From Our Viewpoint

In the midst of death there are affirmations of life, if we are open enough to recognize them.

My next door neighbor died in November. His wife, to whom he’d been married for sixty years, called me frantically one morning and said, “Sarah, I think Henry has had a stroke. He’s on the floor and can’t get up. Will you come?”

I ran over and although Henry was conscious, he was partially paralyzed. As Patty rushed around getting dressed, waiting for the doctor and ambulance to arrive, I could do little more than kneel beside Henry, pat his shoulder and murmur words of comfort. Although he was than six hours from death, he recognized me, raised his hand in greeting and said, “Thank you.”

A short time later, driving Patty to the hospital, she said, “The doctor told me I must be prepared for Henry’s death. Perhaps it’s just as well since his mind has started to go. Last week he began talking about wanting to go back home, that he had to go there.”

As gently as I could, I explained to Patty that Henry was talking about going back home to the spirit world. Many times when a person nears death, he realizes his true home is in the spirit dimension. Fortunately, Patty is the sort of person who could accept what I was saying and felt greatly comforted. I was only able to give this comfort though, because of what I have learned through my tape recorder the last eleven years—that life follows life.

In December, three people came to my home. Joan’s husband and son had died within six months of each other. The couple she was with had a sixteen year old daughter who had been killed in an automobile accident last summer. “We’re hurting,” Joan said, “and we’ve come to you for help.” During our conversation, before playing a short tape for them, I asked if any of their loved ones had given an indication that they thought death might be approaching. “Why, yes!” answered Barbara whose daughter had been killed. “Lisa started talking about dying several months earlier and even wondered if her boyfriend would be able to come home from the Navy to attend her funeral.” You would not normally expect a sixteen year old to suddenly start talking about dying unless they had a precognitive feeling this might happen. We explored this further and when I asked if Lisa had given any sign she might still be around, such as the movement or disappearance of objects, the father, who because of his grief had been unable to speak until then, said, “Yes!” and smiled for the first time. Barbara mentioned several personal trinkets of Lisa’s that had been mysteriously moved from one place to another. I helped them see that Lisa was trying to let them know she was all right. When they left they said, “You’ve given us hope.” To be truthful, it was not I who had given them hope, it was the Voices on the tape they’d heard and the fact that I could help them see that there is life beyond life.

Recently, a person we will call John phoned me. He had read about my work in, The Dead Are Alive, by Harold Sherman. Last spring a person he loved very much had died and he felt devastated. Sitting alone on the beach in August, he was not at all sure he would ever know joy again. A man who he had never seen before, or since, walked up and quietly handed him Harold’s book. Turning, he walked away just as quietly as he had come. John started to read the book and by the time he had finished, he knew the dead must be alive, including his loved one.

We can wonder who this man was who appeared out of nowhere and returned to —?—. There are few who would call the incident a coincidence. Although the man was unknown to John, I suspect John was not unknown to him.

In the last three months, I have been exposed to an unusual number of deaths. In some cases, I was privileged to offer comfort to those who were grieving. They could begin to see those they loved were giving affirmations that it was not the end—that they Lived!

A Visit to Luxembourg

The last part of October, my husband and I flew to Luxembourg to visit AA-EVP members Jules and Maggie Harsch-Fischbach for several days. The Fischbachs are noted for their success in receiving long discourses from the other side through the speaker of their radio using a technique which they call the Eurosignal-Bridge system. The Eurosignal is a series of electronic sounds heard through radios of certain European countries. Jules and Maggie tune one radio to this signal, while the voices come through a second radio. Along with the radio, they use a TV for the white noise produced when tuned to a blank channel, two ultra-violet lamps, a battery powered fluorescent lamp, combined with an incandescent blinking lamp, and a square-wave field generator which they bought from Otto Konig of West Germany. All of these devices used together seem to produce the necessary sounds and energies, which combined with Maggie’s unique energies, enable the next dimension to speak. Those sitting in the recording room can clearly hear what is being said and can largely interpret such communications which come through in the native tongue of the person to whom it is being given.

We made two excellent recordings while there. The first, on Friday evening, brought Konstantin Raudive, who greeted us personally by name, followed by a long discourse from Henri Sainte Claire Deville, a frequent communicator. On Saturday morning after greetings by Technician, the Fischbach’s special helper from the other side, Raudive came through and spoke at length.

Our very pleasant visit was enhanced when AA-EVP members, Dr. Ernst Senkowski and his wife Adelheid, drove from Mainz, West Germany on Friday morning, and Tina Laurent and her husband, Carl, flew in from London an hour later. From then, until we flew back to the U.S. Saturday afternoon, all of us spent many good hours of conversation around the large dining room table in the Fischbach apartment. We asked and answered many questions about our personal efforts in the field of voice phenomena, we listened to tapes of messages received from the beyond, and as it should always be, we shared what we knew, we learned from each other!

Oscar Solibakke-Liberant

Word has come that Oscar Solibakke, NC AA-EVP member since 1 983, died in November.

Many of you met Oscar who attended our first two conferences. When I wrote to him last July to see if he would be coming to the ‘87 conference, he replied, “Sarah, I am quite ill so I may be on your tapes from the other side soon, where I’ll continue as an AA-EVP member...”

In my note back to him, after expressing distress at hearing about his illness, I said his faith in life after life should be of great comfort to him. I reminded him of what our dear friend Mercedes Shepanek had said in her last phone conversation with me, “I’m looking forward to it. It will be a new adventure.” I closed my letter with, “Miracles do happen at times ... but if it is time for you to go, please give my love to Mercedes. Both of you will always be AA-EVP members! Someday, our paths will cross again...”

A card came November 9, saying, “Oscar Solibakke has peacefully returned to his maker.”

We wish you joy Oscar.

Fine Tuning-New Zealand

A letter came in December from Rex Sanders of Auckland, New Zealand, who had heard about the AA-EVP. He was eager to share a discovery his group has made with all of us. According to Rex it, “Made all the difference to our experiments.” He wrote, “After tuning your equipment to the finest degree, you are to close your eyes, still with fingers lightly on tuning knob, wait for an image to appear in your mind’s eye. This image is to be of a specific and reliable person and with delicately moving the tuner, the image will intensify. Once the person’s mouth can be seen moving, you will note that your fingers have lost contact with the tuner. You are psychically FINE TUNING.”

Rex and his group have been interested in voice phenomena since 1958, and have investigated many different aspects of it. We thank them for sharing with us, and as mentioned earlier, we should share what we know. We should learn from each other.

Group Project for ‘88

This project is for every AA-EVP member. All you need is a tape recorder. It need not be an expensive recorder, as almost any type will do. Experience is not required. You need not feel you are unqualified if you don’t possess great psychic-mediumistic gifts. Patience, persistence, an openness and desire to communicate with those in the next dimension are important attributes.

In most cases where outstanding earth plane-other dimension communication has taken place, the entire focus has been taping voices of the unseen: (such as, the Darmstadt group of West Germany, the Bacci-Capitani group of Grosseto, Italy, and the Harsch-Fischbach group of Luxembourg). 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 United States!

At the present time we have isolated tapers scattered here and there toiling mightily at their tape recorders. Some have told me, “I feel like I’m getting stale. Nothing exciting is coming through.” I can well believe it. We have only so many energies to expend. Eventually, sooner or later, they are consumed and new energies need to be infused. To put it simply, new blood is needed.

This project, however, is not specifically aimed at current tapers, although I certainly hope they will take an active part. It is for you who perhaps have never taped before, or have become discouraged after receiving one or two messages. Gather a few like-minded people together. More than six would probably be too unwieldy. Less then three might not give the helpful extra energies. Agree to meet once a week at the same time in the same location for the sole purpose of receiving taped communication from the next dimension.

I ended my first newsletter (May 1982) with, “Together we will do great things.” We have, but I believe we can do even greater things. With the number of members we have, located in forty states, and with many AA-EVP members living less than thirty minutes from other Association members, we are in an ideal situation to further electronic-transcommunication. There is no other group in our country to do this. It is up to us. Think about it! Don’t put the idea aside as a good one, but one in which you’ll let someone else step forward. You are the one to take that step. If you need help in getting started, write or call. I’ll do everything I can to assist you.

News From and About Members

Roy Bauer, Canada, included a letter with his membership renewal. He wrote, “I have been interested in psychic phenomena for the last five years, but nothing has interested me as much as EVP. ... The most important thing I have learnt while experimenting with EVP is that the ability to record voices is not a right, but is a privilege.” Roy indicated that, although he had taped some good voices, he was discouraged and was going to stop for now, but, “I will always be interested in EVP and will probably go back to recording...” (some day).

Ingeborg Teek Frank, N.Y. and West Germany, wrote that she had just read an excellent book in German that she feels our members who are literate in reading German would enjoy. It is based on sayings by Leonardo da Vinci and is called, Worte Meister Leonardos (Words by Master Leonardo). It is published by Insel Bücherei. One of the passages that especially caught Ingeborg’s attention, and which she feels is especially appropriate for those who are interested in voice phenomena, reads, “Fortunate those people who listen to what the dead have to say.”

Tina Laurent, Wales, has acquired practically all of the proceedings and Journals of the Society for Psychical Research (London) dating back to 1864. She said if any AA-EVP member needs a specific reference to it, she will be glad to make a copy of it. Tina is on the cross-country list. The Survival Study Group, which she started, continues to meet each Monday. Although there are only four members, Tina writes, “We are recruiting members of quality slowly from an ad in the local main library.” In her last letter she wrote, “I have found a deep sea biologist from the Oceanography Dept. who is going to take a tape recorder in the diving bell soon to make experimental tapes for me.”

Valerie Tjaden, NJ, sent me an article about her work which appeared in the local newspaper. She and her mother work together out in the field trying to capture pictures of the unseen. Victor De Vincenzo, another NJ AA-EVP member, was also quoted in the article. She closed her letter with, “Everybody should know that just because our loved ones moves on to another plane, they never leave us. We’ve all heard it said before, but it really is true.”

Television Picture Phenomena-Luise Fuchs

Luise Fuchs, West German, AA-EVP member, recently sent me a group of pictures which she has received through her television from the other side. Many thanks to Tom Roers, MD AA-EVP member and publisher of Second Sight, a metaphysical catalogue, who translated Luise’s letter.

“I’m sending you today as promised some of the photographs taken from my video tapes.... The following is necessary: A TV set and an “empty” channel for the video. A video cassette recorder. It should have a “Pause/Still” button which will permit a clear picture to be frozen, and a slow motion button. A video camera.

The video recorder is connected by cable to the TV set and tuned to the empty channel. The video camera is connected to the video recorder. The focus (zoom lens) is turned up all the way. Peculiar forms and illuminations will begin to appear on the screen. At this point, the video recorder is turned on and these images are recorded. Once this taping has ended (don’t record too long in the beginning), turn off the camera and rewind the recording to the beginning. Now the real work begins. The tape can’t be run through like a film, but the “Pause/Still” button has to be pressed and a thorough search made on the screen for what looks like paranormal phenomena. If nothing or something very faint can be recognized, thoroughly search with the slow motion button or the so-called “arrest” [pause] switch, picture by picture. You will then find paranormal images on your screen, as are to be seen in the enclosed photos. I would also like to mention that several weeks work is necessary until you’re able to tune in images successfully. But once the images come in, there’s hardly a recording which will not have some (paranormal) content. To all who want to try this, I wish them much success and the joy that is connected with work such as this.”

Friedrich Jürgenson-Transition October 15, 1987

Friedrich Jürgenson, the great pioneer-father of electronic voice phenomena, has returned home to the world beyond. In 1959, while he was recording songs of birds, he discovered he had voices on his tapes, one of which he recognized as his deceased mother. He continued with his work up until his death and wrote two books about his efforts, neither translated into English. Ingeborg Frank spent three days visiting him in Sweden a week before his death. She sent us the above picture, which was taken on Oct. 5, ten days before he died in his sleep, and is probably the last picture of him. Ingeborg, in writing to me about her visit said, “I was overwhelmed by his kindness and warmth. I also was deeply impressed by the purity of his heart and mind.” Technician has told the Fischbachs that Jürgenson will, in time, communicate with us on tape. Meanwhile, “We wish you godspeed Friedrich. Our debt to you is beyond measure.”

[Please note that, in 2001, two A-EVP members, Tom Wingert and George Wynne, translated Friedrich Jürgenson’s book, Voice Transmissions with the Deceased, into English. You can download a copy from http://www.fargfabriken.se/fjf/]

Best of ‘87

Carol Barron, MA State Coordinator, wrote that when she asked if we continue to exist after death, a male voice answered, “Thou Carol, will in orbit, to far out in spirit!” The funniest for ‘87 was a heavily accented female voice which said, “Carol, we have streudel here.”

Betty Evens, VA, asked her deceased sister how she liked her newest granddaughter and the sister replied, “I like little Sissie.” Betty played this for us at our national conference last August, and it was an exceptionally loud, clear voice.

Clara Laughlin, VA State Coordinator, said her special guide, Callie, gives a message once in a while that indicates reincarnation. Early this year he said, “Mr. Laughlin holds up Clara’s Indian-East Asian biography.” Several months later she received, “You still love your Asian hero Tom.” (Tom was the name of Clara’s husband). Clara also taped the name, “Deenah,” which is a word the Lamoreaux brothers (early tapers) received many times and was supposedly the name of a planet.

Tina Laurent wrote that while she was visiting the Swansea museum in Wales, she said into her portable tape recorder that she was trying to contact “anyone within the walls of this museum.” A voice replied, “We’re the dead and buried.” Later, she said she’d like to hear from anyone who was listening, and the voice heard in the previous message answered, “Who is anyone? The Living? I’m going stay careful.”

David Lothamer, CA State Coordinator, said he felt one of the most significant messages he taped this year was when he asked why we don’t have continuity of spirit communicators. His question was answered with, “Be it the frequent change of Spirits.”

Dan Mckee, IL State Coordinator, feels the most important message he received was the one mentioned in the Spring ‘87 NEWS. “I say the end soul in flesh, as ye the man is. I am I, but the self is over. Your days is numbered there. We mighty down there with ‘ya. Remember, we lived that he’s gonna use, and I need them there. I hope you live. Reign with that.”

Manifestation of the EVP Miracle

Noel Heagerty, NY AA-EVP member writes, “The sudden reality of being able to contact a loved one (through EVP) can create a most sensitive situation.... This mixture of extreme realities can, at the onset of recording, cause a strange type of hysteria because you are so desperate to make contact.... A person should be calm and as relaxed as possible when recording, otherwise it will cause much unneeded tension and wasted expectation.... The EVP can manifest as the miracle it really is if you relax more than you think you ever could. The mere possibility of making contact is so powerful, awesome and incredible, that you have to keep cool...”

Looking at Books

Joy Wallace, RI, AA-EVP member, has published a book of poetry which is uplifting and spiritual. Many of our members would enjoy Joy’s book, Whispers of The Soul, which she sells for $4.40, (postage included). Joy plans to donate any proceeds to charity and the less fortunate. Her address is: [Address withheld].

Forthcoming Books

Irish Gallagher, MD, AA-EVP member, hopes to have a book out this spring about ghosts in MD.

Lynn Gardner, IN, is finishing her book which should be out in the near future.

Ernst Senkowski will soon have a book published about Electronic-Transcommunication. Although it will be in German, it will give an excellent picture of the phenomena for those literate in German.

Spirit Summonings—An editor from Time-Life Books contacted me in December about the field of voice phenomena. Spirit Summonings will be one of the Time-Life Book series which are so popular and will be available the end of ‘88. It will examine the entire field of spirit communication dating back to early Spiritualism. The last part of the book will focus on Electronic-Transcommunication. [As it turns out, only Video ITC was briefly mentioned in the book.]

Voices Of Eternity—My book about electronic communication with other dimensions is moving ahead right on schedule. Louisa Rudeen, my editor at Fawcett, has notified me that it is being type-set this month and it will be available in bookstores around the country in September 1988.

Locating Books

Is there a book you want but have been unable to find because it is out of print? Chances are, Middle Earth Book Shop can find it for you. They recently located a good second-hand copy of:

The Unobstructed Universe by Stewart Edward White for me when all other sources had failed. Write or call: Paul B. Hudson, Middle Earth Books, 251 Crestone Way, Livermore, CO 80536 USA, (970) 224 5650, email: pbh33@aol.com

Director of Research and Development Report

Roger Brower, N.C., who is our Research and Development director, wrote in a recent letter, “I am becoming a believer ... that a ‘sophisticated’ approach may not have a greater chance of success than a layman’s experimental approach. What an answer for all the enthusiastic tapers who have limited technical understanding and resources. They do have a good chance of success with ‘simple’ equipment.” Roger also wrote that before the next newsletter he plans to set up an arrangement using the Radio Shack wireless microphone for tests. He will provide diagrams and instructions for us. In addition, he will set up the arrangement used by the Harsch-Fischbachs and report results.

Journey to Mystical England

Pack your suitcase. Dust off your portable tape recorder. Lynn Gardner and I are leading a group of AA-EVP members and their friends to England, leaving June 23, and returning July 4. Many of you met Lynn at our last two conferences and you will remember the two of us took a group to Egypt in the spring of ‘86. Our journey will focus on southern England and will explore the mystical-spiritual dimensions which abound in many of those areas such as Glastonbury, Coventry, Bath, Stratford on Avon and Stonehenge, where we hope to make special arrangements so our group can spend several hours meditating under the full moon! As in Egypt, I will teach EVP workshops on location to those interested. Lynn will have special sessions in which she will show how you can open yourself to your own unique inner potential. The trip is under the auspices of the AA-EVP. Read the enclosed information sheet carefully. If interested in a trip of a lifetime with like-minded individuals, return the form to me promptly requesting more information.

Odds and Ends

Those on the cross-country list will find enclosed the complete list which is mailed each January.

For those individuals who are concerned as to when their membership expires, check your envelope which shows the expiration date. A special thank you to all those who mail their renewals a month early so I don’t have to contact them about it. Don’t worry! Even if your membership renewal arrives before the month it is due, you will be given the proper credit for it.

Deadline for the Spring NEWS is April 2. Please mark your calendar and send your news on time. I appreciate the thoughtfulness of people who do this, saving me the time and effort of having to remind them.

Always my best wishes, Sarah Estep