From My Viewpoint

Here we are, four years old. I look upon each Spring Newsletter as our anniversary issue. One of the highlights this year was our second national conference which opened new doors and expanded horizons for many who attended. Another highlight was the Life Beyond Life tape of EVP voices that Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross has indicated she will use in her work. We have just begun a unique taped survival project which we hope will lead to increased evidence for postmortem survival and bring comfort to many.

In our first newsletter, published in May 1982, I wrote that ten states and Canada were represented. Today, we have thirty-five states, the District of Columbia, and ten foreign countries. Our membership has increased ten fold. Although, for obvious reasons, I am perhaps not the best person to evaluate the Association, I will try to give a realistic assessment of what we have done, what perhaps we could have done better, and the goals which we might hope to bring closer to realization.

One of the goals, mentioned in the first newsletter, in regards to EVP, was, “. . .not just to help other EVP experimenters but as an out-reach organization to let others know what we have learned.” This, I feel, was a worthy goal and will remain a goal for the future. What kind of a job have we done in meeting this goal? Growth suggests success but could we have done more?

We have about a dozen members who are actively telling others about EVP. They do it in different ways, and many of the people whose lives have been touched in this manner, write to me and say, “My life has been changed.” It doesn’t take much imagination to believe that some of the lives that have been changed go on, in some cases, to change other lives and they in turn go on.... One can’t help but wonder what the story would be if we had 100, rather than a dozen people speaking out about EVP.

In the second anniversary issue, dated May 1983, I wrote, “…we continue to be mindful of the need to encourage research and to develop better systems of EVP communication.” This goal remains, and is slowly, so slowly, coming closer but we have, as the poem goes, “Many miles to travel before we (rest).” Perhaps we will never rest (or sleep) in our research; we may never get that far, but I believe eventually research will bring about more effective ways for communicating with the unseen.

Another goal mentioned, and this was in the May 1984 issue, was, “We will try to learn more about the phenomena for there is much we don’t know and there may be worlds of consciousness to explore.” Here again, we have progressed but still, the end is not in sight, and, as in the area of research, I doubt very much if there is a finite boundary.

Realistically, looking at this many faceted phenomena known as EVP, and believing the final key to unlock the door to objective inter-dimension communication or discovering the “last” world of consciousness, is beyond our reach, does not in any way discourage me. Failure is not a frightening word. Only being afraid to try because one might fail, brings sleepless nights. There is victory in the attempt.

Last year I wrote in Viewpoint, “I like to feel that our efforts, together, will shed illumination for those known and unknown to us, that our personal pilgrimage need not be a fumbling in the dark, but that we will light a light for each other.”

We have come far since 1982. Working together, we will go further. Let us continue to share our light with everyone who has a need as we move into the future.

Survival Board

It is with great pleasure that I announce our Survival Board:

1.      Carol Barron, MA State Coordinator

2.      Clara Laughlin, VA AA-EVP Member

3.      Tina Laurent, Wales AA-EVP Member

4.      David Lothamer, CA State Coordinator

5.      Dan McKee, IL State Coordinator

6.      Mercedes Shepanek, VA State Coordinator

The above six people have been recording for many years and each has had outstanding success in EVP work. In addition, all of them have received evidential messages from deceased individuals, at times unknown to them, which upon checking later gave strong evidence that the communicant was who he claimed to be and had survived death in an individual, conscious state.

Up-Date—Taped Survival Project

In the Winter Newsletter, an ongoing survival project for AA-EVP members was announced. The response has been positive with tapes starting to come in, and other members saying their tapes will soon be mailed.

To recap briefly: Members are invited to send me a cassette tape on which they mention things that are important to them: likes, dislikes, family members and so on. This background information should last only five to ten minutes. Be sure to include the address of one or two people we should contact if it appears you have come through to one or more of our Survival Board members.

As soon as your family member notifies me of your death, I will contact our board members. They will start to listen for you through their recorders, and will actively ask for help from those on the other side to bring you to them and assist you in giving your message. Remember to be evidential. At least one thing you say to a board member must be on the tape in my possession.

No board member will have any idea what is on your tape. I also will not listen to your tape until after your transition, and only then if a board member reports possible contact.

All members are encouraged to participate!

Challenger Communications

After the explosion of the Challenger on January 28, several AA-EVP members reported taping messages in reference to the astronauts or the space shuttle itself.

Sarah Estep. I requested that the other side try to help the astronauts move into the spirit world. A Class A male voice, using the word “try” in his answer, as I had used in my request, replied, “I’ll try with them.”

Arthur and Pat Huff. The Huffs attended our August conference and learned about the reverse voice in Dan McKee’s workshop. Since then, they tape nightly and report receiving excellent reverse messages. Some of the things that they taped after the accident were: “We’re about to crack.” “We’re going to crack.” “Permanently survive.” “Exhaust line.” “A problem.”

Clara Laughlin. Clara taped several messages when she asked about the astronauts. Her guide, Callie, came through and said, “Now we make this official, Clarissa (Clara) They perish in Atlantic.” “That was terrible. Clara, it had no future. Challenger has a loss of power.” “(name of one of the astronauts) pleased that he is there with her.”

Dan McKee. Dan reports that he received a fair amount of relative information. The other side said, “We see them.” Dan commented that he felt that he had no direct contact with the astronauts themselves.

Dan’s observation is interesting because in looking over the messages the rest of us taped, this also becomes apparent. We received messages about the astronauts, or the craft, but no astronaut spoke to us. This somewhat reinforces that what we taped were genuine EVP messages.

TPP (Television Picture Phenomena)

The above 2 pictures were received from Ernst Senkowski, AA-EVP member from West Germany. Ernst wrote that Klaus Schreiber of West Germany gave them to him, and Schreiber feels they show his mother (No. 1) and daughter, Karin, (No. 2). Schreiber told Ernst they came through his TV and he taped the pictures with his video tape recorder, using an expensive, laborious method suggested by Karin, via EVP communication with her father.

As mentioned in the Winter Newsletter, AA-EVP members who have a video recorder, might like to begin experiments. Ernst suggested trying to use an oscillator in the VHF or UHF range and modulate it with any signal mixture tuned to a free channel on your TV. Even if you don’t have an oscillator, you can still start to experiment. One of our members is doing this, and thinks she may have seen two faint words in the “snow.”  [TPP is known as Video ITC today]

EVP—Stray Pick-up?

Many skeptics of EVP say the voices we record are C.B. broadcasts, stray radio waves and so on. How a stray pick-up could conveniently land on the tape as the recorder is recording, call the experimenter by name and answer his direct questions, has never been explained. The reverse voices are also unexplainable from this stand-point.

In a recent bulletin sent to me by Alexander MacRae, of Skye, Scotland, he wrote,”...you no longer have to spend hours arguing with people who say EVP is just due to stray pick-up… In late 1985 I took an Alpha 3.5 to Calpe, a small town in Southern Spain. Now, if EVP was due to stray pick-up then what was picked up in Spain should be in Spanish. It wasn’t. An English resident of another foreign country has been using an Alpha for 18 months. Out of 300 voices, he reports, only two were (possibly) in the native language.”

EVP—Ouija Correspondence

Several months ago, Evening Magazine—Baltimore, interviewed Stoker Hunt about his recently published book, Ouija, The Most Dangerous Game, (Barnes & Noble, Harper & Row). At the conclusion of the interview, AA-EVP member, Linda Roers (co-editor and publisher of Second Sight Metaphysical Magazine, (Address removed) and I, demonstrated the use of the board. I have reservations about the Ouija, and had not used one for over ten years, but agreed to see if we could have communication. The interview and demonstration took place in a 200 year old house. When I asked if there was anyone present who had lived on the property at one time, we learned that a man by the name of Franck had been there in the early 1800’s. Upon questioning, Franck spelled out that he was still staying in the area and looking for his family. While the cameras were filming, I gave him suggestions about looking for a bright light and going in that direction. I also told Franck he would find his loved ones waiting for him. At the end Franck indicated he was doing this. Much of our communication was shown to the public at a later date. During the demonstration, I used my tape recorder. Immediately after I asked if we had anyone with us who had at one time lived on the property, but before the name Franck was spelled out on the board, a Class A male voice said on tape, “Franck.”

Mighty Mike

The above diagram shows the microphone system I am now using. The idea was suggested in the German VTF Journal (1/86) kindly translated for me by Hans Heckmann, PA AA-EVP member. I have made some changes from the original diagram, placing six microphones in a small housing facing in towards a parabolic dish. The dish is not necessary and if one isn’t used, the microphones should face the taper. All components are easily obtained from Radio Shack. The mike elements are electret condenser ($2.69) each. In the month I have been using it, the EVP voices are outstanding in clarity. Along with the mike, I am using two radios tuned to the same station on the air-band for my sound source. The one radio tends to nullify the other. By turning the dial slightly a beating occurs. The first time this technique was used, when I asked if they were with me, a Class A voice answered, “On our parity.” One dictionary definition for parity is close correspondence which is an accurate but unusual way to describe what I was doing with the radio.

VTF Review

In further reviewing the 1/86 German Journal, Hans Heckmann said that Fidelio Koberle (editor of the Journal) was interviewed in Berlin on the subject of EVP. The program is to be shown in the USA with an expected viewing audience of 12 million. (No date given). Experiments with the TANDY (Radio Shack) monaural reverberation unit (Cat. No. 32-1110) were mentioned. The unit is a microphone preamplifier and has three channels of reverberation (slide controlled) which allows a multitude of microphone sound combinations. It is felt that certain amounts of reverberation result in “sharper” microphone voices.

We are indebted to Hans for his work in translating the German VTF Journal. It helps keep us aware of what EVP experimenters are doing in Germany as well as give those of us who are actively taping, new ideas to use in our own work.

Italian EVP Newsletter Review

Rosalba Harris, PA AA-EVP member, called me recently about the latest Milan, Italy EVP newsletter which she received. Virginia Ursi, AA-EVP member from Milan, is the editor of the newsletter. Rosalba met Mrs. Ursi last year when she visited Milan.

The first part of the Metafonia was a report of our own AA-EVP NEWS, and some of our activities. Mrs. Ursi also wrote, “During recent contacts with German experimenters, (I) was able to see on TV recognizable images of presumed discarnates in experiments conducted by physicist Ernst Senkowski and Hans Otto Konig. These studies seem to give positive results which allow us to hope for continued developments in manifestations from other dimensions.”

We are grateful to Rosalba for her translation of the Italian newsletter. Along with the German newsletter, it helps us to be aware of what EVP experimenters are doing in other countries.

AA-EVP Mini-Reunion

On March 15, Tom Roers, (AA-EVP member, Second Sight) and I, taught an all day EVP workshop near Annapolis. Notices went out to AA-EVP members from Maryland and surrounding states. Over ten members attended, along with thirty other individuals. Many of the participants had never heard an EVP voice until I played a demonstration tape at the start of the workshop. Only two or three had been successful until then, in taping voices. After the workshop and a buffet lunch, we broke up into small groups and walked around the “haunted” restaurant trying to tape voices of the unseen with our portable tape recorders. Close to half the people reported contact when they played their tapes back later. Since we had such an enthusiastic response from those who attended, we hope to have a similar day next fall.

New from and about Members

Richard Berman, AR, called recently and said he has given two lectures about parapsychology and EVP. Richard told me that many people are interested in the electronic voice in his area and he always plays a short tape of EVP voices as part of his presentation.

William Duvendack, MT, wrote that he is taking a course about radionics and wonders if it might be an effective way to “tune” in on the EVP phenomena. He commented that distance is no factor for someone using a radionics machine, which is an electrical device. He hopes to do some experiments using it with EVP taping and will let me know the results.

Betty Evans, VA, attended the all day EVP workshop near Annapolis. Near the end of the day, Betty whispered to me that she had to leave early to meet her son who was coming from New York. Later, on tape playback, Betty heard, “Ha, ha, ha, he’s already here.” This was true because, to Betty’s surprise, when she reached home she found her son had arrived earlier than planned.

Clara Laughlin, VA, continues to tape interesting EVP messages. A voice told her recently, “Cloudy weather is our strategy. To come near is no easy feature.” Several months ago she asked on tape that those on the other side send healing to a friend’s son-in-law. She did not mention what was wrong with the man. The following day, an EVP voice said, “(name removed) has a malignancy.” This is true, because the person concerned has asbestos lung cancer.

Tina Laurent, Wales, wrote that she was giving a talk to a group of people who belong to the National Federation of Housewives. The first twenty minutes she lectures about EVP, the next twenty minutes she plays a tape of EVP voices, and this is followed by discussion.

Dan McKee, IL, wrote about some reverse EVP messages he taped recently. He said, “One quite interesting voice said, “There are doubts I’m visible.” Dan feels he is receiving above average material referring to being born. As an example, someone said, “I was told to go in the womb.” Dan commented that he has observed in reverse taping that too much signal strength seems to be undesirable. One time there was a good deal of laughter on the forward side of the tape and on the reverse side a voice told him, “The crashes are bad during laughter.”

Howard Ruess, TX, called a few months ago about a voice that had whispered his name during his daily taping. Howard played the tape for me over the telephone. Normally, in this sort of situation, I hear little, if anything. The whisper Howard played for me, however, was so loud and clear, I heard it without difficulty.

Ernst Senkowski, West Germany, wrote that he took part in a Munich satellite TV production. Professor Bender, Professor Resch, and Dr. Determeyer also were on the program. Thirty minutes were devoted to EVP and another thirty minutes to more general cases of TransCommunications.

Mercedes Shepanek, VA, told me in a recent phone conversation that they had just sealed a time capsule for her second grandson, Jeffrey. They did the same for Jeffrey’s brother, Gregory, two years ago at his christening. The capsule will be opened by each boy on his eighteenth birthday. They contain pertinent information of the present, an explanation of the electronic voice and some samples of EVP voices. In Jeffrey’s capsule, Mercedes included some “seventh dimension” voices Ernst Senkowski played for us at the conference last August.

Psychic Experiences—EVP Tapers?

In a recent letter, Carol Barron described many psychic experiences she has had all her life. The first one she remembers was at the age of four while visiting St Simons Island, Georgia. While in the woods she saw a large flash of light which “spoke” to her, but the rest, she wrote, has been lost in her memory. Carol feels it would be an interesting feature for a future newsletter to have EVP tapers describe psychic experiences they have had in the past. She feels such experiences may have served as a catalyst and opened us to communication with other dimensions through our tape recorders.

Let me know about your past experiences. I feel members would be interested in this.

Roll Call

We have added a number of new members in the last three months, including our first member from Luxembourg. Welcome to everyone! For the year we have shown a healthy growth, having enrolled fifty-nine new members. Well over 100 people have renewed their memberships. MD leads the states with 23 members; VA is next with 19; CA is third with 14. Men still outnumber the women with 54% of our members being men.

Light Journal

You will find enclosed, On “Holy” War, written by Brenda Marshall, President/Editor of Light, published quarterly by the College of Psychic Studies, London. When I wrote to Mrs. Marshall about reprinting her piece and sharing it with our AA-EVP members, she graciously gave permission. She wrote, “I must say it does seem to me all very obvious, but I agree it is helpful to keep stating it.”

Light is an excellent metaphysical journal. I have subscribed to it for two years. Subscription rates are $15 a year for the U.S. which includes airmail postage. The address is: 16 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2EB England, www.psychic-studies.org.uk/l_journal.htm.

Egyptian Odyssey Update

We are packing our suitcases and rushing out to buy extra supplies of tapes and batteries for our battery operated tape recorders. Yes, we are going! Due to world conditions, the group is small but there is something to be said for small groups, especially because of our EVP recordings in the places we will be visiting.

As mentioned in the tour brochure, I will be teaching an EVP workshop on location and helping group members with their tapings as we move from one location to the next. At the tomb of Amon-Hotep who died in 1224 B.C., and in the crypt that was used for magic rites thousands of years ago, located under the Temple of Dendera, special ceremonies will be held. It was at these two places, that the invisibles spoke to me on tape in May 1984, one of them calling me by name, asking for my help. This time I will try to give suggestions to help them move on.

Lynn Gardner, who many of you met at the August conference, and who will be leading our tour, has been unflagging in her efforts to make our Egyptian Odyssey experience truly outstanding for all participants. It promises to exceed all expectations.

Those of us who are going will meet at the KLM counter, Kennedy Airport, NY, at 6:30 P.M., April 24. We will return on May 10. The Summer NEWS will carry a report of our trip!

Odds and Ends

A special note of thanks to the many people who upgraded or sent in their membership renewal early after the last newsletter. Your thoughtfulness is appreciated. Some have asked how they can know ahead of time when their membership will expire. On each white mailing label, I have the month when your membership is due. If you have a C on the label, this indicates that you have requested that your name be placed on the cross-country list. Deadline for your contribution(s) for our Summer newsletter is June 20! Until then...

Always my best wishes, Sarah Estep

Established to Investigate Evidence as a Result of the Electronic Voice That We Survive Death