From My Viewpoint

In the last three months I have experienced many things, some for the first time. I took my first flight and traveled close to 12,000 miles. My life has been touched by hundreds of people from around the world and it will never be the same. It was no surprise to have my belief reinforced that people are people, from wherever they come and in whatever situation they exist. I am reminded, however, of Ken Wilber’s comment from his new book , Quantum Questions: The Mystical Writings of the World’s Great Physicists, “...all things are God, but some things are more God than others...” The same could be said a People. Although many of those I have met since May came from backgrounds as different as it is possible to be from mine, we had no difficulty communicating. A smile, a touch, looking deeply into each other’s eyes, was usually all that was necessary. Most people I met had never heard about recording voices of the dead. Indeed, some had never seen a tape recorder before but, somehow, I was able to show them what I did or hoped to do. “AY wa, AY wa,” they replied, and I knew by their smiles and a nod of their heads that, “Yes,” they were with me.

The book, Adventures In Immortality: A Look Beyond The Threshold of Death, by George Gallup, Jr. with William Proctor, states that belief in the possibility of contact with the dead is held by perhaps 37 million people. It was my good fortune that many of those I met in the last three months were part of that 37 million. Each of us find our own way to communicate with the living. Some of us also find a way to communicate with those who have completed their death experience.

Two articles about EVP, one published, one unpublished, have crossed my desk since May. I have questions and reservations about both of them. The unpublished piece is written by a person who calls himself, “...a curious outsider who has casually followed developments in the EVP field....” Since I am personally acquainted with this individual I can endorse both of these assessments of himself. It baffles me then how such a person, who has never done any real work in the field, can write fifteen pages which basically focuses on what we are doing wrong and how it can be corrected.

I would be the first to say that the field of EVP is far, from perfect. Much needs to be done. New equipment, new energy sources, and perhaps new ways to approach what we do need to be devised. This will not be accomplished by theorizing, especially by curious outsiders. It will only be realized by gifted, knowledgeable, creative people who are willing to become involved in the nitty-gritty, frustrating work of trial and error. There is always room for this sort of person. If you have been uninvolved until now, think about joining us! The door is open.

Just Ask

Since May I have had a number of people write or call me requesting specific instructions on how to record paranormal voices. I have tried to help each of these individuals and trust before long they will have the joy and thrill as they record their first EVP message. Ross Brown, AA-EVP member from Calgary, suggested that perhaps I could write about how to get voices on tape in the newsletter. I explained to Ross that it would take a large portion of the newsletter to do this but promised to give it some thought. I have, and so would like to make this offer. In order to help you become involved, I will mail you a how-to paper about recording EVP voices if you will send me a self-addressed, stamped, Number 10 size envelope.

Ultrasonic – Psychokinetic Effect?

Monty Hearon, Oregon State Coordinator, sent me an interesting letter in which he described an incident that happened to him the first time he was using ultrasonic frequencies as a sound source. I will quote from it: “It occurred on Feb. 16th, 1982 when I first tried out the use of ultrasonic sound as an adjunct to paranormal taping. Our ultrasonic burglar alarm is upstairs, so I brought the taping equipment upstairs and put it in the breakfast nook where the mikes would get a direct blast from the alarm. I was in the house alone... I had only been taping several minutes when the front door (or maybe the storm door) was violently shaken as though by a giant. I was naturally irritated since this noise was ruining my taping. I turned off the tape recorder and went to the door and threw it open. You guessed it, there was no one there. The noise occurred while I was in the recording mode and the first part of the noise is on the tape. Well, I returned to my taping and about five minutes later the same thing happened. This time I was prepared and it took me about one second to get to the door and throw it open. Again, no one was there. The second time the noise occurred when I was in the playback mode so it is not recorded.

“The purpose of reporting this incident in your newsletter is to find out if other tapers have had similar experiences. While I think all of us get audible raps while taping, have others gotten these strong psychokinetic effects? The one I mentioned is the only thing of that type which has occurred to me while taping. Naturally I asked on the tape who was at the front door, but got no reply. I had gotten some voices, so contact had been made.”

If any of you have received an unusual psychokinetic effect while taping, please let me know so I may report it in the November newsletter. You may also write directly to Monty. He is on the cross-country list.

Similar to Cross-correspondence

Most readers are familiar with cross-correspondence in the history of psychic phenomena. Very briefly, it allegedly originated with the spirit of F.W.H. Myers in the early 1900’s. He devised a plan whereby mediums in various parts of the world received fragments of messages at about the same time that apparently had no particular point, or meaning. When these messages were put together it was like fitting pieces of a puzzle together and the meaning then became clear. Most of the messages were received through automatic writing and the mediums did not know what anyone else was receiving at the time. There have been a number of cross-correspondence cases since then and they are strong evidence for survival.

The closest case of cross-correspondence for EVP are the mirror messages. This is especially true when several years ago three of us (Estep; McKee; Shepanek) unknown to each other taped messages about mirrors.

Something similar occurred more recently. Although I had heard the word for the first and only time three months earlier and had seldom thought about it since then, it is only fair to mention that it was part of my knowledge.

In January I received a thirty-minute tape of s paranormal messages Otto Konig had taped. One of the recordings took place in his home in December in front of several people. Dr. Ernst Senkowski, AA-EVP member from Germany, was part of this group. During the taping a very clear voice said, “Auroraclub.” You can hear Dr. Senkowski’s excitement when this word comes over the wall speakers for he calls his transcommunication station “Aurora” and it had not been taped before. An unseen entity had created a new word, “Auroraclub.”

On April 27, I recorded an excellent Class A male voice which said, “Auroraclub.” This, along with several other messages received in the next two days, was sent to Dr. Senkowski. He agrees with my interpretation of “Auroraclub.”

Reports from and About AA-EVP Members

AA-EVP members have been busy. The following reports of their activities relate to the field of EVP or psychic phenomena in general.

Bernadette Arras, a new member from Viernheim, West Germany wrote that she heard about the AA-EVP from her friend, Luise Fuchs, another West German member. Bernadette and her mother have been taping voices for two years and last August visited Friedrich Jurgenson in Sweden. She wrote, “He (Jurgenson) spoke to us about his long time experiments, his so called “electronic bridge,” and we were deeply touched by his excellent voices and unique messages.”

Carol Barron, from Massachusetts, has volunteered to be the state coordinator for her state and her offer is accepted with grateful thanks. She recently gave an EVP presentation to a group of which she is a member when they visited Maplecroft, the mansion Lizzie Borden bought with her inheritance after she was acquitted. Carol wrote that she recorded in each room and the tape got caught in the recorder twice. She replaced it with another tape that seemed to be working and later listened to it briefly. Voices were on the tape but it got so tangle she had to take it and the recorder back to the store where it had been bought. They succeeded in releasing the tape but it was destroyed. She put the second tape in a different recorder not wanting to take any further chances with it. That tape also became badly wound up in the mechanism and in trying to release it, it was destroyed like the first one.

Carol’s report is interesting and reinforces what Hans Holzer wrote in his book, Murder in Amityville “...I had experienced similar mechanical failures (referring to cameras and tape recorders) in other haunted houses due to the presence of electromagnetic fields in the atmosphere.” Although I have never had a problem with my tape recorder when visiting such locations, I have been with professional photographers whose cameras refused to work.

Jerry Bennett, Georgia State Coordinator, sent me a book list from Health Research in California. The company carries old and rare books in facsimile copies. I have examined the list and it is excellent. If you have been trying unsuccessfully to locate a book, you may want to contact them, Health Research, Box 70-Mokelumne Hill, CA 95245, www.healthresearchbooks.com/.

Robert Camburn, from Pennsylvania, has a full-length article appearing in the Spring Issue of the Spiritual Frontiers Journal. The title is, Contact With The next World-What’s It Like? I recall this outstanding article. For those of you who are not members of SFF, you may order a single copy ($2.50) by writing to, Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship, Inc. 10819 Winner Road, Independence, MO 64052, www.spiritual-frontiers.com/.

Hu Custer, from Pennsylvania, who so ably taped our national conference last August wrote to me recently. He has many years of experience in taping conferences and lectures, and is especially interested in the field of EVP. If you are interested in having any of your tapes duplicated or in the many other services Hu offers, write to him for information, (Address removed).

Tina El-Ramli, from Wales, recently sent me an interesting tape and letter. She has been using a pre-recorded tape with running water on it as a sound source while taping with two different recorders. Tine has discovered on tape playback that each recorder has its own unique messages. Two female names came through to her a number of times. Both first and last names were given, and since neither were known to Tina, she checked the phone book. After much sleuthing and many phone calls, she apparently located the two women’s families. Both families said the person she was inquiring about had died same time ago. Tina has also taped a number of messages about “books.” At times when she asks a particular question she is told it is in the “books,” or they will “Check the books.” She wonders if any other AA-EVP member has received similar messages.

Jamil Jahshan, of Jordan, sent me an excellent, full-length article that he had written about contacting the dead and which appeared in the Jordan Times. He surveys the question of survival and makes a number of very good points. The AA-EVP is mentioned as well as some suggestions for anyone in Jordan who wants to sit down at a recorder to try to record voices.

On my way to Egypt in May, we had several hours lay-over at the airport in Amman, Jamil received special permission from the head of security to visit with me and was brought by a guard to the floor where we waited. Jamil, my daughter Becky, and I had the pleasure of meeting for the first time and we talked together for two hours. I had brought him the book, Life After Life, by Raymond Moody, which the guard checked and permitted him to keep. Before leaving, Jamil gave me a poem that he had written in 1962 which dealt mainly with the soul surviving death. The poem is very moving and closes with: “The great designer commands, Souls are divided into bands, Then scattered throughout lands, To dwell in other handfuls of sand.”

Dan McKee, Illinois State Coordinator, wrote that the best example of reverse taping he has come across is a taped voice on the forward side counting, “One-two-three-four-five-six.” When he played the tape in reverse a clear voice said, “I think he wants to know you, O-God!” Dan commented, “Both sides are so clear and well spaced it would be a perfect example to put on a voice analyzer.”

Ernst Senkowski taped an important message that I think expresses what the unseen look for and in fact may need for successful EVP communication to occur. “It is a question of feeling, emotion and technique.”

Field Testing Continues with Ultrasonic Converter

In the May NEWS, I reported that Jerry Bennett had completed work on an ultrasonic converter which I was field testing. I mentioned that I had experimented with it in various ways with positive results. Since May, Dan McKee and Mercedes Shepanek have completed testing it. Messages were received when it was used in combination with other sound sources. One morning Mercedes taped, “Too much window!” which conceivably could have meant the spread of frequencies was too great. Carol Barron is now testing it.

Schematic for Dual Ultrasonic Oscillators

Here is a schematic of a dual ultrasonic oscillator. Perhaps some of you would like to build one to use in your recordings. Since the low range and high range units have some overlap there are several settings of the frequency control knobs that will produce a “beat note” that is audible through the speaker despite the fact that the two individual frequencies are well above the average hearing range of humans. This fact can be used to check that the oscillators are working.

For first-time operation set the low frequency unit at about 20 KHz and the high frequency. unit at about 23 KHz and listen for the 3 KHz beat note or squeal. Afterwards use the unit in any mode desired.

If you build the unit please let me know your results. I have been experimenting with something similar for the last month.

Voices from Egypt

Egypt spoke to me in many ways. The people, the land, its history and countless numbers of invisibles reached out and touched me during the two weeks I visited in May.

Before going to Egypt, I wondered whether the unseen would speak. If on-going consciousness was found in the ancient tombs and temples what would its nature be? Would I be communicating with 4,000 year old earth-bound entities or would conscious entities from higher realms be willing, or even able, to speak through something as prosaic as a tape recorder?

Since Becky agreed to try for the first time a limited amount of taping, I gave her a Sanyo recorder while I “wore” a micro cassette recorder in the camera case hung around my neck. All recordings were battery operated because there are no convenient electrical outlets in tombs thousands of years old.

Our group was led by Lynn Gardner. It was comprised of people accepting of other realities and open to the possibility of contacting them. There was great interest in what I was doing and some tried their own recordings. Lynn is leading a similar group to Egypt from October 5-21, and has invited me to go as co-host and teach an EVP workshop “on location.” If I can possibly get away I will accept. If you are interested in going, drop me a note. I’ll send you some helpful tips as to useful equipment.

Becky and I taped over 100 EVP messages. Voices were recorded in more than twelve locations in such areas as the Pyramids, the Sphinx, Temples of Abydos, Luxor, Karnak, the Valley of the Kings, and the Coptic tombs in the Western desert. I cannot begin to go into all that took place or cover fully the many excellent Class A voices that were taped. I have made a sixty-minute composite tape of some of the things we recorded. There is an order blank enclosed if you would like to order one.

In many of the locations, I felt as if I could reach out and touch the unseen presences. A warm, caring feeling was paramount. They showed an awareness of us at all times and responded to our requests, singing a number of messages as I had asked. At the Temple of Abydos, Becky taped two minutes of the most unusual, beautiful paranormal singing I have heard. Unique words I used in my questions or comments were used by them. Only three messages indicated that the communicator was earth-bound or in trouble. In only one place, did I feel at all threatened.

This happened at the Temple of Denderah. I had climbed down a steep ladder to a small room under the temple that was used for “Magic” rites thousands of years ago. Immediately,  I felt as if an unseen horde was crowding up against me. I stood with my back against the rock wall and made one quick three minute recording before heading back to the ladder. On tape playback there were two Class A messages. In the one, a male voice called my name and asked me to guide him.

At the Rock Tombs of Beni Hassan, reached after crossing the Nile on a ferry-boat, riding donkeys to the foot of steep cliffs, and then climbing the cliffs, I recorded many Class A messages. Cameras were strictly prohibited in the tombs because the flash from them would further fade the beautiful wall murals. As we entered each of these 4,000 year old tombs, I would slip away from the group and walk around before beginning to record. The Egyptian guard noticed me doing this, and thinking it was a camera I held, started over to me with stick upraised in a threatening manner. Neither of us spoke the other’s language and it looked as if we were about to have an unpleasant incident. Fortunately I was able to show him with smiles and gestures that what I held in my hand was not a camera but a tape recorder for recording voices. After a moment, he seemed to understand. He lowered his stick, smiled, nodded his head and walked away so I was free to continue recording. On tape playback later, a clear male voice said, immediately before the guard approached, “Have no fear.”

The two locations that affected me the most personally were the Coptic tombs in the Western desert and a small tomb by the Pyramids that few people visit. At the second, I felt great sadness as I sat on the stone floor by a statue of a young boy. Many messages were taped including: “I’m back with you,” and “We thought you’d come.” Becky was sitting in the same roan a few feet away and taped a group of five Class A messages, different from mine. Her first message was, “My mother.” The feeling at the Coptic tombs was one of joy and peace. When I turned the microphone over to anyone who wished to speak a female voice said, “I buried you.”

The day before returning home, I contacted an Egyptian with whom I had become acquainted on the second day I was in Cairo. The Queen’s Chamber in the Great Pyramid of Cheops is now kept locked, but my companion was able to obtain the key. We met early at the Pyramids, and he unlocked the gate to the Chamber promising to return in an hour. During this time, while I sat alone, locked in the Chamber, a number of excellent quality voices were taped. Perhaps it is appropriate that the last two messages I recorded in Egypt called me by name and said they stayed with me.

In comparing the voices received in Egypt with those taped in my office there are some notable differences. No sound source was ever used. The voices in Egypt had an unusual “power” to them. Many had a strong drum beat rhythm. Since I was aware that I might be contacting some very “old” entities, I carefully explained each time what the tape recorder was that I held in my hand and what it would do. Recording in places going back eons of tine, considering their history and what we know about their purpose for being built, it is perhaps not surprising that the invisibles were near-by. One, however, can have only the greatest sense of gratitude to them for speaking and for the type of message that they brought. They could easily have remained silent. The fact that they didn’t, that they spoke frequently of love, truth and light, gives evidence as to what qualities are important to them. I sensed a nobility of spirit in many of those who spoke and one can only continue to wonder from what realm they came.

Roll Call

In the last three months we have added members from six states plus two foreign countries, including our first member from the Republic of South Africa. To all new members, Welcome!

Cross-country List

Our cross-country list is continuing to grow. Many members who are renewing their memberships are indicating they want to be included, and their names have been added. If you are on the list, an update is enclosed.

AA-EVP National Convention

Mark your calendars! A date has been selected for the second AA-EVP national conference. It will be held at the Hilton Inn, Columbia, Maryland from August 8 to 11; 1985.

The Hyatt-Regency, where the conference was held last year, had nothing open until the middle of September 1985. In addition, their room rates had increased $30 a night and there was a good possibility that by next year they would be even higher.

I have signed a contract with the Hilton and by so doing their very reasonable rates, in effect at this time, are guaranteed for our conference. The Hilton is beautiful with superior accommodations meeting rooms and restaurants. Columbia is only twenty-five minutes from downtown Baltimore and forty minutes from Washington, D.C. There is limousine service from the Baltimore-Washington International Airport to the Hilton and plenty of parking for cars.

There will be new features and opportunities offered to those who attend the conference. I have been in touch by letter and phone with Ernst Senkowski in Germany. He and Otto Konig, the German EVP researcher who has had such excellent results in the development of ultrasonic equipment, will be with us. The two of them will conduct a one-day intensive workshop on Thursday, August 8, for those interested in an in-depth study of ultrasonics and their relation to the electronic voice. On Friday afternoon through Sunday afternoon, the remainder of the conference will be held.

More details about the conference in future newsletters. It is not too soon to start planning to be with us for this outstanding event!

Keep in touch with me and with others through our newsletter. If you have something you feel would be appropriate for our November newsletter, please send it to me no later than October 6. Until then,

Always my best wishes, Sarah Estep.

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