Garry Shandling RIP

http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/garry-shandling-its-great-that-garry-shandling-is-still-alive

Click on link for Jerry Seinfeld's interview with Garry - "It's great that Garry Shandling is Still Alive"

"The pair also chatted about death, particularly those of fellow comedians Robin Williams and David Brenner, and the legacy of their work. Shandling said material “is purely a vehicle for you to express your spirit. And your soul, and your being” before expressing in his droll way what he'd want his end to be like. “What I want at my funeral is an actual boxing referee to do a count. And at 5 just wave it off and say, ‘He's not getting up,'” Shandling said." (From the LA Times)


Not gone. Just not here. Up by the count of 6, but looking down at the fellow still on the mat. "To get up or not to get up, that's the question." I made him laugh loudly once, can't remember what i said to him, he looked at me with that twinkle and asked "are you a comedian?" "I wish" i said. As we know; Dying is easy, comedy is hard.

There's a wonderful moment in the "Coffee with Comedians in Car" episode linked above. 

Jerry talks about David Brenner's passing and laments "think of all that work that went into his humor, and it's just gone." And Garry says "It's why your on the planet... expressing your spirit through your comedy." Jerry says "And that's it?" And Garry says ""That's it, there's nothing more." This is a Buddhist concept, which relates to the idea that we "don't exist" at leasty theoretically. That we're always in transition, always changing. I would agree with Garry, but then we'd both be wrong. Here's why: 

In this research I've done regarding the Flipside: A Tourist's Guide On How To Navigate the Afterlife, people claim that we choose our lifetimes. Further, they claim that we do so in order to learn lessons, or teach others. (Thousands of cases, via Dr. Helen Wambach, Dr. Michael Newton, and my own filming of 25 people under hypnosis, some who've had near death experiences as outline in "It's a Wonderful Afterlife: Further Adventures in the Flipside Vol 1)" And this is where it gets right to the heart of this discussion. "Why would anyone choose a lifetime of standing up in front of people and telling jokes?" Well - the jokes aren't for the comedian, they're for the people hearing them.

As I heard during filming one of these "between life sessions." "Laughter is a healing energy, and the quickest way to change someone's disposition. Tears work the same, but they require catharsis." The person crafting the laughs, is just like a doctor, or a surgeon, using his or her craft to heal people. They guffaw, they laugh so hard they cry, they double over - and for that brief moment they are outside of time - they are outside of themselves, not thinking or suffering or worrying about where they are or where they are going. It's the most Zen concept there is - How can I effectively alter someone's path or journey in small doses? Through laughter.

And if what these thousands of people say is true, then Garry has left the stage, but he may not have left the theater. And indeed those he feels the closest to, energetically will be hearing from him now and in the future. "That's so odd! I felt as if Garry just made that joke in my ear." Because once we're off stage - once we're outside of the time zone where the stage exists - we're free to do and experience anything we'd like to. It's not my opinion or belief this to be the case, I'm merely the person who is writing down what I here, transcribing what I've filmed, and reporting what they say. Like it, don't like it - doesn't matter. It is what it is, or in this case "is what it once was and will choose to be in the future." 

"What will Garry come back as?" Important to remember we have the choice to return or not - but if he does, and when he does, sounds like boxing might be one occupation he'd enjoy. And he'd be a helluva competitor. My two cents.

Here's something to enjoy - zen comedy with Garry Shandling.  It exists unto itself.  An hour with Charlie Rose in 1998... 

The Story of God, Flipside and Near Death Adventures

The Story of God with Morgan Freeman on April 3rd, opens with the story of David Bennett's near death experience.

Here's a five minute clip which begins with David's story:





Now, the question is - does David say that he "saw God?"

He doesn't really.  I mean in the show, they may ask him that question point blank "Did you think you saw God?" and he answers it.  But I don't know. I'll have to tune in. But in my interview with him, he just spoke of seeing a "white ball of light."

As mentioned previously, I had the opportunity to interview David for my book "It's a Wonderful Afterlife."  I was in upstate New York at the upstate New York Iands.org conference room, and David was my host.  The night before my talk, I looked him up online and found his book, which I downloaded from kindle and read that evening.  And then the next day I got a chance to ask him some questions about his experience - and asked if he minded if I recorded our conversation.

So here is our conversation.




I have to apologize, as we were in a noisy coffee shop - I didn't intend to broadcast or put this online, but I did want a record of our conversation so that I could transcribe it and include it in my book "It's a Wonderful Afterlife Volume One."

You should take a look at David's amazing book, as it details more than could be said in the time we spent together.  You can find that here. 

It's interesting to note that David's experience, while it's featured in the "God" episode from National Geographic TV, and it's on the website version - it's not in the print version of the magazine article.  In that article, the mention of the research from Dr. Sam Parnia's "Aware" project is mentioned, and the discussion is led into an aread of "preserving human tissue" so that we might be brought back to life from some cryogenic state, like the Revenant.  Left for dead, but then returned at a later date.

Then there's a mention of a scientist who refutes "near death experiences" (or as Dr. Parnia calls them "death experiences") who claims that people are merely experiencing "Hypoxia" - that their brain is not dead, but "active" and creating the hallucination of the afterlife.

Kevin Nelson, a neurologist at the University of Kentucky, was on Neal’s panel, and he was skeptical—not of her memory, which he acknowledged was intense and valid, but of its explanation. “These are not return-from-death experiences,” he said, also contradicting Parnia’s view of what had happened. “During these experiences the brain is very much alive and very much active.” He said that what Neal went through could have been a phenomenon called REM intrusion, when the same brain activity that characterizes dreaming somehow gets turned on during other, nonsleep events, such as a sudden loss of oxygen. To him, near-death and out-of-body experiences are the result not of dying but of hypoxia—a loss of consciousness, not of life itself.  From Nat Geo

As my old Oxford/Harvard trained professor Julian Baird used to say "I'd agree with you but then we'd both be wrong."

There are numerous medical cases where blood does not go to the brain for a long period of time - the brain is not functioning and can be measured as not functioning - and those cases, also have the same "afterlife" experience that David Bennett did, as well as many of the thousands of cases listed in Dr. Bruce Greyson's cites ("Irreducible Mind") and Dr. Sam Parnia's cases.  There's no evidence or data to support his conclusion "during these experiences the brain is very much alive."  Because A. Kevin wasn't there. B. He didn't measure the brain of the person having the experience. C. He's assuming the brains must have been active because it's counter-intuitive to everything he (thinks) he knows.

There is evidence, data of many cases outlined in Mario Beauregard PhD's books, including "Brain Wars."  He's a neuro-scientist as well, and he's been able to verify that there is no so called "God spot" on the brain, and he cites a number of cases where people's brains had no blood for an extended period of time, no oxygen to the brain, ie were dead - and yet reported seeing/sensing/hearing a number of things they could not have sensed or heard.  (My favorite is the man born blind and yet while outside of his body, saw that the doctor was wearing orange tennis shoes and told him so. "New information" that could NOT be from his brain.)

It's a bit like the idea of having 99 scientists who talk about climate change being man made, and yet they always refer to the one scientist who doesn't believe it to be the case.  In this instance, there's no evidence that it's Hypoxia - that's just an assumption, and therefore should be treated as one.

As I've pointed out in my books, when you have thousands of people saying relatively the same things about the afterlife - no matter who is asking the questions - then it behooves us to examine what really might be going on, instead of fretting over how the conclusions might appear to our colleagues. Or if they fit neatly into a materialist reality.  

Quantum physics has proven repeatedly that the material world as we know it is some form of an illusion - and there shouldn't be any surprise that our adventures in consciousness defining might have the same conclusion. Since there is no scientific defintion of consciousness - and since there are numerous cases that point to consciousness not being confined to the brain - then we have to conclude that consciousness is NOT NECESSARILY confined to the brain. 

If you want medical cases cited - I refer the reader to Bruce Greyson's youtube talk "Is Consciousness Produced by the Brain" (also reproduced in "It's a Wonderful Afterlife Vol One") where he cites a number of cases where brains were not functioning (due to Alzheimers or another medical condition) should not have been able to function, and yet people were able to suddenly regain their memories as if the memories themselves were not confined to the brain.

Here is that talk. It's worth 90 minutes of your time. (If you actually care to know the science behind these conclusions.)



But beyond that - one sure way to prove that it's not hypoxia is to examine the information that is gleaned from the experience.

For example, if a person is traveling in a train their entire life, and they've never known anything but the world passing by them in motion, if they stepped outside the train and stopped for a moment, then got back on the train and explained what they've experienced, we can't conclude that they're "hallucinating" or "delusional" or inaccurate.  We can only assume they've had an experience that is different than our own.  And once we compare these reports of "train stoppage" we can get a clearer picture of what the world might look like when the train is stopped.

That in itself doesn't make it accurate either - because like blind scientists examining an elephant, each will come back with a different description.  "There's a hell over there with flames and pitchforks" or "there's bug eyed aliens over there" or "there are angels flying around with lutes" - might all be descriptions that people have had during some kind of consciousness altered event - but that doesn't make them accurate or true either.

And when you actually take the time to examine the reports of people who've had a near death experience, and compare them to reports coming from people who under hypnosis can recount their near death experience, or who under hypnosis can recount the last time they died and went "back home" (as I have done in my books) then you have a better shot at coming to some conclusions about the architecture of the afterlife.

Once we introduce words into the conversation, instead of imagery, senses, or feeling - then by the very nature of language we limit that experience, or we reduce the experience into some form of syntax that others can understand.  It's what we've been doing for as long as we've been on the planet - using one word to describe "water" when the bushmen have dozens, using one word to describe "snow" when the indigenous tribes of the north have many, using one word to describe "love" or "home" or "heaven" or "God" applies in the same way.

Depends who you ask.

In David's case, as you'll hear in the interview, he saw a "ball of light." But it was later, as he approached the light - that a few shards split off from the light and came toward him.  During his near death experience he only saw them as shards of light, but later, while under deep hypnosis with a Michael Newton trained therapist in upstate New York, he was able to identify who these shards of light were -- their names and their connection to him.

During his hypnosis session he was able to reaccess the event in a way that allowed him to see a number of things in a different light.  Not that they were different, or inaccurate, but in a different way, the way we might see a painting after years and realize that there's more to it than we thought at first glance.

And finally - David was able to bring back "new information" from his near death experience.

That's information that he didn't know at the time of the near death experience, could not have known, could not have been "cryptomnesia" or "hypoxia" - because these events had not yet occurred on the planet.

In his near death experience, David saw into the future.  He saw a doctor, one whom he didn't know yet, come into an office and tell him he had only a few months to live from a cancer diagnosis.  And in David's near death experience he saw that he survived that diagnosis, survived the cancer.

But he didn't understand it when it happened to him that first time.  In fact when he shared it with a loved one, she doubted him so completely as to think he was insane.  It was over a decade later that David shared his experience with anyone, and only after re-experiencing the event during a meditation session.  And it was years after that he revisited it completely with the help of hypnosis - to see some of the events in a different light.

He told me the story of how when he was in the doctor's office to get the results of his xrays, that a NEW DOCTOR entered the office. Someone that he'd never met, but because his doctor was unavailable, had been given the task to tell David he had weeks to live.  And David RECOGNIZED the Doctor from his near death experience decades earlier.  He knew what the Doctor was going to tell him "You won't survive this, get your life in order" - and he also knew that he would survive it.

Of course the Doctor told him "you're in denial."  But it was the Doctor who was in denial, as David knew he would survive the ordeal and the cancer (with medical and holistic treatment, he followed the course required but also allowed for other therapies as well).

The point is that there are many NDEs where people experience new information - something they could not know, but later learn to be true - proving beyond a shadow of doubt that these events could not by "cryptomnesia" (having been heard or experienced at an earlier date subconsciously) or "hypoxia" (lack of oxygen brain altering event.)

So what are we to make of this?  Does it mean we should all start wearing pyramid hats?

But let's start with that these events can be categorized, they can be studied, and they can offer information about the flipside, or the afterlife.  And that what they say on the flipside is consistent, and its repeated with case after case after case.  There's a reason they aren't studied on the university level, and its because if you can't sell it as a pill, it's just not examined by modern research science. Who would fund such a study? 

A philanthropist?  Problem with philanthropy is simple - if it doesn't benefit the person putting up the money, why put it up?  If they can't find a way to sell it into the future, why bother?

The answer is: if you are a philanthropist, and you care about the future of the planet, then start by helping humans realize that we do reincarnate. We do come back here if we choose to do so - and that it makes sense to leave behind a planet with fresh air, fresh water, fresh food - not only for our children, but for ourselves.  If and when we choose to return to the planet.

That's a pretty profound rethinking of the problem, wouldn't you say?  

It's not just about finding God - but about finding why we're here on the planet in the first place.

I had an older cousin ask me this question today: 

"Richard, I do not mean this negatively at all, but why are you so obsessed with death and "the after life"? Are you not happy in this life and appreciate all the beautiful things and people here? Just curious."

To which I replied:

Not obsessed my dear. I'm an author and filmmaker. But then you'd know that if you'd read Flipside. There's a film and three best selling books. Will send you a link. 

Your mom (my aunt) told me how your father came to visit her the night he died. She said "he appeared at the end of my bed, young and healthy (which is what people report) and he said "I'm fine and i love you." Then the phone rang, the hospital called to say he died. 

Your brother saw our grandfather after he died. Your brother was downstairs in your basement, in his darkroom working on photos, came out and saw our grandfather in his favorite chair. Startled, your brother stepped back in the darkroom - but he said when he opened the door again, our grandfather was still sitting in the chair, smiling. Your brother ran upstairs. 

My father came to visit me the night he died, put his hand on my shoulder asked "why didn't you tell me your brother had a son?" I told him I felt it wasn't my place to reveal that information, as I'd only heard a rumor that was the case. (It later turned out to be true, so when my brother announced it, I already "knew" it. An example of "new information.") 

Then he told me he was in a "beautiful" place. Called it "indescribably beautiful." That he was with mama and papa, his brother, then named friends who died in WWII that I'd never heard of. "Harry, etc," all confirmed by my mother the next day. Names that I did not know but that both he and she did. 

When I told this to your sister she said "bullshit!" - but its not BS. I'm just reporting what eyewitnesses say about the afterlife. And they say it consistently. 

Is it valuable to know we don't die, that our loved ones wait for us? Its not for everyone. 

But I've had at least one grieving mom who read my book say "thank you for saving my life." Not the kind of review i could ever get in my career in film. But worth aiming for.

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.



"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"

By Robin Marantz Henig

Photographs by Lynn Johnson

"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.”



"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."



"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." 



"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."



"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.

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.

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.

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.




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

By JENNY STANTON FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 16:54 EST, 26 January 2016 | UPDATED: 06:22 EST, 27 January 2016

 
 
 
 
 

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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.' 

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Saved: Sonia, who had no pulse for almost an hour, pictured with her daughters, granddaughter and brother

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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 

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On Tuesday, Sonia described herself as a 'living miracle' as she was reunited with the paramedics who brought her back to life.

'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. 

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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)

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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.'

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Sonia Burton, pictured with her granddaughter Sophie Murray, said it would have been a different story if the medics had given up on her

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 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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