Foreword to “Backstage Pass to the Flipside: Talking to the Afterlife with Jennifer Shaffer” by Luana Anders

Speaking of Luana

Luana portrait by Monte Hellman

Luana Anders popped onto my facebook page this morning.

Could have been an algorithm, could have been because Jennifer and I were chatting with her YESTERDAY.

Jennifer Shaffer and I meet up weekly, I film our interviews, and for fans of our work, Luana is the “holder of the backstage pass” (as dubbed by Tom Petty during a session) that allows us to speak to various individuals who still want to communicate with their pals back on the planet. (If I know the family of the person involved, I reach out to them the best that I can, if I don’t, I’ll post something on their instagram page or social media page, figuring if their loved one on the flipside has the ability to tap their shoulder, they’ll point to it and say “that’s from me.”)

If they don’t see it, or don’t believe it, that’s fine — as I’m fond of saying “Not everyone signs up for a lifetime where they know how the play ends.” It’s okay to believe that life ends at death, but as Harry Dean Stanton said to us (in the 2nd chapter of the first book) “Believe in the possibility of an afterlife, then you won’t spend any time like I did arguing about it.”