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Idea Exchange Guidelines
General
Sharing Examples
General Rules
Moderators
Official Rules and Policies
General
Annual membership is for the NewsJournal
and participation in the discussion board is your option. It is
considered a tool to help members learn, help others and participate in
research.
The board functions as a member helping members community and the
opinions expressed on the board may not be consistent with Best
Practices supported by ATransC. You should consider the discussions on
the board part of this community's evolving understanding of these
phenomena; however, your informed discernment is required.
As you will see in the forum titles, you may be invited to help
understand what might be said in a recording; however, please do not
edit, enhance or otherwise manipulation recordings without the owner's
permission. The Big Circle section is more intended to help members with
their grief than it is to teach, so please take examples in that section
as they are represented by the member.
All examples remain the property of the member, but by posting them in
the Idea Exchange, you are giving ATransC permission to reproduce them
in the NewsJournal and possibly on the atransc.org website. Of course,
your specific requests not to use the material will be honored. It is
also possible to use just your initials for credit in the publicly
available versions, so communication with the Directors is important.
It may be important to note that all NewsJournals will eventually be
available to the public as both paper books and eBooks.
If you are uncomfortable with participating in research which may
include double-blind studies and subsequent discussion and analysis of
how you see or hear examples, or if you are not open for discussion
concerning your assumptions and techniques, then feel free to read board
content, but please do not post comments or participate in the
discussions. As stated above, members are asked to learn, teach, help
and participate in research.
Tom and Lisa Butler
ATransC Director
About EVPmaker, radio-sweep and
speech syntheses technologies
The Directors have made the decision to
restrict sharing of examples in these technologies to a single forum.
Here is the explanation:
Members of the Association have spent
considerable time and money trying to establish an empirical reason to
promote these technologies. Members promoting these technologies have
interfered with other members learning to record for transform EVP
(recording process and possibly added background noise). Because of
this, the directors have decided to restrict examples to a single forum.
Concerns which resulted in this decision include:
The recent Windbridge study concluded that EVP reported from EVPmaker
were likely imaginary. While this is not a well-based conclusion, it is
based on some pretty good science. The take away message is that, after
all of these years, EVPmaker is still too difficult to support to the
public.
Along with mostly false positives, EVPmaker does produce the occasional
EVP, but most of the EVP we have seen from EVPmaker that provides new
information has been transform EVP and not the product of EVPmaker
except as a novel noise generator. The same can be said of radio-sweep.
There is evidence that the really good examples of EVP from EVPmaker are
likely examples of physical mediumship. This would explain why some
people are able to produce astounding examples while the majority
cannot. Because of the relative rarity of physical mediumship ability,
is inappropriate for ATransC to support the use of these technologies to
members still learning about EVP.
Sharing
Examples
One of the most important ways for all of us to learn how to work
with these phenomena is to have others tell us what they hear or see. In
things like orb pictures, hearing what others think might be the cause
of the orb is also very important. So, we think it is good for you to
post even the more suspect examples for review by other members. The key
to making that work, however, is the posting of well considered examples
and candid feedback from other members.
Of course, it is important for all of us to be constructive and to be
careful not to make our comments personal. Learning is risk taking and
we don't want people to hesitate because they received a personally
negative comment about a previous post. But at the same time, please be
sure to tell people that you do not hear what they hear or that you
think their orb may be phenomenal but could also be caused by light
reflecting from "that shiny surface in the corner." After doing so, it
is a good time to make a helpful suggestion.
In turn, please use discretion in posting examples. If you clip ten
possible EVP from a recording session, unless they are Class B+ or Class
A examples that you want to share, post one typical example for people
to listen to and help you understand. The idea is to not wear out the
other members with many Class C examples. Somewhere along the way with
many Class C examples and no constructive feedback, the learning tool
breaks down.
With possibly phenomenal photographs, it is a good idea to familiarize
yourself with some of the many ways orbs or other features can be
formed. You can save the other members a lot of time if you post the
examples that are most likely phenomenal and save the pictures
with probably mundane artifacts for your own database.
You are the best judge of what should be posted and this is your
discussion board, so we are not trying to set limits with this post. We
are just making the observation that the Idea Exchange is a tool
for learning, and that learning will be more beneficial to all of us
if you are given the opportunity to provide well considered feedback on
strategically selected examples.
General Rules
1. The public can see the title of forums and an overview of activity,
but we will always attempt to protect the privacy of members and their
posts. only selected blogs are able to be read by the public. With that
said, when you post a message on this board, your message can be read by
every member of the board, and even though we require real names, you
(and we) do not really know who is on the board. As in the rest of your
life, it is important to self-edit. You may agree to carry on private
correspondence with individuals on the board via email and PMs (personal
messages).
2. If you wish to discuss your membership or other issues concerning the
operation of this board or the Aa-EVP, please address your comments to
the Directors.
3. The principle subject of this board is all forms of
transcommunication, trans-etheric influence and survival of personality.
Relative subjects, such as what type of recorder to us, the nature of
spirit messages or how you operate your development circle are all
appropriate. Metaphysical discussions, cosmological theorizing, even the
nature of heaven are good subjects as well.
4. Members are scattered around the world. Amongst them are people of
different religions, political leaning and educational background.
Please keep your remarks about people, politics, religion and social
groups neutral to positive. This includes remarks about people in other
research groups. The ATransC is not about politics, religion or social
order, nor is it in competition with any group.
5. Please honor the opinion of others. No question is too simple.
Remember that most members are not experienced researchers, but that
they wish to become experienced and are looking to you for help. Please
restrict your comments to the facts, not to personalities. A good
indication that a message is personal is when it begins with the word,
“You.” Messages that become personal may result in your name being
removed from the board. Trust that everyone is doing their very best to
be honest, responsible researchers.
6. Be sensitive to the dangers of computer viruses. If you include an
attachment, discuss it in the body of your post. If someone posts an
attachment without describing it in some way, it is recommended that you
do not open it.
Please let a moderator or the Directors know if you have questions,
suggestions or problems.
Moderators
The forum moderators are ATransC members who have volunteered to
help other members. They have also accepted the responsibility to
monitor specific forums, assure that there is peace in the community.
They have the authority to enforce the discussion board rules, so please
give the moderators your fullest cooperation.
Moderators will also help the Directors keep abreast of discussion
topics with a focus on facilitating the exchange of information amongst
the other forums and the ATransC NewsJournal.
"Official"
Views and Policies
Association TransCommunication Directors
maintain a "Best Practices" approach to theory based on available
objective evidence. As directors of a teaching organization, they
maintain certain concepts and theories as more likely correct than
others, and will teach from that foundation. What all of this means is
that they will occasionally contradict a member's statement in an effort
to make sure the members understand what is considered the best practice
of the time. As in all cases, they are happy to participate in
well-informed discussions concerning the validity of their assumptions.
Thank you for taking time to read this
page. it is very important.
Tom and Lisa Butler
Association TransCommunication Directors
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