The Reality Of Instrumental Transcommunication Voices Scientifically Demonstrated On 5th December 2004 During Experiments With Marcello Bacci at Grosseto 

By:

Dr Anabela Cardoso(1)

Dr Mario Salvatore Festa (2)

Prof David Fontana (3)

and Dr Paolo Presi (4)

This report details experiments conducted with Marcello Bacci at his laboratory in Italy on the evening of 5th December 2004 in the presence of a team of experienced investigators from Italy, Portugal and the United Kingdom. Marcello Bacci (e.g. Bacci 1985) is one of the leading researchers into ITC phenomena, a field in which he has been active for more than 30 years. It is not the purpose of this Report to provide a survey of the impressive evidence that has accumulated for the ITC phenomena since publications by Jürgenson, Raudive and others in the middle years of the 20th Century as this has been fully documented elsewhere (e.g., Brune 1993, Senkowski 1995, Brune and Chauvin 1999), so suffice it to say that the subject is concerned to study the anomalous communications received, often under controlled conditions, through electronic media such as audio tape recorders, radio receivers, computers, fax machines and telephones. Many of those working within the field have become convinced not only of the reality of these communications, but that they appear to originate with the deceased, and therefore to provide strong support for the hypothesis of survival after physical death. Marcello Bacci, who has been consistently successful in obtaining these communications in his own experiments, is principally dedicated to working with bereaved parents, but he is also concerned to co-operate with scientists in order to demonstrate the credibility of his results (e.g. those from Il Laboratorio in Bologna, Italy, the only laboratory in Europe devoted entirely to the scientific testing and analysis of apparently paranormal phenomena). An experienced Radio Technician himself, he takes no money for any of this work and does not seek to attract publicity.

In his ITC experiments Marcello Bacci uses the Direct Radio Voice Method (DRV), i.e. the method that seeks to obtain anomalous communications directly through the loudspeakers of radios, and such voices frequently refer to listeners by name, respond to questions put to them, and sometimes provide relevant and lengthy items of information. For this purpose he favours a valve radio, tuned to white noise in the short-wave band, rather than solid-state technology. The experiment detailed in this Report was a sequel to a number of earlier successful investigations carried out into the voices received by him using this Direct Radio Voice Method. Two of these earlier carefully controlled investigations are of particular relevance to the present experiment. In the first of them, conducted in the presence of Dr. Eng. Carlo Trajna, a second radio was set up beside that used by Bacci, connected to the same power lead, with independent aerial, and tuned to the same short-wave frequency. While Bacci’s radio was heard to receive the anomalous voice communications, the second radio was found to be receiving only normal white noise (e.g. Trajna 1985). 

This experiment strongly discounts the possibility that the anomalous voices were fraudulently produced. In the second and equally ground-breaking investigation, Professor Mario Salvatore Festa, professor of Physics and Physical Radio Protection at Naples University, and Radio Technician Franco Santi removed the two valves ECC85 (the FM valve) and ECH81 (the AM/SW converter valve) from Bacci’s radio during the receipt of anomalous voices, and established that even without these valves (in the absence of which no normal broadcasts can be received in the short wave band), the voices continued unabated. During this experiment Professor Festa also measured the intensities respectively of the electric field and of the magnetic field adjacent to the radio with the radio switched off, and both during normal radio transmission and during the period when the voice phenomenon occurred, and found that these fields did not show any variation when the voices phenomenon started and also that the values measured after the valves were removed but the voices continued were practically identical to the values measured when the radio was turned off (see Festa 2002 for full details). The demonstration that the voices continued even in the absence of the valves and that there was no variation in electric or magnetic fields during their reception provides further convincing evidence that such voices cannot be accounted for by fraudulent transmissions.

The present experiment took place in Marcello Bacci’s laboratory in Grosseto, Italy, in electric lighting from a blue coloured, wall mounted, 25-watt bulb, situated just above and slightly to the right of the radio and bright enough to allow the investigators to observe closely all movements by Bacci and by each other. Prior to and subsequent to the experiment, the laboratory and the radio used by Bacci were available for full inspection by all those named below. When the experimental sessions commenced, Marcello Bacci seated himself directly in front of his radio, a Normende, Fidelio model, dating from the late 1950s, with Professor Fontana (professor of Psychology and former President of the Society for Psychical Research and current Chair of the Society’s Survival Research Committee) beside him on his left, and Dr. Anabela Cardoso (founder and Editor of the ITC Journal and Director of the ITC Journal Research Centre) immediately behind him and positioned so that she could look directly over his left shoulder that she could touch with her chin. Professor Festa, named in connection with one of the two investigations already described, was seated on Dr. Anabela Cardoso’s left, and Mr. Robin Foy (leader of the well-known Scole investigation in the UK and an expert in physical psychic phenomena) on Bacci’s right. 

These four investigators were at all times in close touching proximity to Marcello Bacci. Aeronautical Engineer Paolo Presi (a leading member of Il Laboratorio and a long-standing investigator of the Bacci phenomena) was on Bacci’s left, separated from him by Mrs. Laura Pagnotta, daughter of the benefactress Silvana who has been a close collaborator and observer of Mr. Bacci’s work for 20 years, and by Professor Fontana. Radio Technician Franco Santi, named with Professor Festa in connection with the investigation already described, remained free to move around the room for reasons detailed shortly, and Mr. Angelo Toriello, also called Emanuele, and Mr. Sandro Zampieri, both of whom have also been close observers of Mr. Bacci for many years were also in close attendance, Mr. Toriello seated on Dr. Cardoso’s right, and Mr. Zampieri just behind Professor Festa. Lawyer Amerigo Festa, another researcher who has worked closely with Bacci for some years, accompanied by his wife Mrs. Rossella Forte was also seated close by. Sandro Zampieri (Sandro is the official translator of the group into English) with his wife Mrs. Maria, Mrs. Carmelina and Mr. Gennaro Dara, Mr. Franco Grigiotti, a close and old friend of Marcello, Mrs. Angela and Mr. Luciano Manzoni, responsible for the tape recording of the sessions and for the transcripts, were also seated in the vicinity. In the room there were also a few mothers who had lost their children and other experimenters exceptionally admitted at the session in a total of 37 people.

The radio was situated on a workbench placed against the wall directly facing the investigators, and in a position that made it inaccessible from the rear except by leaning over the bench from the front. There is no back to the radio, and sufficient space was left between it and the wall for Radio Technician Franco Santi to reach inside by leaning across the bench, as detailed shortly. Inspection prior to the experiment had revealed that there was no access to the radio through apertures in the workbench or in the wall. Behind Bacci and the investigators and separated from them by approximately one and a half metres were rows of chairs on which some of those who attend Bacci’s regular sessions for bereaved parents were seated. No member of this latter group took any part in the experiment or approached the radio used by Bacci at any point in the course of it.

Proceedings commenced at 19.10 hours, with Bacci, the investigators and those elsewhere in the room all in their places. Audio tape recorders (analogue and digital) were switched on in order to record proceedings. Bacci began by turning on his radio and selecting the short wave band. He then, as is his usual practice, began slowly to turn the tuning control, scanning the range from 7 to 9 megahertz. As expected, this produced a range of radio transmissions interspersed with white noise. Bacci explained in Italian that he was ‘searching for good white noise’. This procedure continued for 15-20 minutes until Bacci pronounced, again in Italian ‘I can feel them – they will come’. At this point he stopped turning the dial, and the white noise was heard to change to a vortex-like sound that could variously be described as wind or the sound of waves. Shortly afterwards this noise died down (though often it recurred simultaneously with the voices, as if they were in some way ‘carried’ on its sound) and voices became audible from the radio. The first words were in Italian, and these were followed by words in Spanish. Bacci, again in Italian, informed those responsible for the voices that they could ‘speak in Portuguese, English or Spanish’. The invisible communicators then addressed David Fontana and Robin Foy in English and Anabela Cardoso in Spanish.

In the ensuing session, which lasted in all for approximately one hour, what appeared to be five or six separate voices (one of them possibly female, and the rest male) spoke in English and in Spanish as well as in Italian, some of them with a clarity resembling that of normal voices, others with the sonority that characterises many ITC voices and that renders them distinct from normal articulation. Also present in the voices were the strange semantics that are characteristic of many ITC communications (e.g. when addressing Dr. Cardoso the communicator referred to her visit to Bacci with the words ‘Anabela is here, you are going to the learning boss’), and the parabolic, wave-like speech rhythms. Sometimes the sound wave carrying the voices became distorted, but in spite of these features the meaning of approximately 70 per cent of the vocal utterances was directly clear to those named above, five of whom are fluent in Italian and English, and one of whom (Dr. Cardoso, a senior Portuguese diplomat by profession who lives in Spain most of the time), is fluent in all the languages used as well as in her mother tongue Portuguese. The voices referred to those present by their first names, and addressed Professor Fontana by both his first and second names (‘David Fontana’, perhaps to distinguish him from David Pagnotta, who was present elsewhere in the room), and then added ‘Ciao David’. Bacci himself was frequently referred to either as ‘Marcello’ or as ‘Bacci’. All names were given clearly, and were easily recognisable. Sometimes the voices replied to questions in a different language from that used by the questioner, and sometimes they even changed languages during the course of their answers. Not all questions were answered, and certain of them only after a pause.

The most significant incident during the session, and the one that marks this experiment out as of historic importance in the history not only of ITC research but also of psychical research in general, occurred near the end of the session. As mentioned earlier, the finding by Professor Festa and Technician Santi that removal of two of the valves from the radio did not prevent the receipt of the anomalous voices provided crucial evidence that the voices were not produced by fraudulent transmissions. However, critics have suggested that even without these two valves it was still technically possible for the radio to produce sound in other wavebands. Therefore, with the consent of Marcello Bacci, it was decided that in the present experiment all five valves would be removed during the reception of the anomalous voices. Accordingly, approximately one hour after the commencement of the voices and while they were still continuing, Radio Technician Franco Santi leant over the work bench and removed four of the valves, followed after a short pause due to difficulties in handling the hot glass, by the removal of the fifth and last valve. All five valves, ECC85, ECH81 (the two valves removed in the experiment of 2002), EF89 (the intermediate frequency amplifier), EABC80 (the AM/FM detector and low frequency amplifier), and EL84 (the final power amplifier) were then visible outside the radio, and were laid by Franco Santi in full view on the workbench. Despite the absence of the valves, the voices continued with the same volume and clarity as before.

When the voices paused Marcello Bacci, without previous warning and obviously yielding to an impulse, switched off the radio at the set and the light illuminating the glass panel at the front of the set disappeared. After 11 seconds of silence (the timings reported have been taken from the tape recorded during the experiment) the observers could hear modulated whistles (sounds similar to those of whip lashes) and the usual acoustic signal that precedes Bacci’s reception of paranormal voices which is similar to a vortex of air. The voice of the invisible communicator, interspersed with whistles, recommenced 21 seconds after Bacci had turned the radio off and continued for 23 seconds (as timed from the audio tape) with the same acoustic quality previously heard, perhaps a little slower but as clear as before. When the speech ended the whistles remained for another 6 seconds while the vortex which was heard at the end of the vocal utterance became weaker and finally disappeared after 12 seconds. However, the contact did not seem to be terminated since another 53 seconds later the vortex could again be heard as well as a very weak male voice which seemed to arise from it and comment the sentence just uttered by Mario Festa “Siete grandi!” (You are great!). The phenomenon lasted for 2 minutes and 20 seconds after the radio was switched off.

During this time Radio Technician Franco Santi inspected the interior of the radio with his pencil torch, the beam of which was briefly visible through the glass panel. This part of the experiment was unplanned, and occasioned particular surprise on the part of the observers. In all three parts of the experiment (radio switched on with valves in place, radio switched on with valves removed, and radio switched off with valves removed) the voices came out unequivocally from the loudspeaker of the radio, and apart from what may have been a slight loss of quality after the radio was switched off, with the same volume and clarity. The radio was then switched back on for a short period, but no further voices were heard during this time, and the experiment was concluded.

Franco Santi then turned the radio through an angle of 90 degrees so that the inside could be closely inspected by all present, with all the room lights now switched on. Dr. Cardoso and Professor Fontana both took photographic evidence of the inside of the radio and of the five valves. Lawyer Amerigo Festa, who also documented the event with his video camera, made a detailed written account of the incidents surrounding and consequent upon Franco Santi removing the valves and Bacci switching off the radio, and this account has been signed as correct by all those present.

In the view of the authors of this Report and of all other knowledgeable observers present, this experiment is of momentous importance in the history of psychical research because the persistence of the voices in the absence of the valves and during the interval when the radio was switched off conclusively discounts any possibility either of fraud or of the reception of stray radio transmissions. The experiment was conducted in the presence and with the participation of investigators with many years of experience of ITC and of other areas of psychical research (together, in the case of Professor Festa, Radio Technician Franco Santi and Aeronautical Engineer Paolo Presi, with experience in radio technology and in addition Paolo Presi is an experienced Short Wave Listener with SWL Licence No. 2330), and this leaves no room for charges of mal observation or of other forms of experimenter error. The results of this experiment, taken together with those yielded by the 2002 experiment of Professor Festa and Franco Santi, provide firm evidence of the authenticity of the Bacci voices.

A résumé of the acoustic events as perceived from the recorded tape follows:

t = 00 sec Bacci switches off the radio.

Silence.

t = 11 sec The modulated whistles start (sounds similar to those of whip lashes) and the conventional recurrent signal similar to a vortex of air starts to be felt.

t = 21 sec A voice starts to be heard among the whistles.

t = 44 sec The voice finishes but the whistles and the vortex continue to be heard.

t = 50 sec The whistles finish.

t = 56 sec The vortex finishes.

Silence.

t = 109 sec A new vortex starts to be heard.

t = 127 sec Faint male voice in the background that seems to reply to Mario Festa’s comment “Siete grandi!” (You are great!)

t = 140 sec End of vortex and end of contact.

Silence.

1.Editor ITC Journal, Director ITC Journal Research Centre;

2. Professor, Naples University;

3. Past President Society for Psychical Research;

4. Aeronautical Engineer, leading ITC researcher. All four authors are Associate Members and Researchers of ‘Il Laboratorio’, Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Biopsychocybernetic Research, Bologna, Italy

References

Bacci, M. (1985). Il Mistero Delle Voci Dall’Aldilà. Roma: Edizioni Mediterranee.

Brune, F. (1993). Les Morts Nous Parlent. Paris: Philipp Lebaud.

Brune, F. and Chauvin, R. (1999). A L’Ecoute de L’Au-Delà. Paris: Philippe Lebaud.

Festa, M. (2002). A particular experiment at the psychophonic centre in Grosseto, directed by Marcello Bacci. ITC Journal (Cadernos de TCI) 10, 27-31.

Senkowski, E. (1995). Instrumentelle Transkommunikation. Frankfurt: R. G. Fischer Verlag.

Trajna, C. (1985). Introduction in Bacci’s Il Mistero Delle Voci Dall’Aldilà. Roma: Edizioni Mediterranee.

Source: http://www.victorzammit.com/afterlifearticles/bacci.html

An Unexplored Domain of Nonlocality: Toward a Scientific Explanation of Instrumental Transcommunication

The Instrumental Transcommunication Phenomenon

A number of books and articles have been published in recent years documenting observations and experiments of instrumental transcommunication (ITC), which is a specific form of the widely discussed electronic voice phenomena

A number of books and articles have been published in recent years documenting observations and experiments of instrumental transcommunication (ITC), which is a specific form of the widely discussed electronic voice phenomena. It consists of hearing or recording voices that appear to be those of deceased persons. In ITC, this requires the use of an electronic instrument, hence systematic work in this field, as in electronic voice phenomena in general, dates mainly from the 1960s.

The ITC experimenter whose work first attracted wide attention was Dr Konstantin Raudive. His classic book Breakthrough was published in 1971.(1) Raudive recorded some 72,000 voices emitted by unexplained and seemingly paranormal sources, of which 25,000 contained identifiable words. Since then, a wide range of controlled experiments have been carried out. Here merely a brief sampling is offered; more exhaustive reports can be found in Fontana's Is There An Afterlife? (2) and in A l'Ecoute de l'Au-dela by Brune et al.(3)

Hans Otto König, an electroacoustic engineer in Germany, experimented with various sources of background noise, including running water in addition to radio static. He noticed that all these carried sounds that reach into the ultrasonic range, whereas regular tape recorders do not register sounds above 20,000 hertz. He then designed a source of background sound consisting of four sound generators that produce a complex mixture of frequencies above the audible range of human hearing. With this device, König received numerous anomalous voice communications over a period of several years (cf Fontana). As news of this spread, he was invited to give a live detration on Radio Luxembourg, a popular radio station heard in much of Europe. Independent electrical engineers tested the equipment and monitored the experiment that was followed on the air by a large audience. The audio equipment, though designed by König, was not operated by him but by independent technicians. When a technician asked that the anomalous communicators make themselves heard, a clear voice answered, “Otto König makes wireless with the dead.” The reply to a further question was equally clear: “We hear your voice.” At the conclusion of the broadcast, the program's presenter, Rainer Holbe, a well-known master of ceremonies, reported in a shaking voice, “I swear by the life of my children that nothing has been manipulated. There are no tricks. It is a voice and we do not know from where it comes.”(4)

Another series of remarkable experiments were carried out by Dr Anabela Cardoso, a senior diplomat from Portugal.(5) She first used foreign language broadcasts for background noise but then switched to white noise, using old-fashioned valve radios. Having received answers to her questions both on tape and directly through the radio, she became convinced of the authenticity of the phenomenon and the need for its further exploration. She created an international periodical, The ITC Journal, that publishes research reports in Portuguese, Spanish, and English. Cardoso's own communicators spoke mostly Portuguese, with occasional communications in German, Spanish, and English, all languages in which she was fluent. According to David Fontana, who witnessed several of Cardoso's experiments, the possibility of fraud or interference by other persons can be effectively ruled out.(2)

The various forms of ITC include radios, TVs, telephones, computers, cameras, and other technical devices. Mark Macy(6) used a device called “the luminator” in combination with an off-the-shelf Polaroid 600 camera and stock film and has obtained thousands of pictures of “spirit faces” that appear on the film in his presence, and sometimes also in the presence of the person to whom a given spirit face was known. The luminator was invented by Patrick Richards of Michigan. It has two counter-rotating fans that pull air into vents at the base of the unit and blow it out through the vents at the top. The air passes through a Plexiglas barrel lined with rings in a water-based liquid. The pictures are sometimes almost transparent and other times blurry, but occasionally they are as natural and solid looking as the faces of the living persons who also appear in some of the pictures. Macy has reproduced many of these images in his book Spirit Faces.(6)

Research on ITC is spreading; the number of serious investigators is increasing. Father Francois Brune, who has been surveying the field for many years, estimates that there may be as many as 20,000 ITC researchers in various parts of the world, though they are largely concentrated in the United States and in Germany.(6)

Communication with the dead is not limited to the instrumental form. There is also a noninstrumental, direct form, that is, a telepathic form. An outstanding example is after-death communications (ADCs). Using a simple technique such as a series of rapid eye movements (known as “sensory desensitization and reprocessing”), psychiatrist Allan Botkin of the Center for Grief and Traumatic Loss in Libertyville, Illinois, has induced ADC in nearly 3,000 patients.(7)

After-death communications are obtained in about 98% of the people who try the experiment. Botkin(7) reports that contact usually comes about rapidly, almost always in a single session. It is not limited or altered by the relationship of the experiencing subjects to the deceased. It also makes no difference whether the subjects are deeply religious, agnostic, or convinced atheists. For the most part, ADC experiences are clear, vivid, and convincing. The subjects find that their “reconnection” is real, and they shift almost immediately from a state of deep grief to one of elation.

A First-Hand Experience of ITC - April 7, 2007

I am sitting in a darkened room in the Italian town of Grosseto, together with a group of 62 people. It is evening, and there is not a sound, other than the static of the short-wave band of an old-fashioned vacuum-tube radio. I am sitting immediately behind Marcello Bacci who for the past forty years has been hearing voices on his radio that seem to belong to recently deceased persons. The people who come to his regular “dialogues with the dead” are convinced that they can contact this way the son or daughter, father, mother or spouse whom they have lost.

Bacci is touching with both hands the wooden box that houses the radio, caressing it on the sides, at the bottom and on the top, and speaking to it. “Friends, come, speak to me, don't hesitate, we are here, waiting for you …” But for a full hour nothing happens.* As Bacci plays with the dial, the radio emits either the typical short-wave static, or conveys one or another short-wave broadcast. But then there are sounds like heavy breathing, or like a rubber tube or pillow being pumped with air. Bacci exclaims: “at last!” He continues to move the dial, but there are no longer short-wave transmissions coming through: wherever he turns the dial, the radio transmits only the sound of breathing.

Bacci talks to the radio, encouraging whoever is breathing to talk back to him. Soon voices are coming through on the air. Indistinct, hardly human voices, difficult to understand, but they speak Italian, and Bacci understands. The first voice is that of a man. Bacci talks to him, and it answers. Bacci tells him that next to him sits someone whom the voice would know. “Who is he?” The voice answers, “Père Brune” (as the noted ITC researcher Father Francois Brune is known in his native France). Brune, who sits immediately behind Bacci, asks, “with whom am I speaking?” The voice discloses that it is Fr. Ernetti, a friend and associate of Fr. Brune who died not long ago.**

Through the radio Fr. Brune and Fr. Ernetti talk for a while, and then Bacci (who continues to touch the radio) says, “do you know who else is sitting here just behind me?” A different male voice answers, “Ervin.” (He pronounces it as one does in Hungarian or in German, with the “E” as in “extraordinary” and not as in “earth.”) Bacci asks, do you know who he is, and the voice answers, “é ungherese” (he is Hungarian). The voice then gives my family name (it is pronounced as Italians sometimes do: Latzlo, and not as Hungarians, with a soft “s” as Laslo).

Bacci places my hand on his, and his wife places her hand on mine. Bacci tells me, “speak to them in Hungarian.” I lean forward and do so. I say how happy I am to speak with the person, or persons, “on the other side.” I ask, “who are you, and how many are you?” The answer that comes is indistinct but I can make it out: it is in Hungarian (a voice adds: “the Holy Spirit knows all languages”): “we are all here.” I ask, thinking of the seemingly strenuous breathing that preceded the conversation, is it difficult for you to talk to me like this? A woman answers, quite clearly and in Hungarian: we have some difficulties (or obstacles), but how is it for you, do you have obstacles too? I say, it was not easy for me to find this way of talking with you, but now that I could do it and I am delighted.

Bacci then directs attention to the others in the room who are waiting to communicate with their loved ones. He is not identifying anyone by name, just recalling that there are people here who would like to communicate. The voice—the same or a different male voice, it is difficult to say— offers a number of names, one after the other. The person named speaks up. “Can I hear Maria (or Giovanni …)?” Sometimes a younger voice comes on the air, and a person in the room gives a shout of delight and recognition.

And so it continues for about half an hour. There are breaks taken up by the sound of air rushing as in heavy breathing (Bacci explains, “they are re-charging themselves”), but the voices come back. Finally they are gone. Bacci moves the dial on the short-wave band, but only static and some short-wave broadcasts come through. He gets up and the room lights are switched on.

The above experiment has been carefully recorded, both on audio and on film; a professional film crew had been working silently in the dark, but not entirely pitch-dark, room. The record is available, but it does not exclude the possibility that the experience was an elaborate hoax. There may have been devices hidden in the room or at distant locations connected electronically with the radio, and these could have produced the sounds we heard.

This possibility cannot be ruled out, but Bacci's record weighs against it. He has conducted these experiments for nearly 40 years, and during this time they have been witnessed by scientists as well as electronic engineers. The most exhaustive tests were made in 1996 by Professor Mario Festa, a nuclear physicist at the University of Naples.(8) In the presence of researchers from Il Laboratorio, an Italian research center dedicated to the investigation of the authenticity of paranormal voice phenomena, Festa tested the pertinent electric and magnetic fields while the voices were being heard. With the radio off, the electric field measured 0.71 V/m and the magnetic field measured 0 mT. With the radio switched on, the electric field rose to 2.15 V/m and the magnetic field rose to 0.11 mT. However, while the anomalous voices were heard, the electric field oscillated between 0.54 and 0.81 V/m, and the magnetic field remained at 0 mT.

In another experiment Festa, together with electronic engineer Franco Santi, removed both the frequency modulation valve and the intermediate oscillation valve from the radio. This should have silenced radio transmission across all wave bands. Yet the voices continued unaltered, without noticeable loss of signal. In his report published in 2002, Festa concluded that the results confound the known laws of physics.(8)

ITC as Nonlocal Communication: Exploring a Scientific Explanation

The authenticity of ITC is not entirely beyond doubt, but the evidence for it is sufficiently robust to merit sustained investigation. In this writer's view, ITC may be a hitherto unexplored domain of nonlocality, a form of nonlocal communication.

To find a scientific basis for the ITC phenomenon, it must be connected with theories in physics. Transcommunication cannot be connected with classical physics, given that the latter is based on a paradigm that views phenomena not directly traceable to sensory experience as highly suspect, if not clearly illusory. But at the cutting edge of contemporary physics, many things and processes are acknowledged as elements of reality, even when they are intrinsically unobservable. Most pertinently, theories in particle as well as cosmological physics make reference to a field or dimension that subtends the world of the quantum, hitherto considered the lowest level of physical reality. This field or dimensions, variously termed “physical space-time,” “nuether,” “hyperspace,” or “atemporal space” may be responsible for the phenomena of nonlocality in the microdomain of the quantum, as well as in the mesodomain of life and the macrodomain of the universe.

This is a hypothesis that merits exploration.

Two Elements of the New Map of Reality

Nonlocality

In the words of quantum physicist Henry Stapp, nonlocality is the most profound discovery in all of science. Its discovery goes back to the “entanglement” between quanta that came to light as a consequence of the equations of quantum theory in the 1920s and 1930s.

Nonlocality was recognized as a bona fide physical process when, in the 1980s, Alain Aspect obtained experimental proof that the effect predicted by the much-discussed “EPR” thought hypothesis (put forward by Einstein, Podolski, and Rosen half a century earlier regarding measurements on spatially separated particles that had at one time occupied the same quantum state) actually takes place. It appears that some form of signal can proceed nearly instantaneously between spatially distant quanta. Subsequent experiments showed that such entanglement remains effective over any hitherto measured distance.

In 1999, atoms of an extremely heavy isotope of carbon known as “buckminsterfullerene” were shown to be capable of entanglement, and by 2005 even complex organic molecules could be entangled. In the spring of 2004, milestone experiments by two teams of physicists—one led by M.D. Barrett at the National Institute of Standards in Colorado and the other headed by M. Riebe at the University of Innsbruck in Austria—achieved a quasi-instant “teleportation” of ions of beryllium, respectively of calcium.

Initially believed to occur only at the supersmall scale of quanta, the entanglement that lies at the heart of nonlocality was demonstrated in living tissue by Eric Cornell, Wolfgang Ketterle, and Carl Wieman in experiments for which they received the 2001 Nobel Prize in physics. In the growing field of quantum biology, the paramount role of nonlocal entanglement is becoming evident in a vast variety of functions and processes in the domains of life. In the spring of 2007, biophysicists Gregory Engel and collaborators reported that nonlocal quantum coherence is also responsible for the efficient transfer of solar energy to the reaction center of sulfur bacteria. Without nonlocality, life could not even have started on this planet.

As this writer, among others, has shown other instances of nonlocality embrace the human body and brain and come to light inter alia in remote healing, telepathy, and the various manifestations of empathetic “twin pain.”(9)

The deep dimension

The concept of an inherently unobservable field or dimension that subtends the manifest world of three-dimensional space and one-dimensional time surfaced in the course of the 20th century. Until the beginning of that century, space was believed to be filled with a luminiferous ether that produces friction when bodies move through it. When in the Michelson-Morley experiments such friction failed to materialize, the ether was removed from the physicists' world picture; the absolute vacuum took its place.

However, the vacuum turned out to be far from empty space. In the “grand unified theories” developed in the second half of the 20th century, the concept of the vacuum transformed from empty space into the medium that carries the zero-point field (ZPF).

Even more interactions have come to light between the ZPF and particles and systems of particles in space and time. In the 1960s, Paul Dirac showed that fluctuations in fermion fields produce a polarization of the ZPF, whereby the vacuum affects the particles' mass, charge, spin, or angular momentum. At around the same time, Andrei Sakharov proposed that relativistic phenomena (the slowing down of clocks and the shrinking of yardsticks near the speed of light) are the result of effects induced in the vacuum due to the shielding of the ZPF by charged particles. The Casimir effect that occurs when some wavelengths of the vacuum's energies are excluded from the space between two closely placed metal plates is a well-recognized phenomenon; it reduces the vacuum's energy density with respect to vacuum energies on the outer side of the plates. This creates a pressure—the “Casimir force”—that pushes the plates inward and together. Likewise established is the Lamb shift, the shift in frequency exhibited by the photons that are emitted when electrons around the atomic nucleus leap from one energy state to another. It is due to the electrons exchanging energy with the ZPF.

In current supergrand unified theories, all forces and fields of the universe are traced to common origins in what has become known as the “unified vacuum.” The concept of the unified vacuum, effectively physically real and active space, was anticipated by William Clifford in the 19th century, and by Einstein half a century later.

According to Clifford, small portions of space are analogous to little hills on a surface that is, on average, flat; the ordinary forces of geometry do not hold for them.(10) The property of space to be curved or distorted is continually being passed on from one portion of space to another after the manner of a wave. This variation in the curvature of space is what really happens when matter moves. Thus, in the physical world nothing else takes place but this wavelike variation. Einstein, in his 1930 paper “The Concept of Space,” noted, “We have now come to the conclusion that space is the primary thing and matter only secondary; we may say that space, in revenge for its former inferior position, is now eating up matter.”(11) A few years following the publication of Einstein's article, Schrödinger restated the basic insight. “What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space.”(12)

We should note, however, that in the context of quantum field theory the vacuum is a point in the quantum Hilbert space (or its related projective space) and not a physically real field. Although in this specific context the vacuum is a theoretical entity required by the mathematics of the quantum field theory, there is evidence that the phenomenon denoted by the term “vacuum” also has realistic aspects. As a result, there are two different vacuum concepts in contemporary physics: one treats the vacuum as an abstract point in the Hilbert space, and the other views it as a physically real and active field below the level of quanta.

The latter concept, of the vacuum as a physical field, is not included in Einstein's relativity theory, but it is not incompatible with it. Relativity theory views space-time as relative and dynamic, interacting with matter and energy; it is the “background” against which the events of the manifest world unfold. But the origins of this background are not accounted for in Einstein's theory; space-time is “given,” together with matter and energy. This is much the same in string and superstring theories. These theories are not “background independent”; they assume the presence of space-time and do not explain its origins. Even the highly accomplished M-Brane version of superstring theory advanced by Edward Witten in 1995 fails in this regard.

The current impasse points toward the need to recognize a deeper field or dimension subtending the universe. As John Wheeler pointed out, “If we are ever going to find an element in nature that explains space and time, we surely have to find something that is deeper than space or time—something that itself has no location in space or time.”(13)

The presence of a deeper level of physical reality may also account for nonlocal connection among the observed phenomena. This was maintained already by David Bohm in his theory of the “holofield,” located in the unobservable dimension of the implicate order.(14) A theory based on an analogous concept—the A-field—has been elaborated by the present writer. In his view—stated in a number of books and articles,(9,15) most recently in Science and the Akashic Field(9) and Quantum Shift in the Global Brain(16)—nonlocal connection among the entities in the observable dimensions of the universe is assessed in terms of a holographic transfer of information among interfering wave fronts in the physical vacuum.

The Italian physicists Davide Fiscaletti and Amrit Sorli offered a mathematically elaborated theory in support of basically the same claim. They suggest that the stage on which natural phenomena take place is an atemporal four-dimensional physical space (ATPS). “Empty” space, as well as the manifest quanta that make up observable reality, are constituted of “quanta of space” within the ATPS; they are the fundamental building blocks of physical reality.(17,18) Both quanta and the fields of nature are special states of ATPS. The universe itself is an atemporal phenomenon and the Planck-length quanta of space are its elementary constituents. Since communication between quanta occurs through the atemporal four-dimensional physical space, quantum nonlocality is not an anomalous phenomenon.

The Hypothesis: ITC As an Instance of Nonlocal Communication Mediated by the Physical Vacuum

The basic concept of the hypothesis explored on these pages can now be spelled out. We begin by noting that all objects in space-time emit waves of specific frequencies. The wave fields radiate from the objects that produce them, and when the wave field emanating from an object encounters another object, a part of it is reflected from that object, and a part is absorbed by it. The impacted object becomes energized and creates a wave field that moves back toward the object that emitted the initial wave field. The interference of the initial and the response wave fields creates an overall pattern, and this pattern carries information on the objects that created the wave fields. The resulting interference pattern is effectively a hologram.(19)

It is also known that the information carried in a hologram is available at all points where the constitutive wave fields penetrate. It can be transferred from hologram to hologram if they resonate at the same frequency, or at compatible frequencies.

We now add that things in space and time are embedded in the electromagnetic field, and the waves they emit are electromagnetic waves. However, according to the new conceptions, objects in space-time are also embedded in the physical vacuum, and the waves they emit in that deeper dimension are not electromagnetic waves, but waves of a different kind, most likely scalar waves (scalars are longitudinal rather than transverse waves that travel at velocities proportional to the transmitting medium—the same as sound waves, the more dense the medium, the faster they propagate). The interference patterns of scalar waves constitute holograms that superpose and conserve information. This information can be transferred among holograms resonating at compatible frequency domains.

The above concept offers an explanatory framework for the nonlocal exchange of information among objects in space-time at all scales of magnitude.

In regard to the ITC experience reported above, the following explanation can be given. Bacci's brain and nervous system enters a frequency domain compatible with specific holographic patterns in the vacuum. As a result, Bacci's brain and nervous system exchange information with these patterns. Bacci obtains this information not telepathically, as many other mediums, but in physical contact with a radio. As he searches the shortwave broadcast band, he comes across the appropriate frequency, and the radio then transmits information from the physical vacuum, rather than the shortwave band of the electromagnetic field. Bacci's brain and nervous system turns out to be tuned to vacuum-based holograms that carry information that constitutes the consciousness of deceased persons. His brain and nervous system project this information to the radio, where it is converted into sound waves in the audible range.

Questions for Research

As an explanatory framework, the above hypothesis applies to nonlocal phenomena in general. In regard to ITC in particular, its specific application calls for considering the following basic questions:

1. How can a hologram in the physical vacuum access information from a living individual?

A vacuum-hologram does not have sensory organs. How, then, does such a hologram access information from a flesh-and-blood individual? We should note that the evidence for transcommunication does not suggest that the vacuum-based hologram has sensory types of perceptions, such as seeing sights in three dimension and hearing ordinary sounds. It does indicate, on the other hand, that such an entity can perceive questions and comments from living persons. How this may be possible calls for reference to the theory of holographic information transfer outlined above. The hologram that represents the consciousness of the deceased accesses the utterances of the living interlocutor through interaction with the hologram created in the vacuum by the living individual's brain. The latter does not carry the living individual's voice, only the information that his or her voice would articulate. Transcommunication is an exchange of information between the two vacuum-based holograms. This is a realistic possibility. Transcommunication can be assumed to take place when the hologram created by the brain of the living interlocutor and the hologram that carries the consciousness of the deceased resonate at the same frequency. Then the hologram that carries the consciousness of the deceased person accesses the information carried by the hologram of the living person.

2. How can the transfer of information from a vacuum-based hologram to the brain of a living individual produce audible sounds in a radio?

The concept of information exchange among holograms resonating at the same frequency offers a plausible if hypothetical answer also to the next question: how can a hologram in the physical vacuum produce audible sounds in a radio? The answer to this question follows from the considerations outlined above. It is not the radio that receives the signals that are transformed into the anomalous voices; this would presuppose that information carried by interfering wave fronts in the vacuum can directly affect the electromagnetic field. There is no independent evidence that this would be the case. In regard to the experiment recounted here, the assumption that it is the radio that receives the signals is counter-indicated by three confirmed observations: 1) the radio fails to produce the voices in Bacci's absence, 2) the production of the voices—unlike the normal operation of the radio—does not involve an increase in the electrical and magnetic fields, and 3) the voices continue without alteration, even when the frequency modulation and the intermediate oscillation valves are removed from the radio.

The fact that Bacci's radio produces the anomalous voices only in the presence of the medium matches observations in the majority of ITC experiments. In the cases cited above—the transcommunication produced by Konstantin Raudive,(1) Otto König,(4) and Anabela Cardoso(5) (as well as in various other cases, inter alia the experiments of Friedrich Jürgenson, Raymond Bayless, and Attila von Szalay), results were obtained only in the physical presence of a psychically gifted experimenter. In some well-documented cases—for example, that of Peter Härting of the Darmstadt group, who had a long-lasting and thoroughly documented contact with the discarnate consciousness known as ABX JUNO, as well as that of William O'Neil of the Metascience Foundation, who had enduring communication with the deceased George Jeffries Mueller—regular transcommunication ceased abruptly when the medium died. Father Brune reported that Adolf Homes, in his communication with Mueller, received a message saying that “the dialogue ceases with the death of the researcher because the vibration required for this is no longer given.”(6)

These facts and observations suggest that contact between the living dialogue partner and the hologram that carries the consciousness of the deceased requires a highly specific “tuning” of the brain and nervous system of the experimenter to the hologram that carries the lifetime experiences of the deceased. Even when an experimenter can pick up voices from a variety of individuals, he or she appears to have privileged contact with one specific deceased individual. For example, Styhe was the standard communicator for S. W. Estep, Hyppolite Baraduc for Vladimir Delavre, ABX-JUNO for Peter Härting, and the “Technician” for Swejen Salter. For Bacci, the privileged communicator has been a female voice identified as Cordula, although in the experiment reported here she did not manifest herself. When this fine-tuned relationship ceases, the deceased person can sometimes access another living individual; in the case of George Jeffries Mueller as well as in that of Konstantin Raudive (who had earlier communicated mainly with Jules and Maggy Harsch-Fischbach of the Luxembourg group), the substitute living partner turned out to be Adolf Homes of Rivenich, Germany.

It appears that a psychically gifted individual needs to be physically present for communication to take place, but he or she need not be consciously aware that it is taking place. This was shown by a famous case, described by the Brazilian investigator Oscar d'Argonnel.(20) d'Argonnel had been receiving voice messages on his telephone and went to great pains to establish that they were of paranormal origin. In January 1919, he was visiting Abelardo, a psychic, who was having lunch. d'Argonnel wanted to call his friend Figner and did so in the room next to where Abelardo was having his meal. While he was talking to Figner, strange noises began to come through on the phone, and the voice of Father Manoel, who died some years before, came on the line. d'Argonnel and Figner had a long and clear three-way conversation, during which d'Argonnel looked periodically at the medium Abelardo to see whether he is following it, but the latter was engrossed in his meal. d'Argonnel asked the voice of Father Manoel if he should call the medium, but the latter replied, “No, for I cannot stay.” Manoel stayed on the line for a while longer before formally taking his leave: “Adieu, d'Argonnel, Adieu, Figner.” After finishing the conversation with Figner, d'Argonnel went to Abelardo to tell him what had transpired; the medium did not know anything about it.

Observations such as the above prompted some theoreticians to suggest that it is the experimenter's subconscious mind that produces the voices. But this assumption does not explain how the messages can contain information to which the experimenters had no access—for example, descriptions of distant objects and places, and languages previously unknown to them. It is more plausibile that the experimenters do not produce the content of the messages articulated by the voices; they merely transmit it. The content originates in the vacuum, and the brain and nervous system of the experimenter transmits it to the instrument in a form the latter can convert into sound.

The production of signals by humans that an electronic instrument can transform into sound (or image) is not unprecedented. In an impressive number of cases, psychic individuals have been known to “project” some form of information from their conscious or subconscious mind, such as voices to tape recorders or images to TV screens. Even if the physics underlying this process is not known, the process itself appears to be authentic.

It is, however, the physical explanation of this process that interests us. A useful pointer for tackling this question is the consideration that a radio tuned to empty regions of the shortwave band (or operating without the frequency modulator valve), the same as a TV set tuned to empty regions of the broadcast band, is a system in a state of chaos. It produces random static. In this condition it is ultrasensitive, and it is conceivable that impulses arriving from the human brain and nervous system (in Bacci's case, transmitted by hands-on contact with the radio) are physically of a kind that can be transformed by the instrument into a sense-perceivable form.

3. How does a bundle of information persist actively in the vacuum in the absence of association with a living brain?

The hypothesis explored here is that the holographic traces of the consciousness associated with the brain of a living person persist in the physical vacuum. However, if transcommunication is an authentic phenomenon, the evidence goes beyond this; it suggests that the vacuum contains not merely a passive record of a person's consciousness, created during that person's lifetime and then persisting unchanged, but harbors a dynamic bundle of information based on the experiences accumulated in that lifetime. Under suitable conditions, this bundle of information appears to be available for transcommunication after the demise of the brain and body that has generated it. How is it physically possible for a bundle of information to persist actively in the vacuum in the absence of association with a living brain?

In esoteric traditions, various hypotheses have been advanced in regard to this mystery. Among the most widely discussed, the concept of multiple “shells”—physical, mental, and spiritual—merits mention. Several shells are said to compose a human being, one embedded in the other like the skins of an onion. When an individual dies, it is not only his mental shell (his consciousness) that leaves his physical shell (his body); his spiritual shells separate as well. These shells separate gradually, in stages. In the initial stages, some of the persisting shells, or shell fragments, still carry the thoughts, feelings, desires, and memories of the deceased. Even when separated, they remain active and have a degree of autonomy. It is thus conceivable that they can produce responses on their own.

A nonesoteric hypothesis links the phenomenon of transcommunication with modern physics. It views the voices attributed to discarnate entities as waves that are imperceptible by sensory organs but are nonetheless real. Supporters of this hypothesis point out that many waves propagate in space that we cannot perceive directly but must deduce through complex chains of reasoning (eg, quantum waves, gravity waves). There are also waves that are in themselves not accessible to the senses (such as radio waves) but can be transformed into sense-perceivable form by electronic devices. There is no reason to assume that some waves would not have remained undiscovered due to lack of necessary instruments. Some of these waves could be accessed by specially gifted “psychic” individuals, and when accessed they would produce the phenomena of telepathic (direct) or instrumental (indirect) transcommunication.(21)

The above two hypotheses—that of shells or shell fragments that leave the body in stages, and that of imperceptible but real waves—can also be combined. The shells—for example, our “etheric body”—could enter a larger wave field and integrate with other shells in that field. Alice Bailey suggested something along these lines. She wrote, “This word “ether” is a generic term covering the ocean of energies which are all interrelated and which constitute that one synthetic energy body of our planet … the etheric or energy body, therefore, of every human being is an integral part of the etheric body of the planet itself.”(22)

Gustav Fechner, the pragmatic founder of experimental methods in psychology, advanced an analogous hypothesis. “When one of us dies,” he wrote after recovering from a serious illness, “it is as if an eye of the world were closed, for all perceptive contributions from that particular quarter cease. But the memories and conceptual relations that have spun themselves round the perceptions of that person remain in the larger Earth life as distinct as ever, and form new relations and grow and develop throughout all the future, in the same way in which our own distinct objects of thought, once stored in memory, form new relations and develop throughout our whole finite life.”(23)

The combination of the two hypotheses converges progressively on the nonlocality hypothesis explored here. According to this hypothesis, the information manifested by the anomalous voices originates in the physical vacuum. Transcommunication occurs when a living person's brain and nervous system become specifically tuned to the frequency of a vacuum-based hologram that carries the experiences of a deceased individual; information is then exchanged between them. This exchange does not require the use of sensory channels.

This answer is simpler, more economical, and at the same time more general than that of the esoteric tradition. There is no need to assume a special spiritual shell in regard to human beings; all things in space and time, from quanta to galaxies, leave their traces in the physical vacuum. These traces constitute scalar wave fronts that interfere and create natural holograms. In the vacuum, the holograms created by the wave fronts are not subject to attenuation or cancellation. As new waves are generated, the existing interference patterns superpose, and the information they contain is integrated with the preexisting patterns in the manner of multiplex holograms.

The truly fundamental question is how a hologram in the physical vacuum can possess the kind of autonomy that is shown by a dialog with a living individual. This is a hard but not an unresearchable question. Given the theoretical tools, the mathematics, and the electronic simulation methods at our disposal, it should not be impossible to ascertain whether sets of coherent elements within an information-rich complex field can operate with a distinct level of autonomy of their own.

Conclusions

Of the three questions posed above, two have cogent—if as yet hypothetical—answers based on the recognition of the presence of the physical vacuum as an underlying information, conserving and transmitting, and thus nonlocal connection-producing, field. On the other hand, the third question poses a major challenge for scientific research.

Exploring and possibly confirming the here-suggested answer to the two easier questions would lend credence to the phenomenon of ITC. Finding an acceptable answer to the “hard” question would be entirely fundamental. It would support a perennial belief held in nearly all religions and traditions of spirituality: belief in the survival of a form of consciousness beyond the portals of death. In the context of science, it would mark a milestone in our understanding of the phenomenon of human consciousness and its occasional, even if perhaps temporary, persistence beyond the demise of the body.

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* There is a curious coincidence regarding the time delay in this experiment. It started, as was Bacci's practice, precisely at 7:30 pm. But the voices came online only one hour later, when our watches showed 8:30 pm. However, not long beforehand, Europe shifted from winter to summertime. Hence, 8:30 pm was previously 7:30 pm, the exact time the voices manifested themselves. It appears that the voices were on time; it was Bacci who this time attempted to communicate too soon.

** I later discovered that Father Ernetti, a Roman Catholic priest attached to the Abbey of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice, began having ITC experiences in 1952, when together with Father Gemelli, an eminent medical doctor at the Catholic University of Milan, they were investigating ways of filtering the audio tapes of Gregorian chants to enhance the purity of their sound. They were frustrated by the fact that the wire used by the old-fashioned recorders broke frequently and required constant and delicate repair. Finally Father Gemelli, as was his habit when exasperated, called on his deceased father for help. When they restarted their own recorder, the two fathers heard the voice of Gemelli Senior, rather than the Gregorian chant on which they were working. It said, “Of course I'll help you! I am always with you.” The two priests reported the incident to Pope Pious XII, who gave them a highly positive response: hearing the voice, he said, could initiate “a new scientific study for confirming faith in the afterlife.” Father Brune was privy to these facts and became a long-lasting friend and coresearcher of Father Ernetti.

Source: http://www.worlditc.org/f_21_laszlo_scientific_explanation_of_itc.htm

Introduction

In the year 1974, Hans Otto König, now 66, a professional electroacoustics technician living in Mönchengladbach, by chance found himself listening to a discussion broadcast by ZdF (the second German TV Channel) in which Friedrich Jürgenson from Sweden, the pioneer of EVP, tried in vain to convince the well-known German parapsychologist Prof. Hans Bender and other critical scientists and journalists of the reality of extraordinary voices captured on his audio-tapes and apparently originating from the deceased.

Subsequently he changed his background noise from foreign language broadcasts to ultra-sounds, since this is an area of acoustics which he understands, and has used his professional expertise and psychic faculties to improve the quantity and quality of the contacts with the beyond—now known as Instrumental TransCommunication or ITC—by inventing and continuously modifying electronic devices specially developed for the purpose. Initially, he applied combined frequency-modulated mechanical ultrasonics transmitted and received by transducers in his laboratory. He then found that electromagnetic oscillations in the frequency range around 50 kHz produced the same results. Later he added a multifrequency infrared transmitter-receiver system, which demodulates infrared and modulates it again to a UHF vibration-oscillation from 10 m down to a 1 m wavelength, with a frequency of 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Currently he is working with a complex device based on quartz-crystals irradiated with ultraviolet light which he calls HRS (Hyper-Raum-System or Hyperspace System).

 König tells us that he builds his various IC devices according to his own thoughts and the information he receives in dreams from the communicators. He further tells us that he goes into deep meditation for thirty minutes every day and while doing so can "see" (as a kind of psychic perception) his communicators as diffuse physical shapes, and that he has also been successful in photographing them using the Klaus Schreiber closed loop method. His explanation for the success of his experimentation is the key word "resonance," which he says includes electromagnetic resonance.

The voices that now come through his loudspeaker are of a different, often excellent, quality, and he is sometimes able to dialogue with them. The contents of communications and the nature of the communicators themselves vary dependent upon the context. Deceased humans may answer the requests of their bereaved relatives and friends for comfort, while at other times, technical advice is given to König, and nameless cosmic entities, apparently outside our space-time, provide philosophical observations. The outcome of an experiment is never predictable, and may produce no results at all depending on mental-spiritual and other (unknown) conditions. König feels that audio results seem to improve in the presence of a harmonious audience, and the same is true for his work on transimages, which in one instance have already been obtained accompanied by the voice of the deceased person, whose identity was later discovered "by chance."

The Two Experiments

The two experiments that are the subject of this Report were held respectively on September 10th and 11th, 2005, in two afternoon sessions held in a room at the Hotel Kaiserhof, in the German town of Wesel. Dr. Anabela Cardoso attended, accompanied in the unavoidable absence of Professor David Fontana by Mr. Carlos Fernández, the Technical Editor of the ITC Journal and an electronics technician with long experience of ITC data. Also accompanying Dr. Cardoso was Professor Ernst Senkowski, one of the foremost experts on ITC, who has known König well for many years, and who was responsible for helping to arrange Dr. Cardoso’s visit. The others present included visitors from Finland and some sixty of the regular observers of König’s previous experiments, together with a few individuals who were attending for the first time. König completely eschews publicity and avoids working with journalists and the media because of the negative experiences he has had with such groups in the past. All the communications were in German, which is the native language of König and of Professor Senkowski and in which Dr. Cardoso has some facility.

First Experiment, September 10th 2005.

König opened proceedings with an introductory talk that included recordings of voices received during earlier experiments. After a short meditation he then activated one of the older systems developed by him many years ago, which has misleadingly been called a "generator" but which in fact should be considered as a device open to the influx of information from hidden ranges of consciousness. This infrared/ultrasound device operates in a frequency range from 30 kHz to 70 kHz. The device, which looks like a rectangular metallic box, was built by König himself and the frequencies are mixed in its interior while an aerial placed on top of the generator transmits the signal to a receiver in the same band. An amplifier is connected to a mixing table and to the loudspeakers. König’s microphone and recording apparatus are also connected to the mixing table. When the voices started, silence was suddenly transformed into a beat, and the voices seemed to speak much above the beat. The communications that resulted lasted some two minutes and consisted of a nearly continuous dialogue between König and several voices.

 The communications began with the habitual opening words. "Contact field closed" (i.e. closed to intruding entities), and finished with, "Contact end." In all, there were fifteen exchanges. In Exchange Number 2, the "answer" did not directly refer to the question asked by König. In Number 5, the voice asked for a technical modification of the equipment being used. In Numbers 9 and 14 respectively, two names of earlier acquaintances of König, "Hubert" and "Helmut," were given, the latter communicator spontaneously referring to König’s sick wife, Margaret.

Most of the voices were clear and could be heard above the permanent noise level from the equipment. In consequence the comprehensibility level was around eighty-five to ninety per cent for all those present during live listening, and one hundred per cent on replay. The voices were of excellent quality, but somehow did not possess the same degree of what Dr. Cardoso describes as the "inner clarity of an angelical prototype" that in her view was overpowering in the voices that came through during the experiment of the following day. Professor Senkowski expressed himself unable to always decide whether a voice sounded more male or more female.

 An interesting observation concerns the varying speed of the utterances. For example, Exchange Number 12 was spoken very quickly, and here and in other cases, one had the impression that when the contact is nearing its end because of shortness of "energy," the speech is accelerated. Another observation concerns the time lapse between the questions of the experimenter and the responses from the communicators. These lapses were generally in the range of a few seconds, but in Number 12, the voice broke in before König had completed his question, so that the two voices momentarily overlapped.

To some extent, the speech of the communicators possessed its own character and style, both of which are difficult to describe. Often the speech sounded not "normal" or not "human-like." Grammar was not always correct. The contents sometimes were metaphorical and not easily interpreted, especially when the speaker seemed to be a "remote," non-human being. An example is Number 2, when subsequent to König asking who and where the "speaker" is, the answer, "Ultraschall ist das Bild" is given, (translated as, "Ultrasonics is the image"). This answer could be understood as meaning that the voice, as mediated by the electromagnetic oscillations in the range of 30 to 70 kHz, is an "image" of the speaker, who remains unnamed. Alternatively the speaker may be identifying his (mental) "position," as in or near the equipment being used. But these alternatives must remain more or less speculative.

Second Experiment, September 11th 2005

This experiment was carried out with the HRS system that consists of a large quartz-crystal and ten smaller ones, all of them irradiated by ultraviolet light of different wavelengths. As in the first experiment, we started with a short meditation, after which the device was switched on. After some fifteen minutes, the first voice came through, and a dialogue developed with nineteen exchanges taking place lasting seven minutes and fifty-three seconds.

 The background noise, according to König, actually produced from the "other side," was quite different from that heard from the so-called generator in Experiment One. It consisted of a nearly periodic bird-like high-pitched twittering or chirping, mixed with slow roaring like a storm and waves on a seashore. Most voices were absolutely clear and immediately understood, provided they were not too fast. König spoke his questions in a meditative state, speaking slowly, and the voices answered in their chosen manner.

Most responses were given immediately, although a few were delayed up to twelve seconds, Most of the voices seemed to come from one single entity, who sounded to be female, and they possessed a special modulation, similar to singing. Most of them sounded rather "neutral" or "detached" with the possible exception of Exchange Number 10, where the voice seemed to express some underlying contempt for the stupidity of Christian beliefs, describing them as "unreasonable superstition." In Number 8 were the words, "I stem from the realm of stars," delivered in an elevated poetic style. The German words used by the entity, "lch stamme," can be translated simply as, "I come," or more tellingly as, "I am descended."

 The dialogue seemed to be presided over by a highly intelligent source that treated adult humans like children, with some compassion or even regret. For example Number 15, when we were told that, "But it is probably too difficult for you to comprehend this." ("This" being their magnificent, super-terrestrial world). However, one should take into consideration the difficulties pertaining to the adaptation process of the different structures of human and the entities’ consciousness in contact through these communications. In the rather long pause between Number 18 and the end of the contact, dull beats similar to drumming appeared as additional signals, although their meaning remained unclear. The live comprehensibility level was around one hundred per cent for all those present.

Related Matters

The transcripts of the communications received during the above mentioned experiments and the respective translations provide by Dr. Ernst Senkowski are available below

During the two days spent in Wesel, Dr. Cardoso had the opportunity to exchange views with Hans-Otto König on a number of issues—namely on the content of the communications she receives from the group of communicators calling themselves Rio do Tempo (Timestream) and recorded by Dr. Cardoso, and of the communications received by Hans-Otto König. Among the many interesting similarities there is, for instance, the fact that König’s communicators very rarely speak in the singular and almost always in the plural, referring to themselves as "We," just as do the communicators from Rio do Tempo. They also speak of "meditating (in their world)," as do the voices from Rio do Tempo. 

Furthermore, König’s and Rio do Tempo communicators tell us that, in the third level of the next world, deceased animals and deceased humans are together again, and that at this level, communication with animals and plants is also possible. Another aspect of the similarities regards the interchange of energies between the communicators and the experimenters. Hans Otto König said on September 10, 2005, prior to the experiment of that day, that the entities who speak with him "can as well charge, or even overcharge, him before a contact, and at other times he feels devoid of energy after a contact." 

From her side on September 2, 2005, Dr. Cardoso wrote in her contacts log the following: "… when I am in the studio I seem to lose track of time. I wouldn’t know if I have been in for fifteen minutes or for over one hour. Also, those days when I feel particularly energetic, and upon request of the communicators, stay inside for a period of time, I feel emptied out and tired when I go out of the studio. On the other hand, the days when I feel very tired and go into the studio, upon going out I feel recovered and the tiredness has disappeared. It is as if there is an interchange of energies with the communicators." As with the communicators from Rio do Tempo, who refer to themselves as speaking from a "station," König’s communicators say the group who organizes their contacts is known as "ZentraIe."

Conclusion

 Our conclusion is that we witnessed two fascinating experiments that are the outcome of thirty years of engaged and devoted work by Hans-Otto König, who works without support and who has often been fiercely attacked by what Professor Senkowski calls envious or even ill-intentioned people. Hopefully, at some point in the future, Hans Otto König will be considered one of the most prominent pioneers of ITC, and his wish to prove the reality of life after death will perhaps be fulfilled by a less materialistic science. Meanwhile, we remain thankful for the opportunity to observe the work of this man, and wish him the continuation of success in the laborious developmental path that he has chosen to follow.

Editorial Note

As emphasized in earlier issues of the Journal this research work has been made possible by the generosity of Mr. Oliver Knowles, a great supporter and benefactor of psychical investigation...

Source: Originally published in the ITC Journal No. 24, December 2005, www.itcjournal.org.

Experiment 1: Afternoon, 10.09.2005 in Wesel. Audience about 60 persons. Special Guests: Dr. Anabela Cardoso, Carlos Fernandez, Dr. Ernst Senkowski. Device working with mixed electromagnetic oscillations in the frequency range 30 to 70 kHz

Transcript from König’s copy on tape and his written report. Printed here: König's speech normal type, paranormal answers in bold italicized. (A very small number of ambivalent words leads to unimportant differences between the interpretations of König and Senkowski).

1.1  Hallo Freunde. (Hello friends.)

Kontakt. (Contact) Kontaktfeld geschlossen für/zu Hans König. (Contact field closed for/to Hans König.)

1.2  Vielen Dank. Ich bedanke mich recht herzlich. (Many thanks. I thank you very heartily).

Jetzt für Verbindung. (Now/for connection.)

1.3  Ist das so ok? (Is that ok?)

Funktioniert. (Functions/functioning.)

1.4  Oh prima. (oh, excellent)

Sie geht tatsächlich (She goes indeed.)

1.5  Wer war das, der jetzt gesprochen hat? Weisst du, wo du dich befindest. (Who was just speaking? Do you know where you are now?)

Hör, Ultraschall ist das Bild. (Hear, ultrasonics is the image).

1.6  Hans König, höre zu, versuche die Phase um 20% zu ändern. (Hans König, listen, try to change the phase 20%.)

1.7  20,'. - [After changing] (Ist das) so besser? (Is it better so?)

Es/das ist besser so. (It is better so.)

1.8  Kannst du mich hören? (Can you hear me?)

Ich kann dich hören. (I can hear you.)

1.9  Wer bist du? (Who are you?) 

Hier ist Hubert. (Here is Hubert.)

1.10  Kennst du mich noch, Hubert? (Do you still know me, Hubert?). 

Der Hans Otto. (You are) the Hans Otto)

1.11  Recht vielen Dank. (Many thanks.) Ich habe den Eindruck, du bist immer da, Hubert. (I have the impression, [that] you are always here/there, Hubert.)

Jede Stunde und Tag. (Every hour and day.)

1.12  Das merke ich. (I am aware of that). Du weisst, dass ich für diese Einspielung grosse Kraft brauche. (You know that for this experiment I need a lot of force.) Das ist gar nicht so einfach. (That is not so simple.)

Ich schicke dir meine ganze Kraft. (I send you all my force.)

1.13  Danke schön. Das finde ich lieb von dir. (Thank you very much, I find this nice of you.)

Hans König, höre zu. Sage der Margarete, alles wird gut. (Hans König, listen, tell Margarete, all will be well.) [Margarete is Hans Otto's sick wife.]

1.14  Wer war das jetzt? (Who was that now?)

Helmut (Helmut.)

Helmut. (Ich möchte mich bedanken.)

1.15  Energie geht zu Ende - Wir beenden den Kontakt - Kontakt Ende. (Energy runs short - We end the contact - Contact end).

1.16  Danke schön. Vielen Dank. (Thanks very much. Many thanks.)

Experiment 2: Afternoon, 11.09.2005 in Wesel, general conditions like in Experiment 1, but using the Hyper-SpaceSystem (HRS) working with quartz crystals.

2.1  Hallo Freunde. Versteht ihr mich? Könnt ihr mich hören? - Ich hoffe, ihr hört mich. (Hallo friends. Do you understand me? Can you hear me? I hope you hear me.)

Ich höre dich immer.(I hear you always.)

2.2  Wo befindet ihr euch jetzt im Moment? Könnt ihr das sagen? Würde mich interessieren. Ich höre die Interferenz. Where are you in the moment? Can you say it? It would be interesting. I hear the interference.)

Entfernungen gibt es nicht. (There are no distances.)

2.3  Ja, das habt ihr schon mal gesagt. - Ihr sagtet einmal, dass ihr ebenfalls technische Geräte benutzt. Könnt ihr was darüber sagen? Was für technische Geräte? (Yes, you have said that before. - You once said that you also use technical devices.) Can you say something about it? Which technical devices?

(Wir können sagen,) dass die kosmischen Machte über eine Art Technik verfügen, gegen die (eure) hervorragendsten Computer nur allerprimitivste Geräte sind. (We can say) that the cosmic powers have at their disposal a type o f technique against which (your) most sophisticated computers are only utmost primitive devices.)

2.4  Können wir Näheres darüber erfahren, könnt ihr was Näheres darüber sagen? (Can we learn more about that, can you say more about that?)

Es ist nichts verborgen, das nicht offenbar werde, und nichts heimlich, das man nicht wissen könnte. (There is nothing hidden that will not become evident, and (there is) nothing secret that one could not know.)

2.5  Danke schön. (Thank you.) Eine Frage aus dem Publikum war: Ist die Seele nach unserem Tod in irgendeiner Weise zerstörbar? (A question from the audience was: Can the soul after our death in any way be destroyed?)

Er wird auch Astralkörper genannt. Dieser Körper ist von keiner irdischen Kraft zu beschädigen, zu verletzen oder zu zerstören. (It is also named Astral Body. This body cannot be damaged, hurt or destroyed by any terrestrian force.)

2.6  Eine Frage: Ich benutze den Kristall von Marlene Dohrmann. Soll ich einen weiteren Kristall dazunehmen? Oder genügt der? (A question: I use the crystal of Marlene Dohrmann. Shall I add another crystal or does this one suffice?)

Glutvoll schimmert zuletzt in reinem Kristall. (Full of glow finally shimmers/glitters in a pure crystal).

[Remark from Ernst Senkowski: This is grammatically wrong, and it is nearly impossible to understand its meaning. It might be connected with the ultraviolet radiation which is passed through the quartz-crystal.]

2.7  Oder soll ich die Anordnung so belassen wie sie jetzt ist, oder gebt ihr mir neue Anweisungen? (Shall I leave the device as it is now, or do you give me new orders?)

Nur so, in dieser erhabensten Schwingung. (Just so, in this most sublime vibration/oscillation.)

2.8  Danke schön, (Thank you.) - Ich nehme an, du bist Sanaedes, du hast dich ja schon einmal gemeldet, ja oder nein? (I suppose you are Sanaedes, you already once manifested. Yes or no?)

Ich stamme aus dem Sternenreich. (I stem from the realm o f stars.)

2.9  Aha. - Eine Publikums frage war noch: Wofür sind die Menschen überhaupt hier auf der Erde? Das ist schon mal gefragt worden. (There was one more question from the public: What are humans actually on earth for?)

Die Menschen sind auf der Erde, um sich auf das wirkliche Leben vorzubereiten. (Humans are on earth to prepare themselves for the real life.)

2.10  Das ist schon gesagt worden, ich entschuldige mich für die Frage. (This has already been said. Excuse me for the question.) - Es ist einmal gefragt worden, warum wurde Jesus vor 2000 Jahren geboren.  Warum musste er den Tod am Kreuz erleben? (Once it has been asked: Why was Jesus born 2000 years ago, why did he experience death on the cross?)

Menschliche Erfindung und der kindliche Glaube an diese unvernünftigen Offenbarungen ist Aberlaube. (Human invention and the childish belief in these unreasonabte revelations are superstition.)

2.11  Die etablierte Wissenschaft wird vielleicht einmal so weit sein, dass das nachtodliche Lenben... (Possibly one day established science will be so far developed that life after death... )

[Der] Glaube an die Unsterblichkeit der Seele [ist] wissenschaftlich unhaltbar, (Belief in the immortality of the soul [is] scientifically untenable.)

2.12  Können wir, wenn wir in anderen Bereichen sind, genau so das erleben wie hier auf der Erde oder ist das...? (Can we in other realms experience exactly that what we experience here on earth or is ....)

Ja, in eurem Seelenkörper habt ihr wieder eine Seele, also ein feines Inneres, mit dem ihr fühlt und empfinded (Yes, in your soul-body you have again a soul, that is a fine interior, with which you feel and are sensible.)

2.12  Danke schön. (Thank you.). - Es wird viel über die Hölle berichtet. Was könnt ihr darüber sagen? Es wird immer wieder gefragt. (There are many reports about hell. What can you say about it? It is asked again and again.) Gibt es überhaupt so etwas? (Is there anything like that at all?)

Die Selbstvernichtung des Bösen ist es, was ihr Hölle nennt. (The selfdestruction of evil is that what you call hell.)

2.14  Es werden Kriege in der Welt in Gottes Namen geführt. Wenn es einen Gott in diesem Sinne gibt, warum schreitet er nicht ern? (Wars in the world are carried out in the name of God. If there is a God in this sense, why does he not intervene?)

Gerichtet sind alle, die im Namen Gottes Grausamkeiten verübten, schrecklich bestraft nach den Gesetzen der Gerechtigkeit. (Judged are all who committed cruelties in the name o f God terribly punished according to the laws of justice.)

2.15  Könnt ihr uns etwas über eure Welt berichten? (Can you tell us something about your world?) Etwas sagen für uns alle hier? (Say something for all of us here?)

Eine herrliche überirdische We1t ist es, in der wir leben. Doch ist es wohl zu schwer für euch, dies zu begreifen. (A magnificent/splendid superterrestrial world is it in that we live. But it is probably too difficult for you to comprehend this.)

2.16  Es wurde mal gefragt, was Dämonen sind. Wenn ja, können sie uns schaden? (It has been asked, if there are demons? If yes, are they able to harm us?)

Dämonen sind Erdgeister. Sie entstehen und vergehen. Sie sind seelische Abfallprodukte, die ebenso, wie sie sich bildeten, wieder auseinanderfallen. (Demons are earthty ghosts/spirits. They develop and pass away. They are waste products of souls, that the same way they formed themselves they fall into pieces as wel1.)

2.17  Wie ist es bei unseren Kontakten? Können sie sich bei uns einschleichen? (How is it during our contacts? Are they able to sneak into our contacts?) Da haben viele Befürchtungen. (Many people are afraid.)

In der geistig hochentwickelten Kulturmenschheit gibt es solche Erscheinungen nicht. Sie entstehen aus den wilden Urtrieben primitiver Menschen. (In the spiritually highly developed culture o f humankind such phenomena/appearences do not exist. They result from the wild instincts of primitive humans.)

2.18  Danke schön. (Thank you.) Jetzt würde ich doch mal wissen, wer es war, ob du das warst Sanaedes? [Nach einer längeren Pause] Nichts mehr. (Now I should like to know whether it was you, Sanaedes. [After a long pause] Nothing more.)

Ein (äusserst) weites Feld von Energie liegt über euch. Ihr werdet es empfinden. (A ... wide field of energy lays above you. You will feel it.)

2.19  Wir beenden den Kontakt. Kontakt Ende. (We end the contact. Contact End.)

*Mainz,16.09.2005. Translation by Dr. Ernst Senkowski.

Source: http://atransc.org/articles/cardoso-konig.htm

Jürgenson was an archeologist, philosopher, linguist, and painter. One of his hobbies was to record the sounds of birds. It was during one of his recording sessions, that he stumbled upon what he believes was an EVP.

On Friday, the 12th of June 1959, we drove out into the country in the early afternoon, and I had taken my tape recorder with me for the first time with the purpose of recording different birdsongs. The secluded location of our property in the country, the big garden, somewhat gone to seed, the closely bordering forest and the lake with its reeds were the best prerequisites for an abundance and variety of birds. I had been enthusiastically interested in birdsongs since my childhood.

As we arrived in the country on that sunny afternoon, we headed first to the lake where in the protection of an old hut we were able to do some sunbathing. It was around four o’clock when I decided, as planned, to do my recording. When I arrived at the forest-hut, settling in the attic, I installed a new tape and placed a microphone close to the open window in front of which was strung thin nylon netting. Shortly thereafter, I turned on the tape recorder because a finch had alighted close by the house.

I checked the recording after the tape ran for about five minutes. What I heard was very strange. I was hearing a roaring or hissing static sound, like a shower, in which you could identify the chirping of the finch, but as if was coming from a distance.

My first thought was that one of the tubes was damaged during the trip. Nevertheless, I turned the recorder on again and let the tape run. My second recording it was just like before: I was hearing this strange hissing and the distant bird chirping. Then all of a sudden there sounded a trumpet solo as if to announce something. I listened with continued surprise as suddenly a male voice began to speak in Norwegian. Though it was very quiet, I could clearly understand the words. The man was talking about “bird songs at night”, and I heard a number of chattering, whistling and splashing sounds, and among them what seemed to be the chirping of a sparrow. Suddenly the bird choir fell silent and with that so did the hissing- sound. In the next instant the twittering of a finch was audible and in the distance you could hear a titmouse - the tape recorder was working perfectly again. Voice Transmissions With The Deceased by Friedrich Jürgenson

He went on to record further sessions in the hopes of capturing these voices and understanding them and their origin. He trained himself to block out the outside noise and listen to the 'hiss' as initially he didn't have headphones. The longer he adapted to the sounds and more frequently he completed his sessions, the voices started coming through more clearly and with complete sentences. At first, he suspected that perhaps the voices were from outer space. It wasn't until he received a message from his deceased Mother during one of his recordings that he realised the significance of what he recording.

I was outside with a tape recorder, recording bird songs. When I listened through the tape, a voice was heard to say ‘Friedel, can you hear me. It’s mammy. ...’ It was my dead mother’s voice. ‘Friedel’ was her special nickname for me. Voice Transmissions With The Deceased - by Friedrich Jürgenson

His career as an artist was put on hold for a while for what would become a life long pursuit in paranormal research. After going public with his findings via press conference, Jürgenson was investigated by many universities and parapsychological organisations who were suspicious that perhaps the voices were coming from his subconscious. His initial methods used only a magnetic tape recorder with a microphone attached. In 1960, one of the voices told him to use a radio to act as a medium, and this became his preferred method of contact for the rest of his life. He would connect a microphone and a radio receiver to the tape recorder. He would set the frequency for the radio reception to be in between frequencies as there was a variation of noises. He claimed to have a lot of success in between the frequencies of 1445-1500 kHz with 1485.0 kHz now known as the Jürgenson Frequency. Perhaps something to try during your ITC sessions?

He went onto publish several books and four documentaries. At one point, he was even looking at founding an EVP research institute in Italy. At his last press conference, he spoke of Audioscopic Research which is where he thought ITC was heading. This was a video version where he believed that messages would be able to be received through video. He didn't get to work with this method much as he passed away in October 1987. He leaves behind hundreds of his recordings and a legacy that has inspired ITC research as we know it today.

German parapsychologist Hans Bender and Latvian psychologist Konstantin Raudive drew heavily from Jürgenson's publication 'Voice Transmissions with the deceased'. EVP research was truely born and has evolved in many ways since. Video ITC which he predicted came to light and one has to wonder if he in some ways inspired the use of ghost boxes. While he only used a radio receiver on a static frequency, it seems he was the first to do this. Regardless on your thoughts of ITC, it is quite interesting when you hear of it's origins.

You can download a free copy of the book Voice Transmissions With the Deceased with thanks to itcvoices.org

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