THE EVP

THE EVP & TRANSCOMMUNICATION SOCIETY

Quarterly Newsletter No.15: July 2000
BELIEF FROM KNOWLEDGE

Despite myself, I'm on the Internet. It seems Orwellian in concept in that as much as we have the capacity to reach out via its tentacles, it has the capacity to home in on us and breach the last bastion of our privacy. In fact, I still think that is the use it will be put to - them watching us watching it; the precursor to us all being forced to have an identity microchip inserted under the skin of our forearm; the modern counterpart of what the Nazis did, tattooing numbers on the Jews, and all the other poor unfortunates whose faces, ideas and life-styles didn't quite fit the politically correct ideas of that benighted era.

So, why have I succumbed? I thought I could get a web page set up advertising the EVP Society and my book Voices from Paradise. But - to all of you who are on it - isn't it complicated ? But then I am relatively computer illiterate and hopefully, in due course, some Internet whiz kid will come along and do it all for me.

In the meantime, my friend John G. Sutton who is the Features Editor of Psychic World newspaper has put me on his web page**, together with a WAV file (a voice file that can be downloaded) which has a very short sentence on it spoken by the man who is in constant communication with me from the spirit world - Jack Hallam. Jack and I worked together on The Sunday Times newspaper in the 1970's. He was the Picture Editor. He 'died' in 1986. ** (2002) Q E D! I now have my own site.

Using a digital recorder I can switch on to Jack speaking to me whenever I wish. Other people speak as well, including my son Paul who 'died' in 1992, although Paul finds it difficult to get a word in as Jack tends to hog the line.

I must qualify the first sentence of the last paragraph where I say 'speaking to me whenever I wish'. That is the way it appears but I know there are greater and more powerful forces at work than my will, and I gratefully acknowledge the force, power or entity which has made it possible for me to receive confirmation via the EVP that there is indeed an after life and that death in the accepted sense of the word is impossible.

I think orthodox science is now beginning to be dragged kicking and screaming into the light and has to open at least one corner of its closed collective mind. I was watching a television programme the other evening called Natural Mystery. It was an investigation into human energy fields that appear to survive bodily death. It featured Russian bio-physicist Dr. Konstantin Korotkov who has conducted extensive research into this phenomenon by studying recently deceased corpses, and has discovered electrical energy patterns, (by using Kirlian photography of the fingers of the dead peoples' hands), that can take days to subside.

If the dead person had committed suicide the energy can take a week to subside. If the person died naturally and peacefully, the energy subsides more quickly. It was also interesting that if the person has an autopsy and body parts are removed, the energy field which had been formerly very strong subsides immediately.

Dr. Korotkov's research seems to me to be both complimentary to the belief that there is indeed a spirit, a life force, which separates from the body, and to the research we have done on the EVP; that communication is based on electricity in one form or another.

The programme made me depressed too as it reinforced the frustration I feel in being unable to interest or persuade any of our homegrown scientists to conduct any controlled experiments with me on the EVP. I phone up one after the other - Professor this and Doctor that - experts in fields directly allied to our research on the phenomenon (Speech Analysis, Telecommunications, Electronics, Brain-wave patterns, Galvanic skin testing) and they to a man (and woman) cry off.

One of them, Dr. Alan Hirson, a Forensic Speech Analyst at a University near me, left a message on my answering machine which, as I have written before, can't be fooled: it tells me the truth. Dr. Hirson lied his way through his message; about his work overload and being 'too busy' and at this point one of my spirit communicants said loudly and emphatically: Oh, no you're not! and at the end of his call another spirit voice intervenes with: It's her son (Hirson); a play on words, which makes perfect sense to me.

Needless to say, I'd love to take this recording to Dr. Hirson and play it to him. But would he listen? You bet he wouldn't. 'The resistance to new ideas increase by the square of their importance. (Russell's Law.)

But the evidence - real evidence - is slowly filtering into the collective consciousness. Witness the couple of films recently made, one of them The Sixth Sense with Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment (who plays an eight-year old boy who hears a spirit voice on a tape recorder). Apparently this film is playing to packed houses in India where some people have seen it four or five times!

Oh, and by the way, referring to what I wrote in the last Newsletter No. 14 (April 2000) about Dr. Peter Cochrane who holds the Collier Chair for the Public Understanding of Science & Technology at the University of Bristol - a perfect vehicle for the public understanding of our science, the EVP, wouldn't you think? I wrote to him and (indirectly, I learned) received an invitation to a Royal Society lecture given by him.

I recorded the whole of his lecture and sent him the tape, which contained dozens of remarks made by spirit attendees. Some of them were very cutting! One of the spirit communicants was, I'm sure, the American George Meek of Spiricom fame, who went over fairly recently. At one point in Dr. Cochrane's lecture when he was being particularly boring (not an isolated occasion) an American man's voice, obviously elderly and sounding exactly like a recording I have of George's, says in an irritated way: I heard. I heard it first time. I heard it so many times and then later on in the lecture, when Dr. Cochrane was talking about something he had achieved with a sophisticated piece of technology, supervenes with the comment: A laptop would have done fine.

I naively thought Dr. Cochrane would be at least ......... interested! After all he even mentioned in his lecture that his mother had just died. Not a bit of it. His secretary, returned the tape to me unheard, with my own letter still wrapped round it. The explanation? "Dr. Cochrane apologises, but he is abroad and is afraid he won't have time to listen to your tape".

So, I end this soliloquy with a plea: Is there any scientist in an allied field out there who has an interest in what's going to happen to him and/or his family when he/they die who would be prepared to open his mind sufficiently to at least allow the possibility that we are receiving communication via the EVP from the spirit world?

Step forward any brave men or women. Don't forget members of your tribe once said the earth was flat, that men couldn't fly and that pictures couldn't be sent through thin air.

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SOME THOUGHTS ON THE ORIGIN OF EVP VOICES by Bill Weisensale, California, USA by Robert Whitfield (following on from the piece in the April 20000 Newsletter)

                        "I was amazed to find that Bill Weisensale's hypothesis of the origin or formation of the EVP voices is more or less identical to that of my own. It seems that two people who are entirely unconnected (I have never heard of him before) and who have devoted much time and effort to the study and the analysis of the EVP have both come up with such similar conclusions. Out of interest, the following is a list of the main points that we agree upon:
                        (a) That the input to the tape recorder is not too important, i.e. it matters little whether the input is derived from a radio tuned to 127 mc/s (or any other frequency), a microphone, a diode or anything else. What is important is that some sort of low-level energy source is induced into the tape recorder so that it can be subsequently modulated/modified during the recording process by some other external energy form.
                        (b) That this external energy form affects and alters the characteristics of certain components in the tape recorder's circuitry while in the record mode. I suggest that the place where this is most likely is the record/playback head where the input signal, the bias oscillator and the external energy are, in effect, mixed. Weisensale does not disagree with this.
                        (c) That the external energy is a form of psychokinetic energy (PK) and
                        (d) That this PK does not, or cannot, affect the tape recorder's circuitry apparently is controlled by the entity wishing to establish contact. directly, but rather, it must work through the subconscious mind of the experimenter."

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My Note:
Robert Whitfield's company New Age Electronics produces interesting equipment, or as he terms it: 'Unusual and Interesting Devices for Exploring the Subconscious Mind'. He can be contacted at: New Age Electronics, 42, Greenwood, Tweedmouth, Berwick-upon-Tweed, TD15 2EB, UK.
Tel: 01289 304352 (International: +44(0) 1289 304352.

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My Note:
I mentioned John G. Sutton the Features Editor of Psychic World earlier. In this week's edition of the paper (No. 79 July 2000) John writes about this Society and my book and also about an experience of the EVP he and his wife Mary had one day:

"In October 1999 my wife Mary and I were watching the evening news on BBC television when the sound of the broadcast changed, becoming quiet for a moment. Mary and I looked at each other wondering if the TV set was faulty, then a voice in metallic tones said Time Now. This voice was not connected to the news broadcast. In fact it seemed to be directed at us. Then as suddenly as it had changed, the sound returned, and the news programme continued as usual.

In March of this year, I was sitting in the waiting room of my GP's surgery. Pop-classical music was playing over the loudspeaker system, which I wasn't really listening to. Then I heard the sound drop and fade and a female voice said: Time is almost here now The voice was quite distinct and not connected to the receptionists who were seemingly oblivious of all but their appointment books and PC screens. Looking round I noticed no one who had registered this short message. What did this mean?

There may be those who assume that I am experiencing auditory hallucinations. Was I alone in the experience then that may be so. However, in the first example given above, both my wife and I experienced exactly the same phenomenon. In the case of recorded EVP the argument of auditory hallucination is totally negated. One simply cannot record a hallucination, or it wouldn't be hallucinatory would it?

Some years ago, whilst I was researching and writing a book I was invited by BBC Radio Leeds to attend a psychic investigation into a reputedly haunted house on the outskirts of Bradford, Yorkshire. The BBC sent an outside broadcast unit and also two sound engineers to record the results on top of the range reel-to-reel tape recorders. The medium present, a Mr. James Byrne, advised the BBC sound engineers that they were wasting their time, as the machines they had brought would record nothing. This advice was greeted with gales of laughter, the two BBC men said they had been recording outside broadcasts for years and were hardly likely to fail now just because this was a so-called haunted house.

However, when the recording was over and the BBC replayed the tapes, they discovered that they were absolutely blank, not a word or a single sound was on any of them. This was more a case of EVP in reverse."

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REVERSE SPEECH AND DOUBLE MEANINGS

In Newsletter No. 6 April 1998, I published an article by Robert Whitfield of New Age Electronics: Speech Reversal on a Shoestring. This described how Robert, after becoming interested in speech reversal, had designed and made a device capable of performing this feat.

He had long been interested in an EVP message received by Ray Cass, a doyen of the EVP, living in Humberside. Ray had recorded, amongst thousands of other discarnate voices, a man's voice saying enigmatically: Prometheus Pasademus. He had never been able to work out what this could mean. Robert extracted this sample from an ordinary tape and after repeating it a few times played it back on his modified recorder in reverse. The voice then said: We/He will talk to Heaven.

The man who discovered speech reversal, Australian David John Oates, has not, as far as I know, experimented with EVP recordings although I intend to ask him - if I can make contact - if he will, or alternatively persuade Robert to make a speech reversal machine for me!

Briefly, speech reversal, for those who do not know, is a discovery that normal recorded speech when played backwards reveals our true thoughts and feelings. Apparently ever since the Beatles' famous 'White' album was released with the hidden backward message Paul is dead there's been talk of satanic messages in popular music and of subliminal messages on our TV and film screens. Yet new findings reveal we all have subliminal conversations most of the time - backwards, and because we don't have conscious control over those messages, they are far more revealing than we could ever imagine.

David Oates says the human brain constructs the sounds that form intelligible language in such a way that at least two verbal messages are committed at the same time: one forward, which is constructed and heard consciously and one in reverse, which is constructed and heard unconsciously and which stems from deeper realms of the human psyche. Reverse speech can only be heard aloud if human speech is recorded and played backwards.

Embedded in the sounds of human speech once every five, ten and 15 seconds occurs a very clear, precise grammatically correct phrase that is communicating our real thoughts and feelings. As emotions increase so do reversals so that in an intense argument, they can occur once every three or four seconds. And they aren't formed by the actual words we use in our speech: they are formed by the sounds of our speech, so for example, you can find reversals in laughter or cries or deep breathing. Stuttering and stammering normally creates reversals.

Oates gives some examples of reverse speech. For example one from O. J. Simpson the American ex-boxer who got off the charge of murdering his wife and another man: Simpson said: The worse thing you can have, that you can ever have, is have your argument taped. I would say anyone out there that's married and in a relationship, just turn a tape recorder on the next time.

When reversed, embedded within this statement, were the words: I skinned (fooled) them all. Another statement reversed was that made by Prince Andrew following the birth of his baby daughter before he publicly announced her name: It's very difficult to tell who she looks like but probably her father and mother, like most. This when reversed, became My mum will love her. I love Beatrice

I am making the connection with all of this to the EVP because I have often recorded perhaps ten minutes of conversation with entities from the spirit world (heard only on playback although I know they are talking when I see the red light on my machine flickering on and off). I listen to the playback and quite clearly hear what has been said and duly write it all down. Sometimes I listen again to the same tape, and hear something entirely different, but equally clearly.

I have also had other EVP researchers tell me the same thing: they hear two alternating versions, perfectly clearly, of the same spirit words. It's very curious and I don't know why this happens, but it occurred to me it might be a sort of reverse speech only not reversed but just in the sense that spirit is actually saying both things but at the same time and the same way round. This assessment might be borne out by the fact that I recorded with two friends, each of us using the same machine. My friend Jack spoke to the three of us, on our separate recorders, 'simultaneously', yet he said something different to each one of us! Food for thought!

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My Note:

Please let me know if, in recording, you get a similar thing occurring - a voice, which says one thing one minute and another entirely different but equally, clear thing the next. Also, do any of you have a Reverse Speech machine, and have you used it in relation to the EVP? I'd be interested to know.

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AAEVP

Many of you will know of the AAEVP (American EVP Association). Indeed some of you may be members of it. Those that are will know that Sarah Estep, the founder, is retiring from running the Society due to ill health. She asked two members Tom and Lisa Butler to continue the Association's work and produce its quarterly newsletters, and they have fortunately agreed to do so. We have been in contact and agreed to exchange our Society's newsletters in the future with the hope of cross fertilisation (not GM!) Needless to say, because of the long history of AAEVP (eighteen years as against my four) we will gain most, and I'm looking forward to that.

Tom and Lisa will be setting up their own web site soon. It will be: http://www.dreamwater.com/aaevp . Sarah Estep's web site is still up and running and is http://www.hibrichan.com/evp.htm/ . One of our members told me that it has recordings of many interesting EVP voices and also has links to other EVP sites and leads to a paranormal search engine. I don't know if it leads to Netscape Search (paranormal search engine) but I found that one by accident and it works quite well.

If any of you would like to join AAEVP their address is: PO Box 71, Ext. 105, Truth or Consequences, NM 87901, USA. They charge $25 for overseas membership to be paid in US currency or on a cheque made out to a US bank. Their newsletters are quarterly: January, April, July and October.

SOME OF JUDITH'S VOICES

Whenever I haven't had time to record for EVP properly, and that means lately, I get a lot of messages from spirit coming through on my telephone answering machine. During May and June of this year there were more than ever. Some were pertinent, some were puzzling. Some were tongue in cheek like the young man who was listening in to a friend of mine calling, who was using rather heavy humour in responding to my recorded OGM "If you would like to leave a message, please speak after the tone" by replying: "Yes, my message is this: good on you sport! I hope you are all right!". The man in spirit answered to this: I'm fine. My earthly friend went on to talk of someone named "David" (he meant "Douglas") and my spirit friend responded briskly with: Who's that?

I think it was the same spirit friend who in response to an unfamiliar caller giving his name on the answering machine, replied facetiously: Don't know ya. This is a particularly interesting remark because I had been reading Great Expectations by Charles Dickens again and had reached the section where Pip, the hero, dressed in brand new clothes, visits his village after coming into his inheritance, much to the surprise of the villagers, particularly the local tailor Trabb's boy, who circles him mockingly repeating those words: Don't know ya ,Don't know ya! Which only goes to show once again how our friends in spirit are totally tuned in to us and what we are saying, doing, thinking and planning (and reading!).

Preceding another message from someone who was clearly not telling the truth, a spirit communicant says sharply: Judith -they're trying to fudge it, which is exactly what he was trying to do. Another spirit communicant said on a different answering machine message (just before the earthly caller put the phone down) Bright-heaven-Chisholm. Spirits often refer to me by my surname, but the reference,too, could have been to my son being in heaven.

Two weeks ago in mid June I had a particularly intriguing message on my machine. It begins with a spirit man's rather hollow sounding voice saying: Done a runner ,then there's a pause, then a woman sings: We say goodbye, accompanied by musical chords which vibrate and fade out. This, similar to all the other spirit calls recorded on the telephone answering machine, was not heard at the time and its very interesting in that "Done a runner" was Paul (my 'dead' son's) expression, meaning to bolt away hurriedly from something difficult, challenging or threatening. I didn't recognise the man who said this as him, but then on a following call I discovered, preceding the earth caller's voice, the word Me! and this was definitely Paul's voice.

The woman singing is remarkable. It sounds unearthly yet very clear, and the words are so apt. This is not the first time I have heard singing and music from the spirit world, but it is the longest passage and the clearest.

But the message that really puzzles me is the one where I pressed the Memo button on my answering machine by accident and held it a little while. When I played this recording back it begins with a man saying Fire Engines then there's a pause, then I hear two men talking to each other. One says in an extremely cultured English old-fashioned accent: There's another button come off this damned Paparagon. The second man replies with: Wrap this around. The first man says: I can't reach. The second man then says: You've got them.....shoot!; I then make some remark myself, which was recorded, to which one of the men responds in surprise: What's that? and then the recording ends.

The voices are so clear that if the machine were not digital and incapable of picking up any disparate voices or noises from outside its circuit, one would be tempted to think the speakers were alive and well and living in some remote part of England where people still speak like that (if anyone still does which I doubt). No, these are voices out of time. I think from about a hundred years ago, but what really puzzles me is - what is a "Paparagon?" I have looked it up everywhere and I can't find an answer. I thought it might have something to do with the old-fashioned Fire Service as the message began with "Fire Engines", but the voices are far too cultured. Does anyone know what a "Paparagon" is, or was?

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OLLY LOOMS LARGE IN CYBER SPACE

Below, a short article which appeared in the Daily Telegraph newspaper on 30th June 2000:-
"Oliver Reed who died during the filming of 'Gladiator', was called many things during his life. But nobody until now has ever accused him of being a virus.
He may have become one. A user of NoW (Network of the World), a new integrated TV and Internet Company, has reported seeing a distorted and slightly ghostly image of the actor's head while downloading pages. "He faded then came back into focus saying "Could I kiss you?" It sounds far-fetched and if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I'd think the whole thing was crazy," says Jane Parford a management consultant in London."

Is it a stunt? NoW says that if it is, it is nothing to do with them and a spokesman postulates the "absurd thesis" that Reed may have left a souvenir of himself in cyberspace.

My Note:
Has anyone reading this experienced a similar phenomenon? It certainly ties in with research into pictures of the dead on television screens, which have been carried out by various EVP researchers in different parts of the world.

In my last Newsletter (No 14) I mentioned Pascal Jouini of France: http://www.perso.club-internet.fr/pjouini/lien.pgbh.htm . In the piece "Images of the Dead on TV" I describe how he obtains pictures of people from the spirit world on his television set using the apparatus described. When the NoW company spokesman, above, 'postulates the absurd thesis that Reed may have left a souvenir of himself in cyberspace'; I would substitute 'the ether' for 'cyberspace' and delete the word 'absurd': then we may be approaching the truth

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

17th April 2000

Dear Judith,

                        You may be wondering whether I experiment with EVP at all. The answer is, I did once, at an interfrequency position on MW, and got what sounded like a number of people laughing very derisively. Were these stray signals from a comedy programme on radio, or a not very nice class of spirit entity? And I suddenly thought, with King Lear: No, that way madness lays.' It's a law of the Universe that you only get out of something what you put in, and I probably just wasn't committing myself to this channel of communication with a whole hearted attitude: I just find it so difficult to talk to a silent (apparently) radio set. Milton says: "They also serve who only stand and wait", and I think I shall have to leave the communication to more intrepid and/or evolved souls such as yourself.
                        One other thing, before I go: you will know about hypnagogic imagery, those distinct visual images you get right on the edge of falling asleep, "breaking through" from dream-state. Well, the other night I got something much rarer - a hypnagogic voice. It was an educated-sounding woman saying to me in tones of the utmost clarity and cogency: "I was a boy's pet rabbit". What struck me most was its similarity to EVP communications: brief, cryptic and bursting with an eerie significance you have to hear to appreciate. A possible line of enquiry?
                         With continuing good wishes,
Richard George,
St. Albans, Herts.

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My Note:
First, the laughing voices: I've recorded those and felt equally dismayed. Mine were definitely from the spirit world as I don't use a radio and a digital recorder can't pick up stray anything. One can only assume that all spirits are not good, kind and gentle, respecting our feelings - just like people here on earth! The direct voice Richard describes is, too, not uncommon. I have also heard these voices as he describes, just as I was falling asleep. I instinctively respond, having been jerked out of that sleepy drugged state by the sharpness of the voices by replying Yes, or What? before I realise they are our unseen visitors speaking. But what an unusual thing for his lady to say! It makes me wish he had recorded it then it could be played back in reverse. It might have made sense then.

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13thApril 2000

Dear Judith,
                        The course I am doing (University) will enhance my knowledge of recent theories (and hopefully confirm or maybe add a little more to Ron Pearson's theories) that keep appearing in New Scientist and Scientific America. Also, I will be able to see if there are any relationships that may give further proof for the afterlife. For example, in a recent article in New Scientist two scientists have produced reality from noise. The noise amalgamated into forms (the name of which escapes me at the moment) to produce reality in the form of 3-D space. Now, replace the noise with the ether, and the amalgamated forms with consciousness and what you have is Ron Pearson's theory. What makes this even more interesting is that 'noise' contains all the frequencies in the known electromagnetic spectrum. So, if reality was created in our matter system during the experiment, it must have extracted only that frequency which is tuned to our matter system (our reality). This implies that there must be an infinite number of other realities (matter systems) that exist at other frequencies that we are not aware of but do occupy the same space.
                        In last week's New Scientist the front cover story was about the discovery of black holes in the human body at the sub-atomic level. Black holes could be the doorway to another dimension, or the next matter system that we pass into at death (I will be studying this on my course in a later block). Are these the dark tunnels that people travel through when having NDE's? This latter point is your son's theory, which he mentioned to me when I visited you in December.
                     I do believe other theories are necessary (particularly new ones which reflect current scientific research) to back up the results from the digital computer. It is not enough just to produce a machine, which gives two-way clear communication with the other side. There will always be scientists and many ordinary people who will think that it has been engineered by someone using electronic and software means. For example, there is a fun device available which talks back to you when you talk to it. Some of the replies are relevant to what you are saying and sometimes they are amusing. So we have got to be very careful. My electronic knowledge will be able to dispute this, but other theories are required to back all of this up".
                     Best wishes,
Geoff Coxon,
Nuneaton, Warwickshire.

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25th June 2000

Dear Judith,
                        You asked me to write in more detail about the unusual things that have been happening to me. I have an audiotape of 'Ram Das' that I have played many times. Recently, when I played it, it was normal for a minute or so, then there was a sort of cry, then complete silence until the tape ended. On another occasion with a different tape about halfway through I heard a woman's voice speaking for a minute or so (I wasn't really listening closely but when I realised her voice shouldn't be there, I checked the tape by rewinding and replaying and this time there was no woman's voice at all.
                        Other strange things happen with videotapes. I put one on recently and watched for about five minutes while the picture was still showing, then it went blank almost to the end. I looked away for a few minutes and when I looked back a picture was on so I stopped it and watched. It was Kilroy the presenter talking about pensions and being poor. I remember being irritated by the way he said 'poor'. He said it three times.
                      I re-wound the tape (with the picture showing) to see if I'd missed anything while I'd looked away. As it re-wound, the picture had returned to the whole of the tape. I set the video at 'normal' speed and watched. Kilroy came on, but it was an entirely different programme. He was talking about being fat not being poor and there was a different audience. I checked the tape and absolutely nowhere on it was what I had seen earlier. I played it three times and it simply wasn't there.
                       There is nothing wrong with my TV or recorder as this is not the first time this sort of thing has happened with videos and when it did first happen, I had my TV and video recorder checked and even though the repairers couldn't find anything wrong with them, I bought new ones. But it's started again."
                       Sincerely
Mollie Hall
London, N1

My Note:
If anyone else has experienced this strange phenomenon with TV's and videos, please let me know. It seems to me as though our spirit friends are using this method of contacting Mollie - just letting her know they are around as they are capable of interfering in all electrical systems. The other day our computer, which was turned off, flashed brightly for a millisecond (in fact it did this two days running), and also the TV went blank and then much later restored the picture itself. I have also had the lights turn off and instantly back on again. But as the spirits manage to contact me by other methods, this 'attracting attention' mode is not common for me.

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23rd June 2000

Hi Judith,
                        I do book reviews for Prediction and received your book Voices from Paradise to review. I do not normally write to authors unless I am particularly taken with books and I have to say I was impressed with yours. (Don't hold your breath for the review in Prediction - they have a big backlog and it can take months!).
                        But I was touched. I should add that I lost my eldest son through suicide some time ago and I can share your feelings of despair, which all parents go through in similar situations.
                        I write only really to direct you to a site on the web (if you have access) that you might find interesting. The Astral Pulse by a friend of mine in Australia Robert Bruce http://www.tower.net.au/rsb/
                        I have a few articles on his articles/stories site which you might find of interest: Tunnel Visions, Suicide and OBE and Back to Basics - but I'm not plugging my own thing altogether! It's just that (and I hate to be mysterious re: this) but I think you might find Robert's ongoing work and Astral Dynamics of interest later on bearing in mind your major emphasis in the book.
                        It was a pleasure to read and I am glad that you have come to some resolution in your quest and I do admire folk who are willing to devote themselves to such interesting work, which could ultimately give solace to people.
                       Kind regards and best wishes
Michael Ross
Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

My Note: No more room, except to say: keep in touch with me please. Send me your thoughts, research, ideas, and information. In particular let me know if you are experimenting with the EVP and what your results are. We are at an exciting stage now. I don't think it will be long before people will be unable to close their eyes and their ears to the certain knowledge that there is an after life. So, let's be in the vanguard. We have worked hard enough!

Judith