Hacking The Afterlife podcast

We've been doing this podcast for six years, and meeting up weekly for 12.  When Maverick, John McCain left the stage, he showed up a number of times.  He asked us to send a private message to his daughter, which I protested I had no way of doing that, and he said "You'll figure it out."

I did - but have no way of knowing the reaction. When I was writing my first feature "Three For the Road" I met with John's chief of staff, so I did have some background information about him most don't know.

But in terms of his showing up on our podcast, each time he shows up to talk about politics, often bringing former Presidents along with him. As Jennifer notes in the show, when he showed up to speak, she was reluctant to go down that path, since we rarely let politics enter the frame. (Why? Well, it shuts down a person's ability to hear messages of love from the flipside when they're stressing over events of the day.)  

For fans of the podcast, they know what we interviewed the current President's father and brother on the podcast, as well as the son of the previous President - Jennifer was only answering questions I was giving to "first names only" - and didn't know who "Fred" "Beau" referred to.

What we heard from the family members of those politicians was the same - onstage we struggle to understand why things happen, but offstage we can see the wheelworks, understand what role a person plays onstage, and how that affects others.

That being said, John in this podcast said he didn't want to give air time to the person she was fearing we'd speak of - but wanted to talk about how change affects the planet, affects the individual.

That we're going through a period of change, and that's okay, that's a good thing. It's what we do while we're onstage. We learn and move forward. But it's also a conversation about not attaching emotions or fear to change - it's the most constant part of existence.

And we also spoke to a friend of mine's dog who passed recently.  It was my old boss Robert Towne's dog Hira who introduced us to the idea we could communicate with animals offstage - he's featured in BACKSTAGE PASS TO THE FLIPSIDE and has shown up in many sessions to talk about how "animals understand incarnation but humans do not."

In this instance, Lulu said she'd "been with her owner in a previous life" and that "there is room for another dog in her owner's life - and that she would be instrumental in finding that dog (as well as share some of the frequency of that dog.)

Easily the most profound part of this discussion today - because learning that not only are our pets aware of us, they report finding us, they report coming back to be with us, standing by us, being connected to us - and that we can communicate with them.

So while one is going through the process of voting this week, remember that our teachers, guides, loved ones, classmates, council members and animals... are all rooting for us.

Worth contemplating.

I ran across the debut episode of our podcast from March 20, 2020.  All the guests we had spoken to before - so it wasn't new for us to have them show up in our "classroom in the afterlife" that is moderated by Luana Anders.

 

For fans of "Hacking the Afterlife" "Backstage Pass to the Flipside" Jennifer Shaffer, medium-intuitive (JenniferShaffer.com) and I demonstrate the kind of conversations we've had with folks on the flipside.  In this case, I didn't ask for anyone to come forward, but three folks that we've interviewed before did - Anthony Bourdain, Will Shakespeare and John Lennon.  Now I have no claim, nor does Jennifer make any claims about the individuals we are speaking to - what I do is have many interviews with the same folks (sometimes with different mediums) and we discuss the "architecture of the afterlife."  

Some will be offended by this podcast - if so, I apologize in advance, and suggest listening or watching something else.  I will begin to post our audio versions on itunes (podbean) every week - and we will discuss whatever comes to mind.  I'm just about finished with "Backstage Pass to the Flipside Book 3" where we converse with people I knew, people that Jennifer knew, people that I met, people that Luana Anders has met, people who show up in our sessions unannounced - uninvited - but in order to do so they have to get the "backstage pass" from Luana - our moderator for these sessions. They claim she helps them to "modulate" or alter their frequency in order to "converse" with us - putting an image into Jennifer's mind (or perhaps tapping the engram where the image exists) and then they give her a series of images.

What I bring to the plate, as evidenced in this initial podcast - that I help to "unpack" visual messages.  Sometimes by showing her a face or a person, that relates to someone else (like if someone is named "Fred" who wants to speak with us, she sees an image of her husband, who shares that name.)

By doing this over the past five years, we have been able to ask questions and get new information - that is information that cannot be cryptomnesia or some other form of mental construction - from folks who used to be on the planet.  That alone makes this endeavor worthwhile.  

It's not to say that "only Jennifer" can help one access the flipside (she does work with law enforcement agencies nationwide) but to say that if one tries to do so consistently (even in dreams, or in some other fashion) they can get replies from people no longer on the planet.  In our books we talk to people I knew (and then I have two other mediums as the same questions to get replies) or we talk to people that Luana knew on the flipside.  

It's uncanny - but my pal Luana and I speak every week, and despite the fact she left the planet 24 years ago, we converse more now than we did then!  All I can say is to follow the advice of the late actor Harry Dean Stanton who came through clear as a bell prior to his memorial service, gave me private messages to pass along to his closets friends there (and I did, and they were flabbergasted because he was talking about private health concerns for each of them).  

I asked him "Harry, what do you want me to tell your friends at hour memorial service?" Through Jennifer he said "tell them to believe in the afterlife." I said, "c'mon Harry - you were a famous atheist, a skeptic - all your friends are not going to believe that I spoke to you and heard this from you."  

He said "Then tell them to believe in the POSSIBILITY of an afterlife, then they won't waste another minute of their lives arguing about it like I did."  Duly noted.  I'm posting this here on my MartiniZone webpage so that folks can see what's in store.  We've been doing this for five years now - and I publish transcripts of our chats with the flipside. We don't get everything right - we aren't supposed to - but we do get a consistency of reporting.  

Which is worth noting.  Anyone can do this.  The point our loved ones have made is "we know we still exist, it's you folks back there who don't believe we do."  Oh, and the alpha and omega shows up at the end, along with Robin Williams. To quote Robin "Love the love." Or just... love love.

Another mind bending podcast.

Amelia Earhart is in the news - and came through to talk about what the expedition means to her. She then was followed by the screenwriter, my old boss Robert Towne who wanted to weigh in on Tom Cruise's performance in the film "DIGGER."

Robert worked with Tom often, and he gave it a rave. And then - both Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel stopped by - whom we interviewed before in BACKSTAGE PASS TO THE FLIPSIDE BOOK THREE, and they gave their thumb reviews.

Mind bending stuff all the way around.

The recent book SHE WAS NEVER LOST: The Amelia Earhart Saga is available everywhere.

This is a rerun of a podcast from two years ago - it didn't have subtitles but I've included them now.

This was an unusual podcast just based on the folks who showed up to chat with us.

Jennifer and I had taken a trip to the Chateau Marmont on Sunset Blvd, and we had a group of folks who stopped by to say hello. At some point John Belushi talked about "ghost watching" - not to show up in the hotel to watch people onstage, but to watch "the other ghosts wandering around."

Lisa Marie Presley and Michael Jackson showed up to talk about early exits - people who leave the stage early for whatever reason. And that brought a bunch of people forward, from JFK to Elvis, to Matthew Perry, Robin Williams and others... the point they were making is that people leave the stage in all different fashions, and it's about focusing on who they were while they were onstage, and not how they left it.

We had a brief chat with Gene Hackman again - to clarify what happened in light of the police reports... and he made a joke about it.  I try to repeat the advice that these folks are available to anyone if they take the time to ask them questions. But be prepared for them not being all that interested in questions that relate to our journey and not theirs.

I asked my old pal Charles Grodin about what it was like to see his old friend Gene, and then we shifted to an event that happened later in the day. While dining at Musso and Frank's in Hollywood two members of my group saw "a ghostly figure" sitting in the corner of the room.

They didn't know who it was or could be, but said he "looked like the actor Robert Downey Jr." (And even then they didn't know his name either, and asked questions about someone named "Downey")

They also heard him talking about "table #1" to them - so I invited the waiter to stop by the table and simply asked about any ghosts people might have seen in the restaurant. He said "Charlie Chaplin" and I asked where table #1 was - and he mentioned the table that I had lunch with Jonathan Winters - which was table #1 - and how that's where Charlie liked to dine.

We asked Charlie about why he was seen "scribbling notes" and he said it was the place he liked to have good ideas and good food, but also said in this instance, he showed up so that members of my group would see him, and that would inspire me to invite him to chat on our podcast.

I don't know how else to put it - but Jennifer and I have been doing this weekly for ten years. Not everyone who shows up in our conversations is a celebrity - but because of my 40 years in the business, and Luana Ander's 300 TV shows and movies (my friend who moderates our podcast from the Flipside, who passed in 1996) I'm not surprised when people do show up that we can recognize.

Jennifer's father Jim also stopped by to clarify some things, and I must say - the topic of leaving the stage early came up - if someone is in need of help or counseling, there is help - and one should reach out to 988 and the counselors there from any telephone.

But in my desire to not use the S word in the podcast, I tried to leave it out of the conversation, as the algorithms will generally not want it to be discussed - but the important point was made by people offstage - that is to realize that life goes on no matter what happens, and that everyone onstage signed up to be onstage, and should see what things might occur or happen that we could not be aware of.

Oh, and Robin Williams showed up to not only discuss the same topic, but to confirm that during a recent guided meditation, this woman saw him in her "classroom in the afterlife" - and he confirmed that it was him BEFORE I COULD ASK THE QUESTION.

Anyways, all of it is mind bending, and hopefully whomever needs to hear what they are talking about is able to hear what they're trying to say.

Thanks for tuning in!

THIS IS A PODCAST WE DID ON THIS DATE TWO YEARS AGO IN 2024.  Before the book SHE WAS NEVER LOST came out... but the story remains the same.  This version has subtitles for the hard of reading, but the sound is the same for the hard of hearing!  xo

 

Another fun podcast with Jennifer Shaffer and folks on the flipside. In this episode, we start by discussing the full moon and what that means to people on the planet accessing people offstage, or on the flipside.

We ask the moderator of our group over there to explain it, and Luana Anders talks about it being a vibrational frequency difference... almost like a speeding up of energy, and that it's easy to reach across the aisle so to speak.

Prince stops by because Jennifer had posted something about him, but I asked him to give us some advice about the upcoming election. And he says "Tell people to vote" and also to "vote as if democracy was on the line."  Without naming names, he basically points out that people don't seem to realize how hard it was to get to the place on the planet where people actually could vote to make their lives better.

Then I describe a dream I had last night where I literally woke up saying aloud "someone's in the room" loud enough to wake everyone up.  It wasn't something said out of fear - just an observation because I clearly felt someone pulling on my ring finger.

So much so that when I awoke in the middle of the night it was throbbing with energy.  I recounted to my wife what happened, and went back to sleep.  Jennifer said it was an "Indian chief" - it could be that the image of Sitting Bull came to her to remind her of the era when I recalled being a Lakota medicine man (as recounted in the book FLIPSIDE).

Whether it was Tatanka Iyotake  (Sitting Bull) or the image was put in her mind to remind me of a guide on the flipside, I don't know. But he too talked about reminding people that warriors have battled to save the planet, that we stand on the shoulders of others to be where we are today.

That our democracy is fragile and we need to fight to preserve it.

Unusual stuff. 

I asked a direct question to Amelia Earhart about a project about her, and she answered it. 

Like I say, mind bending stuff. I borrowed the backdrop from a post that Iman put up on Facebook. I hope she doesn't mind me borrowing it - David has shown up in a number of podcasts with messages of unconditional love and helping musicians on the flipside.