Breaking the Silence Across the Divide of Death with Matthew McKay, Ph.D.

Most people believe the loss of the body is the loss of life, and the pain of losing a child is devastating for any parent. But when Matthew McKay’s 23-year-old son Jordan was suddenly shot and killed, for Matthew it was not the end of Jordan’s life. It was the beginning of a quest to penetrate the veil of death through some extraordinary communications. These virtual conversations led Matthew to co-author a book, with his son. Although a scientist by training, upon the death of his son, McKay asked himself two questions: Does that soul still exist, and Is Jordan okay? Through channeled writing and other techniques McKay was able to have conversations with his son about the nature of “life-between-lives” which Jordan describes as a classroom. He describes our “soul group” which is like a repertory company. We just keep showing up in life with the same people, but often in different relationships . . . these relationships are happening over and over again, life after life, and we’re learning from them. It is an improv group and is not scripted. The purpose is to learn even through the pain. After working with mediums, through channeled writing, through induced after-death communication, through hypnotic regressions into past lives, McKay says: “Every means I’ve taken to learn about the afterlife has confirmed that there is no loss, there is no death in any real sense, that souls continue to stay connected. This is immutable and our aloneness is an illusion, and these losses that we suffer so deeply are illusory. They are experiences to teach us.” (hosted by Justine Willis Toms)

Bio

Matthew McKay, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and professor at The Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA. The Wright Institute offers Masters and Ph.D. programs to psychologists and provides support and evaluation for the research needs of its students. McKay is also the founder and publisher at New Harbinger Publications.

He’s the author and co-author of many books, including:

• The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation & Tolerance (coauthor Jeffrey Brantley) (New Harbinger Publications 2007)
• The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook (New Harbinger Publications 2003)
• Self-Esteem: A Proven Program of Cognitive Techniques for Assessing, Improving, and Maintaining Your Self-Esteem (coauthor Patrick Fanning) (New Harbinger Publications 2000)
• Thoughts and Feelings: Taking Control of Your Moods and Your Life (coauthor Martha Davis) (New Harbinger Publications 2011)
• When Anger Hurts: Quieting the Storm Within (New Harbinger Publications 2003)
• Seeking Jordan: How I Learned the Truth about Death and the Invisible Universe (New World Library 2016)

To learn more about the work of Matthew McKay go to www.seekingjordan.com.

Topics Explored in This Dialogue

• How nothing is lost in the universe, including love
• Why death is not the end of consciousness
• What is channeled writing and how do we know we are not making it up
• What did McKay’s colleagues think of his pursuit of these paranormal conversations
• How the purpose of life is to learn and to become more awake
• How soul groups work through reincarnation
• How we access the lessons we learn from one life to another
• Why doubt is a better teacher than certainty
• What is consciousness and how does God evolve
• How the experience of time is different in the afterlife

Host:   Justine Willis Toms           Interview Date: 4/28/2016       Program Number: 3572

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