From Our Viewpoint

The words growth, expansion, learning and development are very important to me.  They represent, to me, what our time on the earth is all about.  I am sure that they are close to the hearts of most of the members of the Association and that many of you feel as I do.  Electronic Voice Phenomena represents the meaning of these words, perhaps not in the way most would first think.  Certainly we learn from the voices that come to us from other dimensions.  We learn that there are others who exist and speak to us through electronic means and who send us pictures through our cameras and video.  This is quite remarkable in itself.  But EVP and Instrumental Transcommunication can also expand us personally.  It is that touching in with the energy from beyond the physical that can expand us just as much as the messages that are received.

In the past three months several people have written to us about the medium John Edwards who is seen nightly on the Sci Fi network.  He is immensely popular and his having a nightly show during prime time attests to this fact.  Members have written wanting us to make sure that everyone knows about his television program and how fantastic it is.  James Van Pragg, Silvia Brown, George Anderson and several others have also done much to educate people that we indeed go on after the change called death.  I believe that the gifts that these people possess are available to all of us.  Perhaps we may not develop these gifts to such a great degree, nevertheless we do have these abilities and working to develop them in some way is one of the things few people take time to do.

I do not know exactly why most people think that receiving psychic messages is something that is only obtainable by a select few.  We all have received those little nudges that come from somewhere and that give us direction to take some kind of action.  We call that intuition.  We don’t seem to correlate intuition, as a steppingstone to communication with those in another dimension or communication with a part of us that seems to be hidden.  EVP may seem to be far away from receiving psychic or mediumistic messages but it was a starting place for me personally.

I was one of those who believed that the gifts of those famous mediums of the past and present were just that, gifts.  Others had been gifted and I thought that I most certainly was not in line when those gifts were handed out.  EVP did not seem like that to me.  I felt that it was a phenomenon that did not involve me and was outside of myself.  As I got into EVP Tom and I were also exploring other avenues of interest and learning that were not being taught in our schools of higher education.  We pursued meditation, past life regression and even having an out of body experience.  This led us to finally attend some intensive classes on mediumship and healing.

I nearly had to be hit over the head with a message from a friend in spirit to believe that I was truly getting a message in the first place!  Lucky for me this friend knew how thick headed I was and literally would not let me go to sleep until I wrote down the three messages that he was giving me.  The last message was for me to tell the person who was running a development school to get business cards.  To me this was absolute proof that I was delusional with what I was receiving.  After all how could this person, a well-known medium that was also running a school, not have business cards?  Ridiculous!  (I will hand it to myself and my personality that I did not, however, drop the ball.  I did follow through with what I had been given even while feeling that I was about to be totally embarrassed.)  I went ahead and approached the director of the school.  I told her about the message and whom it was purportedly from.  I will never forget what she said to me.  “I know that I should do this he (the entity) has pestered me to do so in the past.”

When we sit down at our recorders we are entering into and participating in energy that links us with something that we call paranormal.  Doing so expands us past our everyday physical selves.  To me the word paranormal means growth.  It is something beyond normal and our comfortable set of ideas.

A member who has been very busy and who had stopped recording for a while, recently wrote about sitting down to record again and how wonderful it was to feel the energy that happens when one records.  Those who record often get messages from those who speak that say, “I am behind you,” or, “I’m right next to you,” etc.  We can often feel the difference in the energy when these beings are in the room. 

There are many avenues toward the type of growth that I am talking about.  One may pursue meditation are take some classes like we have.  But EVP is also an avenue that gives us more than messages and that can lead to personal expansion, growth and development.                           Lisa

ITC in Portugal

(Figure 2 and 4 are by Phyllis Delduque and Figure 1 and 3 are by Paulo Cabral.)

Phyllis Delduque and Paulo Cabral of Portugal have sent us information about their video ITC efforts that you may find interesting.  We have no physical address for them, but there should soon be an English version of their site at http://paginas.terra.com.br/educacao/portaltci/ .

Paul informs us that they use a video camera that is connected to a video recorder.  The output of the video camera is connected to a television.  The camera is focused on the television.  This arrangement provides a record of the process while supplying the necessary feedback for the video camera.  In effect the camera is “looking” at what it looked at a few milliseconds past.

They provided us with a few ITC images.  Notice that in image 1, they have inserted two photographs beside the ITC faces of people they recognize.  Phyllis and Paulo did not comment about the images they sent us, but we want to point out that in image 4 the landscape evident at the bottom of the frame is representative of images we have seen from other researchers, including those of Erland Babcock.  The fact that we recognize human faces, animals and landscapes in ITC brings us to wonder if some of the unusual objects, we see in ITC are not supposed to be recognizable to us as well.  For instance, are they images of objects in the communicating entity’s level of existence?  Perhaps they are images of thought forms.

ITC Journal
Voices, Images and Texts of Another World

Anabela Cardoso has sent us back issues of her ITC Journal.  In Journal No. 2 she writes about her beginning contacts with Timestream, “It seems that their (the entities) work of producing clear and understandable voices free of background noise is extremely difficult.  They practice and practice, requesting that the radios be at top volume, sometimes for two days without stopping.  This is usually followed by the same period of rest with the radios off.

“When they practice, the noises of the radios go through all sorts of changes.  And suddenly the loud white noise of the radios is suppressed as if it were swallowed by the radios themselves, as if somebody were holding it.  It can stay like that for several minutes.  Then suddenly again, like a cascade, the noise is released.  It is really impressive to witness Timestream work with the noise of the radios or with the making of the voices.  They repeat and repeat the same words (or broken words) – ‘We are the dead,’ ‘We are the dead of Timestream,’ ‘We are Timestream,’ etc.  Two different voices practicing, ‘Say it again,’ the other voice, ‘Anhh…’ in an obviously failed attempt.  And so it goes for hours.  Sometimes voices jump form one radio to the other that is tuned to a different frequency.  How could you do that?  I asked.  ‘Did you like it?  It was Paulo Jacobo,’ they answered.  But if we ponder upon Timestream’s statement, ‘We modulate the waves with thought,’ replying to my question as to how they produce the voices, we can imagine how difficult a task it will be, what a tremendous effort of concentration it demands.”

The ITC journal is a nonprofit publication.  The journal includes articles by renowned researchers and specialists of ITC such as, Adrian Klein (Israel), Carlo Trajna (Italy), Carlos Luz (Brasil), Cristina Rocha (Brasil), David Fontana (UK), François Brune (France), Jacques Blanc-Garin (France), Maggy Harsch (Lux.), Mark Macy (USA), Nils O. Jacobson (Sweden), Paola Giovetti (Italy), Paolo Presi (Italy), Ralf Determeyer (Germany), Sinesio Darnell (Spain).  The articles are published in their original version of English, Spanish or Portuguese, and are often accompanied by extracts in the other languages.  The goal is to tell everybody that instrumental transcommunication with other levels of life is not only possible but that it can be achieved by anybody.  “The important thing is contact itself,” said one of the friends from Timestream Station.

The journal is $20 per year for 4 issues.  You can write to the ITC Journal at Apartado de Correos, 3157 VIGO, Pontevedra Spain.

The Web address is www.terra.es/personal2/986313268/

A Progress Report
By Mark Macy

“I’ve had some encouraging results in Colorado over the past year with a special subtle energy device called a ‘luminator.’  The luminator is a tower-shaped device about four feet high (1.3 meters).  According to its inventor, Patrick Richards of Battle Creek, Michigan, it alters the environment in an area that extends about 100 feet (30 meters) in all directions from the device.  It has two internal fans, which move air over a series of liquid-filled rings.  As the air molecules go tumbling through the rings, unusual things happen to them, according to Richards, including a reverse spin of electrons.

“There are eight luminators in existence today, being used in several countries.  All but mine are being used for healing, as the device seems to have some important therapeutic applications.  Mine is the only one used exclusively for ITC research, as it provides a very simple and basic means of ITC contact.  When I take a picture of someone with a Polaroid camera in the presence of the luminator, there is a good chance that there will be other faces in the picture after it develops a few minutes later—faces of people who are not physically present—that is, faces of spirit beings.

“For ITC, I like the fact that the luminator seems to melt away some of the subtle barriers between our physical world and the spiritual worlds that are superimposed over our reality.  That superimposition of realities is a belief of many religions and a theory of many modern scientists and researchers, such as the late George W. Meek.  Mainstream science disregards these theories and beliefs, for the most part, but I believe that that disregard will become harder to justify in the future as evidence such as the luminator images come to light.

“Last year, a picture of me (2) was taken, but when it developed, it wasn’t me in the picture.  After studying it, my wife Regina and I became convinced that it was a composite image of two men who had recently died who were close to me: My father (3) and Dr Willis Harman (4), past president of the Institute of Noetic Science, or IONS.

“Regina and I both felt certain that those two men were in the picture, but to get a second opinion, I contacted their wives—my mother (who lives in Colorado) and Mrs. Charlene Harman of Stanford, California.  They both recognized their husbands right away.  When I showed the picture to other people, some recognized my dad or Willis, and some didn’t.  So I took the picture to a photo lab, and had some enlargements and reverse enlargements made.  I cut them in two down the middle, fit the pieces together, and came up with two composite images.  One of them (5) is very clearly my father, Blair Macy.  Anyone who knew the man can see the resemblance.  I believe that the other (6) is Willis Harman, the late president of IONS.

“I’ve shared that composite image (6) with several people who knew Willis Harman casually during his lifetime.  Unfortunately, most of them do not see or ‘feel’ the resemblance to Willis Harman that Regina and I do.  We’ll have to wait a few years to let the image be assimilated by more people who knew Willis Harman well in order to draw a better consensus.  Meanwhile, I think it’s reasonable to conclude that the left and right halves of the original image are clearly two different people.

“In February 2001, I took my luminator along to give two workshops in New York.  Each evening I took a picture of everyone in the audience, and almost everyone had anomalies in their pictures (such as everything being out of focus, two copies of every item in the picture slightly offset from each other, streaks of light, fractal patterns, and partially transparent physical bodies).  Many people also had spirit faces posing with them in the picture.  Some of the faces were quite clear, and some of them were immediately recognized as departed loved ones.  One woman, Connie, was deeply moved to see the clear face of her late son in her picture (7).  He had died recently.

“One tremendous asset of this spirit photographic process is that it seems to work best with a Polaroid camera, which eliminates the chance of a hoax, since the photographer, the subject, and spectators are all present as the picture is snapped, as it develops, and as it becomes clear a few minutes later.  Many people today are enmeshed in the physical world and have no knowledge of or belief in spiritual reality.  My hope is that these luminator images and other good results of ITC research will help people reconstruct their mental roadmaps or models of reality in order to accommodate a healthy spiritual view."       ©2001 by Mark Macy

A Lawyer Presents the Case for the Afterlife

Victor Zammit’s book, A Lawyer Presents the Case for the Afterlife – Irrefutable Objective Evidence, is now available to read online at www.victorzammit.com/book.  The book can also be ordered by writing to Victor at P.O. Box 1810, Dee Why 2099, Sydney NSW Australia.

Elimination of Humming and Whistles
by Stefan Bion

Stefan Bion from the VTF in Germany has provided instructions for using Cool Edit to filter unwanted sounds from EVP sound tracks.  The original article is offered at the VTF web site, www.vtf.de/noisered.htm.  Rolf D. Ehrhardt of the IoTC translated it from German.  The original translated version, along with additional information from Rolf about editing sound can be found at [See www.worlditc.org ] .

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If you have a signal that interferes with 50--60 Hz hum or with a constant whistle sound, for instance acoustic regeneration, then Cool Edit with its FFT filter can be used.  Some filters are already predefined, like those for 60Hz hum - "60 Hz Notch " to eliminate hum.

Load a wave file into Cool Edit and then under MENU item: VIEW, toggle between WAVEFORM VIEW and SPECTRAL VIEW.  In the example shown here, you can see the disturbing whistle as a light band at about 3 KHz:

If you select the area in question, you can find out the frequency of the whistle by going to ANALYSIS – FREQUENCY ANALYSIS and clicking the SCAN button.  Please review the screen print marked “Frequency Analysis.”  In the example, the disturbing whistle can be recognized as a peak in the diagram.  In this particular example there are two peaks at around 3 KHz, which shows that there are in fact two whistles.  (Knowing this and looking again at the SPECTRAL VIEW, one can see that the light band is wider in some areas)

If you move the cursor to either side of the peaks in your analysis, then the frequencies of the begining and the end of the peaks will be shown.  If you widen the window then you will get a better resolution.  In this example the frequencies are between 2870 - 2990 Hz and 3130 - 3280 Hz.  The "mean-frequency" of the highest peak is shown in the field "FREQUENCY."

Using the "FFT-Filter" function under the MENU item: TRANSFORM – FILTER – FFT, you can determine a Notch-Filter that fits exactly to the frequency(ies) found in the analysis.  By using the mouse key, form the filter curve to the desired shape.  To eliminate a point, use "Drag & Drop" to pull the point out of the window with your mouse. With a double click on one point you can type in frequency and amplitude.  In this example two small Notch-Filters have been defined using the values found out in the frequency analysis.  (They are very close together.)

Clicking on OK filters the signal.  Looking at the Spectral View After Filtering diagram will show that the light horizontal band at 3 Khz has been eliminated.

The VTF (Vereins Fur Tonbandstimmenforschung)

The aim of the German VTF is to support the research of EVP/ITC by enabling everyone interested in this phenomenon to carry out experiments for the reception of such voices, by supplying them with information and advice.  VTF endeavors to address all persons or institutions that may give assistance in scientific or technical aspects, or in any other way.  You can contact the VTF www.vtf.de or at Verein für Transkommunikations-Forschung (VTF) e.V., Gneisenaustraße 2, 65195 Wiesbaden, Deutschland.

A letter from Jutta Liebmann, VTF
(With some editing for clarity—Editors)

EVP Maker

According to the American Heritage Dictionary, “A phoneme is the smallest phonetic unit in a language that is capable of conveying a distinction in meaning.”  EVP Maker is a program developed by Stefan Bion, member of the German VTF, to generate phonemes for the recording of EVP.  In use, it is capable of decomposing a segment of recorded speech into a series of phonemes that contain all of the human frequencies and amplitude changes, but that is not otherwise recognizable as distinct words.

EVP Maker can also be used to record an EVP session.  It includes support for file handling, labeling and review.  This is a most interesting tool for EVP, in that it develops an alternative to white noise as a background sound.  The software is available for free download at www.StefanBion.de/evpmaker.

We have loaded this software in our computer and are currently testing it.  Thus far, we can say that it is very professionally designed and has a good, user-friendly interface and instructions.

Taping using EVPmaker

Frank Sumption, CO uses the EVPmaker computer program developed by Stefan Bion to get voices on his computer at home.  He started out using a tape-recorder and white noise but felt that trying to listen through all the noise was making him deaf, so he started using the computer.  He says that this is much easier on the ears and that he gets EVP in every session.

He uses a microphone, sound card, sound editor and an audio expander program with speakers for play back.  He writes, “I don’t think that you even need a microphone with EVPmaker.  I have forgotten to turn it on and have still gotten phrases.  I use portions of speech from talk shows for the raw audio.  I also keep the microphone in a large peanut butter jar, which acts like an echo chamber.  I use a homemade amplifier with the microphone, just an op. Amp with a max gain of about 1000.  The jar also cuts feedback problems.  I’ve noticed lately that if I listen closely while making an EVP recording with EVPmaker, I can hear the phrases being spoken.  I just announce out loud that I am doing an EVP recording, then I ask my questions, and hit the enter key to start the session.  Usually any answer to a question will be in the very first seconds of the recording.”

ITC with a Digital Camera

Erland Babcock reports that he has purchased a Toshiba PDR-M70 digital camera that he is using for ITC.

Erland tells us that his first effort to photograph a television screen tuned to “snow,” was unsuccessful.  He has a Voodoo video card for his computer and has tried photographing the television display on his computer monitor with some success.  He is not using a feedback mechanism, but does note that he thinks the background is important.

The images shown here are of a small portion of the initial photograph.  Earland puts the camera in the “macro mode” and places it close to the screen.  He has circled an image in the photo at the left and has enlarged that image in the photo at the right.

Erland recently worked with a black and white television set.  He tells us that, “The reason for the Black & White TV is the fact that it is analog not digital.  When the screen is defocused a bit one gets a nice smooth picture that can be blown up without showing all the squares that you get with digital.  …  I simply place the TV on my desk in front of my computer monitor, tune it to a blank channel, put the digital camera in the macro mode and take pictures of the screen.  …  There is a distinct advantage of having a high-resolution digital camera.  I love it.  One does not have to purchase film and have it processed before finding out the results.  I may never use my darkroom again.”

Thanks for your Support

We thank all of you who have renewed your membership.  By doing so you are helping us continue to get the word out about EVP/ITC.  We also want to say a special thank you to those of you who have sent in an extra donation with your renewal.  We are trying to expand the newsletter and we hope that you have noticed that it has grown by a page.  This page has added about 30% to the printing cost and can raise the mailing cost 60% if anything else has to be put into the envelope with the newsletter.  We plan to make the AA-EVP a nonprofit association in the near future.

We thank those of you who have computers and who have agreed to receive the newsletter via Email.  This helps keep the costs down too.  For those of you doing this, if you at any time want to change back to the paper copy, just let us know and we will be glad to make the change.

Many of you are helping us grow and we thank you!

EVP - The Electronic Voice Phenomenon
By Tina Laurent

EVP researcher and AA-EVP member Tina Laurent has been honored with an article titled EVP – The Electronic Voice Phenomenon published in the spring 2002 Scole Experimental Group’s Spiritual Scientist Journal.  The article is in two parts, and so, we were only able to read the first part as the AA-EVP newsletter went to print.

Tina has been doing EVP for 20 years and regularly lectures on the subject in the UK.  The first part of the article gives some history and EVP background, and then discusses her introduction to and progress in receiving EVP.  She writes, “Well, do I remember the first time I listened to discarnate voices emanating from magnetic recording tape.  It was in 1981 in the Maryland house of Sarah Estep, the writer of a down-to earth book, Voices of Eternity and the founder of the American Association of EVP.  For three hours I sat enthralled, knowing full well that this was a day that was to change the course of my life.”

The article is on the AA-EVP web site and the second part will also be put there when it is published.  Tina can be reached at: [Not available].  For information or to subscribe to The Spiritual Scientist go to: [Not available].

BBC Documentary

Dinah Lord is a producer/director who is making a documentary program for the BBC with Justine Picardie.  She has interviewed Sarah Estep, Dale Palmer, Tina Laurent and others for the program.

Sarah wrote that Dinah and Nicola Gibson, another producer for the BBC, visited with her in May.  She made two recordings with them.  She wrote that there were two messages on the reverse side of the first recording.  One was about wanting to come down, the other was about wanting to visit.  Both could be heard without headphones.  Then, on playback of the second recording, forward side, a clear Class A voice said, after Nicola had called on her grandparents (as Dinah also did) “Want to talk to her.”  Sarah said that both were delighted with the results.  The two asked if they could return with a camera crew at a later time to film Sarah making a recording.

Afterlife Accepted

Research surveys conducted by Michale Hout (University of California, Berkeley) and Andrew M. Greely (University of Chicago) demonstrate that the belief in life after death has become more prevalent in the 1990s than it was in the 1970s.  The majority - 62% of those surveyed - had no doubts at all, 33% believed but had some doubt and only 2% of the population of the US are totally skeptical.  We located this information on Victor Zammits web site.  You can read the full research paper on it at http://www.victorzammit.com/ or send us a SASE.

Experiment – Recording the Living

In April Sarah Estep participated with us in an experiment in which we tired to see if we could record messages from each other while asleep.  This worked out well as Tom and I taped around 10 pm PST when Sarah was asleep.  Sarah taped early in the morning while we were still sleeping.  The experiment ran three separate evenings.

On one experiment Sarah said on the tape that Tom and Lisa were asleep right now.  A loud voice says, “That’s right,” and then 16 counts later another class A message by the same male voice says,  “I am.”  During another experiment Sarah asks Tom Butler, “Are you here,” and got, “He’s here, we will try to get him back.”  When Sarah asked for Lisa she got, “I’m here,” and then later, “Stop, the Lisa back.”  This is interesting, as I woke up and remember looking at the clock.  This was verified with Sarah as the time that she was recording.

During our experiments in trying to reach Sarah we recorded, “You have main contact,” and also, “Rain.”  Interestingly, we later learned it had been raining at Sarah’s house.  We asked, “Where are you Sarah?” The message came back “I am here.”

An interesting side note in all of this. Sarah also had a surprise visitor.  During our running of these experiments Sonia Rinaldi, EVP researcher in Brazil, sent Sarah an Email.  In it she told Sarah about a very vivid dream and wrote, “I could see you so clearly that I am sure that we really met.  I was in your kitchen. … The fact is that I never remember any of my dreams.”  Sonia was not aware of our experiments and yet she had this lucid dream on one of the nights that we were trying to reach Sarah via tape recorder.

News From and About Members

•   Alexander MacRea, Scotland, tells us that he has returned to his work with EVP, and that his equipment has been rebuilt.  In the near future, you can expect to begin hearing of new results from his work.  Also, look for a new effort from Alec to document what is known about EVP.  Welcome back, Alec.
  

•   Katherine Ramsland, NJ, is in the last stages of preparing Ghost: Investigating the Other Side.  The book is due out in September.  She says that, “Sarah’s in it.”
  

•   Linda Root, MI, continues to capture anomalous phenomena.  She wrote saying that “ I have had results with capturing this energy while using seven different cameras (including a polaroid), at least five different film processes and four different brands of film over the years.”
  

•   Rev. Rubert Sigurdsson, MI, wrote to tell us about a workshop on EVP that he did at the Pinpoint of Light Spiritualist Center in Hartford Maine in May.
  

•   Keli Adams, PA, wrote that her book, Friendly Shadows will be out soon.
  

•   Michele Hardison, NV, wrote that she had just got back from shooting with the Fox network at the Goldfield Hotel in Goldfield Nevada.  Michele takes paranormal photographs.  She wrote “They brought in a psychic and a dog and the poor dog just about lost it towards evening.”  Michele is also working with Janice Oberding, the author of Haunted Nevada, in putting together a web site.

Phone Calls from the Dead

Several members have shared their experiences regarding receiving a phone call from someone who has died.

John Richardson wrote, “I will relate an experience of a phone call from the dead.  A distant cousin was married to my father in law.  I was aware of her being in the hospital and in bad shape due to her age.  One morning the phone rang, I answered and a voice said, ‘She's Dead.’  Thinking this being a prank I hung up the phone.  Then five minutes later the phone rang again, it was my brother in law and he told me his stepmother had passed.”

Laurita Chmielewske wrote, “My mother had a phone call from the dead about ten years ago.  She was checking her messages on her micro cassette answering machine when she got a message saying, ‘Tell Laurita …tell Laurita, tell Laurita.’  It was my Aunt Stella's voice in monotone but that was my aunt’s voice.  I heard it for myself.  We thought, ‘What sicko could do this to us?’  We all missed my aunt.  My mom was very close to her.  Why would someone fake my Aunt Stella's voice and say my name but not leave a clear message?  At that time I was going through a lot of struggles in my life and it was a very hard time for me.  Now I know that Aunt Stella was telling my mom to tell me everything would work out.”

In Katherine Ramsland’s book, Dean Kootnz: A Writer’s Biography, Dean tells of receiving a phone call from a woman who sounded like his deceased mother warning him.  The voice warned him to be careful and then faded away without hanging up.  When he went to visit his father, who was mentally impaired, he took extra precautions.  This was a good thing, because that day his father tried to kill him with a knife.  Although he's not sure that ghosts can make calls, he claims that the voice he heard sounded very much like that of his mother, long dead.

Taping in Cemeteries
From Erland Babcock

Some years ago my son and I made a recording in a cemetery at night.  We had informed the police what we were going to do.  That night, when we were trying to make a recording, the police came and checked on us as a neighbor reported some thing strange going on in the cemetery.  The police locked up their car and came up to see what we were doing. While they were there the lights on the police car suddenly started to blink, the radio went on and off and the overhead lights started to run.  The police just stood there for a while until things quieted down.  Needless to say they walked back to the police station and came for the car the next day.  That was the talk around the town for a while.  We did not get a single voice and never went back.

Thoughts From Members

•   Carol Barron-Karajohn often tries different things and different types of background noise when she records.  Recently she wrote that she taped while ironing with a steam iron and got pretty good results.
  

•   Tina Laurent wrote, “When I play back my recordings I listen back at the lowest speed possible that my Sony variable speed recorder allows.  Not only does that turn ‘noises’ into intelligible words but also I’ve discovered that there are high-pitched, usually quick intelligible EVP utterances alongside my slowed-down voice.  These messages disappear completely when I play the tape at normal speed!  We must be missing so many utterances.”
  

•   Sandra Belanger wrote that she had found a web site with a real time antenna for listening to meteors impact the atmosphere.  She plans to make some EVP recordings using it for background noise.  The web site www.spaceweather.com.  She mentioned the SETI program that allows you to listen for extraterrestrial signals and wondered if anyone had tried using it for EVP.
  

•   Renata Barbarigo and Lonna Wisdom both mentioned how much they enjoy watching the medium John Edwards on the Sci Fi channel.  Virgil Hunter wrote “It would be interesting to see John Edwards work with a good EVP taper.”

Tapers Report

•   Tina Laurent, Wales, sent us a tape of many fine voices.  One of them came in over her Call-Minder service.  British Telecom duplicated it for her!  “Here is Kosti.  Call you.  Repeat, it’s not easy.”  In another letter Tina wrote “There is no doubt that our spirit friends ‘see’ us in some way.”  She recorded, “I can see your light,” and, “The light is on for Tina,” and, “A light thru the curtain.”
  

•   Clara Laughlin, VA, wrote back regarding some messages that she had recorded.  She wrote, “I asked sister-in-law Harriette Masters and daughter Barbara Masters who had died weeks apart if they were happy to be out of all the pain and those old sick bodies.  The answer came back, ‘Masters people are served with joy.’  Meaning that death had brought joy.  I love happy endings!”

Clara also got a message in response to a healing list that she works with.  It was, “Death is not patient.”  She wrote that this was, “Not a happy message,” and that it meant, “Death was not going to wait and would happen when the time came regardless of our wishes for a healing.  This is Dr. Callie’s kind way of telling me some people won’t make it.”  (Tom and I know what Clara is talking about.  We know many people that work with healing lists and have grown to believe that death can sometimes actually be the healing that is being sought.)

•   Linda Williamson, Scotland, often records with a group of women.  At one session they called on Margaret the aunt of the lady in whose house the sitting was taking place.  They received, “I am here, Hello.”  At another session in a woman’s home whose brother had been killed on a Honda Motor Cycle, “Honda” was recorded.  Linda wrote about recording on Christmas day and having her family members come in with EVP messages, including the pet cat she had for 17 years.
  

•   Bill Weber, FL, mentioned this recording a while back.  Bill had agreed to videotape a man’s home for insurance purposes, but the man died the day before the appointment.  Bill called on the deceased man about two days after his death.  He received, “Good-bye; Everything’s fine.”  Bill says, “It sounded similar to his physical voice recorded on my answering machine before his death.”
  

•   Dale Sizemore wrote that a childhood friend, whom he had not seen for a long time, left a message on his answering machine from his hospital room asking Dale to come visit.  During the gaps between this man’s message there were 3 EVPs.  The male voice said “Guess who,” and, “Please help,” and another voice in a more pitiful tone said, “Please Help.”  Dale was at work and the man left a second message before Dale returned home.  On this tape an EVP by a female voice said, “Your Lights On.”  Dale wrote that he immediately went to visit his old friend and that they reminisced about childhood experiences and caught up on each other’s lives.
  

•   Carol Barron–Karajohn wrote that she took a nap while taping many years ago and upon playback heard, “Too bad she fell asleep!”  Recently, Carol asked, “Do we continue to exist after death?”  On the reverse side of the tape a voice answered, “Thou, Carol, will in orbit, to far out in spirit.”

Noetics Institute Update

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.

Dale Palmer is convening a meeting to explain in person the operation of his new web site for EVP.  We will be in attendance, and hope to be able to give you a full update on the web site progress in the next newsletter.  (The Palmer family Noetics Institute stems from the GATE project that we have reported on in the past.)

The Prize for Epipsychology 2001

The Prize for Epipsychology 2001 has been awarded to Monique and Jacques Blanc-Garin of France and to Mark Macy of the United States.  Mark was given the award for founding INIT; for promoting ITC through books, journals, and presentations; and, for experimenting with spirit images through a special photographic process, as well as getting voices through radio and telephone.  Monique and Jacques received the award for promoting ITC in France through their association Infinitude, for their periodical Le Messager and for their lectures and conferences around France.  They also received the prize as a way of thanks for the help they have given to many who suffer bereavement.

Sarah Estep shared the award in 1996 with George Meek.  Sarah’s award explained that it had been given to her because of her tape voice research; because of her American Association - Electronic Voice Phenomena; her periodical and her book.  Also because of "her influence on the mass media."  George Meek received the award that year because of his work on Spiricom.  The award comes from the Dr. A Hedri Foundation for Exopsychology and Epipsychology in Zurich, Switzerland.