Last shot of the day on a film set, also the last name of the author of this blog. Martin - Latin singular, those soldiers who work for Mars, God of War. A smith. In this lifetime of words, music and film. AKA "The Afterlife Expert" (Coast to Coast AM) If you want to reach me, I can be found on FB, LinkedIn, or Gmail under MartiniProds (my youtube channel)
The latest podcast. A number of people asked me about this, or about doing this. I always ask Luana if the "person I'm thinking of wants to be interviewed." Sometimes they say "No," or Luana says "They're not ready yet." In this case, while Jennifer had heard of his passing - she had not seen his iconic roles. I'm fortunate to say that I have, and it gave me the unusual opportunity to ask him questions without Jennifer being aware of what or how he might answer based on her knowledge of his work. Some folks may be offended by this kind of exploration - we do it because it demonstrates that anyone can do so, that our nearest and dearest are not gone. One doesn't need a medium per se (it helps) but one can focus on the signs, incidents, reports from others that we all here. David Bohm, the great scientist weighs in on something, the late great David Bowie is asked some questions, and I saved my research for someone I greatly admire - but left it up to him whether he wanted to answer any of our questions. I asked for specific messages to folks that I know or have met in my career that he knows - and he responds accordingly. Not gone. Just not here.
PS. As I was falling asleep last night, I heard a voice say "Thank you." I thought - "who would be thanking me?" The response I got was "For putting this out there." I replied, "Oh you mean the five people having pizza watching it who will appreciate it?" I heard a laugh, then "More than you know."
I'm not a medium - but sometimes, I'll let my imagination run free. What I tell people is "if you hear something from a loved one, or even a stranger, instead of parsing it, just allow that it was "heard in a dream."
And in terms of what Jennifer and I are doing - it's a bit like the two of us are sharing a dream. She's telling me what she's seeing in a dreamlike state (without hypnosis) and I'm allowing my imagination to run free for questions to ask.
Obviously it relates to the idea of "what is waking reality? Are we living in a form of a dream?"
Last night I was having a chat with someone on the flipside.
Not entirely sure who, but I was aware that he was Jewish, because he was showing me some artifacts from his "shul" back in New York City. I heard the word "shul" and remembered it enough to include it in this post. The word means synagogue in Judaism, and I was being shown these items, not from a perspective of pain or suffering, but just history, or remembering. It reminded me of when I played piano at my friend Dave Patlak's little brother Danny's Bar Mitzvah. Danny, bless his heart, is no longer on the planet, but when he was mitzvahed the family asked me to play. At the time I was playing guitar and piano in "open mic nights" in Chicago, and said "Sure."
But I wanted to play "Hava Nagila." (Most people were playing "Tequila" or "Innagaddavida" at events, but I thought I'd be politically correct - funny, I never knew what the title of "InnaGaddaDaVida" meant until today - according to its Wiki page, after a gallon of Red Mountain wine, it's what the drummer heard from the drunk Iron Butterfly vocalist Doug trying to sing "In the Garden of Eden.") Growing up Cat'lick, I didn't know the tune other than Harry Belafonte's version. So I learned it - and I played it. And the room was clapping, applauding and singing along until I forgot how it went - and apologized profusely, and said "Let's see if I can remember how it goes this time" and someone in the back of the room yelled "DON'T KILL IT AGAIN!"
Pretty funny. I'm still laughing about that one. So this fellow in my dream and I were chatting about the idea of how everyone is just "Walking each other home." I've heard it often - I know Ram Dass made it a popular phrase, but it's been repeated in the flipside research. "All roads lead to the same garden."Meaning, all religions, all philosophies, all non religions, all belief systems - we are all just walking each other home.
But beyond that - "who's the we?" If we ask people on the flipside what they look like to others, they often report "I'm a light." People can be asked "What color is that light?" Even the ones who say "It's mostly white" will also add "It's got streaks of vibrating blue, pink..." etc. These strands appear related to guitar strings - vibrating at a frequency if you will. All lights have all kinds of color inside of them.
Rich, Jennifer and Scott De Tamble
Scott De Tamble, lightbetweenlives.com and I have frequent discussions about what he's heard or learned about the flipside. He observed that when he's speaking with or communicating with someone considered to be "old and wise" or venerated (worshiped, adored) when asked "So if you were looking into a mirror, how would you see yourself?" they inevitably say "as light." So in essence - we are all lights.
When I'm doing my research with Jennifer Shaffer, and ask her "How does the bat signal go out to inform people that class is about to begin?" she often gets the visual of Christmas tree lights going on - or a string of lights, lights beyond lights into infinity. In one of the first sessions I filmed, Chanda Berlatsky ("Flipside") saw how everyone is connected together like a "string of lights." This metaphor is used over and over again by people who are trying to describe what they are seeing from the perspective of the flipside. We are all just lights.
Class in session
And then the conversation drifted into that speech that King T'challa gives at the UN - (the late great actor Chadwick Boseman) “Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers.” And I had this odd LIGHTNING BOLT of a revelation. These wars, these divisions, they're all metaphors - all portions of plays written to teach us lessons. Take any division in human history and examine it from this lens. Diasporas worldwide. People being harassed for the color of their skin, for their religion, for their sex, gender, choice of mate - etc. Millions of Jews being harassed since forever - not just by Christians, but beyond. Arabs fighting other Arab tribes. For money, for gold, for oil, for sand. Chinese tribals factions - Asians like the Khans marching across the globe, Tibetans being rounded up modern day, Native Americans wiped out by Europeans. Alexander the Great and his Greeks created war and havoc in India - in Egypt across the planet. Followed by the Romans versus the non Romans. Asians versus Asians, Africans versus Africans, Russian tribes versus Russians, etc. It's them versus us. Us versus them.
All variations of color of skin, of backgrounds, beliefs - like warring ants coming together to wipe out other armies of ants. From the above point of view, it's just ants fighting, but from the ants' point of view - it's history, it's differences, it's... survival. And yet here we are all lights. Just lights. But not only lights - multi-faceted, multi-jeweled lights. Multi-colored lights. At our essence and core, droplets of water fighting other droplets of water over something that has nothing to do with who or what we are. Refractions of light. Reflections of light. What I got from this discussion with this fellow on the flipside is "We never learn."
When I heard that - I realized each and every diaspora is a lesson... whether its building walls to keep out immigrants, or millions exterminated because of their religion. Estimates of 20 million Russians killed by Stalin because he feared them overthrowing him. Nazis exterminating gays, Jews, Catholics.... people they considered "less than." Never mind that the concept of Aryanism - that Tibet as the birthplace of the Aryan nation was fabricated out of thin air... Pol Pot arming children to kill children. Chairman Mao allowing the cultural revolution to murder estimates of ten million. Alexander the not so great wiping out civilizations - Darius of Persia, Genghis Khan and all his crazy kids... etc. All of it ridiculous wastes of humanity.
Not a lot of women in there, but give Victoria her due. Or Elizabeth. Or Catherine the Great, or Elizabeth of Russia. Napoleon. Even Columbus, and his impact on the Americas. Millions upon millions willing to kill each other (they didn't do all the killing, they pointed and the rest of the ants rolled over the hill and slaughtered the rest.) Will we never learn? Reportedly, there is a time element involved. I've heard it often in the research. That human consciousness is shifting whether it wants to or not - to realize that we are not alone in the universe. That the process of incarnation reveals that we chose our lifetimes as humans, that as light beings we choose lifetimes in other time zones, other realms, other planets. That's not my opinion, theory or belief. It's in the reports. I turn on the camera - people report they can recall lifetimes on other planets, I put those transcriptions into my books. Or, I turn on the camera, a medium talks directly to someone who is no longer on the planet, who reports new information from their perspective - and I post it online. It's data. We may not like the data, but that doesn't affect the data. So how to impress upon humanity that everyone they meet, everyone they've met, everyone they will meet is a light? They may be a bright white light, or a blue light, or pink, orange, green, purple - all variations on light. And if they look carefully they'll see the light dancing, moving, not matte, but electric and present. Not skin color. Not size or shape. Hair or eyes. Not clothing. Not anger, resentment, fear, jealousy - those may all be aspects of one manifestation of that light, but the overall picture or package is light.
It's a bit like walking past the sandbox. There's a group of toddlers over there throwing sand, arguing, fighting over toys. We can go over and say "Guys, calm down. There's no point in fighting over this stuff. It's just playtime." And they look up at the ancient, old avatars looking down at them and say "Pfft. What do you know?" and go back to slapping, biting and throwing sand. The oldsters look at each other and smile - with amusement, or perhaps melancholy. "Were we ever that young?" We cannot interfere, yank the toddler out of the box - we can't interfere, stand in the middle of the sandbox... we can take their toys away, but even then they don't want to hear the lessons.
Blind leading the blind (on film)
But we can repeat what we learn. And by repeating what we've learned - or giving people to access what we've learned, or by showing them how to access this information by bypassing the filters and accessing memories of previous lifetimes via hypnotherapy, guided meditation or just one on one questions - allows people to open up the garden gate. The truth is just by reading the above sentence, one's higher self becomes aware of the process. And some will see the truth in this research - or see the beauty.
John Keats doing his best Adam Driver imitation
Today an old friend was quoting the "Ode to a Grecian Urn" - and it reminded me I had been to the place where the young poet Keats died at the ripe old age of ... 25 to the same disease that felled his family. Too young to die, but his words burn brightly. His poem ends with the following: "When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." There are things of beauty here on the planet. We need to preserve them, not only for future generations, but for our own possible return. TRUTH IS BEAUTY I was making my Dogme film "Camera - Dogme #15" - and was filming a wedding and ran into Jack Nicholson. (I made it for fun - it was awarded the Dogme certificate, played in Dogme fests around the world, including India where I presented it to a sold out audience of 3000 Indians - who roared with laughter). I asked Jaaaack to make a toast for the wedding couple (I was going around asking people "How do you keep a happy marriage?" It appears in the film "Camera - Dogme #15"). He said "Suuuure Richaard." The wedding couple were two old friends. I asked Jack for a toast, and he gave it to me. I realized to my dismay that I hadn't recorded it, had just pointed the camera at that iconic face and had forgotten to push record. I had the temerity to apologize - and ask for a "take two." This is his "take two"Where he quotes "Ode to a Grecian Urn." My two cents.
And now... for some CONTEXT: 1.The circumstances that form the setting for an event, statement, or idea, and in terms of which it can be fully understood and assessed. The parts of something written or spoken that immediately precede and follow a word or passage and clarify its meaning.
Last night, I was having a conversation with someone who was talking about context. I either asked him, “Are you asking me to give context?” Or is that something you’d like to talk about? I don’t recall his answer. I don’t recall who it was I was talking to. I’ve been having these events often – where I become aware that I’m speaking to someone in a dream – could be a disembodied voice (“Guardian of the Galaxy”) could be a woman’s voice (“Talking to Mary”) or it could be a male voice (“Talking to fill in the blank”).
When I do the sessions I film with Jennifer Shaffer, I don’t provide any context. I just ask if “anyone wants to speak to us?” or if “the person who showed up in my dream last night wants to speak.” Jennifer has no idea who I’m referring to and she does her best to report directly what she sees. She knows that our friend Luana Anders on the flipside is standing by with a clipboard of who has been invited to speak to us. Last night, with regard to our recent conversations I’ve been posting (I’ve been filming sessions weekly with Jennifer for over 5 years, it’s the basis of “Hacking the Afterlilfe” and “Backstage Pass to the Flipside” books one, two and three), I was advised I needed to give context. Now – if someone isn’t aware of how that process works, they may need some context for it. If they go back to the book and film “Flipside” for example, they’ll see that I have had “spirits” or “beings” that have visited me in my sleep my entire life, but I dismissed them entirely as any sane person would. They’d know that I’ve had any number of “ghostly beings” show up in my room – in hotels around the world, in odd locations. I’ve seen or interacted with ghosts from different time periods, had conversations with ones who had appeared suddenly and asked them what they were doing there. In Sydney, staying at the home of filmmaker Jan Sharp and her director husband Phillip Noyce, I was greeted by a fellow hanging from the rafters. It was my first night in Sydney, was startled awake by a guy dressed like a painter who was hanging by the neck from way up in the rafters. When I startled awake and gasped, he said “I’m sorry, it’s just something I feel the need to do” and a ladder appeared, he descended it – in his orange smock – and pulled the rope with him. When he got to the floor, he, the rope and the ladder disappeared. Later I asked Jan about the ghost in her house. She had no idea what I was talking about. I told her the story. She was incredulous – but said “Well, our house painter committed suicide by hanging, but he lived a mile away.” I said “Well he must have liked your place, because he’s still hanging around.” Ba dum bum.
It wasn’t until I met Jennifer Shaffer that I realized I could access people on the flipside via a medium. Up until then, I had been filming people under deep hypnosis accessing loved ones on the other side. Sometimes, rarely, during a session, their “guide” or teacher would refer to me, sitting across the room as the camera filmed the session. Someone I had never met, referring to me across the room with regard to the person who was doing the deep hypnosis. But I was not having any interaction with them. And then I realized I could. Without hypnosis. I could ask people the same basic questions a hypnotherapist did – without hypnosis – and see where we could go. I was startled to see that I could speak to guides, council members, visit libraries, other realms, past lives – all without hypnosis. Again – I recorded all of these sessions, either on tape or with a camera. I had no idea where we would go – but I knew the hallmarks. And nearly every time we had the same journey. (There was one who brought a crowd with them to watch, one brought a camera to film me “doing it” – and their pal didn’t go anywhere. It appears to be related to the one on one experience.) But I have done it in public – on the radio, with Dr. Drew, Heather Wade and others. (see MartiniZone.com for examples). The point being – these folks had no idea they could access their council, talk to a guide, or see a previous lifetime. But they did.
I did not. I wasn’t seeing anything, just listening to their journey and asking questions. Leading questions – because I was literally “leading them” to visit a guide, council or teacher. I know they exist, and I shorten the time to help them have direct access. (A typical hypnotherapy session might last four to six hours.) I’ve filmed over 100 of these sessions – half with hypnotherapists, and half without. People all go to the same places – and where they go is contrary to their belief system, or their lack of belief system. Consistently go to a place where they learn that everything they were told about the process is inaccurate. No other way to put it. So how can Jennifer and I be speaking to Sammy Davis Jr.? Well, it went like this. Some years ago, we were doing a session and she said “so and so is here.” It might have been Aretha Franklin. Aretha came through clear as a bell – and asked us to reach out to her niece to find her hand written will. I did reach out to her niece – not knowing she had one, not knowing she was the executor of the estate, and told her what her aunt told us. She said “I do believe in the afterlife, as I speak to my mother often, but I don’t believe this medium was speaking to my aunt.” Which is fine – I wasn’t trying to convince her otherwise. I was passing along a message. Which included that she would find her will soon – and she did. And I reached out to her again to say “I’m glad you found her will, but it is pretty much what your Aunt told us” to which she replied “It was logical that she would have a will and that I would find it.” Which is true. Again – not selling anyone on anything. Aunt Aretha asked, and I delivered.
We’ve done that at least a dozen times – asked to reach out to the relatives of Tom Petty, RFK, Chicago Bear Dave Duerson, filmmaker Sydney Pollack (whom I knew), Bill Paxton (an old friend) Harry Dean Stanton (an old friend) John McCain and others – reaching out to us because they had a specific thing of piece of information they wanted us to pass along to their loved ones. I always say “C’mon man, they aren’t going to believe I spoke to you, why can’t you just reach out to them yourself?” To which they would reply with a variation “But I’m asking you to.” Who am I to say “No?” I’ve been doing this for so long with Jennifer, I know longer feel the need to prove or provide context. In this case, I asked Sammy Davis Jr. to “show Jennifer where he met Frank.” And she replied “He’s showing me the Harlem Globetrotters.”
Just think about this for half a second. I asked a question. She got an image. Her reaction was to say “did he have anything to do with basketball?” I said “Tell me what the image is you’re seeing that made you say that.” She said “I’m seeing the Harlem Globetrotters.” The answer was “Harlem” or “The Apollo Theater” (or it may have been another theater). That’s where Frank Sinatra met Sammy. And he’s searching for an engram in Jennifer’s mind that relates to the answer “Harlem.” Here’s Jennifer, born and raised in California, has her own frames of reference – has likely never been to the Apollo in Harlem (I used to film segments for the Charles Grodin show there weekly) – and there’s not really a visual that she has reference to that she can use…other than Curly Lemon’s club. It’s just one tiny detail in a mountain of them. Now comes the context. Sammy has lived many lifetimes. He’s “back home” with his friends and family, and when he appears to the folks in our classroom, he’s appearing in that time frame where people knew him as Sammy Davis Jr. If he wanted to appear to someone in his lifetime – he can choose the age, the appearance that person would most likely remember him. He’s the one creating the avatar. At first Jennifer mentioned his height – and didn’t have his first name. She eventually got to Davis Jr and I supplied the rest. I’m not trying to prove this is Sammy Davis Jr. I am trying to allow anyone who “shows up in our class” to speak their truth. Sammy wanted to speak about the recent troubles in Kenosha Wisconsin. He spoke eloquently and with context about the journey. It’s hard for me to not speak about it – because I grew up nearby, have been there many times, and outraged that the Chief of Police, an avowed ideologue, still thinks it’s proper to handcuff a “suspect” who has been shot seven times, is likely paralyzed – to handcuff that fellow to his bed. If I could fly and drive to Kenosha and stand with the people who are outraged I would. But this isn’t about me or my opinion. I had someone on here complain that John Lewis came through to encourage people to vote. To vote for equality, to vote to save the planet. Someone was upset about that. She was of the opinion that people stop caring about their loved ones, once they cross over. They do not. I have had conversations with people who are considered “right wingers” in their lifetime – including a President who came forward to talk about his path and journey. I don’t pull any punches in these interviews, if anything I edit out the more outrageous things I ask them. Because it’s not about me – as we know – it’s about what they want to say. That’s just context for the Sammy Davis portion. Then we have Bill Paxton stop by to say there is an anniversary. It’s likely he was referring to something to do with his family – and any member of his family that sees this, will know what he’s talking about. It may have been that when we met in London it was around this time period – I don’t recall. But we became pals after that. He may have been referring to some specific anniversary, and we could dig into it deeper by asking him questions – but by Jennifer saying “There’s an anniversary” I knew at that moment that whoever knows him and knows what he’s referring to had the message he wanted to pass along. (Here's me talking to Bill via three mediums) I wasn’t giving him the bum’s rush (although he might say I was, that was our relationship.) Then the portion where Mary comes forward again. Requires context – I know how hard it is to hear “the mother of Jesus” is appearing in someone’s mind’s eye. The first time I met her was not with Jennifer, but it was during an interview with a minister back east in Connecticut. (It’s in “It’s a Wonderful Afterlife”). We were having this conversation about her viewing her life planning session and she said “Mary’s here.” I try not to judge what people say, so I asked her some pointed questions. I asked Mary why when anyone was quoting her while seeing her, she would say things that were simple by design; “Love your neighbor. Just give love.” Etc. She said she “tailored her comments to those who were listening so they could remember them.” She also shape shifted in front of this woman – at first, as the icon, and then a few minutes later as a normal looking beautiful older woman who has a heart of gold. That’s disconcerting to some. They’ve been told that she’s an icon on a painting. Or that she ascended into heaven and sits on a chair somewhere. Why people who claim that avatars can traverse all realms, or “behave like gods” would take the time to sit around and twiddle their thumbs waiting for humans to figure out what they’re doing, is beyond me. Suffice to say, I don’t judge it when “Mary” shows up.
In this case, I asked her to bring forward an old pal of hers. Mother Theresa. I even got a side comment from her about Christopher Hitchens (whom we interview in “Backstage Pass to the Flipside 2”). I have an entire chapter filmed with skeptics and atheists about the flipside. They said basically what the late actor Harry Dean Stanton told us;“Tell people to believe in the possibility of an afterlife, so then they won’t waste another minute of their life arguing about it.” Sage advice.
Harry Dean Stanton and pal
Context.
Each one of these sessions requires it – I don’t expect anyone to watch it and say “Oh my, they really are talking to so and so.” It’s also clear to me that everyone “appears” to their loved ones as they want them to – or in terms of what they “believe them to.” That is – if I knew Uncle Pete at the age of 60-80 he’s going to appear in that visual, if I knew Uncle Pete aged 10-15 it would be then – but the essence of who Pete is, is aware of how to construct a visual that fits my perception. They’re tuning themselves, frequency wise so we can communicate. (It's reported they are "lowering" their frequency to communicate with us.) In like form, they may appear to some religious person in a more “regal” or less panoramic fashion. Recently I filmed an interview with a fellow who saw Jesus visiting his council. He described the classic visual of Jesus – long hair, robes, etc. His eye color (hazel) matched other accounts of him but I asked him (through this fellow who wasn’t under hypnosis) to appear in “casual clothing” to this fellow. And suddenly he transformed into a guy wearing a white tee shirt, jeans and tennies. I told the fellow later that this is nearly always the outfit he changes into. I mean – it’s not coming from me, and it’s not coming from this fellow – it’s Jesus’ choice. I didn’t say “Can you put on a white tee, jeans and tennies?” I just asked “Could you appear in more casual clothing?” Further, this fellow had a memory of being at the Crucifixion. Just in terms of data, that makes six people I’ve met who claim that they were also there, observing the events. This particular fellow claimed that he was the one who stuck a spear into the side of Jesus. He used the name "Longinus" - but historically that name didn't appear until the 8th century. So it's likely a mythological story - yet he was seeing the same diorama that others have seen, albeit with different eyes. However, since blood and water reportedly emerged from his poke into the side of the fellow on the cross, I pointed out that’s an indication of being alive, rather than dead. (Corpses don't bleed.) So the person who was taken off the cross was apparently alive (and the aloe and myrrh brought by Nicodemus were restoratives, not to "anoint the dead" since it’s not in the Jewish tradition to anoint the dead. Never has been.) That sparked a lively discussion – where this fellow was convinced that Jesus did not survive the Crucifixion, was an astral fellow when he went to visit the apostles (80 miles away in Galilee) and the fact that he ate, slept and drank with them (as reported) was what the astral fellow wanted to do. I said "How can it be that I've interviewed a dozen other folks who tell an alternate story?" He said “You believe what you want to believe.” At first I thought he was saying to me, Richard, that what I have heard about him surviving the crucifixion, as reported by over a dozen people was something I wanted to believe. I said it wasn’t. Then, he repeated the phrase. It took me awhile to realize he was repeating it as information - not a pejorative - it refers to “anyone on the flipside believes what they want to believe as well.” That is – if your belief system includes whatever aspect of the afterlife you may have believed, at first, you are going to experience what you believed in. I must add, “at first” as I’ve filmed numerous interviews with people who at first thought something was occurring or had occurred, and then a few moments later said “Oh, I see, I constructed that experience. That is what I expected to happen. And now it's later on and I'm with my guides and teachers and fellow classmates and family; now I’m home.” So that is worth repeating. Believe what you want to believe. If the belief system that someone wants to hold onto, that the dead are dead, that they cannot speak, that spirits are demons, etc, etc – that’s their belief system. Not up to me to argue it. You believe what you want to believe.
Which is why I film these sessions – because, when they say things that they don’t believe – that is, say things that they are observing, experiencing that are not part of their “belief system” – and the reports are consistent and reproducible, then it’s just data. As I’m fond of saying “Data doesn’t require belief or faith or disbelief. It’s just data.” So in this research – what we’re doing accessing folks on the flipside, one can argue we are compiling data. So far, in the over 5 years doing this with Jennifer – we’ve had the same results. It’s possible we might get a different result at some point, or I might hear an alternate reality – but so far, I am reporting what it is we get.
And that’s my context for the day. Or my two cents.
We begin with a general discussion of "manifesting something" versus "seeing it in our future early on." That moves into a conversation about Saint Bernadette and a pal of mine what I think may be partially the reincarnation of.
Then to the concept of math and the flipside - what infinity represents. A general chat with Simon Newcomb - or a hello.
Then a visit from Mary - yes, that Mary... and from Elvis and his grandson to say something rather poetic about why people might feel the need to check off the planet early.
Topics include Simon Newcomb, Benford's Law, how infinity relates to the afterlife, how we are all connected to "saints" - avatars and guides - and demonstrating how simple it is to access these answers.
All the answers are subject to interpretation - syntax - but if you ask them enough, one can get a consensus of opinion. Oh, and Mary's in it too.
Last night I had a "visitation" from someone who self identified as "the Principal." I asked this person if I was supposed to interview them in today's podcast and they said "Yes, the questions will appear for you." So I had no one to look up, research... but knew that this person had told me that they were "the principal." I thought about teachers I knew, principals I knew - but just left it aside. So this interview goes without any planning. At some point I realize that this person meant "the principle" (it's a mathematical phrase) and further blew my mind with the idea that they were trying to help our planet to "plant seeds" - not only to save the planet with trees which will reduce carbon, cool the planet - but also to plant seeds in our minds that we can communicate with them. The term "Guardian Angel" comes at the very end of the session - as this person answered the question "would people on the planet refer to you as an angel?" They said "Yes." And later, Jennifer supplied the term "Guardian" as it applies to what we were talking about. In essence this Guardian is telling us - in no uncertain terms - that we are in imminent danger of losing our planet to climate change. That this is an "all hands on deck" event - that people who watch this conversation and are open to the possibility that people exist in other realms who want to save the planet - are trying to tell us how to do so. Asking us to "plant seeds." Asking us to "plant a trillion trees" to combat global climate change - that the additional oxygen of the trees (and in this case, plants and fauna) will bring the carbon levels down and lower the temperature of the planet. It's the same thing I've heard "directly" from trees, and the same thing I've heard recently from scientists around the world. To plant the idea in our hearts and minds that the planet is worth saving, if not for our children, for our possible future return. We have to act now to stop using carbon based fuels, and in "Backstage Pass to the Flipside 3" we ask scientists no longer on the planet how to do that. But this isn't up to us - it's up to anyone who has watched this clip and wants to know more. They're saying that "anyone can communicate with loved ones" (or in this case strangers) on the flipside, by opening ourselves up to the possibility. As noted - they cannot interfere with our development - but we can interfere with what's happening with our planet. Vote for those who want to change the climate, who want to protect the earth. Support those scientists who are trying to do so - and demand from anyone who will listen to plant a trillion trees. (I'm paraphrasing, but hey - I get it.) For those who find this a lot of "hooey" or "hogwash" - that's fine. Move along. This isn't for you. These aren't the droids you're looking for. But for those who might have had an experience like this - this message is for you. Do what you can. There's an interesting moment in this when I realize that the person who came to me in my sleep and said they were "the principal" was referring to another word - "the principle." And by that, it's clarified that it is a mathematical principle. I just happen to be watching "Connected" tonight on Netflix, and there's an entire episode on "Benford's Law" - how there is the MATHEMATICAL FORMULA that can predict, or explain pretty much any human activity in terms of numbers. It occurs to me that they may be related - that Benford's law is a way to examine not only weather patterns, but how we can change the climate of the planet, but returning balance to the planet. I don't know why these folks showed up today - but I can't ignore the fact that they did. That I thought the term was principal and not principle. The definition given - that "I am like an infinite number, but with the idea that all numbers are connected" is related to what we've heard countless times in this research. Everyone is connected - everything is a construct - everything is a mathematical puzzle on the flipside, and on this side. Perhaps there was a direct message that was trying to be given related to Benford's Law (again, an episode on Netflix "Connected" - please watch it to see what I'm referencing.) That the schematic - the blueprints - the entire idea of the cosmos can be known if we look into how A. we are all connected and B. how everything is math. At the end of "Architecture of the Afterlife" I quote my wife's dream - of the physicist Mino. She asked him what his experience in the afterlife was like. He said "everything is both particle and wave. On earth we are more particle than wave, over here, I experience more wave than particle." If one follows that sentence and includes math - perhaps that's what the Guardian was referring to. Guardians of the Galaxy or Guardian Angels - same thing apparently. If you can support this research, please donate to GoFundMe/RichMartini. Thanks. JenniferShaffer.com and RichMartini.com have more information. Here's the video with the Guardian Angel who self identified as a "Guardian of the Galaxy."
Here's a three hour film about past life regression that includes a past life regression with one of its pioneers.
This film is a compilation of research I've been doing about Dr. Helen Wambach. A clinical psychologist with a PhD from JFK University, she pioneered past life regression in the 1970s.
Dr. Helen Wambach. Born in my hometown Chicago, died in San Rafael, CA
She wrote two books on her research, "Reliving Past Lives" and "Life Before Life." I was startled that her data was identical to Michael Newton and the Newton Institute's reports a decade later. Identical to the 100 cases I've filmed - both with people under hypnosis ("Flipside" "It's a Wonderful Afterlife" "Hacking the Afterlife") and without "Architecture of the Afterlife."
I was startled when one of her friends sent me original tapes of one of her past life regression sessions.
She's a pioneer in the field - this was recorded in 1979 in Chicago by one of her pals. She had already published "Reliving Past Lives" with 2000 cases of hypnosis - which I highly recommend reading as she uses historical records to verify their memories.
This was part of the 750 more cases she included in "Life Before Life." When this friend sent me the original tapes, I wondered what to do with them - they're a historical artifact - perhaps they belong in a museum.
So I asked Helen what to do with them.
Fans of flipside research know that the past 5 years I've been talking to people on the flipside directly via Jennifer Shaffer ("Backstage Pass to the Flipside" part one, two and book 3).
That footage - of us speaking directly to Helen is at the end of this piece - and why the film is 3 hours long. It's not for the casual observer - this footage is for the serious student of past life regression, for the serious student of consciousness research, or for the person who has 3 hours in captivity due to a pandemic to open their horizons in ways they didn't think possible.
Normally I recommend a person only do a past life regression with a trained hypnotherapist present - (I recommend hypnotherapists trained by the Newton Institute as I've filmed many, they have a searchable database on their website) but as she points out, we have nothing to fear from examining a dream. Hypno - dream - osis - study.
I used some of my music throughout and the footage of outer space courtesy of NASA. One can listen to this a bit at a time - the first half hour is her talking about her research and what she's learned. The second portion is a guided regression - where people are encouraged to "write down" their impressions.
She talks about mailing in those responses - she's no longer on the planet, but I can offer my quora com forum - "Hacking the Afterlife" as a place to put those responses, or via email to me (MartiniProds at Gmail) or just think of them as a mental exercise.
No need to take it too seriously - after all we're just pretending that we can access something that's not in our conscious minds.
Hypnosis has a bad rap - because of stage hypnosis, because of Hollywood pretending it's something it is not - it's just "talking to someone who is asleep." When they wake up they don't retain negative imagery or thoughts - they aren't toying with anything other than their higher selves.
Having done this for so long I know guides will send folks this page if they think it's important to do so - and for those who should not be examining previous lifetimes for whatever reason (it may disrupt the path they chosen in this lifetime) they will suggest clicking away.
I will as well - if the idea of hypnosis is bothersome or in any way contrary to one's belief system - ignore this film. Nothing can harm anyone from watching this film - I've listened to her session in detail, she is a licensed psychologist, a scientist using a technique she's used hundreds of times before.
Couple of days ago, I asked a friend of mine what I should do with this film - and he said "Why don't you ask Helen through Jennifer?" I remembered we had spoken to Helen, watched that two year old clip, and then heard Jennifer say "She's telling you to put it at the end of the project."
Well - this is the project made two years later, and since Helen was outside of time, she knew I was referring to this film even before I knew what I was referring to, because no film existed. Now it does.
I must say that instead of charging people to watch this - I suggest a modest donation to my GoFundMe page (GoFundMe.com/RichMartini) to support the research. Or get a copy of one of the books - the most recent being "Backstage Pass to the Flipside 3" (interviews with Jennifer) or "Architecture of the Afterlife" - interviews with people not under hypnosis accessing the flipside, their past lives, and everything that is discussed in this film.
Some people need to hear or access this information and don't have anything to donate that's fine. Think of it as a gift from Helen. But for the price of a Grande Latte at the Starbucks down the block - one can access something pretty rare - a live past life regression with one of its pioneers.
For fans of the flipside research, the process has been the same. I film people under hypnosis speaking to folks on the other side (or their higher selves, guides, teachers, etc) and put those transcripts into my books (or turn that into a documentary; "Flipside" on Amazon Prime or "Talking to Bill Paxton" on Gaia.)
When I started working with the amazing Jennifer Shaffer, I filmed our conversations, often in a noisy restaurant - but my goal was to record the conversation for print later. I knew the footage was for the most part unusable in a noisy restaurant (but that didn't stop me from using it in "Talking to Bill Paxton" or in "Talking to Junior Seau, Paul Allen and Dave Duerson"). In both cases, those films have footage from quieter locales.
Then, due to the pandemic, Jennifer and I were forced to have our meetings online. We both have this desire to "move the needle forward" in this research. We aren't doing it at anyone's request, if people want to purchase the books they can - "Backstage Pass to the Flipside Part One, Part two and book three." But they don't have to do that.
The set up is this - I may have decided upon interviewing someone, as I did with Congressman John Lewis - and ask them to come forward. I did so a couple of weeks ago. Since Prince has been an escort to many people who come into our "classroom" - I thought "If Jennifer says he's shown up" then he's bringing someone into class with him. Often it's a musician, but not always.
In this case, a couple of weeks ago, after his death, I asked him to bring forward John if he was interested in speaking for our class. He was not at that point. I didn't say to Jennifer "We want to speak to John Lewis" - but when she said "Prince is here" - I said "Does he want to bring forward the person I suggested this morning, or is he not ready for that?"
Jennifer said "He's not ready for that, but he wants to speak about the pandemic." That interview is here:
Then this past week, I invited John Lewis again. Or rather, as noted, I was in my kitchen and I got the "impression" that he wanted to speak to our group. I got that impression because of a person's image that popped into my mind - someone I associate with fighting for equal rights, the activist from my home town Fred Hampton. I've written a script about him ("Wingspread") but that's on a back burner because the makers of "Black Panther" have announced they're making a film about him. Which makes total sense - and I hope they do his story justice. It's an amazing story about an individual who thought up free clinics for impoverished people, and created food banks for children who were hungry in Chicago. For his efforts, he was murdered by the Chicago Police (under direct orders from J. Edgar Hoover and Cointel FBI agents - as learned in a court case recently.)
But that made me realize that John Lewis was in the wings - about two hours prior to our meeting. So I took the time to look up some facts about him, his mother, father and wife - who had all preceded him, and this one detail jumped out at me. That he knew two of the three boys murdered in Mississippi - Michael, Andrew and James - freedom riders who he knew and rode with.
I want to say that question "jumped" into my mind as a "proof of concept." Because Jennifer didn't know these boys, I didn't say who they were, I just asked if he had been reunited with those friends. And his reply is what brought me to tears. I asked him to show Jennifer what happened to them - and he did.
Jennifer didn't know who these boys were. I referred to them by first names only. I asked Congressman Lewis to "show her what happened to these boys."
Andrew, James and Michael
That's how communication works. Sometimes with impressions, feelings or words - but in this case with visual images. I don't know what she saw that made her say "they were killed by the Ku Klux Klan." But she was accurate.
I did not say his whole name. I new that Jennifer would not know who Emmett was just by the use of his first name. Note that on the video she writes it onto her clipboard. "Emmett." Then he said he had reunited with Emmett.
Emmet's murder profoundly affected John Lewis. I thought he might have seen him since returning home.
Emmett Till (Wikipedia)
Which gave me a massive chill and brought me to tears.
I apologize for the tears. But sometimes this information does that. It's overwhelming.
Emmett Till in my hometown of Chicago.
Which leads me to another point.
Someone on Quora.com took the time to write to me about two things that bothered him in this interview. One was that John Lewis would suggest who we vote for - based on the research that shows once we "go home" we can see that life is way more complicated and planned out than we can imagine, that those who prevent people from voting may be part of a larger plan to teach people lessons in unconditional love, etc.
"Why would John Lewis be concerned about the vote? From his perspective everything happens for a reason, doesn't it?"
My reply: "Thanks for the comment. Couple of things. He didn't say to vote for Joe. He said vote for Jack in the box. We assumed he meant vote against the current administration.
But if you read the books.. and Jennifer and I have been interviewing people on the flipside for five years. When he was elected people came forward to say how much the loathe him. People reported he was a necessary evil to inspire those to rise up against what he represents. Famous politicians who mock him. We've interviewed John McCain - he still loathes him but so does Lincoln.
Every politician we've talked to says he's a disaster. (Then I went into my personal interactions with him - having had a film premier at Mar al Lago (the only filmmaker to do so.) The star of my film Dina Merrill loathed him and had numerous creepy stories about him - which I've heard and witnessed first hand. I won't go into detail, because this is not about that fellow - but why John Lewis would care.)
But I’m the one who prodded John about voting. He was answering questions. I'm the one who prodded him about everything." (These reports are in the books "Backstage Pass to the Flipside" and for the most part I leave them in verbatim. They even claimed to be responsible for the photograph of the President walking up Air Force One with toilet paper on his shoe.)
The other observation was the shifting answer about the number of "his children."
Jennifer said"He had 3 children? I'm seeing three." I said "He had one that we know of." She said "I'm seeing more, like six. That's what he's showing me."
So here's where most people freeze - stop - get off the bus so to speak (reference intended).
"He had one child so she must be wrong or making this all up." That's what people do - and that's fine. They aren't meant to know this information, they should return the book, turn off the channel, move on. This research is not for them.
But hang on.
For those who have been paying attention or read the series of books: "Backstage Pass to the Flipside."
As I've learned over the past 5 years of doing this every week - Jennifer doesn't make up what she's seeing. She can misinterpret what she's seeing, or in trying to explain what she's sensing - but that's why I'm here.
I could have said "No, he had one child, let's move on." But I know better. She asked him the question (in her mind, live on camera) "Why am I seeing these children?"And she said aloud "They're Martin Luther King's children. It's like he treated them as his own."
I had no idea if that was accurate. If one knew their story - how close they were, they might assume that - but neither Jennifer nor I knew his story in such detail.
And if this was a chapter in a book (and who knows, maybe it will be) I would have transcribed the session, then taken the time to look up each and every comment.
ED GORDON, PBS host: "Joining me now, democratic Congressman John Lewis of Georgia.
Congressman JOHN LEWIS (Democrat, Georgia): "Thank you very much for having me today."
GORDON: A remarkable homecoming that we saw yesterday. You were there. Give us a sense of the feeling in the church.
Congressman LEWIS: Well, it was unbelievable, extraordinary, a great sense of community, a family gathering. It was a reunion of the civil rights movement, with many entertainers, political leaders, four president, foreign dignitaries, a first lady of South Africa, several ambassadors, and it was a people's gathering. It was a people coming together to say goodbye to one of the most beautiful and charming and gifted women of our time. I was so moved. At times I cried, at other times I laughed. It was very hard and very difficult to say goodbye to Coretta Scott King.
GORDON: Congressman, you had a unique relationship with the two of them, Dr. King being a mentor, someone you looked up to. And of course, through the years you've become very close with Mrs. King. On a personal level, talk to me about what you will miss most.
Congressman LEWIS: More than anything else, I will miss her late telephone call, late night calls. She would call me late at night, and we would talk, and especially right after the assassination of Dr. King, because she was planning the Martin Luther King Center. She would call and we would talk and talk. And one night she called and talked so long and so late I fell asleep on the telephone, and I heard myself snoring. And she fell asleep. And I woke up and I said, Mrs. King, Mrs. King; she was not there. And we would laugh about it.
But she was so warm. She would always ask me, how is your mother? How is your father? How are your sisters and brothers?And every birthday, Ed, that I've had for the past 20 years she would send me a birthday card, a note or a signed book. And my birthday is coming up in about two weeks and I will not get a birthday card from her, and I will not have her to say, how are you doing, John?
I remember during the march from Selma to Montgomery, 40 years ago, when we were walking up Highway 80 between Selma and Montgomery, Mrs. King and Dr. King took the cap off of Dr. King's head and said, John, you've been hurt. And Dr. King put this cap on my head and Coretta nodded in agreement; she said, you need to wear that cap to protect your head.
....GORDON: Congressman, we've lost so many giants over the course of this year in particular but over the last few years. Do you believe that the movement is in good hands...?
Congressman LEWIS: Well, I--it is my sincere belief and feeling that the movement is in very good hands. There's a cadre of young people on the move. Some are elected officials, and others are in the entertainment world and the business. But I'm not worried."
In the Wikipedia entry for Martin's son he mentions a trip he took to India with John Lewis... "In February 2009, King and his wife traveled to India, fifty years after his father and mother made the trip. During his stay in India, King led a delegation, which included John Lewis." Lewis also spoke at the death of Yolanda King some years later - showing up for their family in many ways.
So in terms of seeing Martin's children being children that he felt responsible for, that looks to be accurate. Martin and Coretta had 4, John had 1. There's likely another one in their story that he also took care of that we aren't aware of yet.
Jennifer is reporting.
The Congressman said he wept at seeing those speak at his funeral. Energetic, etheric tears - the feeling of being overcome with emotion. Seeing the unconditional love being poured out for him.
We are reporting.
As I report, I try to unpack, or ask questions to get to the heart of the matter, to the truth of the story. These clips are live on camera - later I can look up the details. We're capturing lightning in a bottle. But it doesn't change.
In this case, I think the interview stands on its own.
I think it's a great idea and have passed it on to our congressman #TedLieu (without mentioning where it came from. Too hard to put into a tweet.)
For those who don't want to consider that our loved ones continue on, they won't consider this verification anyway. For those that have had the experience of connecting to loved ones no longer on the planet, this is a method for how to do so.
