Hacking the Afterlife with Jennifer Shaffer, Luana Anders, Fred Roos and Robin Williams

It was Jennifer's birthday week, she tells the story of how her daughter sent a message in the sand from Malta, shows it to the audience and how her son magically found the exact same birthday card for her - that she was going to give her mom before she passed.  Jennifer sends her love and thanks to everyone who sent her birthday wishes.

Then a conversation with Fred Roos, Luana Anders' friend whose memorial was this week.  I went to the memorial, a number of very unusual conversations were had. 

As noted in the podcast, people who know Fred will know how accurate this interview is - people who don't know him will hear references to friends of his both on and off the planet. I can verify that Jennifer doesn't know any of these people, and doesn't know who I'm referring to (except in some instances where I concur what who she is seeing or hearing from.)  If one compares the previous conversation with him prior to this one - everyone that was mentioned (first names only) in the last podcast who was at the memorial, I was able to pass along Fred's messages to them.

It was uncanny that I was able to do so.  One in person, another a message for a relative.

Luana Anders knew Fred for 60 years. She spoke to him on her last day on the planet, and was the person who introduced me to him 40 years ago.  Luana left in 1996, but over the years Fred and I spoke often, not only about Luana's script "Real Feelings" but also when his close friend Harry Dean Stanton passed away, and had private messages for his closest pals including Fred - which I dutifully passed along.

Harry passed in 2017, and as noted in the podcast, those private, personal messages, along with Harry Dean's recollection of driving to the Monterey Pop festival with Fred and Luana (something I didn't know, never heard, but Fred confirmed when I asked him about it) allowed him to believe in the possibility of the idea that life goes on.

As I point out - in the future, more people will do something like this. That is - a loved one leaves the stage, and the family gets together with some of the best mediums (anyone whose filters are askew, or are not properly in place, because it's an issue of "filters on the brain that block information not conducive to survival" (see pg 125 of Dr. Greyson's book AFTER for a science discussion of those filters) - and then - comparing the dreams, messages, conversations with their loved one - at the memorial they share them, bringing all those messages of love, of observation, or insight from the flipside. 

They are not gone. They just aren't here.

I have been filming people bypassing those filters for over fifteen years. it's how I met Jennifer 8 years ago, and why we have been meeting up like this weekly to talk to people offstage. Anyone can do it.  It helps if you have someone like Jennifer who works with law enforcement agencies nationwide. (Flipside, Talking to Bill Paxton, Hacking the Afterlife films have examples.)

In this podcast, I did edit out some of the more personal commentary, and have passed those details along to his loved ones.  That doesn't mean people I pass messages along to are suddenly "going to believe" their loved ones still exist... as I've noted before, we spoke directly to someone offstage, passed a transcript to the family members which we were asked to pass along, the message came back; "I wish every day that I could speak to my relative, but I don't believe you guys are."

That's fine. That's logical.  But the reason we do this work is to show people the process, the way to access them on their own. One doesn't need a medium - it helps - but one does need to allow for the possibility.  We've been at this weekly for 8 years.

One method we got from hypnotherapist Michael Newton on the flipside - he came to tell us (it's in on camera in the film HACKING THE AFTERLIFE on Amazon or Gaia) "1. Say their name. 2. Ask them questions (you don't know the answers to).  Don't judge the replies. 3. When they answer a question before you've been able to ask it (often visually) you'll know you've made a connection."

Anyone can. 

We all experience grief, loss, sadness - but we can add to that mix nostalgia, and realize that they aren't suffering, they're home. They know where they are, and will do their best to help us on our path.  It helps that I get to work with Jennifer Shaffer, who spends a third of her day helping law enforcement agencies nationwide, who does that work pro bono - who graciously allows me to ask her any question and she answers it without knowing who I'm speaking with.  As is evidenced in this podcast. "Why am I hearing "Russo" or "Rooster?"  Clearly wasn't aware we'd interviewed him a few weeks earlier.  She's like an Etch a Sketch - once the session is over, all the information evaporates. That's why it's so cool I get to film and record this information.

Love love. Oh, and Robin Williams has the last word. (He did 2 films with Fred.)