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About the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena Precursor Sounds in Physical Phenomena
Many of our members have talked and written to us about a noise that is often heard right before an EVP message. It appears before some of our own EVPs. It is a loud, or not so loud, click, pop, boom or crackling sound. Some have described it as similar to the sound of someone keying a microphone. One noted researcher likened the noise to a micro sonic boom. When we are listening back to an EVP recording and hear this sound, we listen more intently to what comes next. If you are one of the many people who have experienced this noise you know what I am talking about. Not all EVP messages are preceded by this precursor, “popping” sound. For us it is an occasional occurrence. But when we hear it we are not unlike Pavlov’s dogs, ears perked up waiting for that reward. The click, if there, means a reward of an EVP. It, for us, usually signals a better than average EVP as far as loudness, quality and clarity is concerned. Geoff Viney in his book Surviving Death, Evidence of the Afterlife discusses this mysterious sound in relation to other types of phenomena.
The clicking noise associated with EVP messages has been the center of considerable conversation for quite sometime. Perhaps this sound is caused by a dimensional breakthrough and is an artifact of spirit world energy entering the physical world. The above stories might point to this type of answer. Paolo Presi on page 3 of the Summer 2002 newsletter reports on Carlo Trajna’s “Psychotemporal Model” in which “Psychic Time” flows differently from “Physical Time.” Is this anomalous sound before EVP messages caused from a shift in time as the two aspects of reality link up? Alexander MacRae used an oscilloscope in analyzing a well-known recording from the Palace Hotel. When viewing this recording Alec noticed that the level of background noise (whistles, hums and buzzing which were side effects of the equipment) on the oscilloscope almost went to zero. Three or four seconds after the background noise disappeared, a woman’s voice was heard to say “Now.” Two seconds later, a male voice was recorded with a personal message for his sister who was in the audience. Another few seconds passed and a female voice said, “Finish,” and then the background noise once again returned to normal on the oscilloscope. Perhaps the precursor noise we hear on our recordings is similar to the word “Now” heard on Alexander’s recording. It may simply be a signal or a cue for us to listen closely to what comes next. Is this noise similar to our telephone ringing letting us know that someone is calling? Alexander’s recording may point to another possible fact, and that is that the entities need and gather all available noise and energy to get their message through to us. Do those on the other side have equipment that they use to try and contact us? Are researchers, indeed, hearing the keying of something like a microphone? And are those on the other side doing this? Several researchers in the past and present say that they have been in contact with groups on the other side that state that they have developed apparatus for communication with researchers on this side and that this development continues.
EVP PIONEER CROSSES OVER
What is the AA-EVP?
The American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena (AA-EVP) is a nonprofit educational association that is dedicated to the support of people who are interested in or who are studying Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) and Instrumental TransCommunication (ITC).
This web site offers examples, techniques and concepts concerning Phenomena.
Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) concerns unexpected voices found in recording media. It is a form of after death communication. ITC is a newer term that includes all of the ways these unexpected voices and images are collected through technology, including EVP.
Of the many hypotheses designed to explain these phenomena, the Survival Hypothesis has been found to be most effective in answering the evidence.
LATEST REPORT: (December 2007)
INTERVIEW WITH TOM AND LISA BUTLER by Victor and Wendy Zammit
Yesterday we interviewed Tom and Lisa, directors of the AAEVP about their work and advice they can give to people wanting to start EVP. For easy listening each clip is about 1-2 minutes long.
IMPORTANCE OF RESONANCE The concept is that the rapport of mutual cooperation builds the kind of etheric/physical energy necessary for etheric to physical influences. Another term for this is "Contact Field." All of the experimenters working in ITC also attest to the importance of harmony, unity, absence of ego and altruistic motive as well as a passionate desire for contact and a constant, favorable holding in thought of a deceased person with whom there is a strong emotional attachment.
IONS RETREAT CENTER
In July, Tom and Lisa Butler, Directors of the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena, attended a Monroe Institute program called Lifeline at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) in Northern California.
They both found both the 200 acre IONS RETREAT CENTER and the Guidelines program to be beyond their expectations.
Lifeline’s primary focus is on service— service to those here in the physical and service to those who have made their transition to the other side.
Participants become knowledgeable about Hemi-Sync® Focus™ levels 23 through 27.
Focus 23 is an area in which certain souls, for a variety of reasons, may become earthbound and fail to complete their transitions from physical life.
Lifeline participants are guided in how to make contact with such souls and assist them in moving to Focus 27, what Bob Monroe described in Ultimate Journey as the Park/Reception Center/Way Station.
Upon arrival in Focus 27, they are met by loved ones and guides who assist them.
We both enjoyed the time spent in Focus 27 and found the Hemi-Sync frequencies helped us to easily make contact with our own friends and loved ones now on the other side.
Some of the other Focus levels worked within this program are –
Focus level 22, where humans still in the physical have partial consciousness, such as deliria, coma or drug induced conditions.
Focus level 23, inhabited by humans who have recently exited their physical existence and have not adapted to this change, and Focus levels 24 through 25, which are comprised of a vast area of belief systems.
Tom and Lisa mentioned exciting new directions and this program may have turned into one. Early on, during a refresher of the Focus levels leading to Focus 22, they were doing a session in Focus 15, which by the way is a great level to use for creating what you want in reality, when Tom was given the idea of how Hemi-Sync could be turned into a tool to help people with receiving EVP.
As it would happen, Karen Viar was one of the facilitators for the program. Karen, unknown to us, is a member of the Board of Directors with the Monroe Institute. The day before the end of the program, they sat down and discussed with Karen the idea of Hemi-Sync frequencies facilitating recording EVP. It was a real thrill when Karen agreed that this sounded like an interesting avenue to explore. She put them in contact with Skip Atwater, president of Monroe, who was also interested in our proposal. They are now working on a protocol to see if Hemi-Sync can be used to benefit EVP reception. This may take time, as the Monroe Institute has recently experienced a change in leadership after the 2006 transition of Laurie Monroe.
There is No Death and There are No Dead, by Tom and Lisa Butler, AA-EVP Publishing, 2003, ISBN: 0-9727493-0-6
If you want to know about the history of EVP/ITC, if you would like to read about the experiences people have had with these phenomena and if you would like to learn how to record for the paranormal voices and images, you will want to read this book. Click here to order a signed copy. Usually mailed within three days. You can also order the book from Amazon.com or Alibris books or Barns and Noble
What do you think should be studied next for EVP and has progress has been made? Tom Butler There is no realistic doubt that the voices are real. As an electronic engineer and careful observer of the phenomena (we routinely collect such voices) it is clear that the voices in the recordings exist, so I would call that a logical "given" for consideration of other questions. It is apparently true that the voices cannot be accounted for as an artifact of currently understood technology. In other words, we (the community) have conducted experiments designed to eliminate the possibility that the voices are caused by such physical sources as stray radio signals, ground antenna artifacts, unnoticed sounds occurring at the time the recording is made, imagined voices in otherwise unmodulated sounds and contaminated recording media. It is possible that we have overlooked a physical source, so I will not call this a "given," but a well established hypothesis. What has not been well researched is the origin of the voices, if they originate from nonphysical sources. (Here, I refer to "nonphysical" as "etheric.") The working hypothesis is that the voices are initiated by discarnate people (predominantly "dead" people like long dead Uncle John). For instance, voice analysis of some examples has been nearly 95% to 98% conclusive that it is the discarnate person speaking. In some instances, people who may have never existed in the physical (angelic or nature spirit) or who have evolved from a different line of evolution (aliens both incarnate and discarnate) may be communicating. It is important to note that we are convinced that nonhuman communicators exist, but any one report to this effect should be carefully evaluated before accepting it. For instance, the majority of a listening panel should agree on the message content. The problem is that we know that physically living people are able to impress their thoughts into the media as EVP. Experiments have been conducted to show this and it is as we would expect from the metaphysics. So, a major question is: can we devise experiments that will allow us to certify that at least some of the voices are not from our mind? We think we have with the 4Cell EVP Demonstration and the above mentioned voice analysis, but more work needs to be done. There is another influence on what we record in EVP. Assuming that the experimenter's subconscious mind is only occasionally the source of the message, there is evidence that what the experimenter expects to experience will tend to be realized by the resulting EVP. In other words, if two experimenters go to a haunted location and record for EVP, and one expects a scary ghost and the other expects to learn something new, the first will more likely record scary EVP and the second is more likely to record meaningful messages. Since we hypothesize that the experimenter is the medium through which the message must come, and therefore the source of symbols used for the message, it is reasonable that the same message might be delivered as a scary thing for the first and a meaningful thing for the second. Consequently, this apparent selection by expectation does not require that the message originated from the experimenter, but this is an important question for research. The biggest question for Humankind that might be answered by EVP is whether or not the super psi and the quantum-holographic models make sense. Both are different takes on the same model, so I will generalize by saying that many good philosophers, and a few Eastern religions, have proposed that a field of information permeates reality as a non-local "memory" of everything that has ever been, and that people are able to access this field of information to deliver mediumistic messages. This is the "echoes of the past" model, and if it is true, there is no reason to think that there are etheric entities that are sentient and self-aware, some of which may be angelic. If it can be established that the communicator in EVP is etheric, independent of the experimenter and self-aware (sentient), then it would effectively discount the super psi and quantum-holographic models (although they may still be true for nonsentient information). The remaining model would be the Survival Hypothesis, which holds that people are an etheric Self in a symbiotic relationship with a physical body, and that when the body dies, the Self is released into an etheric aspect of reality. The possible validity of the Survival Hypothesis seems to provide a foundation of logic for the validity of dependent theories, such as intelligent design. Finally, we have seen that transcommunication is a function of technology, the experimenter and the ability of the etheric communicator. EVP is to some extent dependent on technology. For instance, the advent of the digital voice recorder has greatly improved the ability of people to record EVP as compared to the ordinary cassette recorder. We also see that groups form on the other side to improve communication, and groups cooperating on this side also seem to improve communication. So yes, we will make progress
I would like to work in survival research. What should I do to begin?
If you intend to work on the question of survival of personality, if you are in it for the long hall, then I would say that the field needs people like you. It is not wise to judge tomorrow by what has happened today, so anything I can tell you should be considered reference material but not necessarily how things are. The hardest part of this is learning how to talk about it. Even the smartest person you will ever talk to will have preconceptions and a short attention span. The common meaning of words is extremely important. While "telepathy" had a more clinical sound, "reading minds" or "communication between minds" are better understood by the average person. Science uses "work" in a very different sense than it is used by the average person and few people understand entropy. When you speak or write about things etheric, try to write it for the average person. Avoid coining terms or using novel application of existing terms. Attempt to use the same dictionary the clerk in your super market might use. Semantics are very important. Calling the etheric communicator a "spirit" automatically makes it a subject of religion. Skeptics like you to use the same terms religions use because they know it is easier for the public to discount what you have to say. Be aware that people will mix things empirically supported with faith-based comments in the same sentence. Be very careful to say what you can support, and distinguish faith-based from empirically-based comments. Become sensitive to the influence of a person's worldview on their perception. The person who claims to be a skeptic is more often a guardian of the status quo as defined by mainstream science. Such a person can be almost religious about such beliefs. It is common for a mainstream scientist to go to church on Sundays, believe in God, but the rest of the week, insist that survival of personality after bodily death is impossible and therefore does not happen. Being devout, does not mean belief in things concerned with etheric studies. Also be aware that speaking of things etheric as if they are true will be offensive to some people and they may react with anger. It is important that everyone learns about these things, but sometimes it is important to leave room for them to protect their worldview. Sometimes it is best to just show, rather than insisting that people believe. There will be time enough for belief later. You can see this belief in the paranormal without believing in survival in parapsychology. That is why I started etheric studies and wrote that introduction at http://etheric-studies.aaevp.com/. Parapsychologists are important to etheric studies, but do not make the mistake in assuming that a parapsychologist believes in survival. Superpsi, quantum-holographics and a host of pet "theories of everything" are designed to explain the observed phenomena in terms of a biological origin of consciousness. It may turn out that they are more true than the creationist theories, but they also preclude an external influence, and in my mind, that is equivalent to believing that earth is at the center of the universe. More likely, we will find that most of these theories have some value and it is for us to find ways to test them with good science. So my point is that I agree with you in saying that the science is there to prove the existence of a non-physical aspect of consciousness and an etheric aspect of reality in which it exists. The real obstacle is that such research is too easily discounted because there are relatively few well-designed studies, as compared to something like the migration of birds. The subject also shares some terminology with belief systems, and is automatically considered a religious issue and not one for science. If you have read Dean Radin's Entangled Minds, and witnessed the scoffing at the closure of the PEAR lab, you will understand that very good science that does not agree with the mainstream is simply rejected. It is said that the only way survival can become mainstream is for all of the old-timers to die off. You are probably a good illustration of this, while I consider myself an old-timer who has adapted some. We saw with the release of the movie, White Noise, expanded awareness of what EVP is, and shortly thereafter, some of the first research grants were issued. Probably coincidence, but we have always felt that research money will go where the public's interest is. It is the young people who have the interest. Our approach has become one of public education and some targeted research. I will persist in trying to get etheric studies underway and intend to put the online listening report in the Best Practices Development wiki in an effort to have peer review in the public eye. (http://etheric-studies.aaevp.com/best_practices_development/index.php?title=Main_Page) In this way, we hope to establish a platform for research and collaboration. You are welcome to participate. Tom Butler
Evidence of Survival
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"Sarah Estep made her transition today Jan 3, 2008 at 1:11 p.m. The funeral service will be held at Kalis Funeral Home, 2973 Solomons Island Road in Edgewater, Maryland; on Tuesday Jan 8, 2008 at 10 a.m. telephone 410.956.4488. Her daughter said that she had a smile on her face. This great pioneer will be deeply missed but we know that she will be happy with her renewed body and mind. We wish her a exciting new life. 
