Hello Good Brother:
Here are the answers to your questions for the blog. Naturally they can be edited to make them shorter if need be. I hope it makes for good blogging, and feel free to let me know how it did or if other questions arise from the interview, either from yourself or from others. I really appreciate being asked, and thank you ever so much. I am attaching the answers as a Document, and if you have any problems with it, I will re-send as a 'cut and paste'. Very best to you, Brother, and again I thank you!
Sincerity and Regards,
Chip Reichenthal
Q: What inspired
you?
A: I feel very
fortunate, with some years hosting radio shows and being at
paranormal conventions and events, to have met what I feel are the
greatest minds and talents of the paranormal and metaphysical realms.
I feel that many if not most of them come into the realm from a place
of fear, where something grabbed them or called out their name and
aroused their greatest curiosities. My beginning was quite different,
as my earliest experiences were from people I knew well and loved,
and I feel that my earliest experiences came instead from a place of
love, and yet I am just as motivated to find answers to afterlife
sciences, yet rather than a quest for evidence, it is more about the
opportunity to communicate.
My first
experience came in 1979, right around the time of my 21st
Birthday. My very best friend, who lived next door to me all while
growing up since we both were two years old, was involved in a
horrific accident. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit him while
he was on a motorcycle, and he hit the car head first. He was
brain-dead once at the hospital, and his prognosis was grim at best.
My first encounter with death, yet he was not dead, kept alive
artificially with breathing apparatus’’ until his parents had to
make a horrid cross-country trip to unplug him. Meanwhile I was
trying to process all this, made any grieving more difficult since my
dearest friend was not dead. One night I went out to a swingset in my
parent’s back yard, with some beers and a determination to figure
how to process all this. It was rather peaceful on a warm summer
night, yet right around midnight into my Birthday proper, something
‘changed’ with the swing next to me. It’s very hard to
describe, but it seemed there was something…some kind of energy on
that swing next to me…not that I saw it or heard it, but knew
something was there as surely as if I had. Turns out, it was my
friend! I had conversations with him, in my mind, since I heard about
his accident, but in those conversations it was my inner dialogue
that spoke for him. Yet here, what this ‘energy’ said was beyond
my wildest imaginings, and something my inner voice would never have
considered. My friend said he came to visit on my Birthday and beyond
that, said he wanted to ‘give up’ and came for my blessing. Give
up? What do you mean…give up, is what I asked in return. He said he
could not move, eat, bathe, or do anything for himself…he no longer
had that option, because he was brain-dead. At best, he was doomed to
be a vegetable, and others would have to do everything for him. He
always was very independent, it was his nature to be so, and refused
to live in such undignified manner, and he wanted out, and came for
my blessing. I tried to talk him out of it…stronger survive, I
said…hang in there, Doctors may find a way to fix him, I said. He
stood his ground, though, and made some convincing arguments until it
finally made sense to me that perhaps, in his case, there are worse
things than death, and I caved in, agreed with him, and gave my
blessing. I told him I was moved, I was touched, that of all people,
he came to me for such blessing, and once granted, he thanked me. I
told him I hoped he might visit me…after…and he said he would
try. After that, he was gone, and the ‘energy’ on that swing was
no more. About ten minutes later, by now around 3am, my Mother came
outside to the swingset to tell me that my friend’s parents had
just called to tell us they pulled the plug on him about ten minutes
ago and wanted us to be the first to know. At that point, I realized
quite plainly that I had spoken to my best friend, my first soulmate
in life, right at the moment of his death. That changed my outlook on
death and the potential for afterlife forever. Happy Birthday to me.
I had also had a visit from my Wife’s Father a year after his
passing, a story perhaps for another day, and my friend has also
visited a few times, and I have spend the better part of my full
adulthood in search of answers, considering paranormal, spirituality,
parapsychology, metaphysics, quantum physics and other realms that
consider these quandaries, really ever since that defining moment.
Q: What are your
aims?
A: Through the
years I have developed a distinct platform, especially nowadays where
it is not so taboo to talk freely about ‘ghosts’ or communicating
with the dead, and it has everything to do with being brought into
the realm in a fashion more ‘love-based’ than fear-based’.
Especially considering media, where television shows are practically
horror movies guised as research or documentary shows. It appears as
though evil is afoot whenever something unseen is making noises or
moving things about a house, and there is even taunting potential
spirit activity to gain evidence for the studio audience, and I
vehemently disagree with such methods and aim to change the way we
approach these energies. I think if there are spirit energies, even
ones thought malevolent, then perhaps we should consider them as
people, who lived lives, gained wisdom, and are worthy of respect
rather than fear or eradication. I understand the reasoning behind
all this…we tend to fear the unknown, and even look for thrills,
and there are many faiths that see any attempt to communicate with
these types of things as sinful. Yet I have spent decades researching
and investigating the paranormal. I had some years attuned as a
spirit medium with remarkable success, and I look to theoretical
physics as well. I have never had a negative encounter or got
scratched or pushed; never had an EVP that was negative or
threatening, I have helped people besieged by the poison of deep
grief and even helped spirit energies cross over or relay messages to
loved ones. I have seen love in them, or felt their pain; I have
considered some things more residual than in spirit; I have
considered that there may be times the person’s personality or
history splits…where the pain is in one area and the grace in
another, and have seen instances where the living are creating the
chaos of items moving about a room on their own. There are so many
different situations, and each different, often leading to more
questions than answers. One thing rings out, and that is that the
dead don’t suddenly change into some evil and monstrous beings or
develop otherworldly psychic powers just because the living body is
out of the equation. Like anyone else, they hope to be heard,
considered, respected…sometimes they don’t know they’re
dead…but we all long to belong. I distinctly believe that every
single person is a story, and when you take the time to learn that
story, it is always fascinating. The more you learn these stories,
the more you know about people, dead or alive, and after a long time
looking toward afterlife communication and speaking with so many
other enthusiasts, eventually you come to believe that some things
are true whether we believe in them or not. My platform is,
basically, that ‘ghosts’ are people too…if they are ‘ghosts’
in the first place. I see people who honor the history of a property
thought ‘haunted’, and sometimes there is a distinct love and
honor there, which is great…and sometimes they are basically
treating the dead like pets or flaunting the tragedy the occurred
there and sometimes that is unconscionable disrespect …and yet they
wonder why so much negative activity occurs. Sometimes I see people
who feed the bad…and once someone tells you they ‘have a bad
feeling about a certain room’ or they think a ghost is active, it
sends all others into expectation mode, and they begin to blame all
sorts of natural activity to the ghost they now expect or the ‘bad
feeling’ has to come to fruition somehow, and it becomes our
expectation to see bad where there may be none in the first place. So
many times I have been on investigations where people get ‘scratched’
in front of us or expect all this nasty
stuff, and often the ‘scratch’ comes from engaging in something
and forgetting or ignoring it, and rather than malice, it’s the
kind of thing where they want the attention back and it’s
incidental and not malicious at all…sometimes people create the
‘scratch’ themselves for attention. Again, everything’s a
situation on these investigations, if there is anything there at all.
It may also be inter-dimensional, or even a time-warp that brings us
these energies…the Einstein ‘space-time’ thing…and look…I
do not claim to be an expert in this…no one is, really…as we
still have no proof of any of this. But if I can impact anything
within these realms, I hope to show a kinder side of afterlife
science, where if we think on paranormal activity stemming from
people and not some demon, we have a wonderful chance to embrace a
kinder side of the realm, and that is my greatest motivation here. We
need more ‘nice’ in life, and it can bring some amazing potential
when we bring more ‘nice’ to afterlife science as well, and there
aren’t many folks actively considering that, so I will.
Q: What plans do
you have for the future?
A: I have a lot
of things going on, thanks mainly to the radio shows. They’ve led
to more shows, guest appearances, lectures, I have a book out that’s
published and writing more, I’ve had acting roles in film and have
been a part of documentaries on internet and in film, I make
appearances at Paracons. I’ve had the tremendous fortune to meet my
heroes, and many are personal friends now. I have some offers in the
air, to appear in Documentaries, write for a magazine, more acting
roles, another book in the works; I do Tarot readings, and have some
nationally known psychics I’ve read for who loved my approach. It
is magical. For the radio, I am not aiming for fame…I am aiming to
be the person these friends and talents come to when they want
something promoted, or to be featured in the kindest light, and I
hope to ask the deeper questions…I don’t want a million
listeners…I want my heroes to think of me when they have something
special to them, and I hope to pay goodness forward. All else will
follow from there. Of all things, though, I get the most pleasure and
value from lecturing. I want to do more of that. I have a lecture
platform entitled “Ghosts Are People Too: The Kinder Side of
Afterlife Science” and it has been wonderfully received. My book
that is currently out is called “Even the Dead Won’t Tell You the
Truth” from Rowe Publishing, on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and the
Rowe Publishing website of rowepub.com. The book is a fictional work
based on personal truths, and is a murder mystery where the main
character talks to the dead as a living. His best friend is charged
with murder, the victim known to them both. The friend is not into
the ‘talking to the dead’ stuff, but with evidence circumstantial
and damning and piling up, he asks our medium to communicate with the
murder victim to find a way to clear his name. It has a lot of
first-person perspective from the eyes of a medium and is as
informative as it is a really good mystery, and the book has done
well. I am working on a new book that may be a sequel, but adds some
science-fiction to the mix, and will still delve into first-person
metaphysics. I am also more active in UFOlogy and have a few
prospects there…and sometimes the world of physics and the quantum
world helps to find potential answers to a lot of paranormal-type
things, and I’m in. Most of all, in any and all of this, the
platform is about ‘nice’, it is about a kinder approach along
with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge. My current radio show is
called “Beyond the Norm with Chip Reichenthal” and is on A1B
Radio Monday nights at 9 pm Eastern US time on
www.MyA1B.com
and I will be doing lecture tours in 2015 with another Rowe
Publishing Author, Mark Keyes, who inspired a character in my book.
He is a State Police Detective who works malevolent hauntings in his
spare time with some other law
enforcement
officers, and wrote a marvelous book called “Chasing Shadows”, a
non-fiction that is truly the best book I’ve ever read on the
paranormal, and he also embraces a kinder look at afterlife, and
together we will be bringing the ‘nice’ forward. It seems more
opportunities are coming my way all the time now, and I am still open
to lecture dates or doing readings and other engagements. I hope to
accomplish what my greatest hero if life has…my Dad…who
ultimately is a ‘nice guy’ who finished first, and that is my
ultimate goal.
