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PETE'S JOURNAL, December 2005

Electronic Communication with the (so called) Dead

"Mediumship in all its forms is a crude makeshift which we must use until our engineers perfect a mechanism we can use automatically. This is possible and will doubtless be the next step after television. You are within a short distance of two extremes: annihilation or illumination. If you will spend the time and money in seeking to reach us that you now spend in developing some military devices, you will soon give us a device for communicating with you... a message purportedly received from the spirit of William Brandon in 1935 through a telepathic medium."

"The earth is almost in total spiritual darkness."

[Journal 9-25-01. At a seance in the early 1940's the spirits told us about a new machine, that would soon be in every household, that could show pictures, like a movie, of events taking place clear across the other side of the country. They were talking, of course, about television.

The purpose behind the development of the television machine in heaven was in hopes to develop a way for spirits in heaven to communicate with their families on earth. So far, this has not happened. I wish it would happen, then maybe we could make right so many things that are wrong on earth.]

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The following excerpt from... http://www.spirithistory.com/invent.html

Inventing the Future

Quaker Abolitionists Isaac and Amy Post from Rochester were early enthusiasts of the spirit manifestations associated with the Fox sisters. Isaac became a medium and received a series of messages from exalted spirits of the blessed deceased, among whom were George Fox and George Washington. The spirit of Benjamin Franklin revealed to Post that he had continued his experiments with electricity after his death and that new inventions would be brought to the Earth in the form of scientific ideas and specific technical plans.

All new inventions [on earth], Franklin said, already existed in the spirit realm. The benevolent spirits conveyed those innovations into people’s minds, whether or not the human “inventors” knew their ultimate source. Franklin, according to his spirit, was the real inventor of the telegraph—his electrical experiments in the afterlife had born fruit and he had implanted the idea for the telegraph in the mind of Samuel F. B. Morse. The earthly, physical telegraph, therefore, was simply a material correspondence of the heavenly telegraph. And the earthly invention and demonstration of the telegraph in 1845 was actually a foreshadowing of the spirits’ opening up of a “spiritual telegraph” between Heaven and Earth, which was established with the telegraphic rappings to the Fox sisters in 1848 and then rapidly in many other places.

"Let no man claim that he has made great improvements in the arts and sciences, unassisted by spirit friends. The telegraph wires would not now be conveying intelligence from one end of the land to the other, but for the assistance of disembodied spirits. We take great interest in the discoveries of science, and assist, as we find one devoted, to carry forward that which we delighted in while inhabitants of Earth. Thus I have continued my experiments in my present abode, and have assisted those that have been instrumental in carrying forward plans of great usefulness to man, and I tire not."

Benjamin Franklin [spirit], via Isaac Post, Voices from the Spirit World (1852)

WHAT IS THE EVP?

The EVP (electronic voice phenomenon) is a spontaneous paranormal occurrence permitting discarnate voices to be recorded by electronic instrumental means, primarily an ordinary tape recorder, or a digital recorder, although there are many instances of these voices having been recorded on telephone answering machines, and having broken through on televisions.

As the 'voices' often give unequivocal evidence of who they are by stating their names, our names and give other identifying information, remark on the status quo in our earthly dimension, respond to questions posed by us and, indeed, interact in a perfectly normal conversational manner, many believe them to be voices of people who have lived here on earth; in other words, that they are the voices of the dead. (Judith Chisholm)

Electronic Communications Apparent Spirit communications have been received for many years on electronic recording and communication devices. Cassette recorders, telephones, telephone answer machines, radios, televisions and computers have all taken it upon themselves to deliver some sort of message. At times random, at times sustained over a prolonged period. This is an area of research that can be fascinating to those who are prepared to spend the time to analyze the recorded material and experiment to obtain and improve on their results. It would also be well suited to those who like to fabricate and experiment with electronic devices.

Electronic Voice Phenomena (or EVP) is probably the most widely know area of this research. Its most famous exponent was the Latvian psychologist and philosopher, Konstantin Raudive, who amassed a huge library of recordings which resulted in an equally huge volume entitled "Breakthrough." His work followed in the footsteps of Friedrich Jurgenson, a Swedish artist and producer of documentary films who actually discovered the phenomena. This was then expanded upon by Professor, Hans Bender of the University of Freidburg, Germany.

In the case of tape recorders, the messages seem to appear on the recording when the recorder is left in record mode within a quiet environment. It would be reasonable to assume that all that would normally be recorded would be tape 'hiss' caused through the mechanical action of the tape passing over the recording head. With appropriate motivation, e.g. asking for communication to be demonstrated, voices can sometimes be made out. These are classified by three ratings: Loud and clear- interpreted the same by all listeners. Reasonably clear - interpreted differently by some listeners. Requiring headphones to distinguish the voices and open to individual interpretation. Obviously, the last two are rather ambiguous. Some starting points to investigate this further would be; has an EVP group known as the EVP & Trans Communication Society of Great Britain & Ireland. Run by Judith Chisholm, you can access her web site at: www.voicesfromparadise.co.uk/

The American Association -Electronic Voice Phenomena aaevp.com. Tina Laurent - http://www.users.waitrose.com/~edmat/tina.html provides useful information on how to begin.

Instrumental Transcommunication. (or ITC) However, some are working with much more expensive and professional equipment than domestic portable recorders and they are obtaining clearer results by employing digital signal processor audio filters. Others are working with computers that are connected to sensitive receiving devices that pick up faint electrical pulses and patterns that would otherwise be indiscernible.

The Scole Experimental Group worked with a version of this type of device named the 'Germanium Device' The design of which was given to them by their Spirit Team in a freehand drawing along a roll of unopened film! Although utilizing a small amount of this rare (and expensive) material as the receiver crystal the device was constructed and the connector lead plugged into a regular cassette recorder mic input socket.

When in operation during their experimental sittings the set up produced quite audible voices. It must be made clear that this was not a microphone and was incapable of recording physical human voice. But it was an instrument that, when tuned, was sensitive enough to pick up the vibrational influence of those wishing to communicate.

Computers seem to offer yet another device that is open to influence. There was one quite well publicized case of the chap who had a deceased former incumbent of the cottage in which he lived communicating through his PC. Another incident investigated by the Society of Psychical Research involved incorrect letters being employed on a persons computer spell checker. He couldn't understand why the spell check kept getting things wrong, until he realized that a meaningful message was being given using the incorrectly applied words. Dr. Victor Zammit provides a good overview on: http://www.survivalafterdeath.org/experiments/other/itc.htm

Trans Dimensional Communications (or TDC) The Scole Experimental Group conducted a number of successful projects that can be termed as TDC one of which was named project 'Alice' by their Spirit workers. The experiment involved creating a 'psychomantium' utilizing a video camera and two mirrors with the camera effectively behind one mirror, so that it could catch and reflect electron luminosity back towards the other mirror, thus, a visual loop was formed. The purpose of which was to help create a doorway through which Spirit forms could be captured by the video recorder as they manifested. Precise measurements and proportions were given, but this is the essence of how the equipment was set up.

The experiments were run in the groups cellar, in light and totally dark conditions. With a little adjustment and further Spirit guidance, they achieved results in both environments. The resulting moving images displayed scenes and beings that had never been witnessed by the group before. Along with their other still camera and film images, these images are quite remarkable. Much of this information is available on http://www.psisci.force9.co.uk

On a personal footnote, although not fortunate enough to have been able to experience sitting with the Scole Group at the time, the writer knows people who did. I was also fortunate enough to have been able to attend one of the last Scole Lectures by those involved in the five year experiment. At which the evidence, pictures and film were displayed for all to see. The venue being the beautiful Scole Inn. (which is next to the house in which the experiments were conducted) In its day, a coaching inn during the time of horse drawn transport, sitting beside the old main road between Norwich and London. It is reputed to have been the haunt of a local highwayman, who would ride straight through the large front door and up the broad staircase to evade capture. Nothing to do with the Scole Experiment, but a nice anecdote. Montague Keen, one of the SPR researchers involved during the Scole sittings also delivered a series of excellent, illustrated, lectures on his findings which I was able to attend.

The following by Mark Macy

Today there is high-tech communication reported between researchers in this physical world and other entities, often called "spirits" or "spiritual beings," residing in delicate, more finely spun dimensions of reality. Modern research laboratories in Europe are reporting extended, two-way communication with spiritual beings almost daily, receiving esoteric and advanced technical technical information through telephone answering machines, radios and computer printouts. They are reporting actual video images from the astral planes on their television sets. This is all part of a new and burgeoning field called instrumental transcommunication (ITC). If the reports are true, then ITC is quickly building a bridge between the dimensions of physical and spiritual being that even the most skeptical among us will soon have to take a close, objective look at. While the evidence at present is genuinely astonishing, it is not yet wholly conclusive, so each of us will have to judge the validity of ITC for ourselves.

Conclusions

While the aim of ITC eventually is to be able to circumvent the experimenter's psyche altogether, what is reported today is a telepathically assisted instrumental communication. Researchers' beliefs, thoughts and attitudes affect ITC contacts, but to a lesser degree than during channeling. When a channeling medium is receiving information telepathically, the message she conveys consists of up to 80 percent her own psyche, and perhaps only 20 percent the information conveyed from spirit (although good trance mediums are said to channel with 80-percent accuracy at times). Leading-edge ITC equipment today is reported to achieve, consistently, results equivalent of a top-notch trance medium somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 percent accuracy.

From a technical point of view, then, the ultimate aim of ITC is to develop an electronic system that will work independently of the psyches of the earthside participants, and the Luxembourg team seems to be getting close.

What do higher beings hope to accomplish with ITC? According to Technician, they want everyone to know that life continues beyond ones physical death. For many people today, faith inage-old religious tests is not enough. They need solid evidence of an afterlife. ITC might help those who need to perceive the realities of afterlife through their five physical senses.

Is ITC for real, or is there some elaborate hoax being perpetrated? In Maggy's words, "The entities who address us through our equipment identify themselves as having passed on into the spirit world. We accept this unless someone can prove otherwise. To this day nobody has come up with another acceptable explanation. All arguments to the contrary are mostly the results of fear, frustration, ignorance or jealousy. As contacts between dimensions grow stronger, opponents arguments for trickery and manipulation grow weaker."

Why aren't we hearing about the ITC phenomena in the news daily? For one thing, serious researchers don't want to expose themselves to the harassment of the press. The benefits of a dozen fine, responsible reports could be destroyed by one sloppy or sensationalistic article. Also, they don't want to spend time trying to convince the world of the value of ITC. Its value will soon be self-evident. Finally, they don't want to spend time trying to convince nonbelievers of the legitimacy of ITC at the expense of exposing themselves and their work to negative forces introduced by closed-minded skepticism. Better to work quietly with others of like mind and heart until ITC develops to a degree that will squelch even the most outspoken critics and skeptics. That time may be quickly approaching. . . .

EARLY EFFORTS TO CONTACT THE DEAD

History of Electronic Breakthrough.

Before the turn of the last Century:
Austrian psychic researcher Baron Hellenbach predicted in his book Birth and Death the evolution of electromechanical means of communication. He foresaw that the content of the earliest contacts might suffer from the inherent difficulties of bridging a gulf between two dimensions and warned against undue optimism. (Judith Chisholm)

Beginning of the Last Century:
Thomas Edison, Gueglielmo Marconi, and Nikola Tesla, inventors and geniuses who helped harness electricity and laid the foundations upon which electronic communication has been based, spent the last years of their lives trying to develop devices for communicating with spirit. (Judith Chisholm)

The English writer Thorpe who had developed what he called 'Etheric Vision' (and wrote a book of the same name) whilst a prisoner in Germany, promised his readers details of mechanical means of detecting what he called 'The Voice Phenomenon' in a further book. This never appeared. Before the turn of the last Century Austrian psychic researcher Baron Hellenbach predicted in his book Birth and Death the evolution of electromechanical means of communication. He foresaw that the content of the earliest contacts might suffer from the inherent difficulties of bridging a gulf between two dimensions and warned against undue optimism. (Judith Chisholm)

Early 1920's:
Hereward Carrington, a respected American psychical researcher notes in his book Psychic Oddities an occasion at which he was present when a 'disembodied' voice asking "Can you hear me?"came out of a microphone in a sealed room in a radio recording studio when the rest of the building was empty. This was in the presence of an un-named medium and was heard by everyone else in the room. No-one could give any explanation. Before the turn of the last Century
Austrian psychic researcher Baron Hellenbach predicted in his book Birth and Death the evolution of electromechanical means of communication. He foresaw that the content of the earliest contacts might suffer from the inherent difficulties of bridging a gulf between two dimensions and warned against undue optimism. (Judith Chisholm)

1928:
Thomas Edison worked on equipment he hoped would permit
communication with the dead, using a chemical apparatus with potassium permanganate. (Mark Macy)

Late 1920's:
Italian aristocrat and medium Count Centurion Sc otto makes gramophone recordings at Miles Castle of the 'direct voice'. The Count had contracted the gift seemingly by 'psychic contagion' from the controversial Galantine.
(Judith Chrisom)

1930's:
Swedish & Norwegian military pick up strange, unidentified voices on their frequencies. These were thought to be stray Nazi transmissions and came to their peak in March 1934 then ceased abruptly. But after war, when archives searched, no evidence of German involvement was found. American writer John Keel details these incidents culled from press reports of the 1930's in his book Operation Trojan Horse written in the 1950's. (Judith Chisholm)

1936:
Ham radio operator Gordon Cosgrave in London apparently picks up Morse code messages between the 'Titanic' and the 'Carpathia' which would have been sent 24 years earlier in 1912 when the 'Carpathia' was racing to the rescue of the stricken 'Titanic'. (Judith Chisholm)

1936: Attilz von Szalay started to experiment with a Pack-Bell record-cutter
and player, trying to capture paranormal voices on phonograph records.
(Mark Macy)

1947:
von Szalay bought a Sears-Roebuck wire recorder and got better quality
voices but had technical problems with the wire. (Mark Macy)

ELECTRONIC VOICE PHENOMENA (tape recorder and microphone)

1950:
John Otto, patent engineer and radio ham together with a group of local radio amateurs in Chicago, USA detects unusual signals of unknown origin on undisclosed frequencies. Lyrical voices using what we now know as polyglot (a mixture of languages) sing and speak in rapid bursts which the group recognized were unlike anything transmitted by regular sources. (Judith Chisholm)

Early 1950's:
An 'Electronic Communication Society' is formed in Manchester, England where serious attempts are made to amplify by electronic means the pervading energies of the seance room. George Hunt Williamson author of Other Tongues - Other Flesh published by the Amherst Press logs reports of intrusive voices of unknown origin on tape while another American John Keel, investigating UFO reports world wide, comes up with dozens of reports of voice intrusion culled from military and civilian sources. In his book Our Haunted Planet Keel devotes an entire chapter to these rogue transmissions. (Judith Chisholm)

1956:
Raymond Bayless joined von Szalay in experiments and wrote an article for
the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 1959. (Mark Macy)

1956:
Hollywood, USA photographer and independent voice medium Attila Von Szalay and a writer named Raymond Bayless recorded voices on magnetic tape that should not have been there. Von Szalay had been experimenting since 1947 with phonograph discs and wire recorders and had succeeded in capturing faint whispers. They named the voices they captured 'aeriel' voices and reported their discovery in the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research. There was absolutely no interest. (Judith Chisholm)

1959:
In July of this year Russian born Sir Friedrich Jurgenson, an artist and film producer records his mother's voice using a reel-to-reel tape recorder at his estate in Mölnbo, Sweden. She had been dead four years. He went on to record thousands of discarnate voices and is regarded as the 'father' of the EVP. The noted parapsychologist Professor Dr.Hans Bender who headed a team of researchers at the Institute for Border Areas of Psychology and Mental Health at the University of Freiburg, Germany makes a thorough study of the Jurgenson tapes even using voice print tests. He concludes that these voices were susceptible to a paranormal interpretation. (Judith Chisholm)

1959:
Friedrich Juergenson, a swedish artist and film producer, went into the
woods to record bird songs. On playback, he discovered paranormal voices. After
four years (1963) of experimental recording, he called an international press
conference to announce to the world what he had discovered, and his book Roesterna Fraen Rymden (Voices from the Universe) appeared the following year in Stockholm. (Mark Macy)

1960 through 1970: (Telephone systems )
Scott Rogo and Raymond Bayless, Americans, conduct extensive literature research and publish a book, Phone Calls From the Dead, (1979). (Mark Macy)

1964:
von Szalay got voices of his deceased relatives on tape for the first time.
(Mark Macy)

1965:
Dr. Konstantin Raudive, a Latvian psychologist and philosopher, visited
Juergenson, concluded that the phenomenon was genuine, and started his own
experiments in Bad Krozingen, Germany. (Mark Macy)

1965:
A well-known Latvian Philosopher and Psychologist, author of six books Dr. Konstantin Raudive, hears of Jurgenson's work. He had long been interested in the direct voice physical type of mediumship which may have begun in his early post-graduate days at Edinburgh University in 1934. He meets Jurgenson and sets up his own research project in Germany initially using an ordinary crystal set, the 'cat's whisker' of earlier radio days. Later he enlists the help of Friedebert Karger, a research physicist at the Max Planck Institute in Munich and other electronic engineers. Theodor Rudolph a high-frequency electronics engineer of the well-known firm Telefunken designs an instrument called a 'goniometer' for him. Dr. Raudive eventually records over 100,000 discarnate voices. (Judith Chisholm)

1967:
Thomas Edison spoke through West German clairvoyant Sigrun Seuterman, in trance, about his earlier efforts in 1928 to develop equipment for recording
voices from the beyond. Edison also made suggestions as to how to modify TV sets and tune them to 740 megahertz to get paranormal effects. (Session recorded on tape by Paul Affolter, Liestal, Switzerland). Franz Seidi, Vienna, developed the "sychophone". Theodore Rudolph developed a goniometer for Raudives experiments. (Mark Macy)

1968:
Father Leo Schmid, Oeschgen, Switzerland, was assigned a small parish to
give him time to experiment with taping voices. His book, Wen Die Toten Reden
(When the Dead Speak) was published in 1976, shortly after his death. Raudive
published his book Unhoerbares Wird Hoerbar (The Inaudible Becomes Audible), based on 72,000 voices he recorded. (Mark Macy)

1968:
Dr. Raudive publishes his first research on the voice phenomenon in his book The Inaudible Becomes Audible. (Judith Chisholm)

1971:
Colin Smythe, Ltd. England, published expanded English translations of
Raudives book: Breakthrough, an Amazing Experiment in Electronic Communication with the Dead. Marcello Bacci and co-workers in Grosseto,
Italy, made weekly contact with 'spirit' communicators, which still continued
in 1988. (Mark Macy)

1971:
Publishers Colin Smythe of England are handed a copy of Dr. Raudive's book at a German Book Fair and after experimenting and, much to their surprise, record the voice of the mother (who had died some time before) of one of their company's Directors. They decide to translate and publish the book in the UK renaming it: "Breakthrough: An Amazing Experiment in Electronic Communication with the Dead". They coined the term 'Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) In the same year, American George Meek becomes interested in the EVP and develops an instrument called 'Spiricom' - a two-way communication with the dead device which works only in the presence of his associate Bill O'Neill, an electronics engineer.
(Judith Chisholm)

1972:
George Gilbert Bonner from England, a psychologist and artist, using a reel-to-reel recorder and battery radio tuned to 'mush' or 'white noise' to act as a carrier for discarnate voices begins to experiment after reading Dr. Raudive's book. He asks into his microphone: 'Can anyone hear me and would anyone like to speak to me?' not expecting any response. He receives the answer in a hiss and rush of sound 'Yes'. Bonner went on to record more than 50,000 spirit voices over the next 22 years. (Judith Chisholm)

At about the same time Raymond Cass, a hearing-aid practitioner in England begins research into the EVP using a small battery-operated radio tuned in to 'white noise'. He recorded thousands of clear discarnate voices over the years, speaking and singing, and theorizes that his proximity to a Mass X-Ray unit only 30 yards away produced an emanation which was 'beating' with the selected airband frequency and producing a transient condition enabling the voices to manifest. (Judith Chisholm)

1972:
Peter Bander, England, wrote Carry on Talking, published in US as Voices
From the Tapes: Recordings from the Other World, 1973. (Mark Macy)

1973:
Josephand Michael Lamoreaux, Washington State, had success with recording paranormal voices after reading Raudive's book. (Mark Macy)

1975:
William Addams Welch, Hollywood scriptwriter and playwright, authored
Talks With the Dead. (Mark Macy)

THE SPIRICOM RESEARCH

1971:
Paul Jones, G.W. Meek and Hans Heckman, Americans, opened a laboratory. First serious research to create a two-way voice communication system far more sophisticated that the equipment used in EVP approach. (Mark Macy)

1978:
William J. O'Neil, using a modified side-band radio, had brief, but evidential
contact with an American medical doctor said to have died five years earlier. (Mark Macy)

1980s:
Researchers in several countries have pictures of the "dead" appear
sporadically on their TVs. There is no control over the appearances of these images. (Mark Macy)

1980-81: Manfred Boden, West Germany, obtains unsolicited computer print-outs
from 'spirit' communicators. (Mark Macy)

1981-83: (Telephone systems)
Manfred Boden has unsolicited contact with communicators of
non-human evolution. Gets massive phone bills for unsolicited calls. (Mark Macy)

1982:
G. W. Meek made a trip around the world to distribute tape recordings of
16 excerpts of communications between William J. O'Neil and an American scientist who died 14 years earlier. He also distributed a 100-page technical report giving wiring diagrams, photos, technical data and guidelines for research by others. Upon return, he held a press conference in Washington, D.C., and distributed free tape cassettes and technical manuals to the representatives of the press, radio and TV. (Mark Macy)

1982:
George Meek (developer of Spiricom) publishes his results and continues his research with a battery of radio oscillators. Electronics engineer Hans-Otto Koenig helps Radio Luxembourg broadcast live what was claimed to be a two-way conversation with a 'dead' person. Koenig uses an ultrasound device after closely following Meek's work. The equipment is set up under the supervision of the radio station's engineers, connected to a set of speakers, and switched on. After a few second a clear voice is heard to say "Otto Koenig makes wireless with the dead". (Judith Chisholm)

SOPHISTICATED ELECTRONICS

1982-88:
Hans Otto Koenig, West Germany, develops sophisticated electronic
equipment, using extremely low beat frequency oscillators, ultra-violet and
infra-red lights, etc. (Mark Macy)

1984-85:
Kenneth Webster, England, receives (via several different computers)
250 communications from a person who lived in the 16th century. Most print-outs
are in English text consistent with speech at that point in history, and personal
details fully supported by library research. Communications often concurrent with
poltergeist-type phenomena. Webster writes book, The Vertical Plane, with extensive photo documentation, 1989. (Mark Macy)

1985-88:
Jules and Maggie Harsh-Fischbach, Luxembourg, develop and operate two electronic systems superior to any of the EVP equipment up to this time. This
communication becomes significantly more dependable and repeatable than the systems developed earlier television. (Mark Macy)

1985:
Klaus Schreiber, West Germany, with technical assistance from Martin
Wenzel, begins to get images of dead persons on TV picture tubes, using
opto-electronic feedback systems. There is positive identification in many cases by accompanying audio communications, including audio-video contact with Schreibers two deceased wives. This work is the subject of a documentary TV film and a book by Rainer Hobbe of Radio Luxembourg. (Mark Macy)

1986:
Swiss electronics engineer Klaus Schreiber gets pictures of the dead on TV by means of an apparatus he calls 'Vidicom' which consists of a specially adapted tv switched on but not attached to an aerial with a video camera in front of it to capture images that appear on the screen. The word ITC is coined (Instrumental Transcomunication). (Judith Chisholm)

1987:
Jules and Maggie Harsh-FishBach get TV picture sequences of good
quality. (Mark Macy)

1987-88:
Jules and Maggie Harsh-Fischbach establish sustained computer contact.
(Mark Macy)

1996 Forwards:
I form The EVP & Transcommunication Society for the UK and Ireland to disseminate information about the phenomenon and conduct research into it. My own research results increase and I begin to record discarnate voices regularly on my micro-cassette recorder, and eventually, two years after his death, my own son's voice. (Judith Chisholm)

1999:
My research takes a giant leap forward with the purchase of a digital recorder which by its nature cannot record extraneous broadcast transmissions of any kind - a charge always leveled at recordings made by normal tape recorders to discredit them. I am now able to record two-way conversations at will with 'dead' people, including my son and primarily a friend and colleague of mine who 'died' in 1986. (Judith Chisholm)

2000:
My book 'Voices from Paradise' is published by Jon Carpenter, Charlbury, Oxford. It details my paranormal experiences since 1992 leading to my discovery of the EVP, how to experiment with obtaining the EVP, and all that has flowed from the formation of the Society in 1996. (Judith Chisholm)

I am writing another book which details the hundreds of hours of two-way recorded conversation I have held since October 1999 and am still holding with 'dead' people and the fascinating and sometimes disturbing information I am being given by them. The book also relates how, when I can't find time to record, spirits seek me out via my digital telephone answering machine in order to give me information and instructions or to comment on what is being said on a certain phone call or what is happening in my life. (Judith Chisholm)

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Mark Macy recently founded Continuing Life Research (P.O. Box 11036, Boulder CO 80301 USA) to pursue empirical investigations like that reported here. He and his colleague Hans Heckman are publishing an English version of the Luxembourg newsletter, CETL Infonews. Mark is the founder of INIT (The International Network for Instrumental Transcommunication).

Judith Chisholm: I discover the EVP by accident while attending a weekly seance by using my tape recorder one evening. I inadvertently record a woman's voice saying my name 'Judith'. I was the only woman present that evening, and I didn't say my own name.

In 1996 I formed The EVP & Transcommunication Society for Great Britain & Ireland in order to disseminate information about the phenomenon and conduct research into it. Visit The EVP Website: http://www.voicesfromparadise.co.uk

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