Study Categories of Life After Life, III
This Crestone and Beyond Journal entry about the research about Life after Life is devoted to the research and writing of my friend Mark Macy, but first a recap of this recent journey of this Journal site…
The past 2 Journal entries have covered various experiences and literary pieces devoted in one way or another to the forever subject of Life after Life. I refer to the concept of Life, and Life after Life, and Life anew, as LifeStream. I put the Old English term Haelan in front of the term LifeStream, and came up with the name of a learning process for my consciousness. From my own growth process, I then could practice a model to share with others; a process to help others’ life growth. I call this Haelan LifeStream.
Haelan is the root word for the current day words “heal, whole, holy, holistic, and hologram.” That seems fairly inclusive. LifeStream rounds it out by signifying the Eternity of our living Consciousness, which goes on and on. That should cover it all with a couple of terms.
It’s mostly just common sense once you get familiar with your own Heart. As the great Indian teacher Bhagavan Nityananda taught us, “The heart is the hub of all sacred places. Go there and roam in It.” This is a good message about the infinite mysteries of Creation that live in our Hearts.
This model addresses the inclusive holographic healing that goes on forever in a larger scheme of things than that which we usually consider inside of the ordinary and mundane space time continuum of our daily lives. It has a tetrahedral orientation also; i.e., there are 4 triangular sides arranged as a tetrahedron. See the address top bar on the web site “Haelan LifeStream Model” for a pictorial represention of the tetrahedral concept. Each face of the tetrahedron has the 6 important layers: nutrition, exercise, mental/emotional, self love, spiritual, and vision.
This is a larger and more comprehensive model which addresses: 1) our individual lives, 2) our lives as citizens of Gaia, 3) our lives as citizens in a Universal array of other civilizations, and 4) our lives in Life After Life. I figure that ought to cover it. Actually, Gandhi has said it already, “We must be the change we wish to see in the world.” It starts with the individual. That is who we must take care of first, or, #1, our individual lives.
So far, on the subject of Life After Life we have covered the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, (and I also mentioned Edgar Cayce as a parallel type of prolific fountain of the extraordinary), the Resurrection of Swami Sri Yukteswar, some examples of NDE/OBE, back channeled books from Spirit side informers to Earth side writers, channeling by mediums, and one book by Deepak Chopra, Life After Death, the Burden of Proof. Now we conclude this series of entries with the story of one man’s spiritual journey, and his fascinating and timely discoveries.
I met Mark Macy and his wife Regina in a hospital room on the second floor of Boulder Community Hospital in mid July of 1988. That would be 21 years ago now. Mark had developed a complete large bowel obstruction from a colon cancer in the distal transverse colon. He was gravely ill, in tremendous discomfort from the abdominal distention, and he appeared septic. In common parlance, he was very near death, but still not too close to giving up the Ghost that we had no recourse. We moved along quickly in a closing window of time.
After a cursory introduction of myself to these 2 nice people, and an even more cursory physical examination, we went down to the OR where much of his colon was removed, and the requisite reaarangements were facilitated without the need for a colostomy
Surgical considerations aside, Mark went on to an uneventful recovery. Well, that last statement is not entirely accurate. He went on to a recovery which is the most remarkable and meaningful recoveries of a life that I have ever witnessed .
Prior to the illness, Mark had written a book entitled Solutions for a Troubled World (Earthview Press, 1987). He was the organizing editor/author of this text which he compiled from the writings of well known experts from all over the globe. The chapters by the various authors embraced manifold solutions to help set right the space ship Gaia, and offered solutions to the problems humans are causing Her.
One of the chapters in “Part Three: Transformation,” is entitled “Peace, Beliefs, and Legitimacy.” This chapter was written by Willis Harman, now deceased, but at the time of the writing was president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), founded in 1973 by astronaut Edgar Mitchell. The IONS mandate is to expand knowledge of the nature and potentials of the mind, and apply that knowledge to the advancement of health and well-being for humankind and Earth. This association with Harmon comes up again.
In the post operative recovery Mark presented me with a copy of Solutions for a Troubled World, and wrote a very touching and heartfelt note on the title page. After recovering from reading his note, I looked through the book, noting its breadth of insights, and offered Mark a comment that went something like this, “Mark, I think you better heal yourself before you try to heal the world.”
This was my iteration of the Call of Gandhi, “We must be the change we wish to see in the world.” He took my words to heart, and came out with another book in 1991, Healing the World, And Me. The prologue is written by Bernie Siegel, M.D. This book is another compilation from thinkers all over the globe, and Mark serves as organizing editor/author.
“Part I: Healing Our Lives” has a chapter written by Mark entitled “Crisis as a Turning Point: What Sickness Taught Me About Healing.” This chapter is all of 18 pages long and it reflects a maturing insight inside of the life of a 38 year old recovering agnostic. Mark’s journey since writing Solutions for a Troubled World in 1987 opened his heart to other types of considerations of how to heal the world, and himself. He thus began his spiritual journey from the consciously conscious perspective. He knew that he was now aware, and he wanted to know more.
Mark had actually written another book before the publication of Solutions for a Troubled World. He told me about this book only a few years ago, and he gave me a copy. This book is Last Chance for Peace, and was penned under the name Arthur Vance. It is an excellent treatise, quite broad in scope and coverage, and served Mark as a springboard towards his future unfolding writing journey which has been revealed in the evolutionary process of all of his books, now numbering 7.
His most recent publication is brand new, The Project, and I will come back to this text in the words which follow. The Project brings Mark’s work into a circle of fullness. In this book he rounds out an initial cycling of far reaching reconsiderations of who we are, and how the Earth Project came to be, and how we had better wake up to positively assist Her process.
After the publication of Healing the World, And Me, Mark went through a deeper transformative process. In a monograph entitled “Long Distance Calling from the Afterlife,” which he wrote after the publication of his 5th book, Miracles in the Storm, Mark reflects on his journey thus:
“In the mid 1980’s, notions of God or afterlife were the farthest thing from my mind. I was immersed in world affairs, contacting leading thinkers from different countries and weaving their best ideas into a series of books, the first being Solutions for a Troubled World. Then in 1988 I was diagnosed with colon cancer, and my world was turned upside down. For the first time in my life, there was a small voice inside of me crying out for some kind of reassurance that if I died, there’d be some part of me that would live on. I’d always been happy knowing that my son and my writing would live on after I died, but now, with death staring me in the face, that just wasn’t enough. I simply did not want to die because that would be the end of ME.”
“Still, my rational mind wouldn’t buy any notions of afterlife on faith alone. I didn’t want to delude myself with wishful thinking. I needed some sort of proof or good, solid evidence, so after my life was saved by emergency surgery which successfully removed the cancer, I embarked on a quest to find that proof-to determine what really happens to us after we die. Meanwhile, I compiled another book-Healing the World, and Me (Knowledge Systems, 1991)-and I travelled around the country speaking at conferences on systems healing. I was trying to find principles of peace and well-being that would be as true for cells and molecules in the body as for people and products in society. On the surface I was still interested in world affairs, but inside I was churning over the question of afterlife.”
“Long Distance Calling from the Afterlife” continues as a fascinating quick story of his introduction to the world of ITC, or, Instrumental Transcommunication, an advanced form of spirit communication through technology. Mark had discovered individuals scattered across the globe who were researching and documenting contacts with Spirit side beings via technological instrumentation. He became associated with the group, and soon served as their main organizing spokesperson. His concerns about the afterlife were soothed as he experienced the wonder of these contacts.
Through his prior association with Willis Harmon, Mark published an article in the IONS magazine in the Spring 1993 edition entitled “When Dimensions Cross.” Harmon prefaces the article with a well worded series of paragraphs, beginning thus:
“The phenomena described in this article, purported high-tech communication from beyond the grave, may seem too preposterous to be taken seriously. I will readily admit that the data are highly controversial, both as regards their existence and their interpretation. We have been following this work for a number of years, and for a long time felt that it did not merit reporting in the Noetic Sciences Review. That we now reverse our policy and tell the story comes about because of several factors…” Harmon then goes on to explain that the data continue to accumulate, and that he feels confident that the data are honestly obtained. Harmon admits that he does not know how to interpret the data, but, “we feel compelled to recognize their existence.” Mark’s 4 page article in the IONS magazine is a gem in the history of ITC.
This paper, and the one which followed Mark’s 5th book, Miracles in the Storm, are fascinating enough, and represent short form summations of the chronicles which followed, namely 2 books. The first is a short treatise entitled Conversation Beyond the Light, With Departed Friends & Colleagues by Electronic Means, which he coauthored with Pat Kubris ( Griffin Publishing, 1995). Edgar Mitchell, member of Apollo 14, the third manned lunar landing, summed up Mark’s work thus, “The consciousness of man has an extended nature, which enables him to surpass the ordinary bounds of space and time-suggesting that there is another dimension beyond the material world.”
Mitchell should know as he is now a proponent for Disclosure of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, having experienced some unusual phenomena on his space voyages. He was forever changed into the conscious leader that he still is today.
A separate companion book surfaced which was authored by some of Mark’s research colleagues in 1997, entitled Breakthroughs in Technical Spirit Communication (Continuing Life Research), authored by Dr. Theo Locher (Switzerland) and Experimenter Maggy Harsch-Fischbach (Luxembourg). These 2 books take the reader into the history and technical considerations of the researchers.
In 2001 Mark wrote his second book on the subject of ITC, Miracles in the Storm, Talking to the Other Side with the New Technology of Spiritual Contact (New American Library). This book was a page turner for me, and I viewed it as Mark’s spiritual autobiography. I quote from the back page of the binding:
“Mark H. Macy was an agnostic until a brush with death set him on a spiritual search in the 1980’s. He learned about the miracles of ITC-personal letters planted mysteriously by invisible hands, images from other realms flashing across TV screens, and actual phone calls from angels. And when a voice from Beyond came through a radio with a long, personal greeting, Macy’s skeptical mind had the proof it required to believe.”
“Joining a small group of researchers, Macy dedicated his life to fostering the ITC connection. But he and his colleagues did not just discover paranormal contacts with departed loved ones. These revolutionaries in electronic spiritual channeling made contact with angels and even higher entities who brought them one step closer to comprehending the very meaning of life and death-and helped them find peace in the ‘storms’ of negative thoughts, words, and actions on Earth.”
Introductions on the inner front page include positive commentary from the likes of William Tiller, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus at Stanford in Materials Science and Engineering , and Uri Geller (www.uri-geller.com). In the face of the prior 3 Journal entries I have made on this website which deal with the literature and theories of Life after Life, I heartily recommend Miracles in the Storm to you.
An historical timeline of the major researchers and research breakthroughs in ITC research can be viewed at: http://www.spiritfaces.com/02b1-itchistory.htm.
After Miracles in the Storm, Mark shifted gears slightly and began to pursue his own research, which was an extension of the ITC work. He began to experiment with Polaroid cameras and a Luminator, a device which alters energy field frequencies in the local vicinity such that unusual pictures can be captured with a camera on film. I won’t reveal too much more save Mark’s opening commentary on the front binder:
“One hundred years ago, if someone told you that someday people would be able to exchange pictures instantly with people halfway around the world, you’d probably have thought they were crazy. It’s mainstream. Today I’m saying that people will someday be able to exchange pictures instantly with people in other worlds of spirit…and that someday is now.”
In 2006 Mark published his 6th book, Spirit Faces, Truth About The Afterlife (Weiser Books). In this book of wisdom we get to consider another treatment from Mark’s evolving consciousness on the subject of our spiritual life, and beyond. We also learn about another form of research into Spirit life and how it interacts with us in our space time world of daily life. Furthermore, there are some 50 color photos taken with Polaroid film showing how the Luminator device displays overlays of Spirit beings in our proximity. The book is pretty intriguing in regards to the technology and pictures, but moreover it is an extension of wisdom accumulating in the consciousness of a spiritual being, the author.
Mark was on track to bring his 2 decades of learning and growth as a human and a successful writer, speaker, and teacher into the full circle of where he had started-healing the world. The 7th book brings a cycle of completion. It is entitled The Project. Here is an email on the subject which Mark sent out recently. In addition to the YouTube clips he references, which you can view, I recommend a perusal of the website www.worlditc.org. I have not yet seen a copy of the book, but he did share a copy of the unpublished text with me when he and Regina came to Crestone last Fall, 2008. Here is Mark’s email, and the YouTube links. Also, just type in “Macy AfterLife”, and you can learn more.
“Hello!
I’m real happy to share the latest.
I’ve begun to post a series of 5- to 8-minute video clips on youtube that explore our ancient heritage and paradise destiny, as described in my latest book, The Project.
So far I have three new clips posted:
Introduction (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh4BmGrfClI)
In the Beginning (www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HTFcEr6esM)
Our Ancient Heritage (www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSAJvZAbqnk)
They cover the basic message from the first two or three chapters of the book. My plan is to post more clips in the coming months, but it’ll happen slowly, probably over the course of a year or two. It’s taken time to digest this information, and condensing it into short video clips will take some additional planning.
My son Aaron, a skilled videographer and editor using Adobe Premiere Pro, has been an invaluable help with the filming and editing of the three clips. I asked him if he could make me appear a little younger with a forehead a little less prominent, but he said special effects have their limits.
Anyway, the main information from “The Project” may eventually be available through a series of short, entertaining YouTube video clips, a couple of years from now.
For those of you who like to read, I’ve posted a very interesting and insightful (and long) article on my website about my early experiences in ITC. The article includes a lot of my correspondence with ITC pioneers, who provide insights of how ITC actually evolved over the years-insights you won’t find anywhere else. Here’s a link to that article:
www.spiritfaces.com/pdfs/my-itc-history.pdf
As you know, I don’t send these emails often-maybe 4 or 5 times a year. I think you’ll have some fun with these links.
But if you’d like to opt out of my future emails like this for any reason, just reply to this with “remove” in the subject line or first line of text.
In any case, I wish you a lot of happiness in these very unusual and exciting times!”
Mark Macy
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Crestone and Beyond
OK, check it out. If you click on those links above, and they don’t work, just try typing them into your browser. I have Luddite attacks daily, and so you might have to work it out for yourself. Another important link to visit is Mark’s blog site, which you can read at http://macyafterlife.blogdrive.com, or you can look up Macy Afterlife: The Beacon. When you get there you can check out Mark’s account “How I Got into ITC and World Affairs” posted on July 11, 2009. You can also just read through the blog and note the many interesting entries which will lead you into some true human history.
Have you ever known about the mysterious collection of a large amount of space debris which exists between Mars and Jupiter? It is called an asteroid belt by the astronomer types. How did it get there? Did all of the massive chunks just fly in from somewhere?
You can Google the word “Marduk,” and try to connect all of these fascinating dots. I suggest a reading of Mark’s most recent book The Project. You will learn some important and timely information about our ancient heritage as a race of humans on this planet. Why does Mark call this book The Project? Are we a Project? Well, yes, we are. Can we continue with the Project? Well, yes, we can.
Do you happen to remember a reference I made to the work of Nassim Haramein on one of the earlier Journals labeled “Useful Websites and Perspectives”? I made passing mention of a news brief from Nassim about “The Skulls of our Forefathers.” Don’t forget to include that dot in your research, and dot connecting.
Oh, by the way, I would not recommend asking your church preacher about Marduk, and the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. I also would not highly recommend checking in with your astronomy teacher, or local expert. I suggest your own independent research and thinking.
To date, Mark Macy has done the world a great service by the journey and seeking he has been doing since before the crisis in his life in 1988. Although his name is not in the mainstream press, thank God, you should know about his life, and his body of work. It is a service to humanity.
As a way of signing off from this Journal entry, I’ll end with a personal story. I met Jean Ann (affectionately known in these Journals as No Nonsense), in 1986. She had 2 children to raise up, and so did I. We both worked away in the surgical world. She still works in this arena, managing an OR, and going about teaching and lecturing on the matters of things related to OR management. After a 16 year courtship, during which time we raised these children up into adulthood, we were married in our backyard in Boulder on a beautiful August evening in 2002. We wrote our own vows, the children said them with us, we made up our own rings, brought in the family, friends, champagne, and food, and had a sweet little ceremony under the afternoon skies.
Mark and Regina served as officiants for our ceremony. The 2 of them read our vows, and we 6 chimed in affirmatively with alot of YES words. After the celebration, those still present piled in my 1940 Chevrolet, “Ruby Maroon,” and we had a celebratory drive around the cul de sac of our neighborhood. Such was the speed and distance of our honeymoon journey. We are moving at the speed of Light, remember, and so a 1940 Chevrolet is as fast as anything else, including the LA freeways. One must keep these quantum notions in perspective.
I always say to ill clients, “Disease is just the beginning of the healing process.” That is what this Journal entry is about. Being so healed, we bring that to the world. Way to go Mark! And a big……. Thank You!
Coming up next, I want to set some perspective on December 21, 2012, the Mayan calender, and put forth the correct future memory choice point. The negative spin on 2012 will bombard you, and so get ready for that negative spin, and ignore every bit of it. Fear mongering will abound. Do your own research. Understand how to stand inside of your fear, and be energized into your own righteous action.
Signing off from Crestone and Beyond.
Love