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)
A promo for my latest book: THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD AS TOLD BY JESUS AND THOSE WHO KNEW HIM.
(Don't tell Martin Scorsese as he's promised the Pope to write his own script about the alpha and omega and the details in this story might upset that narrative.) None of this would have happened if David Kirkpatrick hadn't suggested that I take the reports people were saying and put them in chronological order. Thanks to David who wrote the foreword to the book.
This came to me in a dream. As fans of the podcast Hacking the Afterlife have heard in the past, sometimes things show up in dreams as ideas we should pursue.
I had this notion that I should do some kind of "clip" about the book THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD AS TOLD BY JESUS AND THOSE WHO KNEW HIM. I haven't done much publicity for the book - mainly because it's a controversial topic that people shy away from.
Which is understandable. I shied away from it as well, until someone convinced me to put it out into the world.
We'll see what people think of this "promo" and I may do them for all of my books, and perhaps add more chapters.
Here's five minutes of the 18 minute introduction from the book THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD AS TOLD BY JESUS AND THOSE WHO KNEW HIM.
Enjoy.
We did not plan for this episode. But our moderator on the flipside, Luana Anders clearly did, and brought a number of people to chat about it.
She said she wanted to discuss the process of addiction.
Elvis came to give his two cents about it. About how wanting to escape from reality comes from the idea that one is unloved, or suffering. Points out that in his life, he didn’t realize that he was causing others to suffer — and yet he now regrets having done so.
Janis Joplin came through to talk about her addictions — and how trying to escape from reality “was an illusion.” She offers that “escaping from the illusion of reality” — meaning becoming aware that one is onstage during their lifetime, creating a reality, and that by trying to escape from the reality they created for themselves, they lose the connections to others.
Then Aretha came through to say “everyone has addiction in their family.” She pointed out some of the smaller ones, like being addicted to soft drinks, or other vices that people have — that’s another form of addiction. And how everyone has a family member that suffers from addiction, so can be more empathetic about it.
Then Junior Seau showed up to talk about how addiction affects the brain in a similar manner to CTE (which he took his own life over). How the “hits to the head” cause the CTE, but the addiction is like taking “hits to the head.” Then he made the statement that the same therapy that cured Joe Namath from his CTE (which he’d come through to tell us before and is in the film TALKING TO PAUL ALLEN, JUNIOR SEAU AND DAVE DUERSON on Youtube for free) — he said that “oxygen therapy for the brain will help with the treatment of addiction.”
That may be a known fact — I don’t know. But it certainly bears looking into. I just hope people remember where they heard it — from Junior Seau on the Flipside.
Finally Anthony Bourdain came through and talked about how his use of heroin as a youngster had robbed him of the ability to experience joy, which contributed to his leaving the planet early. He expresses remorse for that — as noted he’s come through often on our podcast, and is always hilarious- but in this case, he reiterates how meditation can help people to survive being on the planet, but emphatically argues that “rehab” and “detox” are blips on a person’s time line. That they should have no fear of doing so, that they should say “fuck it, I’m going to do this” as well as to love oneself enough to care to fix the problem.
That was his “mic drop moment” which ends the podcast.
Again — no planning was done between Jennifer and I, the comments are so out there, so profound, so beyond any scope of theory or belief that either I or Jennifer could invent, and anyone who is a therapist, or interested in the subject of addiction should take a lesson.
Finally, I asked Anthony to ask someone in our class a question, and the one he asked them is “what’s the one thing that would have stopped you from being caught up in addiction?” and they all answered with the same word.
“Love.”
Mind bending to hear, mind bending to report.
Jennifer can be found at JenniferShaffer.com, the podcast is HACKING THE AFTERLIFE on itunes, the forum is HACKING THE AFTERLIFE on Quora, the website is HackingtheAfterlife.com and the film is on Amazon HACKING THE AFTERLIFE.
It’s an hour long podcast today, but is worth listening to by anyone.
Another mind bending episode.
Luana Anders is our pal on the flipside who generates the guest list. In this case it was someone who passed away recently, musician Gary Wright.
Gary was famous for his song "Dream Weaver." He worked with George Harrison and others in a long career. Jennifer did a private session with him in his home a few years ago, and he wanted to talk about his journey to the flipside. He talked about who greeted him there, and what his experience was like.
Gary was a fan of the Indian pandit Yogananda. His book "Autobiography of a Yogi" changed Gary's life because he said it inspired the song Dream Weaver. We've chatted with Yogananda before, I asked him questions about his teacher and other events in his life.
It's a mind bending thing he says when I asked him "What do I tell friends of mine in India about the fact that we've spoken to you?" He said "They have me on a pedestal. You need to have me in your heart to speak to me."
He answered that question before I asked it by taking Jennifer's hand.
Luana then took us to "a concert." I had been asked about a number of people who passed recently, so I wondered if this "concert" was so we could talk to them. Indeed, she brought forth Tony Bennett.
Tony mentioned the time that we met backstage on the tonight show, talked about my healthy head of hair - which allowed me to talk about the black wig he was wearing for that show in the 1980's. Later his son switched it to a grayer one - (or he stopped wearing one, I don't know) but it was funny because he brought it up.
Then we spoke to Walter Matthau. Indeed, I worked as his dialog coach on the Charles Grodin film Movers and Shakers, and he refers to our long conversations. That brought forth Gene Wilder to remind me that we had dinner together (yes, we did with Louise Lasser and Charles Grodin, and I recalled his thick white sox.)
Then Jimmy Buffett stopped by and talked about when he went over to the flipside, he walked onstage to a concert gig. It's often reported by musicians - the feeling of walking onstage and being met by fans and other musicians. He said "It was like playing a 12 hour gig."
He talked about feeling all the love from his fans, and had words for his family.
For other interviews with musicians, take a look at the book TUNING INTO THE AFTERLIFE which is mostly about them.
Thanks for tuning in.
In this episode of How I Made It Through, host Kristin Taylor welcomes back Richard Martini, a renowned American film director, producer, screenwriter, and freelance journalist who has made a name for himself in researching the afterlife, or what he refers to as the flip side. They discuss Richard's latest book, The Greatest Story Never Told, which provides a captivating account of Jesus's life as told by Jesus and those who knew him.
Key discussion points in this episode include:
- Richard's journey into researching the afterlife, starting with his encounter with a grieving friend who found comfort in hypnotherapy.
- His experiences filming people under hypnosis and the consistent patterns he found in their accounts of seeing Jesus.
- The concept of 'flecks of gold', a specific detail that repeatedly comes up in descriptions of Jesus's eyes.
- Richard's conversations with mediums who also report similar themes and messages, further corroborating his findings.
- The intriguing alternate story of Jesus's life that Richard has pieced together from his research, which challenges traditional narratives.
- Richard's interaction with a shaman who had an encounter with Mary, the mother of Jesus, and the new insights this brought to his understanding of Mary's experiences.
This episode is perfect for those who are both curious and open-minded about spirituality, the afterlife, and the possibility of alternate narratives to well-known religious stories.
This is an AI generated ad campaign. I didn't generate it - I don't know who did. (Perhaps it was AI wanting people to check out of the Flipside?) Either way - it's fun to see them listed.
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How I came to this research. Filmmaker whose best friend died in my arms, started visiting me and members of my family. I wondered "If she can visit us, how can I visit her?" Began a documentary about people who under hypnosis could see, learn new information about their love ones. I took the same journey and saw the same things, despite being skeptical I could.
After visiting scientists at the DOPS lab at UVA, I expanded the research into other areas. If what people under hypnosis said was true, it should be reflected in other avenues. Interviews with scientists, professionals about near death experiences, as well as having them do a session where they revisit the near death event. Forward by the late great Charles Grodin.
Foreword written by Galen Stoller, a young man who passed away but began showing up having conversations with his father a Doctor who helped him with his book "My Life After Life." I asked if Galen might contribute the foreword to his book. The first foreword written by someone on the Flipside. Interviews continue with people who recount their experiences with the flipside from various scientists and an attorney who recounts uncanny things her clients have told her.
Research continues, however focused on the author's journey into the life of Amelia Earhart, and then reports of what people claimed Jesus was saying to them from the flipside. Also includes an interview with Edgar Cayce, Prince, Robin Williams. I had edited the Robin chapter out of the book when he came to Jennifer Shaffer, the medium, and told her to tell me to "put it back in." (She did not know there was a chapter about him.)
Includes a foreword by Jennifer Shaffer, a medium who works with law enforcement nationwide, and Luana Anders from the flipside. Jennifer and I began meeting 8 years ago every week, to see what we could learn from people no longer on the planet. The first of three books with these encounters, book one and two include a "workbook" that helps people access the same information on their own.
Continuing with interviews with people offstage, including the dog of a friend who shows up to talk about what the journey is like for animals. Includes various people that Luana Anders knew in her lifetime, or were friends of her friends, as she was in over 300 TV episodes and films in her lifetime. Other people that I worked with like Ray Charles also shows up, I directed him in "Limit Up."
A longer book with a number of mind bending interviews with people offstage, including religious avatars. By this time, Jennifer and I have a short hand of the kinds of questions I ask - so the transcripts reflect our casual way of conversing with people no longer on the planet. Tom Petty for example showed up in book one, to say that our friend "Luana was like the bouncer at the VIP entrance with a clipboard of who gets in to talk." Hence why we called the book "Backstage Pass to the Flipside."
My father was an architect and taught me how to read a blue print as if it was a building to be. In that form, I include about 50 interviews with people - some are mediums, some are average folks, some friends - talking about the process of incarnation without hypnosis. All the sessions are recorded using guided meditation. Some of the mind bending examples include people accessing beings off planet, or animals, or in one case a "Gargoyle" who points out it's "not his fault people are afraid of him."
Mother was a concert pianist, and music has been a major part of my life. There are excerpts of some of the interviews we did with musicians on the flipside, some famous ones, some classical musicians that my mother brought for us to interview, and all of them talk about the mathematics of music, and how it doesn't end when we leave the stage. In fact for many, that begins their symphonic journey into the flipside.
An experiment where I took 20 scientists, clergy, professionals and asked them to do a guided meditation on zoom for an hour. None of them knew me, none had read my books - yet all were able to see, hear from guides, teachers, council members they'd never seen before. The book includes 30 more excerpts from councils visitations from the first books, but in each case, I ask council members the same question about who they are and what their roles are.
Former head of Paramount David Kirkpatrick suggested I compile all of the Jesus interviews in chronological order. That is - people who claim to see or know him, or people who did know him - tell their story from his birth to what becomes part of the "greatest story never told." It's based on these interviews, transcripts where he says the same contrary to the Bible things: "All religions point to the same garden." "The Bible is metaphor." "My story has not been told." When asked why he was sharing an alternate version of his life he said "It's not alternate if it's true."
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