- Founded in 1982 by Sarah Estep to Provide Objective Evidence
That We Survive Death in an Individual Conscious State.
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- From Our Viewpoint
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- World events are very unpredictable these days. If we
think about it, this is often the case, as we never really now what tomorrow
will bring. One thing that is of great comfort to most of the members of
the AA-EVP is the knowledge that we don't die. Now we are finding that
more people are joining the ranks of the AA-EVP who share our belief in
survival. Some of these people, you may be surprised to know, are respected
scientists.
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- In the last couple of years we have seen an increase
of the public interest in mediums and survival, due in a large part to
the success of TV programs like that of John Edward and James Van Praagh.
These mediums bring in messages that are very evidential and millions more
people today are learning about survival through their television sets
then were just two years ago.
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- Dr. Gary Schwartz, at the Human Energy Systems Laboratory
in Tucson, Arizona conducted a series of experiments to test the validity
of mediumship. Edward and Van Praagh were two of the mediums who were tested.
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- Schwartz's experiments were conducted using carefully
designed protocols and provided credible evidence for survival. As you
might expect, they created considerable controversy, especially with the
skeptical press.
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- The International Association for Near-Death Studies
held their Fourth Esalen conference on Survival of Bodily Death, in May
of 2002. Researchers from the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, psychology
and physics concluded that three areas of research provided strong evidence
for survival. Near Death Experiences (NDE) was at the top of the list.
Reasons sited were, accurate observations of medical operating procedures
made by clinically dead patients, reported encounters with deceased persons
even though the experiencer did not know the person was dead and accurate
reports by blind experiencers.
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- Reincarnation was cited as a strong proof for survival
based on examples, such as children accurately recounting previous lives
and birthmarks corresponding to lethal wounds experienced in a previous
lifetime. Mediumship was also noted as strong proof of survival because
of the veridical messages often delivered by mediums. Dr. Sam Parnia is
one of two doctors from Southampton General Hospital in England who has
been studying NDEs.
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- The work is very significant in that it shows that a
group of people who were clinically dead had well structured, lucid thought
processes with reasoning and memory formation, even though their brains
were shown not to be functioning. Parnia was quoted as saying, "The
possibility is certainly there to suggest that consciousness,or the soul,
keeps thinking and reasoning even if a person's heart has stopped, he is
not breathing and his brain activity is nil."
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- Near-death experience in survivors of cardiac arrest:
a prospective study in the Netherlands was published in volume number 358
of The Lancet. The Lancet is one of the world's most respected medical
journals and publication of this article caused quite an uproar in the
medical community. The article cites a study by Dr. Pim van Lommel and
colleagues of Rijnstate Hospital in Arnhem. The results showed that medical
factors could not account for the occurrence of NDEs. Although all patients
had been clinically dead, most did not have an NDE. The researchers noted
that, "If purely physiological factors had caused the NDE, most of
our patients should have had this experience." The paper states that
induced NDE experiences are not identical to spontaneous NDE experiences.
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- It questions, "How can clear consciousness outside
one's body be experienced at the moment that the brain no longer functions
during a period of clinical death with flat EEG?"
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- A National Science Foundation report based on interviews
with 1,574 people across the country found widespread and increasing belief
in what it terms, "pseudoscience." It also cited several other
polls with similar conclusions. Among those was a Gallup survey last year
that showed belief in ghosts, haunted houses, witches and the ability to
communicate with the dead, all increased by double-digit percentage points
in the past decade alone.
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- Belief in ghosts and haunted houses is now around 40
percent, and communicating with the dead is nearing 30 percent. Eight of
13 such phenomena included in the Gallup report showed significant increases
and only the belief in devil possession declined. The Science Foundation
survey showed that sixty-percent of the people surveyed believed that some
people possess psychic powers or ESP.
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- Those of us who are doing research inEVP and ITC, not
only have the advantage of knowing that consciousness survives but we also
get to hear and see our loved ones. For instance, in our last Video ITC
experiment, we asked for the first time to have a relative appear. We called
on Tom's father and asked him to appear in the middle of a frame. Amazing
enough, he came through in the center of the frame as requested. Interestingly,
his pose is the same as that in a picture Tom keeps at his desk. When we
saw the paranormal picture we immediately grabbed the picture off Tom's
desk for the comparison. As you can see in the accompanying picture, the
nose is distorted and enlarged. Also, from the nose down the face is mostly
lost in the noise that is created with the Video ITC method. However, you
should be able to make out the similarity of the eyebrows, high temple,distinctive
widow's peak and nose.
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- Tom and Lisa
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- Larry Dean and Patricia Begley: ITC
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- Author, Larry Dean has been working on a book on Instrumental
TransCommunications (ITC). Larry says that he was interested in spi ritual
pursuits at a very young age when others were out playing sports. Later
in his life he devoted most of his time to doing presentations and teaching
classes on the development of psychic abilities and healing. Although Larry
is naturally clairaudient and clairvoyant, it was only after he stopped
teaching these classes that he took time to develop his own trance work.
Larry is a deep trance channel. His ITC partner, Patricia Begley facilitates
and records the sessions. It is generally only through her doing this,
and the recordings she makes, that Larry knows what has taken place while
he has been in trance. Many years ago the two were told by their main guide,
Choi, that their spirit team was working with them to establish Video ITC
contacts.
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- Larry and Patricia worked together on sitting for physical
phenomena for many years. They were excited and encouraged by the ITC results
of the Harsch-Fischbachs, and were even able to sit in on some of the Scole
Experimental Group sessions. They continued to sit with a group and did
experience limited physical phenomena, but did not achieve successful television
or Video ITC contacts. Larry talks about the years that they sat around
looking at dots on television screens and featureless video experiments.
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- Larry made contact with the two of us over a year ago
regarding the ITC book he is working on. We spoke with Larry numerous times
on the phone and found a common bond and interest in his enthusiasm for
ITC. Since we had also begun work on a book on EVP and ITC in late 2002,
we were able to send Larry the two chapters on Video ITC that describe
how to conduct an experiment and some of the theories that attempt to explain
Video ITC. We wanted to get his opinion about the usefulness of the chapters
and to see if he could replicate what we were finding in our experiments.
Within weeks we received an excited phone call from Larry. Larry and Patricia
had followed the instructions and had received images on their very first
experiment. One of those pictures was that of a close friend who is now
on the other side.
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- Larry has the wonderful benefit of being able to use
his trance work to receive advice and direction on future experiments.
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- He was told to ask for particular people to appear in
their experiments. Larry and Patricia have only been working with video
ITC for a few short months, but following that advice, they have received
many images of people whom they have asked to appear in their video frames.
For instance, they have collected images of Patricia's father and mother
and also the image of Patricia's Aunt Ethel, which is shown here.
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- Signs and Messages from Cathy
- By Martha Copeland
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- A couple of weeks ago, my sister, Ginny, and I were doing
a recording session when she picked up my daughter's voice while I was
out of the room. Cathy could be heard saying, "Mama, I have Muffin."
This was followed by the sound of a dog. Muffin, was her dog of seventeen
years. She died shortly after Cathy.
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- Yesterday, October 7, 2002, I was on the computer and
received another message from Cathy saying, "I can=t find Fluffy."
Fluffy was a cat we had about fifteen years ago, until having to give him
to a good home before being transferred overseas. Like any animal lover,
we planned to take him with us. However, I accidentally ran over Fluffy
just before our departure date, so he was unable to make the long journey.
Alas, Fluffy survived and recovered, and lived an active life.
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- Many of my meditations and dreams are with Cathy. We
are walking in a meadow, surrounded by our animals, (some are animals I
had loved as a child÷even beforeCathy's time). I had not realized,
until after her last message, that I had not seen Fluffy.
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- When I tried to save the recording, the entire program
went blank, and I thought I had lost it. Disappointed and sad, I decided
to get out of the house for a couple of hours. Upon returning, I noticed
Cathy's bedroom door was ajar. The door is always closed! Entering into
her room, I noticed a piece of paper was lying on the floor in front of
the doorway. The note was in Cathy's handwriting and read, "I smile
because I love U, I love U because U care (then a picture of a smiley face)
U care to make me happy & always be there!"
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- Checking around with family members and friends of Cathy,
I found that no one else had been in my house.
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- Later, my niece, Rachel, was anxious to see the note
for herself and dropped by. She recalled that Cathy had written the note
a while back, but she had placed it inside a notebook. Still, why Cathy's
door was opened, and the note left on the floor, remains a mystery.
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- This note seemed to answer a question of mine. What if
I go to the other side, only to find that Cathy has already gone to another
level? What would become of our mother and daughter relationship that I
treasured? Receiving this note was reassurance that our relationship of
love, would continue.
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- The Veil is No Barrier for Sarah
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- Sarah's Estep's husband, Charlie, transitioned to the
other side February 15, 1998. We asked Sarah if Charlie had communicated
with her through EVP about their pets. Sarah wrote, "On February 15,
2002, which was the fourth anniversary of his death, I devoted the recording
to him. I do this each year at that time, and often have a response from
him. This last February, I was ending the five minute recording and said:
"We gave each other three wonderful children." Immediately, in
conversational style (that made me feel as if he'd been sitting beside
me during the five minutes) he replied, "And there's Misty."
It was very clear, and so I duplicated it five times each on separate cassette
tapes and gave them to our children. They all hear the same thing, and
are so very pleased and happy that he came through like that. They'll always
keep that tape.
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- "Misty was the dog of both of our hearts and was
the last dog Charlie and I had together. Each afternoon, he'd go out and
play ball with her, and they both looked upon that as one of the happiest
times of their day. She was a small miniature poodle and died about two
years before Charlie had his first stroke. While he was dying, I talked
with him and one of the things I said was that Misty would probably be
waiting for him at the end of the tunnel and I thought she'd have her ball
in her mouth, wanting him to play with her. (We buried the ball with her).
Several months after Charlie passed on, he came to my recording room and
said, "brought Misty down with me." When I asked him in the next
recording what he and Misty did, he replied, still Class A sound clarity
- "We play."
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- So, yes, animals do survive death and we will be able
to reunite with them, when it comes time for us to move on.
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- A lot of people wonder about animals surviving, and grieve
very much when they die. Many of us have strong evidence that they do survive
and we can be with them again."
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- Jutta Liebmann and "Extras"
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- Jutta Liebmann, board member of the EVP and ITC group
in Germany known as the VTF, sent us some of her pictures of extras. "Extra"
is a term that describes the presence of entities or objects in photographs
that were not there in the physical sense. Jutta wrote, "I have taken
these photos from my television screen with my Olympus
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- Standard Camera AF-10 Super, using the flash attachment.
During most of the experiments I did not notice anything paranormal."
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- Jutta sent us several excellent pictures. In the picture
shown here, Jutta had video taped a documentary about the early beginnings
of mankind. At the end of the program an earth view with clouds was shown.
"When I played back the videotape, I discovered this paranormal face
in the clouds. I then put the video recorder into the stop/standby position
and took the picture." "It is interesting to learn that my photos
look much like what you get with the video loop. I plan to continue to
take paranormal photos in this way and think that it is another way to
promote TransCommunication in the future."
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- Video ITC also shows extras, even though Video ITC is
accomplished with a chaotic video signal, rather than exposing a physical
or video scene. We are fascinated to see Video ITC-like features in photographs
of a taped television program. This gives us good reason to look closer
at other photographs and video recordings that include visually "noisy"
scenes.
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- Alexander MacRae and the Alpha Device
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- You probably know about Alexander MacRae and his Alpha
device. The Alpha Mystery, by Jose Feola, appeared in the July 2000 issue
of Fate Magazine. Alec has upgraded the earlier Alpha model and added a
Digital
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- Signal Processing system designed to provide noise reduction
and increase the intelligibility of the voices.
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- He plans to take an Alpha device to the Institute of
Noetic Sciences (IONS) in California for testing. IONS should have the
Alpha for three months, and will conduct tests with it in a combined Faraday
Cage and soundproof room. This means that any voices picked up during testing
will not have come from a physical source.
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- Alec is talking to one of the United Kingdom's largest
betting companies about the Faraday Cage experiment to place a wager that
it will produce EVP. They are looking at the proposition so they can decide
on odds and agree on a third party judge(s). He wrote, "No one thinks
it will work, of course, so I am hoping for good enough odds to be able
to place a substantial bet. I have also been in touch with the Randi people
for the last few months but they still haven't accepted or rejected my
challenge. Either way, if the experiment is successful, I win." (The
famous debunker, James Randi, has offered a million dollar prize to anyone
who can provide evidence of any paranormal or supernatural event.)
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- Alexander is also going through a final draft of a paper
titled, A Bio-electromagnetic Device of Unusual Properties.
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- The paper is on how the Alpha produces EVP. It has been
reviewed by the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) judges. The final
version should be in the April '03 issue. When asked for his reason for
writing the paper, he said, "I wanted to bridge the 'reality gap'
between science and things not explicable in normal terms. With the Alpha
you can describe it in perfectly acceptable scientific terms but it does
things which no normal device should. I thought I would try the prestigious
SPR Journal first."
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- Linda Williamson - Telephone EVP
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- Last month we ran an article on Brazilian researcher
Sonia Rinaldi's use of the telephone in receiving EVP from those on the
other side. Scottish EVP researcher, Linda Williamson, has also been using
the telephone to capture EVP with great success.
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- Larry Dean was the first to tell us about his experiences
with Linda and her use of the telephone to record EVP.
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- He left a message on her answering machine and then completed
the call to her a few days later. At that time Linda told Larry that she
had placed the answering machine recording into her computer and listened
to it using
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- Windows Media Player. Linda sent the results to Larry,
who was amazed. An EVP saying, "Jim," was on the tape several
times. This is the name of Larry's father and grandfather. Another EVP
clearly said, "This is Edison."
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- Through trance Larry and Patricia have been told that
Edison is one of the scientists working with them to establish ITC contact.
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- Linda recorded a subsequent phone call and received an
EVP saying, "I love you." Patricia immediately recognized the
voice as that of her father who had also come in on one of the couple's
ITC experiments.
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- Recently Tina Laurent wrote to us about a tape that Linda
had sent her. Tina, we can say, was astonished at what she heard. Linda
had recorded a telephone conversation that the two had on Nov.1. Tina said
that there were nearly forty EVP utterances and although some of them were
indistinct most of them were quite loud. The word, "Tina," was
spoken frequently. Tina recognized the voice of her first husband saying,
"I'm Helm." Tina
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- has received EVP messages from him on several occasions
and is familiar with his voice. The word, "Mona," was also received
and this is the name that Helm had called Tina when he was on earth. One
of her favorite uncles also came through giving his name, "Horace."
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- Linda is deeply committed to using EVP to help people
through the grieving process. Her team of spirit helpers has a great ability
to do just that by bringing in love ones from the other side.
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- The Christmas Greeting
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- Alexander MacRae wrote, "This is a true story. Around
1974 I used to write lots of letters for a certain organization. I had
lots of letter chums, all over the world. This lady, who had these powers,
wrote to me from Australia with her Christmas card saying "I will
come to see you Xmas morning." Woo - ho ho - what a nut case! All
the way from Australia?
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- "Christmas morning, at work, at my desk in the lower
hall, door open to let some fresh air in. A robin flew in and fluttered
over to me, landing on a long string of Christmas cards I had hung up in
front of and above my desk. It stood for a moment and bobbed at me - then
flew out again. The card it landed on was the one the lady in Australia
had sent me."
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- Richard Hatem's Work Hits Primetime
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- AA-EVP member, Richard Hatem, was the screen writer and
co-producer of the movie, The Mothman Prophecies. His work is now hitting
primetime on ABC. Miracles will premier January 27th, 2003 at 10p.m on
everyone''s local ABC station. This will also be its regular time slot.
Miracles is written and produced by Richard. Richard told us that, ABC
was looking for a show that would be a sort of "Spiritual X-Files."
They owned a script about a young seminarian who investigated miracles.
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- Richard was hired to re-work the script, which was intended
to be a theatrically released feature, into a one hour television pilot.
It was his script for The Mothman Prophecies that brought him to the attention
of ABC.
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- Miracles is a show about a young man, raised as a Catholic,
who discovers that the world of the paranormal is much larger than anything
described by any one religion.
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- He investigates miracles, usually disproving them, until
something very strange, frightening and miraculous happens to him. He also
learns that his notion of dividing the supernatural into categories of
"good" and "evil" is severely limited.
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- When asked to tell us a little about what viewers can
expect, Richard wrote, "I've tried to inject as much of my own interests
into Miracles as possible. Episodes involve everything from reincarnation
to poltergeists and from apports to time-slips. I manage to mention Ian
Stevenson, the reincarnation expert, by name and also put in a plug for
Raymond Bayless and D. Scott Rogo's book Phone Calls From The Dead. If
you look closely, you will find character names like Jurgenson, Bander
and even Estep.
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- One of the main characters, Alva Keel (named after John
A. Keel, author of the book, The Mothman Prophecies) relates an EVP experience
as the main reason he began to investigate the paranormal. His story will
sound familiar to anyone who knows about Friedrich Jurgenson's first EVP
experience. In fact, in an up-coming episode I'm planning to reference
Raudive and the whole EVP phenomenon head-on. Ultimately, I hope the show
is uplifting.
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- Our goal is not to just scare you; we also want to make
you cry.
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- "So far there have been no paranormal occurrences
on the set. But everyone seems to feel very strongly about the show and
many people from the cast and crew have said that this show has meant more
to them than anything they've ever worked on, which is a bit of a miracle
in its self."
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- We were able to preview the pilot and found it exceptional.
The networks often cancel shows after airing only one or two episodes.
We want Miracles to be a hit. So watch and tell as many friends as you
can about the show.
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- Miracles airing on a main network is truly phenomenal
and a real tribute to Richard Hatem's work.
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- Use of Background Noise in EVP
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- In one of his communiqus with AA-EVP member, Karen Camus,
Dr. Dean Radin, who is currently associated with the Institute of Noetic
Sciences, offered an interesting view of the use of white noise in psi
research. "I tend to agree with you that noise itself is probably
a stimulus for opening the unconscious mind to psychic impressions (although
perhaps this includes the conscious mind for highly experienced listeners).
The Oracles at Delphi apparently knew about this and used it for thousands
of years. The Oracle site itself is located inside long tunnels near the
ocean÷the result being that not only were the Oracles likely inhaling
intoxicating fumes from natural hot springs or vents deep inside the mountain
cliffs, but they were also hearing the sounds of the surf echoing and rumbling
through the tunnels. That noise (not exactly white noise, more like "red"
noise) is said to stimulate audio hallucinations, and in fact this is exactly
why to this day we use white noise to stimulate the receiver's imagination
during telepathy tests."
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- As you know, broad-spectrum background noise is often
used in EVP research because it has been shown that communicating entities
"transfigure" the noise into voices on recording media. For those
of you who like to delve into the mechanisms behind phenomena, it is interesting
to speculate that the subtle psi energy of thought might be amplified through
the process of stochastic resonance to produce a physically discernable
signal. This hypothesis describes a mechanism that would apply to any low-level
psi signal in a noisy environment. It predicts that the same effect found
to occur in the neuro-electric field of the mind would also occur in the
magnetic film of recording media, a noisy electric circuit such as is found
in the Panasonic RR-DR60 or in the loopback used in Video ITC. In fact,
this is what we have found to be true. You can personally apply this information
by using something like the white, pink or rain noise generated by something
like a sleep noise machine for your EVP experiments, and with or without
headset during meditation.
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- The Nature of Phenomenal Voices
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- We previously reported about EVP and ITC research conducted
by Paolo Presi. That report and an article published in the
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- March 2001 ITC Journal seemed to require clarification.
See the Italian language web site for "Il Laboratorio," the research
group Presi works with, at www.laboratorio.too.it. For information on the
excellent ITC Journal write to Anabela Cardoso at Apartado de Correos 3157,
Vigo, Pontevedra, Espana or visit http://eureka.ya.com/cadernostci/journal.htm
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- Question: In your article in the March 2001 ITC Journal
concerning analysis of phenomenal voices you used the phrase, "Thickening
of the noise." Is the significance of this that the background sound
is increased in the voice?
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- Presi: A normal human voice is constituted by both a
fundamental frequency produced by the vibrations of vocal cords and the
formants that are an increasing in sound intensities of some groups of
harmonics due to resonance in the vocal tract. In a human voice either
the fundamental frequency or the formants have a sinusoidal trend. In some
paranormal voices the formants seem to be produced not as consequence of
resonant but as localized compression of background noise. This confers
to the voice its tone (for example, male or female) similar to the human
voice but using a different (or abnormal) process of formation. This is
what I mean as "thickening of the noise."
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- Question: You made several references to how the paranormal
voices strongly correlate with living human voices. Were you confirming
a phenomenal quality or arguing that the voices were, therefore, not paranormal.
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- Presi: Not all the paranormal voices have the same anomalies.
In the cases of EVP, such anomalies are very often found. For instance
we found many of the paranormal voices obtained by Marcello Bacci seem
to be quite near to the human voices even if, sometimes, other anomalies
are detected. (Baacci collected voices from Friedrich Jrgenson via radio.)
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- From my point of view it could depend on the grade of
mediumship of the experimenter, if he is without stresses during the experiment
or if he is tired or not, etc. I do not believe in the "radiophone
model," but in a process where the experimenter is a key-element for
producing voices. · I am strongly convinced that information coming
from another plane of consciousness has to pass through an element of the
same nature. That is, from the spirit world through the spirit inside the
man.
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- Question: In the article we used in the AA-EVP newsletter
(Summer 2001), you made an argument that one characteristic of EVP is the
lack of the fundamental frequencies associated with the human vocal cords.
In the article we are asking about now, you show that several of the samples
did show signs of a vocal cord. Does this say anything about the validity
of the sample as phenomenal?
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- Presi: A lack of fundamental frequency is not always
detected. This is not a good reason to refuse such voices as paranormal
voices. · it could depend on many causes, mainly from the influence
of the experimenter.
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- In addition you have to know that you can find the presence
of the fundamental frequency, but at the same time, find an anomalous configuration
of the same. For example, some anomalous peaks are completely out of predictable
ranges applicable to the human voice.
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- Question: It would be interesting to our members to know
how well some of these different instances of voice phenomena compare to
living speech.
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- Presi: It is difficult to summarize the differences between
a normal voice and a paranormal voice. Currently we are carrying out deep
analyses of many supposed paranormal voices in order to collect as many
anomalies as possible for characterizing their paranormality. A final assessment
will be only possible when a sufficient database of peculiar elements is
available.
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- Haunted Restaurant
- By Lisa Butler
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- We were asked by Janice Oberding of the Nevada Ghosts
and Hauntings Research Society, and Mark Guilford of Sacramento Paranormal
Investigators, to present at the 2002 Virginia City Paranormal Conference
last October.
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- Virginia City is located in Northwest Nevada. Janice
told us that, "The town is rich in Wild West history.
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- When the Comstock Lode was discovered, Virginia City
became a haven for those seeking their fortunes. Millionaires were made
and bankrupted by its silver mines, and gunslingers ruled the streets.
Mark Twain began his career in Virginia City writing for the Territorial
Enterprise, and stars of their day, such as Shakespearean actor, Edwin
Booth performed at Piper's Opera House."
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- Janice, author of Haunted Nevada, did a presentation
on the ghosts of Virginia City. Dennis Hauck author of Haunted Places showed
photos and gave information on some of the fascinating cases that he has
worked on, and we followed up with a presentation on EVP and ITC. Janice
had asked us if we would go, with a few people the evening after the conference,
to check out a restaurant in nearby Dayton. The next day we were to tour
Piper's
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- Opera House and St. Mary's Art Center in Virginia City;
two locations with known paranormal activity.
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- Janice did not know much about the restaurant in Dayton.
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- A woman had approached her at a book signing to tell
her that her restaurant was quite haunted. Janice had liked her and felt
that she was a credible and honest individual, and had agreed to take a
preliminary look after the patrons in the restaurant had gone home.
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- At least for us, what took place on this preliminary
look was phenomenal. Let us first say that the restaurant has been in existence
since 1887. It is quite elegant, broken up into several eating areas, with
lace tablecloths and many old pictures on the walls. You walk into the
eating areas through the Bar, which has a wonderful historic feel that
is accented by an enormous rock fireplace.
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- After an interview with the owner, team members began
preparing their equipment. One of the members of the team had an electromagnetic
field detector and immediately detected an exceptional reading at the fireplace.
She wondered if the rocks were setting the detector off. Janice's husband,
Bill, began taking pictures with his digital camera and I turned on our
Panasonic RR-DR60recorder. Bill immediately found orbs in his pictures,
and I later learned that we had recorded an EVP saying,"Looking to
meet forces here, John Coney."
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- The walk through of the site took place over two hours.
Tom and I captured only about six minutes of recording because of our recorder's
voice activation feature. We only recorded away from others or when just
one person was in a particular area, otherwise, we left the recorder on
"Hold" so that we would not mistake the voice of someone in the
room for an EVP.
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- Employees had seen apparitions around the two wait stations
just off of the Kitchen, so I went alone in the dark with my flashlight
to the closest station and turned on the recorder. With my flashlight I
could see that it was recording something. This area produced a male EVP
voice louder than my own that said, "Flashlight hunt!"
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- The second wait station was very interesting. The energy
in that small space felt like pressure, as if I were being pushed down.
On the recording you can hear me say to a psychic, who did not want to
enter the area and only did so because I had, "Do you feel that pressure."
Immediately a woman's voice says, "Shot man, is sick."
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- There was a commotion going on in the back dinning room.
Janice had seen a blue streak and possible apparition go by her. Several
people were taking pictures and getting meter readings. Tom was using our
Olympus C700 Ultrazoom digital camera, set at an ISO of 800, with the flash
turned off. The room was fairly dark with some light coming through the
windows from the street. The picture you see here was taken in that room.
The bright spots are not light fixtures that were turned on.
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- Notice the face in the light on the right. The "U"
shaped light was not made by a single point of light and camera motion,
as we were able to reference it with known objects in the picture. The
original also shows an interesting electric blue area of light under the
"U" shaped streak of light. When the picture is blown up, other
ITC type images are evident in the optical noise of that area.
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- Leaving the back room, I went down a long narrow eating
area on my own. "Oswald James" was recorded in that area. A girl
with another recorder came up to me and the two of us walked through the
kitchen. On my recorder you can hear her voice ask, "What is your
name" and a man's EVP answer back, "Payne and Isaiah."
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- Tom joined me in the long narrow eating area and we recorded
a voice saying, "That's Niccolites." Several interesting raps
preceded this EVP on the recording.
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- Other EVP in this amazing recording session were, "This
is Matt Simmons" and "Speak to me, so unhappy."
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- Knowing that we would shortly have to leave, I saw a
chair that was sitting by itself and away from the tables in the main dining
area. It just looked inviting and I sat down on it in the dark alone. Out
loud, I said something about how beautiful the place was and that, "I
would certainly live here and I know that you are here (meaning the spirits)."
Immediately a woman's poignant voice replied, "No, I didn't mean to
stay here."
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- It is interesting that this site produced more EVP thanhe
two buildings we toured the next day that have documented ghost activity.
We are researching the history and the group will go back to investigate
further.
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- EVP Experiment using the DR60
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- As we reported in the last newsletter, many of the members
of the AA-EVP Egroup who had a Panasonic RR-DR60 solid-state audio recorder
participated in a group experiment. This was the first time we had several
people with the same type and brand of recorder, so the objective was to
see if using the same equipment and questions would offer useful information
about EVP.
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- Danny Williford volunteered to coordinate the experiment
and was the one who both designed the protocol and waded through the resulting
reports. He used three desktop tape recorders to set the baseline. The
experiments were conducted one day a week for four weeks. DR60 owners used
the same questions each week and then reported their results to Danny.
Danny also attempted to see if solar, geomagnetic and moon phase influence
EVP.
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- Some of the more interesting results included evidence
that the DR60 scored EVP 63% of the time for each question compared to
18% for the baseline. The object recognition question, "What is the
object on the table in front of me?" scored 25% compared to 0% for
the baseline.
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- Danny reported that there was evidence that the number
and quality of EVP collected by each individual may have been influenced
by that person's ability to detect EVP in recordings. This brings up an
important consideration for future experiments. That is, how do we normalize
the experimenter's ability?
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- We thank Danny for his efforts. It is clear that the
DR60 is a valuable addition to our EVP tool kit.
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- AA-EVP Now Nonprofit
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- One of the milestones achieved this year was that of
making the AA-EVP a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit educational corporation. The IRS
and the state of Nevada granted us this status as of August 6, 2002. Now,
all donations over the membership fee are tax deductible in the United
States.One of the projects that we will fund through donations is an online
searchable archive. Sarah Estep's newsletters will be the first items that
are placed in this archive. She published 74 newsletters and members will
be able to input a phrase on the web site and find all newsletters in which
it appears. We have been researching the cost to have the hardcopy scanned
and proofread, and believe that it will cost from $800 to $1000 with additional
costs for web site maintenance. We hope that other historical documents
and research papers will be added to this archive over time.
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- Incorporation establishes the AA-EVP as a legal entity
and offers assurances to the public that its assets will be devoted to
the legal activities of the Association. The Association also has a better
opportunity to continue if something should happen to the present directors.
The archive needs to be protected beyond any individual's lifetime and
incorporation will help assure that this happens.
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- Thoughts From Members
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- Karen Camus wrote that she had an interesting experience
with screaming EVP. The extremely loud EVP really upset her, and so she
explained to "them" how it was making her feel. Although she
usually could not even make out the screaming EVP, it sounded hostile to
her. She also told them that, when she listened via headphones with the
volume up to hear the low parts, it hurt her ears to be suddenly hit with
such loud yelling
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- The next time she recorded after that, she heard a soft
female voice say in a very gentle and rather bewildered/hurt tone, "We
do not understand why the recording disturbs you." It then occurred
to her that what she was interpreting as hostile intermittent screaming
might simply reflect a sudden increase in amplitude which they were not
yet able to control, and possiblywere not even aware of from their side.
Karen had frequently complained to them that the EVP were often too weak
to decipher. Could the screaming have been an attempt by the entities to
be better heard?
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- Richard Hatem wrote to the Egroup in regards to a discussion
on fraud. "ITC is by definition an instance in which communication
is sent by a non-physical entity and received with earth-based equipment.
It makes one wonder--what are these communications "supposed"
to look like? Sheer "otherworldliness" does not seem to me the
best indicator of authenticity. No matter where these messages are coming
from, they are being received on and with manmade items. Therefore, how
can we complain when they look like something any one of us could produce
on our home computer, when in fact that is exactly what is happening?
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- "Even in cases of EVP, the voices we consider "Class
A" are the ones that sound the most like our own. Certainly nothing
is more easily "faked" than EVP. People have complained that
Bill O'Neill's "Dr. Mueller" voice sounds like an electronic
voice-box, and therefore is fake. But what was Spiricom other than, well,
a physical electronic "voice-box" to facilitate communication
with someone whose own voice-box is now less than physical?
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- "Isn't the goal of both ITC and EVP to reach a point
when pictures and voices of spirits come through as easily and clearly
as those of living people currently do on manmade telephones, tape recorders
and televisions?
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- And if that goal is ever reached--can you imagine how
"fake" it will look then?"
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