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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Coast to Coast, George Nori with you,
Speaker 2: Rich Martini, Back with Us. Author award winning filmmaker Rich
Speaker 2: Martini has written or directed at least nine independent films.
Speaker 2: A former freelance journalist for a Variety, Premier and other magazines.
Speaker 2: A graduate of the Masters of Professional Writing Program at
Speaker 2: USC Flipside a Tourist. Guide to the Afterlife is his
Speaker 2: debute nonfiction book on a topic that's been haunting him
Speaker 2: since the death of a soulmate. After a dream vision
Speaker 2: of visiting his friend in the great Beyond, Martini went
Speaker 2: on a quest to find out what the prevailing science
Speaker 2: and philosophical opinions of the afterlife could be. He journeyed
Speaker 2: into Tibetan philosophy, made documentaries in Tibetan, India. Eventually he
Speaker 2: was introduced to the work of the Newton Institute, founded
Speaker 2: by renowned author and hypnotherapist doctor Michael Newton. Welcome back,
Speaker 2: Rich Martini, Rich and it was good seeing you at
Speaker 2: Contact in the Desert.
Speaker 1: George.
Speaker 3: It was such a treat to see you, and it
Speaker 3: always is, I must say you are. You are so
Speaker 3: good at what you do. Watching you with a panel
Speaker 3: of like ten different people from all walks of life,
Speaker 3: You're just you always see you never see to make
Speaker 3: the audience because you really know, or it seems to
Speaker 3: appear that you know exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 4: I hope I do. Did you like my jokes?
Speaker 3: You know, we also have to consider that you're a
Speaker 3: terrific actor. So but at the same time, it was
Speaker 3: just really fun and I learned so much. It was
Speaker 3: really a treat to be there.
Speaker 4: It was good to see you.
Speaker 2: Then I told you we'd get you back on I
Speaker 2: didn't think we'd get this quickly, but here you are.
Speaker 3: H that's really cool. Well listen, I just I'm still
Speaker 3: working on this idea of talking to people on the
Speaker 3: other side and it listen, I love Nick Pope and
Speaker 3: I loved he hear what he said, but it brings
Speaker 3: to mind this question, if they can visit us, how
Speaker 3: do we visit them? And it sort of it dovetails
Speaker 3: into this idea of talking to people on the flip side.
Speaker 3: You know, your loved ones, people who passed away, If
Speaker 3: they can visit us as ghosts or whatever, how do
Speaker 3: we visit them. And that's what that's really what how
Speaker 3: I got started in this research because my as you know,
Speaker 3: you've mentioned my friend Lajana Andrews passed away back in
Speaker 3: nineteen ninety six, and then she started showing up in
Speaker 3: dreams and then appearing to people that I knew, and
Speaker 3: they'd say, well, you know, I saw Luana, and I thought, well,
Speaker 3: wait a second, if she can come and visit me,
Speaker 3: how do I go and visit her? And that's what
Speaker 3: put me in this rabbit hole where I started filming
Speaker 3: people under hypnosis, like Michael Newton, you know, in his
Speaker 3: group and talking you know, it's seeing how they were
Speaker 3: able to access the between lives realm, the idea that
Speaker 3: we're all on stage while we'll hear during life, but
Speaker 3: then we go off stage. But then I also discovered,
Speaker 3: as you know, I've been working with a medium for Schaeffer,
Speaker 3: and I found that different mediums like her, who work
Speaker 3: with law enforcement, they're like having a cell phone to
Speaker 3: the flip side, you can ask people who are no
Speaker 3: longer on the planet, so what's it like over there?
Speaker 3: What are you doing over there? So and it's a
Speaker 3: way of us connecting with them once they're gone. But
Speaker 3: most recently I've been doing it with just simple guided meditation.
Speaker 3: I discovered that you don't need to do six hours
Speaker 3: of hypnotherapy. It helps, but just sitting down with somebody
Speaker 3: and asking them about some event that happened. It's like
Speaker 3: a gateway. And so let's say someone had a vivid dream,
Speaker 3: or let's say someone had an experience, could even be
Speaker 3: you know, an out of body experience, could be a
Speaker 3: UFO experience, whatever that experience is, if it's vivid enough,
Speaker 3: you can use it as a key to access the
Speaker 3: memory of it. And of course sometimes when people will say,
Speaker 3: you know, I was terrified, you know, I thought I
Speaker 3: saw a creature in my living room and I was terrified.
Speaker 3: And what I say is, well, let's freeze the frame
Speaker 3: of the memory as best you can. Just freeze it
Speaker 3: so there's no fear associated with it, and then turn
Speaker 3: it into a hologram so we can sort of move
Speaker 3: around the memory of it. And then once they're able
Speaker 3: to do that, I have them walk over to whoever
Speaker 3: this person is and just ask the same questions. So
Speaker 3: doctor Grayson's a friend and he wrote this book called After.
Speaker 3: He's the doctor at University of Virginia, who studied near
Speaker 3: death experiences for so long, and in his book he
Speaker 3: talks about how you can get objective data out of
Speaker 3: subjective experiences if you ask the subjects the same questions.
Speaker 3: So if you have one hundred people who had a
Speaker 3: near death event, and you ask all of it, and
Speaker 3: that's why we know that only one to three percent
Speaker 3: of people who have near death events, the ones who
Speaker 3: can remember them, have something negative happen. So ninety seven
Speaker 3: nine percent of the people who have a near death
Speaker 3: event have positive things happen, you see. And so this
Speaker 3: idea of using this subjective experience, whatever it is, as
Speaker 3: a as a hallmark so that you can then access
Speaker 3: what happened. And then what I do is I say,
Speaker 3: all right, let's ask this person that you're seeing the
Speaker 3: same questions. And by doing that, I found I could
Speaker 3: hone it down into a very simple meditation that anybody
Speaker 3: can do. I call it my Beatles meditation. Picture yourself
Speaker 3: on a boat in a boat on a river, you
Speaker 3: know the song Lousy in the Sky.
Speaker 4: With Diamonds, And I just have them do that.
Speaker 3: And the people who do that, and I say, okay,
Speaker 3: what's the boat look like? And then they picture whatever
Speaker 3: that boat is, and then I say, well, what's the
Speaker 3: river like? Sometimes it's a lake, sometimes it's a pond.
Speaker 3: And from there then I say, okay, can I invite
Speaker 3: a loved one or a guide or someone to sit
Speaker 3: across from you in this boat? And by doing that
Speaker 3: they're imagining, of course, they're pretending that they can see
Speaker 3: their loved one. But I go from there and then
Speaker 3: I ask the loved one the same questions. I ask,
Speaker 3: are you familiar with me? And George. You be shocked
Speaker 3: how many people say yes, even though the person I'm
Speaker 3: talking to has never met me, has never read any
Speaker 3: of my books. I'm doing this on Zoom. By the way,
Speaker 3: Divine Counsels, I had like fifty people do this on Zoom.
Speaker 3: They've never met me, don't know me. And I just
Speaker 3: say does your guide know me? And the guide will
Speaker 3: say yes, we do know you. You're the troublemaker.
Speaker 4: You're the troublemaker.
Speaker 3: A lot of questions or or they'll say yes, and
Speaker 3: I'll look to be honest. The most thing that I've
Speaker 3: heard from guides is they say, this is really valuable
Speaker 3: what you're doing. You're helping people on both sides. Of
Speaker 3: the veil to realize that we can communicate with each other,
Speaker 3: and that, to me is really what it's about in
Speaker 3: terms of talking to other beings, whatever they are, whether
Speaker 3: they're guides or counsels or from other planets. Is this
Speaker 3: telepathic communication. So you're not asking them to talk with
Speaker 3: music or talk with sound, or talk with words, or
Speaker 3: to understand their words. You're asking them to communicate telepathically.
Speaker 3: And according to the science of the University of Virginia,
Speaker 3: we all have filters on our brain to block our
Speaker 3: ability to access this information. And if we can bypass
Speaker 3: those filters, either through your death experience, perhaps out of
Speaker 3: body experience hallucinogens d MT, we've heard that, but also
Speaker 3: hypnosis and meditation are a way to just sidestep the filters.
Speaker 3: Some children don't have them until the age of eight.
Speaker 3: As you know, they remember past lives, they see relatives
Speaker 3: that nobody else can see.
Speaker 4: They're much better than adults do exact.
Speaker 3: And also elderly apparently lose them just prior to passing.
Speaker 3: Seventy percent of the UK hospice workers say that their
Speaker 3: dementia patients suddenly regain their memories just prior to passing.
Speaker 3: And as doctor Grayson put it in his YouTube talk,
Speaker 3: is consciousness produced by the brain. He said, it's as
Speaker 3: if the brains they're atrophying, brains are losing the filters,
Speaker 3: so they suddenly remember previous lifetimes or see people that
Speaker 3: others cannot. So it's these filters that George, you and
Speaker 3: I have to figure out how to bypass so we
Speaker 3: can have these conversations with loved ones off the planet.
Speaker 4: Were you always a believer on the other side?
Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's funny because I remember asking my father,
Speaker 3: you know, dead or go th real? And I don't
Speaker 3: remember why I asked that, but He's like, no, they aren't,
Speaker 3: And so I just allowed that. That was the case
Speaker 3: that throughout my life. When I did see them, and
Speaker 3: I saw a lot of them, I just assumed, Okay,
Speaker 3: it's something I made up, it's a pepperoni pizza I
Speaker 3: had last night. Whatever. But when I started doing this research,
Speaker 3: I realized, oh my gosh, my whole life I've had
Speaker 3: very unusual. Well, I'll give you one. I was in Sydney.
Speaker 3: Phill of Noises invited me over to see his movie
Speaker 3: News Front, and I was staying at his house, but
Speaker 3: he was in a hotel because he had sold the
Speaker 3: house and so there was just a bed in there.
Speaker 3: And I woke up and there was a guy hanging
Speaker 3: from the rafters, hanging by a noose, and it startled
Speaker 3: me awake, as you can.
Speaker 4: Imagine, of course.
Speaker 3: And this guy then looked at me and said because
Speaker 3: he saw me, and said, oh, I'm terribly sorry, mate,
Speaker 3: It's just something I feel the need to do. And
Speaker 3: then a ladder appeared underneath him, and he climbed down
Speaker 3: the ladder and pulled the rope after him as if
Speaker 3: it was a prop, and as it tumbled off the rafters,
Speaker 3: everything disappeared. So I had lunch with jan Sharp, Philip's
Speaker 3: wife at the time, and I said, well, hey, what's
Speaker 3: up with your ghost? She said, what are you talking about?
Speaker 3: I said, well, I saw this guy look like a painter.
Speaker 3: And she said, well, our house painter did do himself
Speaker 3: in that way.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: But he lives somewhere else miles away. And I said, well,
Speaker 3: he must have liked your house because he's still hanging around.
Speaker 4: Literally.
Speaker 3: But so so I realized this happened to me more
Speaker 3: often than I care to admit, and all these times
Speaker 3: I used to dismiss it. But now, of course, if
Speaker 3: it happens, I don't I if I can ask the
Speaker 3: person a question who I'm you know, if I can
Speaker 3: consciously dismiss my fear and say, what are you doing here?
Speaker 3: Who are you? Am I invading your space? Let's say somebody,
Speaker 3: Who's I mean? I was? I was teaching film up
Speaker 3: at Camden, Maine, the workshops, and I woke up one
Speaker 3: morning and there would say, I kid you not algonquin
Speaker 3: or an Iroquois in full battle dress, dripping blood in
Speaker 3: an acciden to you. Yeah, And he was screaming at
Speaker 3: me in some language. You know, I assume his language,
Speaker 3: and he was very unhappy that I was sleeping there.
Speaker 3: You know, I woke up and I was like, oh
Speaker 3: my gosh, what was that? And so, you know, I
Speaker 3: slept with the lights on for a week that I
Speaker 3: was teaching, you know, this class. But late since then,
Speaker 3: I've understood that people, you know, who may had a
Speaker 3: hard time passing, they might stick around a house that
Speaker 3: they were in or place location, you know, the mountain
Speaker 3: that they used to live in, because outside of time,
Speaker 3: you know, once you're off into the flip side, time
Speaker 3: is completely different, you know, people say, twenty five years
Speaker 3: on Earth feels like five or ten minutes over there.
Speaker 3: So you can imagine a guy passed away one hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty years ago, two hundred and fifty years ago.
Speaker 3: To him, it feels like, you know, an hour and
Speaker 3: a half ago, and he's yell at you to get
Speaker 3: out of his house, and you have to allow that. Okay,
Speaker 3: I am in his house. I am in a space,
Speaker 3: you know. So anyway, my point is, don't have fear.
Speaker 3: Just ask if you can, if you can meditate on it,
Speaker 3: and just say, look, I'm going to remember this moment
Speaker 3: without any fear. I'm going to freeze the frame and
Speaker 3: I'm going to see if I can ask this person
Speaker 3: a question. Are you a stranger? Are you a tourist?
Speaker 3: Or are you somebody who used to live here? And
Speaker 3: you just allowed that the answer might be the case.
Speaker 3: You know, we don't know if it is. But like
Speaker 3: I said, if you get twenty people or one hundred
Speaker 3: people and ask them the same questions, they can then
Speaker 3: take that subjective experience and turn it into objective data,
Speaker 3: which is what I did in Divine Counsels in the Afterlife,
Speaker 3: where I had these twenty scientists who all agreed for
Speaker 3: this experiment. One was from Harvard. I've had neuroscientists, different
Speaker 3: people of priests. They all agree to do an hour
Speaker 3: zoom session, not knowing what we're going to do. I
Speaker 3: just said it was going to be a guided meditation,
Speaker 3: and I just started in with picture yourself in a
Speaker 3: boat in a river, and within a few minutes all
Speaker 3: of them that's one hundred percent. So as a sub
Speaker 3: you know, as a data set, it would be abnormal
Speaker 3: to suggest that they couldn't do it. They all met
Speaker 3: their counsels, their guides, some of them saw previous lifetimes.
Speaker 3: Some of them visited classrooms in the afterlife, and sometimes
Speaker 3: I interviewed the teachers of those classes, and in a
Speaker 3: couple of cases, the teachers said, Richard, we've met you before,
Speaker 3: You've been here before. And then I had to remember,
Speaker 3: oh my gosh, you know, five years ago I interviewed
Speaker 3: somebody who told me about being in this class. Mind
Speaker 3: bending Georgia.
Speaker 2: It really is something else. Would you consider yourself a medium.
Speaker 3: A medium rare, or of an extra large? You did
Speaker 3: see me, you know in Indian Well, I'm kidding, you know,
Speaker 3: you know, it's that thing of labels you know, we do.
Speaker 3: We do tend to label things and it makes it
Speaker 3: easier for us. I've met a lot of psychics, let's say,
Speaker 3: and I always thought, well, that's you know, the future
Speaker 3: is not set, so saying that you can predict it
Speaker 3: seems a little out of league. But once I started
Speaker 3: doing this research into filters, I realized we're all mediums.
Speaker 3: Everyone's a medium. Everybody has different filters. The mediums I
Speaker 3: know that I work with the ones who work for
Speaker 3: law enforcement. Some are you know, Claire Audience, some are
Speaker 3: Claire sent you all those Claires. But it just means
Speaker 3: that their filters are not the same and they're slightly
Speaker 3: off for whatever reason. I've also learned that when you
Speaker 3: do a hypnotherapy session, it's like you're bypassing the filters
Speaker 3: and then it's easier to do. So I've done six
Speaker 3: hypnotherapy sessions, you know, with Newton Institute trained ones, you know,
Speaker 3: and it's like four to six hours. I'm sorry, I.
Speaker 4: Interrupted, you go ahead that I was going to say,
Speaker 4: that's intense therapy.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: This is why the first time I did it, I
Speaker 3: did it because I thought I would prove that it
Speaker 3: was fake or false skeptical, jaded Hollywood dude me. I thought,
Speaker 3: you know, the camera's not going to lie. But sure enough,
Speaker 3: that's not what happened. And after about four hours, I was,
Speaker 3: you know, telling of I was experiencing what everybody else does.
Speaker 3: But then two years later I was here in LA
Speaker 3: and my friends got to Tamble, who was a hypnotherapist,
Speaker 3: said you know, why don't we try another one? And
Speaker 3: I thought, okay, maybe that first one was all made up,
Speaker 3: you know, So I said great, and he started counting
Speaker 3: me down and George, you got like three numbers in
Speaker 3: and I said, you can stop counting. I'm right back
Speaker 3: where I was two years ago. Wow, But it's twenty
Speaker 3: seconds later. It's like and because what had happened two
Speaker 3: years early was I went to front visit my friend Luana,
Speaker 3: who had a recurring dream that she was in a classroom.
Speaker 3: But now here I am in her classroom. I'm and
Speaker 3: she's startled to see me. This is how it happened.
Speaker 3: And I'm standing there in her giant auditorium.
Speaker 4: And she had passed by the right had passed.
Speaker 3: By then, and now I'm looking at her in the
Speaker 3: back row. She's about twenty years old with a ponytail,
Speaker 3: and she looks at me, like, what are you doing here?
Speaker 3: And I look down at the front of the stage
Speaker 3: and there's a ten foot tall green fellow. I won't
Speaker 3: call him an alien, because I think we're all aliens,
Speaker 3: because we all choose the incarnate, but he's a tall
Speaker 3: looking fellow. And the whole class stops while I start
Speaker 3: talking to my friend Juana. They all stop and look
Speaker 3: at me, and it was so awkward, and I said
Speaker 3: to the hypnotherapist, this is weird. I'm talking aloud, but
Speaker 3: everybody can hear me in the class. So now here
Speaker 3: it is two years later. Scott starts counting me down.
Speaker 3: And suddenly I'm standing on stage with the teacher, looking
Speaker 3: up at him with very stern faith, on a real stage,
Speaker 3: on a real stage, and she's my friend. Lawana has
Speaker 3: me by the arm and she's apologizing on my behalf
Speaker 3: to the teacher. She's saying, oh, this is my friend Richard.
Speaker 3: I'm so sorry you interrupted the class. This is embarrassing
Speaker 3: to me. You know, he's doing some kind of a
Speaker 3: project on Earth and whatever, and I'm and I suddenly,
Speaker 3: you know, it's like the Shakespeare Nightmare. You wake up.
Speaker 3: You don't know what play you're in. I'm looking and
Speaker 3: I'm thinking, and then this person, the teacher, looks at
Speaker 3: me and goes, well, what's your question? Like I should
Speaker 3: be you know, but thank God when you say you
Speaker 3: know the goodness. When you do these sessions, your higher
Speaker 3: self is kind of aware of what's going on. And
Speaker 3: my higher self had about, you know, five or six
Speaker 3: questions and he answers them. So all I can say is,
Speaker 3: that's a subjective experience. I had it. I know what
Speaker 3: it's like. But when I meet somebody else who says, oh,
Speaker 3: this is weird. I'm in a classroom and I'm there's
Speaker 3: a teacher here, and I say, well, hold on a second,
Speaker 3: can I can you invite the teacher over? Can I
Speaker 3: help the teachers? Of questions? And then I launch into
Speaker 3: the same questions have you heard of me? Does this
Speaker 3: work familiar with you? Do you approve of it? What
Speaker 3: do you think about what we're doing? How do you
Speaker 3: become a teacher? On the other side, have you ever
Speaker 3: had a lifetime on Earth? Et cetera, et cetera. And
Speaker 3: by asking those same questions over and over, you get
Speaker 3: a data set of what people
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