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From My Viewpoint Summer Greetings to everyone! During the last three months I have been busy answering letters from people who have heard and want to learn more about our Association. There have been phone calls from Maine to California from those who want immediate answers to questions about taping and hope I can provide some answers. In May, I was part of a five hour marathon radio talk show appearance, from midnight until five in the morning, and yes, phone calls were still coming in at five! I came to the conclusion that Baltimore never sleeps! Additionally, WJZ, Baltimore TV, as part of its Evening Magazine feature taped a six and a half minute segment in July about the electronic voice and the AA-EVP which is bringing inquiries. It is evident that word about the Association is getting around and people are learning they can communicate with other dimensions through their tape recorders. As one young man wrote to me from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania after listening to the radio show, “. . .I really cared about your message on WBAL Baltimore, very early May 23, ‘82. I really do want information on taping the Spirit messages, only after being part of crowds the next day, I started to fear that your message may be too good to be true.” I answered David’s letter and assured him the Voices are real and offered some suggestions as to how he might start recording them. In the first newsletter I wrote that I looked, “... upon AA-EVP as a group, not just to help other EVP experimenters but as an out-reach organization to let others know what we have learned.” We should not forget the thousands of Davids who have never heard about the electronic voice and yet, after hearing about them have a “hunger” to know more. We can never be satisfied with our own accomplishments until we have “spoken” to all of the Davids everywhere. Since the first AA-EVP NEWS, our membership has almost doubled and we now have members from sixteen states as well as Canada. I mentioned a moment ago about receiving calls from Maine to California. Membership-wise, we could draw a big X across the country. There are members in Maine to California; and in Florida to Washington. As long as we continue growing we should feel encouraged. Reverse Voice Cassette Tapes Some correspondents have indicated great interest in the reverse voices and have written that they plan to start turning over their reel to reel tapes. Others have also said they are interested but since they use a cassette tape deck for recording, there is no conceivable way they can play this type of tape in reverse. If there are voices there, they will remain forever unknown. Take heart, cassette tape deckers! There are voices on the reverse side of your cassette tapes. Each of you can have the satisfaction of Sherlock as you track them down. All you need is a friend who has a reel to reel recorder. After making a cassette recording, have it duplicated onto a reel to reel tape. Then turn the reel over, as described in the first newsletter, and play it in reverse. This will be, in effect, a play through of a cassette tape on its wrong side. As the reel tape is playing the cassette recording in reverse, the recording can be duplicated onto a cassette tape. You will then have a copy of the cassette recording you have made, as it sounds in reverse, and can listen to it at your leisure. Reverse cassette voices are just as frequent as reverse reel to reel voices. They are as easily understood and the nature of their messages is the same. D. Scott Rogo, well-known parapsychologist, author and psychic investigator, in a recent letter to me wrote, “The reverse tape effect is not new. Dr. Bender discovered this with Jurgenson years ago, and the effect has long been part of ‘tape voice lore.’” Let me know your results, if any, when you turn your tapes over. Also, please include information as to what you were using as a sound source at the time. I would like to share this with others in future AA-EVP NEWS. Research Projects As stated on the letterhead, one of the six benefits offered to members f AA-EVP is the opportunity to take part in research projects. I am happy to recommend the following to you. 1. “Artist/researcher dealing with futurist aesthetics, and art forms generated by the new realities of other dimensions needs help in attempting to communicate with Calbraith Perry Rodgers and Wiley Post.
Rodgers in 1911 was the first
person to fly across the U.S. “As a pilot, I am flying Rodger’s route this summer. This work will be shown publicly Sept.-Oct., 1983 in a major exhibition sponsored by the University of Maryland Baltimore County. All tapes sent will be used and acknowledged in the exhibition catalogue. Tapes will be returned. Please send tapes by Feb., 1983 to: Pat Canavan, Associate Professor. (Address removed) I have met Mr. Canavan, as well as the other two men who will be flying with him: Jerry Stephany, head of the photography department, U. of M., Baltimore County, and Bill Tutor, musician and composer from the University music department. They will be using a battery operated reel to reel tape recorder as they are flying cross-country to see if paranormal voices will come through. In itself, this should prove to be an interesting experiment. Mr. Canavan has promised to let me know if voices are recorded high in the sky! I will let you know their results in the November NEWS. If any AA-EVP members believe they have succeeded in having contact with Rodgers or Post, through their tape recorders, ask for evidential information. I suggest you do this before you read anything about them. It makes the experiment “cleaner,” more valid, in the eyes of many, if you check the information after it has been received. 2. Arthur Berger, President of the Survival Research Foundation, has written to me. He is eager to hear from AA-EVP members who may be interested in participating in research projects undertaken by the Foundation. Quoting from his letter, “...Our survival research project to investigate the question of survival of bodily death is based on tests by which persons may establish their survival through posthumous communication of specific unknown but objectively verifiable information. Such information might be the communication of a predetermined word, such as “Excelsior,” or sentence such as “We will survive death.” “...After their death (of the participant,) we will attempt to get their specific information. These attempts will be made with both mediums and tape recordings. “...Your members can participate in our project in two ways: by using our test to prepare the evidence of their own survival which we will try to get after they die; and by acting as volunteer co-experimenters, try via EVP to get evidence of the survival of people who have used our tests and died.” For any AA-EVP member who would like to take part in the projects described by Mr. Berger, write to: (Address removed. This became known as the Susy Smith project. We believe the project is closed now.) Please note, those members who are not taping voices can still take part in the project by choosing a word or phrase to try to communicate after death. Metascience Foundation-Spiricom George Meek, of Metascience Foundation, wrote to me recently, “. . .as a result of the early April press conference reporting on the work of SPIRICOM, (I am) in touch with twenty-one persons or organizations in Brazil, Germany, England, and the U.S. who are starting serious work. A number of psychics have volunteered for research in various parts of the U.S. In the months ahead it is planned to alert the electronic researchers to any apparently qualified and volunteer psychics in their vicinity. “As a result of the great flood of correspondence from many countries it has become obvious that it will be desirable to supply the researchers with supplemental information to be sent to all those who are doing serious research. The first mailing of supplemental information will probably be made in July. State Coordinators We have five state coordinators so far. They are:
California-David Lothamer These five individuals have been working in the field of EVP for some time and are very knowledgeable about the electronic voice. They have agreed to offer help and give suggestions to other AA-EVP members in their state who turn to them for assistance. Where practical, they will hold group meetings from time to time. I am grateful to each and every one of them. Help Wanted-A Chance To Serve As we continue to grow we will need more state coordinators and also area coordinators. By working in local and state groups we will develop a sense of cohesiveness and the national Association will become stronger. Would you like to be a state or area coordinator? Qualifications: 1. A sincere, lasting interest in EVP. 2. Some knowledge, which need not be extensive, about EVP. 3. A willingness to organize one or more groups of local Association members to meet occasionally in order to share ideas and discoveries and to discuss possible projects for future research. 4. Area coordinators will pass on to state coordinators what is being done on a local basis. 5. State coordinators to pass on to me what is being done in the local groups. If you think you are qualified to be a state or area coordinator let me know. Don’t be shy! Step forwards! Chances are, you’ll be greeted with open arm! Maryland – Virginia Hold Joint Meeting The state coordinators of Maryland and Virginia, along with Association members from both states, met on July 18, at Sarah Estep’s home. Several members played short demonstration tapes which were then discussed. It proved to be a very interesting meeting, and some of those attending indicated they now have a better understanding of how to record paranormal voices. It is hoped that another meeting can be held in the near future. Reports From and About Members After Mercedes Shepanek read the report about mirrors in the May, AA-EVP NEWS, she asked the Voices for further mirror information. You will remember that Mercedes is one of the three Association members I mentioned that, unknown and independently of each other, has received messages concerning mirrors. On this particular day, she asked if they use the mirrors and if they are a help to them. Someone replied, “I look at you with this energy.” During the same recording someone added, “Now we look down. There’s mirrors enough.” Mercedes has two large mirrors in her recording room and so the entities seem to be telling her that she doesn’t need any more. In the spring, Governor Hughes of Maryland, honored in a special ceremony at the University of Maryland those individuals who had made a significant contribution in time and effort to the state. Kevin Mack, a Maryland AA-EVP member, and I, both received certificates. We were so honored because of the several trips we made to Point Lookout to investigate a purportedly haunted lighthouse, which is located in a Maryland state park. A number of good quality paranormal voices were recorded on tape as well as some photographs which showed the apparent presence of spirits. Odds And Ends The updated list of all those in your state who are Association members is included in this mailing. Every name on your list has indicated they would like to hear from other AA-EVP members in your state. Pick up the phone and call each other, or drop a line. Perhaps you can meet! You have a good basis for friendship, a mutual interest in EVP! Again, if you do not receive a mailing list, you are still the only AA-EVP member in your state. We hope this will soon change. Tell others about the Association. Generate interest! Pass on the yellow flyers, If you are attending a meeting or belong to an organization that you think might be interested in the Association, let me know and I will send you additional flyers. The next newsletter will be mailed the first week in November. Please let me have all of your news on or before October 1,5. This is our Association. We each are responsible for its future! Always, my best wishes, Sarah Estep Established to Provide Evidence of Survival Through the Electronic Voice and to Share Results With All.
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