Man Research NDEs & Reveals What I Discovered Gave Me GOOSEBUMPS!

So people report having a life review where you're shown the good that you've done to people and how that affected them and their loved ones and other people. But they also show you an example of bad things you've done, but they give it to you from first person. So you're the victim of the person that you cause harm to. Dr. Kenneth Ring has a story about a guy that was he was recalling his near-death event and he said he saw himself as a guy that he had beaten up in a car accident. He got out of the car and punched the guy who was driving, except he experienced it as being the guy being punched. And he felt the humiliation and the pain and the suffering that he caused. He said, it was like I was watching it from above and I was experiencing it. Hi, I'm Rich Martini. I have a podcast called Hacking the Afterlife on YouTube. And I've been asked by our friend Mia to come on to her podcast called Life After Life NDE to talk about the research that I've been doing for the past 15 years. And I'm a filmmaker. I've written and or directed eight theatrical feature films. And I started making a documentary back in 2008. And that was the book Flipside. And Flipside was my first documentary in this topic about the afterlife. And the reason that I got interested in NDEs is because I took the film to scientists at the University of Virginia, Dr. Bruce Grayson, Dr. Edward Kelly, Dr. Jim Tucker. And I showed them, I had been filming people under hypnosis talking about the afterlife. And they were saying the same things. And Dr. Grayson at the time, who is the preeminent really scholar that I'm aware of about near-death experiences, his book After, highly recommend. Also, he'd be a great person to have on your show. What he said to me was that hypnosis is not considered a valid tool of science in terms of what I was talking about. And that's because of bias, meaning a person who does a past life regression might want to have a past life happen. And they go and they, you know, hire someone to help them do a past life regression. And so there's this bias of like one person wanting it versus the other. And so I said to him, well, that doesn't account for the fact that thousands of people across the planet have done these hypnotherapy sessions, and they all report the same hallmarks, meaning whether it doesn't matter what religion they were from, they talked about guides and teachers and classrooms and libraries, council members, they all talked about things that no one's ever spoken about before. So I expanded my research into near-death experiences. And I started filming people who had had a near-death experience. And then I asked them if they would do a hypnotherapy session so they could revisit the event. So these hypnotherapy sessions are four to six hours long, and they would go back to the near-death event and see it from a different perspective, see more things, have more clarity. I'm sure you're aware of this, and maybe you've heard it because you've talked about near-death experiences, but 70 percent, according to Dr. Grayson and Dr. Pimban Lhamel and Dr. Samparnia and Dr. Ray Moody, all doctors who've researched this, they've all worked together. Ray invented the term near-death experience. 70 percent of the people who have a near-death experience experience something. 30 percent do not. One to three percent experience something negative. And people like to use the word hell or hellacious or something frightening. And in my research, those one to three percent of people who do experience something initially in the near-death experience, that experience dissolves under scrutiny. Meaning when you ask somebody, either under hypnosis or during a guided meditation, you know, they're saying, I'm in hell or I'm experiencing hell. And then if you ask them, why are we here? When they have to access the answer to that, it dissolves in front of their eyes. So even though they've had a negative experience, it dissolves because they realize it's a mental construct of what they feared. So now it's interesting about in terms of belief and religion, because this is what Dr. Grayson and I talked about, but he didn't put it in the book after. It was a book talk, a talk that he gave, which was about all the things he left out of the book after. And some of those are that 15 percent of people who have a near-death experience see Jesus, whether they believe in him or not. So it doesn't matter if they're Hindu or Muslim or any religious, Buddhist, doesn't matter, or atheist. After the near-death experience, they say, oh, I saw Jesus. Now my question is, how do you know it's Jesus? You know, is he wearing a name tag? You know, or like, but they just know. That's their experience. In my research, filming people under hypnosis for the past 15 years, doing guided meditations, 200, I found that people who report seeing Jesus report the same details. And statistically, in my work, it's much higher than 15 percent. Let's just put it that way. But here's where it gets really interesting, I think. Dr. Grayson said that 85 percent of near-death experiencers, those are the ones out of the 70 percent that experience something, 85 percent of those people report seeing or meeting Source, he calls it, or God. And they report the same experiences of feeling indescribable joy, unconditional love, and non-judgmental acceptance. Those three terms show up often in my research, where people are under hypnosis or doing a guided meditation, or I'm talking to someone through a medium who is no longer on the planet, which is what we do in the podcast, Hacking the Afterlife. Jennifer Shaver is a medium who works with law enforcement. She's very good at what she does. I ask questions to people who've just departed, what their experience is. Is there hell? Is there whatever religious thing that you can think of? And what's mind-bending is that they all report the same basic architecture, that there's no religion that's accurate in terms of what they're experiencing. However, they can experience unconditional love, indescribable joy, and non-judgmental acceptance, which are terms that people might use for heaven. So, in essence, I think what people are realizing, it's not so much a belief in the afterlife, but a belief in data. And the data shows, data has to be consistent and reproducible to become data. But the data shows that people who have a near-death experience, or in my example, guided meditation or via mediumship, they experience these life-enhancing events. And it happened to me. When my father passed away back in 2004, I felt him walk into the room I was in, and I asked him how he was, because I felt him in the room. Dad, are you here? And he said, I'm experiencing indescribable joy. I'd never heard the term before, but that's what I heard. Clear as a bell, just behind my ear, my dad's voice. Also, he wanted me to write a note to my mother and my brothers. So, he made me get a piece of paper. And I said, what do you want to say? He said, tell your mother I love her very much. And he named six individuals. Two of the names I recognized, but the other four I did not. And the next day, I said to my mom, you know, I think I had a dream that I talked to dad last night. She was like, oh, what did he say? I said, oh, he said he wanted me to tell you that he loved you very much, but he's with Harry, Kitty, and these four other people. And she said, oh, those are all our friends who died in World War II. Names I'd never heard before. So, that really kicked me into this research. If you can learn something new from somebody off planet, like the names of friends of theirs who died in World War II that you couldn't know, then it can't be cryptomnesia. It can't be something you read or heard. It has to be that they're actually coming to speak with us. So, that's been my research. So, the question is, so what happens to people when they go, or what do they report happen when they go to the afterlife? And again, this is based on 200 filmed interviews with either people under hypnosis or people not under hypnosis, accessing previous lifetimes, which they remember. And then they talk about, you know, you'll ask, I can ask, so what happened after that memory of being, you know, a warrior in the 15th century? And they'll say, well, I went home. That's what they say. People always use that term, home. Then I started asking, what does that mean? What do you mean by home? And they would say, it's a place of unconditional love. Or it's a place of, I've even heard that term, nonjudgmental acceptance. It's like, I'm accepted. I'm back. I'm returning. So, in essence, if I can, if I just explain it based on the many people that I've talked to, the architecture appears to be something like this, that prior to coming on stage, prior to our lifetime, we plan what we want to learn. And we go to our guides, teachers, council members, and friends, classmates, and we negotiate with them what they're going to play, what role they're going to play, and what role we're going to play before we've even gotten on stage. And people raise their hand and say, I want to play your Aunt Betty. And you say, that's great. Who's going to play Uncle Pete? And you may point to somebody and they would, they can say no. Incarnation is optional. They can say, I don't want to come. I don't want to be Uncle Pete. You made me do that last time in the Viking era. I don't want to do that again. Then you try to convince them, but you were so good playing a bad uncle. So, it's really up to you and your guides. And then what people report, and both Dr. Helen Wambaugh and Michael Newton, who, by the way, Michael Newton was a hypnotherapist who had 7,000 reports before he published. And now the Newton Institute has like 80,000, according to somebody who asked. But he said the same things that Dr. Helen Wambaugh said, which was that we don't, so inception happens, but we don't show up consciously, conscious energy until the fourth month. And that's just that in, Michael Newton told me, it's in the documentary Flipside, in 7,000 reports, he never heard from anybody who came before the fourth month. And I saw it in Dr. Wambaugh's book, Reliving Past Lives, and she said in all of the 2,750 case studies she did, no one reported coming to the mother's womb until the sixth month. So, whether that's accurate or not, I'm just reporting that's what both of them reported. And so, we don't bring all of our energy to the lifetime. That's interesting as well. We only bring a portion. And you can ask someone under hypnosis or during a guided meditation, you can ask them, when did you arrive? And you can say, well, how much of your conscious energy did you bring to this lifetime? The average is between 20 and 40%. So, anywhere between 60 and 80% is always off stage, back home. We only bring a portion to be on stage, to wear the costume, to pick up the props, and do the things that we have to do while we're here. And when the play is over, and the curtain comes down, we drop the costumes, we drop the props, and we return home. That's what people report. They say, we return home. So, that's the process. So now, it's fascinating because you and I, at least as we said hello, we talked a little bit about Buddhism. And I've studied Buddhism with Robert Thurman, Uma Thurman's dad, who was a scholar at Columbia University in Buddhism. And I've traveled through India and Tibet with him. And so, I'm familiar with the Buddhist concept of what happens afterwards, how many days it takes for you to fly around and go home. I'm aware of those things. And I can say this, that Buddhism is peerless when it comes to studying the nature of reality. But when it comes to talking about what happens after we leave the stage, it doesn't jive with what the statistics say. You see? So, the idea is that you can examine that. So, it's not a 49-day trip, as has been reported by certain scholars. It's up to us. We're in charge of the process. And when we get back home, we work it out with our friends and our loved ones. We have a life review is what people often report. David Bennett in his near-death experience, Voyager Purpose, he talks about an extensive life review during his near-death experience. Now, it's interesting, because when I say it, I think to myself, well, weren't his guides aware that he was coming back? You know, why did they bother having a life review? But they wanted him to see what kind of things he had done in life, good and bad. So, people report having a life review, where you're shown the good that you've done to people, and how that affected them, and their loved ones, and other people. But they also show you an example of bad things you've done, but they give it to you from first person. So, you're the victim of the person that you caused harm to. Dr. Kenneth Ring has a story about a guy that was doing a, he was recalling his near-death event, and he said he saw himself as a guy that he had beaten up in a car accident. He got out of the car and punched the guy who was driving, except he experienced it as being the guy being punched. And he felt the humiliation, and the pain, and the suffering that he caused. He said, it was like I was watching it from above, and I was experiencing it. I'll tell you one other, this is a dream that I had, so I don't know if it's real or not, but it fits into the research. I was in an auditorium with maybe a thousand other people. I don't know who the people were. I don't know who the people were. I could see a person on my left and right. I didn't know who they were. But on the stage, and I'm holding up my finger to a small person, because it was about that big. That's how big the auditorium was. This guy was about that big on the main stage. And there was somebody interviewing him, going over a life review. And they were saying, you remember the time that you did this thing to help this woman out? And the person sitting in the chair was like, I don't know what you're talking about. And then he showed him the event, but everyone in the audience saw it firsthand. So I saw the event that they were referring to. I was there almost watching it as it occurred. It was a positive thing. It helped some woman out and changed her life. But he was experiencing it on stage, this life review in front of all these people. And I started to wake up, because it was like I had to get up. And I turned to the guy next to me, and I said, oh gosh, this is terrible. I don't want to wake up. I'm having so much fun. And the guy said to me, don't worry about it. This will be going on for some time. Meaning, they're outside of time, by the way. That's the other thing. So you'll hear people talk about near-death experiences where they feel timeless, that there's no time. Maybe you've heard that. And what I've done is I ask the people that people are seeing, what does that mean? And what I've come to the conclusion is, they'll refer to 25 years on earth feels like 5 or 10 minutes on the other side. So we might live a life that's 75 years, but to them, on the other side, observing all this, it feels like half an hour. So it's not the same time frame that we have. So it's like, if you lose a friend when you're 15 years old, and now you live another 60, 70 years, when you get off stage, you see them as they were. And they're looking at their watch going, what took you so long? But that's what people report consistently. So I know that near-death experiences, like I say, 70% have an experience, 30% don't. One to 3% have something negative. But in that research, no one is asking the person to revisit the event. And that's what I do. When they say, oh, I'm seeing this person in the near-death event, I'll say, well, can you stop the movement of this memory, freeze it like a photograph, and then ask that person some questions. Who are you? Or what are you doing here? Or how's our friend doing? Or how does it work? So the question is, what about hell in the research? And being a student of humanities myself, I'm very familiar with the fact that hell shows up in almost every religion, including Buddhism. There's different levels of hell, that kind of thing. The simplest answer is that it's a man-made construct based on fear. And the example that I can give is that we have a tendency to think that our actions will cause us to suffer. And that makes sense in terms of the planet. There's justice. And we want people who cause us injustice to suffer. I mean, that's kind of the way the justice system works. However, there's no library card on the flip side. You don't have to earn a library card to go back home or a passport. Everybody returns home. Everyone has a life review. If you've been a person who's caused stress and harm and trauma, you will experience it firsthand. And I've heard from people who've experienced that. That is a form of unrelenting trauma, because you experience not only seeing what harm you caused, you experience it firsthand. And so does everybody in the audience. So imagine your worst day on the planet. And now everybody that you ever knew is watching you do something that's causing someone else pain and suffering. And I can say that in the research, there are reports of people who voluntarily, because there's no sort of justice system, but they voluntarily offer to go into a place of complete isolation for a long time to examine why they've caused so much trauma. And I filmed them revisiting it. Like, what was that about? And like I say, once the hypnotherapist said to them, because they were talking about the smell of sulfur, or they were talking about, you know, beings around them that scared them. When they were asked, why are we here? They saw that they had chosen to be there. It was an experience that they chose to experience. And actually, when you actually hear Dr. Grayson talk about it, he said, hell was not even part of their data to begin with, because everyone who had an experience with it eventually came out of that experience. It's almost like Dante's Inferno, they went through all three things simultaneously in each event. So they started off with fear, and then they started to realize where they were. Now, then I like to talk to people about, you know, these concepts of demons. And I like to point out, there's no two accounts that match. You know, people talk about Santa or Satan. They both have the same letters. They both wear red. But no account of what Satan looks like is the same. So you'd think if people actually were going somewhere, they could report like, oh, this looks just like Baltimore, or this looks just like Schenectady. They can't, all the details are different. You know, some see this, some see that. I've heard friends of mine, you know, who recounted their near-death experience where they saw people with horns. And I always say, horns are matted hair, or cartilage. Why would horns be a bad thing? You know, it's one of those things that people report. I'll give you an example. Michael Newton, in his research, had a Protestant minister come to him to do a hypnotherapy session. And in it, he saw Satan coming towards him, breathing fire, horns, giant horns, furry, hairy. And he started to scream and say, oh my God, Satan's here. He's real. He's coming for me. And Michael Newton, who had been doing hundreds and hundreds of sessions, said, well, tell me what he's wearing. And he described him as this hairy beast with red eyes and fire coming out. And then he said, and he's wearing tennis shoes. And Michael Newton said, tennis shoes? And suddenly, the minister said, oh, this is my guide. He's put on this mask to frighten me. He's telling me that I've spent my whole life, career, scaring people with this vision of hell, which doesn't exist. I wanted to give you a dose of your own medicine. But that idea of hell, there's one other example in the book Architecture of the Afterlife. This woman that I met and interviewed had a recurring dream, or no, experience, when she was a young girl, of seeing a demon, a gargoyle. You know what a gargoyle is? So she saw a gargoyle climbing down her wall, and then it would come up into her face, and it scared her to death. And the thing had red eyes and hairy whatever, and walked up walls backwards. And so we did this guided meditation. And I said, well, let's revisit the event. And she was shaking with fear. And I said, well, freeze frame, take a photograph of what you're seeing, and then walk through the photograph. So she did. And she walked right up to this creature and described him, red eyes in detail. I said, now, let's ask him a question. Who are you? What are you doing here? And by asking him questions, he said he was from a denser realm, a realm where other gargoyles live, and that he liked, as a tourist, liked to come here because it was easier to navigate. And he said, and where I'm from, people have red eyes, and they have hairy bodies, and they walk up walls backwards. He said, I said, why are you scaring young girl? He said, it's not my fault that she sees me. Most people don't. And then I said, well, can you show us what your world looks like? And he gave us a tour. I mean, I wasn't there, I didn't see it, but she could, of this denser realm, where his family looked like smaller versions of him. And by the end of an hour of conversation with this person, gargoyle, I said, are you, do you fear him anymore? She said, no, I feel like I know him. So that's the thing about fear. And it also applies to aliens, quote unquote, applies to any being that we don't understand. People will sometimes, I have a forum on Quora, hacking the afterlife, and people will write to me, any one of your viewers can write to me there. And they'll ask me, like, I felt this dark entity in my room, or during my near-death experience, what's that about? And I'll say, dark means lack of light. Revisit the event, and turn the lights up. Literally freeze the frame, and we all know how to lighten photographs, lighten the photograph, and look at the features. I did that with the medium, psychic, Tony Stockwell, in the interview I did with him in Architecture of the Afterlife, and he kept seeing a young child in his bedroom, and it, when he was young, and he didn't know who it was. And I said, well, can you see him now? He said, he's in the dark. I said, well, take a hold of his hands, and pull him into the light. And when he did that, he recognized this child of Victorian era, child, who turned out to be his brother in that lifetime. And I had them go back to the home where they lived, and he gave me details about the street, and the name of the home, and all of that turned out to be true, and accurate, in terms of historical records, of the Victorian era. So, what I'm saying is that evil, or darkness, or all that stuff, it's just stuff we don't understand. So, it's really up to us to learn what it is, instead of being afraid of it. So, the question is, some people have a near-death experience. Afterwards, their life is different, where they can see things, hear things, sense things they didn't before, as well as sense the future, or sense something about to happen to other people, or to themselves. So, in terms of what we've discussed, and in terms of what the research shows, like I say, people talk about these filters that we have on the brain. And again, not everybody has them. Children don't have them until about the eighth year. Some children don't have them until about the eighth year. They see things, they predict things are about to happen. So, is the future set? Not based on the research. There are likely outcomes. So, like if you go to an AI generator, and say, what's going to happen with this? And the AI will tell you likely outcomes. The same thing is happening with somebody accessing a guide, or a teacher off planet, or they get a message. You know, they suddenly go, I think my brother's going to be in a car accident. I better call him. And then they call him, and he just had the accident. You know, that happens. So, were they predicting the future, or were they getting the information from someone who was saying, you better watch out, because this is what's going to happen, unless things change. Likely outcome. Oh, and if you need to reach me, you can find me on Quora, at the Hacking the Afterlife Forum, or Martini Films. No, Martini Prods. Like Martini Productions. Martini, P-R-O-D-S, at gmail.com. Or like I said, just type in Richard Martini, one word, .com, and there's a way to reach me, if somebody wants to do a guided meditation.