What happens after we die? Author and award-winning filmmaker Richard Martini explores startling new evidence for life after death, via the "life between lives," where we return to our loved ones, soulmates, and spiritual teachers.
Featuring a new interview with Dr. Michael Newton, the book examines actual life between life sessions, and interweaves Rich's humorous and insightful observations of life, and his own between life sessions.
"Richard has written a terrific book. Insightful, funny, provocative, and deep, I highly recommend it!"
-Robert Thurman ("Why the Dalai Lama Matters")
The following is a brief excerpt from Chapter 20 ('Be There Now') -- my own LBL session with Rich. We are speaking with his spirit guide about Rich's experience in previous lives as a healer.
HOW TO CHANNEL HEALING ENERGY
S: Let’s go to the Lakota Sioux medicine man lifetime...
R: His name was Wa’tanka, “Man of Great Spirit.” The American Indian people are very connected to the life between lives world, which they refer to as “The Great Spirit.” Both the American Indians and the aboriginal tribes of Australia have much to offer (with their knowledge); it’s amazing so few on the planet have focused on their wisdom (with regard to the spirit world and nature).
As a medicine man, people would bring him their sick and he would pray over them and would use the equivalent to calling upon the Great Spirit to heal them. When you put your mindset into that frame, whatever culture you’re from, you tap into that healing energy of the universe -- which is facilitated through you, through your hands and into the patient, and depending upon their karmic journey, let’s call it that for want of a better word; they get healed. So if you’re good at it, you can affect a lot of lives.
S: Richard has asked for details.
R: That’s something Richard is aware of - in the Tibetan culture there’s a healing meditation called “Tonglen.” It’s effective. It’s a practice he’s studied before, and he should tell people about it. Most consider prayer to be of the same system, but there are certain techniques you can use to perfect, train the mind, so it can help focus that healing energy.
S: Give us a one, two, three recipe on how to do this.
R: First the mind should go through a gymnastic period. Picture your patient in 360 degrees, as a vision of a three dimensional character, sitting in front of you, then imagine where the illness is -- that’s a way of doing a gymnastic for own mind and it also benefits the patient. Tune your mind to the patient. 2nd, put the patient in front of you as a mental image because you’re replicating their energy, and 3rd then alter their energy, or focus on healing them.
One example would be someone with pneumonia or chest pain. Picture that person in an energetic pattern in front of you; what’s bothering them will have a different color to it, a different glow -- and then this Tibetan exercise is effective, you draw that energy into you, pull the illness into you, and use your ability to tap into the healing light of the universe to dissolve that negativity, and then breathe the transformed healing light back into the patient.
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S: Let’s go to the Lakota Sioux medicine man lifetime...
R: His name was Wa’tanka, “Man of Great Spirit.” The American Indian people are very connected to the life between lives world, which they refer to as “The Great Spirit.” Both the American Indians and the aboriginal tribes of Australia have much to offer (with their knowledge); it’s amazing so few on the planet have focused on their wisdom (with regard to the spirit world and nature).
As a medicine man, people would bring him their sick and he would pray over them and would use the equivalent to calling upon the Great Spirit to heal them. When you put your mindset into that frame, whatever culture you’re from, you tap into that healing energy of the universe -- which is facilitated through you, through your hands and into the patient, and depending upon their karmic journey, let’s call it that for want of a better word; they get healed. So if you’re good at it, you can affect a lot of lives.
S: Richard has asked for details.
R: That’s something Richard is aware of - in the Tibetan culture there’s a healing meditation called “Tonglen.” It’s effective. It’s a practice he’s studied before, and he should tell people about it. Most consider prayer to be of the same system, but there are certain techniques you can use to perfect, train the mind, so it can help focus that healing energy.
S: Give us a one, two, three recipe on how to do this.
R: First the mind should go through a gymnastic period. Picture your patient in 360 degrees, as a vision of a three dimensional character, sitting in front of you, then imagine where the illness is -- that’s a way of doing a gymnastic for own mind and it also benefits the patient. Tune your mind to the patient. 2nd, put the patient in front of you as a mental image because you’re replicating their energy, and 3rd then alter their energy, or focus on healing them.
One example would be someone with pneumonia or chest pain. Picture that person in an energetic pattern in front of you; what’s bothering them will have a different color to it, a different glow -- and then this Tibetan exercise is effective, you draw that energy into you, pull the illness into you, and use your ability to tap into the healing light of the universe to dissolve that negativity, and then breathe the transformed healing light back into the patient.
"Flipside" - available on Amazon now!
"Memories of the Afterlife," the fourth and newest book in Dr. Newton's LBL series, is now available at fine bookstores and online. The volume consists of 32 Life Between Lives case histories, written by Newton Institute-trained and certified LBL therapists from around the world. Dr. Newton helped compile and edit the book, and has contributed an introduction and numerous comments and footnotes throughout. This new work illustrates various ways in which LBL sessions have helped people make positive changes in their lives.
"Memories" has a truly international flavor, with contributing authors from USA, Canada, England, Ireland, Austria, Germany, Malaysia, and Australia.
The following is a brief excerpt from my own contribution, a chapter entitiled, "I Am Home." This is the story of Monique, a woman who suffered from deep depression and suicide attempts. Through her LBL session, Monique was able to gain insights enough to move forward with her life.
She walks a tightrope in the present lifetime. She needs to feel, but the intense emotional struggles of her romantic relationships unbalance her and threaten to tip her over the edge. The heartbreak of her fractured marriage with Thomas and a recent tempestuous love affair with Jeremy were particularly difficult. She wrote of this latest stormy relationship: “I know that love is eternal. With Jeremy, he smiles at me, and I know who he is and I love him fiercely, ferociously. But somehow my relationship with him has been full of hurt feelings, anger, and frustration. We turn toward each other, until hurt feelings and anger lead to abandonment again.”
In the soul group meeting, we learn how Monique’s lessons are related with the souls of two of her great loves. We also find the ultimate reason for her studies in emotion.
S: You mentioned your soul group; would you like to check in with them?
M: It’s a short distance; I can see it from here.
S: Describe the place for me.
M: It’s circular. It’s like light energy, domed. It provides boundary.
S: Be there now. Is there anything meaningful going on right now between you and your group?
M: Yes. Thomas and Jeremy and I are in studies of the emotions. On our next earth visit, this visit, this incarnation, we’ll do this.
S: This is a plan you three have? Is there a goal to these studies?
M: Compassion, they relate to compassion.
S: So you three are going to come and learn about emotion, live it, study it, really immerse yourselves?
M: Yes. We’re gonna take it out on each other! Act it out, sound it out, lay it out.
S: What is the ultimate purpose, do you have a primary aspiration?
M: Yes. To care for those who come back from earth.
S: I can see why compassion might be important.
The aches and pains of Monique’s romantic entanglements in the present day are not random events. Her sufferings are not the result of 'bad karma,' nor are they punishment from a spiteful Creator. These circumstances were self-chosen and mapped out in concert with two dear soul group companions as part of a grand study of human emotion. All three have agreed to incarnate and interact in order to explore the intensity of human feelings. In Monique’s case, these experiences will serve to grow her empathy and compassion in preparation for her future work as a caretaker of souls returning from earth. Pieces of the puzzle come together; the larger picture begins to take shape.
Deeper understandings of her emotional lessons are gained as Monique’s spirit guide now leads her to appear before her Council of Elders.
S: Tell me where you go now.
M: It appears very much like temples. I see us moving through archways; the Elders are sitting straight across in a row, in throne-like chairs. There are Seven...
"Memories of the Afterlife" - available now!
In the soul group meeting, we learn how Monique’s lessons are related with the souls of two of her great loves. We also find the ultimate reason for her studies in emotion.
S: You mentioned your soul group; would you like to check in with them?
M: It’s a short distance; I can see it from here.
S: Describe the place for me.
M: It’s circular. It’s like light energy, domed. It provides boundary.
S: Be there now. Is there anything meaningful going on right now between you and your group?
M: Yes. Thomas and Jeremy and I are in studies of the emotions. On our next earth visit, this visit, this incarnation, we’ll do this.
S: This is a plan you three have? Is there a goal to these studies?
M: Compassion, they relate to compassion.
S: So you three are going to come and learn about emotion, live it, study it, really immerse yourselves?
M: Yes. We’re gonna take it out on each other! Act it out, sound it out, lay it out.
S: What is the ultimate purpose, do you have a primary aspiration?
M: Yes. To care for those who come back from earth.
S: I can see why compassion might be important.
The aches and pains of Monique’s romantic entanglements in the present day are not random events. Her sufferings are not the result of 'bad karma,' nor are they punishment from a spiteful Creator. These circumstances were self-chosen and mapped out in concert with two dear soul group companions as part of a grand study of human emotion. All three have agreed to incarnate and interact in order to explore the intensity of human feelings. In Monique’s case, these experiences will serve to grow her empathy and compassion in preparation for her future work as a caretaker of souls returning from earth. Pieces of the puzzle come together; the larger picture begins to take shape.
Deeper understandings of her emotional lessons are gained as Monique’s spirit guide now leads her to appear before her Council of Elders.
S: Tell me where you go now.
M: It appears very much like temples. I see us moving through archways; the Elders are sitting straight across in a row, in throne-like chairs. There are Seven...
"Memories of the Afterlife" - available now!