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From Our Viewpoint We were shocked and saddened when Sarah Estep contacted us in May and told us of her concerns regarding her health and the AA-EVP. She was being advised that she needed to step away from her creation, the AA-EVP. She knew this to be true, but felt a great deal of responsibility to all of us who depended upon the organization for encouragement, information, and a sense of togetherness. Had I heard her correctly? She wanted Tom and I to continue the AA-EVP. Sarah Estep, my heroine. Sarah Estep, the person who has changed my life. I knew that all of us who tape, or use the computer, telephone, or video to make contact with those in other dimensions were following in her footsteps, but to try to follow in her footsteps with the Association and newsletter? Tom was immediately eager to take on the challenge. I, on the other hand, had my doubts of life and the AA-EVP without Sarah. During that night and over the next day I heard from those on the other side who said, "the two of you can do this, and we will help. Sarah believes that you can do this." Was it just by chance that the Spring 2000 newsletter was on my desk? There it was, Sarah's words on the front page: "All of us have choices, many choices, to make as we travel the road, the sea of life from here to there. We can decide to stay with our ship in its harbor, not venturing out of a place where we have found some comfort. Or, we can raise the sails and leave for the open, perhaps stormy seas." She had quoted Oliver Wendell Homes who wrote, "A ship in the harbor is safe but that's not what ships were made for . . .." I have been much more adventurous since an experience I had 10 years ago. I had always been an avid reader and had used visualization and positive thinking to change my life in what seemed like impossible ways. But, I also felt that psychic ability, phenomena, or paranormal experiences were for those who had that talent. I loved reading about such things, but I was not a participant in any of them. I am not sure how "Voices of Eternity" by Sarah Estep came into my hands. You all have read things that ring true to your heart; "Voices" was like this for me. I was sure that what Sarah said was fact and that voices from the other side could be recorded. It is obvious to me how far I have come as I look back at that time. Ten years ago seems like an eternity now and I am amazed at how much I have changed. It took me a year to brave recording. Why? I must admit that I was afraid. Yes, there I have said it. I was afraid that I would invite some mean spirit into my home. What made me brave enough to sail out of the harbor? I don't remember now, but I did. I had an old reel to reel recorder and I bought myself a decent microphone. I used what Sarah had written about how to record and set sail on a path that changed me in more ways than I can count. I set a game plan. I would record at the same time each evening. I began on a Thursday evening. For two evenings I recorded for a couple of minutes and then listened back intently, but heard nothing. On Saturday morning, my day off from work, I woke up from a dream in which I had been urged to gather the crystals I had around the house and place them around the recording equipment. I went about my chores but had a nagging urge to get the crystals. Finally I stopped what I was doing, gathered the crystals up and took them to my recording area. At 7 p.m. that evening I made my third attempt at recording the voices from eternity. I put on my headphones and started listening back. Did I hear something? I was in total shock. There it was, a voice that said, "crystals help." The marvel of it, the total awe! I can honestly say I got little sleep that night and not much for the next couple of nights. Words can not express what those two little words did to my mind, my life, and my future. There have been many tapes, and many voices from eternity since that first night. Did the crystals help me that night, or was it just a word that those in spirit knew I might hear? I do not know. I continue to use the crystals, but have had my good recording nights and my bad ones. We all learn that there is much more involved in hearing from our spirit friends, and that is the reason for this newsletter. Through it, we hope to learn from others about ways to improve our recordings. How do you thank someone like Sarah Estep? Every member of the Association who has shown their support with continued membership, articles, ideas, offers to help and words of encouragement, is saying thank you Sarah for founding the AA-EVP. We hope, on our part, that by sailing out of yet another safe harbor and continuing the association and newsletter we are saying thank you as well. Lisa Dan McKee's Transition May 31, 2000, we received a letter from Sarah Estep that she had received a note from Betty McKee saying, "Dan went to sleep Monday evening May 22 at 9:00 p.m. with me holding his hand." Sarah went on to say that, "Dan had been battling cancer for over two years and knew the end wasn't far away. We had been friends for over 20 years, and he joined the AA-EVP as soon as it was formed so was a charter member. Dan had begun taping in the early '70s and had been taping a year or two longer than I. Of all the tapers in the U.S. I'd say Dan was the very best, and even continued taping up until several months before his death. His voices were very unique, talks between one or more of the unseen talking between themselves, many times appearing to be unaware of Dan. . . . He had many contacts with spirit, but often they were from other dimensions. The voices were extremely loud, and clear--the majority Class A. Also, they always spoke on the reverse side of his tapes (although he said he at times listened to the forward sides and would hear messages there also--but not nearly as many as on the wrong side of tapes.) "I always mentioned him, and the messages he sent me in each AA-EVP NEWS. All members were familiar with his work, some knew him personally, and although they will feel saddened by his passing, they will want to know he's no longer with us. "He was my dear friend--took part in all three conferences I held, and always played a demonstration tape." Sarah
Dan will be
greatly missed, but we hope that he will be equally as active in EVP on the
other side. Crowd Noise Babble Tape Over a year ago we exchanged E-mails with Sonia Rinaldi, an AA-EVP member from Brazil, regarding taping. She mentioned that our friends on the other side like to use the human voice when recording their voices. Sonia suggested making a crowd tape at a party or at some public gathering to use as a background for recording. She said that it was important that no one voice was understandable and that all the voices should be at about the same volume on the tape. We did this and had some interesting results, but we also had a few problems. It was difficult to make the crowd tape without one voice being louder than the others. Because our recordings were of people speaking in English the paranormal voices became questionable as being paranormal or simply coming from the crowd babble tape. The babble tape also became contaminated with paranormal voices. Finally, we found that hearing the voices, especially Class B voices, was more difficult to do when using the babble recording in comparison to using white noise alone. However, we worked with it and found that playing the babble noise further away from our microphone, and the white noise closer to the microphone, worked well for us. Sonia Rinaldi Comments on Recording Using Crowd Babble and Cool Edit (Please note that Cool Edit is now Audition. Most of the instruction still apply) As most of you know, Sonia Rinaldi is one of Brazil's leaders in EVP (or ITC as it is known in Brazil.) One of our U.S. members asked her several questions about the use of a babble tape in EVP. Details about how to acquire the babble tape are given in the next article. ------------------------ Q. Member: If the babble noise made of Portuguese human voices is sent to me in cassette, should I record it onto CD? A. Sonia: You may do it on CD or leave it as tape. It functions well in both formats. What we observed is that after a time, the tape becomes contaminated by the spirit voices. This made me change from the tape format to CD because it will not get "contaminated." Q. Member: Am I correct that I would play this cassette tape into the microphone connected to my computer sound card, using Cool Edit in recording mode? (See Note 1) A. Sonia: Yes, if you use a babble audio tape, the tape recorder will be in the function of playing. You will record on the PC. If you put the babble on a CD, you will have to have a CD player beside the microphone, or connect the CD player with a cable to the LINE IN of the PC audio card. In this case, the sound will enter directly inside the PC. Otherwise (and it is better) you will play the CD beside the microphone, close to you and record this in Cool Edit. The spirits like to speak over clear voices. Record for 1 or 2 minutes. During recording you have to ask questions... and then avoid speaking for a time. You may ask short questions such as "Is there anybody listening to me?" Then pause for a few seconds. Then you may want to ask, "Who is listening to me?" Pause. In 2 minutes you may put about 5 or 6 questions, leaving large spaces for them to answer. I usually record for 2 minutes, or until the file being recorded is about 2,000 Kb. (See Note 2) Q. Member: Do I listen to the tape after reversing the Wave file with Cool Edit using Sarah Estep's "reverse tape" method? A. Sonia: Yes, the function of reversing a Wave file is just a click of the editing tool. First you record normally. Than you listen to the whole file in the "normal-mode." Than you select the file by double clicking over the track and press the REVERSE TOOL in the menu. Q. Member: You said that we have to listen over many times to a recording of the babble noise to find the spirit voices. A. Sonia: Whenever you learn the way the voices speak, you will do this task in about 15 minutes. You do not have to always verify the reverse mode if you do not have time. The normal mode is the most important. When you start listening try to identify words in English, and then carefully select that segment of the file. Then listen to it many times. Then listen to the next portion of the file as you try to identify the words and sentences. ------------------------ Note: if you do not have a babble sound source, Sonia suggests that you may record using 2 or 3 small radios. Try to find stations speaking in foreign languages. Let all of them speak together... but clearly. Don't put them inter-station.
Portuguese Language Crowd Babble The sound track provided by Sonia Rinaldi (discussed above) is available to you in three forms. It is available as a two-minute babble sound track on audio cassette, as an audio CD containing an eighteen minute sound track or on the AA-EVP Egroup web page as a Wave file. You must be registered in the Egroup to access the file. If you order the audio tape, we recommend that you use that tape as a "master" version by making a copy of the tape we send you, and using the copy for your experimentation. Then if that copy becomes corrupted by spirit voices, you can refresh it from the master. The cassette and the CD are $7.00 each for US addresses or $9.00 each in US funds for International. There is no charge for the Egroup Wave file. Please note that we have had mixed results with this sound track. You may not have better results than with white noise. AA-EVP Logo It is always good for a group to have a logo that is symbolic of the group's goals and objectives. We are building a bridge or a gateway between our physical world and the nonphysical world of our unseen friends. Do you have an idea for a logo that would express this and help AA-EVP stand out in a crowd? Please provide artwork for a 1" by 1½" logo as a computer file or a picture that can be scanned into the computer. Also include permission for us to use it for all AA-EVP applications.
We have no
prize for the one we select, other than our gratitude. Thanks! Underground Antenna to Facilitate EVP An AA-EVP member has suggested that an underground antenna may be effective as part of an EVP recording set up. Radio technology is one of the more abstract fields in electronics, however the actual application of the theory can be quite simple. If you are handy with a soldering iron and wire cutter, you will feel comfortable trying this approach to recording. As always, results may vary. In this approach, a radio receiver is equipped with an antenna placed underground, rather than in the air. Yes, this is contrary to common practice, but there is a good reason for us to think this may work. In the member's words: "We hypothesize that the use of the Rogers subsurface antenna system in electronic voices reception experiments will result in the reception of electronic recorded voices from the spiritual realm of superior quality, as compared to the above ground Hertzian antenna configurations currently used. Voices researcher, Dr. Ernst Senkowski of Germany was told by a discarnate teacher, by the name of 'Technician,' that those in the spiritual realms do not use 'Hertzian' waves as their primary form of communication. J. H. Rogers, the principal inventor of the underground antenna system, and Nikolai Tesla, the scientist who laid the foundations for AM radio, both agreed that the messages received by Rogers over the subsurface antenna system '… are not Hertzian waves…' In conclusion, we hypothesize that the use of the Rogers subsurface/underground antenna system for spirit voices reception will result in the reception of superior quality voices because the subsurface antenna is primarily using the 'non Hertzian waves' referred to by the 'Technician' in conversation with Dr. Senkowski." We have placed downloadable files provided by the member at http://aaevp.com on the "Techniques" page: "Underground Antenna." These provide further explanation and instructions for antenna construction and use. The information is extensive, so if you wish to know more, let us know and we will refer you to the member. This approach to signal reception has considerable potential that can only be unlocked through experimentation. If you are interested in a new approach, look over the material and consider building yourself an underground antenna receiving station. Phone Line Recording Interface Sarah Estep included information contributed by Jeff King about a phone line tape recorder interface in the last issue of the newsletter. Here is some supporting information Jeff sent us concerning how best to use the interface. Jeff suggests that, after the circuit is attached to the telephone line, you should take the phone off-hook and wait until dial tone and the line becomes quiet. You may want to provide low-level background noise as in normal EVP recording. Otherwise, recording with this interface is much the same as normal EVP recording. Although his circuit includes isolation that will protect both your equipment and the phone line, Jeff offers an alternative to connecting directly into the phone line. The above diagram illustrates a "stand alone" telephone company simulator. The circuit included in the last newsletter would plug into this circuit where it is labeled: "to phone interface."
Jeff adds, "The use of two telephones may provide advantage over a single unit for the purposes of EVP reception, as there is a circulating interaction of simultaneous audio currents between the two units, which may aid reception." We will make Jeff's letter available on the Web. Please let us know your results if you try these ideas. And, thanks for the input Jeff!
About The AA-EVP Web Page To expand public awareness of EVP, we have set up a draft web site at http://aaevp.com. Remember, this is a public site. The site content will eventually include information about AA-EVP, EVP techniques and examples, and numerous links to related sites. Your suggestions as to how we may add to this are always welcome. It will take a little time for us to polish the site's content, but we believe it will be worth the effort.
Please take
time to visit the site and watch our construction progress. News From and About Our Members
We would like to hear from those
of you who record or take spirit pictures. Let us know about the messages
you are receiving. Many of you tell us that you are interested in EVP but
do not record. Each of us helps in our own way. But remember, your
membership helps us to help those who do experiment. Thank you! Tapers Report
Jürgenson CD Paul Sitar, Canada, sent us a press release and information on the new Jürgenson CD. He wrote that he had just bought a copy and that he felt it was a nice, collectable package. It comes in a soft plastic slipcase and includes a jewel-case size booklet and set of larger cards with archival footage of Jürgenson and few of his paintings. The press release states that the CD is assembled from the original Uher tapes of his pioneering EVP recordings from the 1960s and 70s, with an English translation and notes of the recordings. The package also contains an extraordinary image of Jürgenson himself appearing on a TV screen the day of his funeral in 1987. Friedrich Jürgenson [1903-1987], along with Konstantine Raudive, was one of the earliest pioneers of EVP recording. Attempting to record birdsongs in his garden on a tape recorder, Jurgenson found stray voices cutting into the recordings. Later he started to recognize some of the voices, including his mother, who used her pet nickname for him. Jürgenson was also a philosopher, painter, archaeologist, linguist and singer; court painter to Pope Pius X11, film documentary maker and recording artist. He lived through and witnessed the Russian Revolution, two world wars, the destruction of the old European order and the arrival of the technological age, bridging the gap between times when information was handed down by word of mouth and the modern era of tape recorders and televisions. Information on the CD, and other releases from The Parapsychic Acoustic Research Cooperative [PARC] are available on the PARC web site: http://parc.web.fm
Examples of Recorded Voices Please note that these tapes are no longer available Sarah Estep has agreed to continue supplying the audio tapes she has made of class A voices. These are:
Truth of Consequences Yes, our address is a real place. But we thought we should tell you the truth in fear of the consequences—just joking. Tom has a degree in electronics engineering and mine is in psychology. We both retired early, sold the house and cars and bought a fifth wheel trailer a few years ago. We travel and are not at any one address more than six months. We use a wonderful mail forwarding service in Truth or Consequences to get us your mail no matter where we may be, but if you go there you probably won't find us.
Membership Logistics The date on the address label for this newsletter is your membership anniversary date. When it is time, we will mail membership renewal forms along with the newsletter issue that is closest to your anniversary date. The form will help us maintain current member information.
Thank You Many of you wrote that you would miss Sarah deeply but were glad to see her work continue. We received so many notes with encouraging words, that we just had to say thank you for your support. We would like to say a special thank you to those of you who have sent or emailed information to us. Without you we cannot make it! As this newsletter goes out we start to put together the next one. Don't forget us. Please keep your emails and letters coming. Deadline for submitting information for the fall newsletter is September 1st.
About the AA-EVP Egroup The AA-EVP Egroup is an Internet based email management service. The group is closed to the public, in that only registered members are able to send emails, view the database of post emails and access the files. Members have the option of permanently or temporarily removing their name from the list or having messages sent to them once a day. As a member, you should remember that the messages you send goes to everyone in the group. With this in mind, ask yourself if the group will be interested, or if they can help you by answering a question. In turn, please take time to answer emails if you can contribute. This is your group so have fun.
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