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About the Association TransCommunication Formally known Known As The American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena
The Association TransCommunication (ATransC) was founded by Sarah Estep in 1982 as the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena (AA-EVP). Her objective was to "provide objective evidence that we survive physical death in our individual conscious state." Sarah's focus was on EVP and ITC, and her friendly style of reporting endeared her to many people just learning about these phenomena. She provided a community for people who knew of EVP, but had no one to discuss it with or who could teach them how to use EVP to contact a loved one. Remember, Jürgenson discovered EVP in 1959 and the AA-EVP was begun only twenty-three years later. For a time without the Internet, that is almost like a week in "Internet days." Sarah was a true pioneer Tom and Lisa Butler assumed leadership in 2000, and attempted to continue Sarah's work without changing to Association's personality. Sarah was not technically oriented. She was good with the recorder, but she placed little emphasis on the science. The first change the Butlers made was to introduce this website. It was designed from the beginning with a focus on factual, level-headed disclosure of what is known about these phenomena. The intention was to provide a source for information scientists would feel comfortable using, while at the same time, giving people grieving for the lose of a love done, a place to learn reason for hope. An online discussion form quickly followed. The Butler also expanded the newsletter from the six 8.5" X 11" page newsletter to an average of 20 pages and refocused it to include research reports as a NewsJournal. They also made it available as an PDF file for email delivery. Because of the emailed version, estimated circulation is well over 1,000 readers. Taking advantage of the Internet, first an email messaging group was used for sharing examples and asking questions in a "members helping members" environment. This has now been evolved to a discussion board known as the Idea Exchange. The association is actually an international one with members from over twenty countries. Most international members (members not living in the USA) receive the NewsJournal via email as a PDF file. With improvements in translation technology, language is not as great a barrier as it was in 1982, and the NewsJournal and this website are helpful for most people, no matter where they live. EVP was officially "discovered" in 1959, so it was still very new in 1982 and there were few support groups for people wishing to learn about it, so Sarah filled an important need of the time. But in fact, EVP is just one form of communication from the other side. To understand such communication, it is necessary to study all forms of trans-etheric influence. For instance, audio forms of ITC (known as EVP) shares important characteristics with visual forms of ITC. Knowing this makes it reasonable to look for similar shared characteristics in other field. The AA-EVP was recognized around the world as a good place to learn about these phenomena from an objective and well-considered perspective. We have always attempted to make the organization accessible to scientists and grieving parents alike. Association TransCommunication continues to maintain focus on compassion, objectivity and research, but now there is an added focus on understanding what the evidence suggests and the implications of that on how we live. It is important to understand that there is a "so what" to understand we survival physical death. Our aim is to help all of us understand what that is. The New Website Think of the website as a place to find information about transcommunication and people working in the field. We try to include everything you need to know to work with these phenomena. Sure, we really appreciate people joining and actively participating in the Association. That is how we fund the research, and without paying members, the website would soon disappear. Our aim is to help you get started and we think that should be free. Here are the main sections:
Search tools: There are three such tools. One is for the website, one is for Media Watch alone and one is for this website and all of the websites owned by members. They represent an important means of finding information.
Resources: This includes the links pages, books and information about are important for this. The Links and Resources sections are The Articles section is primarily for human interest features. The Proxy Practitioners are also listed there.
Research: The Sarah Estep Research Fund is explained in this section, as is an explanation about some of the research being supported by the Association.
Journal: The ATransC is the publisher of this online journal. It has a readership of many thousands a month, so we think of it as being on a par with some of the more established hardcopy journals. A difference is that you don't need to be a member of anything to read them. Our objective is promote collaboration amongst researchers. Some articles have been vetted by subject matter specialists, and we are working on a way to conduct this review online.
Theory: This section can be rather complicated. It contains articles intended to explore the metaphysics, physics and philosophy of transcommunication.
Circles: This is a new idea for us. A circle is a group of people working together over an extended period of time to develop transcommunication via physical mediumship. In the old days, these were the séance circles, but today, they may be anything. the Big Circle will be represented here.
Techniques: You will find information about how to set up equipment and how to conduct experiments. Some of the techniques are rather different than you might expect.
FAQ: We receive thousands of emails from website visitors asking all sorts of questions. The ones we see most often are turned into a FAQ.
Practices: There is a growing consensus about what is the best or most effective way to do things. These are not rules, but recommendations.
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