Hacking the Afterlife podcast with Jennifer Shaffer, Luana Anders, Amelia Earhart and Prince

Another one of those mind bending podcasts that we do.  Jennifer is back from her vacation, and Luana wanted to talk about a dream that I had last night - where we flew off to a party event where all her friends were.  It happened in the 1980's, and I was revisiting the event, only some of the people at the party are now on the flipside.

Luana talks about how to manifest oneself into a dream of a love one still on the stage (she says it's difficult) but she compares doing so with meditation - meaning manifesting something or someone is the equivalent of inviting them to join one's dream.

Mind bending.

Amelia Earhart stops by to talk about the book SHE WAS NEVER LOST: THE AMELIA EARHART SAGA which is decades in the making.  I have to look up what she meant by "Chapter five paragraph three."

As I've mentioned, there's an incredible moment that took place ten years ago - when I was holding a book that was written by Vincent Loomis about Amelia, and she said "open it to page 49, as there's something in there about the military aspect of her mission to Howland island."

I opened the book to page 49 and found a reference to "Clarence Beelin" who Loomis said was involved with redesigning her gas tanks. I looked up Beelin and it turns out he owned an aviation company in Boston."

But then ten years later, I'm transcribing that section in the book, and I think "Why was that so important for me to hear?"  I took to ChatGPT to ask about Clarence Beelin and I was told that was likely an error - because it was Clarence "Kelly" Johnson who redesigned her gas tanks for longer travel.  What makes that important is that Kelly Johnson went on to create the "skunk works" at the CIA - that he was credited with redesigning her fuel tanks, but further was responsible for all the spy planes in post war history - the U2 spy plane, the SR 71 and other designs - literally the most famous spy plane designer of all time.

But the point is - that Jennifer didn't say it - and Vincent Loomis had it wrong in his book. The person who referenced it was Amelia Earhart herself, and wanted to point out why that was an important passage in the book - because it was incorrect!

Because the guy who redesigned her gas tanks (so she could make it to Mili atoll where she landed the Electra on an atoll) - and wanted to give him credit for doing so!

Anyways, all of it's mind bending, and all of it is in the book.

Also Prince stops by to make Jennifer blush. As he often does.

The paragraph that Amelia refers to in this podcast:

Another mind bending adventure with Jennifer Shaffer Luana Anders, Amelia Earhart and Prince on the flipside. Amelia shows up to talk about the new book about her. In the podcast she said to Jennifer "tell him to look up chapter 5, paragraph 3." (She's done this before, so I'm used to it.) Here's that paragraph: (Chapter 5 "Just a tad off course" was written as if in her voice). "It was in May of 1944 that I had the last of my "ticker tape" parades. I had two in New York city, one after the Friendship which I didn't deserve (I didn't fly the plane, even thought they promised I would) and the 2nd was because I had soloed across the Atlantic but goy waylaid by a faulty maintenance - and landed in Ireland. You could argue in both cases I wasn't being paraded around for what I'd done - but the perception of what I'd done." She's referring to her "last parade" which was on the back of a Japanese truck, hands tied, blind folded, traveling with two American pilots who had been shot down in Saipan in May of 1944 in their B-24 Liberator. Both Jimmy and Bill were executed (their bodies dug up at a Geneva convention inquest after the war) - but numerous islanders saw her on the back of that track with those two American GI's. This is Amelia Earhart telling Jennifer Shaffer to tell me to "highlight" this paragraph because... it's accurate and she apparently likes it.

Enjoy!