Karyn

You can try the “TV remote” test by photographing the end of a a television remote while pressing on its buttons, such as the button to change a channel. Your photo will normally show at the top end of the remote a red flash that you can't see with your eyes. If it does show such a flash, it means your camera is picking up some infrared radiation. Such a camera will be good for photographing orbs. If you take several photos of a TV remote's end, and you do not see a red flash, it means your camera is not picking up infrared radiation. But such a camera may still allow you to photograph orbs.  The Sony A6000 mirrorless camera I use fails this "TV remote" test, but I still get many impressive orb photos with that camera.   I would say that whether your camera passes this "TV remote" test is not a make-or-break issue, but given two cameras, one that passes the test and the other that fails the test, it may be better to use the one that passes this test.

You may see a red light like this one

1. Try not to photograph orbs in some very dusty place, although you need not be too fussy about photographing in some place that has zero dust. The idea that invisible dust particles in ordinary air can cause prominent orbs in photos is a groundless fantasy advanced by skeptics – the dust particles in ordinary air are between 100 and 1000 times too small to produce such an effect, as explained here.
2. Try not to photograph orbs while pointing towards some very bright light such as the sun. This can produce lens flare, which can produce natural photo anomalies that might be mistaken for orbs.
3. Try to photograph only in dry weather. Rain drops and snow flakes can be mistaken for orbs.
4. If you get a remarkable orb photograph, try to post it online, along with a description of the weather conditions when it was taken. But what if you took a great orb photo before, and forgot what the weather was? Try to get the photo date by right-clicking on the photo file, and looking at the Properties tab. If you have the photo date, you can find out the weather on a previous day by using this site to find out what the weather was on that photo date.
5. Make sure that your camera flashes when you try to take an orb photograph.

A new poll by YouGovAmerica surveyed 1000 Americans about any parnormal experiences they may have had. More than two-thirds reported having some type of paranormal experience. Some of the most common experiences were:

"Feeling a presence or unknown energy": 37%

"Hearing a voice of someone who wasn't there": 29% 

"Feeling an unexplained change in temperature": 28%

"Seeing lights or other devices turn on or off without explanation": 25%

"Seeing an object move without explanation": 22%

"Seeing unexplained orbs of light": 22%

"Seeing a door open or close without explanation":  20%

"Seeing a ghost or spirit": 20%

"Seeing an angel": 13%

The page describing the poll gives one interesting bit of testimony from one of the people polled:

"I was in a 100-year-old hotel in Brazil with abandoned floors that were accessible. As my friend and I explored, the temperature dropped and we saw orbs of light."

I myself have had several of these experiences. I once saw a locked door open when no one was near it. I have more than once observed objects move inexplicably. I have repeatedly witnessed inexplicable activity regarding lights, including either a turning on by itself of a light or a light turning off inexplicably and then quickly turning back on. My post here mentions recent observations of this type. 

Note: A small section after the article explains more about INIT and The Seven.

Our INIT group received a message from The Seven ethereal beings in the autumn of 1996 through a telephone answering device in Luxembourg. Here’s an important excerpt:

One of The Seven.

We, The Seven of the Rainbow People, have decided to help and support the way chosen by you in INIT. It is the way of morals, which means to understand, to acknowledge, to devise, and to act…. Your meeting in Tarrytown is a decisive one… to make true the dream of a strong international association based on morals and on ethics, by giving it not only a fundamental constitution… but also by strengthening love and friendship true, the best qualities of mankind. — hear the complete message….

There seem to be two main things that keep a group strong and stable:

1. Morals, which come from inside us (or in-beyond of us) in the form of finer spiritual values, and
2. Ethics, which come from the social groups around us.

Morals Let Us Shine From Within

Morals are what every living thing (presumably) uses to chart a stable course in life. It means:

• To understand (to have a general sense of) the perfection of the source with its built-in motivations for love, kindness, gratitude, and desire to serve,
• To acknowledge that perfection,
• To devise ways to make our lives (and our world) as perfect as we can in the present circumstances, and
• To act accordingly.

Morals come from within. The guy might be thinking, that tree is like society—each leaf a person, each leaf knowing innately what needs to be done in the best interests of both itself and the tree.

In which case, morals start within us (or, more accurately, in-beyond of us), then get shaped by our conscious choices. (At the end we’ll explore ways to fine-tune ourselves so that we typically make the right moral choices.)

Ethics Shape Us From the Outside

Ethics, on the other hand, are created largely outside of ourselves, by our groups and by society. Their purpose here on Terra is to keep things peaceful in an agitated world. They spell out what’s appropriate or inappropriate, right or wrong.

Like branches and stems that touch every leaf, flower, berry, and thorn in a thick, wild bramble, ethics in world society touch everyone and every group as they spell out rules, responsibilities, standards, and values at many levels:

• Global ethics (UN mandates, treaties, multinational policies…) deal with wars, basic human rights, use of the oceans, protection of the atmosphere and the environment, Internet stability, standards to promote compatibility, international business practices, and other concerns that affect the whole world.
• National ethics (highest government laws and policies) deal with transportation and communication networks, health and safety, education, welfare, military, firearms, addictive substances, epidemics, taxes, and other concerns that affect the whole country.
• Social ethics (state, provincial, and local laws and regulations) deal with roads and bridges, traffic, waste disposal, utilities, land use, taxes, and so on. Businesses, clubs, churches, neighborhoods, homeowners’ associations, and other groups all create their own ethical codes. Family ethics might include chores, bedtimes, dinnertimes, and other household rules. Together, all of these social groups weave a complex network of ethics (rights and wrongs) that urge social stability and touch us all.
• Personal ethics. Most of us have at least a basic sense of what society deems right and wrong—and within that we also follow our own unique ethics (shaped largely by our brains, hormones, and DNA) that evolve over time to fine-tune our habits for grooming, eating, getting dressed, exercising, staying healthy, sleeping, choosing friends, having sex, getting along with others, and so on.

Basically, all of these ethics are just a vast, multilevel network of rules of right and wrong, and they’re vital in a world of drama and conflict—a world like Terra… a sometimes contentious world with predators, parasites, and competitors. Most of us have at least a vague sense of what’s ethically right and wrong, and we try to live our lives accordingly… but it’s often a struggle.

Morals or Ethics: Which Is More Important

There’s really no contest between moral living and ethical living here on Terra, because we need both during a lifetime, for different reasons.

• Ethical living protects us from Earth’s dangers (and from being dangerous to others) by urging us to make the right (ethical) choice, which might not always be the right moral choice.
• Moral living attunes us to the perfection of the source so that by nature we tend to make the right (moral) choice, which might not always be the right ethical choice.

Competition is a good example of the moral/ethical dichotomy. Living on Earth often calls for a degree of competitiveness—trees compete for sunlight, animals compete for food and mating rights, and we humans compete for all sorts of reasons—which is ethically fine in most modern societies—even expected. However, competition is morally wrong (in the purest sense of the term “morals”). Competition generally has a win-lose outcome… and losing is at odds with the source, which flourishes on win-win, live-and-let-live relationships.

At least, that’s what I believe, based on what I’m coming to understand about the source. Life-energy emitted by the source seems to be a bundle of motivations and values that nourish the entire cosmos and urge everything to flourish with vitality, love, truth, knowledge, and other catalysts that ensure win-win (mutualistic) and live-and-let-live (commensalistic) behavior. Any sort of win-lose behavior (i.e. predatory, parasitic, and competitive behavior) is at odds with the cosmos, since it doesn’t resonate with the source.

It’s why life on Earth is such a moral-ethical struggle. Predators, parasites, and competitors go against the general rule throughout the cosmos, as explained below):

• No competitors. Imagine a civilization with no competitive sports, no crime, no drama… where everyone comes together in like-minded groups in which cooperation is a way of life. That would be a moral civilization, and most of us humans might find it a bit boring. Our bodies are built to handle the stress that comes from living among competitors. Our brains, DNA, and hormones can give us a little thrill in competitive situations… and we’ve come to accept that as normal. Hence the need for ethics, which decide which competitive activities are acceptable, and which are not.

Ow-Ow-Ow-Ow-Ow-Ow-Ow-Ow-Ow-Ow!…

• No predators. Or, imagine a civilization without predators, in which living things never stalk*, hurt, or kill each other, not even for food, since everyone and everything is nourished by free life-energy. Again, that seems to be the rule of the cosmos, but Terra is an exception. Most living things on Earth eat other living things to supplement their nourishment, which makes us all “immoral.” Being a vegetarian (eating only plants) doesn’t necessarily solve that problem, as scientists today are finding that plants are conscious, ethical beings too, and simply mowing a field can be traumatic to millions of plants. (However, Terra does seem to have devised ways for moral eating, such as milk, honey, nectar, fruit, and other substances designed mainly to be eaten.)
• No parasites. Or, imagine a civilization without parasites, in which living things never take what doesn’t belong to them. At first glance, the cosmos seems like a parasitic place—everything sucking life-energy from the source. Actually, though, everything belongs to the source, the source belongs to everything, and everything, ideally, receives all it needs to flourish in the form of life-energy. So it’s not really “parasitic.” On Earth we think in terms of ownership and possessions. The organs, tissues, and body fluids in an organism belong to the organism. The people, products, and resources of a nation belong to the nation, and so on. If we take what “belongs” to someone else (parasitic behavior), the results might include arguments, crime, war, and other causes of suffering.

*I use a broad definition of the word stalk: to devise ways to harm someone or something, and then to act on those impulses.

Predators enjoy the element of surprise, the rascals.

So Earth, with all of its predators, parasites, and competitors, isn’t a moral world. We might wonder, why even consider moral living during a lifetime? Is it even possible?

That’s why humanity down through the ages has come to rely on ethics as a back-up to morals. There are earthy situations when moral choices can be problematic… like a sparring partner turning the other cheek, or an honest politician succumbing to the popular lying and cheating of his opponent, or a peaceful country that’s attacked by an aggressive neighbor, or parents who learn that they’ve hired a predatory babysitter….

Sometimes we humans have to set aside our morals in order to protect ourselves against hostile forces that threaten our well-being and survival.

But even that’s debatable.

Pros and Cons of Moral Living on Terra

There are obvious advantages and disadvantages to living a moral life on Earth.

Pros

According to great spiritual teachers, the benefits of moral living are vast, even if they’re sometimes difficult… even painful. Let’s consider some practical examples of the advantages of moral living.

• Jesus and pacifism. When we’re subject to aggression (struck on the cheek, for example), Jesus of Nazareth said, simply, turn the other cheek. In other words, in the face of aggression, defuse the violence by not reacting. Become a pacifist. That’s a noticeable benefit of pacifism—deescalating conflict—but the invisible benefits are far greater, according to Jesus and other great masters. Moral living raises our spiritual vibration, which invites finer spiritual forces to support us in our daily lives. That fine vibration also acts as a homing signal to carry us to wonderful afterlife scenarios after we die… when we return to our spiritual roots.
• Buddha and non desire. But pacifism isn’t the only way to reap those spiritual rewards; non desire works too. When we crave money and other worldly things, it’s a sign that we’re neglecting the source with its life-energy—what many Buddhists call the universal life force. Gautama Buddha laid out steps to open the channels to the life force by overcoming our desires that keep us earthy and make us suffer. The benefits of following those steps? Inner peace amid Earth’s drama and, ultimately, enlightenment and oneness.
• Rumi and oneness. This 13^th Century Persian mystic said, “Don’t feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.” In other words, we can rise above Earth’s dramas by accessing the source of everything that rests at the center of our being. We’re never “lonely” when we feel a oneness with the all-that-is.

These are just a few examples (pacifism, non desire, and oneness) of how moral living helps us enjoy mutualistic (win-win) and commensalistic (live-and-let-live) relationships with others, without being predatory, parasitic, or competitive. It lets us tread lightly on the planet during a lifetime, and then earns us a ticket to paradise after we die.

Cons

But there are drawbacks to moral living on Earth too, especially pure moral living, or being in harmony with the perfect source:

• Non desire and poverty. Renouncing our desires for things could lead to poverty.
• Pacifism and vulnerability. Pacifists are more susceptible to predators, parasites, and competitors.
• Abstinence and alienation. Avoiding drugs and alcohol (which often stir up competitive, parasitic, and predatory behavior) can exclude us from social groups where people partake.
• Celibacy and its problems. Repressing our sexuality can cause physical tension and emotional distress.
• Fasting and hunger. If we refused to eat anything that had to suffer to become our food, most of us would probably starve. (… see the “Cattle Madness” article on pages 9 and 10 of this linked journal… )

A good working definition of morality on Earth, then, is 1) to understand the perfection of the source, 2) to acknowledge it, 3) to devise ways to live as morally as possible without causing suffering for others or for ourselves, and 4) to behave accordingly.

If we were to add another step tailored for us humans, it might be 5) Foster conscious contact with the source, if only for a few minutes, in order to experience peace. Meditation and contemplative prayer can help us to rise above the influences of our hormones and brains—to transcend our egos—in order to feel guided by oneness and a desire to serve. So… try to resonate with the source.

Striving To Resonate with the Source

Everything that’s right and good is embodied in the pure life-energy (or source light) that radiates from the center of everyone and everything, as suggested in this pulled-apart diagram of a person. That seems to be the simple truth at work throughout the cosmos: All is connected to the source. All is one. All is good.

Bad things happen here on Terra because our connection to the source is compromised. That’s why life in this wild world gets painful. Or as Cat Stevens says, it’s why ‘a lot of nice things turn bad out there.’

Only good is embodied in the source that shines at the center of everything, including us, so we can simply contact our inner light to know what’s right. There are techniques that we humans can use (especially meditation and contemplative prayer) to slowly foster a resonance with those stabilizing forces that shine brightly at the center of us… at the center of everything in the cosmos. (read more… )

Personal use of those techniques can bring us peace—a peace that spreads into the groups we belong to and out into world.

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Closing Note: More About INIT and The Seven

I helped Maggy and Jules Harsch-Fischbach arrange (with guidance from Juliet Hollister) the first annual meeting of INIT in 1995 (in Dartington, England). The couple had been receiving unprecedented spirit communications via TV, radio, computer, telephone, and other devices in recent years, and we hoped to spread those breakthroughs to a wider community of researchers.

The following year, shortly before our second meeting (here in the USA, in Tarrytown), we received the message (mentioned at the beginning) from The Seven ethereal beings who were facilitating our ITC bridge from behind the scenes.

The Seven told us on other occasions that they’d been watching and supporting humanity across the eons, and I’ve come to believe that they’re the same ethereal beings who’ve made their presence known to many cultures in many eras. They’re probably the Seven Archangels known by Jews, Christians, and Muslims; the seven shaktis and seven rishis known by Hindus, the seven happy gods of Japanese lore, the seven Hathors of ancient Egypt, and much, much more. It makes sense that if those Seven have been with us across the eons, their presence would have been known and talked about by our ancestors.

This is a pulled-apart diagram that’s broken down into seven arbitrary levels of our spiritual make-up:

Life-energy leaves the source with boundless vitality, complete knowledge and perfect attitudes
as it creates and nourishes everything everywhere with life, love, and purpose.

The entire cosmos is apparently shaped by a moral principle:
Every entity tries to understand the perfection of the source, to acknowledge it,
to devise ways to put it to good use, and to act accordingly.

That moral principle was delivered through the telephone answering device
of founding INIT members Jules and Maggy Harsch-Fischbach of Luxembourg in 1996.
It came from one of The Seven finer beings (inset).

(disclosure: please note I have changed some minor errors from the original that in no way impedes the topic)

Keith Clarke has published a series of three articles on his idigitalmedium site about the early experiments of Maggy and Jules Harsch-Fischbach in Luxembourg, conducted during a visit by George Meek (USA) and professor Ernst Senkowski (Germany) in 1987.

I was given several excerpts from those contacts by Dr Senkowski when he visited Regina and me here in Colorado in the early 1990s, so it was exciting to hear and see the complete contacts on Keith’s site.

You can clearly hear the high-pitched voice of ethereal being Technician, who introduces, facilitates, and ends the contacts with Konstantin Raudive, “Nelson D. Rockefeller,” and Henri Ste Claire de Ville.

(I put Rockefeller’s name in quotes because the spirit introduces himself with that name, but the late governor’s actual name was Nelson Aldridge Rockefeller. Inconsistencies like that are not unusual in ITC and spirit communication. It seems that once we leave the earth, many of the earthly details of our lifetime such as name and address sometimes start to blur as we settle into a subtler world. There are also sometimes spirit imposters.)

Here are links to the three articles by Ron Ruiz and William Pimblott about those early experiments in Luxembourg:

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1) https://idigitalmedium.com/euro-signal-bridge-jules-maggy-harsch-fischbach-part-1/

The first article has five audio clips of the voice contacts through Maggy’s radios, and a couple of frames from the video contacts that came through her TV later.

• More information about the contact by Henri Ste Claire de Ville can be found here….
• The actual video clips from Maggy’s early TV experiments can be seen here….

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2) https://idigitalmedium.com/the-euro-signal-bridge-of-jules-and-maggy-harsch-fischbach-part-2/

The second article goes into some detail about the technical specifications of the hardware being used for those voice experiments.

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3) https://idigitalmedium.com/euro-signal-bridge-jules-maggy-harsch-fischbach-part-3/

The third article explores the technical detail of hardware used in the video experiments.

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Keith and his colleagues at idigitalmedium are doing a good job of rounding up some of that historic ITC information and exploring the correct approach to ITC. One recent article, for example, is by my friend and colleague Rolf Ehrhardt: Some ideas about the way ITC works… which you can read at the following link at Keith’s site…

https://idigitalmedium.com/some-ideas-about-the-way-itc-works/

… or at the original worlditc site:

www.worlditc.org/f_04_rodiehr_some_ideas.htm

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On a separate note, I just published the latest end-of-year news roundup on my Noble Savage World website, for those interested.

Editor’s note: In the landmark book Breakthroughs in Technical Spirit Communication, co-author Maggy Harsch-Fishbach of Luxembourg recalls in detail her miraculous rapport with spirit group Timestream… especially the spirit of late scientist Swejen Salter and ethereal being Technician. Maggy’s frank and inspiring recollections give some of the greatest understanding available in today’s world about the nature of the afterlife and the qualities necessary to foster a sustainable connection between this world and that… as indicated by this adaptation of Part 2 of her book about ITC (instrumental transcommunication), the use to technology to get in touch with the other side.

Read Part 2 of Maggy’s book in its entirety

Background. Swejen Salter was a scientist on planet Varid, one of Earth’s parallel physical worlds… each of which follow similar evolutionary paths with some variations. Societies on Varid, for example, evolved in a Dickensian way in which children were nurtured in large institutions by professional caregivers rather than in families… so that the noble-savage inconsistencies among parents didn’t pose the widespread problems that they do on Earth… where “sins of the father” can be passed on from generation to generation to generation….

Read more about parallel worlds

Science on Varid was deeply involved in multidimensional research, especially ITC, unlike Newtonian science on modern Earth, which has blindfolded itself from the vast spiritual worlds that flourish with life all around us. Terrestrial science today is immersed completely in the illusory material world, whereas Varidian science was more integrated with spiritual reality.

This sci-fi-like scenario of many parallel worlds evolving separately like cages of lab animals under controlled conditions is just one of many mind-boggling insights into reality gleaned by Maggy Harsch-Fischbach through her other-worldly communications using ITC systems… and it provides the basis for her historic research.

Dr Swejen Salter died in an explosion on Varid in 1987 and was recruited in the afterlife to help Earth advance its multidimensional understanding. In Luxembourg at the same time, schoolteacher Maggy Harsch-Fischbach was attracted to ITC research while watching the TV show Unbelievable Stories being broadcast by RTL (Radio-Television Luxembourg).

A group of ethereal beings calling themselves “The Seven” were closely observing all of these scenarios. Like superhuman lab scientists, they were controlling some of the conditions in this multidimensional experiment involving many parallel physical worlds and their corresponding spiritual worlds. They put Swejen Salter in charge of Timestream spirit group, and they selected Maggy harsch-Fischbach as the first full-fledged ITC researcher on Earth, for whom a communication bridge would be opened, sustained, and protected by the ethereals.

The job of Swejen Salter at Timestream sending station would be to share information with Maggy Harsch-Fischbach in Luxembourg through the high-tech communication bridge being monitored and facilitated by The Seven,  especially the one calling himself “Technician.”

Maggy and Swejen often chatted on the phone like girlfriends, as Swejen coordinated the work of hundreds of people-in-spirit who all shared the desire to foster a connection with their loved ones back home on Planet Earth. Swejen and her spirit colleagues also talked through Maggy’s radio sounds, sent video images from the afterlife through her TV set, and planted files on her computer containing long messages and bit-mapped images. They even sent Maggy some FAXes!

In short, the doors were open wide, thanks largely to Technician, who described his assigned role as gatekeeper between heaven and earth.

Friendly, Insightful Dialogs

In one of her early computer messages to Maggy in the late 1980s, Swejen wrote:

I died at the age of 38 as the result of an accident. Death came suddenly and unexpectedly. I was totally unprepared and cannot remember my passing over. I awoke on a recliner in a cheerfully decorated room that I had never seen before. Before I could have a closer look around, a tall, imposing man entered the room and identified himself as Richard Francis Burton. He welcomed me and started showing me the world in which he had lived since the year 1890 of your Earth time. I felt happy and safe here. Everybody was friendly and helpful. Still, the change was difficult. It is not easy to adapt to a new life when one is torn away from a daily routine.

On one occasion, Swejen told Maggy:

Unfortunately I cannot and may not answer all your questions. Do not forget that I have to get permission for some of this information from higher beings.

On another occasion, Technician added:

Swejen Salter is being granted much freedom of information!

As Swejen got acclimated to her new afterlife surroundings, she reported to Maggy:

If you harbor bad intentions and thoughts you will not be here very long.

She explained that people who carry with them to the afterlife a lot of emotional baggage (earthly resentments, suspicions, fears, cravings…), and are unable to detach from the troubled thinking, might suddenly find themselves in darker, more confused surroundings for awhile, or reincarnate to Earth to try to work out the problems in another lifetime.

Spirit communication pioneer Konstantin Raudive, a Latvian psychologist, died in 1974 and also joined Timestream spirit group. In July 1986 he told Maggy:

On the third level of consciousness each of us individually will find ourself closer to our own true self. While on Earth I tried to be something other than my true self. Most people try to paint a picture of themselves other than what they really are. Today, on this world, I acknowledge my own true self more.

Swejen reported to Maggy that various deceased scientists were being drawn to ITC projects, including psychologist Karl Jung, Nikola Tesla, Guglielmo Marconi, Marie Curie and Albert Einstein.

When scientist Konrad Lorenz died in 1989, Swejen Salter reported his arrival at Timestream:

He (Lorenz) was transported to us in a magnificent ship surrounded by people. Imagine a Viking ship in which his (astral) body was brought to his destination. He is still in a state of sleep. But it can already be observed that his features and his body are changing and becoming more youthful. Lorenz will probably remain in this regenerative sleep for only a short time. The sleep duration varies from one individual to another. It is generally about six weeks of earth time. Some people need considerably less.

Maggy was told that she and Swejen Salter shared a certain spiritual resonance, and so did Konrad Lorenz, which enabled him also to communicate without too much trouble through Maggy’s ITC bridge.

Maggy recalled her contact with Konrad Lorenz, “Compared to others, who could no longer express themselves in their lifetime speech pattern, Lorenz seemed to have no problems putting his thoughts through a spirit apparatus and forming them into human language. As he spoke to me, his voice gradually lost the monotony of synthetic speech. Dialog became possible and I forgot that I was speaking to a “dead” one. I noticed that Lorenz rolled his “r” and spoke with an Austrian accent. He was very friendly, advised me to take notes, and spoke slowly and distinctly. He thanked me for the nice report I had written about him.”

Maggy was told on various occasions, by Swejen, Technician, and others, that the laws and principles in the spirit world were quite different from Earth, and information sent to our world had to be translated or polished into a context that could be understood by us terrestrial humans. If the information were delivered straight to our world in unfiltered form, it would seem bizarre and incomprehensible. Pictures from the astral worlds, for example, could be sent to us only if the images were earth-like enough for us to recognize.

That seems to be one of the main obstacles facing modern ITC research: the very limited understanding of us on Earth. Our multidimensional insensitivity filters out much of the information that could come into our world from beyond.

Another obstacle is our tendency to fall into negative thinking. A protected ITC bridge to finer realms can remain open only as long as there is a harmony of good feelings on both sides. Fears and animosities harbored by earth experimenters can attract troubled spirits into the situation. This is a problem our spirit friends have to contend with. Swejen Salter told Maggy in 1989:

Recently I have been very busy trying to avert negative influences. I am therefore avoiding contacts at present which could contribute to interference.

Successful ITC rests on the harmonic cooperation of the people involved. That harmony sets up a “contact field” of life energy conducive to close interaction by a spirit group. Then, when the factors of good will come together, miracles can unfold.

Around the year 1990, two annual conferences were to be held—a small ITC conference in Bad Muenstereifel, Germany, and a much larger PSI Days conference in Basel, Switzerland. Swejen Salter said the conditions (group harmony) at the smaller conference would be much more conducive for a live ITC contact. Swejen:

I do not know yet if a contact attempt is possible in Basel. It is too early to tell. At present the timelines are not favorable…. Conditions are especially good for a contact in Bad Muenstereifel. At the moment they are better than for Basel. Many good and serious researchers will be going to Bad Muenstereifel. The participants are able to build a favorable contact field with which we can work. There is a general feeling of responsibility.

I shall try to adjust through you to the light bridge. Ask your co-workers for video pictures of the equipment! I shall attempt to enjoin the participants positively in their thoughts. At the time of contact seven higher beings will be present in the hall. One of them is in contact with the medium Mr Zoennchen. Another being is guiding the contacts of the Group Homes/Malkhoff in Rivenich… The Technician is one of the seven entities. They are depending on the harmonic cooperation of all humans. Their main technical sources of help will be the Light.

While you make the introduction I shall try to orient to you by your voice. During the experiment all doors should remain closed. Ask the audience not to use any photo flashes. There is a danger that the energy field may collapse. Regular picture taking or audio and video recording are allowed.

After a successful spirit contact at the Bad Muenstereifel conference, Swejen reported to Maggy by phone:

We made the same efforts that you made in your cooperation…. The harmony was great and contributed very much to accomplishing the contact. There was joy and satisfaction but also confusion. There was tension and stress while operating the equipment. A total of 57 transmission attempts through space and time were made! Only two arrived, one of them distorted, the other one was clearer. We do not know the exact outcome and hope at least a few sentences could be understood.

Heli Schaefer on our side tried to harmonize the spirit groups involved. We had a few complaints about some technical steps on your side which proved more of a handicap than a help. Do not forget the people here have only one advantage that you don’t have: They have crossed the threshold of eternity, while otherwise they are still very much like they were on earth. Some of them feel too much is expected of them during this period of bridge-building. Of course we do not suffer from exhaustion as you do, but we know the feeling of not getting any rest because so much remains to be done. 

Revisiting the archives of early ITC messages from Timestream and The Seven has an anchoring effect.

My aim with this website is to digest the amazing information received from the other side between 1985 and 2000—when voices, images, and text streamed into our world through technical equipment—and to adapt that knowledge into articles pertinent to modern living.

When I veer off course a bit with my writing and get too embroiled in worldly things, these visits to the archives help pull me back to center.

Timestream, as readers know, is a spirit community of our loved ones and colleagues and people from various eras and walks of life who came together after death with the shared purpose of opening communication channels with ITC researchers on Earth.

The project was formed under the protection and guidance of seven ethereal beings, including the one calling himself “Technician.”

Between the years 1985 and 2000 we were given secrets of our ancient past, insights into our spiritual nature, and vivid descriptions of the paradise worlds where most people awaken after death… as well as technical tips for opening and sustaining an ITC bridge.

It’s easy to get a little off track while alive on Earth. As Technician told us 25 years ago:

You are living in a time where truth is readily distorted and where wrong speculations about eternal life are prematurely professed as the only correct ones.

That’s why I try to stay anchored in the pure ITC contacts as I write articles for this website.

So, who exactly is the Technician?

I’ve been round and round that question since my first encounter with the brilliant being two decades ago. The Technician told us, through a radio ITC system of the Harsch-Fischbach couple in Luxembourg, in the fall of 1986:

I am not human, and I was never a material being (incarnate). I am not and never was an animal. I am neither energy nor light being. I was and I am a superhuman being responsible for planet earth.

(In the original German: ‘Ich bin kein Mensch, ich war nie inkarniert – ich bin und war nie ein Tier – ich bin keine Energie und kein Lichtwesen- ich war und bin ein uebermenschliches Wesen und zustaendig fuer den Planeten Erde.’)

That message offers hints about where our ITC information was coming from, but it opens up many more questions.

What’s the nature of this superhuman?

Who assigned him to planet Earth?

How could he be “superhuman” if he’d never been a physical “human?”

Questions like these baffled me for years, and I had dig deeper into ITC contacts and then explore outside ITC altogether to get reasonable answers.

I learned that some of “The Seven” had lived physical lives.

Read more about The Seven

And they seemed to be tied to our most ancient human heritage, tracing back to a world called “Eden.”

Read more about the Edenites

And they apparently played a key role in the “First Epoch” of modern humanity, in that elusive civilization that went by various names, including “Atlantis.”

Read more about Atlantis

Over my years of ITC research I naturally developed an implicit trust in those seven beings, who have the knack for putting earthly problems into perspective.

When asked if there was a purpose for human suffering, Technician replied:

Pain is part of the human ego, and you might experience it for different reasons. It might be something you need and deserve as a consequence for your own actions. It might be something given to you by higher powers in order to accelerate your learning process for heightened perception on your path toward perfection.

I also developed a sense of friendship and confidence in our spirit friends of Timestream sending station, who worked in close collaboration with The Seven.

Konstantin Raudive was a Latvian psychologist and ITC pioneer who died in 1974 and then said it was his calling to continue the research after his death. He told us how ITC happens on the other side, and what life is like in the mid-astral planes, or third spirit level, where ITC contacts originate:

Dear friends! Imagine the installation here as a computer. What you say arrives here in writing. Great help is Professor (Ernst) Senkowski, a clever man.

On the third level in the Beyond, the human being finds its way back to its proper self. When I was living on your side, I always tried to be somebody other than who I really was; most people try to present a self-image that is not really accurate. Now that I am here, I assert in closer accord with my innate ego.

Konstantin Raudive again, in August 1986, during one of his philosophical moments:

Existence today, with its many levels of spiritual and physical being, could be compared to a motorway that comes from anywhere and leads to anywhere. Travelers move along the motorway, stopping here or there for awhile, and then continue their journeys.

Humans on Earth are those sitting in the motorway service area. They believe their stay there to be their entire life and the only form of existence. Most of them see little or nothing of the motorway, as they are completely absorbed in the service area. They forget what had happened before—the journey or the service area.

Even though the service area is only a service area, its visitors would benefit from making an effort to keep it in good condition, since new guests are always arriving.

Unfortunately, service area guests at the present time do not at all behave accordingly. They contaminate it, as the industrialized countries do, or they allow too many guests to stop off at once until there is no space or service available, and there is nothing more to eat or drink.

There is a purpose for the service area. Travelers could recover there and gather strength for the journey ahead. They could study roadmaps and get an understanding of the motorway, since the coming journey is unavoidable.

But people muddle themselves in the service area and get drunk and distracted… and when it’s time to leave, they no longer know where to go.

For sure, the Earth is no paradise, but there is no inherent need to make it a vale of tears. 

Every research, every science should have one underlying purpose: to inform and to serve the traveler.

And in February 1987, in a more practical mindset, Konstantin spoke about the problems presented by envy among researchers who were not getting the quality of contacts being received in Luxembourg:

Many researchers suffer from the fact that transcommunication in the form as it is made accessible to you today, or, for example, with the Spiricom method (of Americans George Meek and Bill O’Neil), or with Hans König (of Germany), or in Grosseto (with Italian researcher Marcello Bacci), has not yet opened up to them.

For life on your side, envy is an impediment not to be underestimated—an impediment sometimes leading to a storm of defamation against researchers such as yourselves who are receiving this. The storm might only worsen as these enhanced forms of transcommunication continue.

Arguments against you may be ridiculous, and investigations against you may be cunning, but in all cases are taken up and repeated from almost all sides, without verification.

Most people today simply do not want to realize that there are humans who, after passing to the Beyond, have found ways and means for reporting to the other side—that is, to you. 

Human survival after bodily death is a fact.

Only when the last remnants of niggling emotions and hostilities have been cast off, will mind and spirit be in a position to come to learn and to understand cosmic spheres. This involves a wearisome cycle of death and reincarnation. It is not possible to elevate the public understanding of life and afterlife overnight.

The miraculous contacts received in Luxembourg between 1985 and 2000 were choreographed by Technician, whose superhuman expertise, more than anything else, built and sustained the ITC bridge. As he told the Harsch-Fischbach researchers during a contact in Januay 1987:

My attempts to reach you are like a pilot’s efforts to land on a small island in a vast ocean on a particular day at a particular time… a very delicate approach… but today the landing has come off well!

Editor’s note: The messages below (in italics) from the superhuman spirit Technician were received by the Luxembourg ITC experimenters Harsch-Fischbach in 1986-7.

In December of 1986, Technician reminded us humans that when the time comes for our final journey to the next life… there’s a baggage limit.

With God, reputations do not matter. Regardless of whether people are kings or of some other high ranking, before God only the spiritual standing counts. When people on Earth do not enjoy the esteem of their fellow creatures, many around them turn away. It is the same in the spirit world. If people lack the necessary spiritual esteem, the spirit world turns away. When humans arrive here after their bodily death, our world turns away from them if they have laid too many things at their doors.

There are probably a couple of things we have to consider here. One is the spiritual vibration we’ve developed over the course of a lifetime. A life of good will toward others produces a fine, light vibration that resonates with paradise, whereas a life of resentment or malice forges a density or darkness of spirit. The second thing might be the sequence of events we’ve created over a lifetime with our thoughts, words and actions—what Technician calls “too many things” laid at our doors.

Our vibration quickly determines our destiny once we die and leave our body behind, as our spirit finds a compatible home—a realm in which it resonates… whether it’s a paradise world inhabited by people of good will, or one of the dismal communities closer to Earth in vibration, where troubled people-in-spirit resume their familiar patterns driven by fear or animosity. That vibration, however, is apparently offset to some degree by the actual things we’ve done… the people we’ve affected.

The events we’ve created over our lifetime, I would suspect, are the subject of the “movie” we’re shown after we die. According to various sources, we observe, often in the presence of a higher being, a quick replay of our lifetime, showing our acts of kindness or cruelty and their impact on our fellow creatures of Earth. So… even if we’ve achieved a fine, light vibration late in life, an abundance of bad choices early in life could compel us to return to Earth in another lifetime to try again.

We apparently come to Earth with a mission or soul purpose, but our ego or conscious mind sometimes veers off-course… in which case our spirit guides try to help us toe the line. Referring to people trying to pursue a course not on their soul path, the Technician said:

If a higher power is not willing, you should try to let things follow their own course. Do not try to swim against the current. Do not judge why these people or those people experience misfortune or affliction. Everything has its meaning and purpose. This, however, does not mean that man should let himself drift along. Every man should go his way in pursuing his aim. Man should try to adorn his soul and nurture it, and to develop the precious light that is within himself. By means of meditation, he should try to break through the mental fogginess.

So, for most people it takes inner work to gain a conscious awareness of their soul purpose. Once on course, we begin making choices that benefit ourselves and those around us.

Then, once we get settled into paradise, we can get a vastly expanded view not just of our recent lifetime, but of our many lives. Again, the Technician:

Every human coming from your side to our side has the opportunity to experience part of the Akasha chronicle on the so-called third level. Everything that ever has happened is recorded in the Akashic records…. What (many of you do) not know is that the Akasha chronicle is part of the third level, a so-called world chronicle. It is, we might say, integrated in the third level of the Beyond.

The Akashic chronicle is like an immense library containing the complete, detailed history of life on Earth.

Read more about the Akashic records.

“Third level” here refers to the Frederic Myers spirit-world model.

Read more about that model.

Many people on Earth, when reaching a certain level of spiritual knowledge, are faced with the same question: If we’ve experienced many lifetimes, and if we’ve had a lot of experiences in various spirit worlds between our lifetimes… why don’t we remember them. Technician explains:

Remembering their various sojourns in the spirit worlds could lead to deep depressions for many people, since that level of beauty is unattainable on Earth. Stinging memories of mistakes made in past lifetimes would also distress people. Many feel joy when having done good things, but many are also able to feel joy when having done evil things, and they would do evil things again to repeat the joyous feeling. The animal consciousness has been forced on humans. Man himself is not bad. Prior to the last ice age men lived peacefully together, man with man and man with animals.

That last sentence about the last ice age opens many questions…

Read more about ice age timelines.

If the original message and its translation into English indeed refer to the last ice age (rather than the shorter-term ‘glaciation periods’ that form an ice age), then we have to go back some 360 million years, when the Karoo ice age began.

Read more about the Karoo ice age.

There was apparently a major event at that time, maybe an asteroid impact, that wiped out most living species and triggered the ice age.

Read about that extinction.

Up to that time, apparently, humans were living on Earth in peace… if the translation of Technician’s message is to be taken literally. There’s little additional informatino to be found among the ITC communications, and nothing in the archives of conventional science to suggest what kind of human cultures could have been flourishing on Earth so long ago… other than peaceful ones.

Editor’s note: The article below, about our fascinating ancient heritage, was assembled with excerpts from my book, The Project. The italicized text indicates information given to our INIT group by ethereal beings through ITC systems (and carefully paraphrased in some cases to preserve the meaning)… material that I consider to be completely reliable. The rest of the information in the article is what I gleaned from science, myth, deduction, and other sources to fill in the holes.

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Long, long ago a planet called Eden, or Marduk, circled our sun in a regular orbit between Mars and Jupiter. Eden was a paradise world beyond the Earth where humans had no inclination toward evil. The humans of Eden were far superior to us today, biologically as well as technologically (what we today might call superhumans or titans or gods), and they served as stewards of that lush, perfect planet.

The superhuman Edenites had mastered travel through space and among dimensions, and they colonized Terra, or Earth, which was not a paradise world. Living things on Terra killed each other to survive in a ruthless environment. The Edenite colonists on Earth had to fight some of nature’s most dangerous creatures that would not submit to human will.

Back on their home planet, the Edenites’ vast technologies got out of hand and destroyed the planet in a massive explosion. Eden became a hodge-podge of various-sized rocks and boulders that pummeled the other planets and moons in the solar system, leaving them pock-marked with craters.

After the destruction of Eden (which I believe must have occurred more than 3 billion years ago), the human colonists from Eden became marooned on Earth when their home planet was destroyed, and they were the last living Edenites.

We humans today are the product of a guided evolution, which included genetic engineering experiments by the Edenite castaways over the course of millions of years.

Beyond that basic story, most of our ancient heritage is still largely a puzzle… but science is beginning to assemble puzzle pieces. For example, NASA recently released compelling evidence that Mars was once a watery planet much like the Earth. These images below, from space.com, are probably close to what Mars looked like before the explosion of its neighbor, Eden or Marduk, more than 3 billion years ago… although I’m fairy certain Mars was a lot greener with lush vegetation than these pictures would suggest.

Three pictures of what Mars probably looked like 3 billion years ago, before the destruction of Eden.

View all 25 images at space.com

A series of ITC contacts have convinced me that Atlantis was located in the North Atlantic, with its capital of Basileia near modern-day Helgoland, and science may be starting to look in the right directions.

First, the ITC contacts:

From the ethereal being Thfirrin (click here for the journal with the complete contact on page 6):

Long, long ago when humans came to Earth from Eden (or Marduk), they lost mastery over nature after their dissension with the serpent…

(Ancient legends about the Fall of Man) are based on a factual incident: the downfall of the civilization you often call Atlantis, also known by other names. This downfall was brought about by the descendants of the last inhabitants of Marduk who became marooned on planet Terra. This downfall came through reliance and blind trust in a massive technology.

From our spirit friend Swejen Salter (click here for that journal, then see page 5):

Project Sothis started 20,000 years ago. Its final phase took place in Atlantis. Basilaie was the king’s island in an empire that sank in the middle of the 13th century B.C. It was located east of Helgoland. Diving expeditions have meanwhile located in the waters of a boulder field the ruins of manmade walls.

The Atlanteans were not necessarily the kind of people that many of you imagine. They did have a great culture, but they also had a great fleet that attacked and robbed the Mediterranean countries…. Warrior sailors (had) long swords, horned helmets, ships’ bows built like the neck of a swan….

Then, from a recent scientific report:

Long ago there may have been a land bridge linking Norway and the British Isles, according to geologists studying sonograms taken by oil companies. The plot of land shown in the diagram below was drawn from the sonograms. (click here for that story)

Site of Atlantis

This particular land mass found recently by the geologists is buried a mile below the seabed, so it probably sank into the ocean some 56 million years ago, long before Atlantis sank 3,400 years ago.

The land mass might not be direct evidence of Atlantis, but at least scientists are looking in the right general area. If they continue to explore the seabed in and around the North Sea, I suspect they’ll begin finding traces of “the lost civilization.”

Paracelsus in lifetime

Paracelsus… lifetime

Paracelsus in the spirit world (picture received by computer, 1991, in Luxembourg)

This article sheds some light on the complexities of the subtle realms beyond the physical, and the challenges to be faced by future ITC researchers as they try to open technical communication channels with the other side. The following contacts were made possible by the Timestream spirit group, which comprised many deceased humans with a shared interest in communicating with loved ones and colleagues still alive on Earth.

The efforts of the spirit group are facilitated by Technician, one of seven ethereal beings who are responsible, more than any other force, for the extraordinary bridge that opened up for the Harsch-Fischbach couple of Luxembourg and their colleagues, such as myself, over the span of 15 years. Most of our spirit friends have bodies like ours, but at the prime of life and in the peak of health… and when The Seven descend in vibration to work with our spirit friends, they manifest subtle human-like bodies that glow in rainbow colors. The spirits tell us that being in their presence is like standing before a bank of living supercomputers. Technician often describes his role as a “gatekeeper” for communications between our world and the worlds of spirit. Technician makes miracles happen, simply put.

The contacts in this article were received between 1987 and 1992. The first excerpts refer to two ITC systems of radios and TVs set up by the experimenters under the guidance of Technician. ESB (EurosignalBridge) allowed the transmission of voice and pictures through TV, radio, and telephone. GA1 provided direct two-way communication but was unstable, based as it was on the minds and attitudes of humans participating in the contacts. (More information on these and other ITC systems can be found on page 8 of the journal Contact! issue 9602.)

Parallel Worlds. The Technician describes parallel material universes in which we humans carry on simultaneous lives on other planets similar to our lives on Earth but with different scenarios.

In 1987 the Technician warned the Luxembourg couple:

GA1 experiments are direct contacts with other dimensions. This means, when you speak to me in this manner unexpected possibilities are opening up for you. I advise you to let only mature and stable people attend GA1 sessions. Unwittingly, people with their thoughts set forces in motion in our dimensions. When using GA1 in public you risk not getting any contact at all if unbelievers are present.

The decisions you and other participants make over this system trigger many possibilities in many worlds. Do not make any GA1 tape recordings except when I advise you and can protect you from unpleasantness. If you do not follow my advice and do record it, you run the risk of finding yourself in a parallel world the next morning. This danger does not exist when you use ESB as this is not a direct contact system and is better suited for the Earth dimension.

Presumably this is because of erratic, emotional thinking among humans, which makes a mind-based system like GA1 dangerously unstable. Our world and our consciousness consists of vibrations which always affect the subtle worlds around us… but evidently to a far greater degree when a system like GA1 is operating.

Shadow Worlds. One of the more fascinating dialogs in 1992 dealt with a shadowy world that apparently exists between the physical and spiritual worlds. This is a phone dialog between Maggy Fischbach and her spirit friend Swejen Salter, director of Timestream.

Spiritside: Some people with the help of their abilities may get unwanted contacts to a world which is different than the spirit world. That world is a shadow world of earth. Some voice recordings that do not make sense reach you from this shadow world.

Earthside: What do you mean by shadow world? A lower level?

Spiritside: No, that word is not suitable. At present i cannot give you a better word to explain it. It is not a negative world. It is a world that closely resembles your earth. Beings exist there who also engage in ITC. In some respects they have progressed ahead of you. In other areas they are behind you.

Earthside: You are speaking of a parallel world of earth?

Spiritside: No, it is not a parallel world. I can only describe it as a non-negative shadow world which occasionally manifests physically in your world and more or less overlaps your world. From this world come the signs in your wheat fields.

Earthside: Now I am disappointed! I thought the signs were coming from extra-terrestials. You are telling me what I do not like to hear.

Spiritside: I am sorry, but this is the way things are.

Earthside: Do the people of that world know about our existence?

Spiritside: Yes. As I said before, their understanding in some respect is more advanced. They tried to give you signs during your voice recording experiments. Do you remember the paranormal voices you recorded two years ago when you thought Konstantin Raudive and I had come through? It was a microphone recording. I told you later through the Burton Bridge that we had not announced ourselves.

Earthside: Yes, I remember. But those voices resembled your voices so closely, I could not understand that it was not you!

Spiritside: They were voices from that shadow world. Many people on earth receive voices and signs from this world and do not know it.

Earthside: That is not exactly encouraging.

Spiritside: Of course not, Maggy. But neither is it encouraging when you realize that these voices do not improve in time and are of no benefit to man.

Earthside: Can’t you tell these people or entities in the shadow world they should stay out of our contacts?

Spiritside: (Swejen laughs.)

Earthside: Yes, I know, somebody else could say the same to me. But please tell me how I can avoid contacts with a world that cannot help me progress?

Spiritside: By continuing to stay with me and the Technician. We can avert much from you. There is no reason to be disturbed. No harm will come to any person who is in contact with this shadow world. However, it is important that you inform other experimenters about it.

At the end of the conversation Swejen said that some UFO phenomena are merely manifestations of this shadow world and do not originate in higher levels.

I suspect that many extraterrestrials visiting our world in flying craft move in and out between those shadow worlds and our physical world. That would account for the such UFO behaviors as fading away and blinking out (disappearing).   – – MHM