Love, Dad

This week, on The Conscious Consultant Hour, Sam welcomes Author and Actor, Mike Anthony.

Mike has been a professional actor and (not-professional) bartender since he graduated from Wayne State University with a Master of Arts degree in Theater. His first book, Life At Hamilton, chronicles the extraordinary time he spent as a theater bartender with an up-close perspective of Hamilton: An American Musical as it rocketed into Broadway history.

Beyond his life in theater, Mike’s journey took an unexpected turn when his dad passed, leading him down a remarkable path of discovery. He now spends a good portion of his time exploring evidence suggestive of the survival of consciousness beyond the demise of the physical body. A part of Mike’s story is told in the documentary series, Surviving Death.

Mike's latest book, Love, Dad, intimately shares one family’s darkest hours and their road to healing, a road that has been long ignored or scoffed at by the scientific community. Mike, being a healthy skeptic, goes to great lengths to uncover the paradigm-shifting research into the nature of consciousness that exists, and shows us why it must be put back in the forefront with no shame attached.

Mike and Sam will discuss all about life, death, and what happens next!

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Segment 1

         Sam begins the show by reminding us that Sandra will be having her own show coming out soon. He quotes an excerpt from his book, saying that pain is a message to change. Similar to a child putting their hand on a hot stove, pain reminds us to take our hand off of whatever stove we may have it on and make a change. Pain asks us to look at it, to question whyit is there in the first place, and to look for its message. Sam acknowledges that it is hard for us to sit with our pain, but that we have to acknowledge its presence. We don't have marinate in our pain but at least acknowledge its presence.

Sam moves on to introduce Mike Anthony, the author of Love, Dad. Mike's interest include exploring the consciousness beyond the demise of the physical body. Sam asks Mike if he had a spiritual eyte before the death of his dad. To which Mike responded to as having been healthly skeptical but very open minded about spirituality. Anthony details how he fell in love with science as a child and had even thought about pursuing a career as a science teacher. But early on, he noticed that there were things science could just not explain. There was more than met the eye. Sam seconded by saying, "there is so much about the universe that we don't understand."

Segment 2

    In this segment, Sam starts getting closer to Mike's inspiration, asking him why he wrote the book. Mike said that once his father died, things began to happen, and of many of his experiences, he could not put them into words. Mike retold how he and his sister went through their dad's old belongings and stumbled upon little messages he had left between his music albums.

Days later, when Mike's dad's wake was taking place, he remembered hearing a song that said there was life after death.

Later, following the funeral and on his drive to NYC, he happened to turn on the radio-something that he admitted he rarely did. But on that very day, when he decided to listen to an unknown country music station, he heard the song that played at his dad's wake play on the radio. He immediately began sobbing, something that was not ideal for driving, so he had to pull over. He thought that that moment, that song playing, must have been some sort of communication from his dad.

Sam asked if when Mike told the story to his sister if she thought he was crazy. Mike replied by saying that since all of his family was experiencing similar things to what he had experienced, they did not think he was crazy.

Sam followed up by asking Mike if he had attempted to reach out to someone who could help him decipher what was going on. Mike said that he did not look at first but that a week after his father had passed away, his mother received a call from a distant relative. That distant relative happened to be a ghosthunter on the weekends when he was not busy with his well-established job. According to Mike, this ghosthunter had a medium on his team. The medium had communicated with the relative, saying that she was hearing things about someone named Bob/Robert and something about a fish restaurant. To quickly sum things up, it wasn't until Mike had thoroughly scoped out the medium that he began to believe her. 

Segment 3

In this segment, Mike talks about how his sister had heard about a medium on the radio. They invited her over to their mother's house to see if the medium was not faking her talent. The medium actually delivered them a message from their dad, and Mike was blown away by the information she was relaying to him.

Still skeptical about the medium, Mike kept asking himself how the medium was tricking him. with the medium's consent, he has filmed her delivering messages to other individuals. He finally believed that there was no way that mainstream science could explain what was going on with the medium. Sam commented that some people just have that gift, and in Hinduism, that is considered the opening of the third eye.

Segment 4

In this last segment, Sam asks Mike if he has heard of other people's stories being more extraordinary than his. Mike mentioned that yes, he has, through the accounts of physical mediumship. In particular, a reputable NY Times journalist described seeing this physical mediumship in action and knowing for a fact that the evidence was right in front of her.

What Mike hopes people can take from these accounts is a sense of comfort. To believe in the possibility of life after death and that it is very real.

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