From Our Viewpoint 

Here I sit at my desk again looking at my new calendar, the start of a new decade. Much has been made on TV and in the papers the last few weeks about the 80s, and the beginning of the 90’s. Just think what it’s going to be like in ten years when we arrive at a new millennium! What will our thoughts be, what will our world be like, when we first look at our calendar that shows January 2000?

The buying of a new desk calendar each year is important to me. Symbolically, I know that this represents days and months of events ahead of me. There will be laughter and tears; surprises-some pleasant, some I’d rather do without. There will be some things during the year that will cause me fear and that I wonder if I can meet with courage. Some of those days will bring pleas for help, pleas that I hope I can answer with a willing and understanding heart.

So you can understand, perhaps, why I start looking for my new yearly calendar months ahead of time. It must “speak” to me. My calendar this year is about Roads. Each month shows a picture of a beautiful road, with an appropriate comment. Some are especially noteworthy. January presents a lovely snow covered road, with “Our future is limited only to the roads we travel” written beneath it.

Ah, yes, how often have we wondered what our life might have been if we had taken a different road in the past that brought us to today? We must live today to take us to the future. The road we choose now will lead us to what is to come. This suggests that we must pick our road carefully but at the same time, we must have courage to face new paths that would not limit our growth.

What does my calendar say for February? “Roads, like our dreams, keep us searching for what is over the hill... around the next bend.” I have said before that life should not be static. Each day is a transition, a bridge from the day before to the day beyond. I think there is a need for contemplation; some would call it meditation, others, prayer. Whatever, you would call it, I think it is necessary for each person to make time for a quiet assessment of where he is, where he wants to go, and then find the road that is most likely to take him to his dreams realized.

March suggests that, “New opportunities dawn with each new day.” Yes, obviously, but how many snatch at, or create opportunities during the day? How many go to bed at night and think, “Just another day?” To me, such a thought is an insult to God.

For April, we are told that, “Sometimes we must step apart from our world to find our place in it.” I suggested this for February, but I should add that we can never divorce ourselves from our world, our society. Whether we like it or not, we are an integral part of it. What we do, or don’t do, affects it more than we realize. I always keep in mind that one person can make a difference and this gives me hope.

“To some, roads are only the paths to a destination; to others, they are the adventure themselves,” suggests June. Are you going to endure life, or are you going to find the courage to move out, to face the unknown in spite of fears, and greet the adventure of life with open arms?

July brings us, “When the road you’re traveling isn’t going where you want it to, step out in a new direction.” This is similar to what I wrote for June. Have courage! Believe in yourself!

September: “I seek the road that leads me toward the far horizon.” How often I have written words to that effect, but as I said at our national conference in 1987, “A horizon is nothing more than the limit of our sight”

What road will you choose? In the end, we must each choose our own road. No one should or can, do it for us. Whatever road you take, may it bring you joy.

Do We Survive?

A member wrote to me that she is having doubts about whether we survive death. Her question has come about because so many people say that they’ll return to a loved one after they die, and then they never do. “X” has experienced her own lack of communication from those she loved. She closed her letter with, “I now do not know what to believe... have you anything to tell me?”

In replying to X, I wrote that I felt many times the loved one did return, they tried to give a clue, but the person was unaware that this had happened. I said that coming through on tape, or any way else, was difficult and that some spirits apparently didn’t, or couldn’t, for whatever reason. It could also be that the higher level the spirit is on, the more difficult it would be to communicate I also reminded X that the contact they were attempting might be so subtle that it could easily be missed.

Since writing to X, Dennis Stillings Director, Archaeus Project and a member of the AA-EVP, sent me a book that he has edited titled: cyber-biological studies of the imaginal component in the UFO contact experience.  One of the chapters, contributed by Peter Rojcewicz, although focusing on the UFO experience (or lack of) could well apply to why the majority of people feel they have not had contact with a deceased individual. Quoting briefly, Rojcewicz writes: “We need to understand the mind’s contribution to reality to appreciate how the mind both organizes and invents what is real. There exists a threshold of perception beyond which our senses cannot perform. Because our eyes are selective, we all must learn how to see. What we see is significantly shaped by what we have already seen, by the laws of our cultural “maps.”

Evidence for Survival

In the Autumn Newsletter, I requested that our members choose one or two areas that they felt were evidentially the strongest that individual consciousness survived bodily death. I am grateful to Robert Camburn of Glenside, PA and Monty Hearon, OR State Coordinator for responding.

Robert wrote: “I think that the near-death (NDE) and the electronic voice phenomena (EVP) give the strongest, that is the most rationally supportable and generally acceptable, evidence that human consciousness survives death. The full NDE experience (all reported stages) produces a vivid impression of after-life existence and, following resuscitation from “death” (frequently doctor certified) often or usually leaves an individual transformed psychologically and spiritually including a loss of fear of death through certainty of survival, and with feelings of unconditional love toward all. Even an incomplete or partial experience includes a sense of separation from—and therefore independence-of the body.

The established unusual quality of normally unaccountable EVP voices and the content of some recorded messages, offer impressive evidence that the voices are those of discarnates demonstrating survival.

Both of these evidences of survival are most important because they do not hint of suspect mediumistic or telepathic coloration, or fraudulent production, strongly suggest survival and have achieved a significant degree of respectability among careful and methodical investigators.”

Monty Hearon wrote: “Death-bed visions are of several types, including: Visions seen by the dying of persons unknown by them to be dead, death-bed visions seen by others and visions of the spirit of the dying person leaving the body.

Perhaps the strongest evidence of survival of the spirit is the first type mentioned above. Frequently, knowledge of the passing of the person seen had been withheld from the dying person because of that person’s terminal illness. Many of these occurrences had many witnesses. It is very difficult to explain such occurrences except through the concept of survival of the spirit.

Almost as strong evidence for survival are the experiences where both the person dying and one or more witnesses see the figure of one who has already passed on and has come to welcome the dying person.

There are many examples of witnesses seeing the spirit leaving the body of the person at the moment of death.

For further information on this subject reference could be made to Sir William Barrett’s book, Death-Bed Visions re published in 1986 by Aquarian Press, and to What They Saw at the Hour of Death by Karlis Osis and Erlendur Haroldsson published by Avon Books in 1977.”

Communications with Deceased Loved Ones

I talked to Valerie Tjaden, N.J. State Coordinator, who compiled the above named booklet for our members in 1988. It is filled with many heart-warming accounts of those who have made their transition and continue to be aware and reach out to loved ones left behind. A number of the reports were contributed by AA-EVP members. Valerie is willing to have it republished for those interested. To order a copy, send a check for $8.22 U.S. residents, $8.49 Canada, and $12.27 for overseas—-all payable in U.S. funds, no later than February 15, to her at: [Address withheld]

Ghosts at Fate!

Many of our members, as I do, subscribe to FATE magazine. As you know, Curtis Fuller, who began the magazine many years ago, sold it recently to Lleweliyn Publications.

Shortly before Christmas, I sent a 3,000 word article to them titled: “Have Tape Recorder: Will Travel.” It describes my experiences and messages that came through while I was taping in the field in such places as Egypt, England, Italy, Westminster Church in Baltimore, and President Woodrow Wilson’s home in Washington, D.C.

Within a week, the managing editor called and said they liked the article very much and would be publishing it in a future issue. As we talked, the Editor said FATE had just moved into a new building and from the disturbances going on in the basement, they felt they had some ghostly spirits. I was requested to send my How-To paper to them, that I offer free of charge at the end of the article, to anyone who contacts me. The Editor stated that as soon as my paper came, they would take a portable tape recorder to the basement and, following my suggestions, try to get rid of their ghosts!

The paper was mailed later that day.

You Don’t have to Wait!

If you would like a copy of “Tips For Trips” that I will mail to the readers of the article, who request it, send me a self-addressed stamped business size envelope, and I will mail it to you promptly.

News From and About Members

Carol Barron, MA State Coordinator, sent me a copy of the tape which Hildy Becker, VA, had mailed her that has the only example of Edgar Cayce’s voice. Hildy is a volunteer in the A.R.E. library in VA Beach, that holds the Cayce recording. Carol hopes to be able to have a voice print made of the messages she and I have received about Cayce and also the tape Elildy sent, so a comparison can be made. Dr. Eli Feldman, N.Y., a retired psychologist, devotes all of his time now to collecting evidence of survival after death. In January he sent me clippings of several interviews he has given to N.Y. papers about his interest. He holds classes in his home for people interested in survival. Jeff King, a new member from New Zealand, sent me a tape recently. He taped for months without many results but has discovered that by using an electret mike with running water as a sound source, the voices are coming through better. Clara Laughlin, VA State Coordinator, wrote that she also has Edgar Cayce on her tapes. He usually speaks when she requests healing for people. Recently he told her, “This is Cayce from the vivacious seventh.” Clara wonders if this means Cayce has moved to the seventh level of the spirit world. Tina Laurent, Wales, called and said that London TV has interviewed her. In February, they will devote an eight minute spot to her work in the field of voice phenomena. Jean Lodge, N.Y., wrote that she is sometimes surprised how much those in other dimensions know about what goes on here in the physical plane. Several months ago, she sat down to tape, while wearing a red hat--something she has never done before. The message came through:

“This is Alvin. I love you. I love your hat.” Jean said that Alvin was her boyfriend when she was a young girl and had died four years ago. Valerie Tjaden, wrote that she and Victor De Vincenzo and his wife Geri, two other N.J. members, hope to have another taping session soon for interested N.J. members. Valerie said that her mother, Irene Maletsky, is having good results taping while she is working in the kitchen. She, like Jeff King, uses running water as her background sound source. Greta Van De Carr, a new member from N.Y., is a Senior at Cornell University majoring in communications. She is taking a year off from college to work on her Senior thesis. It will be about communicating with earthbound spirits. During the year she will travel to famous haunts in the U.S. that have strong paranormal activity. Greta hopes to tape many voices during her travels. Bill Weisensale, CA, included a letter with his renewal. He wrote that he is still working on the electronics of trans-reception, and is convinced it can be done.

Switzerland Adventure

Our nine day trip to Switzerland exceeded every expectation. The days we spent in beautiful Lucerne were all too short. On Tuesday, our limousine and Swiss driver drove us to the famous Benedictine church dating back to 946, located in Einsiedeln, over an hour away. The church houses the Black Madonna, to which many miraculous cures have been attributed. During the drive, we saw the lovely Swiss countryside with picturesque homes, and each of us agreed that the picture postcard reputation the country has is well deserved. Wednesday, we took a train to the foot of Mt. Politus and from there, a cog railroad took us to the top of the high mountain. Surrounded by snow and ice, our view was breathtaking and unobstructed as we could see for miles the rolling hills and valleys with homes and villages below.

Thursday was the beginning of the second part of our Swiss adventure. Our car and driver picked us up early and took us directly to our excellent 4 Star hotel in Basel. The Hotel Europe, located almost across the street from the conference center, couldn’t have been more convenient. We quickly made ourselves at home and then went over to the Center to complete registration. Everything was handled quickly and smoothly and we were soon ready to start enjoying four wonderful conference days.

There is not room to begin to give you a full report about how outstanding it was. Leaders in the field of electronic trans-communication lectured and taught workshops. The main language was German but headphones were provided with simultaneous translation into French, English and German. Our AA-EVP members played an important, active part in planning the conference and in presenting lectures and workshops. Dr. Ernst Senkowski, West Germany, was a member of the scientific committee and Program staff. He also gave a major lecture the first afternoon, acted as moderator on panel discussions, and together we presented a workshop on Saturday afternoon when I played a composite tape of voices sent to me. Dr. Vladimir Delavre lectured about “The Psychosomatic Effects of Electro Magnetic Fields,” on Saturday morning. A medical doctor living in Frankfurt, West Germany, we had exchanged several letters in the past and I had the pleasure of meeting him after his talk. His lecture was followed with an interesting lecture by George Meek. Then, on Sunday, Jules and Maggy Harsch-Fischbach lectured and gave several tape demonstrations. My own two workshops were well attended. The first one was on Thursday afternoon, which I presented by myself. I spoke and gave many taped examples I have recorded around the world and also during experiments such as the sleep experiments. The group was large, very receptive and interested in my playing of the Voices, with a number of people coming up later to talk to me about my work.

I had the joy of meeting other AA-EVP members, such as Luise Fuchs of Billigheim, West Germany. Luise, a charter member of AA-EVP, joined us in 1982. She receives excellent pictures through her TV from other dimensions which I have published several times in our newsletter. Luise reminded me that she was our first overseas member which helped make our Association international. Ingeborg Frank came from her home in Baden-Baden, and we had a pleasant visit. I was very happy to welcome two new AA-EVP members to our organization during the conference:

Renate Scheller of Zell, West Germany, who has been taping outstanding voices for years, and Alfons Steiner of Vienna, our first Austrian member. They both asked that their names be placed on the cross-country list.

The conference had 1200 registrations, but in spite of its size, it went smoothly with never a hitch as far as I could tell. It showed months of planning and work, and the result was an exceptional, outstanding program in every aspect. As I mentioned on the final panel Sunday morning, which I had been asked to participate in, I was filled with admiration and grateful to the board for making a conference like this possible.

We reached Basel, as the Berlin wall was starting to come down. You can imagine the electrifying excitement shared by all of us, as we were but a short distance from everything that was happening. Being able to talk to those from other countries, sharing ideas and hopes together, reinforced my belief that we are all truly one.

The focus for the November conference next year will be Paranormal Healing I am thinking seriously about going. Do you want to go along?

From My Mailbag

A letter came from Gilbert Bonner, EVP taper for many years. He said that recently he made a 1½ hour cassette tape about EVP covering his seventeen years of work, and sent it to every UK researcher he knows. In going over his recordings, dating back to the 70’s, he discovered some interesting voices that he had originally missed. Many of them spoke in sentences and called him by name. Gilbert said the majority of them fit well into the survival hypothesis and he feels all were from some other dimension.

Jutta Liebmann of Bielefeld, West Germany, sent me an interesting tape of excellent voices that she feels come from spirit and other worlds. She has used short wave for her sound source for many years and commented she believes those from other dimensions know how we tape and adapt to our individual methods. Jutta is fluent in many languages but tunes her radio to stations that use Hindi, Urdu, Chinese and Arabic. In spite of this, her EVP messages are largely in German, with an occasional message in English.

It is significant I feel that Jutta’s messages are in her mother tongue, and not the language of the broadcasting station. In the Spring 1986 newsletter (page 3), I wrote how many skeptics of EVP say the voices we record are C.B. broadcasts, stray radio waves and so on. I commented from a bulletin sent to me by Alexander MacRae of Skye, Scotland. He wrote about taping in Calpe, a small town in southern Spain, and that none of his EVP messages were in Spanish, but everything came through to him in English.

Book Look

On page 2, I mentioned cyber-biological studies of the imaginal component in the UFO contact experience This was a project of ARCHAEUS. Dennis Stillings sent the book to me in December and I have finished reading it.

The contents of the book consists of nine chapters (Stillings calls them “papers”) written by those who Stillings feels have something worthwhile to say about UFOs.

In reading the book, I found the writers had presented their ideas in a careful, scholarly way. There is much in the book with which I disagree but I approved the thoughtful approach. Although each writer admitted the phenomenon is extremely complex, the overall “tone” was one of skepticism that we are having contact with extraterrestrials.

The book would have been better balanced, I feel, if Stillings had presented some papers written by serious investigators who think extraterrestrial contact is occurring and who have just as impressive credentials as the current contributors.

Although the book is one-sided in my opinion, all those who are interested in the question would find the studies worth reading. We need to be open-minded about the phenomena, to which I personally feel no single answer will suffice but believe it could well be multi-faceted. To order a copy, send      $8.00   to: [Address withheld]

In Brazil, Ernst Senkowski kindly gave me a copy of his recently published book:

Instrumentelle Trans-Konununikatin: Dialog mit dem Unbekannten.  For any of our members who can read German, you will want to have a copy in your library, Hans Heckmann, PA AA-EVP member, wrote about Ernst book: “It is very comprehensive. It may well become the ultimate reference and workbook for serious Transcommunication researchers and experimenters. A great job!’

If you are interested in ordering a copy, write to Ernst directly about cost. His address is: Eichendorfstrasse 19-D 6500 Mainz, West Germany

Might It Work?

When Dave Whaley, IL AA-EVP member, renewed his membership, he included an interesting note. Quoting from it he wrote: “Is it possible that the voices can be taped at a different frequency, such as ultrasonic, and then converted to Audio frequency where we can hear them? Is it because the other side is at a higher vibration and when we record them, the voices have to lower their vibrations in order for us to record them?”

I wrote back to Dave that he had asked a very interesting question. I reminded him that in my book, Voices of Eternity I had said that we felt those in other dimensions operate at a higher frequency and faster vibration than we do and must lower their frequencies and vibrations to come through to us. This helps explain, we believe, why the voices are frequently not loud and most messages are 3-5 words in length.

In order to try to answer Dave’s question, I checked with a person knowledgeable in the field of electronics. This individual said you could put your mike in front of an ultrasonic generator while taping. On tape playback you would (probably) hear nothing. If, however, you used a Down converter, that would lower the ultrasonic frequencies so you could, in theory, be able to hear any voices from other dimensions which had spoken.

Unfortunately, Down converters are not easy to come by and they are expensive. The easiest and perhaps most economical way is to try to get a Leak detector, such as is used in automotive shops, or to detect gas leaks and so on. You might be able to find a second—hand one in an Automotive magazine.

If you try Dave’s innovative and, I feel, promising idea, let me know your results. I would like to report it in a future NEWS.

Sac Winter Festival

Paul Johnson, Founder and President of Spiritual Advisory Council, is holding his 11th annual winter festival in Orlando, FL from February 9-11. The focus of the conference is Journey Into Oneness. Martin Ebon, Nan Porter, Frank Tribbe, and others will be a part of the excellent program. Those in the “Snow Belt’ will enjoy a few days in a warmer clime. For members already living in FL, you are just a hop skip and jump away! For details call: ----.

Some Words about Enclosures

As is my custom each year with the Winter NEWS, I send the complete cross-country list to all those listed. Check it over. See who may live nearby and get in touch. You will find over 150 names. I continue to hope and encourage you to form small taping groups. Others, who know something about electronics, might want to work with one or two others in research and development of new equip to bring about more emphasis on instrumental communication with unseen worlds. Let us be a vital organization, not a static one. Only you can make it happen!

Everyone will find a Book-Tape list enclosed. If you want any of the books, order soon. For some, there is just one or two copies available.

Odds and Ends

We are looking for more contributions to our series: “Evidence For Survival” as found on page 2. Try to keep it close to 200 words. All of us want to read what you feel gives the best evidence that consciousness survives bodily death. Also, if you have an idea for a new series, please let me know.

Deadline for the Spring NEWS is March 24.

Always my best wishes, Sarah Estep