Richard Martini - Flipside: A Tourists Guide on How To Navigate the Afterlife

FLIPSIDE:

A TOURISTS GUIDE ON HOWTO

NAVIGATE THE AFTERLIFE

Richard Martini

Copyright 2011 by Richard Martini

Smashwords Edition

All Rights Reserved. No part of this book maybe reproduced by any mechanical, photographic, or electronicprocess, other than for fair use as brief quotations embodied inarticles and review without prior written permission of thepublisher.

The author of this book does not dispensemedical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form oftreatment for physical or medical problems without the advice of aphysician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the authoris only to offer information of a general nature to help you inyour quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event youuse any of the information in this book for yourself, which is yourconstitutional right, the author and the publisher assume noresponsibility for your actions.

PREFACE

You cant always get what you want,but if you try sometimes, you just

might find, you get what youneed.

Mick Jagger & Keith Richards

An ad came on television of a beautiful youngmodel wearing a skimpy bra and angel wings. She was dancingprovocatively, selling the latest in underwear for VictoriasSecret. My 3 year old son stood up and pointed excitedly at thetelevision. Daddy! he said, staring at the model and then lookingat me. I want that!

I chuckled, remembering that hed once told methat he remembered being a monk in a past life. But RJ, Iprotested, I thought you were a monk. Not anymore! he saidhappily.

CONTENTS

Foreword by Gary E. Schwartz, Ph.D.

Introduction

Chapter One - Luanas Ashes

Chapter Two - The Newtonian Universe

Chapter Three - Humanity in theHolocaust

Chapter Four - Enlightenment ThroughElectricity

Chapter Five Aquaphobia

Chapter Six - Take Me to the Book I Need toRead

Chapter Seven - Vanum Populatum

Chapter Eight - I Hear Dead People

Chapter Nine - Ive Got a Gift ForYou

Chapter Ten - The Soul River

Chapter Eleven - Elvis Guitar Player &Carole Lombard

Chapter Twelve - Oh, There You Are

Chapter Thirteen - Dads on thePhone

Chapter Fourteen - Famous Last Words

Chapter Fifteen - Out of The Blue

Chapter Sixteen - Golden LightWithin

Chapter Seventeen - My Son The Monk

Chapter Eighteen - Over TheRainbow

Chapter Nineteen - Mind Science for a ProzacNation

Chapter Twenty - The Eyes ofJesus

Chapter Twenty One- Be There Now

Epilogue - Whats It All Add Up To?

Appendix - Travel Tips

Recommended Reading - Footnotes

Acknowledgments and About the Author

Foreword

Is life designed in advance? Are weall part of some elaborately plotted mini-series that runs everywaking moment? Does it really matter one way or the other? Were onthe planet for a reason, we have roles to play, we might as wellplay them as well as we can. However, that doesnt prevent me fromperennially rooting for the Cubs.

Richard Martini, author of FlipSide .

Is there a greater spiritual reality? Doesconsciousness survive physical death? Are past lives real? Is therea creative grand plan some sort of a Divine Plot of which weare all a part, and can we individually and collectively contributeto Its design and unfolding? And assuming for the moment some sortof a grand planning process exists, the question arises; does It whom I have come to think of as being an Infinite Teacher havea sense of humor?

I am scientist by training andprofession. My laboratory research has led me to address thesekinds of questions in various books including The Afterlife Experiments , The G.O.D. Experiments ,and The Sacred Promise . Like Richard Martini, the author of FlipSide , I am a skeptic in the coresense of this word meaning a wonderer, a questioner, and agenuine seeker of truth.

Of all these great questions, the hypothesis ofpast lives the continued re-living of individual souls for thesake of our learning and evolving is among the least researchedand most controversial. The truth is, science knows virtuallynothing about the concept of incarnation or consciousness.Contemporary science simply assumes the idea of incarnation is amyth (and a fallacious one at that), and according to mainstreamneuroscience, consciousness is an emergent property of neuralnetworks, an evolutionary side effect so to speak of the inventionof the brain and nervous system.

According to the prevailing views of mainstreamscience, there can be no such thing as the incarnation ofconsciousness because the brain is the sole creator ofconsciousness. Most neuroscientists dont entertain the hypothesisthe brain might be a brilliantly designed antenna and receiver forconsciousness which somehow returns incarnates and/or connects(for example, resonates) with the brain.

An emerging body of consciousness research(typically classified under the umbrella of parapsychology), whencombined with contemporary quantum physics, seriously challengesthe belief the brain is the creator of consciousness. This newevidence requires we reconsider the idea of the incarnation ofconsciousness, and by extension, the plausibility (if notprobability) of reincarnation. Three types of scientific inquirytogether can provide us with important evidence which addressesthese great questions:

Type I Self-Science: Evidence obtained in thelaboratories of our individual lives, where personal observationsare recorded and examined from a skeptical (questioning),science-oriented frame of mind.

Type II Exploratory Investigations: Wherescientists use themselves as preliminary prototype subjects,testing new laboratory methods and procedures on themselves,and

Type III Conventional Research: When controlledexperiments are conducted on human or animal subjects followingfederal and university rules and guidelines.

Although Type III Conventional Research is themost respected and sometimes the most definitive, Type ISelf-Science is often where the most innovative and corediscoveries are made. The history of science reminds us that greatscientists like Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein took Type Iobservations made in their personal lives and successfullytranslated them into revolutionary Type III theories anddiscoveries. When these three types of evidence collectively cometo the same conclusion, their combined impact is significantlygreater than either one alone.

Richard Martinis FlipSide is an inspiringand well written as well as entertaining journey of Type ISelf-Science which is focused on the interrelated questions of (1)reincarnation and past lives, (2) past life regression and healing,and (3) the existence of a universal grand designer andplan.

As you read Richards journey of personaldiscovery in the context of these great questions, you will awakento a vision of mind and the universe which is filled withopportunity and awe. This is the kind of the book where once youhave read it, you will no longer be able to see the world in thesame way again.

I must confess that afterreading FlipSide ,it appears that I may no longer be able to resist bringing pastlife hypothesis research into the laboratory. Though this book hasnot resulted in my deciding to root for the Cubs (smile), it hasencouraged me to root for the possibility that Richardsobservations and insights will prove to be valid and meaningful forall of us.

Gary E. Schwartz, PhDs from Harvard and Yale[1]

We have no reliable guarantee thatthe afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, havewe? Noel Coward

Introduction