Flipside: A Journey Into the Afterlife

Eye opening.

I had a spiritual experience that led me to ponder upon religious and spiritual topics.This documentary helps to organize my thoughts about afterlife.The documentary portrays hypnotherapy in a manner that shows professionalism and good intent. I was surprised that the creator of the content took the therapy session to experience the validity of the treatment.Some say that reincarnation is not true and some say that it is. I think people vary in their opinions about the subject because they have different life circumstances, experiences, and culture.After all, it doesn't matter if one believes in reincarnation or not. What matters the most is whether the documentary was fake or real.In my perspective, the documentary seemed genuinely informative and had no malicious intent.We wouldn't personally be absolutely sure that hypnotherapy in terms of past life regression is true, unless we experience the treatment ourselves. Nevertheless, I put my trust in the creator of the content based on the materials presented. The materials included live sessions, historic evidence of patient's past life, and the content creator taking hypnotherapy himself.I would doubt anyone would be so immature to create a documentary to spread false information that includes several trained actors that even wrote a detailed book about the treatment.In the end, it really comes down to personal prerogative of making the decision to believe in it or not.

Richard Martini's Flipside the Film (the DVD and Instant Video both available from Amazon) is a follow up to his Flipside the Book (available in print and Kindle formats from Amazon).As a talented film maker Martini is also a talented story teller. Reading his book was like listening, riveted, while a friend tells the story of his amazing adventures while discovering new lands.In the film Martini shows his documentary skills by clearly and simply progressing through all the salient points about the life's work of Psychologist and Hypnotherapist Dr. Michael Newton. In just an hour and a half.Dr. Newton's life's work was focused "by accident" upon the reporting by his clients about their experiences in a "Soul Space" between and during their human incarnations. With 7000+ case studies over 30 years Newton summarise his studies as "Life Between Lives" or LBL.Dr. Newton's tool for helping his clients and exploring LBLs was very deep hypnotherapy. As Martini progresses through his documentary he interviews Dr. Newton and other LBL Hypnotherapists. He also shows excerpts from a number of LBL sessions including his own.When I read Martini's Flipside book in the fall of 2011 the only other literature I read covering the same territory as Dr. Newton was Seth's three novels called The Oversoul Seven Trilogy (1973, 1979, and 1984). Seth's told his stories from the Oversoul's point of view - learning lessons at once from several of his incarnations in different centuries - who didn't know of his existence through most of the series.Martini, in the book and the film, shows Dr. Newton staunchly determined not to read anything which may have biased his research. He didn't know about Seth. His client's point of view was from the view point of an incarnated soul who only experienced his or her "oversoul" in deep hypnosis.Martini, Newton, and I describe ourselves as very skeptical. I come from a strong science background in Astronomy and Physics, Mathematics and Statistics, and Psychology. I'm not skeptical about Dr. Newton's research.Although, I have slightly different (yet augmenting) perspectives, I believe that 1000 years from now Michael Newton could be more famous than Issac Newton.I only have one technical critique of Martini's documentary. As I got absorbed in the action of the video, some of the captions disappeared before I finished reading them. Fortunately, pause and rewind saved me.Watching Martini's film could well improve the positive feelings you have about yourself, the universe, and everything.Aloha.. Al

Filmmaker Richard Martini has done a great service for current (and future) fans of Michael Newton's work investigating the period between lives on earth. He provides an excellent introduction to the process that Newton innovated and some of his key discoveries.Martini's use of music and visuals to go along with what the patients are describing was simply magnificent, helping the viewer get a better sense of what these volunteers were experiencing during their sessions.I also benefited from the interviews with other members of the Newton Institute, getting additional (though complementary) perspectives to Michael Newton's.For those new to this area, recognize that the movie only provides an introduction. If you want to know Newton's detailed findings, you need to read his books. I have just started reading Martini's book as well.Since discovering Newton's work, I have often wondered why he is not better known. In a more just world, Michael Newton would have received a Nobel Prize and be a household name.I have some minor quibbles about some of the content included, though it is probably inevitable that no 2 editors would make the same choices. While I found the quotes sprinkled in to be interesting, I think that they were unnecessary. They amount to an "appeal to authority" type of argument for reincarnation and might detract from the much stronger argument provided by showcasing Newton's work. Also, while it is interesting to watch Newton speculate about why a Creator(s) decided to put us on earth, this type of hypothesizing might put off someone who is new to his work and is not familiar with his detailed, objective, and systematic analysis of the evidence that he gathered over 30 years.I do hope that this film gets watched by a great many and brings Newton's work to the attention of the masses.