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Spirit Faces: Truth About the Afterlife

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My new book, "Spirit Faces; Truth About the Afterlife," is really moving along, and I want to thank those of you who've read it. My hope is that it'll stir a spiritual revolution--quelling doubts, offering age-old truths, and providing some new insights about our spiritual heritage that until recently were buried in the sands of time.
Much of the information in the book is mind-boggling, but I vow on my life, on the lives of my family members, and on my afterlife prospects, that the material I write in this book is true, to the very best of my knowledge . . . and my knowledge is rather substantial as a result of my fifteen-plus years of nearly full-time research, working with some of the most prolific world-to-world communicators in history.


Have I really talked on the phone to departed colleagues? Yes, I have. Have colleagues of mine in Europe really received clear images and long texts from spirit friends who planted those image and text files directly onto the hard drive of my colleagues' computers? Yes. This is not just speculation; I know this all to be true and legitimate. Again, I will stake my life on that.


If you're influenced by the skeptics, please ask yourself if they would likewise stake their lives and the lives of their families on their skeptical position. Are they that sure of themselves? Ask them, and please let me know their reply.


I have a reputation of honesty and sincerity, and I wish to keep it that way. One of my greatest dreams is that hundreds of millions of people will gain a truthful, in-depth knowledge of spiritual reality from my work. I would like people who read "Spirit Faces" to come away with a clearer understanding of their spiritual nature than 99.9 percent of the people who've ever lived on Earth. That's my hope, my dream. If even half the people in the world can adopt a realistic spiritual understanding into their personal worldview and let the other pieces of their worldview resettle around that stable spiritual foundation, then peace and compatibility will spread quickly among social systems ranging in size from families and communities, to nations, religions, and cultures. For the first time in the history of our world, humanity would be able to resonate with brilliant beings in the light, ethereal realms of existence (angels, celestial beings), and the Earth would glow in spiritual Light.


That is my hope, my dream.

I bought this book after seeing it advertised on www.worlditc.org. After surfing their site and becoming fascinated with the subject matter, I decided to buy the book. About the first half of the book is very interesting and kept my attention, but the second half or so goes completely off topic away from the "spirit faces" the book is supposed to be all about. At this point my attention was lost and I lost interest in the book overall. Took me quite awhile to get through the rest of the book. The collection of images provided in the book are great in providing visual aides when Mark Macy discusses specific stories. I'm a visual kind of person, so I could appreciate the images. He never really goes in depth or discusses why he believes what's happening on a scientific and provable level. What he says is quite unbelievable and starts to sound like a bunch of "mumbo-jumbo", although it's still interesting nonetheless even if you just take it as fiction.

In my opinion Spirit Faces is a rather boring and redundant book. The author does not offer a convincing explanation for the faces phenomenon, and the 80 images by itself are non impressive and boring. There is a huge amount of aditional information non directly connected with the main issue -like a very naive and old fashioned description of what is life after death or the messages Macy received a decade ago from spirits by telephone or radio--, which made a bigger volume but didn't add value.
I would not recommend the reading of this book.

SPIRIT FACES: TRUTH ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE pairs over 50 color photos of spirits with the author's fifteen years of research into the life after this. He's worked with instrumental transcommunication, including receiving messages through TV, radio, telephone and computer - and here through photography. His evidence, paired with that of other researchers in the field, offers a compelling vision of 'the other side' and experiences there.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

A fascinating read for those seeking to learn more about the interaction currently taking place between the spiritual realms and the physical plane. It offers an inside view of Mark's personal experiences and exploration in a field which has not yet been fully accepted in mainstream society. Be prepared to have your belief system challenged as Mr. Macy describes some of the miracles that are taking place on this planet and in his own personal work.

This book is not just about pictures of spirit faces captured on film. It's about the future of humanity and the choices we make that shape our world for generations to come. As time progresses, the world will eventually open up to the possibility of the existence of things they don't yet understand. Mark Macy courageously stands as one of the world's foremost proponents of the field of Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC). This book will serve as yet another brick in the foundation of research currently occurring on a global scale.

If you're looking for answers about the existence of life after death, look no further. There is no longer any mystery about survival after our physical death. The answer's right in front of us. Rest be assured, the world will be hearing much more about this field of study.

Great great book for monastics like me very akin to spirit friend interaction. Unlike the author, Mark Macy, I am new to ITC and the luminator, but then again I need not know the ins and outs of how my car works to take me where I care to go. Besides, we all like pictures from which to consider and learn, more easily. I offer the idea that much like chanting and Mozart effect physical and mental stillness (so to go beyond), so must the luminator.

To me, this book is a very special bridge for the physical egomind which has been closed by rational thought to conscious essence and the possibilities therein of thought conversation (think talking and traveling). Yes, in the dismal egocentered realms of life, such things are not possible due to the many narrow or exculsionary perspectives therein. But just take a look at what this man knows and is sharing with the world in this book. WOW!

I've never met Mark Macy nor did I know of ITC before this read, but I find it very very interesting that I have learned (over the years) the same interactive process of which he writes by leaving the slug-like egomind realm and exploring. Some of my best friends no longer have a physical form, are honest beyond measure, and exist to create more of the same;and they know this.

Read this book, consider the possibilities it places before you, feel the buzz it creates in you. I dare you! What? No buzz, you say. Lordy lordy, still packing way too much egomind resistance for this new paradigm. Open up your intention and throttle down the fear, one way or another, you'll get There.

The most interesting thing about this book is not so much the inclusion of "more than 50 color photos of spirits" as the front cover advertises, but the thought that some people will believe just about anything so long as it has a form of pseudo-scientific blessing.

The author not only lovingly displays some of his collection of spirit faces overlapping those of real people, claiming it is undeniable proof that the spirit world exists and is trying to connect to us, but he also gleefully goes into long detail about the escapades of the group he belongs to and how they have, of all people, been engaging in contact with the spirit world through the means of television, telephones, radios, and computers for years now. A form of contact which he claims is far superior to that of "channeling."

The work his group is into is called ITC, short for "instrumental transcommunication" and it goes back apparently to the 1950's. They talk to spirits through electronic devices, some of which claim to have been well-known people when they were still alive and some who do not, as well as other sorts of spirits. If this sounds familiar, that's probably because it is. Despite his dissing of channeling, both the folks into ITC and those into New Age spiritualism have much in common. Though this particular author believes that ITC will eventually "break out everywhere, transforming our world into a spiritual paradise as it opens broader frontiers of science than we have seen for thousands of years."

Whether the focus is on science or spiritualism, though, a lot of what is in the book rings familiar, especially to those of us who guiltily peruse the lurid covers of the magazines at the head of the grocery store check-out line. Because, though the book describes his techniques of taking the spirit pictures in a few short chapters, the rest of it ranges through stories of what it would be like to be taken on a tour of the "etheric realm"--which reads like a bad New Age guided mediation more than anything else--to the words of wisdom their computer contacts have gleamed from a group of spirits called tah-dah-dum...The Seven.

Apparently, this Seven has been trying for countless generations to help and guide the human race and have told the ITC folks that we here on the earth are the descendants of the crossbreeding between a primitive ape-people of old earth and a more god-like and technologically advanced people originally from a neighboring planet. A planet once called Marduk or Eden. Atlantis figures prominently in this story, as well (go figure), as does ancient Babylon. Where, shock of shocks, they once worshipped a God named Marduk.

Try as I might, I could not see the spirit faces in the photos in this book as anything more than blurry double-exposures, even though I believe in spirits as a matter of course. As for the almost overweening pride the author displays towards the new and exciting work he and his group are doing in pushing back the bounds of knowledge and ushering in this grand future, all I wanted to do was pat him on the head and smile politely and refrain from telling him about this little thing called "the occult." I guess everyone just has to get there in their own way and in their own time.

As one who is interested in spiritual phenomena, I am always open to sincere, intelligent, and credible accounts of contact with the spirit world. Unfortunately, this is not one of them. This is the type of simplistic nonsense that has given New Age philosophy a bad name. The best I can say about the pictures is that they are interesting, but hardly constitute evidence for survival. The fact that they are fuzzy is presented as an indicator that spirtual entities overlap the photographic subject, but in many cases, they are just fuzzy and the reason for this could be interpreted many different ways.

In addition, Mr. Macy's channeling of entities from the so-called ethereal world comes across as pure Macy, with a bit of Zechariah Sitchin thrown in. There isn't a single new or exciting idea in this book.

The entities have told him that they came to Earth after their planet was blown up by too much technological experimentation, a rather dubious proposition that people would have the means to blow up an entire planet and then escape. His account is also full of factual erros such as stating that Babylon was the creator of the Gods Ea, Enki, and Enlil, overlooking the fact that these Gods were part of the Sumerian pantheon over a thousand years before.

As the book winds down, it gets sillier and even less credible. Mr. Macy - why not just come out and publish your philosophy without having to pretend that it comes from elevated masters or wouldn't it sell as well? A huge disappointment.

I feel Macy has been conned by his spirits or he is conning his readers by his scenario about the Seven. So much sense has been written on this subject by serious authors like Fontana and others that this book makes the whole subject field look ridiculous.

I am a journalist for a paranormal magazine, and someone recommended author Mark Macy to me as a great subject for a profile. In my research into Macy, I came across his book, Spirit Faces. What I found in it was compelling.

Macy takes Polaroids of his subjects using an object called the luminator, something Macy freely admits he doesn't entirely understand. Polaroids taken in the presence of this rare device reveal interesting images that, if they don't convince you may at least leave you wondering.

I've discussed Macy's images with skeptics and believers alike, and opinions run the gamut. While the ghostly images superimposed over the faces often look quite different than the flesh and blood face in the image that Macy is capturing, skeptics point out that the images are taken in low light conditions, and all sorts of strange distortions appear when photographs are captured in low light.

In Spirit Faces, Macy is sincere in his attempt to help people wake up to the knowledge that we all have souls and we all live on after we die. Many of his subjects' lives are changed forever in the presence of his photographs.

Whether or not you believe in the afterlife, the human soul and the other subjects that Macy so sensitively tackles in Spirit Faces, the book is worth a read. It is well-written and the information presented makes you think. What you decide is up to you.