Evolving Concepts of the Afterlife with Marc Lainhart

Air Date - 08 July 2026

Join Host Marc Lainhart – The Intuitive Prospector™- this Wisdom Wednesday as Marc shares his personal experiences, education, and perspectives, and explores how this decade of our “Roaring 20s” now holds immense potential for humanity as we discuss the evolving concepts of the afterlife.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Join Mark Lainhart, the Intuitive Prospector, on a journey into
creativity and transformation. Each episode, Mark and his guests explore
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live a more inspired life. Together, we'll navigate both the
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(00:36):
This is a community where you are empowered to discover
the diamond within. Mark is an award winning psychic medium,
decorated veteran, and teacher based in Seattle. Using his intuitive gifts,
he guides the curious on profound soul adventures. Now Here
is your host, Mark Lainhart, the Intuitive Prospector.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
To die, to sleep, to sleep, perchance to dream. Ah,
there's the rub for in that sleep of death, what
dreams may come? The famous William Shakespeare. Hello, prospecting friends,
and welcome to Inspired Living. I'm your host, Mark Lainhart
and the Intuitor's Prospector, and I'm so thrilled to have
you back tuning in as I guide you and fellow

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journey together, inspire others, and let's make every moment count
before we expire. And I hope that you'll enjoy this
episode of Inspired Living. So today I'm going to be
your special guest, and we're going to be talking about
the afterlife. Now, this is something that many years ago.

(04:01):
You know, for those of you that have followed the show,
or my journey or my work, you know that several
years ago I had a period in my life where
I had personal tragedy come to my doorstep with the
loss of both my brothers and the father in law
all within the same time frame. Both brothers actually in
the same week, murdering brain cancer within the same week.

(04:24):
I was at the age of twenty seven, and I
never really thought about death in dying, you know, professionally,
I'd been around death. I've seen death many many times
in my journey since I've been here, even starting when
I was a small boy. My first experience with death
was a motorcycle accident that I witnessed right outside my house.

(04:47):
But later on I would go into the US Coast
Guard and I would later become a first Responder Firefighter EMT,
and so I was always called other people's traumas and tragedies,
and it wasn't until the age of twenty seven that
it really became personal for me and really kind of
changed who I was. And then that same year, I
was also in a river accident and I had my
first ND, which we call a near death experience. And

(05:10):
that really did change how I thought about life, death
and afterlife. And so on today's show, we're gonna look
at some of the evolutions and some of the changes
that are going with the afterlife, the discussion of the
afterlife and something that you know, I didn't really think

(05:32):
about until it actually happened to me at the age
of twenty seven. So since the age of twenty seven,
I've been exploring, I've been learning, I've been unlearning the
journey of what we call the afterlife. And today we're
going to just give you some perspectives. We're going to
talk about the after life. Maybe you've never had an
experience to date, you will, I promise you that, because

(05:54):
that's what life is all about. But many times, you know,
the life or I guess I should say, the concept
of after life has gone through what I would say,
significant evolution, and I'm going to give a little bit
of history as well. And I opened up the show
with that famous quote from William Shakespeare. Shakespeare when he

(06:14):
talked about what dreams may come, because some may argue
that when we're awake, this concept is actually the dream,
and when we go to sleep that is the reality, right,
And so you know when when Shakespeare was talking about
to die, to sleep, to sleep perchance to dream, while
there's the rub for in that sleep of death, what
dreams may come? And uh, you know there's there's there's

(06:37):
a lot of writings and a lot of philosophy on
the afterlife. And I thought today for today's show, would
be fun to go prospecting as the intuitive prospector that's
what I like to do. I like, I love to
explore for the diamond within each and every one of us.
And I also like to you know, explore and prospect
and discover through mind, body and spirit, the many hidden

(06:59):
gems that are all around us. And trust me when
I say there are many things that we do not
see with the physical eye. And I always remind my
clients and my students that we always have three eyes
in life, two to look, one to see. And there's
many examples that we could use back by science. Whether
it's the air that you're breathing right now, whether it's
the wind that blows through the trees. You don't see
the actual wind, you see the effects of the wind
on the tree. Gravity. We know that gravity is a thing,

(07:22):
the Wi Fi connection that's connected us through what we
call the Internet, so there's a lot of things that
we don't see with the physical eye. And you know
that I would challenge you if you're listening to the show,
if you're catching us live, thanks for joining us. If
you're catching us on the podcast, thanks for listening. You know,
really just have a more open, broader perspective of what

(07:42):
life is and what death is, because sometimes you have
to unlearn what you've learned in your journey. I know,
when I was brought up in religion, I was taught
that there was, you know, a big cloud in the sky,
and you know, if you were good enough, you could
go up and get through those pearly gates and then
there'd be a book, you know, the Book of Life.
If your name's in there, you're good. If your name's
not in there, straight down to hell, right. And as

(08:05):
I got older and started to unlearn some of those
tat dogmas of education that religion can often do, I
started to realize, well, there is no up or down
physically metaphysically, because we're on a round planet going one
hundred and thirty thousand miles through space around a big
ball of fire. So you can't go up or down.
So heaven and hell didn't really make a lot of

(08:26):
you know, sense to me, and so it really became
more of my version and my perspective of Heaven wasn't
an actual location. It was more of a vibration. And
so as we've evolved. Now, if I was having a discussion,
you know, with you today one hundred and fifty hundred
and eighty years ago, I probably have people coming to
my door and taking me away to to you know,

(08:47):
string me up or burn me at the stake, you know.
So we've evolved through through our conversations and through our debates,
and you know, I found that throughout history, this decade,
which I've coined the Rowing twenty, is of ascension, transformation, chaos,
and also a great coming together. We've seen a lot,
you know. Last month, in the month of June, we

(09:08):
learned that, you know, in history, we witnessed our first
world's trillionaire with a t right. We witnessed that, you know,
we're having logical discussions, that we're not alone in the universe,
that there are actually intelligent beings, non human biologicals or
plasmoid sentient life that is around us. And so in

(09:28):
one month, we learned that we're not alone and trillionaires
who would have thought right? Who would have thunk it right?
But I find that in this decade, as we're going
through our advancements, we have advancements not just based on technology,
but based on artificial intelligence AI. And we've done past
shows here on Inspired Living. I've talked about it myself.
I've had amazing guests that have given us their perspectives

(09:49):
of the coming of artificial intelligence. But we also have
to talk about, you know, robotics and technology, and quantum
physics and quantum mechanics and quantum compute and these changes
that we're going through this roaring twenties of transformation. You know,
I believe that it further influences our beliefs and our perceptions.

(10:11):
And if you go back just just a historical perspective
of the afterlife, and again there are many terms that
you can use. Some of you listening or watching may
not even believe in the afterlife. You know, there's people
that are full atheists that have no belief that when
we're here and when this journey is done, we're in
the ground and that's it. Right. Some of you may

(10:31):
be full believers that there is something after what we
call the physical incarnation. We go through, we go through death,
and then we decarnate, which I personally believe two concepts
supported by science, is the energy in our heart. When
we decarnate and the heart stops, the energy has to
go somewhere. The energy leaves the heart. So by a
science standpoint, by a physics standpoint, energy always has to

(10:54):
return to source based on the science reno today and
the physics reno today, which I always say, physics is
always that door that's cracked open to keep us wandering right.
The other thing I found fascinating and doing these shows
and part of my journey of consciousness and metaphysics and
psychic and medingship and spirituality is we've also learned that
the DMT that's in our brain and the pineal gland,

(11:16):
upon the time of death, DMT is actually released into
the brain. The pineal gland is what regulates your sleep.
It's your serotonin, it's your melantonin. It's what we call
the third eyes. Right here, the brow chakra goes into
the brain. It's shaped like an almond, so it looks
that's why we call it the third eye. Its surrounded
and fluid, and it has little hairs that come off
of that can attract vibrations and frequency. It's actually uses

(11:37):
the second most blood flow from the heart, coming up
from the heart to the brain that feeds the pineal gland.
But it's also a regulation of our sleep, which is
interesting to me, right because you know, why as humans
do we go to sleep? Why do we sleep a
third of our lives or maybe some for some of you.
I love sleep, and maybe we sleep half our lives? Right,
So I've always wondered why we sleep. And as we

(11:58):
have the conversation of learning that not alone in the universe,
and that there are extra consciousness, sentient plasmoid, non human
biologicals in our universe, the question I'm going to have
for them is do you guys sleep? Because they may
look at us and say, why do you guys shut down?
But the pineal plan has always been fascinating. If we
go throughout history, we know upon death that energy leaves

(12:18):
the heart, that DMT is actually released into the brain,
so we all have DMT inside of us, and that
those two points of science have always been fascinating to me. Again,
where do we go? You know, this question has been
asked for thousands of years by philosophers, by gurus, by teachers,
by you know, experts and pundits. And for today's show,

(12:39):
you may have a concept of afterlife. You may believe
in it as a full believer. You may be an
athist and no belief, or you may be agnostic. Can
you want proof? And I think sometimes I border between
being a full believer in the work that I do
because I've actually connected with a lot of people on
the other side of the professional medium. But then there's
that human ego side of me, right, I want that
agnostic proof. I want proof with that big booming voice

(13:01):
from the sky. But I found that that usually doesn't happen.
It's very subtle. When I do my work. It comes
in like a lamb, not like a lion. And that's
why I believe that there is an afterlife. And again,
you can call it the afterlife, summer land, heaven, you know, whatever,
many different labels that it has. But if we look
at the historical perspective of the afterlife. In doing some

(13:24):
research for today's show, the Egyptians, if we go back
to the Egyptians and the Pyramids, they believed in a
detailed afterlife journey with the wane of the heart actually
against a feather, which is very very interesting. So just
for the sake of time, I won't be able to
get through the entire historical perspective of the afterlife, but

(13:44):
they would weigh your heart against a feather based on
the deeds and the journey of what you did and
if your afterlife journey would continue. And as we move
forward from the Egyptians, we move into the Greeks, the
concepts of hades and acilium and the underworld reflected both
moral and ethical living. We go then into some of

(14:04):
the Eastern philosophies. Hinduism and Buddhism emphasizes what we call
reincarnation based on karma. What you do today has a
karma effect for tomorrow. Now, some of you don't believe
in karma. When I first started this journey at the
age of twenty seven, you know, many many years ago,
I actually did some past life regression. I actually explored

(14:27):
reincarnation in my study group that I have, my Spiritual
Growth Collective. We've actually explored many times the top ten
religions around the world, and every top ten religion points
in their scripture or their doctrine to reincarnation. So there's
something to it, right, And I'm sure you've had that
your own personal experience where you've been in a place

(14:50):
or you've recognized something or someone and you're like, hm,
that's interesting. I don't know why I know that, but
I know it. And we call that soul amnesia or
aspects of reincarnation. If you you know, visit this life
and we're just assuming this planet, you know, this universe
is pretty pretty mathematically uncomprehensible, so we're just assuming that

(15:11):
that's this planet, this frequency. But the Eastern philosophers, both
based on Hinduism and Buddhism, emphasize reincarnation based on your
own karm of journey. What you do to yourself and
to others is reflected in another lifetime. So as we
progress through the historical aspects of you know, the afterlife, right,

(15:33):
that's what we're talking about today, we start to get
into the Middle Ages and we start to have the
development of Christianity, which developed a which we call a
dualistic view. I was raised in Christianity and Catholicism, and
it definitely does have that dualistic approach based on the
view of both heaven and Hell, or I guess I
would do it this way if I'm on camera heaven

(15:53):
and Hell and you know, focused on both salvation and judgment.
But you know, and I'm just given the philosophy and
the background history of these religions. I'm not a religious person.
I'm a spiritual and I'm very open. I'm omni, I'm
an ominous, which means I'm open to all religions and
study all religions. But the one thing that didn't really
sit with me with the dualistic view of both heaven

(16:16):
and hell and being based focused on salvation and judgment
is if you have a God who is perfect and
creates us in his image, and we're not perfect, but
then judges us for being not perfect. It just didn't
sit well with me. Right. So as we move along,
we get into Islam, which introduced the very detailed afterlife

(16:39):
with paradise and punishment. Kind of that same duality approach,
paradise and punishment, the two piece based on one's earthly deeds.
So as we continue to go throughout history from the
ancient beliefs to the Middle Ages to Enlightenment. In our
modern era, we see the rise and I've seen the
rise of both secularism, which questions the status quo. It

(17:03):
questions you know, the traditional afterlife beliefs. And that's what
we're just talking about today. We're talking about, you know,
the afterlife and the evolution of the afterlife. We're also
seen within the mid eighteen hundreds, around eighteen forty nine,
we started to see the rise of the emergence of

(17:23):
spiritualism and the interest in both what is called psychic phenomenon,
psychic sciences, and talking with those that have no longer
have lived, have lived a life, but are no longer here.
Because when you start thinking about, just like I did,
how do you talk to somebody that's not here and
doesn't have a vibration off their vocal cord, right because
they're not a physical being made of matter. We have

(17:45):
to think bigger than that. If there is actually, like
last month, there's a lot of details about what is
called sentient plasmoid intelligence. They don't have a body, but
there's a sentient intelligence and consciousness, and science is actually
starting to explore that there may be a lot of
different consciousness that doesn't need physical matter to have a
vibration off a vocal core. To communicate, right, So we

(18:08):
saw the emergence of spiritualism. You know, it's not something
that I was into until after my brothers had passed
and my father in law passed and I had my
own near death experience. That's where I really started getting
involved with studying, being mentored in spiritualism, life after death, mediumship,
psychic science is healing all of those modalities. And so
as we moved along in this historical perspective of the

(18:30):
afterlife and the evolution on the perspective of the afterlife,
we started to see the evolving concepts of the twenty
first century, especially this decade. I think we're going to
look back at history and go this decade historians are
going to really rescratch in their head because there's still
a lot to unfold for the human journey. But we

(18:51):
started to get into this technological influence. But you know
that really started to challenge status quo and ask these questions.
AI consciousness are two of the big things that we're
having right now and in modern time. And if you
listen to this podcast live, or you catch an Encore show,
or you catch this show later, you know, twenty years
down the road, we'll be having these same conversations and

(19:12):
you know, questions about whether consciousness can exist independently from
a biological body. And that's something science is actually really
looking at, is to say, do you need to have
a physical body in order to have sentience, in order
to have communications, in order to have intelligence. Right, that's
the that's the debate, that's the conversations that we're now having.

(19:32):
And as we move into AI, there's a there's a
there's a point where we're going to reach a singularity
where AI is here. AI is not a new concept, y'all.
If you if you know the history of AI, AI
was first a hypothesis back in the nineteen fifties when
they were working on the supercomputers. AI is now rolling out,
but it's still machine learning. It still has to learn.

(19:53):
But as anything learns again, it doesn't have a body.
It's not its energy, right, it's frequency, it's by and
at some point, a lot of experts say that AI
will reach what we call the singularity, which will become sentient,
will become self aware. A lot of Hollywood movies have
reflected this. You know, Spielberg did a movie called AI

(20:13):
years ago. There's a whole list of movies, and I
you know, it's always like does art imitate life or
does life imitate art? I don't know, but in the
open and I said a lot of times where you know,
things that we call paranormal become normal. When things that
we call extraordinary, Uh, you know people look at our
times say extraordinary times, right, we call it that ordinary.

(20:33):
And of course we call science fiction today eventually becomes
science normal, science facts, science manifested into our own reality. Right.
So the robotics, that's also you know, the evolving concepts
of the twenty first century is the idea of creating
robotic avatars. There's a whole movie called Avatar that is,

(20:56):
you know, that carry on the human experiences as post death. Right,
you know, is there an avatar? Is can our consciousness
be put into something in the future? And so we
may the physical body may die, it may give up
the ghost, But does our consciousness, does our love? Does
our mannerisms? Is it boxed into some sort of quantum

(21:18):
robotic mechanism and put into another avatar? Right? I don't know.
These are just these are the concepts that we're talking
about today. But as we move, you know, continue on
this timeline, we get into quantum computing and we get
into reality. And so there are many theories now that
are coming out based on science movies want talk about this.

(21:40):
I've seen the vendors, you know about the multiverse, Doctor Strange,
all of that. But the multiverse theories now suggesting and
science has taken a real look at this, both science metaphysics,
and I always say there's pseudoscience as well. Things you
can things you can't prove, but things you can't disprove either.
So it falls in that gray area of the pseudoscience.
But the multiverse theories suggest that multiple realities may exist again,

(22:03):
if there's a lot of consciousness, if there's a lot
of difference of frequencies and vibrations, this could change the
view of how we look at death. Right. You know,
Nikola Tessa said, you know, back in the late eighteen hundreds,
he always talked about him in Einstein and Hawkins in Sagan.
They always talked about if you want to start to
unlock the secrets of the universe and our place in

(22:27):
the universe, you have to really start broadening your perspective,
and you have to think in terms of energy, frequency, vibration, right,
and not everybody's there. I get that not everybody's where
I'm at and the experiences I've gone through, But I
would challenge you to, you know, educate, prospect, go deeper,
and broaden your perspective of you know, what is the

(22:48):
string theory, the multiverse theory. You know, when we die,
that that energy that I'm talking about that's in our heart,
you go to the afterlife and the d MT that
releases into our brain. Maybe the d MT experience. Have
you ever done it, experience that worked with plant medicines
like I have. It could be quite overwhelming. It can
be like wow, you know, and some would theorize when
we the dmts released, we see this this light at

(23:10):
the end of the tunnel, this long tunnel, and at
the end of the tunnel there's this white light that
we walk towards. Right now. In my near death experience,
I didn't have that. I was just very peaceful, ready
to go, and I ascended up. And I think that's
why we think heaven is up, because I did leave
my body. I did ascend up in the water as
about I was trapped under four feet of water, and
then I looked back down at myself and I was like, oh,

(23:31):
that's I actually remember saying to myself, though this is interesting.
I'm actually an excellent swimmer, served in the US Coast Guard,
was a rescue swimmer, and I'm gonna die because I'm
pinned and I'm gonna drown. I remember having that conversation,
But as I ascend it up, I was very peaceful.
I wasn't scared. There was no white light at the
end of the tunnel, and some would theorize that light
at the end of the tunnel is us coming out

(23:51):
in another reincarnation, another journey of you know, what we
call the human consciousness, if it's on this planet or
within the UNI. But as I was ascending up, thinking okay,
this is it, I'm okay with that, I'm at peace
with that, something shot me right back in my body
and I popped up. So I've always kind of looked
at that river accident and that near death experience and

(24:13):
then out of body experience because I was leaving my
body consciously, and looked at that and said, wow, I
guess I got more things to do here and more
soul adventures to experience for this journey as the intuitive prospector.
But as we start to think about multiverse, and science
has really taking a look at this. We are also
starting to have studies and consciousness. I think this decade

(24:35):
is really going to start to unlock some doors of
our understanding of what consciousness really is. And you know,
whether it's quantum theories that propose that consciousness might persist
beyond the physical death. We've got quantum physics, quantum mechanics,
quantum computing. You know, there's a lot of things that
we have to have to broaden our perspective. And again

(24:55):
things that we've learned and in the spiritual journey, I've
learned that you learn something, you unlearn it, you relearn it,
you learn it, you unlearn it. It's this whole process
and just being open. But what that does is it
changes our beliefs and our perspectives of what the afterlife is.
And with the integration of technology, we start to have

(25:15):
conversations about the digital afterlife, which you know, social media
accounts and digital legacies raise questions about how individuals may
live in cyberspace. People they just did this for the
World War two veterans where they're actually recording them and
now their memories are in a museum of the war.
So they're not forgotten. Their stories are not forgotten. And
it's literally a hologram of them. I had seen a

(25:37):
special I think was on sixty minutes, like two years ago. Fascinating.
But their memories, their voice, their image continue on. And
so we have what's called the digital afterlife. And then
we also start to get into what we call virtual
reality VR. And the virtual reality is that potential for
experiences that stimulate after life scenarios, influencing both emotional and

(26:03):
spiritual beliefs and responses to what a virtual reality might be.
So we're gonna see some philosophical shifts as we have
this discussion today on the evolution of the afterlife and
what that means. And you know, we're gonna take our
first break, and when we come back from the break,
we're gonna pick this conversation up, you know, talking about

(26:26):
the afterlife and what happens after we live a life
and that we die, or as William Shakespeare reminds us,
to die, to sleep, to sleep perchance to dream. Ah,
there's the rub. We're in that sleep of death, what
dreams may come. So stick around for the second half.
You're not gonna want to miss this as we're discussing
the evolution and the progression and the perspective of the

(26:47):
afterlife here on Inspired.

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All right, Hey, welcome back to Inspired Leaving. I'm your host,
Mark Leineheart the Intuitive Prospector. Today we're talking about the
journey of the evolution of the afterlife, talking about having
discussions on historical perspectives, current perspectives, future perspectives. And one
of the quotes that really stood out to me was
a quote from Henry Miller, and he says this quote,
of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist.

(29:54):
You only reach a new level of vision, a new
realm of consciousness, a new unknown world. End quote. And
when you start to think about that, you know, I
think that's pretty fascinating. I think sometimes we uh, you know,
the fear of death right, And I always remind you know,
my clients and my students that fear is an acronym

(30:15):
that's very prevalent in our world today. But it's an
acronym that I like to say, it's false evidence appearing
real and flip that script and make fear to be
face everything and rise. And I think death is one
of those because I don't fear death. I think we
worry about how we're going to die, you know, is
it going to be a fast death, Is it going
to be a slow death. Is it going to be

(30:37):
you know, from sickness or from a crash or from
you know, I and I didn't think about these things
until actually my after my brother was murdered and my
other brother succumbed to brain cancer and my father in
law to m us all the very young ages, right,
and so that really got me thinking about, you know, okay,
what's next for me? When is it my term? Because

(30:58):
we're we're all we're all term right, It's just a
matter of time, right. I always remind people that time
is your greatest commodity, and what you do with your
time not money. You need money, of course to survive
in this world. Excuse me, but time becomes the greatest commodity.
And so we're all standing in this terminal line, but
we don't know our place in line.

Speaker 6 (31:18):
Right.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
It's like that one account that you just don't know
the balance of, right, and you know your checking account,
your savings account, your mortgage, oh, you know all that,
But then we have this account of life and death
and time, and we don't know what that balance is.
So I always say, you know, make make the most
of today. Be in the present moment, carp DM you know,
sees the moment because you never know what the day

(31:42):
brings or what the day holds. There's always that reminder
that I live by. One of my mantras is yesterday
is history, Tomorrow is the great mystery. Today is the gift.
That's why we really we refer to it as the
present moment. And when I start to think about that,
of course, nobody dies. Death doesn't exist, and science is
now starting to question that status. Quote as well, is

(32:05):
death an actual real thing based on what we've taught,
what we've learned, how we were educated, the movies we've seen.
There's another great quote from Henry Scott Holland where he
says this quote. It's called the Weight. It says, quote,
I am but waiting for you for an an interval
somewhere very near just around the corner. All is well.

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You know Woody Allen, whether you like him or hate him,
he always talked about quote the chief problem about death, incidentally,
is the fear that there may be no afterlife. Also
there is a fear that there is an afterlife, but
no one will know where it's being held. End quote.
And that's from the famous Woody Allen. So you know,
there's a lot of things, in a lot of different

(32:47):
conversations and a lot of you know, different things that
we can look at. I always say, trust your gut,
learn about it, use your own logic and your own reasoning,
your own soul adventures you know, but be aware of
also your ego, your conscious bias, you know, and be
open to exploring what that is. For you have ben
held duality all the things that we just talked about,

(33:09):
from Christianity to Islam, to the Greeks to the Egyptians,
to Eastern philosophies of Buddhism and Hinduism. But as we've
moved into really having logical conversations that are now starting
to be supported by science, you know. And that's why
I love Carl Sage because he always talked about spirituality
and science being a bridge of working together, which you
don't see that so much with religion in science because

(33:32):
with spirituality you have to have the science to help
support the spiritual path. And they're having real conversations and
real studies and really doing you know, different experiments based
on multiverse theories, based on consciousness studies, you know, as
we move into ai quantum, you know, move from a

(33:53):
three dimensional construct into a fourth dimensional construct. When I
say that, you know, if you're listening to the show
or watching the show, it's it's really sometimes hard to
get your head around. It took me years to try
to understand that, and I've actually got a I can
show you here on the screen. This is just off
camera on my desk, and this is a certain type
of element that's actually manufactured. But if you look at it,

(34:17):
it's it's multiple squares within squares. Some would call this
what we call the tazarac. And if you've ever seen
the movie Interstellar, Christopher Nolan, who directed Interstellar, coming out
with his new movie The Odyssey, which looks fantastic, he
did a really good job of explaining the tazarak and
a moving as humans move from a three dimensional construct

(34:40):
into a fourth dimensional, fifth dimensional consciousness of understanding. And
when we started to realize that we were beans that
can think outside of our own brain, right Einstein said
that the brain was this three and a half pound
object in our in our brain, which is one of
the most complex organized and organisms in the universe. Then

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we started to go, I think, therefore I am to
know thyself, which then we're starting to expand outside of
a three dimensional construct and moving into fourth dimensional, fifth
dimensional understandings. And you know, Carl Sagan did a really
good job of explaining that a lot better than my
little brain could explain to you. But we're actually having

(35:22):
consciousness studies, and the latest science that I've seen that
explores this of the afterlife is that there's a lot
of consciousness that are out there that don't have a
natural physical meat suit, flesh shuit, you know, and that's
very intriguing to me. We may call that, you know, consciousness,
we may call that it may have many different names,
extra dimensional beings, aliens, angels. But we're having the conversations,

(35:46):
and I think that's always important as far as you know,
progression and evolution is to have conversations and to be
able to talk to one another and see perspectives from
other people's beliefs, other people's experiences, and you can always
agree to disagree with me, right, that's cool. I'm just
sharing my own personal experiences from my own MD to
being you know, having a front seat front road to

(36:08):
death and dying as a professional military slash first responder,
to my own personal experiences of you know, watching people
move into the afterlife. You know. I'm just as I'm
currently sitting here, we just had to put our and
I put I put this on the post on our
social media as you and check it out. I had
done an AI rendering of our beloved Moose o'malleycat who

(36:33):
was with us in our lives for fourteen years, and
he had kidney failure in January and we had to,
you know, send him over the Rainbow Bridge. And I
think about that. I think about I was with him
up until last time he took his breath, and we
were able to peacefully help him transfer over, so we
didn't suffer. But the loss of the physicality, I still
think about, what is what is he doing? Where is
he right? And and I've already seen what I talk about,

(36:54):
the intelligence of the spirit world coming back and discussing
and talking with us and letting us know that they're around.
The signs, the symbols, the synergy, which is the blending
of different energies our energy with everything around us as energy,
and the synchronicities. Right, we always say, oh, that's interesting,
that was a coincidence, or that was a synchronicity. But
I've already seen the signs of symbols, the synergy, and
the synchronicities of his presence back in my physical world.

(37:16):
So that tells me that his his mannerisms, his love,
his love for us, our love for him continues on,
because that is that is the one bridge over the
rainbow bridge that we talk about. But I still think
about that, whether it's you know, a family member, a friend,
a fur baby that you've witnessed go over through you know,
peaceful transformation, peaceful, peaceful death, or maybe even a tragic death.

(37:41):
You know. But we're having these conversations and I think
that's important to look at the evolution of what we
call the afterlife and as we get into this integration
I was talking about before the break, the integration of
technology where we're now really manifested into our reality. It's
not just a theory or a hypothesis or an idea.
There is a VR if you've ever worn the VR goggles,

(38:03):
if you've ever done a digital afterlife and created a avatar, right,
you know. But what we're starting to witness in this
roaring twenties that I'm talking about today is also the
philosophical shifts, you know, emphasis on what some are calling
transhuman transhumanism, I guess is the term for it. Not

(38:25):
to be confused with trans but transhumanism is the belief
in enhancing human capabilities through technology, leading to a what
we would call is a reevaluation of mortality. Some of
you may. You know, you can see in my studio
here I've got the Star Wars posters find me because
I was always just a child of Star Wars and

(38:46):
Star Trek. I love them both, But in Star Trek
you get the even in the first movie. Going back
to Star Trek the motion picture in nineteen seventy nine,
they talked about the blending of non hugehumanism or transhumanism
with ai carbon unit, with organic and technology merging. Someone

(39:09):
call that a cyborg. In the movie they called it
carbon units. So if you want to go back and
check that out, that was nineteen seventy nine. I might
be off of my year. But the first Star Trek
actually has this conversation about transhumanism where we actually take
our human capacities in our in our body and we

(39:31):
we evaluate a mortality through technology. Some may know the borg,
you know, using technology with organic you know, there's a
lot of again art imitating life or life imitating art.
I don't know, but we're having this philosophical shift that
this may be a reality. As far as discussing the afterlife,
we also get into what I like to call non

(39:52):
religious spirituality, which is increasing the acceptance of personal beliefs
about the afterlife with the inheritance to organized religion. Right,
so even religions now are starting I've noticed not just
in what I do in spiritualism, but I've gone to
other services, and some of the communications and some of
the content that's presented in services is really having this

(40:14):
adherence to you know, increasing acceptance of personal beliefs based
on the afterlife. But we also see through this process
and the evolution of the afterlife is what we call
cultural adaptations, where there's diverse interpretations of the afterlife, both
emerging and blending traditional beliefs with modern technological insights. Again

(40:36):
multiverse or transhumanism. Right, these are concepts that are really
starting to come into our conversation, our vocabulary, our awareness,
our reality into the material world, if you will. And
you know, there's always going to be you know, there's
also you know, the blending of traditional beliefs with modern technology.

(40:58):
But there's also a growing interest in science is looking
at this as well, and I find this to be
very fascinated. It's called mind uploading and it's implications for
identity and existence after death. Mind uploading very similar to
what I was saying about the World War two veterans
that are now being holograms stored in museums, telling their
stories with their likeness and with their voice. And you know,

(41:21):
it is that a you know, are we uploading the
mind and does that continue on? So of course we're
going to have ethical considerations along the way, you know,
debates on the morality of creating lifelike AI or you know,
continued studies of consciousness and the implications of stimulated, simulated
after life experiences. Which I think that's where we're going

(41:45):
based on our current trajectory with technology. But you know,
questions will arise too based on our identity and continuity
of who we are right and what does it mean
for a person to live on through through AI. I
don't have the answer for that, but that's the that's
the conversations and the debates and the technology that we're

(42:05):
having is you know, this show, for example, will live
on long after I'm gone through a podcast or through
you know, over on YouTube or you know, what have you.
Somebody may be listening to this show fifty years from now.
I'm pretty sure I'll be on the other side of
this life fifty years from now. But I don't know
if people are living longer. That would put me at

(42:26):
one hundred and almost one hundred and five. I guess so.
But you know, as we as we navigate through this decade,
you know, we run into this intersection of both technology
and beliefs about the afterlives. But it's it's continually continuing
to progress and to evolve as we should. We we
have evolved. You know, the conversations we have today we
couldn't have one hundred years ago. We couldn't even have

(42:49):
maybe even fifty years ago without being you know, looked
at as some sort of crazy lunatic. You know, like
that guy is a weirdo, right, even to have conversations about,
you know, are we alone in the universe extra dimensional beings,
sentient plasmoid life, many consciousness? Right, people would be like, Oh,
that's demonic, that's evil, that's that's witchcraft. Well no, it's

(43:10):
just you know, the times of our understanding of consciousness
are changing, and we are evolving as we should. You know,
I always you know, when people ask what I do
and I tell them, you know, people look at me
a couple of different ways. Some people think that I'm
crazy as a nut, and other people call me for
advice in coaching and counseling to get through the journey. Right.

(43:30):
But you know, this growth of AI and robotics and
quantum computing, it's just re examining what it means to exist,
you know. That's what the show is really about today,
is what is our purpose? What does it mean to exist?
You know, reshaping our views of our life now in
the present moment again, yesterday's history, Tomorrow's a great mystery,
Today's a gift. That's why we call it the present moment.

(43:52):
We forget a lot of times about being present to
our own reality right now, you know, because we're always thinking,
and that's because we are evolving. Our thoughts are our
mind are our brain is evolving because we're thinking about
the future. Right A fish doesn't think about its future.
It's in a two dimensional construct. It just knows that
it needs water. It's in water, and it needs water

(44:12):
to breathe, and it goes about its day. So, you know,
a lot of times we're really bad at being human
beings because we're actually humans that are thinking about what
we didn't do yesterday, are what's going to happen tomorrow
and versus being right here in the present moment, which
can create a lot of transformation and change just by
being present in your moment. Take that breath at divine
breath a right, and so you know, I find that

(44:36):
this reshaping of the views of life and death and
what lies beyond. Do I know what lies beyond?

Speaker 1 (44:41):
No?

Speaker 2 (44:42):
But I can give you my perspective. You know, Like
I said, We've talked about you know, artificial consciousness, We've
talked about digital immortality, we talked about robotics and avatars.
I mean that series of After is a great movie.
I thought when that, when James Cameron came out with
that concept, I'm like, brill because that's going to probably
be the future, right, you know, the emotional impacts, you

(45:05):
know what this what these changes in the technology are
this transhumanism that we're we're talking about. You know what's
going to be like if we have avatars? You know,
could that provide comfort to those that are that are
berieved or those that are grieving. If you said, I
could have a clone of my moosey cat that we
just sent over the Rainbow Bridge back in January, and

(45:26):
I can have a clone of him and his exact mannerisms,
his appearance, I'd probably take it because I miss him greatly.
You know, there's family mahere. I miss my brothers greatly,
but that's just not where we're at, you know. But
if you could have some sort of avatar or maybe
even a hologram that you know, I can have a
hologram of him walking around the house, that would probably
help with grief. That would help with honoring my grief

(45:48):
and you know, those that are bereaved, but it could
also complicate the grieving process and the perception of loss
right so that these are conversations that we have to
you know, have to have as far as you know,
the quantum mechanics in the afterlife, the consciousness, and the
quantum theory of it. Some scientists propose that consciousness might
be what we call a quantum phenomenon, suggesting that it

(46:09):
could you know, exist beyond the physical brain. You know,
I learned through my brother's brain cancer as glioblascia. Tomi
had two surgeries before he made his transition, and I
actually sat down with brain surgeons and we talked about
the brain. Many of you may not know this, but
on the left side of your temple, your temple, we
call these the temples and the third eye, and I'm pointing.

(46:30):
You can't see this on the podcast, but on the
TV show you can see it. I'm pointing to the temples,
which is the ie orbitals of you know, the house
of the brain. On the left side of the brain,
there's a little pinpoint literally, it's just it's no wider
than a ballpoint pin of where your memory and your
speech reside in the brain. And I just know that
because my brother who went through his surgeries, they would

(46:52):
be working on his brain, why he was awake, and
they would take a ballpoint pin literally a ballpoint pin
and put it on this part of his brain and
hold it down and they would be showing in flashcards
of different animals and he would be saying it, you know, draft, monkey, whale, zebra, dolphin,
and then they pressed this ballpoint pin down on this
one area of the brain and he would just go blank.

(47:14):
It was just like nothing. He couldn't recall, he couldn't communicate,
he had no memory, he couldn't see with the flash cards.
Lift it off and he'd start talking again. So, just
on this little area of the brain on your left
turn pot side, which is also the logic side, the
reason side, the ego side is where our memory and
speech reside. But with all of the hundreds and millions
of memories that you've had up to this date, do

(47:35):
we really have the storage capacity to store it in
our brain or do we upload it? Like technology is
teaching us to a cloud, to an afterlife, to a heaven, right,
you know, this is the quantum theory of consciousness, but
it actually is now theorizing and proposing that actually that
our you know, consciousness may actually reside outside of the

(47:57):
physical brain, which is to me is fascinating, you know.
But the viewpoint, you know, opens discussions on the potential
for an afterlife based on what we call quantum entanglement
and the nature of reality itself. Don't have time to
get into quantum, you know, entanglement. It's a whole nother
fascinating conversations. The theory of relativity and time fascinating conversations

(48:17):
because I have found that time is different here in
the physical plane compared to the etheric plane. There is
no time. Time is a construct created by us going
around a big ball of fire, you know, twenty four
hours within a day, three hundred and sixty five days
in a year, and you know, time on the on
the connections to the veils that I've connected to doesn't

(48:40):
actually incorporate time, which is kind of hard to understand.
If there's no time there and there's no sleep there,
it's just a different dimensional construct, you know. But again,
we're having these conversations, and I think that's why I
wanted to do today's show, because I think it's important
to have conversations and to have different perspectives, whether you
agree with them or not. But you know, like I said,

(49:01):
we get into the multiverse implications. You know, the multiverse theory,
you know, is that parallel universe that may exist, leading
to interpretations that our consciousness could experience multiple lives or
realities simultaneously, right, you know, blending those beliefs, the cultural
and spiritual adaptations. I think that as technology advances, individuals

(49:23):
are individuals such as myself, are increasingly blending the traditional
spiritual beliefs of what we were raised on and learned
to have, also that modern scientific perspective and creating that
personal life after life concept for what is right for
you in your journey. But again, that fusion, you know,
that fusion of it reflects a growing trend towards what

(49:44):
I would call individual spirituality, where personal experiences and beliefs
shape one's understanding of the afterlife, just as has done
for me professional front Road to Death, personal front road
to Death, my own near death experience, my own out
of body experience, and and you know, that's that fusion
that now allows me to sit and talk about this
publicly and openly. And you know, global perspectives, right, we're

(50:07):
seeing that different cultures continue to adapt their afterlife beliefs
in response to both technology advancements and leading to new
interpretations and practices that reflect contemp contemporary values and or
understandings of the afterlife. So, you know, future possibilities. What

(50:28):
I see for you know, as we start to wrap
up the show, I think some of the future possibilities
of what we'll continue to see is definitely the VR experience,
that virtual reality experience where there's a movie that Spilbert did,
another Spielberg movie called Ready Player, one excellent movie based
on the VR experience, but that VR technology may allow

(50:52):
us as individuals to simulate afterlife experiences and provide you know,
insights to various cultural or spiritual beliefs about what happens
after death, so it might not be as scary. And
again that fear fall said and insuperian real. I think
that's what death really has become for me, is I'm
going to face everything and rise and face my death

(51:13):
with dignity, dignity and courage and humility. I just hope
it's not a slow death's I don't want to be
buried alive. That's one of my fears. That is a fear.
But you know, again, when you go, you go, do
you know that you died? I don't know, but you know,
these experiences for future possibilities. I think they can serve

(51:34):
both as therapeutic tools for the grieving and the means
of exploring the existental question of what happens when the
energy in my heart, the d MT in my brain
leaves this physical flesh shuit, it goes to the next
sole adventure. Right. There's a lot of online communities that
you can get involved with that form around shared beliefs

(51:54):
about the afterlife, which I would highly recommend, you know,
blending virtual interactions with that theological discussion, religious discussions and
education and dogmas, spiritual education, dogmas and you know, you know,
creating new spaces for spiritual exploration is actually what I

(52:15):
would encourage people to do. You know, I didn't. I
didn't work with grief. Grief was new to me after
my brothers died. Like I said, I had professionally been
a front row to death and dying. But you know,
sometimes I grieve the strangers that I was called to help,
you know what. You know, I was called to a
you know, two airplane crashes in my coast guard days,
body recoveries, fire service, you know, car accidents, house fires, overdoses, sids,

(52:41):
you know, and I would hold space for them and
sometimes I would a grieve for them. But it wasn't
until my own personal experiences at the age of twenty
seven where I really started to having a deeper understanding
of what grief and honoring your grief is about. And
you know, I think it's important if you, if you know,
don't deny your grief because it will catch up with
you physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually. So you know, work through

(53:06):
your journey, your traumas, your triggers, and onto your grief.
That's very, very important because the people that we love,
the friends of family, the fur babies, they're not gone,
they're just in a different way. They're in a different thought,
they're in a different energy, a different frequency of different vibration.
And I promise if you think on them, they're only
ever a thought away and they will come to you
through sign symbol synergies and synchronicities. May not happen right away. Again,

(53:29):
our time is not their time, and don't have all
these expectations of big booming voice from the sky. If
you do get that experience, I'd love to have you
on the show and we can talk about that in detail.
But just remember it's very subtle. It comes in like
a lamb, not like a lion. And if you have awareness,
which Check totally teaches us, awareness is the greatest agent
for change. That would apply to the afterlife and those
that reside there in the etherical plane without a physical

(53:51):
flesh shoot. But their energy, by science, has to go on.
The DMT in their brain, by science, has to go on.
So if they're just a thought away, plant a seed
but a few days and see what you know. It
could be a song, it could be a look alike.
It can be a movie, it could be a coincidence,
it could be there's so many things that can really
show you the intelligence and the love of the spirit world,

(54:11):
and that the afterlife is a place. It's not a location,
that's a vibration. So as we conclude, you know, we
get this intersection of what I talk about the technology,
that the intersection of technology and beliefs about the after life.
It's rich with possibility but also complexity. I get that.
But as we a society, as we navigate through our
roaring twenties of transformation, our understanding of life, death, life

(54:35):
after death, and what may live yon is is likely
to transform drastically with our technology, AI, robotics, consciousness, quantum understanding.
And you know, if if you have you know, a
comment for me, you can always leave it on our
show page or our YouTube channel. I'd love to hear
some interactions from the inspired listeners from around the globe.

(54:58):
And I just want to say thank you for hanging
out with me today. I hope you enjoyed the conversation
of the exploration and the evolution of the afterlife. And
I'm just going to close it with what I opened
with William Shakespeare, to die, to sleep, to sleep, perchance
to dream. Ah, there's a rub we're in that sleep
of death. What dreams may come by the famous William Shakespeare.

(55:18):
So thanks for hanging out, thanks for listening to Inspired Living.
We'll be back with another episode soon with more amazing guests,
more insightful, inspiring conversations, and again until our next soul
adventure together. Be kind, be caring, be compassionate. There's a
lot going on in the world. I get it. But
be present too, Be present in your journey of what's

(55:41):
going on. And most importantly, dare to dream, dare to explore,
dare to live, and you'll discover the diamond within. And
you'll also discover the many hidden gems that are all
around us. And we'll see you next time here on
Inspired Living. As I like to say, and I'm gonna stay, No,
I'm gonna go