The SoulPhone™

The ability to receive yes/no answers does not in itself verify the identity or source of any purported communications.

Yes, though it could in principle provide evidence that some anomalous communication is going on.

But I feel the claims they are making about what they're going to do are quite unbelievable, and actually I'm surprised it's legal to solicit money from people in these circumstances.

They're still promising the deceased will be able to type, speak and do video-conferencing. But the yes/no answering mechanism is the only one they've attached a timescale to.

Still, a reliable yes/no mechanism should be pretty easy to test for accuracy in terms of veridical information. But I'm guessing we'll be seeing an excuse for the postponement of the SoulSwitch within the next 6 months or so.

By the time 6 more months have passed we'll probably have forgotten it was being promised anyway and Christmas and New Year celebrations will be occupying our thoughts.  I'll continue to monitor as I have been monitoring these past two decades or more but I won't really be expecting any significant move forward. 

Why, one wonders, do predictions about the emergence of such a device need to be made anyway?  If someone does succeed then all that has to happen is to declare success.  Failed predictions do nobody's reputation any good.

Why, one wonders, do predictions about the emergence of such a device need to be made anyway?

I assume it's to encourage donations:

$60 or $5 per month  One year membership*

$120 or $10 per month  One year membership + the Facilitated After-Death Contact digital audio product + Soul Proof e-book by Mark Pitstick, MA, DC   
 
$300 or $25 per month  All the above + The Eleven Questions e-book and Ask Your Soul digital audio product by Dr. Pitstick
 
$600 or $50 per month  The above + signed copy of The Sacred Promise by Gary E. Schwartz, PhD + signed copy of the Love Eternal by Rhonda Schwartz + free webinar 
 
$1200 or $100 per month  The above + Soul Proof documentary film DVD + signed copy of the Soul Proof book + 30 minute Ask the Soul Doctor session by phone or Zoom with Dr. Pitstick + two additional complimentary webinars
 
$2500  All the above + life-time membership + signed copy of The Afterlife Experiments by Dr. Schwartz + Dr. Pitstick’s other products (Radiant Wellness book and The Eleven Questions book and 7 CDs listed on www.soulproof.com/shop/) + a one-hour session with an evidential medium
 
$5000  All the above + another session with an evidential medium + being "in the queue" and receiving a spirit-communication session if and when the first SoulPhone device has been developed.  
 
$10,000 or more  All the above + an additional one-hour session with an evidential medium + recognition, if desired, for your high level of support on all SoulPhone Foundation literature and website + dinner with Dr. Schwartz + tour of Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health + VIP complimentary admission to all webinars and workshops for two years.  (Note: airfare, hotel, and other related travel fees for the dinner, tour, and workshops are not covered by this donation)  

I have to say, I'm very doubtful about where it is leading. My instincts suggest that what is envisaged is some sort of modern-day ouija board. As such, results may be highly variable. The ability to receive yes/no answers does not in itself verify the identity or source of any purported communications. Perhaps the outcome will be more dependent on by whom it it used, and under what circumstances.

I assume it's to encourage donations:

You are likely right....  Wonder who funds the spirit-side of the development?

It appears the SoulPhone has a rival. Using the Dragonfly, it costs only $75 an hour to contact the dead:
http://www.whatisthedragonfly.com/index.html

I'm curious - is there any kind of legal control or regulation of this kind of commercial activity in the USA? 

It appears the SoulPhone has a rival. Using the Dragonfly, it costs only $75 an hour to contact the dead:
http://www.whatisthedragonfly.com/index.html

I'm curious - is there any kind of legal control or regulation of this kind of commercial activity in the USA? 

I had missed the fact that this device is being peddled from Canada, not the USA - at $3000 a time.

What does it do? It plays "a sound file that is made up of non-discernible voice sounds in looped two-second segments".

[Laird]

I had missed the fact that this device is being peddled from Canada, not the USA - at $3000 a time.

What does it do? It plays "a sound file that is made up of non-discernible voice sounds in looped two-second segments".

That puzzled me too. I can see how maybe a small, one-time fee for the download of a sound file and a set of instructions could be justified, but a physical device, and one costing that much, or ongoing, hourly fees of that size...?...

I had missed the fact that this device is being peddled from Canada, not the USA - at $3000 a time.

What does it do? It plays "a sound file that is made up of non-discernible voice sounds in looped two-second segments".

Sounds like a bargain. I’ll  get two. 

The world of spiritual belief is the most materialistic of all!

The world of spiritual belief is the most materialistic of all!

I think you may be confusing genuine belief with people who have no interest in the spiritual elements whatsoever. Lol