Hacking the Afterlife with Jennifer Shaffer, Amelia Earhart, Bill Paxton and friends!

Hacking The Afterlife podcast

This is our year end podcast, and what a fun what it is. Jennifer and I got together for lunch so I swung by her office in Manhattan Beach to do our podcast from her office - where our journey began eight years ago!

It was in this very office where I first spoke to friends on the flipside, including Bill Paxton (who gave Jennifer a tour of the Titanic - it's in the film TALKING TO BILL PAXTON at Gaia.com) and Amelia Earhart.

It was in this very office where Amelia told us something I didn't know from three decades of research - that "when those two GI's dug me up, they only found my arm." It was a detail I didn't know after 30 years of research, and later found to be absolutely accurate. (In the Chicago Tribune 1977 they confirmed the story which I found six months after our interview.)

So it's poetic that Amelia showed up in our podcast today - at the end of our lunch together, Jennifer said "Amelia just popped in." So we picked up our conversation in her office.

The book HACKING THE AFTERLIFE has details of all the research I've done, what happened to her and why. So it's not unusual for us to continue this conversation.

Nor is it odd to pick up our conversation about Bill Paxton, someone I knew at the start of both of our careers and remained friends throughout - I've detailed those conversations in "Talking to Bill Paxton" on Gaia. TALKING TO BILL PAXTON

What is unusual is the amount of folks who stopped by to say "Happy New Year." Billy Meyer, a friend from grade school/high school who thanked me for putting his messages out to his children, Regis Philbin whom I met through Charles Grodin. Charles stopped by to say hello, Elvis, Prince, Harry Dean Stanton - David Bowie showed Jennifer a set of drums - which she couldn't understand, because she didn't know we'd given our son a set of drums for Christmas.

Steve Jobs talked about how people blame him for creating phones that separate us - when he says they should be used to connect us. Luana Anders mentioned in the New Year we should "chant or pray for others" - Anthony Bourdain spoke about fresh water so everyone would be able to eat.

Elvis told us "Make music, make it loud!" Prince offered "Make love and make it loud!" The alpha and the omega said "Love louder!" while Robin Williams repeated his phrase to "love love."

What can I say? After filming Jennifer speaking to people on the flipside like being on a cellphone, I film what we say and present it to everyone to see how simple it easy to communicate with loved ones no longer on the planet. (Jennifer works with other mediums who work with law enforcement agencies nationwide on missing person cases, so I know how effective she can be.)

If someone wants to examine her work, ask former NYPD commissioner Bill Bratton about a missing person case she helped with - friends of his in NY. He was so startled that she knew what happened to their boy that he flew her to NY to investigate whether she was involved in the case - she let him know when he was going to retire (and was accurate.)

I've had people watch our podcast and send dismissive, sometimes angry comments - which get blinked into the cornfield. Like the forum on Quora "Hacking the Afterlife" here we share EXPERIENCE with the flipside. It's not my opinion, theory or belief that people say the same things about the afterlife - I film them doing so.

Yes, I was playing "TOMORROW NEVER KNOWS" a few minutes before seeing Jennifer, remarked aloud that I never knew it was based on the "Tibetan Book of the Dead." Yes, I really did go to Saipan and film 15 new eyewitnesses who saw Amelia, saw her plane, a dozen US Marines who saw US forces destroy the plane.

It's not my opinion, theory or belief that Jennifer is accessing Luana Anders - she's come through so many times with independent information that no one else but her could know that it's besides the point to repeat them here.

The latest book DIVINECOUNCILS.COM has a simple demonstration of how anyone can use meditation to speak to their loved ones. For those upset that we're doing so, I suggest avoiding this page, find some other sandbox to throw toys in, or stop complaining about not speaking to relatives and so called loved ones who can't get through. Learn how. It's not hard.

And for all that, HAPPY NEW YEAR! See you on the flipside!