Excerpts from Electronic Voices: Contact with Another Dimension by Anabela Cardoso

Anabela Cardoso in 1997 was living in Spain and working as a career diplomat when she began investigating the transcendental communication phenomena known today by the acronyms EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) and ITC (Instrumental Transcommunication).  Her book Electronic Voices: Contact with Another Dimension (2010) offers an account of the life changing events that occurred after she began experimenting with ITC.  The work resulted after she became friends with a woman grieving the loss of her son after a boating accident.  Another friend, Carlos Fernández, was an electronic technician knowledgeable about ITC.  The three met with a Jesuit priest, Father José Maria Pilón, who recommended that they try to establish contact with the son through ITC.  This article presents some excerpts from Anabela's book.  Upon publication, Anabela also released the CD "Electronic Voices" presenting excerpts of her ITC audio recordings.

Anabela has included in the book a 'Brief Historical Survey' of ITC.  In Europe the chronology of events has included published books and on one occasion a live TV newscast successfully exhibited the phenomena.  Free English language Internet versions of books are available at the World ITC website.  Anabela is the founder and Editor of the ITC Journal.  More information about the author is available at the ITC Journal website.

Concerning the communicator known as 'Carlos de Almeida,' Anabela explained: "I had learned through a Portuguese friend, who was much better informed on ITC and other contacts with the Beyond than me, that in the next dimension of life a group (composed primarily of Portuguese and Brazilians, and known as the Landell Group) was supposed to exist and that they contacted our world through Instrumental Transcommunication from Rio do Tempo Station."  On March 11, 1998 during a solo experimental session, Anabela asked: "Are we really communicating with the Landell Group and with Carlos de Almeida?"  A loud masculine voice then began speaking to her from the loudspeaker of the 'old valve radio' tuned into the 14 MHz of the SW band.  She recalled: "The speech was quite long and consisted of a number of sentences . . . but at the time, under the shock, I could only understand 'dificil' (difficult) and 'outro mundo' (another world)."

Anabela commented about 'Carlos de Almeida':
  

After that unbelievable evening of March 11, 1998, he spoke with me almost everyday for over one year — always the same powerful masculine voice with its distinctive timbre and expressions.  He used to joke with me, to speak with me about my beloved deceased Doberman dogs and comfort me for their absence, to scold me, to playfully invite me "to dance the waltz" and so on.  He was patient with my questions and complaints but he was also strong and sure of what he was teaching me, never indulging me but also never reproaching me for anything.

On March 14th in response to Anabela's request for identification, the response heard from the radio voices was "Grupo Testemunho do Sol!"  (Group Testimony of the Sun!)  There were occasions when the voices gave identifications of names of her family members who had passed to the other side, including her grandmother, her father and her brother Luis.

Anabela found a 'multi-language' aspect to the EVP/ITC communications and mentioned this as something that "has already been referred to extensively by Friedrich Jürgenson and Konstantin Raudive, both of whom were accomplished polyglots."  Reflecting about "the odd syntax of many ITC sentences," she wrote: "Konstantin Raudive also spoke about the syntax peculiarities of most of his voices, as did Hildegard Schäefer and almost all other researchers."  EVP utterances are usually concise and momentary in contrast with what is found in the ITC recordings oeuvre.

Another aspect of the EVP phenomena noticed by Anabela concerned the occasions when "the anomalous electronic voices can be similar to the experimenter's own voice" [this blogger has also found this to be true in relation to apparently anomalously interjected words heard upon listening closely to people participating in mainstream media broadcasts (and recordings of same)].  Anabela also considered "Is the content of the messages conveyed by the voices supervised by a higher power?"

The photo of Anabela Cardoso shown below is from the ITC Journal website, which offers more information about the author.

Anabela Cardoso in her home studio

 

The following excerpts from Electronic Voices: Contact with Another Dimension will give readers a general orientation to the book in relation to Anabela's life and ITC research.

 

I have tried, in the book, to convey to the reader without exaggeration the process of deep transformation and of consciousness expansion that this extraordinary life experience has brought about in me.


We worked in a small room in my house that I had put aside for the purpose of experimenting and decided to meet as regularly as we could, at least once a week.  That small room has been my ITC studio ever since.

We started our regular work on the very last days of October 1997 and met regularly without fail, week after week. 


The three of us—Carlos, Lola and I—would carefully listen to the tape and write down in our log any little sound that had not been produced or heard by us during our recording. At least a couple of times we noticed odd sounds on the tapes like sighs or muffled breathing that sounded very near the microphone.


We used to also get what sounded like knocks, some of them quite loud, which had not been produced in the experimentation area or by the radio.


[beginning January 17, 1998 ] . . . the EVP replies to our questions became quite frequent and often of very good acoustic quality.  They were apparently uttered by a number of feminine and masculine different voices and were normally in Portuguese with a few in Galician and in Spanish.  This development was a huge step forward for us and a tremendous incentive. 


The communicators frequently used the word 'Bem' (Well [Right or correct] in English) instead of 'Sim' (Yes) for affirmative replies, and at the beginning of the contacts, they would also apparently reply with the strong taps or knocks I mentioned before instead of using the words 'Sim' or 'Nao' respectively for the affirmative and negative.  Puzzled by this, I asked if they were using the code of the Spiritist/Spiritualist sessions—one knock for 'No' and two knocks for 'Yes'—to which they replied 'Bem' (right).


My method each time I experimented was simply to tune my radios to the wavelengths mid-way between two transmitting stations, so that all I could hear was the hiss of random noise, commonly called 'white noise.'


[On October 7]  Having turned on the radios as usual and taken up my position in front of them, I heard, through the loudspeakers of the old valve radio, what sounded like one of the usual voices announce loudly and clearly and beyond question that the communication was coming from a 'station' that he referred to as 'Rio do Tempo Station.'


. . . and this was followed by "Tu fala directamente . . ." (You speak [to them] directly . . .).  The last sentence—you speak directly—also has a particular relevance because I had got into the habit of listening to my recordings the following day and reflecting on what had been said to then comment about it to the communicators.  Hence, their instruction to me that I could 'speak directly!' filled me with boundless joy because I knew that from now on I would be speaking directly to Rio do Tempo Station, a station considered by leading investigators to be one of the most advanced centers for contacts between the next world and ours. . . . (Zeitstrom in German and Timestream in English).


Another landmark in my communication was the day when I heard a voice saying it was my grandmother.  This happened almost one year after I received the first DRV [Direct Radio Voice], and communications from other members of my family soon followed . . .


Commenting on the difficulties involved in the listening process, Friedrich Jürgenson very appropriately put it that: "Most listeners [referring to the guests who joined him to listen to the voices] found it difficult to be relaxed and to concentrate at the same time."


At the beginning of the year 1999, when my DRV contacts had attained an impressive level both in number and quality of communications, I became very worried by the fact that I was not doing much about the whole issue.  I rightly thought that if somebody receives information which, as it seemed, comes from another level of existence, the person concerned should unfailingly disseminate and share it with others.


Carlos de Almeida seemed to be an experienced and very knowledgeable communicator.  In fact, since he announced that he was about to leave Rio do Tempo's world (presumably by moving up to the Fourth Plane) the communications from the station have suffered greatly in quality and in regularity.  He had become such a customary presence in my house that I took it for granted that he would always be there and welcomed him almost every night as a wonderful and very special friend.  But one evening when, as usual, I asked him, "How are you Carlos de Almeida?" he replied, "Prestes a partir" ([I'm] about to leave) and a few months later other voices informed me that he was no longer in Rio do Tempo's world; he had moved on into a world "[that was] like a sun," a world from where he could not speak to our world.


Due to the volume of contacts received, we had decided to stop the experimentation with images to work with the voices only.  But I very much wanted to resume that particular practice, and on October 12, 1998 asked Carlos de Almeida if we could ever hope to obtain clear transimages from his world.  His loud and comprehensible reply, which readers can listen to on the CD, said, "Conforme, execute una máscara de escultor, sabe qual é?"  (It depends.  Execute a sculptor's mask.  Do you know what that is?)  Indeed, I didn't know 'what that was' and took almost one year to find out.  It was only when I met an aged, famous Portuguese sculptor during the inauguration of one of his sculptures in a public square in La Coruña, where I was accredited as Consul General of Portugal, that I asked him what it meant and he explained to me that a sculptor's mask was the name normally given to the wax mould that is taken of a deceased person's face to make a post-mortem sculpture.

A couple of days after Carlos de Almeida replied to my question on the images, while I experimented with the video camera and the Schreiber method, the beautiful, elusive face of a woman half-covered by a sliding mask appeared recorded on the video tape.  I thought that the coincidence between the conversation with Carlos de Almeida and the lovely image of a mask was remarkable but I was not fully satisfied, and sometimes later asked Rio do Tempo what the deep meaning of the mask was.  I think that the symbolic image together with their straightforward but profound reply represent a wonderful example of what their world stands for.  "A máscara é a maneira de nós te dizermos que o nosso mundo descobre a verdade." (The mask is our way to tell you that our world unveils the truth.)


The presence of the communicators in the experimenter's place has been reiterated since the very beginning of ITC contacts, even as early as Ernetti's and Gemelli's experiences.  It is reported that Gemelli's father said, "I am always with you!" (See Chapter 2), while Raudive's interlocutors used a wonderful expression, "We never leave" (Raudive ibid, 1971).  My own communicators have said innumerable times, "Nós estamos sempre contigo."  (We are always with you.)  And the same thing has happened to other operators (Schäefer ibid, 1993, Senkowski ibid, 1995).


The communicator, identified as Carlos de Almeida, had said that the "Robot would speak" and from the beginning of June 1998 this strange voice could be heard several times, although another masculine voice, less machine-like, could also be heard counting during these first months of the DRV

Nevertheless, I must say that to me the robotic voice transmitted by one of my radios (at the time an old valve radio) does not sound like the Technician's voice which I have listened to in some of the Harsch-Fschbachs' recordings; however, a very similar voice to the Technician's voice appeared recorded on one of my tapes as a short EVP while I was experimenting.  But I suppose the high entity known as the Technician can produce many different voices.  This would justify what Rio do Tempo once told me about communications with the high entity whom I longed to speak with — "But you have spoken with him many times!"  Thus, this remark hypothetically means that the Technician used completely different voices from the one that investigators well-acquainted with the Luxembourg work recognize as his peculiar voice.  It makes a lot of sense when we consider that the Technician is supposed to be a very high entity and consequently capable of what, for us, are feats of an unimaginable nature.


When I once questioned Rio do Tempo as to why their voices were sometimes very clear, other times distorted, and on yet other occasions inaudible, their interesting reply was, "We don't know."  In my view, the fluctuations in the quality and the reception of ITC voices are due not to any possible psychokinetic action of the experimenter but in some degree to the 'uncertainty' that we are told by physicists operates at the quantum (the sub-atomic) level that underlies all the physical matter that makes up our world.


We should keep in mind that the next dimension is a world more advanced than ours — a characteristic of anything that is superior in an evolutionary sequence  — and that in that subtle, ethereal, psychic world our thoughts, motivations and the real goals of our actions are transparent to the communicators.  From the time of Friedrich Jürgenson, there have been frequent, common testimonies from ITC experimenters that emphasize the fact that the communicators seem 'to know all their thoughts' (a likelihood that also seems to be born out by the content of some communicators' remarks).  This certainty appears to be true, as we do not appear able to deceive them.

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Some observations from this blogger: During radio talkshow interviews following the publication of my case study book Testament (1997), I commented about my own discovery and investigation of 'spirit messages' before I knew about the term 'electronic voice phenomena.'  Here is a transcript excerpt from a 1999 interview:

. . . there's a preponderance of spirit messages, I'm convinced, on all recorded materials because before this experience I didn't dream anything [like this] was possible.  But then when I really started listening very, very carefully to even my old interviews with Paramount directors and producers and what-have-you, I would begin hearing small words.  Usually it's just one or two words.  In some cases, it's a line or so.  Some of them are very robotic and I've had all these various experiences listening to these voices and also unattributed sounds. 

Something I've also commented about before is how when I've heard EVP recordings played for the listening audience during radio show broadcasts when this subject is being discussed, different people hear different words altogether as they have stated upon calling in to the show.  I talked about this during a 2002 interview and mentioned:
 

So I think something telepathic may be going on.  I know in my own case when I tried to interpret EVP, there was one occasion recently when I couldn't understand what was being said.  And then my mom went into the hospital.  And then I [suddenly was able to clearly discern] thought it was saying, "VISIT."  And if I hadn't visited I don't think my mother would've made it because she needed attention and the nurses were ignoring her. 

Reflecting about the diversity of phenomena related to EVP/ITC, one of Anabela Cardoso's conclusions is that it is challenging to make generalizations or 'definite statements about ITC phenomena'/'psychophonic events' because: "To my knowledge, there have always been exceptions to any generalization about Instrumental Transcommunication research and its results."

Some noticeable correlations to Anabela's experiences are found in such blog articles as "Metaphorical Correlations Among 'Paranormal' Cases" (face masks) and "We and the Mediums of Oneness".  The documentary that is the topic of the preceding article presents an example of the knocking phenomena as seen in Part 6 of the video.  One of the comments reported by Anabela Cardoso from 2009 is reminiscent of a statement found in an Edgar Cayce channeled reading transcript passage of July 9, 1034 when Edgar's wife Gertrude was present.  First the transcript excerpt is presented and then the comparable passage from Electronic Voices:

5. (Q) . . . Will you repeat the message for me?
A) Mama and Dr. House and Uncle Porter and the baby - we are all here.  Grandpa has built the home here, and it's NICE!  And we are all waiting until you come, and we will all be here ready - we are getting along FINE, doing WELL, yes!

No.  No more troubles now, for spring borders all along the way; for we have reached together where we see the light and know the pathway to the Savior is along the narrow way that leads to HIS throne.  We are on that plane where you have heard it spoken of that the body, the mind, are one with those things we have builded.  Yes, I still play baseball, and Charlie has recently joined my club and I am still Captain to many of 'em.  Well, we will be waiting for you!

6. (Q) Who was this speaking?
A) Who was this SPEAKING?  HUGH! [GC's brother, Hugh Evans.]

Anabela Cardoso wrote in the Postscript chapter of her book:

There were other communications in August and September 2009, some of them very interesting such as the one when a very low masculine voice says: "Não tem passagem."  (There is no passage.)  And I say, "This [the amplitude] is not enough for me to understand what you are saying."  Then a feminine voice comes in and says "A gente dá passagem" (We give passage), and the masculine voices become louder and more understandable.

On one of these occasions, when I asked about my grandmother, a masculine voice replied very pertinently and articulately, "Estamos aqui come a tua avó, co's teus avós, estão todos aqui connosco."  (We are here with your grandmother, with your grandparents, they are all here with us.)

 

TV Contact with the Other Side Documentary Now Available on You Tube

Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC) is the subject of "TV-Kontakt med Andra Sidan" ("TV Contact with the Other Side" available with English subtitles on You Tube),  a 1991 Swedish documentary produced and moderated by Eva Olsson and Tony Eckardt.  The program is described as "A video documentary about the technical contact with the Other Side" and presents photos, videos, recordings, etc.  The documentary may be watched in the entirety or in six separate video segments at a playlist page.

To view the documentary with English subtitles, you must be signed in to your You Tube account and while watching the video click on the "Settings" icon and select "Subtitles" and "English."

During the summer of 1991, Eva and Tony visited researchers investigating contact with people of 'the Other Side' via electronic equipment.  Their documentary shows some of the recordings and documentation that these and other researchers have gathered from the contacts, beginning with several ITC videos received by Maggy and Jules Harsch-Fischbach in Luxembourg.  One video shows an image of Konstantin Raudive in the ascended realm while his voice is heard speaking to the couple.  While living on Earth he researched transcommunication and wrote several books about the subject, including Breakthrough (1971).  Preceding Raudive's work was that of EVP pioneer Friedrich Jurgenson in Sweden.

Tony Eckardt interviewed Jurgenson in 1978 and clips from the audio tape are heard.  Jurgenson commented about his first international press conference in 1963 (as translated):
 

It was mostly positive, despite all opposition.  The journalists came at half past one and they stayed until after midnight.


They came to reveal a scam and went after they had apologized.  That is how it all began and it spread like an avalanche all over the world.  Now it is accepted as phenomena, paranormal, purely scientific and research is done all over the world.


It's our absolute duty that we not withhold the information we have about the reality when it can provide mental calmness to people.

A report about researchers Claude and Ellen Thorlin of Eskilstuna informs viewers that the couple were Friedrich Jurgenson's longtime friends.  On the day of his funeral Ellen heard an 'inner voice' say "Channel 4."  Standing in front of the TV with a Polaroid camera ready, Ellen turned on her TV to channel 4 and soon saw a bright spot emerge on the screen.  That's when she snapped a picture. 

 the Thorlin image

 

During Part 2, the ITC experimentation of Lizz Werneroth and Ebbe Johansson in Sweden is chronicled.  The couple is seen experimenting with recording electronic voice phenomena (EVP) on audio recording tape.  Lizz at times announces her interpretation of some of the apparently anomalous speech that has been recorded.  
 

During Part 3, some excerpts of the 'Dr. George Jeffries Mueller' conversation with ITC medium Bill McNeil via the Spiricom are presented.  During a 1980 audio recording, Dr. Mueller is heard calling to him via the transmitting device:
 

Wiilliiaam . . . William . . . William . . . Wiiiilllliiiiaaaammmm! . . . William . . . Wiilliiaamm!  Are you there William?

Bill eventually replies "I'm coming, doctor!  I'm coming."  He is heard returning to the room after "going downstairs for a cup of coffee," as he explains to Dr. Mueller.  Another clip involves 'another person from the Other Side' joining in the conversation: 'Nathaniel.'  Eva Olsson explained (as translated): "By having Dr. Mueller as inter-mediator William and Nathaniel were able to speak through the Spiricom about childhood memories and pranks that they had done together for more than 50 years ago."

In one clip when Dr. Mueller says "There's a time and a place for everything," the word "NO" follows at 11:01, perhaps showing that the speech of transcendental communicators is also subject to what may be heard as subconscious utterances or overlapping EVP/ITC messages.  (The subtitles incorrectly show the word "SO" instead of "NO.")

In Parts 4 through 6, the collaboration in Germany of ITC researchers Friedrich Malkhoff and Adolf Homes is a topic and they each are seen commenting about their experimentation.  In 1988 the two men attended a meeting where they learned about the research and experiences of Maggy and Jules Harsch-Fischbach.  After weeks of contemplating and discussing the case, the two friends with the help of an electrician set up an apparatus modeled after what the Harsch-Fischbachs were using.  On January 14, 1989 Malkhoff and Homes made their first recording with the equipment.  Malkhoff recalled:
 

When we listened to the tape we could hear a clear woman's voice saying (as translated with the subtitles): "The souls will be raised to us."

Two days later in Rivenich, Adolf, for the first time, receives a message with a dark and dragging voice speaking very slowly.  The person identified himself as Thomas.


After a year Thomas also made contact over the computer, and identified himself as Thomas of Canterbury, who lived between the years of 1118-1170.  He is better known as Thomas Becket, Chancellor and Archbishop in Canterbury when Henry the 3rd reigned.  Today, Thomas is the front figure of a group on the Other Side called The Central.

In another audio clip, Thomas is heard to say (as translated):
 

Make peace on Earth and the universe you know.  Open the psychic boundaries and your eyes and you will be able to see more.

 
While watching the documentary I again recalled something mentioned in several recent articles about various transcendental communication cases — each communicator is expressing a unique personality and philosophy gained from his or her individual life experiences.  Transcendental communicators have brought such messages as "You will get nothing but opinion on all the planes" and that "various people coming from various spheres can only give you an insight into the knowledge that they have appertaining to their particular advancement or development."  Another essential lesson reported in other blog articles encompassing different forms of transcendental communication is the message of spiritual Oneness (or 'omnipresence').
 
Another ITC communicator mentioned in the documentary is 'Swejen Salter,' whose recorded orations seemingly confirm the existence of 'parallel worlds.'  This is a conclusion that has been made in scientific studies associated with the quantum mechanics realm of physics.

Here is the English translation from transcendental communicator 'Wernher von Braun' during a 1989 Rivenich radio transmission (as translated):
 

This is scientist Wernher von Braun speaking.  I am contacting Homes over the radio from the Other Side.  There are many extraterrestrial beings that are not identical with the spirit world.  These aliens are in direct contact with the U.S. government.  They have radio contact with Earth.  The aliens come from the planet Kamar and they are far more developed than the humans on planet Earth . . .

Another 1989 audio recording features ITC speech from a communicator who begins with the identification (as translated) "Seth, a being from the fourth plane."  The audio clip includes the statements translated as: ". . . mankind has lost its essence because of the negative spiritual ignorance.  She should not look down on others, when all the faults of others [are] lurking in herself . . . man will undergo a metamorphosis (change).  At the end of his metamorphosis, she will remember their previous incarnations.  This process will you look for.  Man's situation need(s) a lot of new information about other, higher, multidimensional realities."

As Direct Voice medium Leslie Flint has referred to transcendental communicator 'Mickey' as his 'guide' (or 'control'), Adolf Homes is seen referring to ITC communicator 'Jan' as what has been translated to English as his 'guardian spirit.'

Part 6 of the documentary includes audio interview commentary in English of retired German physics professor Ernst Senkowski, a longtime investigator of ITC cases whom during his studies has consulted firsthand with many experiencers of this phenomena.  When asked about the possibility of hoaxing, Senkowski commented: "I have no reason whatsoever to believe that there is any hoax or any fake."  He mentioned having experienced an occasion in 1986 while in the presence of the Harsch-Fischbacks "several items in the communication from the Other Side which were impossible to know for the couple of the Harsch-Fischbachs.  So we have been spoken directly by a person which was not known to them — the name was not known to them and we have been addressed personally."  He also explained: "This is impossible to fake and what's the use of it?  Nobody gets any money from it.  They have only . . . trouble . . . people say, 'We don't believe it.'"

ITC image identified as showing 'Seth 3'

Longtime readers of this blog will understand that—as with many forms of documented transcendental communication and 'paranormal phenomena' cases—people with a superficial knowledge of the evidence may quickly find some rationale to dismiss of deny the authenticity of some specific example of ITC without even considering that perhaps one of the lessons being taught is for humans not to behave in such a way.  An example of a similar predicament is in relation to seances during the Spiritualism Movement.  When individuals with superficial knowledge of the seances have seen photographs of materialized forms that were known as 'simulacrums,' they have immediately judged this evidence as depicting some manner of hoax without knowing anything about the actual circumstances of the phenomena and its documentation.  (1, 2, 3)
 

Maggie Harsch-Fischbach wrote in the 1997 English language book Breakthroughs in Technical Spirit Communication:
 

ITC, the subject of this book, contributes to the evolution and expansion of mankind's view on eternal life.  It provides "hard evidence" of life after death and makes an easy distribution of spirit voices and pictures by electronic means possible, as well as the easy copying of computer micro disks.  Such means of distribution did not exist for earlier accounts of visible and audible spirit phenomena.  However, when looked at objectively, physical mediumship was much more of a "knock-out."
 
Let's look at this more closely: Only a small group of people could observe the flowing of a gray/white sticky substance called ectoplasm in the form of cords, threads, cloth-like veils or small cloud forms!  Fingers, hands. small or even normal size faces formed and could be captured by photography.  From the constantly moving "fog" or "cloud" of ectoplasm entire human figures formed, including the distinctly recognizable faces of dead relatives!  In some instances these figures not only appeared, but walked about, let those present shake their hands and carried on conversations with them.  The living relatives, while in tears, hugged their loved one who was standing before them fully materialized!  They cut a lock of hair and pieces of their garment (as evidence).  Physicians who were present examined the pulse, heartbeat, breath and the pupils of their eyes!
 

A long line of mediums and researchers should be mentioned here.  Many of them were slandered by scientists for whom such phenomena simply could not exist.
 

The phenomena described in this booklet are clear evidence for a life after physical death.  This is true at least of the many recorded telephone conversations and for the messages given through computers and video equipment.  To deny this is to ignore the many facts.

 

Spiricom Breakthrough Video Recording Now Available on You Tube

 

This is a photo of the Spiricom apparatus (Spiricom data page).  The image is also a link to a 1981 video showing one of Bill O'Neil's conversations with 'Doc Mueller.'

 

One of the breakthrough video recordings of Bill O'Neil conversing with Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC) entity 'Doc Mueller' now may be seen and heard without charge on You Tube.  (link)  The tape was made for George W. Meek (1910-1999) of the Metascience Foundation paranormal research organization.  O'Neil is seen referring to Meek as "our friend" in the video.  Also available online are some Spiricom recordings audio clips/transcript excerpts.  In Excerpt 18, Doc Mueller is heard to say: "Now you must understand one thing, William.  I cannot be here forever.  I cannot guarantee how long I can be visiting . . ."  

The circumstances of this evidence is described in The Ghost of 29 Megacycles (1985), a book by John G. Fuller about the Bill O'Neil/'Doc Mueller'/George Meek ITC collaboration.  George Meek prior to retirement was a designer of air conditioning systems for big buildings and later was on the embassy staff of Ambassador Averill Harriman in London.  Meek retired to dedicate himself to researching the afterlife.
 

. . . he had contacted nearly forty professional and technical people over the world who seemed to share his interest.  They included physicists, nuclear chemists, biochemists, psychiatrists, and other professionals.


In an experiment with a medium, an apparent contact came through in one of the sessions in which a deceased scientist identified himself through the medium.  The purported entity claimed that he wanted to cooperate with some living engineers and technicians to develop an electromagnetic communication system between those living on the earth level and those in the discarnate state where he now existed.

Fuller quoted Meek as having stated that his equipment had gained substantial funding:

"I was lucky enough to get Jim McDonnell, chairman of the board of McDonnell-Douglas, interested in the project," Meek said.  "Jim had been interested in psychic research for a long time.  In fact, he gave half a million dollars to Washington University in St. Louis to set up a psychic research laboratory.  I worked out a deal with him where he would let me go ahead and design and build the equipment.  He would pay for it, and then lease it back to me for a dollar a year.  It was a lucky break."

Meek's first breakthrough came several years later, in 1977, after he had encountered a rough-hewn, intuitively brilliant medium named Bill O'Neil.  An eighth-grade dropout, O'Neil was nevertheless something of an electronic genius, having developed his native abilities ever since his days in the service at Pearl Harbor during World War II.  O'Neil lives with his wife on a remote farm in western Pennsylvania.  Totally absorbed with his electronics, he was practically a recluse.  He could also be, according to Meek, irascible and unpredictable.  But he had made what Meek considered a monumental breakthrough.  Through his radio equipment, he had apparently established direct two-way communication with the dead.


O'Neil was the best clairaudient and clairvoyant medium he has come across.


". . . he combined mediumship with a remarkable knowledge of electronics."


He became a civilian technician with the United States Navy radar-radio laboratory at Pearl Harbor in 1939.  In spite of his lack of formal schooling, he was allowed to enroll in a course of advanced electronics at the University of Hawaii under Navy Department sponsorship.  After a spell in the army in the intelligence section of the Twenty-Second Infantry Brigade, he came home and started his own two-way radio communication shop in Media, Pennsylvania.

The list of reported job experiences of O'Neil also included "electronic tube foreman for RCA in Cincinnati," "computer technician in Florida working with telemetry devices used in the rocketry program at Cape Canaveral" and "he hosted a children's program at WKRC-TV in Cincinnati." 

 George Meek (left) and Bill O'Neil

 

Meek summarized what he had learned about him: ". . . O'Neil made contact first with a deceased doctor, a former ham radio operator who merely identified himself as 'Doc Nick' . . . he had died five years before, and told Bill how certain audio frequencies could serve as an energy source.  When these frequencies were monitored by a tape recorder, voice contact could be made with him [and recorded].  In other words, clairaudient suggestions to Bill helped him modify his ham radio equipment so that the voice of the deceased doctor could actually be heard over the circuit . . ."

Fuller asked Meek what O'Neil did to make a living.  "He tinkers around," Meek said.  "Repairs radios and TV . . . We pay him a small fee [$60 a week] to keep experimenting.  Both he and his wife live very frugally. . . . He's sixty-four . . . he sincerely believes, along with me, that this can be the greatest possible breakthrough for the human race."

Incidents of materialization phenomena were reported by O'Neil to Meek, first sporadically with the ephemeral Doc Nick.  Fuller wrote that sometimes Doc Nick would be audible and visible to O'Neil.  At other times O'Neil could only hear but not see him.  The instruction included the subjects of "the laying on of hands" and electronic devices that could be of benefit to people with arthritis and other disorders.  According to O'Neil, Doc Nick had pressed for the use of iron oxide, orally or by injection, for the treatment of cancer.  The book recounts that Bill O'Neil had some success facilitating spiritual healing.  The evidence for this includes a signed affidavit from a doctor in Connecticut.

The coming of another entity transpired with a materialization incident of 'Doc Mueller' and there was a succession of new technical suggestions given to O'Neil.  Fuller wrote:

 . . . Mueller prescribed everything from a frequency counter and generator to a stable DC power supply and oscillators.


There was one moment when O'Neil felt the breakthrough was beginning to happen.  Behind the loud and rasping sound of the carrier wave, O'Neil heard the faint sound of a voice.  There were a few scattered words, but they were not clear, and there was no sign of intelligible dialogue.  But words were there.


Spurred by the conviction that he was now on the right track, O'Neil went back to work with renewed energy.

Fuller reported that the first breakthrough tape was recorded on October 27, 1977 as O'Neil was able to record on tape a brief conversation identified to be that of 'Doc Nick' yet the communication sounded like what O'Neil compared to "a robot on television" and only lasted a few minutes.  Not every word was intelligible.

There was talk of the frequencies changing, of which frequencies Doc Nick felt more comfortable on, and the importance of O'Neil's marking the frequency changes.  Then as quickly as it had started up, the conversation ceased.  O'Neil was left with nothing but the background sound of the carrier wave.

O'Neil played it back with his wife also listening.  The next morning he mailed the tape to George W. Meek.  Fuller reported that there were further letters and telephone calls to Meek as O'Neil continued his work.

The year 1978 began on a tide of optimism for both O'Neil and Meek.  Spurred by fresh new equipment supplied by Meek, O'Neil enlarged his laboratory work space and prepared himself for what he called the Big Push.  In Florida, Meek and Will Cerney were putting the finishing touches to their Mark IV assembly, much of it based on the advice O'Neil was passing along to them from Pennsylvania.  Essentially, it consisted of an audio tone generator, a radio frequency signal generator linked to a transmitting antenna.  A few feet away was a Hammarland Super Pro 600 AM receiver and receiving antenna connected to a 5" speaker, with the sounds picked up by a microphone and tape recorder.  The operator working the controls could hear any sounds coming from the speaker, and later analyze them on the reel-to-reel tape.

In November of 1979, successfully tape recording the transcendental communication in a prolonged way with the Spiricom project still hadn't been achieved yet O'Neil remained confident that the goal would be accomplished.  Fuller observed that the intricate puzzles that Mueller was suggesting to O'Neil in the way of circuitry, frequencies and data seemed to be coming together.
 

"Full speed ahead on Spiricom," he wrote Meek, outlining the latest developments he had just incorporated in the instruments.  The carrier wave tone was greatly improved, the equipment far more sophisticated, and all that was missing was to hear and record Mueller's voice, O'Neil was convinced.

Fuller then reported that the O'Neils escaped unhurt when a fire occurred at their farmhouse on November 13 at 4:25 a.m.  Only the outer shell of the house was saved by the local fire company.  "The fire's cause was unknown, but later a local volunteer fireman was apprehended after similar fires struck six other houses in the area.  The fireman was charged with arson."  O'Neal wrote to Meek that the contents of the house were a total loss and there was no insurance yet he expressed his determination to continue living there.  Meek sent a check to give immediate aid, canceled a mortgage loan he had made on the house and began providing a modest monthly check to help O'Neil recover.  His wife went to live with her father yet brought Bill food and hot coffee daily as he struggled to make minimum repairs, keeping himself warm with a pot-bellied stove.

O'Neil wrote to Meek on December 15: "I am now working to repair the lab, so I can get on with Spiricom . . . Tomorrow I plan to rewire the lab and this room only in order to have the electricity turned on again.  Mueller says he will help me repair the signal generator and frequency counter.  According to him that will be all that is necessary except for a tape recorder to record proof of same.  I pray that he is correct!"
 

As part of his reports to Meek, O'Neil attempted recording on tape some of his clairaudient sessions with Mueller.  Some would go on for a half hour or more.  But all that could be heard on the tape were O'Neil's responses to the apparent comments by Mueller. 

In reporting the chronology of events, John G. Fuller shared some of his thoughts in response to listening to the Bill O'Neil orations recorded on the audio tapes.  Meek had provided the author with a variety of papers and tapes documenting the case.  Fuller mentioned that Doc Mueller brought up an intriguing point in an audio tape dated March 23, 1980:
 

He reminded O'Neil of the unlisted telephone numbers he had given him earlier.  These, he told O'Neil, would provide confirming evidence that what he was saying was valid and real . . .


Mueller must have spoken in a commanding tone to O'Neil, because O'Neil responded: "Sir, I think George Meek should be the one to check these out.  He's much more experienced at this sort of thing than I am . . ."

Fuller discovered that Meek had in fact checked the unlisted numbers.
 

One was for a Rear Admiral Carl Stillman, the other for a Dr. Willard Libby at UCLA.  I was amazed to find out that both numbers were correct for the parties Mueller had identified.  But I was disappointed to learn that neither of these gentlemen could recall anything at all about Dr. Mueller.  Just what Mueller may have had in mind in urging the contact remained a mystery.

On the night of September 22, 1980, O'Neil achieved another breakthrough recording.  He used the multi-frequency audio tone on the Mark IV equipment, as Doc Mueller had suggested.  The carrier range frequency was between 29 and 31 MHz.  While turning and adjusting the dials, O'Neil distinctly heard a faint but harsh voice so he snapped on the tape recorder.  The voice grew louder, plainer.  It emerged over the background noise.  It was still rasping and had a metallic timbre.  "Can you hear me, Williammmmm?"  During the conversation that followed, O'Neil commented, "You sound like a robot" and the voice was heard to say, "I'm a friend of yours . . . 'Robot' Mueller."  At one point, Mueller scolded O'Neil for smoking cigarettes.  Fuller wrote: "O'Neil played back the tape.  Mueller seemed satisfied with the results.  Then his voice disappeared as abruptly as it had come."  O'Neil could only have felt victorious about his objective and mailed the tape recording to George Meek that presented physical evidence of paranormal communication.
 

Meek received the tape, and listened to it in awe. With his engineering proclivity, he got out a stopwatch and clocked the two-way conversation at thirteen minutes, three times the length of the earlier tape of Doc Nick.  He listened again, and a third time.  There was no question in his mind now.  He agreed with O'Neil.  This was clear evidence that two planes of existence had made direct, verbal contact, the result of eight years of struggle.  He urged O'Neil to keep trying to record further conversations with Mueller. 

Meek sent O'Neil a $3,000 bonus.  Case study author John G. Fuller read the transcripts and listened to some of the recordings.  He reported about this period of the collaboration:
 

Mueller's apparent voice was recorded and logged in over thirty hours of sessions as he responded to O'Neil's questions.  O'Neil shipped the tapes regularly to Meek, who had them transcribed.  Then he analyzed them carefully.


Meek recognized the great importance of going beyond this single series of contacts.  He would have to find ways to replicate the project with other personnel at other locations.

Fuller reported about the reaction to the case among EVP researchers such as Ernst Senkowski and Hanna Buschbeck during a period that might be described as the dawn of Instrumental Transcommunication exploration.  George Meek himself would witness an ITC contact similar to that of Bill O'Neil's.  The experimenter was Hans Otto Konig in Germany.  Fuller attempted to place the work of Meek in perspective in a concluding chapter of The Ghost of 29 Megacycles.
 

With Konig's work as confirmation, he intensified his search for more researchers in Europe and the United States who were themselves psychic as well as electronic engineers.  By the beginning of 1984, Meek's bloodhound persistence began to bring in substantial grants for his redesigned Metascience Foundation.  One organization provided a grant of thirty thousand dollars with the comment: "The spiritual implications of such discoveries are immense, and would contribute greatly to the cultivation of the recognition of individual responsibility in both health and spiritual matters."

Examples of ITC researchers' results are available today at WorldITC.org and other websites.

 A back cover blurb on the 1986 Signet paperback edition offers a perspective for the knowledge made possible by case study books about transcendental communication.

 

A Visitor from the Ascended Realm in Rural Pennsylvania 1977

From the World ITC website, the image above is an ITC image of "Fritz Malkhoff (yellow shirt) with colleague Hans Heckmann analyzing spirit image of 'Doc Mueller' on television."  Below is a photo of Dr. George Jeffries Mueller that was taken during his lifetime on Earth.

John G. Fuller is the author of The Ghost of 29 Megacycles, a nonfiction book about the Instrumental Transcommunication case involving the collaboration of metaphysical researcher/philanthropist George Meek and Bill O'Neil, an electronics genius who had worked as a civilian technician with the United States Navy radar-radio laboratory at Pearl Harbor.  Prior to Bill O'Neil achieving the goal of successfully recording on tape transcendental communication affirming the continuation of life in the ascended realm of human existence, a July 1977 incident would be his first interaction with 'Doc Mueller.'  At the time, O'Neil was living in an isolated Pennsylvania farmhouse and hadn't yet been able to record on tape the speech of 'Doc Nick,' whose countenance sometimes became visible and whose voice O'Neil could clairaudiently hear during intervals.  O'Neil was preparing to burn photographs of failed experiments to obtain 'some psychic evidence in the ultraviolet range' when the following interlude occurred, as Fuller learned from George Meek.  These passages are from the fifth and sixth chapters of the book.

He picked up the first picture and was about to throw it in the fire.

At that moment, he felt a hand on his shoulder.

Thinking Mary Alice [his wife] had come back, he turned around to tell her to leave.

But it wasn't Mary Alice.  It was a man, someone he had never seen before — tall, distinguished, dressed in a business suit, and clearly audible.  Aware now that he was facing an unknown materialized apparition, O'Neil began to tremble.

"Who are you?" he demanded.

"I'll tell you that when you calm down," the figure said.

"What are you doing here?  What do you want?"

"Are you calmed down?" the visitor asked.

"I'll calm down if you tell me what you want here."

"It's very simple," said the figure.  "I need your help to carry out research in several areas."

"What kind of research?" Bill asked.

"Research in just the kind of thing you are doing right now, and not succeeding.  I can help you."

"Nobody will believe any of this anyway," O'Neil told him.

"Would you like some facts so you can prove you're not just seeing things?"

"What kind of facts?" O'Neil asked.

"Name, former address, background — all the details you need to know to confirm what I was when I lived on your plane."

Hearing Bill in he extended conversation, Mary Alice got out of bed and came to the lab.  At first O'Neil didn't see here, and he spoke to the image of the visitor.  "Even if your facts do check out," Bill said, "who will believe them?"

From the doorway, Mary Alice said, "I'll believe you, honey.  I know you're not crazy.  I can see him too."

Bill turned toward her.  "You can?"

"I can see him standing right there beside you," she said.

"I don't believe you," Bill said.  "You're just saying that to humor me."

But the visitor interceded.  "Of course she sees me.  Why shouldn't she?  You can, can't you?"

"Mary Alice," Bill said.  "Tell me the truth.  You can see him?"

"I swear to God I can, Bill," she said.

"Ask her if she can hear me," the visitor instructed.

"Can you hear him, Mary Alice?"

"I can see his lips move, but I can't hear him," she replied.

O'Neil gradually regained his composure.  He elicited the full details of the night visitor's background, repeating them out loud on the tape recorder as the details were given.

Name: Dr. George J. Mueller.  Former social security number: 142-20-4640.  Ancestry: English, Irish, German.  B.S. in electrical engineering, University of Wisconsin.  Top fifth of his class in 1928.  M.S. in physics, Cornell, 1930.  Ph.D. in experimental physics at Cornell, 1933.  Additional training, New York University and UCLA.  Meritorious Civilian Award from the secretary of the army.  Physics instructor and research fellow while at Cornell.

Urging O'Neil to check all these details to verify his former existence, Mueller added that at Wisconsin he had been a member of the Haresfoot Club and the Triangle Club.

"That should be enough information to remove your doubts," Mueller told O'Neil.  "But if you still don't believe this, I'll give you a complete rundown on every detail of my accomplishments and experience."

Mueller seemed rather testy and irascible to O'Neil, who responded with the same attitude.  "Of course I want a complete rundown," O'Neil said.  "If I have any hope of getting anybody to believe this."

"You'll get it," the voice of Mueller snapped.  "And you might be interested in knowing that I once worked for the government and the United States Signal Corps.  In design and development.  A lot of miscellaneous electrical equipment, and a lot of specialized medical electronics for hospital use."

"I still need every scrap of proof I can find," O'Neil warned him.

"Look — I rather resent your questioning me so much.  I think you're being rather childish.  But if you want something further, here's the name and address of my daughter.  You can verify my death records through her."  He gave the information to O'Neil, who added it to the tape he was running.

"I've run into this problem of trying to establish proof of existence with a discarnate who calls himself Doc Nick.  Have you encountered him?"

"I don't know anything about him," Mueller answered.

"He has some pretty good ideas," O'Neil said.

Mueller replied stiffly, "I simply want to help you if you'll listen.  If you don't feel you want or need my help, just say so, and I won't bother you anymore.  I won't be offended, and I'll understand."

O'Neil assured him that he wanted all the help he could get.  Before he could say anything more, however, the same thing happened as with his other strange visitors: Muller simply disappeared.

Even though Mueller's voice could not be heard on the tape, O'Neil now had something tangible to work with.  But after months of frustration he was less optimistic that Mueller's visit would produce tangible results.

*

When Meek received O'Neil's tape and letter, he was elated.  Even though Mueller's voice was not recorded on the tape, here was material that could be verified by fact-checking all the details thoroughly.  The new turn of events created the fabric that Meek's engineering mind liked to work with.  It was tangible, traceable, solid.  It could be nailed down or discarded.  Verification would be a giant step forward.  He wrote O'Neil that it was critical to follow up on every fact.

Meek immediately wrote a letter to his friend Tom Bearden, a nuclear engineer who had just retired from a military career, including five years with Air Force Intelligence in Germany.  Bearden would be helpful in checking out Dr. Mueller's military awards and activity.  Meek also sent off a letter to Dr. Walter Uphoff, a former professor at the universities of Minnesota and Colorado, and a leading researcher in parapsychology.  Living in Madison, Wisconsin, Uphoff would be in a good position to check the records at the campus there.

With Tom Bearden tracing everything from Mueller's purported "Meritorious Civilian Award" to his "Top-Secret Clearance," and Walter Uphoff tracing his academic records at Wisconsin and Cornell, Meek turned his attention to other confirmatory details.

In Madison, Wisconsin, Walter Uphoff struck oil.  He found that Mueller was enrolled at the University of Wisconsin when he said he was, in the class of 1928.  He was also listed as a member of the Triangle Club.  Uphoff had traced this through a group picture of the club in the Badger, the university yearbook.  But he was not listed as a member of the Haresfoot Club, a small but important detail.

Uphoff finally dug up an old picture of the club, an informal drama group at the university.  The members' names appearing on the picture included that of George Mueller.  Moreover, his face matched the one in the Triangle Club picture.

Since Uphoff's son, Norman, was a political science professor at Cornell, Uphoff wrote him to check the records to see if Mueller had received his master's degree there.  While Uphoff waited for the results, he called to inform Meek of his progress.

O'Neil included a long tape that described in fuller detail his session with Mueller.  The data included not only the corporations Mueller worked for, but also the large number of employees who worked under him, and the multimillion-dollar operational budgets involved.

O'Neil claimed that Mueller sounded like quite a braggart.  "I don't think Dr. Einstein had a background like this," O'Neil wrote Meek.  "In fact, it's awfully hard for me to believe, George."

Meek was enthusiastic because he was now confident that nearly all the material supplied would check out.  O'Neil, however, remained shaken by the experience.  On August 8, 1977, he wrote Meek:

I'm sorry, George, but I am still frightened, and I just can't believe my eyes and ears until you and I get a verification of a death certificate from Sacramento.  I'm sorry.  I didn't ask all this, and I can't take any more until I have absolute proof.  I want to believe all you have told me, and have to believe that Dr. Mueller did attend those colleges, etc.  I told him this, and he said proof would be forthcoming.  I said good, I'll wait.  And that upset him.  I just don't know, George.  I hope you understand.  I believe that anyone "over there" could get that kind of information if they wanted it.

Further confirmation came in from Walter Uphoff's son, who telephoned Meek from Cornell to say that Mueller's record was exactly as reported.  In addition, Meek's inquiry through the social security office not only confirmed the correct number, but provided a former address where Mueller's surviving family could be reached.

A letter to Mueller's widow, who was now living in California, brought a confirmation that Mueller had died on May 31, 1967, and that she would be glad to provide any other information.

. . . Meek received a copy of the official death certificate he had requested from the California Department of Health.

But one important piece of information that O'Neil had reported had not yet been confirmed.  It was the booklet Mueller was said to have written as an introduction to electronics for the US Army.  To Meek this was critical.  It would not only be an important piece of evidence to confirm O' Neil's contact with Mueller.  It would also be a clue to Mueller's philosophy about the potential of electronics and communication devices.

Reassured by the doctor's confirmation of his sanity, O'Neil returned to his Spiricom and Vidicom projects with a renewed sense of dedication.  Even when Dr. Mueller appeared several times again, O'Neil was able to keep calm.  The confirmation of the death certificate gave him confidence that at least he was in touch with a discarnate personality who was confirmed to have once existed with a record of considerable scientific achievement.

. . . Meek was still bothered that he could not  track down the elusive  book Mueller had insisted contained valuable confirmatory evidence of the reasons for his work on the Spiricom project.

The search had now gone on for a year and a half, and had run into many blind alleys.  But Meek's Holmesian  bloodhound instincts kept him pressing.

After an unsuccessful trip to the library at West Point, Meek made his own follow-up mission to the Pentagon, visiting over half a dozen offices.  Although he found no book, one Pentagon official provided an important clue.

Meek had earlier learned that Mueller's book might—just might—be part of a series of training manuals published by the military in the 1940s.  But all the manuals were now out of print.  As Meek was leaving his last Pentagon office, the officer called him back.  He had just remembered that there was an Army archives collection at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

Meek wrote to the organization, and waited again.  About two weeks later, he opened a letter from the society.  It stated that they had a full set of army manuals from the forties, and that Mueller's publication was among them.  Meek was overjoyed that the long search had come to an end.

He lost no time ordering a photocopy, which arrived within a few days.  Quickly, he turned to the pages Mueller had designated as important.  They included a summary of the progress of electronics since 1895.  Mueller's words pointed out that back in that era, the popular belief was that everything of importance had already been discovered, and that the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were considered the ultimate in all that could possibly be discovered in the universe.

Meek read on, sensing that the words would reveal insights that were even more directly in line with his own research.  The opinion of scientists, Mueller's book stated, was that future generations would have to be content with making "minor refinements and rearrangements of the established order of science."

Finally, Meek's eye caught a paragraph on the last page of the book that he felt made all the long search for the missing document worthwhile.  As Mueller had phrased it in 1947:

Men are reaching even into the spectrum heights of those fabulous cosmic rays.  Out of the work, new techniques and instruments of electronic wizardry will emerge, but only after seemingly impossible problems have been solved.

These solutions will require the careful thought and patient work of many people, whose findings will be correlated with many other efforts, verified by experiments, and aided now and then by sparks of genius to reconcile the irrational and so accomplish the impossible.

That was it for Meek.  The last phrase of the book.  To reconcile the irrational, and so accomplish the impossible.  What better description could be found for the Spiricom efforts that he and O'Neil and the others had been pursuing for such a long time?

Preceding books by John G. Fuller include The Interrupted Journey (1966), Arigo: Surgeon of the Rusty Knife (1974) and The Ghost of Flight 401 (1976).  Blog articles with accounts of 'visitors from the ascended realm' include "Report of a Widow Briefly Reunited with Her Husband During a Materialization Seance", "The Wheel of Eternity: The Purpose Fulfilled", "Gordon Higginson's Visitor from the Ascended Realm" and "John Dee and Edward Kelly's Visitor from the Ascended Realm".