Tuesday

Reflection on the death of a Parish Priest

 

Reflections on a Priest’s Passing

So a beloved Bishop was shot and killed recently in Los Angeles.

The bullet took the life of a Bishop, Father David O’Connell from Cork, Ireland. According to reports, he met Cardinal Manning on a trip some years ago, which led him to follow the priesthood in Dublin, which eventually led to his parish in Los Angeles.

According to all reports, he was a kind and generous person, who made it his life mission to help people from all backgrounds. One thing I noticed is that he “spoke Spanish fluently, but spoke with an Irish accent.” Made me laugh. Irish is such a musical language, Spanish is as well — the combination must have been a fun one to hear. “Dos tacos por favor, if you don’t mind me askin’.”

Bishop David G. O’Connell

“The Most Reverend David G. O’Connell is the Episcopal Vicar of the San Gabriel Pastoral Region, one of the five Pastoral Regions in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Bishop O’Connell received a BA in Philosophy and English Literature from the University College Dublin in 1975, a Bachelor of Divinity from Maynooth College in 1977 and a Masters of Spirituality from Mount St. Mary’s College in 1987. He’s served as Associate Pastor at St. Raymond in Downey, St. Maria Goretti in Long Beach, and St. Hillary in Pico Rivera, and then as Pastor of St. Frances X. Cabrini, Ascension Catholic Church, St. Eugene and St. Michael Parishes. In his pastoral ministry, Bishop O’Connell has always been very active in serving those in need.” (from LACatholics.org)

But while looking up the Good Father, I found this clip on line, so I could hear the lilting sounds of the home country (half my family is from near the Cliffs of Moher, the other from the Dolomite Alps). When listening to it, pretend for a moment that he’s talking from the flipside, and discussing “how to stay in touch with someone who is no longer on the planet.”

Here’s father O’Connell talking about how to stay in touch with Mary or Jesus:

Just in terms of content — if he substituted the words “your mother” or “your grandfather” he would be accurate in terms of “speaking directly” to the person on the flipside one wants to access.

The details of his death are something that will be talked about — killed by the husband of his housekeeper, apparently in a dispute over money. (According to the tipster who said “he was acting weird.” Love that the LAPD talked about “incredible detective work” without mentioning the fella who made the call.)

Interesting detail; most Bishops (priests) don’t carry money — someone does that for them. So it’s not like the housekeeper’s husband (who also did work for him) was there looking for cash.

Not sure what the disputed amount was, whether it was a delusional slight, whether it was anger because his wife was slighted, not sure what the slight was that would convince someone to pick up a gun and threaten a feckin’ Bishop for cash.

Therein lies a deeper telling, another story. And exit ramp story.

In the flipside research, in the filming that I’ve done over the past ten years, talking to people no longer on the planet (via our podcast hackingtheafterlife.com ) or via hypnotherapy (flipsidemyfilm.com) or a combination of hypnotherapy, mediumship or meditation (hackingtheAfterlifefilm.com) people report the same things.

That we don’t die.

That who we are on stage, that costume falls, but who we are as people returns “home.” We bring a portion of our conscious energy to our stage play, when the curtain falls, we return “home.” That’s consistent in the reporting.

It’s not my opinion, theory or belief that people say that, I’ve been filming them saying that for over ten years. “What happened after that past life memory?” “I went home.”

And what David says here about talking to Mary, or talking to Jesus — is accurate in terms of the research about “how to talk to our loved ones on the flipside.”

Not in a religious sense — one doesn’t need to be of any faith to have a conversation with someone on the flipside. (And in the half dozen or so conversations I’ve had where people from all religions or walks of life claimed they were seeing “Jesus” and asking him my questions, he’s said “All religions point to the same garden.”)

I’ve filmed enough people having conversations with Mary or Jesus, Krishna or crazy Uncle Pete and Aunt Betty that I know it has zero to do with one’s denomination. It has everything to do with the possibilty that they exist and can help.

My mom had a rosary and used it often. She gave out rosaries to many people. Some I’m sure found them a bit like the mala beads that Buddhists and Hindus sometimes wear — or yoga teachers — those have 108 beeds, while the rosaries have less.

But the number isn’t important. It’s the intent.

What does one want to ask or say to their loved one on the flipside? Well, apparently they cannot intercede (as many ask) in someone’s journey, because well, the person planned that journey in advance, so they can’t disrupt someone’s planned journey. However they can comfort, come forward and remind us that love is all there is, all there is, is love, that love is the key to understanding consciousness, the key to understanding quantum theory, the key to everything.

The connectivity of all of us, and the compassion that implies. We are our brother’s neighbor, because we are etherically connected. Tethered to our guides, our teachers, our council members (take a look at the mind bending transcripts in DivineCouncils.com) — so what the good Padre is saying in this clip is reflected in the Flipside research.

It’s something that I’ve noticed over the years, filming people accessing this information and saying the same things. Yes, there is such a thing as reincarnation, but mainly because we don’t fully understand incarnation — how people exist prior to incarnation, plan their lifetimes and journey with the help of others. And not to step in on an ongoing police matter — but it’s also likely that it’s no mistake that husband of someone he worked with was the one who offered him this exit ramp home.

Certainly he could have been here longer, only he knows why this incident happened, he knows why he opened his arms and heart to their family — or why money or the lack of money became the issue in someone’s mind — albeit a disturbed individual, we don’t know. But I can report that in the thousands of examples I’ve seen, filmed or read about — sometimes someone says “Oh, yes, I have known this person for many lifetimes. And they signed up to be part of this lifetime.”

So on the flipside they see why and how the play ended the way it did. That doesn’t exonerate anyone from committing heinous acts — but it does give insight into why things occur on a level we don’t quite comprehend.

We can’t control how others behave, but we can control how we react to them. Based on thousands of other accounts, I’d be surprised that Father O’Connell wasn’t happy and back home, and in full awareness of what happened, and his impact and influence on people he’s met and helped over his lifetime.

It’s a long way from Cork — I know, I’ve been, and I remember someone coming up to me in the streets of Cork and saying “What’s it like in New York?” And me trying to describe a big city environment. This fellow only knew the green hills of Cork, his small city, and how everyone looked everyone in the eye when they spoke to them. He said “I haven’t been to Dublin, but I’ll guess that New York is probably a lot like Dublin, as I’ve heard people don’t look you in the eye in Dublin.”

I looked him in the eye.

“Yeah, that’s about right.”

And Father O’Connell spent his life helping people from all walks of life, different communities, even learned to speak Spanish with his Irish brogue, and there will be many suffering who knew him, loved him, who will miss his company.

But he’s not gone. He’s just not here. And he’s available as well. And if anyone wants to reach out and talk to him, the next time they’re doing the rosary, just include a few beads for him. “Who greeted you when you crossed over?” “What was that like?” “Have you run into Mary or Jesus since your trip home?” “What was that experience like?” “What’s one thing you’d like to share about your journey home?”

Ask him. He’s available too.

My dear conservative Wisconsin uncle, who left his life long parish when they stopped doing the mass in Latin, who went to church “more often than most” who prayed fervently, gave me a glimpse of what greeted him on the flipside. I spoke to him through a medium who works with law enforcement, and asked if we could speak to him. She saw that his passing was a “glorious event” where “Jesus and Mary and the angels met him as he rose triumphantly up to heaven” — with trumpets and fanfare, more amazing and beautiful than he could imagine.

And then, after a few minutes being there, the music died down, and someone started to sweep up the party favors, and he saw that everyone had stopped singing and were looked at him to see his reaction. Someone said “So, is that pretty much what you were hoping for?”

And he realized it was exactly what he expected, and once the parade was over, he realized where he was, and how he wasn’t “dead” but alive, still existing, aware, happy that all of his friends had given him this “fake but fantastic arrival” because it’s what he wanted to see.

Like getting a standing ovation for a performance well done and then the applause dies down and one realizes everyone has stopped clapping. “Is that all there is?”

Condolences for all who knew him, may read this, apologies for those who might be offended by it, but I can’t help but report what people have said on camera about the journey. That we all go home, that we all reconnect back home, that the predominant experience being back home is unconditional love. That Father Dave is back home, that he’s with pals and friends and family that he knew, and they all greeted him with thunderous applause. He’s available to tell anyone what that journey was — and would appreciate the conversation, as I never met an Irishman who didn’t like to chat.

Worth exploring.

Friday

Hacking the Afterlife with Kobe, Marilyn, Jesus and Jennifer

 Here's a link to the iands talk tomorrow: Sat 2/18 at 10 am PST, 1 pm EST.  Iands Talk with Rich Martini

https://isgo.iands.org/webinar/revisiting-the-nde/?fbclid=IwAR3pvEuzWM7IiGy3cyRElCbt-cfh-F4Wb1FD_TMQb2bxHQqf_eKJ4LXypP8


https://youtu.be/Nl4SRMXJdWo

For those not familiar with this podcast; Jennifer Shaffer is an intuitive medium who works with law enforcement nationwide on missing person cases. She does pro bono work daily for them, and once a week we get together and see what we can learn from the flipside.  We've been doing this weekly for 8 years, the last two on our podcast. 

     I'm a filmmaker, have written and/or directed 8 theatrical feature films, a couple of documentaries.  Some years ago, my best friend died in my arms and started coming to visit me. Instead of being freaked out by it (and her showing up to friends and family members) I started to dig into how that might be. That's resulted in 10 books (Flipside, etc) and four with Jennifer Shaffer.

     We met a couple of years ago, I brought my camera to her office to document what might happen.  Those clips are in HackingTheAfterlifeFilm.com - also in "Talking to Bill Paxton" (MartiniFilms.com).  My latest book is DivineCouncils.com - where I did a guided meditation with twenty professionals who had never heard of me or the work - all were able to meet guides, visit their councils and talk about what that experience was like.

     In this edition, a number of people show up that we've spoken with before. We interviewed Kobe just after his passing, it's the last chapter in the book "Backstage Pass to the Flipside 3" - where he talks about his journey, and I ask him questions in Italian.

     Eventually members of his family have met with Jennifer - so it's not unusual for us that he might stop by.  The construct is this; my friend who passed away is on the flipside, and has organized a "group meeting" or a class as we call it, not to teach folks on the planet, but to teach people on the flipside how to communicate using frequency, images, visualizations on the flipside.

     Jennifer may get an image, let's say of a character from a TV show, and it may be their way of giving her a thought so that I could say, "Do you mean someone who shares the same name of that character in the TV show wants to speak to us?" That happens often.

     As noted, Jennifer is doing her best to translate what is coming to her. Like a translator at the UN, the people on the flipside are downloading a lot of information, and she does her best to catch the meaning, syntax and general idea of what someone wants to impart.

     A number of people stop by who've been interviewed before; Prince ("I was addicted to jumping off pianos, which caused me to use pain killers"), Robin Williams ("Love Love"). Marilyn stops by - refers to something I was writing at MartiniZone.com the other day - and when I asked if she wanted to talk about the manner of her passing, she said she wanted to talk about how she had two children waiting for her on the flipside. Both whom had not come to term.  

     That concept has been repeated in the research - consistently. A number of people in our podcast have mentioned it, the idea of "those we don't have are waiting for us on the flipside."  Harry Dean Stanton said the same thing - and I was able to verify it (but don't mention it in the podcast.) It's in "Backstage Pass to the Flipside."  Harry came through after he passed and before his memorial. I asked him what he wanted me to impart to his friends (as noted.) He also said that when he passed, "He was in a room with five women" and when he got to the flipside, he was met by a "baby that he didn't have in life."  In other words, a child was there to greet him with this profound unconditional love.

     At his memorial that I went to a week later, I asked someone who was with him at his deathbed to describe the scene. She said "There were five of us with him, all women."  I asked if he had said anything unusual while she was in the room. She said "Yes, he asked me to hand him the baby. But there was no baby in the room."

     I had heard THE SAME THING from Harry on the Flipside via Jennifer a week earlier.

     At some point, the Alpha and Omega stops by - and mentions the one thing he wishes people would not do, that is "get freaked out by his name." (Jesus). I've had a number of interviews with him via various mediums, different hypnotherapy sessions, and multiple guided meditation sessions. As noted in the podcast, I've finished that book and am doing the audible as we speak. Apparently, they wanted to know "when I was going to finish it." Soon.

     As noted, he's known as Issa in the Middle East, was referred to by the moniker in the Qu'ran, other documents in Persia, and describes his ability to be "everyone at once" in terms of the various planes of existence we're on.

     That's not to say that he's the only one who can do that - there are others who can, who share that "unconditional love" frequency (and in his case, in our first interview 8 years ago, said "I brought more of source energy to my lifetime, when people are near me they experience more of that "unconditional love.") 

     I quote him from other interviews and ask again if that's accurate; he's said "all religions point to the same garden." "The Bible is metaphor, all religious texts are metaphor." "We are all walking each other home, allow me to walk beside you, you don't have to follow me." "My retelling my story is not alternate if it's true."

     So thanks to all the folks who showed up, Jennifer's dad Jim, all those people that demonstrate they aren't gone, they just aren't here.  If one has an issue with this podcast, I recommend doing some research into the concept that consciousness is not confined by the brain, I recommend the research from UVA Medical School DOPS, with Dr. Greyson's AFTER, Dr. Tucker's BEFORE, Dr. Kelly's CONSCIOUSNESS UNBOUND. 

     In terms of the hypnotherapy research, I recommend the thousands of case studies from Dr. Helen Wambach (RELIVING PAST LIVES) Dr. Weiss (MANY LIVES, MANY MASTERS) Michael Newton (JOURNEY OF SOULS.)  My latest book is DivineCouncils.com - where I invited 50 people, half whom had never heard of councils, who visited them, met their guides, teachers, etc.

     As noted, it's up to the guest list on the flipside who will be invited, and as demonstrated, I brought up two individuals I had been reading about (Thomas the Doubter via the Gospel of Thomas, the Acts of Thomas, and that other fellow who the Book of Job claims was on "God's council.")  Just want to point out, I asked Luana if she was interested in us interviewing either one, and she said "No, just finish the book."

     Nothing quite like getting career advice from the flipside. Hope this information helps someone out there who may need to hear it. Links: FlipsideMyFilm.com - HackingTheAfterlifeFilm.com - MartiniFilms.com - JenniferShaffer.com




Saturday

A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE FLIPSIDE, TALKING TO THE AFTERLIFE AND HOW TO ACCESS A NEAR DEATH EVENT USING MEDITATION

 



Next Saturday,  live event courtesy iands.org yours truly sharing latest flipside research 1PM EST, 10 am LOS ANGELES ZONE

https://isgo.iands.org/webinar/revisiting-the-nde/?fbclid=IwAR0hl55XW1WnMccDTF-RmCPsQo5_NBRUuiSD2vr0Q5D4t8LNC2hAD85BPA4

International Association for Near Death Experience Studies. 

Basically, have been filming people accessing their near death events for the past ten years.  One method is to use hypnosis, revisiting the event with someone trained in hypnotherapy.

However, as demonstrated in the book DIVINECOUNCILS.COM one can access pretty much any memory, event, dream, experience - even ones we don't recall by using guided meditation.

We'll discuss a simple method of accessing the same information during the talk. HERE'S THE LINK.


Revisiting The NDE Event Using Guided Meditation

Richard Martini

Active, Webinar

 

Facilitator: Dean Christensen

Language: English

Capacity: 450

Saturday, February 18, 2023

1:00 pm EST

1 hour 30 minutes

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Revisiting The NDE Event Using Guided Meditation

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18TH, 2023 @ 1PM EST

 

A Message from Richard:

The subject of my talk will be “How to revisit the NDE using guided meditation ” based on my recent book “Divine Councils in the Afterlife. ” (Divinecouncils.com)

In the research I demonstrate how a person can revisit an event that occurred, including the NDE, using a simple exercise of guided meditation.

How people (including Scientists, Clergy) report being able to meet guides, teachers, fellow classmates on the flipside, learn new information from their experience, and ask and answer questions about their experience.

The talk will include examples of people who used hypnotherapy to access their NDE, and then examples of how people can revisit an event, or get help with accessing the event from their guides or loved ones.

Its a method of inquiry that gets the same results without hypnosis.

ABOUT RICHARD:

Richard is a filmmaker/author of ten books about the Afterlife. (Best selling in their genre at kindle.) Frequent guest on “Coast to Coast with George Noory and “Beyond Belief” on Gaia, Richard has three documentaries on the afterlife, Flipsidemyfilm.com or HackingTheAfterlifeFilm.com, “Talking to Bill Paxton” on Gaia, in addition to his latest book Divinecouncils.com. He’s spoken at 9 different IANDS locations and was a featured speaker at the IANDS convention (Orlando).

He’s been invited to return to the upcoming “Art of Dying and Living Conference” in March with Robert Thurman, Deepak Chopra and Marianne Williamson.

Links to connect:

http://richmartini.com

Divinecouncils.com

https://thusmenla.org/p/art-of-living-and-dying?affcode=790278_cey7_hrr

This event will be recorded. The recording is included free with your RSVP to the event.

Tuesday

Hacking the Afterlife with Jennifer Shaffer, Cindy Williams and friends


https://youtu.be/c_BxiG6wfBA

Another mind bending podcast.


First an apology for talking over Jennifer; because I knew I didn't have her for long, I wanted to squeeze in as much information as I could. The first half I interrupt her often, the second half not so much. Yes, I did a Laverne & Shirley, I played "Guide the Pizza Delivery guy" - an idea that Charles Grodin had, that he pitched to Penny. They wrote me in and as noted, they cut me out.  It's just fun that I did the show, and that Harry Dean Stanton sang a song (which went over, and is why I was cut out, according to Penny.) I did spend the millennium on a yacht with Bob Shaye, Penny Marshall and others - and I played the piano while Penny sang shows tunes from "Hello Dolly" but with Bob and Ava Shaye's names instead. And for those familiar with our books with transcripts of eight years of meeting weekly - "Backstage Pass to the Flipside 1, 2 and 3" or "Tuning into the Afterlife" - they'll know that Jennifer doesn't recall our conversations unless folks on the flipside remind her.  We did interview Gary Marshall when he crossed over, we have interviewed others mentioned in the podcast, Robin Williams, Sally Kellerman... Luana Anders is our moderator on the podcast, she did over 300 TV episodes and films, knew everyone - and those in turn know others.  We've had many stop by the podcast - not because they're "celebrities" - there's no hierarchy on the flipside, but because Luana knew them. (Luana reached out from the flipside to get me to do a documentary about this research.) I was at Penny's birthday party when I met Robin Williams. Luana introduced me to Fred Roos, introduced me to Francis Coppola who introduced me to George Lucas (I beat them both playing "Risk"). Rance Howard starred in my film "Limit Up" so I know Ron, as well as his mom. I don't know Bill Hudson, but I do know his ex Goldie. Apologies to her children for dropping their names in this podcast - I try not to offend grieving family members, but sometimes it's healing or helpful to hear or see how easy it is to access our loved ones. We do this podcast for that reason - to demonstrate one doesn't need a medium (it helps) doesn't need a hypnotherapist (it can help) but one can just do a simple meditation (example in DivineCouncils.com or the film HackingTheAfterlifeFilm.com ) to chat with anyone. Or give Jennifer a call. She's really good at what she does. As Harry Dean Stanton told us (transcript is in "Backstage Pass to the Flipside") "tell people to allow for the possibility there is an afterlife so then they won't waste another minute of their life arguing about it like I did."   I mention David Kirkpatrick in the podcast, as he wrote a wonderful memory of Cindy on his Facebook page.  Some may think I'm directing Jennifer in these questions - but since we've been doing this for eight years, I'm not trying to prove anything to anyone - for me that's a waste of time and energy when she's done that so many times already. Plus she works with law enforcement daily pro bono.  I'm not the only one who knows how talented she is (JenniferShaffer.com) I don't know if Ron or George or Fred will ever see this podcast, but they're specifically mentioned in here. Our loved ones are NOT GONE. THEY'RE JUST NOT HERE.  The data, research, footage from UVA Medical school DOPS demonstrates consciousness is not confined to the brain. It's not my opinion, theory or belief that people say the same things about the afterlife using hypnotherapy, meditation or in this case mediumship - it's footage.  Examples are in flipsidemyfilm.com, "Talking to Bill Paxton" on Gaia, or HackingTheAfterlifeFilm.com . And to Bill Hudson - whom I don't know - Cindy says "you can have it."  She says you'll know what that means. We hope so.

A post from the Quora forum HACKING THE AFTERLIFE

For the past few years, have been maintaining a forum called HACKING THE AFTERLIFE.  

https://hackingtheafterlife.quora.com/

Hi, Richard, I had the most wonderful experience last weekend. I performed at a house concert not to far from my home, and on my way out the door, I said to my pal, Andy, on the flipside, "come hang out with me tonight." 

Andy was as close as a brother to me and his passing from cancer four years ago was wrenching, despite our having a great conversation just prior to his transition about going home, and how we don't die. After the concert, I was talking to a few friends, when one of them cracked up. 

In that instant, I clearly heard Andy's laugh, and saw his sparkle in Kevin's eyes. I told him, you remind me so much of my friend, Andy! Even my husband saw it. 

In that instant, I knew Andy was indeed hanging out with me and I felt such pure joy and love. I tell you this because that moment was made possible because you choose to share your research and insight with the world, and I've been paying attention (unlike during my loooong years in Catholic school when the ceiling tiles were more interesting than the lesson plans). 

I just wanted to send a little of that joy back to you with my thanks.


Thanks for sharing your experience. It’s always fun when a pal shows up. Like I say, no one outside the circle of friends would believe it, be aware of it, and the closest of close friends may be skeptical of it - which is fine, because it’s not for them. It’s for the individual who knows the frequency so well they feel that inner “ding!” when the sound of their laughter, their favorite song, some obscure reference suddenly pops up - and we can’t help be be a little breathless… with “Oh wow. You have no idea what just happened.”


We don’t. But it’s cool. Thanks for sharing.



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