Flipside: A Tourist's Guide on How To Navigate the Afterlife

2012-01-24T13:32:00.000-08:00

New Trailer for "Flipside" - apologies for the faux Phillip Glass score (he's got a piece in the finished film) but it's something I composed and played on my mom's piano while I was home.

I know it promises the DVD and a streaming video - just waiting for Amazon.com to start streaming and creating DVD's for me. Should be any day now. (If not, I will post more info asap) Thanks for viewing.

Flipside Reviews...

2012-01-21T11:48:00.000-08:00

Thanks to all who've posted reviews at Amazon and Barnes & Noble

5.0 out of 5 stars A VERY WELCOMED PERSONAL ACCOUNT, October 27, 2011

JT DEANGELIS - See all my reviews

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I knew as soon as I read the opening quote from Jagger/Richards

I was going to enjoy this book on many levels. I have repeated

those lines to myself many times over the years as a kind of

personal mantra. I am also an avid follower of Michael Newton's

work and have read all of his books. As someone trying to summon

up the courage to do an LBL regression for some time, I welcomed

this most personal account of Richard Martini's journey in finding

answers to his own life's purpose. While Newton's books provided

groundbreaking research in enlightening us about our Life Between

Lives, this book provided a more thorough context. Here we see

what led the author to not only Newton's work, but chronicles

his own LBL session with more continuity than any of the LBL

sessions that we read about. But this is only part of the rich

narrative of Martini's life. I loved the humor and the promise

of more (this is Vol. 1). I am also looking forward to the

promised documentary.

5.0 out of 5 stars Best 'read' in a long time!, August 25, 2011

Janet L. Elleard (Bernalillo, New Mexico USA) - See all my reviews

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Rich Martini takes us along on his own quest for self discovery. Along the way he regales

us with many (sometimes hilarious) anecdotes on the part that sychronicity played in his

discovery. Chapter upon chapter we are given the very real and descriptive expirience of

LBL (life between lives) sessions as told by the facilitators and the persons undergoing

the journey, his own sessions included. He brings to life the same things spoken of in

Michael Newtons books about this subject. It is not a 'scientific' book of dry

facts/figures/names/dates. It is ALIVE with the most fabulous energy of his own

sense of wonder and joy.. taking us along on the ride of his life. I couldn't put it

down! I just loved this book!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Thank you for this book!, August 20, 2011

Marie "Steelbreeze" (Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: FLIPSIDE: A Tourist's Guide on How To Navigate the Afterlife (Kindle Edition)

Wow..this book came into my life just as I was finishing the fourth book associated with
Michael Newton and I was agonizing over not having anything more to read - I was
voracious in my need to read read read about Past Life Regressions, Life Between Life
Regressions and all things of this nature. Rich's book is the PERFECT book to read after
reading the Newton books..it's sort of a continuation or addendum to all of Michael's
books and also from a slightly different point of view. Reading interviews with some
of the therapists is so good for me as I approach the time of my own LBL which I am
so excited about.

I'm only through about 5 chapters so far and I felt compelled to write this review.
I will add to it as I go further in the book. I love Rich's writing style - sort of a
combination of journalist and author - documenter and participator.

5.0 out of 5 stars

Flipside flipped my mind!!, July 29, 2011

J. Mack - See all my reviews

This review is from: FLIPSIDE: A Tourist's Guide on How To Navigate the Afterlife (Kindle Edition)

Anyone on a spiritual quest to heal themselves and find out why they may be having
recurring issues in this life MUST read this book!! It came to me at the most synchronistic
time and I couldn't put it down. Rich is a wonderful writer who brings sensitivity, insight
and depth to this subject. It really got me thinking in new ways and I'm going to schedule
a LBL session as soon as possible. I cannot recommend this book highly enough! Anyone
seeking answers and not finding it in traditional therapy or self help methods should
consider this a true gift from beyond. Thank you, Rich, for sharing this important
information and bringing it to light. TRULY AMAZING!!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't leave life without reading this., July 17, 2011

Haps "Haps" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: FLIPSIDE: A Tourist's Guide on How To Navigate the Afterlife (Kindle Edition)

Finished the book this morning and absolutely loved it. Definitely spoke to me.

I typically don't read books like this and mostly shy away from the metaphysical stuff

(even tough I lived in Sedona). It's mostly due to ignorance, fear and to try to sweep

spiritual experiences I've had under the rug. Not to mention, I'm not a reader.

This book spoke to me, validated me.... and truly life changing.

Thank you for sharing your experiences in this book. Be open. Today may be the day

your meant to read this.

1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dating Advice with a Supernatural Twist, April 28, 2011

Wendy L. Walsh "Dr. Wendy Walsh" (USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)

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Honestly, when I wrote THE BOYFRIEND TEST, I forgot to think about what role our
perspective mates had in our past lives. Rich's thought=provoking book shows me that
what a boyfriend candidate does on a first date might be less important than what
he did to us in the middle ages. Who knows? - Dr. Wendy Walsh

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars READ THIS BOOK!, March 18, 2011

John C Rogers - See all my reviews

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Martini's book is deeply thought provoking, poignant and at moments simply profound.
He brings the gift of a great story teller to the table and oh what a story he tells!

Like him, I'm a skeptic. But he does a better job, than any book that I've ever read,
on bringing "structure" and clarity of thought to what happens next. To the extent
there's science around what happens to us when we die, Martini tries to capture it.
At a minimum, he's able to communicate common threads that'll force even the most
jaded among us to ponder - what if.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Living Long and Prospering, November 11, 2011

George Allen Papapetrou "Allen" (Hanapepe, HI USA) - See all my reviews
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Disclaimer: Everything below is just MHO.

First
Thank you Rich for this wonderful personal account of LBL!

Another reviewer (afterlifer) recommended Michael Newton's books over yours.
So I bought his "Memories of the Afterlife", as well. I just finished your book and
have started his.

Reincarnation
Personally, I don't believe in reincarnation as popularly presented. Flipside and LBL
more closely touch upon my beliefs and the Seven trilogy. That said, those who do
believe should find Flipside a rewarding experience.

The concepts of "lateral time and multiverses", although only hinted in your book,
broaden my perspective of incarnation and LBL.

LBL
"LBL", or "Life Between Lives", is too limited as your book shows repeatedly. More
precise would be "LWL", or "Lives Within Life". As you show, with yourself and others,
we exist (live) continuously outside and inside our incarnations.

Personal Stories
I have a scientific and spiritual background. Thus, like a lot of us, I go between
rigorous skeptic and devotee. Your early presentation of Michael Newton's 7000
case studies really satisfied my scientific skeptic, and paved the way for fully
enjoying the stories of your adventures, and the stories of others you shared.

Unconditional Love
Perhaps the most poignant component of Flipside is the role of compassion and
unconditional love. Over and over you demonstrate the fundamental nature of these
within our Lives. The stories repeatedly demonstrate the dynamics of them, and how
they obviate any fundamental need for forgiveness. Like, we don't need to forgive
the sun for being hot or the scorpion for being a scorpion.

Required Reading
I chose to read your book, Flipside, before reading Michael's "Memories of the Afterlife".
I just started reading Michael's book and the reason why I chose yours first became obvious.
In Michael's introduction he writes in a more formal style. I wanted the informal
personal interaction first before the formal, and your personal adventures provided that for me.

Were I presenting a course on LWL, Flipside would be the first book on the reading list.
The rest of the list would derive from your Recommendations in the back.
I will be recommending Flipside to friends and relatives. Tops my Xmas gift list.

Thanks Again
You have provided humanity with a marvelous opportunity for self-awareness with Flipside.
Thank you with all my heart and soul.

Mahalo Nui Loa and Aloha from Hawaii,
Al

Find Flipside in Alexandria II books in Pasadena

2011-12-30T14:20:00.000-08:00

A bookstore! A real bookstore, really carrying the book! A very cool one in Pasadena. Owner Dina has a wonderful store, which sells everything from Tibetan Crystals to Spiritual Books. If you're in Pasadena, you should check it out. http://alexandria2.com/

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alexandria-II-Bookstore/124826244245733?created&sk=wall

A 30 minute talk about "Flipside"

2011-11-14T15:51:00.000-08:00

Recorded by brother Chas at Carin Malisoff Levee's request at a book club meeting in Glencoe, Il. Here's 30 minutes of discussion and 15 minutes of Q and A. Enjoy.

Flipside Documentary on Life between Life Hypnosis - YouTube

2011-09-30T17:04:00.000-07:00

Flipside Documentary on Life between Life Hypnosis - YouTube: ""

'via Blog this'

Rich Martini Appearances this week...

2011-09-18T16:55:00.001-07:00

Appearances for Rich Martini

Appearing this week at Flying Saucers talking about my book and documentary.

https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=242600715777058

For those of you not on FB, it's thurs 22nd at 8 p.m. Book signing as well. xx

Coffee and Chatting in the Afterlife

2011-09-07T17:39:00.000-07:00

First Public Talk!

The crazy coffee fiends over at FLYING SAUCERS in Santa Monica have invited yours truly to come and pontificate about the Afterlife!!! The date is 9-22 at 8 p.m. I'll have some copies of the book for those who desire them.. or you can find it here:

Okay, maybe share some research and chat a bit about what I've learned.. it's all here in my book:
https://www.createspace.com/3594949

Or you can find reviews and a kindle version here:
http://www.amazon.com/FLIPSIDE-Tourists-Navigate-Afterlife-ebook/dp/B004RJ12R0

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

What happens after we die?

Author and award winning filmmaker Richard Martini explores startling new evidence for life after death, via the "life between lives," where we reportedly return to find our loved ones, soul mates and spiritual teachers. Based on the evidence of thousands of people who claim that under deep hypnosis, they saw and experienced the same basic things about the Afterlife, the book interviews hypnotherapists around the world trained in the method pioneered by Dr. Michael Newton, as well as examining actual between life sessions. The author agrees to go on the same journey himself, with startling and candid results, learning we are fully conscious between our various incarnations, and return to connect with loved ones and spiritual soul mates, and together choose how and when and with whom we'll reincarnate. The author examines how "Karmic law" is trumped by "Free will," with souls choosing difficult lives in order to learn from their spiritually; no matter how difficult, strange or complex a life choice appears to be, it was made in advance, consciously, with the help of loved ones, soul mates and wise elders. Extensively researched, breathtaking in scope, "Flipside" takes the reader into new territory, boldly going where no author has gone before to tie up the various disciplines of past life regression. near death experiences, and between life exploration. In the words of author Gary Schwartz, Phd, once you've read "Flipside" "you'll never see the world in the same way again."

Praise for “FlipSide”

"Richard has written a terrific book. Insightful, funny, provocative and deep; I highly recommend it!"
Robert Thurman ("Why the Dalai Lama Matters")

“Inspiring, well written and entertaining. The kind of book where once you have read it, you will no longer be able to see the world in the same way again.”
Gary E. Schwartz (“The Sacred Promise”)

"Everyone should have a Richard Martini in their life."
Charles Grodin ("If I Only Knew Then... What I Learned From Mistakes")

Coming soon to a bookshelf near you!

2011-08-12T14:34:00.000-07:00

"Flipside" has been picked up by a NY Literary agent, Peter Miller, and he's actively taking it into the world. Knock on wood for "Flipside!"

Dream Alert Network

2011-07-22T11:45:00.000-07:00

I have this idea for a place where people can post dreams - unusual ones, that might have resonance for someone else. I'm calling it dreamalertnetwork.com

Last night I dreamed I was in a movie theater and Lana Clarkson (the actress who died in the Phil Spector case) was on the screen. It was a trailer or clip from something - perhaps the upcoming movie with Al Pacino for HBO. I don't know. I was sitting next to a friend who is a Grammy award winning producer. The trailer kept running, and then a few rows ahead of me, Lana turned around and said hello. Only she was wearing a brunette wig. Not sure if she wanted to stay incognito, or if it was a way of saying "I'm still alive."

I knew Lana briefly, we were in a comedy class together. I just remember she was really tall, and even in the dream, as we sat together and chatted, she was taller than me. Funny, but we spent a bunch of time trying to exchange email addresses. I couldn't get a pen to write properly my email for her.

She was her usual funny self, only a brunette now, or at least wearing a brown hair wig. When I woke I figured it was her way of saying "I'm not dead, I'm alive, and the guise that I wore in that life as a blond doesn't matter. It's the inner core that counts." Nice to see you again, Lana.

Life Between Life Hypnotherapy... What is it?

2011-07-14T14:51:00.000-07:00

I've posted a link to some clips from my documentary on the topic.

The book "Flipside" explores what this new method of deep hypnosis reveals by interviewing those who are accomplished practitioners as well as clients who've been involved with the process.

What makes this research new is that it shows the connection between Michael Newton's work, what people describe during a near death experience, and with what science has to say about energy transfer after death. I'm going to continue to put up some of the footage that I've gathered on the topic, so please stay tuned. The documentary is clocking in at 3 hours at the moment, I'm trying to narrow it down to a manageable two. Will keep you updated. The New Zealand clip posted is interesting - both skeptics and believers.

If you're interested in "life between life" research, I suggest visiting the Newton Institute.org. There's a list of well trained therapists near you, and now throughout the world.

If you have any memories of having a past life, or between life experience, please post your story! Thanks.

FLIPSIDE - reviews are in...

2011-07-12T12:16:00.000-07:00

5.0 out of 5 stars READ THIS BOOK!, March 18, 2011

John C Rogers - See all my reviews

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This review is from: FLIPSIDE: A Tourist's Guide on How To Navigate the Afterlife (Kindle Edition)

Martini's book is deeply thought provoking, poignant and at moments simply profound. He brings the gift of a great story teller to the table and oh what a story he tells!

Like him, I'm a sceptic. But he does a better job, than any book that I've ever read, on bringing "structure" and clarity of thought to what happens next. To the extent there's science around what happens to us when we die, Martini tries to capture it. At a minimum, he's able to communicate common threads that'll force even the most jaded among us to ponder - what if.

My advice - READ THIS BOOK!

5.0 out of 5 stars Flipside Flipped my Mind, July 11, 2011

Ernest Hemingway - See all my reviews

This review is from: FLIPSIDE: A Tourist's Guide on How To Navigate the Afterlife (Kindle Edition)

This is probably the most mind blowing book I have ever read. Forget about the fact that I have known the author all of my...."lives". You will find that all of your "traditional" beliefs about what happens when we die or lose a loved one will be totally upended. The fact that all of this research and study of thousands of people from all over the world leads to the same irrefutable evidence is incredible. This mind and memory boggling information is just now starting to be available and as a result this book will only enhance the effect it will have on you when you read...actually "absorb" this must-read and must-share volume. I found myself not only rereading passages over and over again, but suddenly remembering long forgotten memories of loved ones, friends, acquaintances and events. This book caused me to get up at 4 am in the morning to Google an actual event that occurred before I was born, yet that I have always thought I was somehow associated with, only to find that one of the participants looked eerily just like me at the same age. WHOOSH!!! I guarantee that this must-have book will change and alter your life....forever.

FLIPSIDE: A Tourist's Guide on How To Navigate the Afterlife

2011-03-14T19:22:00.000-07:00

The Kindle Edition

FORWARD TO THE BOOK BY GARY SCHWARTZ, PHD.

“Is life designed in advance? Are we all part of some elaborately plotted mini-series that runs every waking moment? Does it really matter one way or the other? We’re on the planet for a reason, we have roles to play, we might as well play them as well as we can. However, that doesn’t prevent me from perennially rooting for the Cubs.” Richard Martini, author of flipSIDE.

Is there a greater spiritual reality? Does consciousness survive physical death? Are past lives real? Is there a creative grand plan – some sort of a Divine Plot – of which we are all a part, and can we individually and collectively contribute to It’s design and unfolding? And assuming for the moment some sort of a grand planning process exists, the question arises; does It – whom I have come to think of as being an “Infinite Teacher” – have a sense of humor?

I am scientist by training and profession. My laboratory research has led me to address these kinds of questions in various books including The Afterlife Experiments, The G.O.D. Experiments, and The Sacred Promise. Like Richard Martini, the author of FlipSIDE, I am a skeptic in the core sense of this word – meaning a wonderer, a questioner, and a genuine seeker of truth.

Of all these great questions, the hypothesis of past lives – the continued re-living of individual souls for the sake of our learning and evolving – is among the least researched and most controversial. The truth is, science knows virtually nothing about the concept of incarnation or consciousness. Contemporary science simply assumes the idea of incarnation is a myth (and a fallacious one at that), and according to mainstream neuroscience, consciousness is an emergent property of neural networks, an evolutionary side effect so to speak of the invention of the brain and nervous system.

According to the prevailing views of mainstream science, there can be no such thing as the incarnation of consciousness because the brain is the sole creator of consciousness. Most neuroscientists don’t entertain the hypothesis the brain might be a brilliantly designed antenna and receiver for consciousness which somehow returns – incarnates and/or connects (for example, resonates) with the brain.

An emerging body of consciousness research (typically classified under the umbrella of parapsychology), when combined with contemporary quantum physics, seriously challenges the belief the brain is the creator of consciousness. This new evidence requires we reconsider the idea of the incarnation of consciousness, and by extension, the plausibility (if not probability) of reincarnation. Three types of scientific inquiry together can provide us with important evidence which addresses these great questions:

Type I Self-Science: Evidence obtained in the laboratories of our individual lives, where personal observations are recorded and examined from a skeptical (questioning), science-oriented frame of mind.

Type II Exploratory Investigations: Where scientists use themselves as preliminary prototype subjects, testing new laboratory methods and procedures on themselves, and

Type III Conventional Research: When controlled experiments are conducted on human or animal subjects following federal and university rules and guidelines.

Although Type III Conventional Research is the most respected and sometimes the most definitive, Type I Self-Science is often where the most innovative and core discoveries are made. The history of science reminds us that great scientists like Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein took Type I observations made in their personal lives and successfully translated them into revolutionary Type III theories and discoveries. When these three types of evidence collectively come to the same conclusion, their combined impact is significantly greater than either one alone.

Richard Martini’s flipSIDE is an inspiring and well written – as well as entertaining – journey of Type I Self-Science which is focused on the interrelated questions of (1) reincarnation and past lives, (2) past life regression and healing, and (3) the existence of a universal grand designer and plan.

As you read Richard’s journey of personal discovery in the context of these great questions, you will awaken to a vision of mind and the universe which is filled with opportunity and awe. This is the kind of the book where once you have read it, you will no longer be able to see the world in the same way again.

I must confess that after reading flipSIDE, it appears that I may no longer be able to resist bringing past life hypothesis research into the laboratory. Though this book has not resulted in my deciding to root for the Cubs (smile), it has encouraged me to root for the possibility that Richard’s observations and insights will prove to be valid and meaningful for all of us.

Gary E. Schwartz, PhD[1]

[1] Gary E. Schwartz, PhD is a professor of psychology, medicine, neurology, psychiatry, and surgery, and Director of the Laboratory for Advances in Health at the University of Arizona. He received his PhD from Harvard University, was a professor of psychiatry and psychology at Yale University as well as Director of the Yale Psychophysiology Center and co-director of the Yale Behavioral Medicine Clinic from 1976-1988. His books include The Afterlife Experiments, The G.O.D. Experiments, The Energy Healing Experiments, and The Sacred Promise.