1. Instrumental Trans-communication
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New Experiments in
Instrumental Trans-communication
Hi everyone, thanks for coming. I’m Sean Richards and for the benefit of those who didn’t see my talk at last years’ SPR conference in Leeds, to give some background. I have a lifelong interest in all things occult and paranormal, I developed an interest in ITC in 2014 when over the summer I read most of the substantial literature in this field (Fredrick Jurgerson, Konstantin Raudive, Ernst Senkowski, David Ellis, Sarah Estep, Mark Macey, Tom and Lisa Butler, Judith Chisholm, Richard Sheargold, Theo Locher and Margaret Harsch Fischbach, Anabela Cardoso and Alexandra MacRae and many others and I was so intrigued by their reported results that I decided to try to have a go at recording evp and paranormal images using ordinary digital voice recorder and sound and video apps on computers.
Sean Richards

2. EVP London The Greetings Project
The Tarot Card the Fool represents human folly and ignorance but also the need to explore and discover, and I very much feel like him in regard to conducting ITC experiments, it can often seem like a fool’s errand. You can see he holds a wooden staff and has his belongings wrapped in a sack carried on his shoulder, perhaps these represent what drives an evp experimenter, his motivations, seeking answers to those eternal questions about the meanings of life and death, and the ideas which guide the direction of his research. In some Tarot decks one can see that he is about to walk over the edge of a cliff, blissfully unaware of the perilous nature of his situation – he is not looking where he is going, always looking back, perhaps taking a selfie. The dog biting his behind, perhaps represents the sceptics and his own inner critic, hastening him to either make the leap or to pull himself back to safety? It is the absurdity of the human condition which is alluded to here. ITC experiments are also full of paradox and absurdity. Little of it makes much sense, but what can be subjected to rational analysis is quite phenomenal.
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3. Summary : Greetings Project EVP London
3 years: 90 Recording sessions: 3 group recordings
7000 EVP + 70 anomalous trans-images recorded
Recordings mainly uncontrolled but some sessions used faraday bags and the EVPlondon Black Box
Aim was to produce current evidence for the veracity of ITC phenomena using ordinary everyday recording equipment
Olympus digital voice recorder
Radios for static – not sweep radio (90 to 160Khz AM)
Recordings of pink, brown and white noise and rain
Laptop sound recorder and video apps
Old Dell PC with sound app
I-Pad with sound app
Here’s a quick summary of what I’ve been doing
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4. Recap Greetings Project ITC Experiments 2015 - 2017
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Recap Greetings Project ITC Experiments
Confirmation of anomalous voices by Anabela Cardoso at the ITC Journal, Tom Butler at AtranS and Ron Ruiz at I-Digital Medium.
3 Successful group experiments August to Oct 2016
Highlights: obtaining consistently recognisable EVP voices
Over 180 names recorded
Hundreds of personally meaningful messages received (names, places, links, events) but hundreds which make little sense
Building and tests of the Black Box
Recorded about 70 trans-images of anomalous faces recorded using a webcam pointed at the laptop screen
Setting up the website
After I had recorded evp successfully for a few months I sent a sample of evp to..
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5. EVP London Linguistic Analysis N=836 evp
At the end of the first year I conducted a linguistic analysis of the evp based a sample of 836 evp using these categories adapted from John Herons 6CIA

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In the messages, the voices state they are spirits existing in another dimension.

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Linguistic Analysis of 836 EVP Jan 2015 to March 2016
Would you like to hear some?
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8. The Greetings Project 25 - 28
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The Astrii Black Box
Inhibits acoustic sounds, TV, telephone, radio and internet signals.
Professional studios are very expensive to hire in London and I have no access to technical support for building a double screened room so I built myself a control box I call the Astrii or Black Box. Describe the build.
Tests with the mobile and IPad. Setting up for recording and Play Recordings.
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9. Greetings Project: The Communicators
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Greetings Project: The Communicators
Same 30 names and voices recorded consistently.
Adam. Chris. Rachel, Peter, Tom, Russ, Edward, Petra, Christine, Richard. (Inner Circle)
Den, Neil, Tony, Ezra, Andrew, Arthur, Nathan, Tim, Mark, Helen
Rob, Kevin, Bartholomew
Kim, Michael, Bob, Ben, Vince, Justin
Maurice.
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EVP’s of interest to the SPR
Psychical Research and ITC Community links
(Names received include: Fontana – Konstantin Raudive – Peter Hale – Myers – Michael Edwards – Theo – Hans)
Evp’s mentioning conference
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11. EVP London Spirit Group names
‘Taurus’ ‘Isis’ ‘Jupiter’ ‘Pluto - Andromeda’
and ‘Rio’.
Adam Johnson – Lead communicator
Bartholomew – Referee or authority
‘We can’t break the rules’
‘This is a first name’s game’
‘Don’t break the rules Christopher’
‘we are the conduit’
‘we’re the spark’
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The astrological and mythological references here are interesting. This is the tarot Card The Priestess – she is personified in the myths of Demeter and Roman Diana, Goddess of the Moon and as Isis in the Egyptian pantheons where she represents intuition, psi, mediumship and she rules over the astral worlds.
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13. EVP London Interviewing the communicators
Clear and corroborated dialogical responses from consistently recognisable voices which repeatedly give personal evidential content are hard to dismiss as signal breakthrough or pareidolia.
I’ve tried to interview the communicators to record dialogical responses.
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14. Audibility and interpretation of evp
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Audibility and interpretation of evp
Class
(Volume/Clarity)
Peak db.
(mean) %
AA to AC
0 db. And above 10
BA to BC
-12 to -21db. 30
CA to CC
- 27 to -33 db. 60
One reason why people can become frustrated with evp as a form of mediumship is a) you have to wait for playback –unless you can get direct radio voice – Bacci in Italy. And the voices are often hard to hear even with modern sound processing software and then there’s the question of interpreting what they say and what if anything it means.
Mark Leary 2013 Atrans.com
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Trans-images
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Trans-images
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Trans-images
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Trans-images
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Trans-images
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20. EVP London Trans-images
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21. The Greetings Project 12 - 16
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Voices and images: Inconclusive – but…
Pic Pic Pic Pic 20
15 Ben, then no name. 19 Michael – Can you see Peter? No, this is Tony 18 For Helen 20 Russel and this is Bob Truss and look I can see Dennis
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22. The Greetings Project 17 - 21
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Ghosts in the (Flying) Machine
Spontaneous Anomalous ITC Phenomena
Retrieving the Dell from the garage, couple of test recordings and taking a flight in the sim.
Rain, thunderstorms, engine noise sound files contain evp. These were not found recorded over ATC radio or cabin crew sound files containing recorded speech. Implications - communicators knew the best files to use and the best place on the files to leave messages.
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23. Rain loops, wind loops and
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Rain loops, wind loops and
Quantum evp
EVP which can change over time …and appear in real-time
I’ve been trying to record a loop of rain to use to replicate the Flight simulator phenomenon – but I am having problems recording a loop of natural rain with no evp’s on it.
EVP’s which pre-empt experimenter’s words
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Evaluation
It is difficult to verify the paranormality of trans-images.
It is difficult to hear and agree interpretations of a majority of evp’s (Leary 2013) and it is difficult to completely rule out signal breakthrough. Pareidolia may account for quiet unclear and distorted anomalous sounds.
Although some loud and clear examples of dialogue with the experimenter have been confirmed collaboratively there are still problems with low volume and poor clarity and what Alexander MacRae (2005) calls ‘Random Stochastic Responses’ – in other words gibberish, gobbledegook.
Play RSR
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25. EVP London Limitations: Project needs more rigorous use of controls
Pareidolia may explain some images and weak or obscure evp
Signal pickup may explain some evp - but common radio transmissions were not found recorded in over 90 recording sessions (no sport, weather, discussions, advertising or jingles or pop music)
When they are clear, communicators’ messages do provide personally relevant information - but with limited information given about them which can be externally validated
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26. EVP London What’s next ? The Greetings Project
Testing and improving the Black Box for a Version 2
Recording more images and dialogical evp’s to try to identify some of the communicators
Replicate Spontaneous flight sim EVP’s using rain loops
Record outdoors (but not in London)
Offer services to paranormal investigators
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27. My book should be out by the end of the year, but it has been delayed a little because I am still writing up and Anabela Cardoso has just recently published a new book ‘Electronic contact with the dead, what do the voices tell us’. So there’s a need for a bit of a gap to let the ITC community absorb that.
I’ll let the SPR know when my book is available (Lulu)