From My Viewpoint

The seasons revolve and we move with them. Like the seasons, so goes life. Old age is compared to winter but winter is just a prelude to spring before we experience the beautiful return of new growth of leaves on trees and bushes, flowers cultivated or not, and baby robins snug in their nests chirruping their joy as mother drops a tasty morsel into their open beaks. One of the many sights I enjoy most each year, is the early return of the dandelion for it is seeing its bright face blooming in my yard that lets me know another winter has passed and all is right with my world.

We, being part of our world, must journey on with it. There is no stopping the world, as the saying goes, to permit us to get off. All of us are, whether we like it or not, a part of everything that goes on at that particular moment in every place of the earth. Our actions create a ripple effect which touches the lives of all those around us. They, in turn, create their own ripples which move out and on and on and eventually come back to us in one form or another.

In August, a woman from another country came to my home for several hours to find out more about the voices and how she could start taping them. She said, “I started on the path to enlightenment thirteen years ago when I first read about Edgar Cayce. Since then, I’ve continued my search.” During our conversation our talk moved to our two respective countries which in the past have warred with each other. We both expressed the strong hope that before long, Man would learn to live in harmony with all men everywhere.

When I introduced Joseph Jochmans at our conference Sunday afternoon for our concluding lecture which was about Earth energies and planetary healing, I said unless Man learned to take an active part in loving, in healing, in carying for Earth, whatever pathway to consciousness he chose, there would be no pathway left for him to travel. We cannot love Earth and not man, for the two are as one.

Getting back to our seasons, and comparing life with them, there are many who dread the winter of their life because they look upon it as the end. There are even more who are fearful because they can’t be sure. They may admit there is some evidence for continuation of individual consciousness after death but for them evidence isn’t enough, they want proof. Not everyone can feel as assured as the gentleman who attended our August conference and wrote to me two years ago about his belief that life follows life, “Do you know all it would take to improve just about everybody? If they knew, I mean really knew the way I know the sun’s coming up tomorrow, that there was a life after death. That’s all.”

Too many, I am afraid, are like the “soul” in the popular song that goes, “The soul afraid of dying has never learned to live.”

To meet life bravely, whatever it brings, to look upon what comes after with hope and as much confidence as possible is a brave soul. This does not mean blind faith. Rather, we should examine all evidence for survival, of which there is a great deal, and not until we do that can we draw an intelligent conclusion.

If the Great Creator insures the eternal return of the dandelion, do you think less will be done for man?

A Tribute

Our dear friend of many years, Harold Sherman, made his transition at 2:30 P.M. on Wednesday, August 19. He died at home with his beloved wife, Martha, and daughter, Marcia, at his side. In a phone call from Marcia the morning following his death, Marcia said her dad’s passing was peaceful. She said Harold showed he knew death was at hand and that he was ready to go.

I first met Harold at his last conference held in St. Louis ten years ago. We had exchanged several letters before then and he had encouraged me from the very first in my efforts with the taped voice. Harold and Martha visited us upon several occasions. At our first national conference, he was an honored guest and took part in the Sunday morning panel discussion.

Without his unfailing love and support, I doubt very much I would be where I am today. He showed faith and trust when both were needed, which prompted me to go on and accomplish more than I ever thought possible. This past January, when because of failing health, he had to discontinue his ESP Research Associates Foundation, begun years ago, he showed his concern for his members, and further trust in our efforts, by arranging that the Foundation members become a part of the AA-EVP.

Harold has over sixty published books to his credit. Most of them focus on how to live a happier life, ESP, and evidence for life after death. You Live After Death, published in 1945, has remained a best seller and has brought comfort to thousands who have lost loved ones. I was honored when he asked me to write about the electronic voice, which became Chapter 4, in his book, The Dead Are Alive.

Harold was one of the most impressive psychics and mediums who ever lived. Because of his personal characteristics as a man, loving, concerned about others to the very end, he helped move the entire field of Psi from a clouded, questionable, not quite respectable background, to the forefront of what many now look upon as another of God’s great gifts. Harold loved life and lived it to the fullest. He lived a spiritual life, a positive life. At the time of his death, he was regarded around the world as the Elder Statesman and leading Lay Authority of ESP.

One of Harold’s final requests was that Martha prepare a small white card to be given to his friends. It reads, “I EXPECT IT WILL BE A GREAT MOMENT WHEN I GREET YOU IN THE NEXT DIMENSION!”

At the National conference of Spiritual Frontiers Fellowship held in Baltimore in May 1980, Harold gave the featured address on Saturday evening. He also gave each person who attended a poem he wrote in 1939. This poem was read at his Memorial Service. My framed copy hangs in the office above my tape recorder. Harold will feel joy knowing that I have shared his poem with you which is enclosed on a separate sheet so you may also frame it if you wish. It is apropos to quote the ending. “Eternity and I embrace. At last I meet God face to face.”

I know Harold has done this. Heaven will be a better, happier place with Harold there.

List of Anomalies Wanted

Doctor Vladimir Delavre, a new member living in West Germany, wrote to me in June. I will quote from his interesting letter. “One of the great scientific mysteries is the fact that all 5 direct communication systems which have come to my attention (Konig, Meek, Hartning, Bacci, Harsch-Fischbach) operate with quite different electronic set-ups. Yet, as there is order in the universe, there should be some scientific connection between the different approaches. I have discussed this with Ernst Senkowski and all we could agree is the fact that the experimenter seems to act as an antenna (medium) and the electronic equipment as the reproducing system. There is much evidence that transcommunication is a time/condition dependent phenomenon.... We are trying to compile a list of effects occurring simultaneously with EVP (both tape and direct) such as silencing of radio receivers, transposition of transmitting frequencies, lowering of magnetic field, and concurring signals in the Elf range.”

If you send me information about any anomalies you have noticed in relation to your taping, I will forward them to Dr. Delavare. I know he will be grateful to you for your help.

Voices of Eternity

It was with great pleasure that I received word that Fawcett, one of the largest paperback book publishers in this country, has accepted my manuscript, Voices Of Eternity, for publication.

Louisa Rudeen, my editor at Fawcett, attended our conference. We had the opportunity to sit down Sunday morning and go over a number of details. At the present time I am making final revisions.

Voices focuses on my work with the electronic voice for the last eleven years. There are also chapters devoted to the work of other tapers in the field, a brief history of voice phenomena going back to the Bible, various experiments, controversy for and against the voices as being actual conscious entities speaking to us from other dimensions, and so on. My main purpose for the book is to present evidence that we are communicating with such entities, and to give an up-to-date report of just where we are today in communication with other realities,

Voices will be a Gold Medal book and is scheduled for publication in September 1988.

This and That

In the May/June issue of Woodrew Update, there was an item you might find of interest.

King Hussein of Jordan, who has a chronic heart condition, began hemorrhaging suddenly and lost consciousness in January 1984. During this time his heart stopped beating. Hussein has since stated publicly that when this happened, he died and came back to life after an out-of-body experience. He believes he went to another world. He told an interviewer, “I was a free spirit, floating above my own body. It was rather pleasant, really.”

A member in the Chicago area recently sent me a clipping of an article from Astrology & Psychic News about a computer. We have mentioned from time to time that some people, especially in Europe, are apparently receiving messages from the invisibles through home computers. In our Summer NEWS, I wrote about an article sent to me by Benn Kobb, VA AA-EVP member, in which the ghost of Thomas Harden, Dean of Brasenose College of Oxford in 1530, was communicating through the computer of an economics professor. Now, with our ‘American’ computer, it seems as if it is keeping in step with its European counterpart but with a unique twist. The article reports that Norman Ling, 22 of California suddenly discovered that his home computer was printing out E.S.P. messages transmitted by a neighbor who is a psychic.

Ling received the first message after buying and installing the computer in his home. He first thought there was something wrong with it. “I would enter something into the computer and when I printed it out there would be whole sentences that I had not put into the machine. They were about people I’d never heard of and usually had to do with some question about somebody’s health or love life or about money.”

Ling suddenly remembered that his neighbor was a psychic who often gave readings in her home. He took some of his computer printouts to her and asked if the messages might have any connection with her psychic work. She was very amazed, Ling reported, and said that many of the printouts were familiar to her. She told Ling that she sometimes contacted other psychics through long-distance telepathy to help her when she was doing a reading. Ling’s computer had somehow picked up a few of these signals and printed them out.

In the Spring-Summer 1987 issue of the New Frontiers newsletter published by Walter and Mary Jo Uphoff, WI AA-EVP members, they wrote about home video films produced by Alan Neuman. Some of them are, The Psychic Connection-105 minute motion picture feature shot on twenty locations of five continents; Dr. Fritz, Psychic Surgeon; The Crystal Skull; Prior Life Hypnotic Regression. Most films are $16.95 or $29.95 depending on length. For a list of films and videocassettes available write: Alan Neuman Productions, 8170 Laurel View Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Conference Report

They say a picture is worth 1,000 words. I hope this is true of the above four pictures taken by my daughter Becky, for I could write that many words to describe the wonderful time and the positive experience that each person seemed to have who attended our third national conference in August. Although we had many there who had also been present at our first two conferences, the turn-out was not as large as hoped. With the outstanding speakers, excellent workshops and group activities, if you were one of the missing you missed a great deal. We had people there from over ten states plus Canada and Haiti.

There is room to quote from just five notes received since the conference.

Carol Barron: “I want to tell you how much I enjoyed the conference. As usual, your selection of speakers was terrific and of course, it’s always so enjoyable sharing experiences of our mutual interests with other members.”

Jerry Bennett: “I thoroughly enjoyed the conference this year and hope some of the members will try the ‘mirror experiments’ (carefully). I do feel that this will be a breakthrough in the area of communications.”

Dale Kaczmarek: “Just wanted to let you know what a wonderful time I had at your conference. I made many new friends and met many old ones!”

Clara Laughlin: “Bouquets to you for the beautifully organized conference and also to your supportive family. The weekend slipped away too quickly, but maybe it inspired some of the people to go home and tape. ... The angels are smiling at you Sarah, and saying, ‘job well done.’”

Ruth McWilliams: “Just a note to tell you how much (we) enjoyed your conference. Everything was so well organized and the speakers were excellent.”

Director of Research and Development

I am very happy to announce that Roger Brower, N.C. State Coordinator has agreed to become Director of Research and Development for the AA-EVP. The two of us talked together at our conference, and several times since then, about the need for getting more members actively engaged in taping and to present them with good practical ideas that they can use with some hope of success, as they experiment in trying to contact entities in other dimensions.

Roger is ideally suited for this position. He has had many years experience in the field of electronics and radar. For two years he worked at Cape Kennedy with missile guidance. Since 1969, he has been running an electronics business in Raleigh which is involved in product development and manufacturing. Their specialty is instrumentation and micro computer systems.

Roger hopes to present ideas and various systems for experimentation in future newsletters. I know all of us are grateful to Roger for being willing to accept this responsibility.

Wireless Microphone

Picture number 4 [above], shows Roger working with the wireless mic which he demonstrated to the group Saturday evening after Martin Ebon’s lecture.

The FM wireless mic can be bought at Radio Shack which has two suitable models. One, sells for $19.95; the other for $6.95 (model 60-2109). Roger feels either will work equally well. The microphone is used in conjunction with the FM band on your radio. First, tune your radio to an off station where there is no station voice coming through. Next, turn on the microphone. It should be 4-5 feet away from your speaker. Turn amplification up on amplifier until it “squeals,” then turn it down, just below squealing point. If you have completed the setup correctly, your voice will be heard coming through the radio as well as the voices of the unseen who are trying to speak with you. A noise source, such as a second radio, can still be provided. The wireless mic should not be held by the taper but placed nearby. By using this type of mic, there is a better chance of hearing and interpreting messages from the next dimension, at that moment, thus permitting two-way conversation.

Several people who watched Roger demonstrate the microphone have since bought a similar mic and are experimenting with it. Betty Evans, VA AA-EVP member, reports success. Please let me know if you try such tapings so I can report them in future newsletters.

A Letter from Luxembourg

Jules and Maggie Harsch-Fischbach, Luxembourg AA-EVP members, have written several times in the last three months and sent an excellent tape of voices they have recorded from other dimensions. I have also talked to them by phone upon three occasions.

In her letter dated June 28, Maggie wrote about a meeting at their home attended by Ernst and Mrs. Senkowski, and George Meek, AA-EVP members, Engineer Seyler of Luxembourg, and Father Andreas Resch, a professor at Lateran University, Vatican. Maggie quoted Father Resch who said, “Our aims are quite the same.” Commenting upon this meeting, Maggie wrote, “Each of us learned from the others, as all men should ever learn and never stop to do so.” ... Later on, she wrote, “(We) are very honored that we were chosen to fulfill this important task as a tool in the hand of the ‘Higher’ one. ... Man himself is not as important in transcommunication as he sometimes thinks he is - he is, in fact, only the ‘receiver,’ and if the ‘sender’ on the other side does not want to emit, there are no results. ... Let us be happy about every messages that comes through and let’s always be aware that we are not the rulers of the game.”

News From and About Members

Bernadette Arras, West Germany, wrote that she and her mother had met privately with Friedrich Jürgenson in Munich after his film, “Last Gate to Eternity,” was shown. They talked to him about the AA-EVP and our activities. Bernadette said he was very pleased and asked her to extend his kind regards to all members of the Association.

Carol Barron, MA State Coordinator, wrote that since the conference she has visited and taped in a haunted house. She told the spirit that his physical body was dead and he was now “alive” in another dimension and should move on. When she played her tape back she heard, “On Earth, it’s a nice life down there,” and later, “Forgive.”

Luise Fuchs, West Germany, who has been taping voices for years, wrote recently that she is now working with a video camera and has already gotten good transmissions. I am looking forward to the pictures she has promised to send and have asked her to tell us the method she is using so I can share this with members in a future newsletter.

Clara Laughlin, VA State Coordinator, reports that her special guide, Callie, in commenting about spirit communication said, “This is the gift that God gave to Callie.”

Tina Laurent, Wales, has called and written several times in the last three months. She has formed a Survival Study Group which meets weekly to study all aspects of paranormal phenomena, while developing their own psychic talents.

Differences in Mediumistic Communication

Many thanks are owed to Hans Heckmann, PA AA-EVP member, who translated several of the excellent Harsch-Fischbach newsletters from German to English. Technician, a non-human entity, who assists the Fischbachs in their work described the difference between a medium and electronically assisted communication as follows:

Communication via Medium (Deep trance; half trance, awake) 4/5 Psyche--1/5 Spirit

Electronically assisted communication--1/5 Psyche--4/5 Spirit

Egyptian Odyssey in Egypt

At this time, a group of individuals is having a wonderful, enriching experience with Lynn Gardner in Egypt. I had hoped, and expected, to be a part of the group, but because of my commitment to Fawcett and AA-EVP demands, I just could not find the time to get away for eighteen days.

Lynn is planning a trip to Peru in June. I will not be able to go, but if you are interested in an excellent metaphysical tour of Peru write to Lynn: [address withheld].

A Note About Enclosures

Your Fall Newsletter, is “rich” with enclosures. So rich, in fact, that for the first time, it is being mailed in a large manila envelope. The main reason is Harold Sherman’s poem which could be mailed flat without folding in case you want to frame it. You will also find a tape order form for all three conferences. Look it over carefully. If you were unable to be with us, or even if you were, this is an excellent way for you to vicariously live, or relive, our truly outstanding programs. You will also find a form to order, Ray’s Light, Too, a book of poetry by Ray Dietz, MD AA-EVP member, and finally, a membership application. Share the fun of AA-EVP with a friend. Give them the opportunity to read about EVP-transcommunication through tape recorder and television, plus other evidence for survival and different areas of Psi phenomena through our quarterly newsletter. Christmas will soon be here; birthdays are ever re-occurring; and “time” to be thoughtful is always a factor. If you would like your gift to be a surprise, just make a note of this when you return the application, giving the date and occasion for the event. I will send an appropriate card at the date specified telling them their gift has come from you!

Odds and Ends

Our Winter NEWS means time for the Best Of ‘87 feature. Tapers, please send me a list of two or three messages you taped during 1987, which you feel were most significant as well as being of good quality. Everyone has always enjoyed this in the past. Deadline for all Winter NEWS is December 12. We want to hear from you. This is your newsletter!

Always my best wishes, Sarah Estep