From Our Viewpoint

A time for celebration! With our Spring newsletter, we are celebrating our sixth anniversary. Who would have thought when I wrote the first: “From My Viewpoint” six years ago that so much would come to pass?

As I look back over the years to our birth in the spring of 1982, I see not only the growth our organization has enjoyed, which is the least important of our achievements, but first, what the AA-EVP has meant in the lives of hundreds of people, the positive difference it has made. In addition, I feel that we have in some small way contributed to the entire field of electronic transcommunication.

With your help, we have held three national conferences, sponsored two trips to Egypt, with a trip to England on the horizon just two months away. We have published twenty-five newsletters. Without you this certainly couldn’t have been done. My book, Voices Of Eternity, was sold this year to Fawcett. It is now in galley form and will reach the bookstores this September. Again, without you, I doubt I would ever have seen it through to completion. You, the AA-EVP, play an important part in it.

Six years ago, it was almost unheard of for anyone to receive pictures through their TV from the beyond. Now, although still not an everyday occurrence, more and more European experimenters are reporting positive results. They are sharing with us their methods so others may hope to see, as well as hear, from loved ones who have made their transition. Computer contacts were unknown. Today, again in Europe, they are becoming almost commonplace for a few experimenters.

From my viewpoint, I have something of a bird’s eye view of the field and I can tell you that it looks promising. There have been many changes in the last six years, most of them for the good. The future is bright, even brighter than I dared hope in my May editorial of 1982.

As I wrote then, and as I write today, “This is Your Association. ... Together we will do great things.” In the Anniversary issue last year I wrote, “It is important that we remain an out-reach organization, to let others know what we have learned and to present all genuine evidence for postmortem survival.” I also wrote that it was important to help others realize more of their “inner-light.”

We each have this inner-light. It may be dim at times and flicker weakly, but if we search within ourselves, it can be found. As we nourish it and try to live ideals expressed, then perhaps, we will be privileged to help others also realize the goodness of their own inner-light.

We have grown from twenty some members living in ten states and Canada, to a large group living in many states and ten countries. A number of our original charter members still remain. I am indebted to you for your faithful support. The six years haven’t always been easy but your encouragement helped keep me going. I think, I hope, we have learned a great deal together. For those who joined later, for those yet to come, we welcome you and ask that you share your “gifts” whatever they may be. No one need fear they have nothing to contribute. By reaching out to others, by giving a hand to those who stumble, by sharing our essence of being, we give the greatest gift imaginable. Let us light each other’s path.

A Trip to Pennsylvania

On March 30, my husband and I traveled to Pennsylvania to visit Hans Heckmann, AA-EVP member and his house guest, Martin Wenzel of West Germany. Martin was in the U.S. to lecture about Klaus Schrieber’s video experiments at a Seth conference held in Louisville, KY. During the two weeks he was here, he also visited Walter and Mary Jo Uphoff, WI AA-EVP members.

Although Martin and I had never met, we immediately felt a close rapport. I have noticed before, in meeting tapers from around the world, that there is an immediate harmony as we sit and discuss mutual efforts. There is not always complete agreement about all aspects but there has never been a feeling of strangeness. Rather, there is joy we have found a kindred soul.

Martin expressed a concern, shared by me, that people who begin taping seldom realize that upon rare occasions they can open themselves to negative entities. When this occurs, the person may not understand what has happened; they may not even be aware of it. Eventually, if it continues to such an extent that it can no longer be ignored, the affected person becomes panic stricken and doesn’t know what to do. We agreed that the reason the situation arises so seldom is probably largely due to the fact that few people, in the end, go very far with their tapings. He felt reassured when I said that I had gone into the matter of possible possession in Voices.

Since Martin’s interest is T.P.P. (television picture phenomena), we did two experiments—first using Schreiber’s method and then his. We felt we had positive results. Martin also showed a number of slides that Schreiber had received of people, mostly known to him, from the other side through his television. Each was outstanding.

Just Ask

In March, Hans Heckmann mailed to me the translation of a booklet prepared by Holger Sauer and Martin Wenzel of Aachen, West-Germany. The booklet describes the video methods used by Schreiber, Martin Wenzel and the Harsch-Fischbachs of Luxembourg. Since the booklet is copyrighted, I wrote to Sauer and asked if I had his permission to share it with our members.

He replied graciously writing, “I am willing to support your efforts to spread the knowledge of life beyond death and to unveil a little bit of it by the methodology of recording voice phenomena and videos, etc. This is a very important task.”

If you would like a copy of the video booklet, please send me a self-addressed stamped, number 10 (business size) envelope. You will need to affix $.45 postage. I will be pleased to copy the booklet for you without charge.

Transition of Two Well-Known Investigators

Klaus Schreiber, mentioned above, died the first week in January. When I asked Martin Wenzel the cause of his death, he said he had been ill from a heart condition which eventually caused his death.

Richard Shergold, physical investigator from England, has also died. Word of his death was received from Tina Laurent, Wales AA-EVP member. Tina wrote that his death was unexpected and that they had been friends, exchanging many letters over the years.

We wish both men godspeed and hope they will find joy and will continue with their work in the world beyond.

A Letter from England

Gilbert Bonner, well-known English taper, wrote in January after receiving the Winter NEWS. He said, “In your newsletter you mention using a wireless mike. I have used one for some years ...in the following manner. Recording from about 1500 Khz on Medium Wave I picked (voices) up on the radio mike which is tuned to the FM Band and this was recorded directly to tape, In other words I transferred MW to FM and within this process for some unknown electronic reason, voices were amplified...” Some messages of good quality that Gilbert has taped recently are: “Konstantin (Raudive) is directing.” “Bonner we’ve opened the line.” “Link unto this frequency.” “We are the great spirit.”

A Visit to the Woodrow Wilson House

Several months ago, the Producer of WTTG, Channel 5, Washington, D.C. (Fox Television) contacted me about taping in the Wilson house. The house, a stately mansion nearly 100 years old, is located on Embassy Row in Washington. Although the house has been unlived in for over twenty years, it is opened to the public at certain hours for tours. Several people work there daily in order to keep the fully furnished home in a fine state of preservation. They have reported many cases of unexplained phenomena. An apparition of a woman is often seen gliding down the stairs; footsteps are heard pacing back and forth; and voices and laughter come from empty rooms.

Arrangements were made by the producer for Ron and Nancy Stallings, who are close friends, and I, to visit the home one evening when all visitors were gone. Nancy is especially mediumistic and has taped many voices. Her husband, Ron, is also very mediumistic with abilities that lie in the area of spirit photography.

During the three hours we spent in the Wilson house, I taped several Class A quality voices. They were all received in President Wilson’s bedroom as I held the tape recorder above the bed where he spent many months, as a result of ill health, and finally died. Near the beginning of the taping a male voice whispered, “I’m here.” The same voice added one counter later in Class A quality, “I miss the children.” About an hour later, I returned to the bedroom and this time a female tonal voice, in reply to my question as to whether there was anyone on the bed, said, “Just Swaden. Something’s trying to pull him.”

The program was aired a week later to a favorable response.

No claim is made that I was in contact with President Wilson or his wife, Edith, who lived in the house until 1961. The house was occupied by others before the Wilsons bought it in the 1920s.

Microphone with Amplifier

Monte Hearon, Oregon State Coordinator, reported that Raymond Bayless, well-known psychical investigator and author, had written to him that he was now using a microphone with a built-in amplifier to tape paranormal voices. Raymond said the results were good. In the Edmund Scientific catalogue, Monte found a similar microphone.

I ordered the mike (Model No. X38,042--cost $59.95) from Edmund. Although I have been using it less than two weeks and it is too soon to make a final judgment, the results are promising. It seems to amplify some of the fainter voices coming through the radio, so I can determine first if it is a paranormal voice and secondly, what has been said. At the same time, it amplifies some of the background white noise of the radio but, all in all, I have found its use to be a plus.

Lightweight headphones are included with the mike. It is necessary to buy an adapter plug, easily found at Radio Shack, in order to plug the mike directly into the tape recorder. The Edmund Scientific web sit is http://edmunds.dminsite.com/

Harold Sherman’s Books and Papers-University of Arkansas

A letter was received from Martha Sherman, widow of Harold, a few months ago. She wrote that the University of Central Arkansas at Conway had contacted her about Harold’s work. They have requested that all of Harold’s papers, books, etc. be turned over to them for their Archives! She commented that the collection of materials over the years was ‘horrendous” but the University had given her orders not to destroy a thing. Martha said, “They may rue the day. Already they have taken 3 van loads with as many yet to go.”

Their daughter Marcia went to Conway to see just what was happening and said it is a beautiful and gracious arrangement. They are just beginning to process Harold’s material which will take many months to complete.

I know that all of us rejoice at the final disposition of Harold’s work. It will be on display and available for countless numbers of people in the future, so they may gain some understanding as to the great contribution Harold made to man during his years on the earth-plane.

Computer Contacts-Luxembourg

Jules and Maggie Harsch-Fischbach, Luxembourg AA-EVP members, are continuing to have not only excellent results with their tape recorder, but outstanding communication through their personal computer.

Some of the entities they are communicating with are deceased people from the Earth Plane. At least one, a female named Swejen Salter, is from a parallel universe called “Varid.”

In a recent letter received from Ernst Senkowski, West-German AA-EVP member, he wrote, “Yes, it is very difficult to accept the existence and (maybe) importance of parallel-worlds and to fit this into our own limited worldviews. The female communicator Swejen Salter now coming through Luxembourg ... is trying to enlighten us about this subject ... We should not forget that faulty computer ‘behavior’ has been observed time and again...”

Ernst then mentioned that Boden, of West-Germany, and Ken Webster, of England, had similar experiences with their computers. In Webster’s case, he was apparently in contact with a deceased entity who lived in the 16th century, and the more than 250 printed messages were largely in old English dialect. Webster has written a book about these contacts which should be out by January 1989.

According to messages from Swejen Salter, she died on Varid during an experiment. Upon awakening after death, she found she was in an area where some of our own earth-plane individuals go. It was there she discovered a transcommunication station and is able to operate it with the knowledge she gained during her lifetime on Varid. Many of these communications are to Ernst, a physicist and electrical engineer, and are highly technical and of a scientific nature.

George Meek, Founder of Metascience Foundation, NC AA-EVP member, called me shortly after returning from Europe. He said he and Ernst had sat with the Harsch-Fischbachs while information from the beyond was coming through on their computer print-out. They both found it extremely impressive. The print-out in German was kindly translated for me by Hans Heckmann.

In his remarks, Hans wrote: “Original print-out was without spacing and in small letters (except for 2 breaks) ... No punctuations were used except slash (/) for End of Sentence.”

In order to give you some idea of the way the messages look as they appear on the computer, you will see below several lines from the February 6 transmission:

twortbefriedigtesienicht/ichglaubeherausgefundenzuhabenweshalb/
ihrmarmoristeineandereralsderhier/imsiebzehntenjahrhundertbefassten

VTF Report

Hans Heckmann has translated a Journal of the German VTF for me. Most of the Journal was devoted to the various lectures and demonstrations of their annual meeting in Fulda, Germany. In the one lecture, Professor Dr. Horstmar Holtkamp discussed microphone techniques he uses. He said he found there was greater intelligibility to the voices if he used cheaper and older headsets for listening to the voices on tape playback. He felt the reason might be due to their restricted frequency response. Such headphones emphasize the voice range and filter out everything else. The core of Dr. Holtkamp’s work deals with his use of piezoelectric loudspeakers as microphones. He connects several loudspeakers together to obtain optimum amplification and has had very good success with this method.

In his opening, F. Koberle, President of the Association, said that since Jürgenson discovered the voices in 1959, “Tape recorders have become smaller, many useful accessories were developed such as F. Seidl’s Psychophone, special low noise microphone preamps, parabolic mics, the use of piezoelectric loudspeakers as microphones and the use of additional reverberation units and power interrupters.”

It was felt that this year’s meeting did not show any new breakthroughs, but it would be false to say that research was standing still. “The willingness to experiment ... was as great as last year. Much tinkering is going on. Seemingly weird methods are tried out, some with success. Many are not satisfied any more with old recording methods but are realistic enough not to expect more than a step-by-step technical progress.”

Group Project for ‘88 Update

As you remember, in our Winter Newsletter, I urged members to become more involved with actual taping; to organize small groups to meet once a week in their home for the sole purpose of taping. I wrote, “In most cases where outstanding earth-plane, other dimension contact has taken place, the entire focus has been taping voices of the unseen ... it appears the joint positive energies of group recordings aids greatly in helping the other side to communicate. Almost, unbelievably, there is not a single such group in the Unites States!” I also pointed out that we are the only group in this country in a position to do this sort of thing.

The response has been less than what I had hoped. Only Clara Laughlin, VA State Coordinator and Jerry Bennett, GA State Coordinator replied they planned to start. Carol Barron, MA State Coordinator hopes to start a group in the future. A few others wrote that they thought it was a good idea but they didn’t know where they’d find like-minded people.

Take a lesson from Tina Laurent, Wales AA-EVP member, mentioned in the last newsletter. “We are recruiting members of quality slowly from our ad in our local main library.” Might I suggest you do the same? You don’t need to be a state coordinator to organize such a group. Anyone can do this. For those of you who complain you don’t get much through your tape recorder, or results are diminishing, this could change things around. It could be the start of something big! Let me know if I can help.

Friedrich Jürgenson Returns!

In our Winter Newsletter, we announced the transition of Friedrich Jürgenson and also were privileged to carry his last picture taken by Ingeborg Frank, NY AA-EVP member.

Since his death, Jürgenson has spoken on tape to Ernst Senkowski while he was visiting the Harsch-Fischbachs in Luxembourg. It also seems that he has come through on television for at least one individual.

During a phone conversation with George Meek, he said he had heard from Claude Thorli of Sweden, a correspondent of his for the last ten years. Claude’s wife Ellen, is very psychic and she was “told” to turn on her T.V. She did this and a picture of Jürgenson appeared on her screen at the same time his burial service was being held seventy-five miles away.

An Interesting and Worthwhile Project

Valerie Tjaden, NJ AA-EVP member, has started a project in which all AA-EVP members can participate. She is contacting members and asking them to share their psychic experiences with her. When completed, she is going to make up a booklet which will be available to Association members and their friends. She will withhold the names of those who request it.

In a recent update Valerie wrote, “I am extremely enthusiastic over the response for the booklet. Each letter I have received is filled with wonderful experiences that will serve to comfort and spread the messages that our deceased loved ones are sending love, comfort and protection.” The deadline for letters is the end of May.

News From and About Members

Jerry Bennett sent me a video tape that showed him and a friend doing what they call “table- aerobics” (table tipping). Although I have seen several demonstrations before of this phenomenon, the demonstration on Jerry’s tape is the most active I have viewed. The fairly large-size table walked all over Jerry’s living room; partly climbed up on the furniture; and Jerry and his friend had difficulty keeping up with it. Ruth McWilliams, another GA AA-EVP member filmed the table with her camera and gave suggestions for questions to ask the table, to which it replied.

Phyllis Butcher, VA, wrote that she has resumed taping now that she and her husband have returned from over seas Naval duty. She has received a number of messages, some Class A. One of the most interesting was, “We received yesterday a message from Callie for you.” It was not until several months later when Phyllis received a letter from Clara Laughlin saying that Callie was her guide, that Phyllis learned who he was.

Noel Heagerty, NY, wrote he is continuing to tape on a steady basis and having results. He is writing to a number of members on the cross-country list and is pleased at their response. He said, “Many people express great surprise on receiving a letter from a fellow member. All of them (mention) their feelings on taping and often tell of their own psychic experiences.”

Monte Hearon, After Friedrich Jürgenson’s death, Mary Margaret Fuller, Associate Publisher and Editor of FATE magazine, asked Monte to write an obituary for him. Monte did this and the two-page result was outstanding. It appeared in the March issue.

Dale Kaczmarek, IL, wrote, “I’ve been getting many more interesting photographs of spirits from all over the world and many have proved to be totally authentic while a few others are simple lens reflections, double exposures, etc.” Dale wrote that he is getting a computer program that will enhance the photographs and he will be able to see further details.

Clara Laughlin wrote that she had received a group of messages from Michael Smisko (who she never knew) directed to his wife Anne. Clara and Anne have become close friends since Anne joined the AA-EVP in 1983. The messages went, “Michael Smisko SOS Clarissa.” “Smisko to Annie.” “You’re tired, unhealthy.” “Try a doctor—Mike.” Clara called Anne at once and learned that she had crushing chest and back pains all night which were continuing as they talked. At the urging of Clara, and as a result of the messages from her husband. Anne went to the doctor who confirmed she had a heart problem.

Clara’s sister, Elsa, died recently after a long illness. She was in the hospital unconscious for some time at the end. During these weeks, Clara received a number of messages from the other side indicating they were preparing for her arrival. She died at 7:50 a.m., and at 10:30 a.m., Clara made a recording—shortly before her brother-in-law called to tell her of Elsa’s death. During the 10:30 taping a number of messages came through that Elsa had died and was now with her friends and loved ones. The following day Elsa, herself, spoke to Clara giving her messages such as, “It’s a miracle! Elsa your sister. I watch you dear Clara. You write with a pencil!”

Tina Laurent wrote in a recent letter that she has been discussing with a public relations woman the possibility of selling her Casebook of Paranormal Experiences for a TV series in Wales. The people who have read the Casebook believe it would be very popular and well received.

Trip to Mystical England Update

A number of members returned the form in our last newsletter, requesting more information for our twelve day trip to England June 23-July 4. The response to the colored brochure outlining our journey, day to day, has been enthusiastic.

This will be the first EVP workshop taught on location in England, and is under the auspices of the AA-EVP. We will leave in the early evening on June 2 from two locations: Baltimore and Chicago. The two groups will meet in London the next morning and remain together until we return. There isn’t room to detail all of the wonderful experiences that Lynn Gardner, our tour leader, has planned but to name a few: On the first morning we drive to Chicester to see the largest Roman ruin in England. Later that day we go to Portsmouth Harbor to visit Henry VII’s ship, the Mary Rose. Before the day is over we will also visit Beaulieu, whose resident ghost enjoys making its presence known to visitors.

From then, until the end of the tour, it will be one exciting event after another. Imagine having the opportunity to tape voices and take spirit photographs at such places as Glastonbury, Stonehenge, Shakespeare’s birthplace and the Ann Hathaway cottage at Stratford Upon Avon. We will have a free morning to shop and explore Bath. We’ll visit castles and see the famous 180 ft. Cerne Giant. Stops will be made at Westminster Abbey and the Tower of London—imagine what you might get on tape there, or the spirit photographs you may take! There will be time allowed during the trip to relax and to shop.

There is still time to sign-up for this wonderful once in a lifetime, never to be forgotten trip. I have been to Egypt twice with Lynn and there was no question that she was the one I wanted to direct our trip to England. She is an excellent facilitator in helping each person realize his or her fullest inner potential. Deadline is May 15. Give me a call and I will mail the brochure to you at once. I’m looking forward to having you with us!

Odds and Ends

Thank you for making the last six years possible. Let’s have this up-coming year the best one yet. Deadline for the Summer NEWS is July 9.