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Hacking the Afterlife with Jennifer Shaffer, Luana Anders, Amelia Earhart discuss "signs" and the "Team"
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- Apr 17, 2026
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Summary
Another fun conversation with folks on the Flipside. In this, Luana Anders, our moderator on the Flipside wants to discuss a dream that I had recently where I was on one side of a door with my brother, both of us trying to get it open - and on the other side I could hear my mom's voice. As I awoke, I recognized the door. It's the same door that was mentioned a few weeks ago during a podcast, and I asked my friend on the flipside about this door - and her message to me was "let it go." Which I did. But the dream made me reach out to the folks who have this door - and sending a text message about the dream prompted a reply that said "your family can come and retrieve the door if they want to." When I awoke from the dream about the door - I was thinking about the metaphor. It was the last remaining piece from the house I grew up in, that our father the Architect designed and built for his family - and that door has every person's name and a date who crossed into our threshold. Hundreds of names of people - old girlfriends, (we were four boys) but also wives, children, grandchildren, their pets - all stood against the door while my dad marked their height and the date they were there. Luana is on the door. Multiple times. My parents, my brothers, their families - our dog Sam - all on the door. And the reason that came to me after the dream is that this door represents a kind of Akashic library - retaining the time signature, the frame of time when that person stood against the door - had themselves measured, the time and place dated. Many of the names on the door have left the stage - but they - like all of our loved ones - still exist outside of time as we understand it. They're available - all of them - because that floppy disk of who we are has the mathematics of the ti…