From Our Viewpoint

In EVP, we find reason to believe we survive physical death.  Still, physical death can be traumatic and many people continue to believe death is the end.  Lisa and I hold the individuals and families who have suffered the trauma of terrorist attack (both here and on the other side) in our thoughts.  We will work even harder to help people know about EVP and its message that we do not die.

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You will see in this issue, that we devote considerable space in describing the activities of a conference that we recently attended.  We feel you will be interested in this because it involved EVP, but there is a deeper significance in the conference that I would like to highlight.

The conference was titled: Conference on A Triadic Model of Higher Reality.  The Noetics Institute, Inc. (NII) sponsored the conference.  (See the conference article on Page 2.)  Sarah Estep was there, and spoke during the workshop about her experiences with EVP.  Lisa and I worked together to present the AA-EVP and a little background of what you all have been discovering about EVP.  Erland Babcock presented a most interesting overview of his work with video ITC and some of the experiments he conducted on behalf of the Metascience Foundation in association with George Meek.

You would expect Sarah, Erland, Lisa and I to talk about EVP, given the opportunity.  What you might not expect, was that we were in the same gathering with two scientists and a man who has devoted much of his life to researching the continuation of life.  We have included pictures and articles about these presentations, so I will not go into them here.  What I want to bring to you is the observation that EVP/ITC is maturing as a field of study.  We are in the process of transitioning out of the frontier of EVP/ITC research, into an era in which the academic community is seriously considering our field of study.

One of the indicators of this emerging maturity is the increasing number of EVP/ITC related organizations around the world that are working on archives for their historical records.  We have been working on assuring that this newsletter, and Bill Weisensale’s work, is available as a long-lived archive.  NII will be maintaining an archive of Erland Babcock’s work.  Many of the associations around the world are doing much the same with their Pioneers.

An important milestone for any community is when they are secure enough in their survival to think of preserving the records of their roots for their children.  We in EVP/ITC have reached this milestone.

Yes, we still discuss whether or not background sound is needed, and if so, what kind.  We still speculate about the origin of these strange voices.  In fact, you could argue that we really have no sense of certainty about any of this.  What we do have is the sure knowledge that there are EVP voices and that there is more evidence supporting the notion that they originate from people on the other side of the veil than there is supporting that they do not.

It is this certainty that I believe is beginning to influence the academic community.  It does not matter how we record.  What matters is that most anyone can pick up a tape recorder and record EVP.  No one can argue fraud or lack of repeatability when they can demonstrate these phenomena for themselves.

Open minded scientists are beginning to see the possibilities of including EVP experiments in their study of human potential.  Theorists are trying to incorporate EVP into established models of reality.  There is a growing recognition of the power of After Death Communication (ADC) as a tool for grief management.  Yes, I know that ADC is treated as an illusory phenomenon of the mind, but some researchers are covertly studying this as a possibly genuine form of spirit communication.

Many of you have heard of the study of mediumship that has been underway in the University of Arizona, Tucson.  This is the work of Dr. Linda Russek and Dr. Gary Schwartz and their team in the Human Energy Systems Laboratory (See more at www.livingenergyuniverse.com).  Gary spoke at the conference.  We had an opportunity to talk about EVP and mediumship, and as I found, Gary was very excited to discover what we have been up to.  You should know that he has, for all practical purposes, validated mediumship as the real thing.  Through his research, he has validated the existence of communicating entities that seem to be recently deceased people, some of whom he knew in this lifetime.  It is not too great of a leap in logic to say that he has also provided a possible foundation to argue that EVP messages come from discarnate people.

There are other scientists working on this as well, and you can see that this kind of research is providing a basis of understanding that other scientists can use to openly research EVP.  The atmosphere of acceptance for these phenomena is rapidly changing.  All of you are playing a part in this.  By experimenting with EVP or ITC, by talking about it with your friends, even by simply thinking about it, you are helping to change the worldview of Humankind.

EVP is a most important field of research.  We do not know what general acceptance of EVP will mean to Humankind, but we do know that the change will be beneficial.  This is a change in which we all have a part to play.                                                                      Tom

Noetics Institute Conference

The GAIT Project no longer exists. The Noetics Institute probably does continue to exist as a family foundation but there is no apparent connection to EVP/ITC.

The Noetics Institute, Inc. (NII) is a private foundation founded by Kay and Dale Palmer in 1992.  NII sponsored a small, invitation only, conference from July 20 through 22.  The conference was originally put together to present the NII web site to a group of interested parties.  This is the web site at which anyone in the world will be able to conduct EVP/ITC experiments.  The gathering grew from a presentation of the computer system into an additional day of presentations and an evening workshop on recording EVP.

Dale Palmer opened the Saturday presentations with the story of how the NII computer center came to be.  In 1994 Dale sat with his good friend Willis Harmon who was working on a project concerning communication between dimensions of reality.  Willis asked Dale to go out in the world and check on this with people who were claiming to communicate with other worlds through electronic means and report back in six months about what he had learned.

Dale had seen one presentation about EVP but was unconvinced.  He then called on a retired schoolteacher named Sarah Estep.  She asked him to come to her home at 4am, which he did.  After some conversation, Dale was taken to the area where Sarah did her EVP recordings.  She started the recording with a prayer and then after awhile told those on the other side that they had a guest.

She then asked Dale if there was something he would like to ask.  He asked if Dr. Raudive was there.  When the tape was played back there was a noise after his question.  Sarah said, “Well, did you hear that?”  She played it back about ten times, saying that it was very clear.  Dale laughed and said that Sarah had to play it another ten times, but that then it did become clear to him and he was able to hear “Yes, Raudive here.”

With that Dale learned that the phenomena was real and was hooked.  That first voice that Dale heard led him down the path that has now resulted in the nearing completion of the NII computer center for EVP/ITC experiments.

Sarah led off the conference and played that important voice, “Yes, Raudive here.”

She talked about how she became involved with voice phenomena, and her journey and involvement through the years with EVP.

Sarah was a complete disbeliever of life after death when she started her work in EVP.  She recounted her young years spent in her grandparent’s funeral home and her times of looking into caskets at those who were so very dead.  The stillness of those bodies convinced her that there was little hope of heaven or hell.  Death was a casket, and her convictions on this did not change for over forty years.

When Sarah learned about voice phenomena she was skeptical but decided to look into it.  She received her first voice on the sixth day of recording.  In answer to her question, “What is your world like,” the word, “Beauty” was heard on playback.  She was still not convinced but continued with her research into EVP.  After a few months the voices started to come every time that Sarah recorded.  Her book, Voices of Eternity, details the first 12 years of her contact with other dimensions. (The book is available as a free download at http://aaevp.com/resources/evp_books.htm )

With the help of her daughter, Becky, Sarah played many excellent EVP examples.  She talked about her contact with Ludwig van Beethoven that went on for months.  She had asked for proof that it was, indeed, him.  Beethoven told her that he would play for her one evening.  When that evening came, there was a horrible thunder and lighting storm.  Sarah was fearful of recording during such a terrible storm but felt that she must.  She ended her talk with the eerie and enchanting one-minute of music that Ludwig van Beethoven recorded for her that evening.

Lisa talked about her discovery of EVP through the work of Sarah Estep.  She recounted how, during the time that she lived in Kansas, there had been a serious flood.  The news pictures of cows and pigs stuck on top of farm roofs upset her and every night she asked those on the other side about the animals.  Each night for over a week, they patiently told her that the animals were all right.  They told her that there were entities on the other side who helped those who died, across to their new life on the other side.  Every night she was assured that all animals and all things continue after death.  Finally on the seventh day, she recorded a loud voice that said, “Stop with the animals.  They are okay.”

Before attending the gathering Lisa made a recording and asked her friends on the other side if they were aware of the conference, and if they would help with it.  She played two loud answers that were recorded immediately after her question, “We know Sarah’s coming,” and, “I’m gonna help Tom.”

Lisa talked about the difficulty people who record have in hearing that first EVP message and how this is the most difficult hurdle that those interested in the phenomena must get through.  She discussed some of the recent breakthroughs in software that can help people in listening to EVP recordings.

Lisa played several EVP examples and ended her talk with a recording of a message from her mother, “I miss you, Li---sa.”  She related to the audience how the communication with her mother had been totally unexpected.  Her mother did not know that she worked with EVP, and due to her mother’s religious convictions, Lisa had never called on her to speak.  But her mother was also the person that she needed to hear from the most.  There were several issues and unresolved guilt that had continued to influence her life after her mother’s death.  This communication through EVP has affected her deeply and allowed for a healing that she had not thought possible.

Tom talked about some of the beneficial traits that are helpful for EVP/ITC experimenters.  He talked about the importance of enthusiasm, patience and open mindedness for success in EVP/ITC experiments.  He talked about how those with backgrounds in science, the scientific method, philosophy and mediumship can help all of us to understand the phenomena better.  And, how those with these types of backgrounds can assist in bringing the knowledge of EVP to the world.

Tom presented information on the environment of EVP and ITC research.  He discussed some of the things that we have learned about EVP regarding background noise, software and sounds that are heard before messages.  He discussed experiments done by Alexander MacRae and Bill Weisensale that conclusively show that EVP is not the result of stray radio signals.

Tom discussed some of the areas of development being worked on with EVP such as Alexander MacRae’s work with Holophonics, Stefan Bion’s EVPMaker and Erland Babcock’s work with digital cameras.  He talked about Matti Pitanen’s attempt to provide a mathematical model of nonphysical reality, others who are working on a standard test bed for EVP hardware experimentation and the Noetics Institute development of an Internet based tool, with which the public will be able to conduct EVP experiments.

He ended his talk by saying, “I personally believe that interest in EVP/ITC is reaching critical mass.  As Willis Harmon held in his book, Global Mind Change, Humankind is at the threshold of change in the way we look at reality.  Soon, I expect, our scientific community will no longer be able to ignore this phenomenon.  Soon, every University will have a research program that is in some way seeking to define the nature of the interface between physical and nonphysical aspects of reality.

Erland discussed the collection of journals that he has written over the last twenty years.  The twenty-five, three hundred page journals are about Erland's research with spirit communications and his work with the Metascience Foundation started by George Meek.

Erland showed slides concerning some of his earliest ideas about sound and how to improve EVP communication.  He also showed slides of equipment setups and drawings for various EVP/ITC experiments.  Erland heard about Klaus Schreiber, who was using video to photograph his dead daughter and decided to duplicate these experiments.  This was the beginning of Erland’s video experiments and his many interesting ITC pictures.

Erland explained that all ITC images are based on video feedback.  His presentation conveyed the evolution in techniques he followed while developing video ITC.  The images were fascinating with pictures of individuals, groups of people, landscapes and buildings.

Erland ended his talk with a picture of what he calls the “Green Beam.”  He was taking pictures of a monitor and had not see the green beam as the picture was being taken.  The picture shows this beam going into one side of the monitor and coming out the other.  It shows that light can travel through a solid object.  Please note that the picture has been enhanced for clarity.

Bill Willams is a researcher in Psychical research, and in particular, life after death.  He is the Canadian representative for the Scole experiments in Canada.  His wife Muriel is an accomplished medium.

Bill went over some of the 4000 years of documented evidence that proves a case for personal survival.  Much of the evidence that he presented was from his library of some 2000 books.  He related several of his experiences in searching for the truth.  Bill has studied many religions and found a common thread that runs through all of them.  This is the belief in a divine or higher power.

Bill talked about his relationship with the late Professor Ivan Currie who wrote; “You Can Not Die.”  Prior to his crossing, Bill and Ian made a pact that whoever went first would try to communicate back to the person still on earth.  Prof. Currie has kept his word and there have been over one hundred conversations that have been documented with him through Muriel’s mediumship.  They are now in the process of compiling a book on this titled, “Hi There, I’m Over Here, My Life in the Spirit World.”

Professor Euvaldo Cabral, Jr. is instrumental in the work that is being done on the NII computer system.

His interest in the phenomena began in 1976 when he read Jürgenson's book, Roesterna Fraen Rymden (Voices from the Universe).  His experiments with tape recorders started the same year.  His interest in the subject led him to a career in Electronics as he felt that the solution to EVP/ITC was hidden in secrets related to pieces of electronic equipment.  In 1979 he began designing and assembling equipment for experiments.

Professor Cabral presented a list of the many experiments that he has done in trying to decipher the mystery of the voices.  This list was very impressive.  He is now focusing his research on results that are suitable for publication in mainstream scientific journals.

Professor Cabral explained his research into extremely low signal to noise ratio speech enhancement techniques that he will use to develop a software-based method for recovering voices from background noise.  After his many years of research Professor Cabral has come to the conclusion that software may be the answer that he has been searching for.  By creating software to enhance the very weak voices out of the background noise, he feels that scientists in any part of the country will be able to obtain the same experimental results using the NII web site as a remote laboratory.

Gary Schwartz

Gary Schwartz is a professor of Psychology, Medicine, Neurology, and Psychiatry at the University of Arizona.  He is also the Director of the Human Energy Systems Laboratory there.  We have reported on the mediumship research and experiments that have been conducted by the Laboratory.  Some of this research has been published in the “Journal of the Society for Psychical Research.”

Gary began his talk by explaining how he became involved in doing the Mediumship experiments in the first place.  It was a friend, Linda Russek, who asked him if he thought that her father might have continued after his death.  He was surprised at the question and asked her if it was really that important to her what he thought.  She told him that it was, as he was a scientist and if he believed that we continued after death then he must have a good reason.  He told her about the theory that everything in the universe is eternal, alive and evolving.  (Read “The Living Energy Universe” by Gary Schwartz and Linda Russek).  From this conversation the work began.

The first two years of research were done in secret with interesting but not publishable results.  The research has now become very public.  It was featured in an HBO special, written up in countless newspaper articles and published in the SPR journal.  A book will be released on the experiments this winter titled, The Afterlife Experiment, Breakthrough Scientific Evidence for Life After Death.

Gary spoke about how the experiments were run in great detail and also presented much of the results of several experiments.  As an example the mediums in one set of experiments were 83% accurate, while 68 people in a control group were only 36% accurate.  Participating mediums included James Van Praagh, John Edward, Suzane Northrup, George Anderson and the Rev. Anne Gehman.

Gary mentioned Peter Russell who has said that we need a new meta-paradigm, something that goes beyond the way we typically think.  Gary feels that this may come from research in mediumship and EVP/ITC.  “If anything in the history of Science is going to cause us to change the way we think, … it will be this kind of work.”

The NII Web Site

The GAIT Project no longer exists. The Noetics Institute probably does continue to exist as a family foundation but there is no apparent connection to EVP/ITC.

The subject of the NII Conference was EVP, but the real purpose was introduction of the NII web site.  As we have discussed in previous newsletters, Dale Palmer has been working to develop a web site that the public can access to conduct EVP and ITC experiments.

The site is not ready for public access, but it was operational for the conference.  We saw a demonstration of video ITC via a camera and frame grabber, and video frames generated by a video noise generator.  The system has a video camera placed close to a television, in which the tuner has been removed.  The camera is close to and focused just beyond the screen, resulting in slightly out of focus black dots on white background.  It is these dots that tend to form images.  Yes, we are inclined to see faces in such noise, but many of the images were decisively ITC.

In the EVP mode, you can select the nature of the noise, such as pink or white noise, and the sample rate.  The EVP is sometimes lower volume than in tape recorder EVP; however, as noted in the report about Professor Cabral’s presentation, filtering and analysis software is being developed to help “pull” the EVP out of the noise.  In fact, Professor Cabral‘s work on the remote EVP/ITC computer laboratory is expected to result in groundbreaking techniques that everyone in the field will benefit from.

Dale has hired a number of engineers to make the web site ready for public access.  We will notify you when the site is ready and how to use it.

Background Sound and Real-time EVP

Here is a member’s speculation about background sound and ways to get real-time EVP.

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“I'd have to say that I’ve had (real time voices), but was unsure of the actual message until it was recorded and played back.  In my case, when this was occurring, I was using a "ghetto-blaster" type recorder and remote electret microphone recording the sound of a running faucet.

“The deck did NOT have a separate play/monitor head, so when recording, the speaker outputted the sounds picked up in "monitor" mode and before they got onto tape.  The voice sounds came through the deck speaker in real time, but low level and distorted.  I concluded this was because of insufficient modulation (in the monitor stage) in the deck to convert the raw sound into proper voice artifacts.

“The voice segments could be better understood on playback, indicating the record and playback process added more modulation to the EVP.

“The same process occurred when I used a radio as a sound source.  I used short wave babble, which seemed to be the best method for me.  Air band static was second; medium-wave band static was third choice.  Using this method, I got voices in real time out of the radio speaker.

“Use of FM radio static noise or TV channel sound (also FM) didn’t do anything for me.  My feeling is that the noise structure and dynamic range are critical to the metamorphic process, so flat, dense FM noise didn’t do anything.  AM background sound seems to be a winner over FM.  The reason may be in the spectra and dynamic range.

“In voice formation, the main process I see happening is what I call the "cookie cutter: scenario.  To cut an effective cookie you have to have 100% of the required dough.  More adds no value, but too little results in a distorted cookie shape.  Now, if you take the dough to be audio spectra, what you get is a rough analogy to the process, where insufficient spectra creates distorted or whisper voices (recorded in quiet rooms).  This is, however, different from what I was explaining above, where the cookie cutting was inferior due to the lack of cutting, rather than the amount of dough, which in the above case was the same for pre and post-recording.”

Editing Sound Files

We have found that, if you have a relatively consistent background noise in your EVP recordings, say from a noise generator or from a fan, you can use Cool Edit to effectively remove that noise.

To begin, open Cool Edit and start a fresh recording session: Under menu item, FILE click on NEW and set Sample Rate = 11025, Channels = Mono, Resolution = 8 bit, then click on OK.  (You need a sample rate that is at least twice the frequency that you want to listen to.  The lower all of these numbers, the smaller the file size.)

Play your sound track into the computer while Cool Edit is in RECORD mode.  You may need to try different outputs from your tape recorder.  The best is LINE OUT of the recorder to LINE IN of the computer.  Also, check your SOUND and MULTIMEDIA application to be sure that the correct input jack is active.

For noise reduction, once the sound track is loaded into your computer, select a few seconds of sound track that has typical noise but no voice (or no suspected voice).  Go to menu item, TRANSFORM and select NOISE REDUCTION and NOISE REDUCTION again.  Click on GET PROFILE FROM SELECTION.  (If you do not have a large enough data sample selected, this option will not be available.)  You will notice that a graph will be displayed and SAVE PROFILE will become available.  You can save the profile and use it as a “standard” filter for similar background noise.

 When the application has finished, click on CLOSE (do not click on OK) and then select the entire sound file or that portion you wish to analyze.  Then open the noise reduction window again and click on OK.  This will filter the selected sound track based on the profile of the previously selected noise.  (You can undo this if you do not do a SAVE function first.  Be sure that you have ENABLE UNDUE checked under the menu item, EDIT.

Since the EVP is usually formed out of the background noise, reducing the noise may reduce the voice as well.  Try different NOISE REDUCTION LEVEL settings.  This is a slide selector just under the noise profile graph.  This may be an iterative process to find the best combination.

Depending on the uniformity of the noise on the track, the voices should stand out more from the noise.  Please note that this process sometimes induces a “ringing” sound into the sound track.  This noise is considered an artifact.

To reverse the sound track, select the entire sound track and use menu item TRANSFORM and click on REVERSE.  Playing the sound track in this way will be much the same as playing a cassette tape in the reverse.

EVP and Answering Machines

We have recently received several reports of EVP voices appearing on answering machines.  Perhaps you will see from these examples that it is good to check your answering machine for EVP.

•    Susan Cole and her husband were walking into their home when they heard their own voices coming through their answering machine from the cell phone in her husband’s pocket.  Their voices were being recorded on the answering machine as they walked in the door!  As Susan’s husband, along with the cell phone, got closer to the machine it created feedback.  Susan thinks that it might have been the energy from this feedback that helped a voice come through saying, “I hate you.”  It is a class “A” voice.  One of the possibilities of how the call occurred is that her husband accidentally hit a speed-dial number on the cell phone that is programmed to dial the house.  Susan wondered if, “Maybe the spirit made the initial call, instead.”
  

•    Sandra Belanger was re-recording her answering machine message.  When she played the message back to check it, after she says, “Thank you,” a voice comes in and says, “Is anyone in?”  In reverse it says, “Does it hurt?”  Sandra wrote, “This was recorded on a digital recorder and is quite clear.  I have decided to leave it there to confound the living who may call.”
  

•    Bill Weber related two messages that he received on his answering machine some time ago.  In the first, a male voice recorded, “We’ve been excused.”  This voice came on the machine with only one phone ring; the machine was set to pick up only after four rings.  On another occasion Bill’s machine recorded a female voice singing,  “Bill.”
  

•    Carol Barron-Karajohn wrote that she is continuing to get lots of messages on her machine but that most are indistinguishable.  She has gotten a few that are clear.  One said, “I’m fine, Don.”
  

•    Dale Sizemore often reports getting messages on his answering machine.  He says that they often appear before the person calling speaks, in between breaks in the person’s words and at the end of the recording.  “I’m missing now my pretty love” is one of the many messages that he has recorded on his machine.
  

•    Brian Jones has received numerous EVP messages on his telephone answering machine.  He uses an older one that has a full size cassette tape so that he can also listen to the reverse side of the recording on a modified cassette player, which plays in reverse as well as forward.  Brian writes, “EVP can use the cellular telephone waves to a stronger degree than other sources for projecting their voices.  Try it!  Use a standard phone for the receiving end of the experiment.  Also, if you have a cell phone, call in to an answering machine (maybe to your own, or someone else's answering machine) then either analyze that recording, or take it a step further, and record that recording!”

Tina Laurent’s EVP Article: Part 2

The second part of Tina Laurent’s article on EVP was published in the Summer 2002 issue of The Spiritual Scientist.  In this part of the article Tina discusses some of the anomalies that are found in EVP, as well as how the entities communicate via EVP.  The article includes a very good “Practical Guide to Recording Paranormal Voices on Tape.”  Tina ends by saying, “The dead speak to us.  This is not new.  For centuries Spiritualists have maintained they had contact with the dead.  However, scientific disciplines were rarely imposed.  But now the dead no longer need a human intermediary.  They use tape recorders or even TV sets.  What is more objective than a machine?”

The complete article is now on the AA-EVP web site at aaevp.com with a link to The New Spiritual Science Foundation, often called The Scole Group.  The Spiritual Scientist is published quarterly.  Write to: The New Spiritual Science Foundation, Street Farmhouse, Scole, Diss, Norfolk IP21 4DR, England.  A subscription is Eleven Pounds Sterling.  Tina Laurent can be reached via email at (email address) or by writing her at: [Address withheld].

British TV program on EVP

David Monaghan is producing a documentary as part of a religious/philosophical series called “Witness,” to be aired in the UK on Ch. 4.  He has interviewed many EVP researchers, Sarah Estep, Dale Palmer, Erland Babcock, Tina Laurent, Judith Chisholm, Linda Williamson and Alexander MacRae, to name a few.  He also filmed parts of the NII Conference.

David Monaghan Productions was responsible for bringing Alexander MacRae to the NII conference.  We got a kick out of hearing Alec talk about his experiences with the film crew while they filmed him in Scotland.  At one point the crew took Alec on location to use his device at a nearby waterfall and then they shot him rowing across a beautiful lake.  What you won’t see is Alec rowing with a heavy cameraman and his heavy camera, along with a soundman with his microphone pole, all in the stern of the boat.  To add insult to injury the cameraman and soundman wore the only available lifejackets.

It is hoped that the film will be aired in England before 2002.  No word yet if and when it will air in the States.

Million Dollars: Put up or Shut up!

Victor Zammit, Psychic Researcher and retired Australian High Court Solicitor is offering one million dollars to anyone who can, “Rebut the evidence for the afterlife and prove that the afterlife does not or cannot exist.”  This offer counters skeptic James Randi’s famous million-dollar offer to anyone to “prove the paranormal.”

An International ITC Platform

Dr. Adrian Klein and a number of prominent ITC researchers from around the world have formed the International ITC Platform (ITCP).  The members of the ITCP coordination panel are: Dr. Ralf Determeyer Germany, Sonia Rinaldi Brazil, Dr. Paolo Presi Italy, Dr. Paola Giovetti Italy, Mark Macy USA, Dr. Anabela Cardoso Portugal and Jacques Blanc Garrin France.

The ITCP is intended to help coordinate information exchange and research in ITC.  Emphasis now is on finding funding for an ITC library and database.  The Platform holds the potential to unify groups and EVP/ITC researchers into a worldwide body with one face.  We will bring you more about the ITCP as it develops.

The EVP Voice that Saved My Life
By Tom Wingert

It was in winter and I was on a field exercise.  I had just entered our four-man army tent after getting off duty.  I was very tired and was sitting on my cot rubbing my eyes with the ball of my hands, when outside a large truck drove by and blew its loud horn for a short burst.  In that moment I clearly heard a loud clear female voice yelling in German “Aufpassen!” which means, “Watch out!”

I knew instantly what I had heard and I looked around me for the apparent danger and found it.  At the time in the military, you warmed your tent with a “Yukon stove.”  This is a boxy looking stove like an oversized shoebox, double the size.  Anyway, this stove is fueled from the outside of the tent with car gasoline, fed by a hose that comes into the tent to a simple valve on the stove.  This valve is adjusted to let the gas drip onto a flat disk inside the stove.  The gasoline burns after it drips and disperses into the air within the sheet metal confines of the stove.  But, if the valve is opened too much, then gasoline may drip over the edge and onto the bottom of the stove and start to accumulate.  This is the danger, for it could ignite and go off like a bomb.  Well, when I looked, sure enough there was about a quarter inch of gas on the bottom.  I turned the valve off immediately.

This spirit had most likely saved my life.  I hope I get to meet her and thank her some day.              Tom Wingert

EVP and Grief Management

Linda Williamson sits with a group of woman who are using EVP to assist with overcoming the grief of losing a loved one.  Recently Linda worked with a woman who had lost her daughter twenty years ago.  The woman had never gotten over this death and was angry with God for taking her child.  Linda was able to help this woman through an EVP message from her daughter.  The woman was overcome with joy.

Life After Death

While working on a series of paranormal investigations, UK TV production company, Galaxi Television, believe they have come up with proof of life after death.

The “Phantom or Fraud” team, led by Ross Hemsworth has captured two ghostly apparitions on Digital video, using temporal time theories.  The apparitions are only visible when the videos are played in fast forward or fast reverse, proving that the movement is outside of the normal accepted time patterns, and thus, in temporal time.

The team has also captured what they believe to be "soul forms" on stills photographs, which have been positively identified by NDE survivors, as the "light they saw at the point of death."  The Phantom or Fraud team has a web site at (www.phantomorfraud.com, we have no physical address)

News About Members

•   Gerry Connelly, a physicist, has written, Electronic Voice Phenomenon: the Cinderella Science.  This book clearly demonstrates that EVP is not a random phenomenon and follows patterns first researched as far back as 1893.  These patterns show the restrictions EVP are bound by, and show where the voices are coming from.  The book can be ordered by writing to Domra Publications, 65 Constable Road, Corby Northamptonshire, NN18 0RT United Kingdom.  The price per book includes shipping and is 25 dollars or 10 pounds.
  

•   Ruth Mattson Taylor has a new book out titled Evidence from Beyond.  Ruth’s father the Reverend A.D. Mattson has been communicating with Ruth through the distinguished British medium Margaret Flavell since 1971.  The book answers questions about what life is like on the other side of the veil.  It is available in bookstores or online at www.brettbooks.com/evidencefrombeyond.
  

•   The Religion News Service did a feature this month to coincide with the release of the movie, "The Others," which is about a haunted Victorian mansion.  Reporter Angela Aleiss noted the Gallup Poll, which stated, "38 per cent of Adult Americans believe that ghosts, or spirits of the dead, do exist."  Aleiss quoted NSAC President and AAEVP member Barbara Thurman who credits the media for today’s renewed interest in Spirit: "I've had more people inquire about Spiritualism in the last six months than during the whole six years since I started this church in San Francisco.”
  

•   Michele Hardison appeared in a program about haunted Nevada on the Travel Channel, on Sept. 2.  We are sure that the program will be on again so watch for it.  She will also appear in an episode of the Fox Family Channel’s Scariest Places.
  

•   The Reverend Bernard Baker, AZ, made his transition to the other side on September 4.  Bernard was very interested in Electronic Voice Phenomena and was a member of the AA-EVP for many years.  We wish him well on his new journey.

Tapers Report

•   Erland Babcock, MA, sent us an extremely loud and clear EVP message that was received many years ago.  Erland also played this message at the NII conference.  The message, “This is my dream,” was recorded at the scene of a murder about a month after the murder was committed.  The message seemed to mean nothing when it was recorded.  However, the aunt of the murdered girl explained that three months before her death, the girl had written a poem about her death called, This is My Dream.  The EVP is actually louder than the taper’s voices.
  

•   Tina Laurent, Wales, recorded the EVP, “You rather like death.”  She wrote, “I suppose that this must be true since I spend so much of my time trying to communicate with the so-called dead.”  On a recording made in May, she wrote that she had just announced that it was May 1st, and asked who was on the line that night.  On play back she heard, “This is your Daddy,” and realized that it was her father’s birthday.  He was killed in the war.
  

•   Frank Sumption, CO, wrote, “One of my sons was murdered back in 1989.  I’ve asked if he was around.  The answer I got was, ‘He’s not a ghost.’  I’m assuming that he has either moved on to another level, or has reincarnated.”
  

•   Dale Sizemore, SC, wrote, saying that, “My cousin from out of town called and had just started her message with ‘Dale…’ on my answering machine.  During the brief gap between ‘Dale’ and her next words, there is another female voice blurting out the words, ‘What Happened.’”  Dale told us that he thinks this may have been someone who recently made her transition and was wondering what happened.
  

•   Michele Hardison, NV, was working with a friend setting up camera equipment.  She said that the friend wanted to point the camera at a mirror.  Michele recorded the loud EVP message, “Reflection yours,” while all of this was going on.  The very distinctive voice sounds like that of her mother in law who died in the house four years earlier.
  

•   Carol Barron-Karajohn, MA, told us a little more about her EVP message, “I’m alive.”  When she received this recording she recognized the man’s voice.  He had been an AA-EVP member.  She wrote, “He called me several times because of my work in the field and we exchanged many audio-cassette letters.  I’m sure that he is happy to be spreading the word from the other side!  The man’s daughter confirmed his voice.  What amazed me the most with this EVP message was that it was done by ‘appointment.’  When I taped that morning, someone else told me that the fellow would, ‘be on this evening.”
  

•   Alexander MacRae, Scotland, wrote, “A friend who had never heard of EVP before, but was so curious as to why the BBC and other TV people were coming over, would not be satisfied until he had handled the plates.  The result, a clamor of voices one of which said, ‘That is my body you are over,’ in a voice that spooked us all.”