Hacking The Afterlife podcast

Hacking the Afterlife with Jennifer Shaffer and our first live guest Robert Thurman

We had our first guest on our podcast - first guest that is still on the planet that is!  I had the good fortune to take a class with Robert Thurman at Columbia University back in the 90's. As noted in my talk at the Conference of Living and Dying recently via Tibet House, I was working for Charles Grodin on his talk show when I audited this class in philosophy.

It led me to study Tibetan philosophy - Buddhism in particular, which I find to be a peerless philosophy. Robert is an author of many excellent books about Buddhist philosophy, including but not limited to "Inner Revolution" and beautiful translation of the "Bardo Thodol" in the "Tibetan Book of the Dead." His book "Circling the Sacred Mountain was instrumental in my own trip to Mt. Kailash with him in 2004. I've had the privilege to travel with him and his wife Nena to Ladakh, and then later a trip across Tibet where I filmed the journey for a documentary on YouTube "Journey Into Tibet with Robert Thurman." https://youtu.be/MqbG_RY4eiY

Robert is one of the wisest, most insightful humans I've met - it's a privilege for him to appear on our podcast. He recently became aware of this podcast during my talk for the Conference, so it was his suggestion he come on to see if he could communicate with anyone "no longer on the planet." It was in that spirit we tried this experiment.

As Jennifer notes, she isn't aware of his life or journey outside of knowing he's the father of Uma, and that he's a Buddhist scholar. He's a passionate speaker, and at the moment clearly wanted to express his dismay over the war in Ukraine, and his solidarity for the people who are suffering, as well as the suffering of the Russians who want no part in killing their neighbors.

My apologies for playing the role of moderator here - to keep us on track to speak to people on the flipside who might want to speak to Robert. As noted - I texted Jennifer and said Robert wanted to come on the podcast, and she replied "His mentor wants to talk to him." (Jennifer had no idea who that would be.) Later she texted "His mom really wants to talk to him." Then "Steve Jobs told me that he knows him."

We didn't get to Robert's mom, but we did get to the other two. For the skeptics in the audience, allow me to say "this podcast isn't for you." That's fine - skepticism is healthy - we can't really understand skydiving until we jump out of the plane. For those who are devout Buddhists who may find this disconcerting, I can vouch that Robert has spent his whole life sharing the dharma, Buddhism across the globe.

I recall a monk coming up to us in Tibet, in a cave, outside the view of the soldiers in the courtyard and saying "thank you americans for remembering us." I heard him whisper it in English in Robert's ear - the comment brought me to tears. "Thank you for remembering us." The same can be said of those who are no longer on the planet. "Thank you for remembering us."

This podcast is dedicated to remembering those who have gone before us - one can imagine that everything that is said in this podcast is subconscious information, but I suggest looking for new information that could not be cryptomnesia - something someone heard or read. Jennifer is not trying to prove there is an afterlife, she works with law enforcement agencies daily helping people with details to solve cases (the investigators consider it a way to gain new information that turns into evidence). We do this podcast in the same vein - consider this as gathered intelligence that point to a greater truth.

It may very well be that we are pulling these concepts out of thin air - but after having filmed people accessing this information for over ten years, 100s of examples indicate otherwise. As always with any insight, we hope that sharing this information heals someone who is in need of healing, sharing this information helps people who need help, sharing these concepts help people to open their minds to the possibility that life continues on and if so, it makes sense for us to learn something new from those no longer with us.

After all, the love doesn't die - they still care about us as we did then, it's only we who stop caring about them by pretending we cannot hear them. I can't help but reflect on how my friend Luana's passing led me to Robert's class, which led me to Tibet and India, which led me to this podcast, which led me to this episode. The "red string" of our lives continues on.

I hope you enjoy this podcast as much as we did making it. Love love. For more information about Robert and Tibet House, see thus.org . His books, lectures and teachings are priceless - find more about him at BobThurman.com

For more information about Jennifer, she's at JenniferShaffer.com - I'm at RichMartini.com - for those who are first time viewers, buckle up - to quote bob's pal; "we are all just walking each other home."

Hacking the Afterlife with Jennifer Shaffer and Sally ”Hot Lips” Kellerman

Fifteen minutes before our podcast I learned that one of my closest pals on the planet had left the planet.   Sally was best friends with Luana Anders, they traipsed around Hollywood together, lived together, stayed best friends for both of their lives.  Sally's husband Jonathan Krane was my champion - produced three films that I directed, believed in me as no other person in Hollywood has.

He was John Travolta's manager.  He also ran a mini studio, pioneered a number of innovative ways of financing and making feature films.  He was behind hit films like "Look Who's Talking" and other John Travolta films.  

Sally was an oscar nominated actress (MASH) who worked often with Robert Altman, who was beloved by man - as noted in the podcast, dated Henry Kissinger.  She had three children - one was her sister's whom she adopted, Claire, and the other two were also adopted Hannah and Jack.  Of course the flipside research shows that people "seek out their parents" even when they're born to someone else.

It's unusual for me to do a podcast, so soon, without giving anyone the time to grieve. My apologies to those who feel that is the case. However, based on the research, I've learned that people who had dementia, as Sally did in her later years, are "already one foot out the door."  They literally leave a portion of their conscious energy behind to continue helping and healing others who take care of them. 

Sally was/is someone who gave of herself to her friends.  She was funny, witty, and I got to spend a year of lunches where I had her tape record her autobiography into a cassette player. The idea that having me ask her questions helped her recall events.  Another writer ghost wrote from those recordings her book "Hot Lips."  But I got a front row seat to some hilarious stories.

I mention two in this podcast.  

Suffice to say that a light in my life has left the building - but I do this podcast to show people how easy it is to contact their loved ones. It certainly helps to have someone as skilled as Jennifer to interpret what she's seeing... like seeing "Robert" and asking me if that referred to our friend Robert Towne, and me realizing she's hearing "Robert" because Altman was there to greet her.

Jennifer doesn't know anything about Sally's career, but I do. I'm going to miss her laughter, but I'm sure I'll be hearing more of it. Those who loved her will have their own memorials for Sally - and while this happened rather quickly, as you can see, I was born to ask questions about friends who are on the flipside.

And Jennifer, who works with law enforcement agencies daily on missing person cases, is generous enough to share her talents in this area.  It's an unusual way to present something - I know it - but this was an example I could not let slide.

The conference mentioned starts today, and tickets or the link is on my webpage RichMartini.com

Hacking the Afterlife with Jennifer Shaffer - Talking to a Council on the Flipside

Another unusual session - this time in Jennifer's office, completely unplanned.   In this session, or mentor on the flipside, Luana Anders, suggests that I prepare to speak at the Art of Living and Dying conference (see RichMartini.com for details) by visiting my own council.

We take a trip to visit my "council."  When I did my first hypnotherapy session for the film and book "Flipside" I met my council.  At the time, I didn't think I would "get anywhere" let alone have a conversation with a group of a advisors and teachers on the flipside, but in the 100 sessions I've filmed, people can and do have conversations with these wise beings who each person has their own version of.

We only had time to speak to two of the council members, but then Jennifer's attention was directed to my "higher conscious self."  Based on the research, we bring a portion of our conscious energy to a lifetime and the rest "stays home."  In this instance, Luana points out that the number of council members is not set in stone, nor is the fact that people learn more from each lifetime and are constantly changed, learning and growing.

It's mind bending to say the least, not something I've ever witnessed or participated in before - but as I point out in the podcast, something I often report, but have never had the experience of chatting directly with "my higher self."

For further info see RichMartini.com

Hacking the Afterlife with Jennifer Shaffer Super Bowl edition with a visit from Steve Jobs

Even writing the headline for these podcasts is problematic.

 Do we know for a fact this was Steve Jobs coming for a chat? No. Jennifer has done a session with his daughter, and Steve has come forward a number of other times to answer questions. As noted in the podcast, she was doubting it was him at first as well.

Yes, we discuss the winner of the Super Bowl. Because everyone out there who wants to meet with a medium, wants to use their powers to discern the future. And we have a healthy discussion about what that entails and why that might be important or unhealthy, depending.

Steve came forward to let us know he's working on a "cell phone" to the flipside from his side of the veil. That isn't a device, something you can hold in your hand - although he did encourage me to create an app to do so - but he was talking about helping those on the flipside to "lower their frequency" to communicate with their pals, loved ones, relatives on the denser side - the side we are in on the planet.

For those keeping track; the three step process is 1. Love. 2. Stay open. 3. Just listen.  

It sounds impossibly vague, but if one has spent over a decade chatting with folks on the flipside via hypnotherapy, mediumship and meditation, it's a lot more complex than it sounds.  But it's a lot less complex than it sounds.

If someone wants to help me create an app, by all means, reach out to MartiniProds at gmail.  If one wants to complain that none of this is possible or logical - hold that thought, as we're focusing on experience or data that helps folks to reach out to the flipside.

Enjoy the game, even if now you know what the outcome will be!

Hacking the Afterlife with Jennifer Shaffer, Luana Anders, Elvis, Charles Grodin and Jim

After this podcast, where we talk about the ways to communicate from the flipside to this side, I was in the car and put on a random 50's station, and lo and behold Elvis was singing "TREAT ME NICE." 

 That is something that he mentions in this podcast. That when we access people on the flipside, if we think of them in angry terms, the messages don't get through.  However, if we "treat them nice" we can communicate with pretty much anyone.

Another unusual podcast in a sea of them.  In this case, Luana Anders, my pal who passed in 1996 helps facilitate a "classroom" where people stop by and converse. In this instance, the late Charles Grodin, a good friend, pal stopped by to mention that he observed the interview I did on camera for a film about him last week. 

He correctly recounted to Jennifer what I had said about him - even though there was no human way she could have known the content.  She corrects me that she was aware I was doing an interview about Charles Grodin, but due to our schedules I wasn't able to tell her the content of the interview, how it went, etc.

This podcast is to demonstrate how simple it is to access loved ones no longer on the planet. Don't need a hypnotherapist (it can help) don't need a medium (it can obviously help) but one can meditate on their loved one and strike up a conversation.

Not everyone wants to or has to - but for those who do, it's demonstrating the possibility of doing so.

The conference mentioned in the podcast is this month, will be given online and sign up for it can be found at my web page RichMartini.com

Thanks for stopping by!

Hacking the Afterlife with Jennifer Shaffer

Hello! Jennifer and I have been trying to get together for weeks, were "thisclose" to podcasting last week, but a number of bugs in the ointment conspired to make it not happen.

 In today's podcast we go over a bit of what we've been doing - Jennifer helping people around the planet, me meeting with someone who was able to access the flipside this afternoon.

This podcast, despite the number of people who have checked off the planet lately, was about how the "veil is thinning."  It's that a number of clients of Jennifer's have expressed that to be the case, and how people seem to be doing more "communication" with folks no longer on the planet.

Another unusual chat with her father Jim who stops by to clarify some issues as well.  More to come!

Hacking the Afterlife with Jennifer Shaffer, George Harrison, Betty, Chuck and Jim

Welcome to the New Year of 2022!    Here Jennifer and I are picking up from where we left off last year - after both of us coming down with Covid, and me trying not to cough my way through the show. Apologies for the cough drop walla, just unavoidable.

In this podcast we asked who wanted to come forward, and I was surprised to see George Harrison step in - as in the past he was a reluctant speaker. Mostly opted for witty sarcasm - but as this podcast and our interviews have been going on weekly for seven years, people on the flipside have gotten used to the idea of "showing up" when they have something to say.

In this case, he wanted to talking about "creating a new algorithm" for a person's life. That is - to focus on the positive, to focus on intent and creating love within your work, your day, and that in turn will affect one on their journey.  Sage advice.

Betty White showed up - not to be interviewed - we don't always get interviews with people who've just crossed over, as they're busy acclimating to the new environment. She opted to just "observe" and I slipped in one question about who greeted her on the flipside.

It was widely reported that her last word was "Allen" and before I could ask the question, Jennifer answered it on Betty's behalf.  All I can say is that in 7 years of doing this with Jennifer, it's not that she's reading my mind, it's that folks on the flipside already know what we're going to ask.

That has been consistent. 

Then I had a question for Charles Grodin about his work with prisons and helping get non violent prisoners out of prison - and ending the "felony murder rule" something he was passionate about in life. He confirmed that he had shown up while we were watching the latest Spiderman with the theme that "your work doesn't die with you."  It continues on - not only in the lives of those you have influenced, but also from the flipside.

It's a profound message in a film - but it's in the movie, and as noted in the podcast I didn't experience feeling his presence, but three of my family members did simultaneously.  It's not like there was some direct or obvious reference to him - but all three said after the film "The weirdest thing happened while watching the film, it's as if Chuck was there."  Chuck was their godfather, so it's not beyond the ability of someone to argue he's always keeping an eye on them - but my wife and children all felt him in the room.

Finally, Jennifer's dad Jim stops by to chat about the process - he's always got some great insight into the flipside, and is fun to chat with.  Luana also had a few things to say about process and keeping our loved ones alive in our hearts because they want to continue to help and assist us from the flipside.

Hope this helps someone. Happy New Year. 

Hacking the Afterlife with Jennifer Shaffer with special guests NY’s Eve Eve Special.

Due to circumstances beyond our control, both Jennifer and I have come down with versions of the flu. Both of us are okay, but not up to doing our "year end" podcast that we so wanted to do. We may do that next week.

Meanwhile, for all of our fans, here's a previous unseen session filmed in Jennifer's office in Manhattan Beach.  I started off by invited Cass Elliot (in the theme of "Tuning Into the Afterlife" now on sale at Amazon) we zipped around and got a number of Avatars to swing by - both mythological ones and ones who are firmly ensconced in the religious pantheons.

As always, we're doing the best we can - Jennifer has the gift of being a cellphone to the Flipside, and I have the gift of being able to ask any question to anyone - and not know if I can or should get an answer.

This is one of those sessions for our fans - it was made in August of 2019, the transcript is in the book BACKSTAGE PASS TO THE FLIPSIDE, an excerpt is in the book TUNING INTO THE AFTERLIFE, and as noted, more information can be found at RichMartini.com - including the upcoming "The Art of Dying to Live" conference I'm speaking at in late February with some of the luminaries of that world.

Hoping everyone that listens or watches our podcast has a safe and fun New Year's celebration, and looks forward to rewiring the planet as well as their brains by focusing on the heart.

All we have is love.  Love love. 

Hacking the Afterlife with Jennifer Shaffer Redux Xmas Episode

Due to circumstances beyond our control, we've had to dig into the stocking by the fireplace for a podcast this week, the last one of 2021.   Why not just rerun the one we did last year at this same time? Sounds like a great idea.

Wishing all our listeners and friends a happy holidaze, and here's the reaching out to our loved ones on the flipside. They say that they're with us during the holidays, because of course we think of them. They say that we should toast them in present tense because after all they can hear us when we cannot hear them.

The report that they are okay, are happy to see us happy, so the more the merrier, the more love that is spread, the more they can participate in that love.  As Robin Williams said to Jennifer one afternoon, "Love love."  It was an admonition and a way to navigate the planet.

Love what love is - those around you who represent love, love oneself selflessly, as well as others.

In that spirit, we wish you all happiest of holidays and we'll catch you on the flipside!

Hacking the Afterlife with Jennifer Shaffer, Steve Jobs and George Harrison

This is a bit different, as Jennifer had spoken with someone who was close to Steve Jobs the day before, and alerted me that he might want to stop by the podcast for a chat.

  I didn't know that to be the case, but we had spoken to him before, so I prepared some questions beforehand. As noted, some of the questions to him, Jennifer could not know the answers. His comment that his relationship with Kubun Otogawa "saved his life so he could have his life" - was spot on, as he was a Zen Master that had a profound influence on Steven's life.

The questions about his LSD trip, his last words, and his comments about Joe Ranft are on the money as well.  Jennifer isn't familiar with the controversy around his first daughter, who wrote a book about his bad behavior. But he was aware of it, and comments on it. 

The point of this podcast is not to prove to anyone that "life goes on."  It's in the consistent and reproducible reports that people can seek the evidence that life goes on - because people can access anyone who has been on the planet, and ask the same questions and see if the answers differ in any fashion.

To date, they have not. As noted, we've been at this for seven years, I've been filming these interviews for longer, and the 9 books out there have transcripts. There are two documentaries on Amazon Prime via Gaia - "Flipside" and "Hacking the Afterlife" that give context to what you're about to see or hear. 

I apologize in advance to all those that this information will offend because of their world view or belief system. Having been filming people under hypnosis or without hypnosis accessing the same information, Jennifer is one of many mediums I've asked to be a cell phone to the flipside.  

The fact that we're still doing it after seven years attests to our friendship.  The book she's talking about is "TUNING INTO THE AFTERLIFE: HOW TO STAY IN TOUCH WITH THE FLIPSIDE" is available on Amazon and Audible.

The book includes a number of interviews with different people on the flipside, including my mom, a concert pianist.  The point of this podcast and these reports is to demonstrate to everyone how simple it is - but the key is to be open to the possibility, as noted by none other than Steve Jobs.