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INTERVIEW WITH JENNIFER SHAFFER, NICK COSTER, ROBERT TOWNE, RICHARD MARTINI CONTACTING THE FLIPSIDE

 In memory of our pal Nick Coster who passed away this week at 89.


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Conversation with Jennifer Shaffer, Nick Coster, Robert Towne and Richard Martini recorded on January 9th, 2020.  Jennifer’s replies are in bold, Robert’s questions or comments are in italics.  Nick and my questions are in “parentheses.”

Jennifer is Jennifer Shaffer, Robert is Robert Towne, Nick is Nick Coster, Richard is Richard Martini.

We are assembled in Jennifer’s office in Manhattan Beach.

(Note: Luana Anders is our friend who passed in 1996, who moderates our conversations with folks on the flipside. She was friends with both Edward Taylor on the flipside, and Robert Towne and Nick Coster on this side. )

Richard: Before we start, we should say hello to Luana first.

Jennifer: (by way of explanation) Luana has been helping me with my group meetings. And working with Rich, I find I don’t have fear.

Nick: What does one do all day on the other side, or is there no sense of time?

Jennifer: There is no sense of time – for me, past, present and future shows up in the same place for me. They’ll show me a photo in black and white for a memory – I get information about stuff in the future as well.

Robert: Let me ask you about Hira or Leo...

(Note: Robert was a skeptic about this process until during a session with Jennifer, she recalled a time on Catalina when Robert’s dog Hira challenged a buffalo.  I didn’t know about it, nor could have Jennifer. It was the moment that allowed Robert to consider the possibility that his dog may still exist. Leo the cat has just crossed over recently. I would characterize Nick as “still a skeptic” at this point.)

Jennifer: Is there a birthday around March 2nd? An  anniversary with either one?

Robert: I wouldn’t know.  We met (the cat) Leo in the South Pacific – the girls found him. He was a scrawny cat.

Jennifer: But he turned into a bigger cat, later, didn’t he?

Robert: Yes, when he was older. He showed up at our bungalow on the beach and they wanted to take him home but I didn’t want to – but one day I was getting up one night... all I know is I walked into the bathroom and there he was sitting on a mat – I thought, “All right, if you’re that serious, you’re coming home with us.”

Jennifer: (Listens) He says, “You saved his life.”

Robert: I probably did.

Richard: She’s quoting him Robert, he’s observing “you saved his life.”

Jennifer: He says, “He apologizes for scratching your furniture... he had so much fun at your place, but then you moved.”

Robert: We did move.

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Jennifer: He said “That made things even worse... the new place couldn’t be touched.”

Robert: That was true. But he did it anyway.

Jennifer: He’s showing me that it was “Super fun... then they moved, but then they didn’t want me to scratch things. Then I got a little older and I realized couches were to be slept on instead of scratched.” He’s showing me the dining room table that he slid off of.

Robert: I don’t remember that.

Richard: (To Jennifer) I know we asked you before Leo, but who was there to greet you when you crossed over?

Jennifer: He says, “Hira.” He said it again. “Hira.”

Richard: What was that like?

Jennifer: He said “I was scared, then I was so happy. Because Hira took care of me even when he didn’t like me.”

Robert laughs.

Jennifer: He says, “I knew to allow Hira to be “the best” (favorite). “Even when Hira did something wrong, the cat was blamed. We knew Hira was the best... the favorite.” He says “We had an exchange; he made sure we were okay, and we made sure he was the best (favorite).”

Richard: Leo, when you crossed over, you mentioned in an earlier interview that you didn’t have any pain?

Jennifer: He said “During the last two months (there was pain) – he said “He wasn’t in pain until the two months before he died.” He says “It was only the last weeks or months he felt pain... and it wasn’t that bad.” (Jennifer aside) There are so many people up here who are laughing because we are talking to his pets.

Robert: What?

Richard: She’s saying that the people in Luana’s group who are waiting to speak to you are upset that you’re not talking to your friends on the flipside.

Jennifer: I’m seeing a fellow with a checkered sports coat. He’s named Sydney. (to me) Who was was the guy we talked to named Sydney?

Richard: Sydney Pollack. Yes, we have spoken to Sydney a few times – he was a member of the group that Milton Wexler had with Blake Edwards, Sally Kellerman and others. We mentioned him earlier.

Robert: Sydney is here?

Jennifer: Yes, he says “He’s (been) waiting to talk to you Robert... and you’re talking to Leo!”  I just saw a bunch of people who were waiting to talk to Robert and I saw Sydney behind them. (Jennifer laughs)

Richard: Sydney, what do you want to say to Robert or your friend Nick?

Jennifer: Did you know someone named Marilyn? Cause I just saw Marilyn Monroe - which could be as a name reference.

Robert: I never knew her.

Nick: I knew her. She was in my class; Lee Strasberg’s class.

Jennifer: She says “You helped her get over being nervous.”

Nick (chagrined): Well, I never talked to her in class.

Jennifer: But she’s saying that your work in class helped her with her nervousness.

(Note: This is an example of Jennifer describing literally “what she is getting.” She repeats what she hears whether it makes sense to the person hearing it or not.  We’ve chatted with Marilyn before (about her youth, death).

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Robert: How is Sydney?

Jennifer: He says, “He’s busy.” I don’t think he played golf here but he says he “plays it a lot over there.” He’s wearing an old golf cap.. what was the movie? Matt Damon was in it – he’s showing me that film. (“The Legend of Bagger Vance” 1995)

Richard: Sydney we’ve talked about creating a golf game with others but not with you. How do you create a golf course over there?

Jennifer: He says, “Any way you want to. There’s a lot of people who help create it from different places.. I’m seeing also the old fashioned version of playing golf with girls handing out drinks like in the olden days.

Richard: But how do you create it?

Jennifer: They want to feel the dirt, the grass... and the older (the course) it is, the more you can smell that – for some golfers. Just a second – I want to make sure this is right. Someone is here you both know who played golf. To answer your question, Robert, “He’s doing great.” Sydney says “He’s doing a lot of flying, doing something different.” Showed me flying a plane.

Robert: Yeah, he flew, was a pilot, yeah.

Jennifer: He’s showing me going super fast – what is that, Mach 5? That’s what he’s showing me.

(Note: We interviewed Sydney before, neither Jennifer nor I knew he was a pilot, had a pilot’s license. In our interview with Sydney, he said a number of things that I passed on to one of his family members, including the pack of cigarettes he tapped and smoked while I interviewed him. His family member said that “What he said and did” sounded “just like him.” By the way, Mach 1 is going faster than the speed of sound, 5280 feet per second.)

Robert: So Sydney’s having a good time?

Jennifer: He says, “A blast.”

Robert: Well that’s wonderful to hear.

Jennifer: He’s saying something about “being forgiven.” He says, “Forgive me for not telling you guys about the extent of my illness or how long I had it.” He’s saying that um ...  “I knew it (death) was coming...” Did he write something before? 

Richard: Sydney wrote a letter to Phillip Noyce just prior to his passing, perhaps that’s it?

Jennifer: He’s saying, “Yes, he did.” He said “Phillip was upset about his passing.”

Richard: Well, Phillip confirmed what Sydney told us in our interview with him. But Sydney, you knew Nick and Robert – is there anything you want to tell these guys?

Jennifer: (to Nick) He said, “We had the best boat ride.”

Nick: Maybe that was Ed Taylor.

(Note: Nick and Robert had recently scattered Ed Taylor’s ashes from his boat.)

Jennifer: (to Nick) Did you go out on a yacht with Sydney?

Nick: No.

Jennifer: He’s showing me a yacht – in – what’s the place in the South of France? Cannes.

Nick: Never been to Cannes.

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Richard: That could be me. But would you ask Luana to bring forward whoever needs to talk to Nick or Robert? Person wise, we’ll get to the animals in a minute.

Jennifer: (to Nick) I know you mentioned your son – we don’t have to talk about that or anything.

Nick: I’m open.

Jennifer: What’s his name?

Nick: His name is Ian.

Jennifer: Was there someone who got a tattoo because of him?

Nick: Yes. He had something.

Jennifer: Was it on his arm, do you know?

Nick: I don’t remember.

Jennifer: He’s showing me (the word) “dad” – I know you’re his dad because you told me that; but he got something in honor of you as far as a tattoo goes.

Nick: (realizes) Oh, I have a tattoo.

(Nick shows her his shamrock tattoo.)

Jennifer: Do you know if he had a tattoo? That’s what he’s showing me... something on his arm in honor of you and it might be a shamrock.

Nick: My grandson has a tattoo in honor of me.

Jennifer: Give me a second as he was very specific about it. (Listens) He keeps saying it’s him; he had a tattoo in honor of you.  12-21?  Something about the date. Mean anything to you?

Nick: My birthday is 12-3, his mother is 12-7.  Oh, he died on 12-20.

Jennifer: Okay, he showed me 12-21 – I was a day off. You didn’t say that to me, never told me, right?

Nick: Yeah.

Jennifer: If I hear something I want to give credit where it comes from. He’s really funny by the way, instead of flowers flung everywhere, he’s showing me shamrocks being thrown. I know he died too soon. Was there something going on in his head, with your son? When they show me this… did he have cancer?

Nick: No... he either accidentally or on purpose took his life.

Jennifer: I asked him did you have a crash or internal crash? He said “No.” He told me he wasn’t feeling well (there was) something going on mentally. (Jennifer listens) He says “He did not take his own life on purpose.”

Nick: I did not believe he did – his mother did – they were giving him some heavy drugs, he sent away for some phenobarbital, and I think he went to sleep.

Jennifer: He’s saying “No, he did plan on waking up.” He said “He was in a lot of physical pain; his back hurt - that’s not an excuse - but he’s trying to show me he took the other stuff in lieu of everything else. And that he was told that mixing the two would not kill him, that he would be able to wake up.” He still wants to talk about it. He said “He left no note, that there was no letter or note.” He said “I would have written the best story, I would have written everything; I would have gone out with a blast! Not that way, of going to sleep.” He says “He said he was pissed that he didn’t wake up.” He’s saying “That it’s easier for his mom to feel there had to be some reason for him to leave.” (She listens) Okay, I always ask “But were you toying with it, like playing Russian roulette?”   He went like this (flips her hand back and forth) “Eh.”

Nick: In a different way. He had six bottles of the drug...

Jennifer: But he didn’t take them all, did he?

(Note: There’s no way for Jennifer to know this detail, except via Ian.)

Nick: Well, we don’t know over what period of time (he took them.)

Jennifer: He says “From October.”

Nick: They did an autopsy and they said he had enough of the drug to kill him or stop his heart beating.

Jennifer: He says, “He was taking them since October.” 

Nick: I’m at peace with that.

Jennifer: He said “You saw him in a dream and he told you he was okay.” He says “He loves you,” said “You always got him, always met him wherever he was at, and he’s forever grateful.”

Nick: Tell him I’m grateful for knowing him and I’ll see him again.

Jennifer: He said, “Not too soon!” He said; “You have a Russian bride!”

Nick: It’s Robert’s turn...

Jennifer: (Holds her ear in pain) Someone just crashed this session... – I just heard a really high pitch. (Listens) It’s Hira again. Ouch! He said “He’s trying to get my attention with all these people (in the room). Is there anything around 4-16 – April 16th?”

Robert: Who wants to know?

Jennifer: Hira is relaying a message – 4-16. I’m looking at Hira but it could be anyone here trying to give you a message. Do you have anything to do with 4-16? Might have been when you got Leo – Go ahead Robert; who do you want to talk to?

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Robert: Is Luana there?

Jennifer: She says “Always.” She’s laughing, singing; they’re having a party up there. She doesn’t usually show me that – she has a list of people often that she shows me; she is not like this normally. I just saw a Malaysian kid – a beautiful boy, young boy – I don’t know... someone that was in Robert’s movies or a movie?

Robert: There were two kids that were...

Jennifer: “This is it, whatever you’re saying,” she says.

Robert: There were two kids in the movie we did in South Africa – “Ask the Dust.”

Jennifer: I’m feeling that one of them has (crossed over), maybe you didn’t know... let me see what he has to say. I’m getting immense gratitude. So grateful that you were able to do what you did in Africa.

Robert: I spent time with them on the film.

Jennifer: One is coming through, and he’s saying “Thank you so much.” He might have died.. um.. in a car crash or something. But you wouldn’t know this – he wants to say “Thank you, you meant so much to them.”

Robert: I really liked them.

Jennifer: He said “Thank you, thank you.” (Jennifer listens.) Your dad, Robert – did he live up in Palos Verdes?

(Note: Jennifer couldn’t know this, I didn’t know it either.)

Robert: Yes, Rolling Hills.

Jennifer: That’s him – what’s his first name?

Robert: Lou.

He’s saying “I lived in Palos Verdes and I was a golfer.”

Robert: Yes, he was a golfer.

Jennifer: Ah, so he was trying to come forward (earlier) with Sydney; that’s the whole golfing aspect.

(Note: My phone rings. After a conversation with my wife, there’s a joke about wives thinking someone is with a mistress when visiting with a medium like Jennifer instead.) 

Jennifer: So your father is laughing about that .Robert – he says “I wish I had thought of that (excuse – “I’m seeing a medium, honey!”).

(Robert laughs.) Well, I told him to try and lie; he wouldn’t listen. (Laughter)

Richard: Back to you Lu – what is it you want to say to your buddy?

Jennifer: She’s still laughing along with your dad. You’re saying “Lu” - and they’re both named Lou. And she has Hira in her lap. She says “It’s a frickin’ farm up here between her cat and your pets.” Okay, your dad just pulled up a chair. He says, “Everything is going to be okay, all right?” That’s what your dad says in-between a golf swing.

Robert: In-between a golf swing? (Robert laughs.)

Jennifer: I’m asking him and he shows me hitting, but the ball is going over the ocean and landing in Hawaii. That’s how they golf now – play however they want to play – their first hole might be one island and the next hole in another place. He showed me it twice – He said “Watch.” And he showed me me how he’s hitting and to get it over the ocean.

Richard: We’ve talked about this before with other people – they say “It’s math – the flight of the ball, the swing of the club – it’s like CGI.”

(Jennifer taps her nose to indicate “correct.”)  Your father just tapped his nose over and over again.

Robert: Let me ask you this. Can he bark?

Jennifer: Hira or your dad? (Laughs). Absolutely – you might hear it and turn and no one’s there.

Robert: If he is, I can’t hear him.

Jennifer: He’s showing me that he can make you think you hear his bark. That’s him – he’s showing me – like being by the door trying to get outside. Scratching a door. I’m not getting that he did that – but there’s still a pattern of what he used to do, and he still does it.

Robert: Well, I’d love to hear him bark.


Jennifer: He says he’ll do that but you can’t discount it (later). But he will do it.

Richard: Hira put in Jennifer’s mind a place in Robert’s house where it’s best for him to communicate with you?

Jennifer: He says, “In your office.”


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Robert: In my office? It’s right next to the kitchen.

Jennifer: He’s showing me that there’s one next to the kitchen but another on the other side of the house – that there is an empty office.

Robert nods. It’s upstairs. My wife doesn’t want me to use it because it’s harder to get up stairs.

Jennifer: He’s showing me that too.  I’ve never been to your house, but he’s showing me where your offices are.

Robert: Hira is saying if you want to talk to him I need to go upstairs?

Jennifer: Let me rephrase it – you can talk to him anywhere. He was showing me your house – that office and the other office.

Robert: He’s right about that.

He prefers talking to you outside. He says there’s a nest in your backyard – a tree that has a nest, where a bird recently dropped.

Robert: I’m sure we’ve had that. What would he prefer? I can deal with wherever he liked.

Jennifer: Wherever your office would be. He says, “He likes being next to you.” (Listens) Do you have his collar? He’s showing me makes a ringing noise, like a tambourine – something that can make music?  

Robert: I have a couple of his dog tags..

Jennifer: He says “You hid them.”

Robert: They’re in an inkwell with no ink.

Jennifer: He’s saying “No! He hid them.”  So take them out whenever you want – if you can, put the inkwell... put it by your bed when you go to sleep, other than his portrait or the several you have.

Robert: I do have several.

Jennifer: He showed them all to me – his favorite is the photograph you took. You’re holding onto him?

Robert: Yes.

Jennifer: He loves that photo.

Robert: I’ve got him..

Jennifer: Holding him.

Robert: He leaped up on his hind quarters and I held him.

Jennifer: He loves that because that’s how he wants to be remembered. He loved the weather when that was taken. He absolutely loves the cartoon or sketch...

Robert: Yes. That was done by a psychiatrist friend of mine. It’s on a wall.

Jennifer: He showed it to me – over and over again. I just didn’t know what it meant earlier. “It’s on the wall but crooked,” he said. He said “You should use a ruler to fix it.”

Robert: I was never able to have that level of communication with him when he was alive.

Jennifer: He says, “Dogs don’t need you to talk, they need you to feel – other than Richard, who talked to him in a car.”

Richard: How would you possibly know I talked to Hira in a car? Do you know what she’s talking about Robert? That’s the car I drove in 34 years ago, to join you on the set of “Personal Best.” I was in Patty Jenkin’s car – a white Mercedes and I was in the backseat with this giant creature. I would ask Hira to move over to give me room as we drove 8 hours to Oregon. I’ve never told anyone that.  

Jennifer: Her voice put him to sleep though.

Robert: Oh Geeze.

Jennifer: One of the greatest gifts is that dogs don’t talk but communicate all the time – Hira knew when you were hung over, weren’t feeling well, when you were mad – he’d be on alert to figure out who you were mad at, as he would feel the pressure before your were mad. He loved your cologne... some kind of musk or something?

Richard: It was “Verbena.” I had to get it in Beverly Hills for Robert.

(Robert laughs.) I remember a day when my wife. Wait, no…

Jennifer: “The shorter one,” he said.

Richard: Did you hear that Robert? Hira called your first wife Julie, “the shorter one.”

Robert: Julie bought a house in Westwood near the Westwood Marquis. We were up the street in this house.

Jennifer: Hira says, “He loved that street.”

Robert: I left the house to go somewhere and was going to head back to the hotel later (the Westwood Marquis.)

Jennifer: Did he take off? He says it was like, “I’m fucking out of here.”

Robert: He did – he took off... went down the street. He went straight to the hotel, went up the front steps and the guy who was there, a doorman... Hira greeted him. The guy opened the door for him. Hira went into the lobby, went to the elevator, they opened the door and pushed the button but Hira got off on the wrong floor.

On the 3rd floor. Were you on the 7th?

(Note: Ding! While Robert was editing “Personal Best” he was using a hotel room as his office, and Richard Prince, his production manager and I were there every day. The 7th sounds correct, but Prince would remember.)

Robert: Something like that –

Jennifer: He showed me that the room was at the end of the hallway.

(Note: That is absolutely correct. Ding!)

Jennifer: Hira said “He was also hungry after walking all that way.”

Robert: So they finally let him into the room – I thought “How the fuck did you get here?” I had no idea how he got there.

Jennifer: Hira said that his front paw hurt and he slept for a long time. He’s also saying he was relieved to see you. Was there cherry pie involved? (to me) Something you brought for him; a good dessert that you got him to get you to like you more?

Richard: I don’t recall bringing him pie, but Hira did put up with me.

(Note: I seem to recall a birthday cake for his daughter Katherine. She might have been around 3 or 4, and the cake was in the main room, and I seem to recall coming in and seeing that Hira had consumed some of it.)

(to Richard) Hira loved you. (To Robert)  I didn’t know any of this stuff.

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Richard: So Luana, can we bring Eddie Taylor in?

Jennifer: Edward is smoking – and saying “Well, if you have the time.”

Nick: It’s about time. Edward Milton Taylor.

Robert: Nick and I are eagerly waiting to talk to you Edward.

Jennifer: He says “You both have told him already what to bring through.”

Nick: I was sitting here resenting the fact Robert was talking to his dog and not Eddie.

Jennifer: Edward thinks it’s fascinating; he says, “Bitches and dogs communicate better.”

Nick: Eddie never talked like that. Eddie would have left it a little more cryptic.

Jennifer: Well, he did say “bitches” and I added the “dogs” part.

Richard: So what did the boys want to talk to you about?

Jennifer: (To Robert) Your dad says “That he just won the golf game apparently – he makes it so he wins every time. Is that fair?”

Laughter.

Richard: Is Edward appearing with beard or no beard?

Jennifer: I’m seeing him as clean shaven.

Richard: About how old does he appear?

Jennifer: Like he comes through as 33. But I’m getting the number 5 and 8?

Nick: Edward is year a younger than me ...

Jennifer: Hold on – 5 8 could mean May 8th or 1958. He also showed me 76.

Robert: That seems more like it..

(Jennifer laughs) I just didn’t want to believe you guys were that old.

Nick: I’m 85, Eddie would have been 86.

Jennifer holds up her clipboard where she had written “76.” I had it written down. He says, “You guys were like “The three amigos.”  You guys did a lot of things together, like you helped each other through relationships, wives, ex wives...  he thinks it’s funny, he says he finds me entertaining and he thinks “it’s amazing you both are here.” Did you guys have.. so you know, back in high school we had a journal, we’d pass between each other – he’s showing me something, it’s interpretation – he’s showing me something passed between you guys...

Richard: Like a screenplay Eddie?

Jennifer: Yes, he’s showing me Jack Nicholson.

(Note: When I met Edward it was on Personal Best. He was Robert's muse and they would go over each page of his screenplays together, and is likely the source of the mistaken rumor that Edward ghost wrote "Chinatown."  When they worked together, Robert acted out all the parts in front of Eddie and he might taciturnly nod, or deign to puff on his pipe or cigar.  That was their working relationship. So passing a journal back and forth would be a visual for their relationship. Edward was Robert's muse.)

Nick: I wrote a script with Eddie that he gave to Robert to read.

Jennifer: Was Jack involved? I got shown Jack –

Nick: He used to hang out at Robert’s house – I was living in Robert’s house when he did his first rewrite of “Bonnie and Clyde.”

Jennifer: (To Robert) You wrote that?

Nick: He did a rewrite of the script... and I was in his house. He’d come out and scratch his head and say “you want to read something?” You know who was driving a jaguar up there? Luana. She had a 1958 black Jaguar convertible.

Jennifer: I told my dad I wanted a black convertible Jaguar XGS with gold trim when I was 8 years old. He said “Honey you came to the Medlyns not the Marriotts.”

Nick: I can get you one for about 8 grand.

Robert: I used to ride around in my Porsche convertible with Hira.

Richard: Luana, what were you doing driving a Jaguar?

Jennifer. She says “It was given to her.” She says “I earned it.” Whatever that means and she got rid of it pretty fast too. A boyfriend before the hairdresser.

(Note: We’ve spoken to Luana’s old boyfriend Richard Alcala, who was partially the model for the hairdresser in Robert’s script “Shampoo.” After she broke up with Richard, she moved into Robert’s living room and didn’t emerge for a month.  She also appeared in “Shampoo” as the receptionist. But for Jennifer to be so well versed in Luana’s boyfriends, including saying “before the hairdresser” is a bit uncanny.)

Jennifer: Eddie is saying “what about me?” He’s saying “He had the best life with you guys – so much fun, out of all three of you he says he was the responsible one – very pragmatic about time.”

Nick: I don’t remember him being insistent about anything; he was the most easy going guy about everything.

Jennifer: He says, “Well, you guys saw that, but in his mind he always had an objective.”  He says “That’s how he did it seamlessly.” He’s also showing me.. like three gravesites – together.

Robert: Eddie’s not buried.

Jennifer: He showed me ashes –

Robert: We put his ashes in the water.

Jennifer: He’s showing me throwing ashes into the water. It’s a metaphor. He’s saying “You all three need to have your ashes mingled together.”

Nick: In the ocean? I’m going into a military cemetery.

Jennifer: He’s laughing at the notion. Hold on. (to Nick) He says “You’re going to have a spectacular send off via the military – but not any time soon.”

Nick: I wouldn’t mind.

Jennifer: He says “He knows that.” He says, “He hears your thoughts. Robert.” Says you can feel Hira here before you even go over there.” That “You just have to ask him to be around to show you signs, maybe a sign on a tv program.” Why am I being shown a tambourine again? Hira loved music he says.

Robert: He never told me!

He loved being around music – loved the loud... hold on.. the loud music.

Robert: Well I used to play Irish folk music loud.

Jennifer: Hira says “He loved it.” Who liked motorcycles?

Robert: Edward did.

Nick: I bought his motorcycle.

Jennifer: He said “You only rode it twice.”

Nick: I had other ones that were better.

(Note: Jennifer has no way of knowing that they both loved motorcycles or that Edward sold his to Nick.  Funny that Nick's response to "you only rode it twice!" was to say "Yeah, I had other ones that were better." Their relationship continues on.)

Jennifer: Someone hurt their knee on the bike.

Robert: That’s right. Edward did.

Nick: He sold me the bike because he needed money.

Jennifer: That’s what he said; he said “You gave him over fair value and thanks you for that.”

Nick: I doubt it.

(Note: Jennifer has no clue who Eddie is or was. However in a previous discussion with Robert and Eddie, Robert asked Jennifer to get him to repeat what Edward had said to Robert. “It isn’t fair” in reference to his getting cancer.)

Richard: Edward, we were talking about a boat trip earlier…

Jennifer: Oh. I’m sorry. He’s the one who said he had the “best boat ride ever.” It was Edward who said that. Hold on a second. He’s showing me a compass…  Do you have his old compass or something?

Nick: No. (a pause) Oh! Wait. I do! His widow gave me Eddie’s compass. Wow. He just got me totally.

Robert: Who’s widow?

Nick: Eddie’s widow. A little box compass that his widow gave to me. It was Edward’s.

Jennifer: He showed me the compass that Nick has. (to Nick) And he said “You have his compass” and I’m hearing that is correct.

Richard: Is there anything Robert has of Eddie’s?

Jennifer: Something with a ring – or something that meant something.

Robert: How many years ago?

Jennifer: I’m seeing 1956? It has writing on it.

Richard: A class ring?

Jennifer: That’s it.

Richard: They went to college together.

Nick: We graduated in 1955.

Jennifer: Okay. Well, I got 56. Maybe that was his way to say you went to school together – I saw a ring with writing on it. (In answer to the question “What does Robert have of yours? The answer being “Memories”). He said, “Robert you have one of his ugly sweaters.” I’m not sure what that means. That was his way of showing me that time period.

Richard: Any messages for his widow?

Robert: No.

Jennifer: Edward said “Don’t be hard on Virgin... (her name is Virginia, something Jennifer couldn’t know). He said, “She always felt something was going to go awry, she was super needy – lived in total fear.”  He says he appreciates her and is grateful for her, he felt like she raised him.

Nick: Can I tell my son one last thing?

Jennifer: Give me his name again.

Nick: Ian.

Jennifer: (writes) Ian. What would you like to say?

Nick: I dedicated my autobiography to him.

Jennifer: He was just trying to show me that – a book title, I thought it was something you said – he is saying “He knows that, he knows...”

Nick: It’s the introduction.

Jennifer: He says, “He’s very grateful – you put him on a pedestal.” If you remember anything from today besides the compass – that if anyone thought he was going to do himself in, he showed me he would have written something about it that was spectacular. He says, “He would have written the best goodbye letter. He would have left a lot more than the way he died.”

Nick: He was the best writer I’d seen since Robert. Thank you.

Jennifer: Hira just came in and jumped on your lap, Robert.

Robert: On my lap?

Jennifer: I see both worlds the same way – both worlds are in the same room to me, I saw Hira saying “I’m not slow anymore, my front paw doesn’t hurt anymore” and jumped in your lap. That’s the way I see things. He says, “He wants to remind you to put the dog tags next to your bed. When you go to sleep you, you never have to say anything out loud to him.”

Robert: So all I have to do is take the tags out of the inkwell?

Jennifer: He says, “Or just put the inkwell near by – it’s like knowing they’re close by.”  He said “You wrapped up his ashes and put them away.”

Robert: That’s right. I did.

Jennifer: Hira is… He’s just very sweet, showing me how you guys were the same – intermingling. You got him and he got you – you were the most communicative owner. You over thought everything, analyzed everything, were very articulate – you even didn’t like certain flooring, and were very careful with him about walking, how you used to carry him – did he have a diaper at some point?

Richard: Yes, he did, I was there, it was towards the last days. Robert would carry him outside.

(Note: Robert asked me to come back to work for him. I lasted three months while Hira was passing away. I was there for all the drama of his passing. There is no way for Jennifer to know this.)

Jennifer: He’s saying “I lost my dignity and you never made him feel bad. I couldn’t do normal things, I wanted to be the best (companion) and you never made me feel bad. You thought it was just what you were supposed to do.” And he says “Thank you.” He’s saying – “Even when you were thinking you were not communicating well; he didn’t feel that.” He always felt you were communicating constantly – with the dogs and cats... (laughs) and all those people over there who want to talk to you and can’t get through the door because Hira is there.

Robert: Who wants to talk to me?

Jennifer: Well, your dad – and your mom too. She loves you so much. Your mom – she showed me Hira, that she’s going to race Hira to get to you – she says she’s so proud of you. (Jennifer listens) Have you ever written music?

Robert: No.

Jennifer: I see music – I see you and I see music coming out of you.

(Note: I was at his mom’s funeral. Both Robert and his brother Roger gave the most eloquent eulogies I’ve ever heard. I actually said “I wish these two could speak at my funeral.” When Jennifer said “I see music coming out, I instantly thought of those eloquent eulogies.)

Richard: If I may; I think what Helen is saying, is that Robert’s words are like music?

(Jennifer taps her nose) “Yes. They’re a symphony.”

Richard: At her funeral – his eulogy was amazing; I wish I had filmed it.

Jennifer: Your mother says “It was like Beethoven.”

Richard: Your brother Roger’s eulogy was also profound but your eulogy was the most eloquent I’ve heard. Is that what you mean, Helen?

Jennifer: She says “Yes.” She says (To Robert) “You wrote her letters and that you got her. How she was raised, all the decisions she made whether to come to California from either Boston or NY, whatever she did at a young age, you got the decisions she made... having a family and changing your name...”

(Note: Jennifer has no clue of the family name change from Schwartz to Towne. And Robert’s eulogy was about these details of her journey.)

Jennifer: She says “She knew how much you loved her and she knew how great you are, and how great you were going to be and how great you are now. And she says that she’s coming back as Hira!” She says, “Everyone wants to come back as Hira!”

(Laughter)

Jennifer: Robert, do you know Bill Paxton? Or that other actor that Bill knows?

Richard: She means Harry Dean Stanton. They were both in “Big Love.” We’ve chatted with both of them, and they often appear together.

Robert: I knew Harry.

Richard: Harry what do you want to say to your pals about the afterlife?

Jennifer: He says “It’s not that bad. It’s amazing. It’s amazing once you know you’re up here. Once you realize you’re there.” He says, “He misses being here, misses the smells, lotion on women – it’s interesting how the smells can bring you back.” He showed me some female putting lotion on her legs. He says “I miss that – they can recreate it (over there) – but it’s not the same.”

(Note: We’ve interviewed Harry previously. He gave me accurate things to mention at his memorial service, and proved beyond any shadow of doubt I might have had.)

Richard: Harry was in the Linda Ronstadt doc shown on CNN recently; what did you think of that Harry?

Jennifer: He says “Eh, it was rough cut.” (Jennifer listens) Did he play the banjo?

Robert: He did play the banjo.

(Note: Not something I nor Jennifer knew.)

Jennifer: I’ll guess that’s the tambourine reference! I’m sorry I kept seeing the white thing.

Richard: In the documentary, Linda says she used to hear you singing those old Mexican songs, and she decided to make an album. The most successful album of Mexican music ever.)

(Jennifer laughs) He says “She ripped me off.”

Robert laughs.

Jennifer: He said “He was naked while he was doing that, singing those tunes.”

Richard: I believe it – but what else Harry?

Jennifer: He showed me something – that was wrapped. Like a flag, might have to do with Buddhism too. I know he was an atheist, but he’s showing me you Robert, with something purple, that’s wrapped, that’s stored.

Richard: In storage? Or a religious thing?

Jennifer: Great question thank you. He says it pertains to one of your movies, maybe “Chinatown?” Yes.  It has to do with “Chinatown.”

(Note: I’m familiar with religious relics, and the Buddhists tend to wrap up their most sacred texts in purple cloth and put them away. What Harry seems to be saying, is to “not be too precious” with the memory of the film script of “Chinatown” – to just shake off the covers or purple cloth and make it accessible to a new audience that doesn’t remember the original.)

Richard: Does he mean the prequel to Chinatown that Robert is working on?

Jennifer: He says “You need to re-invent it – give it more life.” He says “You’re bored with it, and he wants you to give it more life, make it spectacular again for a newer audience... because they don’t know. He’s showing me glitter or sparkles...  and that usually makes me think of strippers in Vegas.”

Robert: I have an odd question. About every dog I had.  One was a St. Bernard mix – I called “Buddy” and the other was my very first dog who slept under my crib, named “Scrappy.” She’d been…

Jennifer: “Run over by a truck...” She had internal bleeding and she died.

Robert. That’s right. I loved them both.

Jennifer: They’re still here – all the dogs are still there and Hira is in charge of all the dogs you had in your life because he would have been like that here.

Robert: (laughs) He would be.

Jennifer: He said he was in charge of the cats, total agreement on what to do and not to do.

Robert: That was Hira.

Jennifer: I don’t know that, but that’s what the cats are saying. Hira was rather regal wasn’t he?

Richard: Ridiculously so - he deigned to let me walk him.

Jennifer: But Harry still wants to say something. He says “The Millennials need to see a new “Chinatown with sparkles.” He wants you to rethink or reinvent it to get the same impact.

(Note: Nothing funnier than getting script notes from an old friend on the flipside.)

Richard: Thank you Harry.

Jennifer: I’m sorry, I have to go; I have a client in one minute. But Eddie is showing me that compass; which is pretty cool.

Nick: I appreciate it more than I can express.

*****

Afterwards, a very skeptical Nick didn’t seem so skeptical any more, and said “Well, I’ll be a son of a bitch” and thanked Jennifer for her time connecting him to his son Ian. Nick Coster passed away a few days ago, I’m sharing this in memory of him.

Robert Towne, Richard Martini, Caleb Deschanel on 
set of Personal Best. Photo by Steven Vaughan

I post this in honor of Nick Coster. He lost his son Ian, something I wasn't aware of, and was able to connect to him during his session with Jennifer. Robert was able to connect with his dog Hira as well as his father and mother, Lou and Helen. I knew them both, as well as knowing Luana for 20 years. I'm sharing this because it's mind bending, it's pretty much what I've been filming for over ten years with people under hypnosis, using guided meditation (DivineCouncils.com) or with mediums. (See FLIPSIDEMYFILM.COM or HACKINGTHEAFTERLIFEFILM.COM on Gaia.)

I asked Robert about sharing this with the world, and whether or not someone might worry about him talking to those that others cannot.  He doesn't mind.

Because the truth sets everyone free on both sides of the veil.  I have the filmed version of this exchange, and this piece was edited for time and clarity. 

Jennifer can be found at JenniferShaffer.com - she works pro bono with law enforcement agencies nationwide, and we've been doing these kinds of interviews weekly for 8 years. The past two years on our podcast HACKINGTHEAFTERLIFE.com - or the videos are at MartiniZone.com

Hope this helps someone.

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I swear I didn't write this. (Or pay for it) This appears to be an AI publicist sponsored by Amazon India. (Each one of my books is "the best book I've written.")

Kinda weird, kinda fun - I mean someone in Delhi could have been written this for the Economic Times of India instead of AI. Cui bono? Amazon India? Me? India is by far the most religious country I've visited, newspapers are filled with articles about spirituality.

These interviews with folks on the flipside are in some ways contrary to religious philosophy - and yet, what can I say? "Thank you AI Amazon India for considering my books worth noting?"

It's weird. Here's a clue: "Disclaimer : The above content is non-editorial and produced by a third party advertiser.

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Saturday

INTERVIEW WITH CINDY WILLIAMS ON THE FLIPSIDE

These are photographs of Freddie Forrest and his co star Luana Anders from their film "When the Legends Die."  

I was conversing with one of the folks mentioned in this interview when I realized he'd never heard it. 

So I transcribed it for him.

He also worked with Freddie Forrest.

We were talking about Cindy Williams, so I asked "Have you seen our podcast where we interviewed Cindy?" He had not. 

So here it is. To realize our friends are never ever very far away.

Good to know!

Frederic Forrest Luana Anders "When the Legends Die"




This is an excerpt from our podcast “Hacking the Afterlife with Jennifer Shaffer, Cindy Williams and friends.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_BxiG6wfBA Edited for content:  Feb 3rd, 2023.

Jennifer Shaffer in Bold, My comments in italics.

Rich: (after Cindy Williams shows up in our class on the flipside) I already knew she was going to be here, I already had a conversation with Cindy this morning. I was on Laverne and Shirley (decades ago) and Cindy called me “fur face” on the show. This morning I heard her voice say "hello fur face.”  Cindy, who greeted you on the flipside?

Jennifer: (Pause) Not Penny. (laughter) She says, “My animals.” She says “Penny was off smoking when I came over!”

(aside to audience) Jennifer doesn’t know anything about Penny – she did smoke like crazy and that was Cindy’s big complaint in their office together on the Paramount lot.

Jennifer: She says that Penny says “There’s no filter over here!”

Rich: Cindy, what was it like crossing over?

She says, “It’s my birthday!” (Jennifer aside: I don’t understand.)

I think I do. We’ve heard it before; it’s her birthday on the flipside.

She says, “It sucks. It meant I had died.” She said, “She was way ready to go. But… One of her sons didn’t want to let her go..”

Who was that? Your son, Zack?

She says, “Yes Mr. Know it all.”

She has a son Zack, and her daughter is Emily.

(Jennifer aside: I don’t know!) I feel like Zack wasn’t ready to let her go. He was… but he wasn’t. She says “I didn’t need permission, but it helped me get out of there.” (laughs) She said she died of second hand smoke. She says “She died from lung cancer, second hand smoke…” (A pause) No, she’s kidding about that, completely kidding. Penny just made a smacking gesture. (Like “stop trying to be funny.”)

So I want to ask about your journey Cindy. You grew up in where? Show Jennifer.

I’m seeing the Hollywood sign?

In L.A., yes. Well, sort of, the valley.  And you did work at the Whiskey a Go Go.

She said, “Everybody worked there.” She says “That’s where I learned not to smoke.”

Of course; second hand smoke in those days… super popular.

She says, “That’s when she got discovered. She met someone there.. and (then) Penny.”

But let’s discuss before you get to Penny, she’s a little later.

(Jennifer aside) She’s telling me that’s not when she met Penny. (correcting her)

I want to ask “When you met Fred.” You know who I’m talking about but Jennifer does not. Luana knows.

She says (at) “21.”

I think that’s right. What was that like to meet Fred, anything you want to say to fred?

She said “He should be here and I should be there! We should switch places.” She’s joking.  She said “Thank you.”

Fred had a partner.

She’s showing me (the film) “Grease…?”

(Note: Funny, American Graffiti was a version of Grease, didn’t think of this at the time. And “Happy Days” was “Graffiti.”)

Well, Penny’s brother was Fred’s partner. They managed her. We’ve interviewed Penny’s brother when he crossed over? Garry.

Garry. She said that.

And Fred and Garry put her in some movies to begin with. Penny do you want to show who it was that  put you in one of your first movies, the most famous one? His first name is George. George is on this side. You want to talk about that?

She says, “It was thrilling, exciting…” I don’t know what her part was. It was small she said.. (holds up her fingers to indicate tiny) (Jennifer aside) I know you’re talking about George Lucas. She showed me something and I got sidetracked. She said, “It was spectacular.” She said “I wasn’t worthy” and made that “I’m not worthy” bow…  but says “It was a small part that led to something else.”

That’s right – a smaller part in the first film.

She showed me like R2D2, but not him. She’s making a joke about it being small.

You don’t know the name of the film Jennifer – it was American Graffiti.

Jennifer shrugs. (Hasn’t seen it) Why does Jack Nicholson show up?

Let’s hold on to that thought for a second. Cindy, we interviewed the father of the fellow you starred with in that film. The father’s name was Rance – and then later this fellow named Ron you worked with. We interviewed Rance Howard.

(Note: We interviewed Rance years earlier just after he passed, it’s in the book BACKSTAGE PASS TO THE FLIPSIDE. Rance starred in my film “Limit Up”)

Opie’s dad!

Right. Opie and Cindy starred in….

“Happy Days.”

And Garry Marshall produced that and came up with the spinoff that put his sister with Cindy.

She says “He’s the smarter one.”  (A comic dig at Penny)

I wrote to Fred yesterday, and called you one of the most generous sweet spirits he’d ever met.

(continuing her riff) She says, “Anything better than Penny.”

Cindy, is there anything you want to say to Fred?

(A pause) She’s quoting you; She says “tell him I’m not gone, I’m just not there.”

Anything for Ron?

He feels like a little brother.

Ron was 18 when they were cast and Cindy was 24, and in his tribute yesterday Ron mentioned their friendship.

She said, “He treated me like I was his older sister, and that stayed until I passed.”

Yesterday Ron said “It’s really a shock to imagine that spark is gone.” So let me ask you Cindy, is the spark gone?

She says, “It’s just getting started again.” With my birthday party (coming to the flipside.)

Anything you want to say to Ron?

What I said to his face, “I love you always.”

Your ex husband Bill is still on the planet.

She’s laughing. She says “You can have it.” I don’t know what she means. “He can have it.” He’ll know what that means. I don’t know. I saw a car, and then I saw a horse…

If someone knows Bill Hudson, let him know, he can have it.

I asked “what is it?” she said “He’ll know what it means.”

Okay, why is it you were ready to talk (to us)? Some people show up and are not ready to talk.

Because she had time to believe in it.. what I’m getting is, if I’m getting the right interpretation, she is saying, what I’m feeling that, first of all I have a lot of friends over there, we all work together just like we did here, second I talked to a lot of people on the other side that I was heart broken over and so I thought that was easier – and she believes in our class and what we’re doing..

What about Harry Dean Stanton?

She says, “It took him a little longer.”

Here’s the weird part, I did a Laverne and Shirley where I was a pizza delivery guy always missing a slice of pizza – and Harry Dean was on that show.  That fur face thing was her line to me – it was funny because Penny had to cut me out. But there’s a lot of people in our class, including Penny’s brother that we’ve interviewed. (Robin Williams too)

There’s a lot of love and laughter over here, you can only imagine what they had while making the show, take that and then (uses her hands) it’s over there, and there’s all this love and laughter and we try to recreate things that make us feel loved. She says, “If I knew it was going to be this great, I would have quadrupled all of that here.” She knew this (concept) – that whatever you want the most of – give it away. In this life, in the afterlife, it all comes back.

Let me ask this – you and Penny had a falling out during the show – people talked about it. What was it like when you saw Penny?

I punched her. (But) It went right through her. (A pause) There was an immediate understanding and love right after that. And it was inconsequential, the show was like a grain of sand, compared to what we’ve been through.

Over other lifetimes?

She says, “Yeah.”

There was a time I played the piano to accompany Penny on a yacht..

She says, “Where was I? I wasn’t on that yacht?!”

(Laughs) Yes, It was Bob Shaye’s millennium yacht – I played songs with Penny and others.

(Jennifer aside) I didn’t know that. But she showed me a boat and you playing piano.

I heard you this morning as I was shaving, call me “fur face” – I appreciate what you’re saying that the afterlife is all the glorious things from life, was there anything weird about realizing that or was there total acceptance?

She’s saying, “There was complete vulnerability and love – every life is not perfect, but it’s the essence of who you are that comes into a room that meets everyone who loved you, or didn’t like you, whatever, but the essence of Penny… and it was that I loved her so much that I didn’t like her. Like, we were so much alike, that’s why we fought. We were one big roller coaster with each other.”

Before I forget David Kirkpatrick had a fun memory of you giving him the keys to your office – he wanted to point out that gesture of your generosity stayed with him throughout his life.

(Jennifer observes) She shrugged, says, “That was so simple – it wasn’t right we had AC and others did not… but we needed it because our makeup would melt without it.” She showed me (and says) “It’s this little thing, the essence of who you are, part of getting things and giving them away is the essence of who they were and are.”

And David pointed out that it was through you he met George Lucas, became aware of Harrison and all that - how your generosity and intervention was how that happened.

She’s showing me Garry and Fred (as well) – and how everyone is connected, how we’re all light. She’s showing me it’s like a magnet, you can't go up against a connection that isn’t meant for you – but if you’re across the world you’re going to attract the people you need to meet.

So it’s a bit like quantum mechanics?

Jennifer taps her nose.

Who’s saying yes?

Luana is saying “That means yes.”

Funny, Luana had an album of Simon and Garfunkel’s that she lit a candle under when she was a teen, told her roommate she was going to know them, and later I found out she dated both of them but neither knew about it.

(Jennifer pauses) Have you talked to Jack lately?

I have not. what does Luana want to say?

It’s about the script.

The one about his life?

Yes. She wants you to focus on that.

I was reading Sally Kellerman’s autobiography “Read my lips” – so many great stories in that. Need to put those in the script. So what are you saying, we need to put it back on the burner?

Jennifer nods, taps her nose again.

Last time I mentioned it to Fred, he said “I never stop thinking about this script.”

“Full circle” she says, “How everything’s connected. Everyone has access to what they’re supposed to be doing. It’s just about following your passion – all the light can come in.” They’re showing me how I bring people to life from this side.

So Cindy started this conversation saying it was her birthday on the flipside.  Let’s give Cindy the last word.

Jennifer laughs. She says “Thank for taking my call.” And then everyone - They all just screamed together “Love love!” 

It was Robin Williams who told us that – to “Love love.” “Love who you are, love who you’re with.”

“Everything bad or indifferent or great makes up who you are. Just Love love.”

Thanks Jennifer. Wow.

Towards a Hipper Obit - the language of the Flipside

 Towards a new flipside language.

In the headlines every day, we hear or see the terms “So and so dead at age..” “So and so has died” or people refer to their loved ones as “Lost” or the “tragic loss” or “dead, died…” — I grew up with the term “Kicked the bucket.” An old midwestern term, it was the “last thing someone did before departing God’s green earth.”

In the movie “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” the film opens with a fellow driving recklessly through the desert, then he drives off a cliff. All the cast members run down the hill to see if the guy’s alive. (Jimmy Durante). With his last breath, he reveals that he’s buried a fortune “under the sign of the X” in Santa Monica, and then promptly kicks a bucket that magically appears next to his foot.

So the audience knows he’s gone. He’s “kicked the bucket.”

Term appears in old English in the 18th century, no one is sure why — perhaps when hanging a poor sod, someone puts him on the bucket, then kicks it to end his journey. Or perhaps he kicks it. Accidentally? No one knows.

If I had any influence over news media editorial, i would issue a fatwa to use certain words when describing those who leave the stage early. Not they’re “dead, died, killed, tragic, lost”… all those word imply they are gone, presumably unaware of where they are, what happened, or that they still exist.

“They left the stage” works. Like “Elvis has left the building.” Doesn’t mean he’s disappeared, just that “He’s offstage.”

Based on personal experience, based on data, based on research, based on studies that show consciousness is not confined to the brain, everyone offstage knows where they are once they leave the stage.

They can be confused at first, reportedly because they were told incessantly things were supposed to end but didn’t, their family, friends, religious practices emphasized something would happen — and even if it does happen (and in 1–3% of NDE case studies when something negative happens) when the person realizes that what they imagined isn’t accurate, the mental construct dissolves and they realize “they’re home.”

That’s the term everyone uses. When asked “So where did you go after the memory of that lifetime?” they always say “Home.” Some might recall “coming back again” — but if they’re asked to “go back to the memory of that previous lifetime. Where did you go just after that?” They inevitably say “I went home.”

As in not here.

They can realize why they chose their path, why they agreed to participate in the play, realize that everybody left onstage cannot hear, see them.. except for pets, small children whose filters haven’t kicked in, or some mediums with altered filters, or the others offstage. They’re aware of us, but can’t change the fact that we’re no longer onstage.

People offstage are not “lost, gone, finished, over, ended.” They know that. We do not.

So why use false language?

My experience is that while they’re offstage, and their role in the play has ended, we can feel the grief, the mental anguish, the suffering of their no longer being onstage, but we can also stop pretending they are gone, lost, or don’t exist just because we don’t “see” “hear” or otherwise “confirm their existence onstage.”

I sound like the “word police.”

But why not?

When the headline reads, “so and so left the stage today” or “we mourn the loss” and at the same time hail the person for their journey — no matter how long or short — and acknowledge that while we may not understand the circumstances around their departure, equally we cannot understand the circumstances around their coming here in the first place until we actually take the time to learn about the process.

Either from our own journey or from asking them directly.

They exist. Are accessible.

Yesterday was looking at a study published via UVA’s Medical School DOPS, Dr. Emily Kelly examines the specific data regarding what people experienced during their near death event. (2001)

https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/wp-content/uploads/sites/360/2017/01/KEL13-NDEwithReports-of-Meeting-Deceased-People.pdf

In the section about who people saw on the flipside:

“Other Figures Seen Among the 274 cases examined in this study, 189 persons ( 69% ) reported seeing or sensing the presence of someone, whether recognized or unrecognized : 28 people saw only a recognized deceased person, 46 saw other figures in addition to a recognized deceased person, 115 saw only other figures and 85 saw no one at all.

Among the 161 people who saw other figures 18 ( 11% ) identified one of them as a religious figures, usually Jesus. Eleven ( 7% ) Dr. E. W. Kelly reported seeing living persons whom they recognized, but very few reported seeing fanciful or unrealistic figures. Only two saw animals ( both were deceased pets). Many saw a Being of Light, whom they strongly identified with God. For the most part, however, the other figures remained unrecognized and unidentified.”

But they know who these folks are now.

(Data, research, post materialist science demonstrates consciousness is not confined to the brain. See Dr. Greyson’s AFTER, Dr. Tucker’s BEFORE, Dr. Kelly’s IRREDUCIBLE MIND, Dr. Presti’s MIND BEYOND BRAIN, Dr. Beauregard’s EXPANDING REALITY. People can recall previous lifetimes, examples in Dr. Wambach’s 2750 case studies, Dr. Weiss 4k cases, Michael Newton’s 7k reports, the 200 I’ve filmed in the documentaries FLIPSIDE or HACKING THE AFTERLIFE on Gaia.)

So we can’t say (well, we can, but why pretend?) “they’re gone” or “they don’t exist” or “they’re buried in the earth” — because that’s about their costumes. That’s about the props that are left onstage.

When they leave the stage, we should refer to their contribution to the planet — no matter what age. It takes courage, selflessness, humor and compassion to show up here onstage, and we immediately pretend that once they’re offstage they no longer exist. Somebody should fix that.

My two cents.


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Tuesday

Jesus and the Flipside

 Simon Bown had me on his podcast today to talk about the latest book THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD AS TOLD BY JESUS AND THOSE WHO KNEW HIM.

https://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Story-Never-Told-Jesus-ebook/dp/B0BZWY2MRN

At some point we thought we'd see if we could talk to Jesus. 

Simon did a guided meditation where he walked us into a cabin in the woods where Jesus and he had a conversation. I supplied the questions, Jesus gave the answers.

I asked him if he'd read the book. "I've got a lot to do" he said. I asked him about the events in the book. "Accurate for the most part." I asked him about the description of him on the cross. He said "It wasn't me up there."

He then told a story that is reported in the Qur'an.  That a confederate, a follow who looked just like him was on the cross. He said that the volunteer was a Roman soldier who looked just like him, who switched with him while Jesus was being beaten up.  That because the face was so bloody, no one recognized the switch.

That's how he was able to leave after three days. 

He confirmed the detail that he was married to Mary Magdalene. That they had and lost children. (He said 9, I've heard other accounts of 5 and lost 3.) He said they went to France first, then later to Kashmir.

That he also traveled with his brother "James" although he used another word.  He said that eventually Mary Magdalene returned to France after his death at 87.

(I've heard 68 as well).  

It's contrary to the story that's told in "The Greatest Story Never Told as Told by Jesus and Those Who Knew Him."  I will transcribe this podcast, the Jesus portion, and include it in future copies (something you can do with publishing these days. Upload a newer version with fixed typos, new chapters, as I often do.)

Some woman left a review on Amazon complaining about the typos.  There was an errant copy that existed briefly on Kindle - published an earlier draft - that has been corrected. So if anyone wants to, they can just go to Kindle and reupload the book for the corrected text.

Or for new chapters.

Interesting information. Simon did two things that corroborated for me that he as talking to the Alpha and Omega. His eyes were brown "with flecks of gold."  When asked to change into something more casual he changed into jeans and a tee shirt. In this case "The Grateful Dead."

Fellow has a sense of humor.

We got him to laugh a couple of times. Simon said "Jesus is laughing."

I said "Well, then this podcast is worth it just to make Jesus laugh."

It should be out in a week or so, will post a link asap to his podcast: https://www.pastliveshypnosis.co.uk/podcast-2/

Enjoy!

Coast to Coast this Wednesday June 14th, from 10 to midnight ALIENS AND THE FLIPSIDE

Hi all,

I'm back on Coast to Coast this Wednesday evening talking about "Contact in the Desert" the "alien convention" that Ron Janix ran so well in Indian Wells last week. 


I will be referencing the number of alien encounters that have shown up in the research over the past ten years.

That is - people I've never met who I do a guided meditation with, who spontaneously begin talking about some event that occurred to them that included a UFO.


In the book ARCHITECTURE OF THE AFTERLIFE there are a number of these reports, people seeing "alien looking" beings on their council.

That is - their "Divine Council" (DivineCouncils.com

In the 50 reports that are in this book, there are about a dozen accounts where people talk about seeing an alien on their council.  In the book Architecture of the Afterlife, during those 50 reports, people also recount seeing an alien looking being on their council, and I ask them to communicate directly with them.

The point is - If we are being visited by alien intelligence, how is it possible for us to visit them?

I suggest that using a simple technique of guided meditation can be a place to start.

That is - with people who've been abducted or who've seen a UFO, they can use guided meditation to revisit the event. Further, by asking simple questions - freezing the experience like a hologram, they report that can "communicate with the pilot" of the ship they're seeing.

I've demonstrated it enough times to point out that it's not my opinion, theory or belief people claim to be able to communicate with them. I'm not seeing them, hearing the answers; they are.

And what these beings say is consistent and reproducible.

So when we're speaking of "divine councils" we're talking about beings that have overlooked all of our lifetimes.  They know why we chose this current lifetime, and can answer questions about it.

Including the question if we have ever incarnated on another planet.

According to the Newton Institute, over 35% of reports include memories of lifetimes off planet.

If that's true - then how can we examine those lifetimes? Have discussion with the folks involved with those lifetimes? If we don't ask the questions, we can't compare the answers.

And by comparing the answers we can come to a new conclusion.

That's what I hope to discuss on Tomorrow night's show.


UAP Revelations / Afterlife Explorations


Hosted by

George Noory


Guests:

Nick Pope, Richard Martini

Wednesday - June 14, 2023


UAP Revelations / Afterlife Explorations

About the show

First Half: Former UK government UFO investigator Nick Pope will discuss the recent NASA UAP meeting, the latest details of Congressional engagement, and the extraordinary testimony of former US intelligence community officer insider David Grusch.


Second Half: Award-winning journalist and filmmaker, Rich Martini will speak about his incredible journey searching for evidence of the afterlife via various means, including hypnotherapy and past life regressions.


https://www.amazon.com/Divine-Councils-Afterlife-Flipside-Court-ebook/dp/B0BKMV34QP?asin=B0BKMV34QP&revisionId=f6793054&format=1&depth=1

Thursday

Hacking the Afterlife with Jennifer Shaffer, Luana Anders, Harry Dean Stanton and Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotake)


Another unusual afternoon chatting with folks on the flipside. In this episode we get a visit from an old friend Harry Dean Stanton. Harry passed away in Sept. 2017 at the age of 91. As noted in the book BACKSTAGE PASS TO THE FLIPSIDE, Harry Dean came through prior to his memorial service.   When Harry passed, I wondered if it was possible to chat with my old pal. A skeptic's skeptic, he had spent many a long evening arguing with anyone who wanted to talk about the afterlife. He lumped the reports into a big hat of nonsense, and was quite vocal about "life ending in death and we should get over it." There's a DVD of one of Harry's movies where the director put clips of him talking about it. Anyways, Harry came forward when I asked for him. I asked what he thought it was like "realizing there was an afterlife."  That footage was shot live on camera, is in the film Hacking the Afterlife on Gaia (HackingTheAfterlifeFilm.com) Harry gave us an elaborate story of how he was greeted on the flipside by Luana, Fred Roos, driving to the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967.  Fred is still on the planet, and confirmed everything Harry told me (which I didn't know.)  Harry called the "creation of this event" as a soft landing for him - so he wasn't stressed, as he thought he had "fallen into a dream." Something he thought might happen. So today he stopped by to elaborate on his conversation from 6 years ago - that it was advisable to "believe in the possibility" before one leaves the planet, as that "makes it easier to transition." I didn't ask for Harry to come by, but he has a number of times before, and like I say, I knew him, spent one too many evenings with him, and played guitar with him.  He's a much beloved person, as Pacino, Nicholson, Beatty and Ed Begley Jr. All were there - all are skeptics.  I brought private messages to a couple of his closest friends, and one to his old girlfriend (whom I mention in the podcast.) Yes, it's mind bending to hear again from Harry Dean. No it's not impossible or even unusual. Yes, my son and I were listening to "Lakota songs for Sitting Bull" on YouTube the other day - his face popped up in the search portion and we listened to about a half hour of songs sung by his people. For those keeping track, my first hypnotherapy session I recalled being a Lakota medicine man - I recalled my name "Wa'tanka" and how I'd lost my wife and son in a battle with the Huron. Later, I consulted an historian who confirmed all the details I mentioned, including the battle sites (in Eau Claire Wisconsin where they fought for 60 years) He knew I was a medicine man from my description of clothing (two feathers in my hair hanging down, wearing buckskin) and pointed out the name was a derivation of "Wakan Tanka" which means the great spirit.  Since then I have spend time learning about the Lakota and all I can say is that Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotake) is someone I'm somewhat familiar with, have seen one of his peace pipes in the Autry museum (which Jennifer identified at the time) and we have heard from him before. Our ancestors are not far away. It's up to us to take the time to invite them by for a chat. Enjoy

Friday

Hacking the Afterlife with Jennifer Shaffer, Luana, Prince, Tina Turner,...






Talking to Tina Turner on the Flipside

We’ve been doing this weekly for eight years, Jennifer Shaffer and I. The past two on our podcast, “Hacking the Afterlife.” She works with law enforcement agencies nationwide on missing person cases so I know how effective she can be. Luana Anders is my pal who passed in 1996, who moderates our class on the flipside — doing something similar to what Jennifer is doing here. Helping translate information. 

In this one, Luana talks about an old friend of hers, someone she knew and “chanted with” awhile ago. It’s always mind bending when these things happen, but we don’t plan our podcasts in advance. You just never know who may show up. Enjoy. 

Here are the liner notes for the podcast:
Hacking the Afterlife with Jennifer Shaffer, Luana, Prince, Tina Turner, Lil Richard, Billie Holiday

Didn’t plan it, suspected it might occur, but we got a visit from the Queen of Rock and Roll. In the podcast, Prince shows up first, I thought because he showed up the week previously and didn’t get to speak, but he wanted to say “We got her.” And then he presented Jennifer with Tina. 

We asked if she was ready to be interviewed, or if she just wanted to hang back, but because of her relationship with our moderator on the flipside, Luana Anders, who knew her when they both joined the Nichiren SGI group in LA, (“Nam Myoho Renge Kyo”) — they could both speak about the value that form of meditation had on their lives.

I asked the same questions I ask everyone — who greeted them on the other side, what that was like (Later, Jennifer mentioned a “standing ovation”) but also who she was surprised to see. She mentioned JFK, although I don’t think they met in life, I did look up that she met and knew Jackie O. 

But the idea of “seeing someone that’s in our class that was a surprise to see” is what the question is. As she noted, she’s “meeting more people every moment’ — connecting with her old friends, and going through a “life review” with each person she meets. 

James Brown (whom we interview in “Backstage Pass to the Flipside’) was one of the first people to greet her, then we had a conversation with none other than her pal Little Richard, and there’s a touching moment when Jennifer hears about her meeting up with Billie Holiday. 

Again, to clarify, Jennifer isn’t a music critic, (as I once was for Variety) doesn’t know the connections these folks have, but is either seeing or hearing answers to the questions we pose. We’ve been doing this weekly for eight years, and the past two on this podcast. 

As noted, we do the podcast to demonstrate how easy it is to ask questions to loved ones on the flipside, in terms of practice, doing it in their favorite locations, and asking them to “nod” “shrug” or “shake their head” helps them to realize they too can continue the conversation. 

We had no idea that she would show up today, but because I knew that Luana was friends with her, I wasn’t surprised when we were told that occurred. Jennifer didn’t know about their connection, but learned it as the audience does, when Tina showed her “a meditation group.” 

This podcast is done with respect to these artists, but also respect to the research. I’ve been filming people accessing this information for over ten years, have filmed 200 individuals “talking to, learning new information” from people off planet, have three documentaries on the topic (FLIPSIDEMYFILM.COM, TALKING TO BILL PAXTON, MARTINIFILMS.COM HACKINGTHEAFTERLIFEFILM.COM available on Gaia). 

I have written ten books on the topic (Best selling in their kindle genre on Amazon) and continue to push this envelope which demonstrates not only the same hallmarks from people on the flipside (guides, teachers, councils, classrooms, etc) but also that anyone anywhere can communicate with love ones anytime if they take the time to learn how to bypass the filters. 

We can do so in dreams, with hypnotherapy or meditation — but also by having a friend like Jennifer Shaffer who spends 30 percent of her day helping members of law enforcement agencies nationwide on a pro bono basis. So I know how effective she can be if someone asks her. 

We hope this podcast helps someone somewhere, as people suffer with grief from the loss of loved ones daily. As Jennifer’s father told us from the flipside; “grief contains the sad memories. Nostalgia has both sad and happy memories. 

When you can move grief to nostalgia you begin the healing process.” Apologies for not recalling Erwin Bach’s name, her partner for the past ten years, but it was Tina who pointed out that he was “much younger than her” (and that is correct, by 16 years.) 

As she notes in the podcast, “She’ll be waiting for him when he crosses over, but he has a lot more fun to have before then.” As do we all.

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