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ET ITC Study Simone Santos

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From Simone Santos
TCI Seattle

Submission 1

“We have a few images that look like non-human entities and we would like to show them to you.

“Our bridge is through Timestream and our communicators are Roberto Gomes and Ana Luiza, since we started. All images were captured spontaneously, we didn’t ask for the spiritual team to form these images and they were mixed with the images we normally capture. Until today, we captured only these few images that for us look non-human. Why? We don’t know, but it’s a significantly small portion, compared with the ones that look human.”

“Funny thing, I originally said “Not ET”, but upon looking at it today when it came up in my news feed, my first impression was that it was a reptilian face that is somewhat familiar to me – I didn’t realize that I’d attempted this before.”


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ET ITC Study Andrés Ramos

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Andrés Explained His Setup

“Some months ago, I made a very simple test setup with a water kettle. I filled it up with tap water and switched it on. When the water started to boil I switched on my camera and took an HDTV video from it.

“Later, I separated the video into single frames by use of FFmpeg and analyzed them. There I discovered three ITC-image structures that didn’t look like human faces.”

 

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ET ITC Study Suely Pinheiro

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Suely Pinheiro

Suely uses the video-loop method with a Sony digital camera and a LED digital TV. She is Brazilian and has been researching and developing her ITC technique for more than 19 years.

From Suely, “This image was not clear to me because of the features where I see nails in the hand that is on the left side of the face, big eyes and small mouth. I see something like teeth as well.”

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ET ITC Study Amanda Jolliffe

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Amanda is a developing physical medium based in the UK. She lives in a 500-year-old house in one of the UK’s most haunted villages. She began studying ITC a few years ago.

Her technique

Submission 3

“I’ve experimented with most methods of visual ITC including a feedback loop but I’m finding that my current set up with a black bowl filled with water, small submersible LED lights and a fogging machine are producing the best definition.

As with most researchers, I have seen some pretty interesting stuff and the majority of faces/images I receive wouldn’t necessarily connect with ‘having once been human spirits’.

Submission 5

Of course, there are regular visitors, including what I guess is an individual who has a ‘v’ shape on its forehead. Although I see this image frequently haven’t yet been successful in capturing a really clear image but thought it worthy of mention in case you’ve encountered similar.

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ET ITC Study Margaret Downey

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From Margaret

DSCN1994 MDowney-edit Light reflecting from moving water. Submission 2

The attached blue image was received via a modified version of Earland Babcock’s bottle technique.* I take photos of a clear bottle, partially filled with water, backlit with a colored light strip, while gently rocking it back and forth to create movement on the surface of the water.

The images in the collage, except the upper left (which is a still photo of a crystal), were obtained via my original water ITC setup consisting of a translucent pot partially filled with water, suspended above an empty dark pot. With this setup, I create movement by wiggling my fingers in the water while taking video, or still photos. The light source is above the pot and the camera held at an angle.

These are images for which I feel my request for those “who never incarnated on earth” (or similar phrasing) to please show themselves have been responded to. I’ve been drawn to requesting ET images for many years.

* ATransC members were introduced to the method by Arthur Soesman.

 

ET Collage © MDowney 2012

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ET ITC Study Phyllis Delduque

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From Phyllis Delduque

Submission 10 Collected using light reflected from foil.

“We have a few images that look like non-human entities and we would like to show them to you.

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ET ITC Study – Jeremy Bloxsom

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From Jeremy:

Submission 4

When I first started working with Margaret Downey’s basic water ITC technique back in January of 2010, I had a somewhat striking alien face manifest for me during my second session ever. I remember it was fairly late at night/early in the morning when I conducted the session (around 2 AM). I was using a standard-sized ceramic cereal bowl and had filled it about 3/4 full of water (similar to the picture below).

During this particular session, I had a tree lamp shining down into the water-filled bowl. I was using a standard bulb that was of standard color temperature. The session was recorded with the video camera on the iPod Nano 5G I had at the time (standard definition). If I remember correctly, my sessions back then were 1-2 minutes in duration (which made analyzing the video footage an arduous task).

While examining the video frames for this session, the alien-looking face pictured below immediately caught my attention. It was large in size (taking up the majority of the water surface space in the bowl). I’ve had nothing even remotely close to it manifest for me since. The video frame the image appeared in had a blue tint to it, which was odd (as I was using lighting that was of standard color temperature during the session).

The image below was cropped out of its original frame. It has not been edited in any other way. Regrettably, I discarded both the original frame and the video footage that the image appeared in. This was a beginner’s mistake that I’ve been beating myself up over ever since. At the time I hadn’t yet gotten into the habit of saving both the cropped image and the entire video frame. Being that I had images of this quality manifesting for me so early on in my water ITC experiments, I was also under the naïve impression that images such as these are commonplace while working with this ITC method. I wasn’t fully aware of how rare and potentially significant these images are.

Bowl filled with water, used for ITC

I’ve only shown this image to a handful of people over the last ten years. I know how bewildering evidence such as this is to the inexperienced and the uninformed. I also know how nonsensical it appears to small-minded skeptics. I didn’t believe most people were ready for it. I assumed they’d either laugh it off or dismiss it outright, so I figured putting it out there would be a complete and total waste of my time.

I’m of the opinion now, however, that this evidence needs to be unveiled and shared. Even if it’s only currently embraced by a select few, more and more people will take an interest in it as we move into the future. Instrumental Trans-Communication (ITC) research will end up playing a major role in the expansion of human consciousness, I think. When all is said and done it will introduce countless numbers of people to miraculous new realities and possibilities.

 

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ET ITC Tom and Lisa Butler

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From Tom and Lisa Butler
Association TransCommunication

“For these examples, we used the Klaus Schreiber method for video Instrumental TransCommunication (ITC). We use a Canon 8mm ES2000 analog camcorder that is (most often) set about six inches from a Sony KV20TS32, 20 inch Trinitron color TV. The camera was typically focused well past the screen surface and the composite video out of the camera was connected to the video input of the TV so that the camera was “seeing” its output on the television screen in a video loop.

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Submission 9 There appears to be a hairless head facing to your left and turned toward you. The head seems to be hung on the shoulders in an unusual way. It appears to be standing in front of a large round window.
Submission 11 This appears to be a blue warrior wearing a dark fur collar, possible leather or metal chest plate, and dark sleeves. Ignore that secondary face near the warrior’s left ear. Such overlapping features are typical of visual ITC.
Submission 12 There is some agreement between this and Submission 13. Only the contrast has been adjusted on the left. There is often a lot of clutter partially obscuring video-loop features. The obscuring background has been erased on the right. Note that it is possible important parts have been removed or unimportant parts have been left.
Submission 13 There appears to be an insect-like being looking right at you.

 

 

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Research

Seeking EVP Examples for Study

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This study is suspended due to lack of participation by Tom Butler See: The Energy Profile of Transform EVP ATransC is seeking examples of Transform EVP that can be compared to supplied background…

ET Visual ITC Study

The Extraterrestrial Visual Instrumental TransCommunication Study (ET Visual ITC Study) is paused for now. It was intended to determine if it is reasonable to say that some visual ITC examples…

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ET ITC Study – Jeremy Bloxsom

All material on this page: (c) Jeremy Michael Bloxsom 2019 From Jeremy: When I first started working with Margaret Downey’s basic water ITC technique back in January of 2010, I had…

ET ITC Study Margaret Downey

All material on this page: (c) Margaret Downey 2019 From Margaret The attached blue image was received via a modified version of Earland Babcock’s bottle technique.* I take photos of a clear bottle,…

ET ITC Study Suely Pinheiro

All material on this page: (c) Suely Pinheiro 2019 Suely Pinheiro Suely uses the video-loop method with a Sony digital camera and a LED digital TV. She is Brazilian and has…

ET ITC Study Andrés Ramos

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ET ITC Study Simone Santos

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ET Visual ITC Study

The Extraterrestrial Visual Instrumental TransCommunication Study (ET Visual ITC Study) is paused for now. It was intended to determine if it is reasonable to say that some visual ITC examples are representative of life forms that have evolved on a different planet.

Examples

We are always looking for more examples, so tell your practitioner friends to look through their archive for possible non-human examples.

The examples to date are:


(c) Simone Santos TCI Seattle 2019
 
September 28, 2019 by Amanda Jolliffe
September 28, 2019 by Jeremy Michael Bloxsom – ceramic cereal bowl with water

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


September 28, 2019 by Amanda Jolliffe – video loop-back technique – black bowl filled with water
October 23, 2019 by Andres Ramos – Boiling Glass Pot
October 23, 2019 by Margaret Downey – still photograph of a citrine quartz crystal

October 23, 2019 by Simone Santos – video-loop technique
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January 29, 2020 by Tom and Lisa Butler – Video-loop technique
January 29, 2020 by Phyllis Delduque – light reflecting from foil
January 29, 2020 by Tom and Lisa Butler – Video-loop technique

January 29, 2020 by Tom and Lisa Butler – Video-loop technique
January 29, 2020 by Tom and Lisa Butler – Video-loop technique

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Sidereal Time EVP Study — call for participation

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This study is suspended due to lack of participation

Introduction

We are asking you to participate in a study to see if the ease with which you collect Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) changes with sidereal time.

Psi functioning studies (ESP, Psychic, Remote Viewing) widely vary in results. This more than expected variability in study results has undermined the repeatability aspect of psi studies and has given support to the illusion and experimenter fraud of skeptics. Parapsychologists have attempted to model this variability with speculation that psi functioning is need-based, that the researcher might have an unexpected psi influence (experimenter effect) or that the practitioner’s ability during a study might be diminished because of boredom (practitioner fatigue). None of these have sufficiently accounted for the variability of results.

James Spottiswoode conducted metanalysis on 1,468 psi functioning free response trials while adjusting the time of day the studies were conducted to Local Sidereal Time (LST, Local Star Time), rather than solar time.(1) A pattern emerged from the analysis showing that psi performance was actually more consistent when LST is considered. As the graph below shows, psi functioning performance peaked around 13.5 LST with a four-fold increase over mean performance.

The Implicit Cosmology predicts psi function and the collection of EVP involve the same processes. (2) However, the linkage between psi functioning and collection of EVP is not empirically well established. Determining if there is one might further our understanding of how EVP works and how sidereal time is involved in psi function.

Background

Sidereal time, also known as star time, is based on the motion of the earth relative to the distant stars rather than with respect to the sun, which is known as solar time. A normal timepiece displays solar time. A sidereal day is about four minutes shorter than a solar day, and a sidereal year is 365.24 solar years.

In 1997, James Spottiswoode published “Apparent Association Between Effect Size in Free Response Anomalous Cognition Experiments and Local Sidereal Time” in the Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol, 11, No. 2, jsasoc.com/docs/JSE-LST.pdf. (1) The ATransC published an article about the sidereal time findings in the Fall 2002 ATransC NewsJournal. (atransc.org/sidereal-time-psychic-phenomena/)(3)

As of this writing, there has been no definitive explanation as to why or how LST might have an influence on psi functioning.(4) Some studies have shown that the local magnetic field has an effect on psi performance so that decreased intensity of local magnetic field results in increased psi performance. Determining if this magnetic field-psi correlation also applies to EVP will test the Implicit Cosmology.

Sidereal Time EVP Study

The objective of this study is to look for possible relationships between quality and quantity of EVP per session based on sidereal time of day. Magnetic field data are also to be collected if available. Since a large sample is needed, the study is expected to continue for at least a year.

The study is based on the assumption that many people will experience essentially the same effect. As such, and assuming there will be a sufficient number of participants, individuals need not record every day, or even every month.

Study participants are asked to establish a routine of maintaining a record of local solar and sidereal time and local magnetic field at the time of routine EVP sessions. Only Class A and Class B examples are able to be used in this study, and practitioners are asked to use a witness panel. (8)

It is up to the participant to characterize witness panel agreement, if any, and use the report form to register the results of each session. Sessions that do not produce an EVP are just as important to the study, so please report empty sessions as zero Class A and zero Class B.

Please submit the Registration Form below if you wish to participate in this study. Once we have received the registration form via email, you will be assigned a four-digit identification number. That number will be used to track your submissions.

For the duration of this study, you are asked to:

  • In a log, routinely record local time, sidereal time, geomagnetism and approximate location during your EVP recording sessions.
  • Submit a study report for each session. Our objective is to identify trends based on routine, so report the results of any you consider routine, including field investigations and recording for others.
  • Use the Study Report Form to send us a record of each session. Report number of Class A, Class B or a “Zero” for sessions that did not produce Class A or Class B results. Please use a witness panel.(8)
  • Use one form submission for each session and maintain a record of what you submit.

Examples

We are not looking for good examples. The objective is to record the environmental conditions related to good examples. That is the information we will digest into a report indicating if quality and quantity of EVP is influenced by LST and geomagnetism.

Accepted Form of EVP

Please pay close attention to the kind of example that can be used in this study:

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  • Radio-sweep technology such as that used in Frank’s Box, Hacks and Ghost Boxes cannot be used for this study.
  • Random access technology such as that used in EVPmaker and devices like the Ovilus cannot be used for this study.
  • EVP formed with any live voice technology such as prerecorded foreign-language, reverse voice track and prerecorded speech randomly selected from a database cannot be used. This includes allophones and phonemes. This includes foreign language recordings as well.
  • Unless there are extenuating circumstances , examples must contain more than one syllable. An exception might be a response to “What is my brother’s name?” of “John,” when “John” is the expected response. However, a “John” response to “Who is here?” is not acceptable.
  • It is okay if the example is in more than one voice.
  • Examples should be Type I Class A or Class B.(7)
  • Examples should be heard and understood by a majority of a witness panel. (8)

Since we are not asking for the actual recording, it is necessary that we depend on your self-reporting. However, please do retain all examples you report on, as we may be asked to supply all raw data for further study.

 

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Resources

Of course, we are available to answer your questions.

References

  1. Spottiswoode, S. James P. “Apparent Association Between Effect Size in Free Response Anomalous Cognition Experiments and Local Sidereal Time.” The Journal of Scientific Exploration. Society for Scientific Exploration. 1997. jsasoc.com/docs/JSE-LST.pdf
  2. Butler, Tom. “Implicit Cosmology.” Etheric Studies. 2016. ethericstudies.org/implicit-cosmology/
  3. Butler, Tom and Lisa. “Sidereal Time and Psychic Phenomena.” Association TransCommunication. 2002. atransc.org/sidereal-time-psychic-phenomena/.
  4. Ryan, Adrian. “Physical Correlates of Psi.” Parapsychology: A Handbook for the 21st Century. Editors, Etzel Cardeña, John Palmer and David Marcusson-Clavertz, McFarland. 2015.  ISBN 978-0-7864-7916-0. Ebook ISBN 978-1-4766-2105-0. Amazon.com
  5. Butler, Tom. “The Formation of EVP.” Association TransCommunication. 2009. atransc.org/evp-formation/.
  6. Butler, Tom. “ATransC White Paper on Transcommunication.” Association TransCommunication. 2014. atransc.org/itc-white-paper/.
  7. Butler, Tom. “Classifying Phenomena.” Etheric Studies. 2016. ethericstudies.org/classifying-phenomena/.
  8. Butler, Tom (et al).”Witness Panel.” Etheric Studies. 2013. ethericstudies.org/witness-panel/.

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Research Project: Energy Profile of Transform EVP

This study is suspended due to lack of participation

proposed by Tom Butler
Previously published in the Summer, 2013 ATransC NewsJournal
The study began with: Seeking EVP Examples for Study

Abstract

The propose of the article, with Seeking EVP Examples for Study, is to issue a call for transform Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) examples in the form of an audio output file containing the EVP and a file containing the environmental sound and/or sound used as input for voice formation. Both files must be so configured as to allow side-by-side comparison from a marker sound. The examples will be analyzed in an effort to find a relationship between EVP formation and the energy profile of the sound file which contains the example.

An overview of the various forms of EVP and current theories for transform EVP formation are provided. A hypothesis is proposed that transform EVP are formed via stochastic resonance and that the source energy in the form of the message (that which is amplified) is made available by strategically apporting sounds already present in the physical. The study is expected to show a net increase in energy associated with EVP.

Introduction

One of the first questions we faced in 2000 as new directors of the AA-EVP concerned how the paranormal voices of Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) are formed. Since any serious study of any phenomenon requires a theory describing the means of its formation, one of our first acts was to draft a theory for EVP formation.

Early efforts to model EVP were confused by the different technologies being used to produce the phenomenal voices. Stefan Bion (1) developed EVPmaker which depends on the psi influence on a random process to select prerecorded voice fragments to produce EVP. Frank Sumption (2) introduced radio-sweep, which depends on bits of fortuitously occurring radio broadcast sounds to produce EVP. More recently, Bill Chappell (3) developed devices for EVP that depend on environmental energy changes to select words or voice fragments to produce EVP.

Ordinary audio recorders have been used since the discovery of EVP in 1959, and EVP examples produced by them are an often-studied form of EVP. Listening panels consistently rate audio recorder EVP higher than those collected with other technologies.(4)(5)(6) Since the examples collected with a recorder have been shown to be formed out of available background noise, they are referred to by ATransC as “transform EVP.”

At the turn of the century, Alexander MacRae, (7) Paolo Presi (8) and Daniele Gullà (9) were amongst the few people conducting studies of EVP using scientific methodology. Based on that early work, it was possible to compile a list of common characteristics exhibited by EVP which is still used today. (10)

Functional Areas of a Recorder

It may be useful to first have a picture of the functional areas of an audio recorder. In Figure 1, the left triangle represents the input amplifier for a typical digital voice recorder. Because the sound received from the environment is necessarily analog, the input stage is also analog. The diagram equally applies to a computer being used as a recorder with microphone and speakers.

Figure 2 shows the basic parts of all analog stages. Note the feedback loop used as a gain control. This circuit is designed to promote stability and signal quality. It often involves threshold limits that, like the squelch control for CB radio, is capable of introducing instability in the signal flow if not correctly designed.

The Analog-to-Digital conversion process (A/D) is shown in Figure 3. Note in Figure 1 that the input amplifier is connected directly to the A/D stage, and that the output of the A/D is digital in the form of “binary words” which represent the amplitude of the signal and when in time that amplitude was measured.

Design of these components is usually based on the principle that information about a sine wave can be digitally stored and the wave can be later reproduced with only two samples. Voice is in the 5 Hz to 4 kHz range which can be reproduced with a sample rate of 8 kHz.

This design approach also means that recorders can only record what can be sampled. A digital voice recorder such as a Panasonic RR-DR60 with a sample rate of 8 Khz will only record up to 4 Khz sound. Music-quality recorders should have a sample rate of at least 44.4 Khz and record up to 22 Khz. In practical terms, the average digital recorder is incapable of recording audio that is outside of normal hearing.

Note also in Figure 3 that the digital words representing each sample are pulses rather than an analog wave. Each “word” has start and stop pulses which allows the internal computer program to know where the word belongs in the sound stream. Any other digital word, say from a cell phone, cannot be confused with words in the recording device.

What this means is that stray radio waves cannot be detected in the digital stage. It is possible for AM radio to be detected by the input amplifier and included in the conversion to digital; however.

Active, Nonlinear Regions

A typical electronic circuit consists of resistors, capacitors, inductors, diodes and transistors. Of these, only transistors are used to amplify a signal; they are nonlinear devices, meaning that there may be a gain between the input and the output. The important point is that the region between the input and output where gain occurs is an energetically active region, meaning there is a dynamic change in energy and not just the storage or loss of energy. This region may be where the telekinetic psi influence is able to produce changes in ambient noise to produce the voices of EVP.

The presence of active regions is important because all of the theories for how EVP are formed depend on a nonlinear, active region. It is also important because the physical processes in these active regions are near quantum scale, which is the level of granularity that is possibly required for detection of psi influences.

Single Point of EVP Injection

Evidence indicates that transform EVP are formed in a single channel of a recorder. For instance, when using a stereo recorder, the EVP will be found on only one side. When using many recorders at the same time, say in a group setting, the EVP will be found on only one of the recorders. This suggests that the information is “injected” into the circuit at a specific place … possibly in one of the potentially dozens of transistors in the typical input stage of a recorder.

Transform EVP Characteristics

Common characteristics of transform EVP provide insight about the nature of their formation:

EVP Forms in Analog Circuits

As a general rule, once an EVP sound file is placed in digital memory, it is faithfully reproduced each time it is played. This indicates that EVP formation probably occurs somewhere between the input and the A/D conversion as shown in Figure 1.

Ambient Noise

Evidence indicates that the voice in EVP is formed from available audio-frequency sound. For instance, it is possible to produce layered EVP composed of elf-like voices formed from the high frequency sound of trickling water and more human sounding voices from the lower-frequency sound of a common household fan.

Microphone Not Required

A microphone is not required if the recorder has sufficient internal noise; however, one is useful for introducing additional noise and making a record of the practitioner’s actions.

Most Useful Sound for EVP Formation

Broad-spectrum audio-frequency sound with many transients (spikes or short pulses) appears to be more effective for voice formation than a steady-state signal with little change in amplitude, phase or frequency. See Figure 4.

Cultural Influence of Content

There appears to be a cultural influence on EVP that is related to the practitioner’s beliefs or those of an interested observer. In view of this, there appears to be a similarity between coloring of mediumistic messages and EVP; both may share a common process.

EVP are Objective

Blind listening panel tests average 20% to 25% correct understanding of multiple-syllables examples. Questions of illusion, delusion, deception and the ordinary being mistaken as paranormal have been addressed and discarded under controlled conditions.

EVP are Interactive

A question can be asked with the expectation of recording an answer which is appropriate for the circumstance. An important practical application of EVP is the potential to establish meaningful, continuing communication with a transitioned loved one. In such admittedly rare instances, gender, age and the nature of unexpected information in the EVP can be agreed to by uninformed witnesses.

EVP Are Intended Communication

Both the etheric communicator and the practitioner’s attention is on the recorder during a session, and more specifically, on the microphone or input of the recorder. This understanding is reinforced by the fact that EVP are formed in one channel and possibly in one component.

Transform EVP Hypothesis

This hypothesis is based on the Trans-survival Hypothesis, which is further explained in the Cosmology Series of essays. These articles are available for review in the theory section of ATransC.org. Please contact us if you are unable to access the material online.

(It is important to keep in mind that this is a proposed model designed to explain how EVP are formed. It requires vetting that can only come from you. Please let us know your thoughts and suggestions.)

EVP are conceptual influences which produce objective effects. Any theory explaining their formation must necessarily address both the conceptual (etheric space) of the communication and the objective (physical space). With this in mind, the hypothesis is presented here in three parts:

Morphic Field

The term “morphic field” is suggested by the concept of “morphogenesis”; “morphic” is a suffix meaning “having a specified shape or form.” “Fields” in this context are conceptualized as subtle energy regions of reality which organize the formation of objects of reality including life forms, physical objects and ideas; thought forms.

A morphic field (11) is a subtle energy field that defines and causes the organization of component parts of an object into a unit. In biology, it is theorized that this is the guiding principle determining how cells form, each according to its unique purpose. For this to be possible, morphic fields must contain the rules determining which of many possible outcomes will be expressed by biochemical processes for a specific life form but which are common to all living organisms. This selection of possible outcomes may be comparable to the selection of audio characteristics for voice formation.

Morphic fields are etheric rather than physical, and as such, represent the necessary interface between the etheric communicators and the physical recorder for EVP formation. Since they bring order to processes, they are the expression of the person’s intention for the process to unfold.

The fields also represent habitual behavior or collective memory of what they represent. In the context of EVP, this memory would tend to assure that the most common expression of something is the easiest. While the momentum of habit is the dominating influence, research indicates (12) the expression of intention can and does change the field. In that way, the field “learns,” and once learned, if the result is successful, the influence of the new habit is universally expressed in every instance of the field. In the same way, as EVP becomes easier in one location, it should become easier everywhere.

Stochastic Amplification

As objects of etheric space, morphic fields require a physical process to have a physical effect. Stochastic resonance11 is a physical process by which a weak signal is amplified in a nonlinear system when a large noise background signal is applied. Since a common factor in many forms of trans-etheric influence is the presence of noise, it is speculated that a weak telekinetic influence (the signal) is made stronger via stochastic amplification. In electronic circuits, the active regions of tubes and transistors provide the necessary nonlinear condition for amplification.

In this theory, a morphic field is thought to represent the weak psi signal, but rather than the signal containing explicit information such as “Hello,” it would contain influences on the stochastic process favoring the selection of audio-frequency energy required to say, “Hello.”

Adaptive Materialization

waveform-power-profileSome amount of order naturally occurs in noise, which results in a “bunchiness” in reality where one would expect an even distribution. This appears to be true at all scales and is likely due to small variations being amplified via stochastic resonance. EVP formation appears to be affected by this uneven distribution; the optimum background noise for EVP has been shown to be broad-spectrum audio-frequency sound punctuated by short spikes or sharp perturbations in the noise. The words are formed out of the sound but the spikes appear to be useful to initiate the process. See Figure 4.

Especially considering the nature of EVP, it is evident that trans-etheric influences are energy-limited phenomena. This naturally leads to the question of where the energy comes from in the first place.

Apports are an important class of objective phenomena. They are physical objects found in one part of the physical and transported to another location, usually as a sign or gift. A communicating entity is credited with control of the process, which in essence, is the dematerialization of a physical object, movement of the resulting conceptual information in etheric space and the materialization of the object in a new location.

Apportation is spontaneous and seemingly impossible to study clinically, so little is known about possible ways it may manifest. However, there is evidence that the basic process is common to Instrumental TransCommunication (ITC). Some examples of paranormally produced photographs of “the other side” resemble physical locations enough to bring accusations of fraud. Some examples of visual ITC look very much as if they are based on available photographs. In EVP, there are examples that appear to have been taken directly from existing sound files.

A fundamental concept in the Trans-survival Hypothesis is that a physical person is necessary to provide the conduit through which an etheric influence is made physical. That would argue that the actual words in EVP, as physical objects, must either already be in the physical or be formed via the practitioner–probably as a psi influence.

From the perspective of energy efficiency, it may be more reasonable to hypothesize a form of “adaptive materialization” as the mechanism bringing the words to the EVP formation process. In that view, it might be simplest to find the required word somewhere in the physical and apport it to the transform process. This would seem to be the only way to produce an EVP containing information the practitioner or an interested observer does not already know. This possibility provides a compelling reason for people to suspend judgment when faced with “obvious fraud” in things paranormal.

A Study To Determine the Energy Profile of EVP

Because EVP is probably the most available for study of these phenomena, the ATransC has embarked on a research project to determine the energy profile of output file waveforms containing EVP. The objective is to compare the input signals to determine if there is a difference in energy profile, and if so, what may have caused it and where it was caused.

This is the first of a series of studies intended to test the Transform EVP Hypothesis described in this article. To begin, if a change in energy profile can be noted in many examples using sound scientific methodology, then it should be possible to use that foundation of understanding to develop further experiments.

The expected result of this study is to establish the paranormality of EVP based on sound evidence, or to provide the necessary understanding to explain in normal terms how the voices are formed.

Who Can Participate

Anyone able to follow the protocol is welcomed to participate. The Idea Exchange is available for questions and answers, and as always, we are available for questions via email. This first phase will also include a search for confident research practitioners. (13)

Protocol

All submissions should be sent to the ATransC.

  • Two sound files should be submitted for each EVP example. One containing the EVP, and if possible, the practitioner’s voice. The second should be made with a second recorder and contain the ambient noise from which the EVP was formed. A sharp noise or the practitioner’s voice should mark the beginning of both files. Both files should be less than a minute in duration and should be able to be compared by synchronizing them on left and right channels of a display. (It would help if this comparison file was also submitted.)
  • Before submission, examples should be screened by a blind listening panel to help assure they are objective. (14)
  • Once sufficient examples have been received, a research facility will be asked to conduct the energy profile study.
  • Examples will be screened by the research facility for usefulness in the study. Practitioners might consider using their initial submissions as an interview for participation in further study. Please review the Best Practice for Research Practitioner. (15)

Conclusion

The most important common factor in transcommunication is the expression of intended order in otherwise chaotic systems. This order is hypothesized to be accomplished by way of the ordering influence of morphic fields on physical processes.

A second important common factor is efficiency, as transcommunication is clearly no trivial matter. It is governed by the influence of intention, whether in support as belief, acceptance and willingness to learn, or in opposition as fear, doubt, denial or ideology.

Understanding these influences is central to the understanding of EVP. All indications are that EVP are messages from our discarnate loved ones, but it is not necessary to depend on indications. With predictions based on a well-considered hypothesis and tested with carefully designed experiments, it should be possible to establish not only whether or not EVP are paranormal, but also how they are formed. Since examples of EVP can be collected more or less on demand by confident practitioners, they provide perhaps the most important tool in the etheric studies arsenal for understanding the true nature of our etheric personality, our survival beyond physical “death” and our continued life in the greater reality.

References

  1. Bion, Stephan. EVPmaker. de/evpmaker/index_e.htm
  2. Sumption, Frank. “The Box” Spirits say the darnedest things. 2012. pine-tree-lady.proboards.com/thread/9
  3. Chappell, Bill. Digital Dowsing. digitaldowsing.com
  4. Butler, Tom. “EVPmaker with Allophones: Where are We Now?,” ATransC Journal, atransc.org/evpmaker-study-where-are-we-now/;
  5. Heinen, Cindy. “Information Gathering Using EVPmaker With
    Allophone.” Association TransCommunication. atransc.org/information-gathering-using-evpmaker/
  6. Leary, Mark. “A Research Study into the Interpretation of EVP.” Association TransCommunication. atransc.org/radiosweep-study2/
  7. MacRae, Alexander. “A Report about Experimental Results.” Association TransCommunication. atransc.org/macrae-experimental-results/
  8. Presi, Paolo. “Italian Research in ITC,” ATransC NewsJournal. atransc.org/presi-il-laboratorio/
  9. Daniele Gullà. “Computer-Based Analysis of Supposed Paranormal Voice.” Association TransCommunication. atransc.org/gulla-voice-analysis/
  10. Butler, Tom. “Characteristic Test for EVP.” Association TransCommunication.  atransc.org/characteristic-test-for-evp/
  11. Sheldrake, Rupert. “Morphic Resonance and Morphic
    Fields: An Introduction.” Rupert Sheldrake. sheldrake.org/research/morphic-resonance/introduction
  12. Sheldrake, Rupert, “An experimental test of the hypothesis
    of formative causation.” Rupert Sheldrake.
    Forum 86, sheldrake.org/research/morphic-resonance/an-experimental-test-of-the-hypothesis-of-formative-causationl
  13. McDonnell, Mark and Abbott, Derek. “What is Stochastic Resonance?” Plos Computational Biology. 2009. nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2660436/
  14. “Best Practice: Witness Panel.” Association TransCommunication. atransc.org/witness-panel/
  15. “Best Practices: Research Practitioner,” Association TransCommunication.
    atransc.org/research-practitioner/

 

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Seeking EVP Examples for Study

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This study is suspended due to lack of participation

by Tom Butler
See: The Energy Profile of Transform EVP

ATransC is seeking examples of Transform EVP that can be compared to supplied background sound so that the difference in waveform can be clearly demonstrated.

Objective

It is well-known that EVP are formed by transforming available audio-frequency energy to produce the intended voice. Current theory holds that the transform process is the result of stochastic amplification occurring in an active component of the recording device–probably a transistor junction.

If the voice in EVP is formed from background noise, then there should be a detectable difference between input and output of the stage of the recorder in which the transform is thought to occur. For a digital voice recorder, that would be between the microphone and before the memory circuit. A way to test this theory is to use recorded sound as a known background source and comparing the resulting EVP sound file with the same part of the supplied background sound file.

This study is in two parts. In the first phase, the examples provided by website visitors should provide a collection of “convincing” transform EVP examples. Second, for Phase 2 of the study, if a sufficient number of convincing examples are collected, a research facility will be asked to analyze the examples in an attempt to identify possible anomalous differences in energy profiles between input and output files.

Phase 2 of this study will be expensive and sufficient funding has not been arranged at this time, so Phase 2 will be pending good examples and sufficient funding. Also, it is likely that examples will be needed that have been recorded under more controlled conditions. Assuming this is the case, Phase 1 of this study should be considered an interview process to select practitioners who are more likely to be able to produce additional examples.

Requirements

You are asked to either use a pre-recorded background sound source or use two recorders.

Once an EVP is recorded that is able to be correctly understood by at least two people without prompting, the sound file containing the EVP with a few seconds of sound file before and after the utterance should be saved with sufficient labeling to distinguish it from others, as: (c)your_name_year-title. For instance: (c)butler2012-compare_transform.mp3

A second file should be saved containing the portion of the background sound file associated with the EVP example. It is important that a third file be composed, as in the example above, so that both input and output files can be compared as synchronized sounds.

Practitioners wishing to participate in this study should use the contact form at the bottom of each web page to inform us that you wish to send in an example. You will receive the email address to use with our response.

You will retain ownership of the example sound files but will be asked for permission for use of the sound files for the study, and potentially, in articles on this website. ATransC will require your real name, but you may remain anonymous beyond that. ATransC does not share personal information without specific permission from the person.

Participants need not be a ATransC member, but as always, you are encouraged to support the organization via your membership and donations if you think this kind of work is of  value to the study of these phenomena.

Hint: It is useful to add some form of marker in the supplied sound file as a beacon so that the input and output files can more easily be synchronized. This is especially important if a steady-state input file is used, such as white noise.

 

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Alexandra MacRae Experimental Results

Previously published in the Summer 2007 AA-EVP NewsJournal

In 2004, I applied for a research grant to the Bial Foundation to investigate whether or not EVP utterances could be related to questions asked by the EVP experimenter. Also on the team were Dr. Charl Vorster, a professor of clinical psychology, Jane Boyce and her team of listeners in England and a larger number of listeners in the US.

I wanted to make it as exact and formal as a physics experiment, but problems showed up even before we had properly started. I had devised a list of six standard questions which were asked one at a time, with thirty-second intervals between asking one question and the next. This was done in a standard formal way, with good, quite loud voice projection. One of the questions was, “What is your name?” So I’d ask:

Question (loudly spoken): What-is-your-name?

The reply surprised me. It sounded like the street-wise NYC cat in the cartoon series, Top Cat.

Response: “Who wansta know?”

Another time when I asked the same question, I got the same type of response.

Question (loudly spoken): What-is-your-name?

Response: “Stop shoving’ me around”

What on earth was going on?

Eventually I realized that the questions must have sounded like an interrogation, like a questioning authority. “My golly,” I thought, “these are sentient entities. They are sensitive to what I say, or at least, to the way that I say it.”

So the question was modified to, “Would you mind telling me your name?” and the intentionality was toned down, so it just sounded kind and interested and casual. And, the results were good.

There were four sessions in March 2005 and a good percentage of the responses were in context and in the right thirty-second time-frame. Already the point was proven!

calexander_macrae2007-working_memory But in April we began to lose some of the response categories. There were no in-context responses to some of the questions. Were they losing interest in those questions?

Even stranger, however, was the fact that there were one or two in-context responses that occurred BEFORE the questions were asked.

In May, there were some more anticipatory responses. In fact you could see the trend growing from late March until early May. More and more answers came before the question was asked. So were the entities not just sentient but precognitive? Or had they just learned what was going to happen?

Later, it looked as though it was just an experimenter effect. Two more things were happening. The number of responses was growing rapidly, month on month, but the number of in-context responses was decreasing. The responses were becoming more meaningless.

But then, as the months went by, it was noticed that, though the responses had ceased to relate to the questions asked, they were actually relating to each other. Here is a made-up example:

1st voice: I’ll never see John again.
2nd voice: You never liked him anyway.
3rd voice: You can talk, loser.
4th voice: Stop your noise. Give me peace.

calexander_macrae2007Trying to make sense of this required a great deal of analysis, and I will try to compress this, in what follows.

The present understanding is that a part of the brain called the phonological loop is involved. Centuries ago, without the knowledge that we have nowadays about neural networks, the Swedish scientist Emmanuel Swedenborg, wrote that the speech of spirits was characterized by being rapid and rhythmic. (Spiritual Diary by Emanuel Swedenborg), and early EVP research, too, typified EVP as being speeded up and rhythmic.

My own first research showed that, based on many examples from other people, the length of an EVP utterance was typically less than two seconds. This observation was corroborated in Europe by Ernst Senkowski and Carlo Trajna. Coincidentally, it so happens that the size of the working memory in the part of the brain called the phonological loop is around two seconds.

The above diagram is based on the Introduction to Experimental Psychology course at McMaster University, Canada. Notice the use of the terms “inner ear” and “inner voice.”

The recognition of sound patterns goes way back on the evolutionary tree and is crucial to survival. You’d better recognize a lion’s roar, and quickly, if you don’t want to end up as its lunch. Recognition had to be exact and it had to be fast. And this is still true of the sound-pattern recognition system that we call speech.

The recognition process occurs through rapid recycling of the speech pattern through the phonological loop. As the memory storage to do this is only two seconds long, the empty spaces between words are “a waste of space,” and so these intervals are compressed to a standard shortness; “formatted,” to borrow a computer word. This means that the “inner speech” has a regular beat which is staccato or rhythmic. And it is shortened in time; “speeded up” is the usual term used.

In other words, there is a 100% correspondence between “inner speech” and EVP. The implication is that for EVP, you still need an actual person around. The way that Swedenborg put it, hundreds of years ago:

“Human speech passes in through the ear, by an external way, by means of the air; but the speech of spirits does not enter through the ear, nor by means of the air; but by an internal way, into the same organs of the head or brain. Consequently, the hearing is the same.” (Arcana Coelestia (Paragraph 1635) by Emanuel Swedenborg)

“…it is spiritual ideas which constitute their speech. When these inflows into man’s memory they excite words corresponding to the ideas and the like, which man has in his memory.” (Spiritual Diary (Para 2138) by Emanuel Swedenborg)

So you could say that EVP, like mediumship, needs a participating person to work. You could it call it Electronic Mediumship (EM). How inner speech gets from the brain to the EVP equipment is a remaining puzzle, but one that we are looking into.

Once again, thanks to all who participated in the Bial Project, it has led to a big advance in our understanding of EVP.