Backstage Pass to the Flipside 3
Talking to the Afterlife with Jennifer Shaffer, Book 3
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Narrated by:
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Richard Martini
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Richard Martini
About this listen
The third book in our ongoing discussions with people no longer on the planet. Books one and two include numerous interviews with friends, pals, friends of friends with the help of Luana Anders, actress and conduit for medium intuitive Jennifer Shaffer, who accesses information directly from the flipside as the author Richard Martini asks questions.
In this book, there are wide ranging interviews with people considered "celebrities" people who were "scientists" in their lifetime, actors and friends the author knew in their lifetime (so he can verify the details of what they're saying) as well as icons and people that would appear to be impossible to speak with. Some interviews were engendered by the subjects themselves, with the idea of "passing along information to their loved ones."
In some cases, the loved ones here said the "interviews" were amazingly accurate, others said that they didn't believe their relatives were reaching out to them. In all cases, the author tries to forensically verify whatever details possible. (Note: No one can claim to converse with the afterlife. However, when possible, the author uses second sources, or family members to verify the details.)
The "conversations" are with everyone from Aretha Franklin, Prince, Robin Williams to scientists like Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan, Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, interviews with friends like Bill Paxton, Howard Schultz, politicians like John McCain, Presidents Lincoln, Kennedy, Nixon - and avatars that appear to be accessible, as if they were outside of time. From Guru Rinpoche, to Buddha, Jesus to Krishna, to asking questions to the 13th Dalai Lama - from general questions to specific questions about their path and journey.
None of these interviews proves that life goes on - but when one compares the multiple interviews to other interviews where the same questions are asked, it does prove that there's a lot more than meets the eye when it comes to the nature of consciousness.
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Great book, annoying audio
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Wonderful new insight
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I will say as a whole, that the books have a wonderful energy about them. I have also grown to like Richard Martini, as we invariably tend to hear a lot about his life and interests. A personal criticism on my end however, is that the interviewees are heavily weighted towards personalities the author knew in life, and also around the US market in general. Being from the UK, I therefore found some of the interviews a tad uninteresting. I also became a bit irritated when Martini dismissed the personality known as “Marilyn Monroe”, telling her that “it isn’t important how [she] died”. I’m sure I’m not the only one who would have LOVED to hear her interviewed about the circumstances surrounding her death. Alas, you won’t find it here as the interaction was never revisited.
On the whole, I found Martini’s narration and his reading of his own parts absolutely fine, especially when I slowed down the speed swing on audible to 1x (for some reason it was set to 1.2). However, as Martini reads all the different roles without actors, the speedy conversations between multiple characters discussing esoteric concepts by way of multiple metaphors, can become very difficult to follow. I gave up on following the conversation / understanding what was going on, on more than one occasion. I found myself wishing the other “voices” were read by actors, so that I might begin to unravel what was happening sometimes. As Martini often points out, the sessions with Shaffer and the flip-side are unedited and included in the book verbatim. So when those on the flip-side don’t directly answer the question asked and/or another personality interjects either sarcastically or otherwise, it doesn’t translate well to have all these quick and different exchanges being read by just one person.
That said, in the later chapters of this third book, Martini seems to become more persistent and pertinent in his questioning of the “Flip-side” personalities. This ”drilling down” into what the personality is attempting to communicate helps clears up the annoying ambiguities and/or contradictions which are otherwise commonplace when interpreting exchanges via a psychic medium (the chapter featuring Jesus and Amelia Earhart is a good example example of this). He also pauses to “unpack” what was said at times in the third book, which again is a welcome addition to the narration.
In conclusion, I very much enjoyed reading this third title, and look forward to the fourth collaboration between Martini and Shaffer. I felt there was enough new content to make up for the sometimes slightly repetitive content, although in fairness some of this repetition is necessary to allow the book to be read as a ”standalone“ title, (ie without the need to have read the previous two “Flip-sides”). It would also be great to see an alternative edited version “per personality” of the exchanges found in the book, maybe as a second half of the same book. Oh and next time, as well as hearing more from figures involved in myths/legends/conspiracies in general, you might let those of us who don’t find the circumstances surrounding Marilyn’s death as irrelevant as you do, know what the icon that was Norma Jean has to bloody say!
Love the concept, but the dialogue is often confusing and difficult to follow when there are multiple characters interacting
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