Hacking The Afterlife podcast

Another mind bending podcast. As noted, Jennifer Shaffer and I have been doing these weekly meetings for 8 years.  It was not long after John McCain's passing that I was upstairs in my apt. and heard his voice say "I understand you're the guy to get a message to my family." I was startled - I didn't know him, met his chief of staff while researching "Three for the Road" in DC, but had no connectio...

Today's podcast is about managing energy and the myth of Er. As noted, we don't speak prior to our podcast, not for any particular reason, just that's how it's worked out for the past 8 years. So whatever comes up is either what pops into my head or what Jennifer sees, hears or gets in reply to my questions. In this case, Jennifer mentions that she's had a hard week at work with her law enforcemen...

First there's a number of mistakes that I made in this podcast. (Note: Not that Jennifer makes, but that I make). One is that the film Dementia 13 was made in 1963, not 1967. Then there's a discussion with Elvis about his granddaughter Riley, who has a daughter who is not an actress, at least yet; she's only 2.  People sometimes complain that there are "too many celebrities on our podcast" - again...

A new episode! Jennifer was whisked off to the Caribbean, then to London, and finally back home to her office where I was able to steal a half hour of her time between clients. Again, Jennifer is available via JenniferShaffer.com - She works with law enforcement agencies nationwide pro bono on missing person cases.   We've been meeting up like this for 8 years. The past two on our podcast "Hacking...

In light of the amazing, terrific, mind bending interview that Rob Lowe did with Bill Paxton on his podcast with Rebecca Rosen this week (see link below) I'm reposting one of our conversations with Bill from September 2011. Listen to Rob Lowe's podcast, listen to the dream he had about his friend Bill, then listen to our podcast and see the similarities of what Bill is reporting from the flipside....

Jennifer is still on vacation, and I'm recovering from surgery. So today's podcast is a repeat from a year ago.  Fun to see how things that we heard a year ago still apply. Another example of how we don't plan our podcasts - we could, we can, but in this case, we just let Luana Anders, our moderator on the flipside dictate who was going to chat with us. First up was Jennifer's dad Jim, the Mormon...

Jennifer is still on vacation, deep sea diving somewhere in the Atlantic.  In order to encourage people to go through some of our previous podcasts, here's one from two years ago when I had my hip replaced. We talk about my trip to Mt. Kailash where I put my friend's titanium hip in a stupa, a stone sculpture made by thousands who'd walked around Mt. Kailash over the years.  Considered one of the...

Podcast begins with a general discussion about the recent submarine disaster, Bill Paxton stops by to say hello. When Jennifer and I first met, it was doing a session with my old friend Bill, who introduced himself by putting her in the submarine he took to visit the Titanic. She didn't know who she was at first, nor why he was showing her the ship. He talks generally about how things went awry, a...

Crowded house today. We talked about my recent appearance in COAST TO COAST with George Noory, then Luana Anders thanked us for our work together for 8 years.  Her friend Michael (Mick) Gough came to mind, the actor who was Batman's first butler (Tim Burton's version) who I knew and spent time with.  Then Gene Wilder, Bill Paxton, Gilda Radner, Charles Grodin weighed in on how actors, musicians, c...

This past week I attended the "Contact in the Desert" conference run by Ron Janix ("Captain Ron") in Indian Wells. It was a lot of fun and had a great time hearing Paul Hynek, Matthew James Bailey and others.  I wanted to meet Paul Hynek because when I was in grade school in Northbrook Illinois, my Catholic nun science teacher Sister Delfine (later Sister Anne) got me to do a State Science fair pr...

Another unusual afternoon chatting with folks on the flipside.   In this episode we get a visit from an old friend Harry Dean Stanton. Harry passed away in Sept. 2017 at the age of 91. As noted in the book BACKSTAGE PASS TO THE FLIPSIDE, Harry Dean came through prior to his memorial service.   When Harry passed, I wondered if it was possible to chat with my old pal. A skeptic's skeptic, he had spe...

Didn't plan it, suspected it might occur, but we got a visit from the Queen of Rock and Roll.    In the podcast, Prince shows up first, I thought because he showed up the week previously and didn't get to speak, but he wanted to say "We got her." And then he presented Jennifer with Tina. We asked if she was ready to be interviewed, or if she just wanted to hang back, but because of her relationshi...

Another one of the mind bending podcasts.   This one primarily a birthday conversation with my old pal Bill Paxton. When I first began working with Jennifer, one of our earliest filmed meetings was in her office, where I asked many questions about my friend who had just passed away. The fact that I asked two other mediums the same questions (and in one case I wasn't there when the questions were a...

In honor of our moderator on the flipside's upcoming birthday tomorrow, we decided to chat to folks over there what it's like to "celebrate birthdays" ... or have a party.  Easily the most unusual thing was to hear that David Crosby was singing "Yesterday" to her. Yes, we know that's not his song, but Luana was a longtime friend of David's and knew him back in the day, (introduced me to him at our...

A tad shorter podcast today, but still jam packed with fun. Podcast begins with a conversation from Luana Anders, talking about "my next book" (when the last one came out in Easter).   The point was that this morning I was having this "I wonder if I should blend these two ideas into one book" - and Jennifer said "She's saying she put that thought in your head, to blend the ideas." That's one of th...

Another mind bending podcast with Jennifer Shaffer.  In this instance, we begin with a conversation about a phone call that I received just prior to the podcast, with a friend of the moderator on the flipside (Luana Anders) calling me as we were about to go on air. So when Luana references that phone call on the podcast, she's referring to the process of how they do that - a week earlier, on a pre...

Another mind bending podcast.  I was close friends to Paul Tracey and his dad Jack throughout the past 50 years.  Paul passed away in 2004, and his father recently, after a bout with Alzheimer's. As an experiment, Jennifer and I did an interview with Jack's higher self while he was in hospice care. That interview can be found on Medium: https://richmartini.medium.com/alzheimers-and-the-flipside-a-...

Another mind bending session with three individuals on the flipside.  In the first section, Jennifer's dad Jim stops by. A Mormon Bishop, he's stopped by in the past to show his daughter some amazing things. We took a visit to her Akashic Library some years ago, as well as introduced us to a classroom on the flipside where the subject was "astrophysics" - but the class was in deep space. At first...

I was invited to speak at this conference in March at Tibet House Menla (thusmenla.org) to talk about the latest research in the book DIVINE COUNCILS IN THE AFTERLIFE.   It's a recap of the research to date, why I'm doing this research, and a bit about my trip to Tibet with Robert Thurman.  It's a 90 minute talk with 30 minutes of Q and A.  Jam packed with all the research to date.  Please visit T...

As usual, Jennifer and I don't speak until we start the podcast.  So we both have no idea who's going to show up, or what they might want to impart. In this episode, Prince makes a return visit and speaks about how he's helping people around the planet on a daily basis. Could be for musical reasons, creativity, or for some reason he pops into their mind. I invite Ludwig back as he spoke to us last...

Another unusual podcast. Jennifer is going to be appearing this weekend at an event.  She mentions it during the podcast for a ten percent off the ticket price. Meanwhile, I'm speaking at the Menla Conference this Sunday at 1-2:30 PM LA time, details are at RichMartini.com  Today we had yet another visit from Amelia Earhart. What makes that uncanny is that yesterday, I was submitting a project abo...

Another unusual podcast.   This time my mom shows up to say hello, to talk about "what it's like on the flipside." She was a concert pianist, and she talks about our home in Northbrook Illinois, only how she's recreated it on the flipside. Then one of her favorite composers stops by, someone we've spoken to before, Ludwig - and he talks a little bit about what the experience on the flipside is lik...

This was one of the more unusual podcasts in memory - mainly because it was on my birthday, and I had the profound experience of being with my friend Luana Anders on my birthday. Here, Luana left the planet in 1996, and being able to ask her questions and get answers, as well as ask her to give her Oscar's speech - is mind bending. Jennifer and I have been doing this for 8 years. Luana has appeare...

A wide ranging discussion about dreams, about getting out of one’s head space and into your heart so you can connect on a spiritual level.  A number of people come forward, including someone that Jennifer has met with before, Eddie Hassell, (not Haskell) a young beloved actor who passed in 2020. He stopped by to mention a detail to Jennifer that only she would know. Luana Anders moderated the clas...

Another unusual visit with pals on the Flipside.  In today's podcast we have folks who've been to visit us before, but had more to say. One is the Oscar nominated dog Hira, owned by the screenwriter director Robert Towne. Hira's been to visit us before, transcripts are in the book "Backstage Pass to the Flipside." David Crosby stopped by again - after talking to us about what it was like to return...