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AAEVP UPDATES *** Updated 28th July 2008***
Late in 2004, Universal Pictures contracted the Butlers to help them promote the movie, White Noise, and they spent a good deal of 2005 participating in many media events. When the movie was released in USA theaters, the web site had 80,000 unique visitors in a 24 hour period. Even a year later, the unique visitor count remains more than four times what it was before White Noise. Universal attended the 2004 AA-EVP conference with cameras, and interviews of attendees were used in both the commercials for the movie and one of the bonus features on the DVD. Each commercial ended with the Association's web site as a source for more information about EVP, and the world-wide release of the DVD included three bonus features about EVP, a "How to" with the Butlers and example hauntings investigations showing the Butlers at work.
2009 AA-EVP Conference/Workshops
The theme of the conference will be “How to Do It” with many successful experimenters showing you their methods of recording for EVP and ITC. Each presenter will also do a live session so that you will learn “How to do it”! Dates will be announced in the October News Journal and at aaevp.com/news.html If someone out there would like to help the Association sponsor this conference, please contact them at aaevp@aol.com . Costs are high and we would like to try to keep the costs down so that more people can attend and learn.
Windbridge receives research grant to study Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) Earlier this year, the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena (AA-EVP) invited Windbridge to submit a research proposal to them regarding the controlled examination of EVP. The submitted proposal titled Real-time EVP Conversations: A Pilot Study was accepted by AA-EVP in May 2008.
Should I believe Wikipedia and White Noise? Question: I watched the movie white noise and it is what got me interested in EVP. I have heard and read about it on Wikipedia, and I know that it is a debated subject. I do wonder how people can prove that EVP is really real. I wonder, doesn't the TV wavelengths, or wavelengths from a radio cause EVP. How do people actually know that they are hearing from a loved one instead of a TV show, or a mix between that and the radio. I also once heard that the majority of EVP recordings are violent in nature. Is this true, and if so, how does it affect EVP studies and does it set your research back because people are afraid to get into it. Now I'm sure the movie over exaggerated EVP when people involved in it kept getting hurt, but I wonder, do people involved in EVP end up hurt in some way often, or is it very rare. Answer: We receive quite a few questions like yours. I should first address the article about EVP in Wikipedia. Frankly, it is an embarrassment of incorrect and misleading information in what claims to be an authoritative encyclopedia. Tom Butler has written an article about our concerns titled, Concerns with Wikipedia. He also asks that other webmasters include the link logo on that page in their website as a way to spread the word of caution. It is written for all "frontier subjects" and not just EVP. His hope is that, rather than condemning the article as an "attack article," the editors of Wikipedia will accept it as a challenge to prove that he is wrong. As you have done here, it is good to seek input from other sources. For instance, you might consider asking the same question of some of the hauntings investigation groups. As for distinguishing the utterances from stray TV or radio signals, EVP have been recorded in radio-frequency and acoustically isolated chambers. Eliminating Radio Frequency Contamination for EVP is an example of a test that you could perform. Alexander MacRae has published an article in the October 2005 British Journal of the Society for Psychical Research that details his research in a Mil-Spec screened room. Of course the inexpensive recorders favored for EVP are prone to RF contamination, but it is easy to tell when it happens. See the list of common characteristics found in recorder EVP for what we refer to as "transform EVP" in the article, Electronic Voice Phenomena. Very long examples are automatically suspect. We consider EVP to be communication, and in transform EVP, the voice often directly answers questions or includes a comment typical of the one thought to be speaking. However, our recommendation is that, if there is any doubt, the example should be rejected. It is becoming more common for experimenters to use more than one recorder at the same time, or to record in groups. As you can see in Using a second audio recorder as a control, one of the Best Practices we are trying to develop makes it clear that a control recorder is important to help rule out false positives. If you go to Speech Synthesis, you can hear examples of two other forms of EVP--both using allophones as a raw sound source. The EVPMaker example is convincingly two-way communication, yet it was made in a closed system using computer generated bits of simulated human voice and a random number process to assemble a sound stream. We refer to that as "opportunistic EVP." The second set of examples were made using a voice synthesis computer circuit stimulated with changes in the electrical field of the room. Again, no "live" voice was used and the nature of the device makes audio and RF contamination unlikely. It is difficult to say an utterance is RF contamination when a question put to a loved one is answered correctly in the right voice, age and gender, and with the mannerisms the person had while in the flesh. Of course, we remain open for alternative explanations because there is much we do not understand. But in practical terms, when a mother conducts a session to communicate with her daughter or son on the other side, we tend to yield to her sense of who she is speaking with. The evidence is strongly in her favor. You will notice that I keep saying EVP as a plural--phenomena and not phenomenon--as it is in Wikipedia. You will also notice that we are dealing with a high degree of certainty that the explanations offered to discount EVP have been easily addressed, including processing artifacts, imagination and mistaken assignment of meaning. That last part is discussed in the EVP online listening trials report, but has been addressed many times. For instance, see Computer–Based Analysis of Supposed Paranormal Voice. There are some really good arguments against EVP being proof of survival of consciousness after physical death, but the policy of refusing the input of subject matter experts pretty well assure that the paranormal are written by people who simply do not understand the subject well enough to know when they have it wrong. You will also notice that we do not maintain that EVP has evolved from Spiritualism, as it is maintained in Wikipedia. EVP began because anomalous voiced were found in recording media, and the only link to Spiritualism is that it turns out that the voices are thought to be from discarnate entities. Some of the early efforts to record direct voice did produce EVP, but only coincidently. You will also notice that, other than a few of our article writers, we do not use the term "spirit" to name the communicators. To do so would be to make assumptions that should still be open questions, and it unnecessarily links the study of EVP to religious thought. Finally, you are concerned that, just in case the voices are really dead people talking, is recording for EVP safe. The producers of White Noise did a pretty good job of making people afraid of the dark. But in fact, the author was using mental mediumship as a model and knew very little about EVP. The Butler's were not involved during the making of the movie, so don't blame them. One of the most common questions is a concerns for the safety of EVP. The short answer is that all forms of trans-etheric communication we are aware of is safe. The only caveat we might add is that, if you are a person who is apt to do what a stranger tells you without a second opinion, then you probably should not be talking to strangers--physical or etheric. For more information, read A Brief Discussion About the safety of Communicating with the Other Side and the two FAQs: Is there any danger in EVP and More about the safety of EVP. There are a number of people in the field calling themselves "demonologist," and we feel they may be promoting the fear of violence as they attempt to paint the communicators in EVP as demons. This sort of negative view does hurt research because it damages the credibility of serious, well-designed research. Funding for research is not going to be available if the public sees our field as religious or those who study the subject as being superstitious.
I would like to work in survival research. What should I do to begin?
If you intend to work on the question of survival of personality, if you are in it for the long hall, then I would say that the field needs people like you. It is not wise to judge tomorrow by what has happened today, so anything I can tell you should be considered reference material but not necessarily how things are. The hardest part of this is learning how to talk about it. Even the smartest person you will ever talk to will have preconceptions and a short attention span. The common meaning of words is extremely important. While "telepathy" had a more clinical sound, "reading minds" or "communication between minds" are better understood by the average person. Science uses "work" in a very different sense than it is used by the average person and few people understand entropy. When you speak or write about things etheric, try to write it for the average person. Avoid coining terms or using novel application of existing terms. Attempt to use the same dictionary the clerk in your super market might use. Semantics are very important. Calling the etheric communicator a "spirit" automatically makes it a subject of religion. Skeptics like you to use the same terms religions use because they know it is easier for the public to discount what you have to say. Be aware that people will mix things empirically supported with faith-based comments in the same sentence. Be very careful to say what you can support, and distinguish faith-based from empirically-based comments. Become sensitive to the influence of a person's worldview on their perception. The person who claims to be a skeptic is more often a guardian of the status quo as defined by mainstream science. Such a person can be almost religious about such beliefs. It is common for a mainstream scientist to go to church on Sundays, believe in God, but the rest of the week, insist that survival of personality after bodily death is impossible and therefore does not happen. Being devout, does not mean belief in things concerned with etheric studies. Also be aware that speaking of things etheric as if they are true will be offensive to some people and they may react with anger. It is important that everyone learns about these things, but sometimes it is important to leave room for them to protect their worldview. Sometimes it is best to just show, rather than insisting that people believe. There will be time enough for belief later. You can see this belief in the paranormal without believing in survival in parapsychology. That is why I started etheric studies and wrote that introduction at http://etheric-studies.aaevp.com/. Parapsychologists are important to etheric studies, but do not make the mistake in assuming that a parapsychologist believes in survival. Superpsi, quantum-holographics and a host of pet "theories of everything" are designed to explain the observed phenomena in terms of a biological origin of consciousness. It may turn out that they are more true than the creationist theories, but they also preclude an external influence, and in my mind, that is equivalent to believing that earth is at the center of the universe. More likely, we will find that most of these theories have some value and it is for us to find ways to test them with good science. So my point is that I agree with you in saying that the science is there to prove the existence of a non-physical aspect of consciousness and an etheric aspect of reality in which it exists. The real obstacle is that such research is too easily discounted because there are relatively few well-designed studies, as compared to something like the migration of birds. The subject also shares some terminology with belief systems, and is automatically considered a religious issue and not one for science. If you have read Dean Radin's Entangled Minds, and witnessed the scoffing at the closure of the PEAR lab, you will understand that very good science that does not agree with the mainstream is simply rejected. It is said that the only way survival can become mainstream is for all of the old-timers to die off. You are probably a good illustration of this, while I consider myself an old-timer who has adapted some. We saw with the release of the movie, White Noise, expanded awareness of what EVP is, and shortly thereafter, some of the first research grants were issued. Probably coincidence, but we have always felt that research money will go where the public's interest is. It is the young people who have the interest. Our approach has become one of public education and some targeted research. I will persist in trying to get etheric studies underway and intend to put the online listening report in the Best Practices Development wiki in an effort to have peer review in the public eye. (http://etheric-studies.aaevp.com/best_practices_development/index.php?title=Main_Page) In this way, we hope to establish a platform for research and collaboration. You are welcome to participate.
What do you think should be studied next for EVP and has progress has been made? There is no realistic doubt that the voices are real. As an electronic engineer and careful observer of the phenomena (we routinely collect such voices) it is clear that the voices in the recordings exist, so I would call that a logical "given" for consideration of other questions. It is apparently true that the voices cannot be accounted for as an artifact of currently understood technology. In other words, we (the community) have conducted experiments designed to eliminate the possibility that the voices are caused by such physical sources as stray radio signals, ground antenna artifacts, unnoticed sounds occurring at the time the recording is made, imagined voices in otherwise unmodulated sounds and contaminated recording media. It is possible that we have overlooked a physical source, so I will not call this a "given," but a well established hypothesis. What has not been well researched is the origin of the voices, if they originate from nonphysical sources. (Here, I refer to "nonphysical" as "etheric.") The working hypothesis is that the voices are initiated by discarnate people (predominantly "dead" people like long dead Uncle John). For instance, voice analysis of some examples has been nearly 95% to 98% conclusive that it is the discarnate person speaking. In some instances, people who may have never existed in the physical (angelic or nature spirit) or who have evolved from a different line of evolution (aliens both incarnate and discarnate) may be communicating. It is important to note that we are convinced that nonhuman communicators exist, but any one report to this effect should be carefully evaluated before accepting it. For instance, the majority of a listening panel should agree on the message content. The problem is that we know that physically living people are able to impress their thoughts into the media as EVP. Experiments have been conducted to show this and it is as we would expect from the metaphysics. So, a major question is: can we devise experiments that will allow us to certify that at least some of the voices are not from our mind? We think we have with the 4Cell EVP Demonstration and the above mentioned voice analysis, but more work needs to be done. There is another influence on what we record in EVP. Assuming that the experimenter's subconscious mind is only occasionally the source of the message, there is evidence that what the experimenter expects to experience will tend to be realized by the resulting EVP. In other words, if two experimenters go to a haunted location and record for EVP, and one expects a scary ghost and the other expects to learn something new, the first will more likely record scary EVP and the second is more likely to record meaningful messages. Since we hypothesize that the experimenter is the medium through which the message must come, and therefore the source of symbols used for the message, it is reasonable that the same message might be delivered as a scary thing for the first and a meaningful thing for the second. Consequently, this apparent selection by expectation does not require that the message originated from the experimenter, but this is an important question for research. The biggest question for Humankind that might be answered by EVP is whether or not the super psi and the quantum-holographic models make sense. Both are different takes on the same model, so I will generalize by saying that many good philosophers, and a few Eastern religions, have proposed that a field of information permeates reality as a non-local "memory" of everything that has ever been, and that people are able to access this field of information to deliver mediumistic messages. This is the "echoes of the past" model, and if it is true, there is no reason to think that there are etheric entities that are sentient and self-aware, some of which may be angelic. If it can be established that the communicator in EVP is etheric, independent of the experimenter and self-aware (sentient), then it would effectively discount the super psi and quantum-holographic models (although they may still be true for nonsentient information). The remaining model would be the Survival Hypothesis, which holds that people are an etheric Self in a symbiotic relationship with a physical body, and that when the body dies, the Self is released into an etheric aspect of reality. The possible validity of the Survival Hypothesis seems to provide a foundation of logic for the validity of dependent theories, such as intelligent design. Finally, we have seen that transcommunication is a function of technology, the experimenter and the ability of the etheric communicator. EVP is to some extent dependent on technology. For instance, the advent of the digital voice recorder has greatly improved the ability of people to record EVP as compared to the ordinary cassette recorder. We also see that groups form on the other side to improve communication, and groups cooperating on this side also seem to improve communication. So yes, we will make progress The Other Side Is Just a Phone Call Away (An insight into the 2006 AAEVP Conference in Atlanta) Rosemary Ellen Guiley Website: www.visionaryliving.com. Email reg@visionaryliving.com It’s a typical day in the New World. You check your phone messages, and find several from people who are living — and several from people who are dead. In your email box are similar messages from the living and dead, as well as emails from beings in other dimensions. And your computer has a new file of helpful information, materialized overnight by ethereal beings who are helping you with a project. Sound far-fetched? Picking up your cell phone to call Mom on the Other Side is not a reality yet, but research advances in electronic voice phenomena (EVP) and instrumental TransCommunication (ITC) are pointing in that direction. Science remains skeptical, but researchers who are dedicated to this work—as well as people who have had startling and comforting contacts— know that survival and communication between the living and the dead are real. What’s more, bridges have been formed to other realms inhabited by higher spiritual beings—ethereals—and also beings who identify themselves as extraterrestrials. The cutting-edge research of some of the best of the best EVP and ITC researchers from around the world was presented recently by the American Association - Electronic Voice Phenomena (AAEVP) at its international conference in Atlanta. One of the priorities of the AA-EVP is providing solid data to scientists. “This conference went a long way to establishing credibility in our field,” said Tom Butler, a communications engineer who co-directs the AA-EVP with his wife, Lisa Butler, a psychologist. Researchers are improving their techniques and getting higher quality data. But ultimately the real success will depend not on machines, but on the consciousness of the people using the machines. EVP and ITC in a Nutshell EVP is the recording of voices for which there is no natural or scientific explanation. The voices are not audible during recording, but appear on playback. ITC evolved from EVP, and includes unexplained phenomena involving all kinds of high technology in addition to recorders: television sets, computers, telephones, fax machines, and so forth. Voices, photos, images, computer files, and faxes appear to be transdimensional communications, or “transcommunications,” that is, sent from the higher realms to the physical. That includes the realm of the dead and other dimensions populated by higher beings. Some call these beings angels; in ITC they are referred to as ethereal beings. They have no physical form and are more evolved than humans. Some experimenters receive contacts from higher beings, but the majority of EVP contacts are deceased humans. Ever since the invention of the phonograph and tape recorder, people have tried to capture “spirit voices, “especially on tape. EVP took off in the 1960s when Friedrich Jurgenson, a Swedish opera singer, published a book about his tape recordings of spirit voices, which he had accidentally discovered in 1959 while trying to record bird songs. The voices on his tapes manifested on playback, not during recording. Jurgenson’s work inspired another giant in the EVP field: Konstantin Raudive, a Latvian psychologist and philosopher. Raudive recorded more than 100,000 voices. Now passed over to the Other Side, he communicates frequently with EVP and ITC researchers. The AA-EVP was founded in 1982 by Sarah Estep, initially a skeptic about survival. Estep’s communications turned her into a believer, and she went on to record thousands of voices herself, both from the dead and from “space beings.” In 2000 Estep turned the AA-EVP over to the Butlers, long-time researchers who were drawn into the field by Estep’s work and also the passing of Lisa’s father. An early pioneer of ITC was George Meek, an American engineer who in the 1970s teamed with a medium, William O’Neill, to create a device called Spiricom, which enabled two-way conversations between the living and the dead. In the 1980s, a Luxembourg couple, Maggy Harsch-Fischbach and Jules Fischbach, began experimenting with electromagnetic tape. They were contacted by ethereal beings who called themselves The Seven, part of a fraternity called the Rainbow People, who were interested in facilitating interdimensional communication. The Seven work in Time Stream, a collaboration of nonhuman beings and the human dead willing to work with the human living to form a bridge across realities. Key to the success of this communication, they said, is the consciousness and purity of motives of the living researchers. Jules and Maggy formed the Cercle d’Etudes sure la TransCommunication (CETL) in 1985. After receiving major breakthroughs in TV, radio, computer, and phone contacts, they joined with U.S. researcher Mark Macy to forge the International Network for Instrumental TransCommunication (INIT) in 1995. The new field of ITC research spread around the world. In 2001 INIT became dormant and Macy founded Worlditc.org. Today, EVP has become a household term thanks to the media popularity of Ghost-hunting shows, films such as White Noise, and to the persistence of researchers like Estep and the Butlers. Paranormal investigators try to capture EVP at haunted locations, usually by placing digital recorders at a site and letting them run. The media show only the tip of the EVP iceberg, however. most researchers agree that films such as White Noise, with its fictional demonic emphasis, have done the field more of a disservice than a service in educating the public. EVP and ITC have come a long way since the days of reel-to-reel and cassette tape recording, and involve far more than plunking equipment into a setting and catching voices and images. They comprise “etheric studies,” said Tom Butler, involving mind-to-mind etheric connection between the human etheric self and nonphysical people and beings. The living actually is the mechanism by which the nonphysical can manifest in the physical world. Technology How are EVP and ITC data transmitted? No one knows yet for certain, but communicators appear to modulate noise matrices provided by experimenters. For example, a video camera connected to a television set creates a feedback loop that produces a sort of visual static that communicators can manipulate to form images. Similarly, a telephone hooked to a computer produces background noises that can be modulated into words. Sonia Ri-naldi, one of the leading researchers in Brazil, uses a video camera and computer in a mirrored hookup to create optical noise for the manifestation of images. Pictures also have appeared on televisions sets that are turned off. Recordings of EVP have been made under Faraday room conditions, environments totally shielded from electromagnetic interference. This rules out the possibility of picking up stray radio and cell phone signals, a favorite claim of skeptics. EVP also has been impressed on recording devices without the need of microphones. For example, Alexander Mac- Rae, a Scottish engineer, has done groundbreaking work recording EVP on a device he invented: a biofeedback machine connected to a radio. EVP and ITC have been analyzed with forensics software by IL Laboratorio in Italy, founded in 2001.According to Paolo Presi, who directs the laboratory, forensics voice analyses demonstrate that the sounds made by EVP voices are sometimes impossible to reproduce by the human vocal chords. Face recognition software has been used to correctly match ITC faces with photos of the deceased. Some of the most unusual visual ITC work was presented at the conference by Alan and Diane Bennett, English mediums who participated in the famous Scole group Mediumship experiments several years ago. The Bennett’s photograph natural crystals at high magnification. Faces and images appear in the matrix of the crystals. Quartz yields the best results. The technique was inspired by a visionary dream in which an entity showed Alan a crystal. Spirit Faces A highlight of the 2006 AA-EVP conference was the opportunity to have photographs taken with Mark Macy’s luminator, a device that seems to facilitate the appearance of spirit faces in Polaroid photos. The luminator is a subtle energy device invented by Patrick Richards of Michigan. It is tall and narrow, like a large stereo speaker. Inside is a Plexiglas barrel lined with rings filled with water-based liquid that acts like crystal. The liquid is programmed by consciousness—it stores in-tention. Also inside are two counter-rotating fans that pull air into the unit at the bottom and blow it out at the top, creating a vortex within the device. There are nine luminators in existence, and Macy uses the only one programmed exclusively for spirit photography. The others are used in psychotherapy. Macy acquired his luminator in 1999. The subtle energy programming of the luminator changes the “atmosphere” in a room, creating a sort of noise matrix for the impression of images on film. When spirits manifest, the photo is blurry, as though another face is trying to superimpose upon the face of the subject. The spirit faces can be full or partial. Macy has experimented with different lighting and environments and has found low indoor light to be the most effective. Macy took two Polaroid photographs of all conference participants who volunteered; some had interesting results and others did not. Some persons recognized spirit faces that appeared; other faces were of unknown identity. One of my own photographs was unusual, and appeared to have a male face superimposed on part of my image. Macy gave an overview of ITC and his own involvement in research. In 1988 he was diagnosed with colon cancer. “With death staring me in the face, I suddenly had to know about life after death,” he said. He met Meek in 1991, then Jules and Maggy and other researchers. ITC changed his life. Work with the luminator is the newest phase of his research, described in his new book: Spirit Faces: Truth About the Afterlife. Many of the high-level ITC contacts from other realms have dropped off since 2001,Macy said. Maintaining a rapport with the finer spiritual realms requires harmony and purity of intent among researchers, qualities that are difficult to sustain in human relationships. That became evident as squabbles led to a break-up of INIT. The ethereal beings who are participating in “the project”—building bridges between our world and finer spiritual realms—have pulled back and are waiting for the right signals of consciousness. Macy is confident that humans will soon step up to the plate. “New frontiers of science will take us into the multi-dimensional,” said Macy. “By the end of the century, we will have a new science based on spiritual principles in which time, space, and gravity are reduced to illusory aspects of a more substantial reality of consciousness.” Real Time Phone Calls and ET Images For the past decade, Brazilian Sonia Rinaldi has used her own technique of a telephone connected to a computer to record real-time EVP phone calls between the living and the dead. This system enables her to have more control over how communications are recorded. A noise matrix is created by people enunciating the sounds of language read from a list. The communicators modulate words from those sounds. “Even a cough or a door opening can be modulated,”, Rinaldi said.“But you have to offer them loud and clear voices if you want the same back.”For attempts to contact specific deceased persons, Rinaldi uses gender and age appropriate readers. For communication with a dead child, a living child reads the phonetic sounds. Results, she said, are immediate, and sometimes the communicators start speaking before the experimenters, as though they know what is coming. Rinaldi’s system has been tested in Spain, Uruguay, and Argentina as well as in Brazil. Since 1998, Rinaldi has recorded more than 350 phone calls, of which 160 involved parents who recognized the voices of their dead children. Her goal, she said, is to bring the dead into 3D image and voice. Her EVP work led her into ITC, and work with a system involving a computer and video camera hooked together in a mirror mode. Real-time mirror images of living people are modulated by communicators to create new images. About four years ago, says Rinaldi, the communicators identified themselves as ETs; their presence had been around much longer. It was unsettling news, due largely to the negative portrayal of ETs in the media. “It was very difficult for me to think that I was in contact with ETs,” Rinaldi said. “I was in a panic—in fact, I stopped recording for a month. I locked my lab and thought that I would never return to it. Then I received information that the entities had come to help, to better the contact with the earth. I decided to go on, and check and see if that was true. I became convinced, so now I try to help them. If they were not good, they could have destroyed my house, the city. They see a chance to help us.” The ETs requested the mirrored, split images of people .Where the images come together, they create one-half of their own image and the camera duplicates it. “It shows that the way they think is completely different from ours,” Rinaldi said. Sometimes Rinaldi holds a cloth over the person in front of the camera, and images appear on the cloth. They have created images of the dead and of themselves. They have big heads, and animate their images in real time. Rinaldi said she had come to the conclusion that they are “advanced Beings at a higher vibrational rate, with an advanced science.” The Quest for More Data The AA-EVP wants to work with more scientists who are willing to examine the evidence for survival and communication. “We’re trying to provide the scientific community with everything they need for input data,” said Tom Butler. Needed are more trained experimenters, and a standardized system for cataloging transdimensional communication. Such a system would help to distinguish real experiences from more subjective or even imagined ones. For example, researchers acknowledge that many people interpret EVP transmissions by the heart as well as the head, especially when they are hoping for contact with dead loved ones. Estep Award Conference-goers applauded the presentation of a Lifetime Achievement Award to Sarah Estep. She presented highlights from her EVP recordings, including a piano fragment of Beethoven’s “Moonlight Sonata “purporting to come from the composer himself. The AA-EVP has a full report on the 2006 conference; visit http://www.aaevp.com Rosemary Ellen Guiley, Ph.D., is the author of 30 books and numerous articles on paranormal and visionary experience.
About the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena Precursor Sounds in Physical Phenomena
Many of our members have talked and written to us about a noise that is often heard right before an EVP message. It appears before some of our own EVPs. It is a loud, or not so loud, click, pop, boom or crackling sound. Some have described it as similar to the sound of someone keying a microphone. One noted researcher likened the noise to a micro sonic boom. When we are listening back to an EVP recording and hear this sound, we listen more intently to what comes next. If you are one of the many people who have experienced this noise you know what I am talking about. Not all EVP messages are preceded by this precursor, “popping” sound. For us it is an occasional occurrence. But when we hear it we are not unlike Pavlov’s dogs, ears perked up waiting for that reward. The click, if there, means a reward of an EVP. It, for us, usually signals a better than average EVP as far as loudness, quality and clarity is concerned. Geoff Viney in his book Surviving Death, Evidence of the Afterlife discusses this mysterious sound in relation to other types of phenomena.
The clicking noise associated with EVP messages has been the center of considerable conversation for quite sometime. Perhaps this sound is caused by a dimensional breakthrough and is an artifact of spirit world energy entering the physical world. The above stories might point to this type of answer. Paolo Presi on page 3 of the Summer 2002 newsletter reports on Carlo Trajna’s “Psychotemporal Model” in which “Psychic Time” flows differently from “Physical Time.” Is this anomalous sound before EVP messages caused from a shift in time as the two aspects of reality link up? Alexander MacRae used an oscilloscope in analyzing a well-known recording from the Palace Hotel. When viewing this recording Alec noticed that the level of background noise (whistles, hums and buzzing which were side effects of the equipment) on the oscilloscope almost went to zero. Three or four seconds after the background noise disappeared, a woman’s voice was heard to say “Now.” Two seconds later, a male voice was recorded with a personal message for his sister who was in the audience. Another few seconds passed and a female voice said, “Finish,” and then the background noise once again returned to normal on the oscilloscope. Perhaps the precursor noise we hear on our recordings is similar to the word “Now” heard on Alexander’s recording. It may simply be a signal or a cue for us to listen closely to what comes next. Is this noise similar to our telephone ringing letting us know that someone is calling? Alexander’s recording may point to another possible fact, and that is that the entities need and gather all available noise and energy to get their message through to us. Do those on the other side have equipment that they use to try and contact us? Are researchers, indeed, hearing the keying of something like a microphone? And are those on the other side doing this? Several researchers in the past and present say that they have been in contact with groups on the other side that state that they have developed apparatus for communication with researchers on this side and that this development continues.
EVP PIONEER CROSSES OVER
What is the AA-EVP?
The American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena (AA-EVP) is a nonprofit educational association that is dedicated to the support of people who are interested in or who are studying Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) and Instrumental TransCommunication (ITC).
This web site offers examples, techniques and concepts concerning Phenomena.
Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) concerns unexpected voices found in recording media. It is a form of after death communication. ITC is a newer term that includes all of the ways these unexpected voices and images are collected through technology, including EVP.
Of the many hypotheses designed to explain these phenomena, the Survival Hypothesis has been found to be most effective in answering the evidence.
LATEST REPORT: (December 2007)
INTERVIEW WITH TOM AND LISA BUTLER by Victor and Wendy Zammit
Yesterday we interviewed Tom and Lisa, directors of the AAEVP about their work and advice they can give to people wanting to start EVP. For easy listening each clip is about 1-2 minutes long.
IMPORTANCE OF RESONANCE The concept is that the rapport of mutual cooperation builds the kind of etheric/physical energy necessary for etheric to physical influences. Another term for this is "Contact Field." All of the experimenters working in ITC also attest to the importance of harmony, unity, absence of ego and altruistic motive as well as a passionate desire for contact and a constant, favorable holding in thought of a deceased person with whom there is a strong emotional attachment.
IONS RETREAT CENTER
In July, Tom and Lisa Butler, Directors of the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena, attended a Monroe Institute program called Lifeline at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) in Northern California.
They both found both the 200 acre IONS RETREAT CENTER and the Guidelines program to be beyond their expectations.
Lifeline’s primary focus is on service— service to those here in the physical and service to those who have made their transition to the other side.
Participants become knowledgeable about Hemi-Sync® Focus™ levels 23 through 27.
Focus 23 is an area in which certain souls, for a variety of reasons, may become earthbound and fail to complete their transitions from physical life. &# | |
"Sarah Estep made her transition today Jan 3, 2008 at 1:11 p.m. The funeral service will be held at Kalis Funeral Home, 2973 Solomons Island Road in Edgewater, Maryland; on Tuesday Jan 8, 2008 at 10 a.m. telephone 410.956.4488. Her daughter said that she had a smile on her face. This great pioneer will be deeply missed but we know that she will be happy with her renewed body and mind. We wish her a exciting new life. 