Karyn

Hallo klar werde ich das machen im ITC visuellen bereich.

Hi Karyn - Very nice to make your acquaintance! I am enjoying Varanormal and will be glad to learn from all of you. I'm entering into research on other aspects of ITC that go beyond EVP for my second book I am writing and will be pushing the boundaries this coming year. My first book is very close to completion, in final edits, and will be out in early 2023.
Yes on rich terrain - I live 9 miles from where the 49'er gold rush began in Coloma, California in 1848. El Dorado county is part of the "Mother Lode" country, and I live in some very haunted country.
Absolutely agree on work, but as I am retired now, writing and investigating are my work! I am so glad to be out of the spacecraft propulsion business. I did my 30 years and it was time to move on. -- Jon

Hi Jon,

I look forward to your book.  The sad part is that most people have kept this type of information to themselves for fear of ruining their reputation.  Oh by the way I am used to US- centric viewpoints.  I have found in my rather longish life that few from the US travel outside so they tend to have of course only one view. No offense taken, I just wanted to let you know that different countries may have other ways to search.

Yes, getting back to knowledge of what we accept it is really only tentatively coming out of the woodwork peoples "hidden history".  Mostly it has happened due to high profile people having nde's.

Few Americans know that Lincoln was a spiritist and one could argue to some degree was a medium.  Few still know that the oration for his funeral was delivered by non other than Emily Hardinge Britten.  People still argue today that they did not have seances in the white house.  Of course most know that Nancy Reagan would do nothing until she daily consulted with "the afterlife".

Even one of our sayings makes sense when you hear how it came about.  To get into a funk, came about because even though he knew he was being untruthful I think it was about Emily French he lied to keep his reputation.

I applaud your work not for the faint hearted but oh so needed.  I would advise you to have a look at the works of N. Riley Heagerty or the website of Victor Zammit which is massive and historically based.  https://victorzammit.com/

Glad to have you on board.

Blessings

Karyn

Hi Karyn - Oh yes on the other ways to search. I've done extensive research on some of these folks, like Raudive, Dion Fortune, and many others who lives have touched aspects of EVP and ITC. Finding details of their final passing and burials could be hard to locate and I found a lot by using Google website translation to search foreign sites as well. It's been a labor of love to find much of this for my research. I'm having a heck of a time finding more on what happened with Marcello Bacci. I know he died recently, but there is nary a word about the circumstances and place of his burial. I do plan to cover him in great detail in my second book.
LOL on worrying about reputation. I was an information scientist for a lot of years in the aerospace business and I could care less what the conformists think. Being retired makes it all that much easier to say what I really think. The way I see it, the ITC pioneers went through far harder stuff than we ever have, so the least we can do is to be as up-front about our views as we can be and honor their work in doing so.
I had known about Lincoln and Mary Todd with their Spiritualism connections, but never have looked into in depth. I will likely put some effort into following that up in book 2. Yes on the Reagans... I was a teen when Reagan came into office and remember the field day the Press had with Nancy's metaphysical leanings. Never mind that most of the Press have metaphysical lives as well that they keep secret.
I will look at N. Riley Heagerty. I have used Victor's site in references for my current book and he is truly one of a kind. I will say this: Even though I've been recording EVP for better than 15 years, when I started this book last year, I had NO idea how little I knew. It has been a humbling experience to dive into all of this.
Appreciate your kind reply and will be a regular here! - Jon

I've been trying to post a video with no luck. Here it is. I have no idea what it is. (It's not lightning.) Thx

Your video is showing fine here Charles, where did you wish to put it.  I think you are correct it looks like lightening.  Great capture, hard little fellas to get a good shot.  Well done, try and put it where you wanted it as you have succeeded here.  If you still have problems get back to me.  Cheers Karyn

I was so intrigued by your email I checked it out on a science page.  Initially I too thought lightening does not go from ground up but it appears to be normal.

Does lightning strike from the sky down, or the ground up? The answer is both. Cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning comes from the sky down, but the part you see comes from the ground up. A typical cloud-to-ground flash lowers a path of negative electricity (that we cannot see) towards the ground in a series of spurts.

 

Does lightning strike from the sky down, or the ground up?

The answer is both. Cloud-to-ground lightning comes from the sky down, but the part you see comes from the ground up. A typical cloud-to-ground flash lowers a path of negative electricity (that we cannot see) towards the ground in a series of spurts. Objects on the ground generally have a positive charge. Since opposites attract, an upward streamer is sent out from the object about to be struck. When these two paths meet, a return stroke zips back up to the sky. It is the return stroke that produces the visible flash, but it all happens so fast - in about one-millionth of a second - so the human eye doesn't see the actual formation of the stroke.

Source: National Severe Storms Laboratory

So I can say I have learned something important today.  Thank you.

Hello Karyn,

Thank you and it’s awesome to be around like minded community. I look forward to sharing and growing with this group. Is there options for membership growth paid/unpaid to further my contributions to Varanormal? Wishing you and your family good health and safety during these interesting times.

Best Regards,

Nick

Hello Nick, At this stage the only thing we would love to see is interaction on forum topics.  Any suggestions of topics is welcome.  The site is free as are the streams.  We welcome participation.  Blessings to you and yours, Karyn.