From My Viewpoint

One year ago I wrote, “Greetings fellow AA-EVP members! We are on our way!” Here we are, one year later and the only word I would add is, “We are continuing on our way!” As the year ends, it is time to reflect, to assess. It has been a year of excitement, of meeting some of you personally, and of hearing from many more by phone or letter. It has also been a year of growth for me. I am grateful to all of you who ‘gave’ me a bit of yourself. There have been some difficult moments, but many more of quiet joy. Ultimately we must each find our own answers, no one can give them to us but individually, and through the Association, we can help others to begin to find some of those answers and to look towards the future with hope.

Our future, that of the Association, is bright with promise. A year ago, I had certain goals in mind that I hoped to achieve during the first year. All goals have been met and some even surpassed. One that I had not expected, was that we would become known internationally. I have received letters from all parts of the world. Whatever the writer’s social, economic and religious background, a close kinship is felt as we exchange ideas and write about what touches our hearts. I have always believed strongly John Donne’s wonderful statement, “No man is an island.” This has been proven to me time and again.

As we begin our second year we continue to be mindful of the need to encourage research and to develop better systems of EVP communication. Some members are moving in this direction and have made significant discoveries. We are also looking forward to our first national conference to be held in August. Additionally, there are reasonable hopes of continued growth here and abroad. Whatever the future holds, we will continue to work towards what I wrote about EVP in the first From My Viewpoint column: “I believe if man can know that he survives death in an individual conscious state and that he takes with him the person he was in his physical life, then he will try to live a fuller, more meaningful life on the physical plane.”

German EVP Researchers Report Potentially Important Development

I received the following in a note from George Meek of Metascience Foundation. “While I was in Germany last October, Dr. Ernst Senkowski told me that Hans Otto Konig of Rattingen had started to experiment with ultrasonic frequencies in his EVP research—from 25,000 to 70,000 Hz. … A letter just received reports that Konig took his ultrasonic equipment to Radio Luxembourg on January 1 1983. Under supervision of the station’s technicians they succeeded in receiving, ‘two voices of absolutely fantastic quality—without any background noise.’ One said (translated from German), ‘Otto Konig makes wireless with the dead.’ The other one said, ‘We hear your voice.’”

In conclusion, Mr. Meek wrote, “Both Ernst and my American colleagues are of the opinion we should begin to think about a mix of frequencies such as Dr. Mueller’s and then bring it down into the audible range.”

Time Running Out for Belfast Poet Project

In a recent letter from Shirley Starke, she stated that a book by the poet has just been published. It is not yet available in the United States; therefore, if you can record his name or quote from the book via a tape recorder, automatic writing or during meditation, it would be evidential. Shirley described an experience she had concerning the poet. Last winter she wrote to a foreign company and ordered what can be best described as a ‘mystery gift.’ When it arrived, she was astonished to find that it was the recall of an experience the person had had with the Belfast Poet. To add to the coincidence (and I use the word advisably), for over a year Shirley has had a daydream of taking part in just such an activity with the poet. Another time while Shirley was watching TV, the poet’s first name was mentioned as the name of one of the characters. Immediately, an electric light that was off blinked on for a split second. If you feel you have contacted the poet, write to Shirley. Once the book reaches the United States, possible contact will be less evidential.

Follow-up on Sleep Experiment

In the February NEWS, I described experiments I had done for four consecutive nights and how a total of thirty-three messages were received on tape while I was asleep. I urged members who tried the experiment to let me know if they were successful. Mercedes Shepanek of Virginia has performed the experiment a number of times since then and many messages have been recorded. She has heard from male and female entities, including her son Raymond who died eight years ago. Raymond has told her he is, “In the house.” Another time he said, “I sent back my second pack.” Mercedes didn’t know what he meant by this except she recalled that one years ago while he was hiking through the West, he sent home a backpack. A few days after the message was taped, Mercedes talked with another son who told her he had been looking, unknown to Mercedes, for Raymond’s backpack in the garage. This search took place the day before the message from Raymond and indicates that he knew his brother had been searching for his back-pack.

Alpha Monitor—New EVP Aid

Alexander MacRae of Skye, Scotland and I recently have exchanged a number of letters. Mr. MacRae is Company Secretary and one of the directors of Skyetech which manufactures products mainly in the areas of speech recognition and synthesis, robotics, and health products. One of these is the Alpha Monitor. Although originally designed as a psychic’s aid, recently it has been discovered that when combined with a radio many EVP voices axe produced. To quote from his most recent letter, “Perhaps the most exciting UK development currently is the ‘Alpha.’ Based on detecting changes in the free-space properties surrounding the operator, the theory, ‘Mu Epsilon,’ was presented at the London EVP convention sponsored by ASSAP November ‘82. … Alpha is not just hardware, it is interactive, has its own software on tape, with debug and application procedures.” He wrote that although the initial quality of the EVP voices is not good, the quantity is excellent, but, “… best of all, the user improves with use.”

In addition to the Alpha Monitor, Mr. MacRae plans to produce a quarterly EVP cassette tape. The first tape will be ready April 28. Some of the contributors are: George Meek, with a SPIRICOM update; Dr. Ernst Senkowski on the European scene, and Gilbert Bonner on sychoacoustic factors. Mr. MacRae will give a layman’s guide to decibels and what signal to noise ratio means with a specially prepared on—tape listening test. To receive this tape by airmail, send $10, (U.S. funds are welcome) to: Alexander MacRae, Grianan, Portree Skye, Scotland IV 519 DJ. Additionally, he will be happy to answer any questions you may have about Alpha.

Ideas for Research Projects

In the February NEWS, I asked members to send me ideas that could be used for future EVP projects. The response has been good.

Jerry Bennett, a new AA-EVP member from Georgia, knows a lot about electronics. In a letter he commented that the early Marconi detector is similar to a modern tape recorder. For experimentation purposes he suggests, “Place a coil, or extra recording head if one is available, near the main recording head. Have this connected to antenna and ground wires.” It is Jerry’s thought that this may be an improved method of recording voices. Let me know your results and I will pass them on to Jerry.

V. Krishnan, of Tamilnad, India, suggests trying ‘absent’ recordings. He writes, “What I plan is this: When I make a recording in the ordinary way, I shall tell my contacts to come through in my absence, switch off and, after a period of time, say six hours, turn on the recorder and leave the house.”

Please continue to send me ideas for future EVP research projects that I can share with all members through the AA-EVP NEWS.

EVP Tone Captured?

In the February NEWS, I mentioned that Dan McKee of Illinois, had written that he and an engineer were going to try to capture the tone that entities have told him they use to begin transmissions. A short time ago, it occurred to me that Arabella Roberts, of Maryland, and I may have this tone.

Over a year ago, Arabella called and said she had recorded for the first time unusual tones at 131 MHz on her radio. When she asked about them, an unseen entity replied that they were speaking from the “Voice Super-Dome.” I tuned my radio to the same place and within several days I too heard tones. Arabella has listened to the tones I receive and believes my tones are more musical than hers.

Soon 131 MHz became the most active place, by far, on my radio for recording voices. Apparently, unseen entities wait for the tones, and one or two seconds after hearing them, they would begin to speak. The quality of the voice is different from other EVP voices. They frequently use the pronoun “we” and usually several speak simultaneously, making the “we” logical. The major disadvantage to these voices is that, as a whole, they are not as clear as EVP voices received at other places on the airband. For this reason I did not, except for now and then to see if the tones and voices were still there, record at 131 MHz.

After Dan shared with us the message he had received about the tones, I decided to further experiment. While tuned to 131 MHz, I first asked whether these were the tones about which Dan had been told. A clear Class A voice replied, “You’re being told is possibility.” I bought a six minute endless cassette tape and went through a number of recordings, duplicating only the tones in isolation, of which there is a wide variety. Next I used this as a sound source played on my cassette tape deck. Since I wanted to duplicate as closely as possible the conditions that these voices find most favorable, I have the tape deck patched into an RF Signal Generator. The Signal Generator is tuned to 131 MHz, and I turn on two small radios in my office. In this way, the sound source tone tape is heard playing through both radios as if it is one broadcast. The one radio is tuned exactly to 131 MHz, and the other is slightly off; consequently you hear a mixture of the tones along with white noise and a limited amount of airband intrusion through the second radio. It is this second radio which receives most of the paranormal messages. A number of interesting messages have been recorded using this method and I am happy to note, the quality has surpassed the previous 131 MHz voices. One more thing should be mentioned. I am not at all sure that the tones are paranormal. They may be earth-plane, or a combination of both. Whatever they are, the tones are used by at least some of those who speak to us.

If any AA-EVP member would like to attempt to receive voices using the tone tape, I will be happy to duplicate my six minute endless tape onto a regular 15 minute cassette tape. $2 should cover costs. If you do not have an RF Signal Generator to use with a radio, you can still play it as a sound source on a cassette player, while using your regular recorder for recording. Let me know your results!

Roll Call

With the addition of eighteen new members since February, the AA-EVP has shown a healthy growth. Minnesota, Kentucky, Montana, and Missouri can now claim AA-EVP members, which means twenty-seven states are represented. We have added a member from Scotland. To all new members, a special WELCOME!

Reports from Members

Eric Brodish and Hubert Custer, two new members from Pennsylvania, spoke about EVP at a Spiritual Frontiers meeting in Harrisburg, PA recently. They played several demonstration tapes and answered a number of questions about the phenomena. Eric said there was great interest in the electronic voice, and several individuals came up afterwards and told him it was the best meeting they had attended.

I received an interesting letter from Dan McKee. He wrote, “...about a month ago a quite clear voice came through and said, ‘Use New Way. I’ve Selected You.’ My further queries about what new way fell on closed ears and I had to assume it must have referred to the multiple tone method. ...I have selected a couple of transmitters on about 7325 KHz. The 7330 KHz is the Canadian time control station and you can hear the beeps every second followed by the spoken in French and English time announcements each minute. ...I have had some rather good results—some with forward taping but more with backward taping referring to, ‘The circuit,’ ‘Hearing you,’ and ‘God will help.’ Then dropping down to the amateur radio band just below and using Single Side Band Signals, better than average results seem to happen. It takes so very many tests before much of a conclusion can be reached that I do not want to say that anything more than encouraging results have been obtained thus far.”

I hope members who have equipment similar to Dan’s will experiment using the same as well as different frequencies than he uses. Like the sleep experiments, it is good if we can reinforce one another’s results. The inability to replicate an experiment can also be significant. Let me know results, positive or negative, and I will pass them on.

Whenever we try a new experiment we must give it a fair trial. Some individuals have told me that they tried something a time or two, and when it didn’t work, they stopped. Usually those in other dimensions need a period of adjustment to adapt to something different. All efforts are worthwhile if in the end, the quality of the EVP voice is improved. How long a fair trial constitutes is difficult to say, but depending on the experimenter and the experiment, I would suggest at least twelve separate recording sessions.

Arabella Roberts called and reported an interesting message she received one evening as she was making a recording. There were several of the musical tones that she and I receive around 131 MHz, on the airband. Then a clear, male voice came through and said, “We’ve got a new type of system. Got a winner with you! One response and we’ve got it.”

Since then Arabella has tried to learn what new type of system they have but her questions have gone unanswered. Notice how similar Arabella’s message is to Dan’s, With Dan it was, “Use new way. I’ve selected you.” Arabella: “We’ve got a new type of system. Got a winner with you!...” Although Dan’s message came through about four weeks before Arabella’s she did not know about Dan’s until after her own was received. I have suggested before that it could be considered evidential when EVP experimenters working independently and unknown to each other receive similar transmissions. This seems to be one of those cases.

Clara Laughlin, an AA-EVP member from Virginia told me of the excellent results she is having with her recordings and some of the messages that have come through. Those who seem to be in charge of her tapings often call themselves her, “Panel Leaders.” On March 25, Clara received 35-40 messages, and she said the entities even called her by her middle name. Although a few messages were on the forward side, most were on the reverse side. Two days later, Clara thanked her Panel Leaders for enabling her to communicate with her loved ones. A male voice replied, “I expect that. Clara this is Deltrude (unknown to Clara), 1718 Panel assist bound for Adalash.” At the end of the recording another voice said, “She has come forty minute thousand for my stop.” One day someone said, “This is four panel dock. I got a partner.” This was followed with, “Leave her spaces.” At once someone said, “I don’t quite come to her. See if she can be a leader.” Clara also has received, “Let’s use the north-east apro for Clarissa” (Clara.) Because of the unusual nature of some of the messages, Clara wondered if she was hearing from a dimension that was not spirit. She asked if space or spirit was communicating and a clear voice replied, “This is spirit.” One day Clara commented that she thought it was wonderful we could communicate with them. An entity agreed with her, replying, “It is dramatic.” Another time Clara intended to stop her tape recorder when she reached 100 on her counter. When she looked up a while later, she saw 126. Immediately, a paranormal voice announced, “126.”

Clara uses the airband on her radio as a sound source. At times she will tune to the extreme right on the airband where only white noise is heard. When a paranormal message comes through, it is usually loud. She has also discovered that results are poor when music is used as a sound source. Clara is especially interested in knowing if any other AA-EVP member has received the term “Panel Leader.”

AA-EVP National Conference

Plans are progressing for our conference to be held in Baltimore, Maryland from August 26 – 28. The success and worthiness of a conference depends foremost upon the speakers and workshops, and I can say without hesitation that ours is of the highest quality in every respect. The theme of the conference is: Evidence for Survival, with some focus on EVP. Internationally known leaders in the field of postmortem research will be featured speakers including: George Meek, Kenneth Ring, Walter Uphoff and Stuart Wilde. Harold Sherman and his wife Martha will be special guests. In addition to the speakers, a number of excellent workshops and other special activities are planned.

I have visited the Hyatt Regency hotel, site of our conference, and met with the convention manager. The rooms they have reserved for AA-EVP, the hotel itself, and its location, being at the heart of Baltimore’s fascinating new Inner Harbor, make it ideal for our purpose.

Later this month you will receive your conference brochure. Look it over. See for yourself the very worthwhile experience that awaits all who attend. Fill out the reservation form. Select your workshop choices and return the form to me without delay. Workshops will be assigned in order of reservations received. We are expecting a good turn out with AA-EVP members coming from many areas. Come! Don’t miss this wonderful opportunity. We want to be a part of our conference.

Odds and Ends

Fortunately I have nothing ‘odd’ to report. And fortunately, this is not the end! Thank you for making the first year possible. We have done it together. 

Always, my best wishes.  Sarah Estep

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