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From Our Viewpoint As you may have noticed, Lisa and I have just recently taken up serious experimentation with video ITC. Lisa first began studying the audio form of TransCommunication after reading Sara Estep’s book, Voices of Eternity. That beginning was strictly focused on EVP. While we occasionally played around with video ITC, it was not until just recently that we focused our attention on it. As we reported in the Winter 2002 newsletter, when we did, we were blessed with an abundance of most intriguing images. Since that first video ITC experiment, I have been spending a considerable amount of time trying to put the images into perspective. I believe it is especially important to correlate what we know about EVP with what we are finding out about video ITC. You see, there appears to be important similarities, and I believe these areas of agreement point to a greater understanding of both aspects of a greater phenomenon. These are the points of agreement that I have noticed:
These comparisons suggest that both EVP and video ITC are something more than a random event or a figment of our imagination. An important consideration in any phenomenon is its complexity. If it is a single event or an artifact of a technology, it will have fewer characteristics than if it is initiated by an external intelligence. Entities, in the flesh or otherwise, tend to do the same thing in different ways, depending on personality, intention and circumstance. It is apparent that these phenomena have great depth in complexity, which strongly suggests some external intelligence is involved. There are many possible explanations based on physical science that explain some of the characteristics of EVP and ITC. However, these explanations do not satisfactorily explain all of the characteristics. Physical science is based on the assumption that the arrow of creation points from the “Big Bang” through some primordial soup of creation to our present forms of life via evolution. There is no room in this foundation of knowledge for a nonphysical aspect of reality or the presence of discarnate entities. In this view, consciousness is an artifact of the brain and the Survival Hypothesis is not considered. In metaphysics, physical science is considered, but so is the existence of a larger reality. This permits metaphysicians to describe the arrow of creation as originating outside of the physical aspect of reality, and then possibly leading to the “Big Bang” and on to us. Consciousness is hosted by the physical brain but exists outside of it and our attention returns to this greater environment when we transition out of this lifetime. Thus, metaphysics helps to explain much of the phenomena in EVP and ITC. A metaphysical explanation of the evidence we have before us, that employs the existence of discarnate entities as the communicating entity, better satisfies the evidence than any explanation based on physical science that is offered to date. Even the possibility of quantum holographic fails to explain all of the evidence. Yes, there may be some holographic aspects to EVP and ITC, but quantum holographic fails to explain its interactive nature. We are well past the days in which we must prove the existence of these phenomena. It is time for us to define a hypothesis and then pursue open discussion and experimentation to explain the how and why of EVP and ITC. Tom ITC Experiments and Other Phenomena We had been concerned that our first ITC pictures were a chance occurrence but this is not turning out to be the case. We have done several ITC experiments since the last newsletter and all have contained numerous ITC pictures. Some are better than others; many can be seen on the computer screen but do not print well. The pictures are mainly faces but many of them show people from different time periods. This is apparent from the clothing, the hairstyles, and the hats that the people pictured are wearing. There have also been some ITC pictures of animals and what seems to us to be of landscapes. There was a period in January that we were unable to do experiments for three weeks. Tom had been out of town and returned on a Friday. On Saturday we ran an experiment in the early afternoon. We use quite a bit of equipment and after an experiment it is all turned off. The equipment is also plugged into power strips, which are also shut down. The EVP/ITC room was entered after the experiment at least three times and the equipment was all turned off and everything was normal.
Needless to say, this was an exciting event, and naturally, we have tried to figure out a logical explanation for why the equipment turned on by itself. In order for the CD to play, the power strip had to be turned on, the “all in one” Stereo system had to be turned on, the CD function and the second CD would also have had to have been selected. In our last ITC experiment we ran an EVP experiment at the same time. A few seconds into the experiment one of the radios being used for white noise suddenly increased in sound to a level that was quite disturbing. Tom looked at me with surprise. We were both startled and you can hear me on the recording asking Tom if I should turn it down. You can hear him say, “I’m not sure” just as you hear the sound going down because I couldn’t stand it and turned it down. When I reviewed the EVP recording I thought I heard voices in this very loud static. Using Cool Edit, we were able to reduce the static by using a sample of the static in a noise reduction filter. The first word is “Contact” and then there are voices but they cannot be cleaned up enough to definitely state what they say. We have included two of the latest ITC pictures. Even though they have been enhanced to make them more visible in print, we understand that none in this newsletter are very clear. At the left, there is a person wearing something that looks like a headdress and breastplate. Above, is the image of a man. We have posted these on the web site, as well as others that appear to be images of the fabled “little people” of Irish legion that we collected in a session conducted just before Saint Patrick’s Day. One appears to be an image of a man standing in bushes. The bushes are green, the man’s face is “flesh color” and his high-top hat is brown. It is interesting that an unusual number of our images come with hats of various forms. These pictures help to illustrate that many of our ITC include people in “period dress.”
Fredrich Jürgenson's Voice
Transmissions With The Deceased
Tom Wingert
and George Wynne have translated the German language, out of print book,
Sprechfunk mit Verstorbenen (or in English, Voice Transmissions With The
Deceased), by Fredrich Jürgenson. To quote Tom Wingert, “This
translation should lay to rest the many claims of others to have discovered one
thing or another, which Friedrich Jürgenson had long discovered first, and
hopefully the wheel won’t be invented over and over again. Not only is
the book incredibly interesting, but also it is somewhat of a historical account
of the discovery and the many lessons learned during the following years. He describes in great detail the many methods he used and his conclusions to
certain questions.” The translated book is now on the Fredrich Jürgenson Foundation web site
at fargfabriken.se/fjf/. You can download the book from this site. A hard copy version of the
book is not available. Expect to see more information about Fredrich Jürgenson
as the site matures.
Brief Remarks on the Role of the Recipient in ITC
by Anabela Cardoso
©Anabela Cardoso 2002 -
All Rights Reserved
(Editor’s Note: We have
posted the entirety of Anabela’s article on the
atransc.org web site under
Articles. Do to space limitations, we have included but one section
here. We believe you will be interested in the sort of message Anabela is
receiving from her contact known as Timestream.)
The Nature of the Next World as Revealed by
ITC
When I once asked my
communicators from Timestream Station if the extraordinary capabilities that
allow them for example to communicate by telepathy with animals and plants, to
transport themselves by thought from place to place, and to function consciously
and simultaneously in their world and ours, were the result of special
practices, or were natural features of their world, they answered that the
latter is the case. It thus seems that they are subject to quite different
laws of reality from those that appear to operate in this world. I have
yet to discuss with them whether their laws are unique to the level of existence
from which they themselves operate, or whether they apply to other levels as
well.
I have
however been able to make quite detailed enquiries about the conditions under
which Timestream Station communicate. For example, when I relayed to them
a question from the eminent psychical researcher Professor David Fontana, Past
President of the British Society for Psychical Research, as to whether
mediumship abilities are necessary for ITC recipients in this world, they
answered categorically that no they are not. In reply to my querying why,
in that case, do some people here on Earth get ITC results after only a few
attempts while others do not after months and even years of trying, they told me
that, “It depends upon Timestream.” In others words, it
appears to be the communicators themselves who make the decisions, although I do
not know as yet the basis upon which these decisions are made. In reply to
another of my questions, this time about the extent to which the recipient can
influence the content of communications, Timestream assured me that such
influence plays no part, “We speak directly through the instruments.”
From my own experience since March 11th 1998 in ITC using the Direct
Radio Voice method (DRV), and before that using EVP, I can confirm the passive
role of the recipient. The communications have always taken place
independently of my own will. I can never assure anybody that on such a
day and at such an hour Timestream will speak with me. It is true that
they usually tell me in advance that they intend to try to speak, and at what
hour the attempt will be made, but they do not always meet with success. The only exception to this is when Timestream goes on to confirm and reconfirm a
particular date and time, though they themselves have told me that even then
they can never be absolutely sure of being able to make contact. Of
course, I have always submitted the details of the experimental conditions in my
studio to them for their approval. Thus I always check with them on the
suitability of my various items of equipment, of the frequencies I use for radio
white noise, of the times at which I turn on the radios, and even of the
intensity of white noise coming through the radios (I now use five of these
simultaneously). My belief is that since it is the communicators and not
the recipients who establish the contacts, they are the best judges of what
suits them best.
In my own case for example, I am told by the communicators that while
recording DRVs I must not have either of my computers turned on elsewhere in the
house, as the frequencies emitted by computers are highly disturbing for their
work. I am also told I must not use my mobile telephone, though I can use
the house phone. As an example of the errors that I can make, I once
bought a very sophisticated CD recorder in an attempt to improve the quality and
the durability of my recordings. My intention was to record directly onto
audio CDs instead of using the more perishable audio tape. However, I only
used the new recorder once. Foolishly I had omitted to consult with Timestream beforehand, and when I attempted to use it I was told that the laser
technology of the CD recorder made it unsuitable for their work. Even the type of questions
and the topics of conversation depend upon the communicators rather than upon
the recipients. Timestream will only answer the questions or talk about the
things that they feel are appropriate. However, I have no wish to question
them about the future or about mundane issues, and as I am not a scientist I
also do not question them about scientific issues. My main interest has
always been to ask them about the meaning and purpose of existence, the role of
animals and plants from a transcendental point of view, the life conditions on
their level of existence, and the technical requisites most suited to
them. I have received very significant replies to all these questions, and
therefore my communications with Timestream very much suit my own interests. (Editor: Anabela Cardoso publishes the ITC Journal that includes articles about ITC in many languages,
written by researchers from around the world. See
itcjournal.org or write to Apartado Nº 515 O. P., 36200 Vigo, Pontevedra España.)
Mathematical Foundation for
Survival There is important work being done by Dr.
Matti Pitkänen in Hanko, Finland, concerning the relationship between
number theory and the existence of nonphysical reality. His focus is on
p-Adic number, which we believe are in the “imaginary” number set. This work is abstract, but we think it is important for you to know that Dr.
Pitkänen is beginning to establish a foundation in math that may lead to a
better understanding of how our world relates to that of the communicating
entities in EVP. We will follow his work for you, but in the meantime, you
can find his writing at
physics.helsinki.fi/~matpitka/. We are sorry that we do not have a physical address for him.
Image From Sand Paper
“I wasn't even
careful about it. I just took a quick shot or two to see what would
happen. I am beginning to think that most any rough surface (which
represents noise) will produce a picture. That has yet to be proven but it
is a thought.”
(Editor’s Note:
You must look closely to see the face. The nose and two eyes are in the
upper-middle of the frame. There may be a second person to the left of the
first man. Hint--look for Richard Nixon.)
Signature
comes from the Other Side
Recently, Janet received a picture that seemed to have the signature of
The Rev. Bernard Baker. Bernard was a member of the AA-EVP for many years
until he made his transition to the other side in September of last year. Janet had known and worked with Bernard in the past. The signature was
shown to other people who had also known Bernard and all felt that it was indeed
his signature. A copy of Bernard’s signature was located and is shown
here for comparison. Let us know what you think.
Online
ITC Cam Experiment
“One
thing I'm noticing is that once the web cam starts ‘generating’ faces there
will usually be a group of them, often overlapping and interacting in strange
ways. Now I could chalk these up to the "ink blot" effect, but
some are VERY detailed and photographic in appearance, where it becomes
difficult to attribute this to chance alone.
“I believe the images
may be ‘transmissions’ from another plain of existence. How these
transmissions arise is anyone's guess. I can't say if the same mechanism
is in effect with EVP, although it's certainly possible. With both EVP and
video ITC, however, I believe there’s a couple of scientific principles at
play here. First, I think the principle of stochastic resonance is the
reason why the images become visible. The camera/monitor feedback loop
sets up the conditions to allow this to happen. Second, Erland Babcock
compares the images we see to ‘hypercube slices.’ This certainly makes
sense if the images are indeed being "transmitted" from a higher
dimension than ours. There's strong evidence of this in my estimation
since often the images interact and reinforce each other in strange ways, ways
that would make sense if the images are 2-d projections of 3-d images resulting
from slicing 4-d space.”
There is an
excellent paper called, About the Ghost Safari™ ITC Cam for those who want to
know more about how to do ITC experiments. You can find this article at
http:// (This site is closed now).
Members
Experience
Direct Voice Phenomena
Tracy
DuBois recently had to have an emergency removal of his appendix. He
wrote “Just prior to surgery I heard a distinct voice of a woman say, ‘You'll
be Fine,’ when no one was in the room.” Susan Cole wrote, “I had a similar
experience post surgery myself, hope it helps support what you think you
experienced. I was awake but with my eyes closed in a Catholic hospital
and I heard a woman's voice to my right say, ‘Hello Sister.’ I said
hello, opened my eyes, and no one was there. I asked a nurse and she
confirmed they felt they had a nun ghost who helped them out.””
Global
Consciousness Proven?
The Global
Consciousness Project (GCP) consists of a team of scientists who are
individually associated with a number of Universities and research
organizations. The GCP has been monitoring an array of Random Event
Generators (REG) to see if they can detect unexpected variations in their
collective “randomness.” If such deviations can be correlated with
events in the world, the team may have evidence of global consciousness. They have announced that the array of REGs radically deviated from the norm
moments before the first aircraft hit the World Trade Center and exhibited
corresponding peaks in deviation preceding the second collision and the
collision with the Pentagon. See
noosphere.princeton.edu
for details.
There is precedence for
this in the work of the Maharishi Effect, introduced by the Maharishi Mahesh
Yogi who is credited for introducing the technique of Transcendental
Meditation. As the concept goes, the world can be influenced if 1% of the
population meditates at the same time. The idea can be expressed this
way: If 1% of the population of a town practiced Transcendental Meditation
on a regular schedule over a period of time, while concentrating on the
well-being of the town, the town would experience greater well-being—such as
less crime. The Global Consciousness Project seems to be verifying the
required mechanism for this hypothesis to be true. The EVP connection is important. The mind-machine influence is called telekinesis. Here, it has been
demonstrated that we can telekinetically influence RNGs. The Maharishi
Effect holds that we can also telekinetically influence other forms of energy,
such as good will or happiness, probably by influencing the underlying
causes. The collective consciousness of EVP/ITC experimenters in the world
can have a telekinetic influence on the acceptance of EVP/ITC as a true
phenomenon and our ability to communicate with the entities. We do not
understand this influence, but we know that the rapport and common goals of the
EVP/ITC community is important in our success.
Matt
Warne's ITC
Matt Warne does ITC experiments. He uses a Hi-8 Hitachi camcorder, which is
connected to a Sharp S-VHS video. He then captures the recorded video
through his PC with an ATI Studio video capture card. He wrote, “I do
the same setup like Tom and Lisa—with the camcorder viewing it’s image in a
loop on the TV screen. “Something strange that I did notice last night as I reviewed some
of the frames was some kind of reality shift. It seemed on some of the
frames that I paused to look at, they actually changed a bit while I was looking
at them! It sounds crazy, …however it definitely isn't the equipment
causing it.
Matt also wrote that he
had, “experimented with video using the Scole method of two mirrors aligned
with the camera’s viewfinder and lens to create an infinity feedback effect
which can induce certain types of resonance that are helpful to ITC.” He
said that it takes time to align the mirrors, and so he now usually uses the TV
loop process as it takes a much shorter time to set up.
Geoweather
There has
been much speculation about the influence solar flairs, planetary geomagnetic
activity, moon phase and meteorological conditions have on nonphysical
phenomena. For instance, from the synopsis of a speech Robert O. Becker,
M.D. will give to the American Society for Psychical Research, "Preliminary
results have indicated a direct relationship between the status of the
geomagnetic field and the success rate of ESP experiments. The geomagnetic
field may be a hidden variable that should be considered in experiments."
Haunting
activity is thought to increase with increased solar and geomagnetic
activity. Knowing the phase of the moon would also be important as
geomagnetic activity is greatest in the days around the new and full moon. We have added solar and geomagnetic
indicators on atransc.org, and a link to a site that provides moon
phases. You will need to check locally for meteorological
conditions. It may be informative to keep track of these conditions as
part of your experiment records. Let us know if you detect a correlation
between these conditions and the success of your experiments.
Are
There EVP on My Tape?
We
often have people ask us to listen to their tape recordings to see if there are
EVP messages on them. Unfortunately, we often do not have the time to do
this. AA-EVP member, Linda Williamson has said that she would be glad to
help people review their EVP recordings. Linda wrote, “Getting the
chance to help people with this would be brilliant.”
Linda says
that it can take four to five days to scan a 30-minute tape. Knowing this,
please be considerate and try to keep the length of the tape that you want
reviewed reasonable. If you would like her to help you, a donation to help
cover the cost of her time, postage, and tape would be appreciated. EVP Experiment
I was reading
Susy Smith’s book, Voices of The Dead,, New American Library,
1977. I became interested in a remark made in Chapter VIII, “The Lamoreaux
Bothers,” regarding a method of taping. Susy writes about a
letter from Joe Lamoreaux in which he is discussing communications from Bill
Welch who had recently passed over. “He gave us one suggestion that we
hadn’t thought of before … while recording, after we ask our question or
questions, (he told us) to turn the recorder off for about a minute. Then
turn it back on to record the voice responses. This is to give the
entities a chance to organize their thoughts and answer. Otherwise we will
be recording about a minute of disorganized thought before we begin receiving
meaningful answer to our questions.”
And here is
another one of those coincidences. After reading the above we had a
conversation with a member we will just call Ron, as he has concerns about his
work in EVP and his employer. Ron uses a digital recorder. He
mentally communicates his question, rather than saying it out loud. He
then waits two or three minutes and turns the recorder on for 10 to 20 seconds
to record the answer. He then asks another question telepathically; waits
a few minutes and again turns the recorder on to receive the next answer. He tells us that he has had good results with this and that his questions are
answered. Members may want to experiment with
this. Please let us know of your results.
Spirtsearchers
John and Nancy Wilton have a
background of years of interest and experiments in the field of EVP/ITC. They have been paranormal investigators in the New Jersey area since 1996. Along with EVP, they use photography, video and various meters to detect
temperature changes and electromagnetic fields.
The Wilton’s primary
tool for recording EVP is a digital recorder. They wrote, “We use a
Panasonic model #RR-DR60, which has been discontinued and pulled from the
shelves. The story we got as to why they were discontinued is as follows:
“This
recorder was used mostly by business people for dictation. When they
played back their message, strange sounds and voices could be heard in the
background. So, they returned the recorder as defective and Panasonic
stopped production. As soon as this story got out, investigators ran to
the stores to buy up all the discontinued marked-down recorders! Now the
only place that I’ve seen this model for sale is on sites like Ebay.”
Along
with EVP experiments, the Wilton’s experiment with ITC and direct voice using
an old 1930s tube radio. They have also built a Raudive Box and
information on how to build one is available on their web site.
Flight
93 Crash Site
According to
an article at Earthfiles.com by Reporter and Editor Linda Moulton Howe, the crash site of Flight 93 is
haunted. United Flight 93 crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania on
September 11th killing 38 passengers and seven crewmembers. Within 48
hours, the FBI and State Police had brought in a house trailer to be a command
post and to store some of the evidence boxes. Eventually the crater was
filled back in and local residents started referring to it as the "mass
grave."
A Security
firm was hired to guard the site, using the house trailer as an office. According to the article, guards have reported mumbled voices and
footsteps. One guard claims to have seen a woman who vanished into thin
air. He later recognized her in a photograph of passengers who were on the
flight.
WaveClean as a Noise
Reduction Tool
George
Wynne wrote us about a simple software program that is useful for reducing
noise in audio tracks.
“Those of
you who have difficulties managing the numerous calibration capabilities of Cool
Edit should take a look at the ‘WAVclean’ program that will give you
entirely decent results in reducing background noise levels.
“It works in
the following fashion: Look for the wav file that you want to filter by clicking
on 'Open.' Fix the filtering degree by moving the 'Strength' arrow from
left to right, the further to the right the stronger the filtering. Put a
check mark in the ‘Scrub’ window, then click on the ‘Start’ button to
start the filtering process.
“To compare the original wav file with the filtered version, click alternately
on the ‘Play’ loudspeaker symbol in the ‘Original’ or the ‘Laundered’
window. If you are satisfied with the result, click on ‘Save.’ Answer the
question whether the original should be overwritten with ‘No’ and give the
filtered file a new name in order to save the original as well.
EVP on a Toy Key Chain
Ann
Longmore-Etheridge wrote to describe an interesting encounter with EVP.
“There is a
small parking lot by the cemetery where I usually park my car, and I always have
a feeling that someone is watching me from the cemetery whenever I park and walk
across the road to my house. I've always thought of this ‘watcher’ as
an angry man.”
Ann’s
son has a two-inch long, battery operated memo recorder that is part of a toy
key-chain. She had just brought her son home and was playing with the
recorder as they crossed the street from the parking lot.
“First
I recorded myself saying, ‘Hello,’ and played that back. Then I said
to my son, ‘I think I'll take this to the cemetery and see if the ghost will
talk to me.’ Then I hit the record button accidentally, meaning to
actually hit the play button and hear myself saying, ‘Hello,’ again. When I did hit play, I heard a deep male voice say, ‘No.’ “I guess there really is a grumpy man
in the cemetery who doesn't want me around.”
News
About Members
Rolf-Dietmar
Ehrhardt’s Institute of TransCommunication (loTC) web site has a
wealth of valuable information for any researcher. If members have not
seen this web site they should do so. If you don’t have a computer
go to the library and use theirs. Spend some time at (This site is now closed. See
worlditc.org
) reading the many excellent articles. Thank you Rolf for you
contributions and work in the field of ITC.
AA-EVP member Richard
Hatem is the screenwriter and co-producer of The Mothman Prophecies,
which was released on January 25th. The film is based on the John A.
Keel non-fiction book. The movie tells of John Klein (Richard Gere), a
Washington newspaper reporter who leaves his job after his wife (Debra
Messing) dies, to investigate strange reports, including psychic visions
(prophecies) and sightings of winged creatures (Mothmen) in a small West
Virginia town. Much of his investigation involves people who feel they
are in psychic, sometimes physical contact with the entities.
Mark Macy
will be one of many wonderful speakers at the 27th SSF-IIIHS International
Conference, 2002. The International Institute of Integral Human Sciences
is a non-governmental organization affiliated with the United Nations
DPI, promoting educational programs for the 21st century. They work
towards the convergence of new sciences with spirituality and universal
human values, creating inter-religious and inter-cultural understanding
for world peace. They will be holding a series of conferences in
Montreal, May 3-12.
Charli Claypool is communicating with renowned debunker James Randi
regarding proof of survival and the voices that she is receiving through
EVP. You can go to
randi.org/jr/030802.html
to see her original letter and his response. You can hear Charli’s
EVP at coffeepotghost.com Thoughts From Members
Erland
Babcock has worked with ITC for many years. He wrote, “In most
of my images, I seem to be looking at another world of people enjoying
themselves. One of my images shows what appears to be mountains and has two
moons in the background… I surf this other dimension like some people surf
the Internet. I have received many beautiful pictures of people playing
games or going swimming or just lying around. Unfortunately, a lot of
these pictures I was not able to capture. I could see it with my eyes
however, when I photographed it some thing different came out. With the new
35mm scanner I will review those negatives and see what we can find.”
Michael
Ostafin is a research physicist at the Mickiewicz University of
Poland. He has been using a condenser microphone with an additional
40dB pre-amp and digitally records directly into a computer with a sound
card. He recently tried EVPmaker and is thinking about using some
speech recognition software to isolate and extract the voices from the raw
background sound inherent in this method.
Peter
Haviland wrote that, “I have set up an emf detector and thermal gauge
on site recordings and have gotten electromagnetic field readings as well as
temperature drops of 25 degrees during a recording session.
One member had
written on the Egroup; “I'm not convinced of any real value in pursuing
spirit communication, there is very little offered from the other side that
can be considered as proof beyond the personal level” Ann
Longmore-Etheridge replied, “BINGO. This is exactly why I think
they do communicate. It is for the benefit/comfort/education of the
taper and any who might share in this person's success with EVP via book,
lecture, private conversation, etc., not to prove anything to the
masses."
Gary Nixon
reported that, “I have heard, over the years, that there is a code of
conduct, if you will, in effect on the other side; One that requires us on
this side to arrive at the answers naturally. In other words, they're
not allowed to influence us. That's just what I've heard, but it goes
a long ways toward explaining the cryptic, yes/no types of responses that
characterize EVP.”
Carol
Barron-Karajohn, wrote about those who think that the tapers mind is
responsible for placing the messages on the recorder. She wrote,
“But, even if this were true, it would seem to me that the messages would
be a little more self-serving and not things like, ‘We, the dead,
speak’ or ‘Praise be the dead, the dead didn’t die!’”
Tapers
Report
From Tina
Laurent, “A few years ago I did a short thing with a local TV station
in a haunted pub by the seaside. During a break I went over the road,
by myself, to a dark, very old graveyard and made a short tape. I got
a loud, clear male saying, ‘I killed her.’ I
immediately played it for the crew, they all heard it, copied it, yet when I
went over the same bit again an hour later the utterance had completely
disappeared.”
Carol
Barron-Karajohn knows that our pets can respond from the other
side. She wrote, “Shortly after my cat Bambi died, I taped a female
voice saying ‘Bambi’ and during another taping (on another night)
I heard a cat meow upon playback.”
Charli
Claypool recorded from her coffeepot, “Your father quit Alban
Tractors.” She told us, “My Father-In Law did retire from
Alban Tractors two days prior to this recording, after a fifty year career
which was a big deal to him.”
Lloyd
Bradshaw writes that there is a method that he has been using for the
last thirty years to get his thought pattern through to the spirit
folks. Lloyd writes them a letter. Recently he asked them what
their favorite color was in order to use that color ink for his notes to
them. Many different voices answered “Blue.”
Frank
Sumption recorded over the holidays, “My System Isis, Hear from
Isis.”
Michele
Hardison recorded several EVP’s during a sitting with a group of eight
people. One message was, “Love you Glendon.” Michele’s husband Jim’s real name on his birth certificate is Glendon.
Dave Sircom wrote, “A few months ago I made contact with Jennifer,
she gave me her last name, after two months, but swore me to secrecy about
revealing it. She has been very helpful … her voice seems to be
getting stronger. Now, I get a male voice telling me to leave, ‘his
wife alone!' Sometimes, you just can't win.”
Two Years With the AA-EVP
This issue of the
newsletter marks the completion of our second year of stewardship of the
AA-EVP. We want to say that it has been and continues to be an
honor. We really had no idea what we were agreeing to when we assumed
leadership of the Association from Sarah Estep. Sarah is a fine
communicator and she has substantial experience in the study of EVP. Her
shoes have been challenging to fill; however, with your help, we feel that the
AA-EVP is thriving and that its future is strong.
Much of the future of
the AA-EVP depends on you. Between now and the June 2002 newsletter, many
of you will need to make the decision whether or not you wish to continue with
the Association. You see, this is the renewal season for nearly half of
you. See also
How Membership
and Donations Are Used on
atransc.org
For
those of you who receive the newsletter via postal service, the address label
includes your renewal date by the season. Please review that date, and if
you are due, please take the necessary steps to renew. Annual dues are
still
Association TransCommunication
PO Box 13111
Reno, Nevada 89507
Or, you
can use the online form on
atransc.org and
submit annual dues via paypal.com and submit your dues on line
to “Association TransCommunication.”
“Out There”
The Sci Fi channel has
begun production on a half-hour series named “Out There,” that is billed as
an interactive talk show on the paranormal. The show will be launched in
the second quarter. It will be hosted by Dan Aykrod and will feature
celebrity guests and everyday people discussing topics of the bizarre and
unexplainable.
Founded
in 1982 by Sarah Estep to Provide Objective Evidence That We Survive Death
in an Individual Conscious State.
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At
about 7 PM I was taking my dishes from dinner to the kitchen and noticed noises
coming from down the hallway. I called to Tom and I must admit that I
followed him down the hallway instead of bravely rushing down there in the
lead. As we turned the corner to the experiment room, we found a CD player
turned on playing a CD recording of Portuguese babble noise that is sometimes
used as background noise for EVP experiments. The CD player has two music
CDs used for meditation and the babble CD used for EVP. The babble
recording is the numb
er two CD. 
the category of, “Now we have seen everything,” Erland Babcock
recently sent us an image that he photographed from a sheet of ordinary
sandpaper. He wrote, “ I have had the idea for some time now. It
is written up in an earlier journal. It is just a section of a piece of
sandpaper. I photographed it with my digital camera when the sheet was
leaning against my printer. I then cropped and processed the image. I used a Fresnel lens in front of the paper. That I think is something
new. 
The
Rev. Janet Tisdale has worked with undeveloped film to receive pictures and
writing for many years. This process is known as Skotography. Janet
works with photographic paper and developing solution in a room that is totally
dark except for a red light. A piece of the development paper is placed on
the solar plexus or third eye while the person meditates. The paper is
then placed in development fluid. The light switch is then quickly clicked
on and off. Spirit has told Janet to use the light switch as a
shutter. The paper is left in the development fluid for only a short time
or when you can see the paper just beginning to change color. It is then
placed into a water bath to stop the development process. 
Richard
Smedley of Ghost Safari has run a very interesting experiment. He set
up a live ITC camera on his web site and asked visitors to download the images
and send him any that were interesting. He wrote, “I'm receiving some
pretty incredible captures from the online ITC Cam experiment. At
http:// (This site is closed now)) you can see examples of
the Class A captures I've received (and captured myself). I'm amazed at the
detail and complexity in some of these captures. It's really helped having
the ‘world’ as my ‘assistant’ capturing and analyzing frames. 
“One
thing I have noticed is that on many frames, there are multiple faces, some
overlapping each other, and it's hard to get a clear picture of the faces. Also, another thing I have noticed is that a lot of the faces appear to be
'behind' a layer—bar-like objects and similar—it could be an artifact of the
recording process, but there is no way of knowing.” 