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FAQ Frequently Asked Questions About Instrumental Transcommunication Part 2
Question: Is it possible to communicate with animals using EVP?
Answer: People have recorded animal sounds at the right time and that are relevant to what is being said. For instance AA-EVP founder, Sarah Estep, recorded an EVP from her husband who told her he had their dog with him, and right after that, she heard a bark in the EVP that sounded like her then discarnate dog. In other cases, we have reports from people who believe they have recorded comments from their still living animals. For instance, with two dogs playing in the back yard a person recorded an EVP containing comments like "play," which is tantalizingly suggestive of the idea that an animal can speak in EVP. We would think that this comment would be the dog repeating what the owner says when they have fun or a conceptual/image translation in the person's mind. There are also many reports of discarnate pets saying things in EVP. Fox is an article about a possible EVP initiated by an animal. In this case, the animal apparently spoke in English. Question: Do entities actually change an existing EVP to say something else? Answer: The association has hundreds of EVP examples, and over the years, has sent examples around the world via CD, audio cassette and email, yet there is no record of an example being changed. There is quite a lot of "popular wisdom" about examples being changed by the entities, but most reports are from the days of analog recording. As digital media came into use, it was usually thought that an example would not change once it was put on CD. Here is what is known. As with the visual forms of ITC, the information has to be found in the noise. If you review the FAQ about hearing music in noise, you will understand that the mind will attempt to find meaning in chaotic information. Virtually every reportedly changed EVP has been at best a Class C minus example. In such sound, which is really little more than noise, if the listener expects to hear "I love you", then it is easy for the mind to find "I love you" in the noise. If, when listening to the example the next day, the person had no expectations of what to hear, then the mind is liable to find almost any meaning in the noise. Other listeners will hear all sorts of different words. It is true that a message might be meant for someone who is currently unknown to the experimenter, but that does not mean that the message changes for that person, it means that the person's perspective is different, and so, he or she hears it differently. For instance, Tom Butler heard "Paolo Pressi" in an EVP, but Paolo did not hear that at all. Later Tom realized that Paolo pronounces his name differently and the utterance was, in effect, the English pronunciation of the name. The example is here.
People have a wide range of hearing
ability, attention spans and worldviews with
their attendant perspectives. Few who come to
EVP have the knack of hearing EVP. It is
something of an acquired skill for most
examples. Even the very best Class A examples
are sometimes not understood even though they
have clearly not changed. See the
Online Listening Trials report for further
explanation of this.
Simply stated, some of the examples people
complain about as being "morphed" have been
Class C minus if they were EVP in the first place. It
is important for people to be able to present
recordings to others so that they can ask and
learn, but it is a bad trap to get into to say
that, since others do not hear what the
experimenter heard, then the recording must have
been morphed. The scientific community would
discount the whole concept the first time that
argument was used.
Question: Are all messages in
EVP
caused by residual energy ghosts?
Answer:
In fact, the evidence indicates that the
majority of haunting experiences are caused by
an interactive person. There are a few instances
in which a ghost will be seen doing the same
thing time and again and without showing an
indication that the entity is aware of the
witnesses. This kind of ghost is commonly
referred to as a "recorder ghost," or probably
more correctly, "residual energy apparition,"
but they are very rare. A good study of haunting
phenomena can be found in
True Hauntings, Spirit
with a purpose
by Hazel M. Denning.
You will hear a few of the modern ghost hunters
refer to this residue of energy as "place memory;"
however, that
phrase has always been an anthropological term
for a peoples relationship with the land.
For instance, Native Americans often
talk about sacred places. Our
research indicates that these
phenomena are all about energy, and
the best guess today for
unresponsive ghosts is that they are
the product of near-etheric energy
that has not yet dissipated.
We believe the focus should be on that energy,
rather than the place.
The vast majority of EVP recorded in purportedly
haunted locations have clearly been responsive.
In one instance, Association member, Karen Mossey, recorded a child's
voice saying,
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