And then as if looking out into the vast pool of light, I saw this small cloud of dark or gray light coming towards me - and instantly understood that to be a small blot of negativity - coming my way.  I was aware that this was how "negative thoughts" - directed at me, or directed somehow towards me find their way into your consciousness.

But as I saw the gray light coming towards me, instead of fear, (which was my first option, as in "oh no, what's this?") I chose to think a positive thought... and it was right out of a special effects moment - I thought "I can defeat that negativity with a burst of positive thought" - and all the atoms of water in this vast pool around me suddenly began to glow, and rushed out like a giant colored pool of ink - a golden light that engulfed and dissipated the dark light - as far as the eye could see.

The next thing I observed is that I was "outside of time."  I observed that I was looking back at the earth from a perspective outside of it - and saw it as a circular time frame.  So that if I put my finger in one side of the globe, it might be in the 8th century, and if I put my finger on the other side, it might be yesterday - and so therefore I could be simultaneously in both places at once.  Because I was outside of time.

Then I observed that wherever there was a photograph of myself - of Richard - no matter what age, no matter where on the planet, I could easily move to that object.  As if the photo itself had captured my essence, or time - like a piece of a hologram contains all the elements of the larger picture - and I found myself visiting an attic of a relative where a box of photos existed with myself in them, and then into someone's wallet where there existed a photo of us in our youth, etc...

So wherever a photograph existed of myself it was like a portal - I could more easily access it because it contained a reference point for me to access.

If this vision is accurate, then I would recommend whenever you want to speak to a loved one who is not longer on the planet, to take out a photograph of them and address it in present tense.  Ask a question, or make a comment and see if perhaps they are able to respond. Either with the first thought that comes into your mind, or by some event that happens during the day, or coming week that reminds you of something about that person.

It's their way of responding.

And finally, ask them a question you don't know the answer to.  (I always ask for lottery numbers, and I almost always get a laugh). But some detail in your life that only this person would know - and will prove that they not only still exist, but are aware of what you're wrestling with.

A long way of saying, "Thanks Albert!"

 What's funny is that it relates to this video that I happened to catch the other day. (two black holes traveling through the universe, that collide)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnbJEg9r1o8

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