Making a Difference, Even After Dying

by Mark Pitstick, MA, DC

I dedicate this article to Michael Rosenblum, who changed worlds on October 10, at the age of 26, after a car accident. Michael is—not was, for love and life are eternal—the son of Harry Rosenblum. Harry is the partner of Lisa Cedrone, editor of Transformation Magazine. I didn’t have the pleasure of meeting Michael, but I’ve heard much about his strength of spirit from his proud father.

When I was 20 years old, I worked part-time as a respiratory therapist. On one of my first calls to the emergency room, we worked on a five-year-old boy who had been hit by a truck. As we treated him, the story unfolded: he had been walking to his first day of kindergarten and was the only child of young parents. Despite hours of resuscitative care, he died from multiple injuries. In shock, I stumbled out into the hall just in time to see his parents’ faces contort in grief as a doctor told them the news.

I went outside, shook my fist at the sky, and cursed ‘God.’ How could an all loving, powerful and knowing ‘God’ allow a little one to ‘die’ so tragically? What kind of world was this where innocent children suffer and ‘die’ and people experience such losses? Afterwards, I entered a period of agnosticism and experienced the emotional pain and confusion that accompany a bleak spiritual perspective.

Over time, this and other difficult events in my life motivated me to search for answers to life’s existential questions, such as: “Who am I? Why am I here? Is there a loving and just ‘God?’ Why is there so much suffering? What happens after I ‘die?’” You know the questions.

I began a quest to prove to myself whether or not ‘God’ and the ‘afterlife’ really exist. After 30 years of intense searching, I assembled sensible, evidence-based answers to these questions. Here are the answers in a nutshell . . .

We each really are timeless beings of energy, consciousness, light, spirit. We are integral and forever parts of number 3.

We are briefly here on Earth for the rich opportunities for loving service, adventure, growth and enjoyment.

There is a Divine Presence/Light/Power/Intelligence that is infinitely loving, wise and fair. It’s not a big man in the sky, though.

We suffer when we forget to view life from a spiritual, more cosmic perspective. For example, that little boy’s tragedy compelled me and, I presume, others to find sensible answers to life’s most difficult questions. Since then, many thousands of people have been helped just by my outreaches. So was his ‘death’ a tragedy or a victory?

When you ‘die,’ everything about you—except for your body—continues on in another dimension of your creation.

Documented evidence by respected scientists, physicians and university professors now clearly indicates that no one really dies. An afterlife exists for all or, more accurately, life is never-ending despite outward change. Many potential benefits, including personal and global transformation, accompany knowing this evidence.

Three of the nine categories of evidence include:

1. Near-Death Experiences (NDEs): Tens of thousands of documented cases exist in which clinically dead persons accurately saw—while their eyes were closed and their bodies were in an ER or ICU—events that occurred around, outside and even on top of the hospital. These cases are most impressive when they occur in blind persons and little children as reported by Raymond Moody, MD, PhD, Ken Ring, PhD, and a host of other researchers.

Further, 16 percent of (Near Death Experiencers) NDErs have experienced life-previews in which they saw future events over which they had no control. As reported by Bruce Greyson, MD, and others, their visions of the future were recorded by doctors and, over time, unfolded just as seen during the NDE. Finally, miraculous cures, such as that of Anita Moorjani, author of Dying To Be Me, have occurred during NDEs and have been confirmed by pre-and post-medical records.

2. Scientific Studies: Gary Schwartz, PhD—former Yale and Harvard professor, now at the University of Arizona—conducted repeated, double-blind, peer-reviewed, journal-published studies. His group of allegedly authentic mediums had an 87 percent success rate when psychically reading subjects they had no contact with. The control group had only a 23 percent success rate. The statistical probability of that difference occurring by chance is miniscule. Dr. Schwartz’s research has been closely monitored by other scientists, videographers and magicians; none could find any flaws in his methodology.

Ian Stevenson, MD, chairman of the psychiatry department at the University of Virginia Medical School, researched the topic of children’s past life memories for 60 years. He and his research team substantiated over 3,000 cases in which children from all continents accurately remembered a past life. Their memories were documented in a number of ways including one or more sets of birthmarks that correlated with death wounds in the previous time and place.

Research on Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) and its more advanced form Instrumental Trans-Communication (ITC) by Konstantin Raudive, PhD, and others also offers strong investigative support for life after death.

3. After-death Contacts (ADCs) have been experienced by over 75 million Americans: 25 percent of the general population, 66 percent of widows/widowers and 75 percent of bereaved parents. ADCs involve perceiving, with the usual senses or more ethereal ones, departed loved ones and occur in the waking and dream states. Shared ADCs involve perception of the same contact by more than one person at a time. In evidential ADCs, information or evidence was obtained that could not have been known unless, indeed, a deceased spirit was making contact. These have been reported by esteemed physicians such as Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, MD, and Carl Jung, MD.

That five-year-old boy’s passing motivated me to begin a search that has helped many thousands of people, and I’m just getting started. The same thing will happen after Michael’s transition back to the really real place. His life and death touched and blessed more people than we can ever imagine. The powerful ripples that he created will continue on and on. He is, no doubt, looking down proudly and urging us to remember that—despite appearances to the contrary at times—this time on Earth is a totally safe, meaningful and magnificent adventure amidst forever.

I hope this article helps you better know and show that you are an integral and infinite part of All That Is. Feel free to contact me if I can assist your journey to wellness and enlightenment in any way.

Mark Pitstick, MA, DC is an author, clinical psychologist, holistic physician, frequent media guest, and workshop facilitator. He is Director of The Soul Phone Foundation, Vice-President of Eternea, and board member of Helping Parents Heal. Mark can help you know and show that—no matter what is going on around you and even though it may not seem like it at times—this earth-experience is a totally safe, meaningful, and magnificent adventure amidst forever. Visit www.soulproof.com for free articles, newsletters, and radio shows with top consciousness experts. Email Mark at mark@soulproof.com with your toughest questions about life, death and afterlife.

 

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