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And this Keith Parson's segment about Rosemary Brown, which I think Karyn referenced above. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYPsBqdQelc&list=PLLB-82YMhiPFPKSm2Ke69aK0DKTftpvo0&index=16

My favorite channeled music is by Rosemary Brown, who communed with dead composers and channeled their music on the piano. She herself was an amateur pianist and knew nothing about composition. Here's a bit of it on YouTube along with her story. And of course, the Wikipedia skeptics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary_Brown_(spiritualist

When I attended psychic school in 1981, Jeffrey Mishlove presented to our small class a couple times. He had been visiting South America and learned some stuff from shamans, so he shared their techniques with us. He mentioned a multi-level supplement product, so I visited him a few times to get training to be a downline sales person. But I never stuck with it, and that was the last I saw of Jeff. Then he started on his "Thinking Allowed" series on local TV, and it went national, then global. I'm proud of him for making a successful career, and for winning the contest. I'd love to hit him up for part of that $500K prize for ITC research, but after 40 years, I don't think he would remember me

Andres,to your question about the purpose of the contest. https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/about.php About BICS BICS was founded in June 2020 by aerospace entrepreneur Robert T. Bigelow to support research into both the survival of human consciousness after physical death and, based on data from such studies, the nature of the afterlife. Robert Bigelow is the founder of Bigelow Aerospace. For decades he has also supported serious investigations into consciousness and manifestations of unusual phenomena that are not yet understood by science. Despite intriguing evidence, the number of research groups and funding devoted to investigating the survival of human consciousness beyond death is shockingly small in the Western world. Even though all 7.8 billion humans on planet Earth will eventually die, very little high quality research is being conducted on perhaps the most important and fundamental question facing our species. There are very few significant conferences or symposia on this question which could appeal to scientists, academics and others with advanced training. This is partly because such research is not taken seriously by the current “scientific” paradigm. This current “scientific” group was seriously shaken by the 2017 New York Times article concerning UFO’s. It is probably time to end this close-minded approach. We at BICS believe that one way to do so is to appeal to qualified professionals who have some power to create change. One purpose of the BICS is to raise awareness among the public and within the scientific community of the importance and relevance of such an investigation. BICS hopes to provide a public service by drawing increasing attention to, and encouraging research into, this fundamental and timeless topic. We are seeking hard evidence “beyond a reasonable doubt” that takes us beyond religion or philosophy and provides a body of knowledge to be brought widely into the public arena that could be partially unifying in its impact on human awareness and culture. Purpose of BICS Essay Competition Another purpose of the BICS essay awards is to raise the public awareness for the Survival of Human Consciousness topic and to stimulate research. One goal of the essay contest is to award contestants for writing papers that summarize the best evidence available for the survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death.

205 essays were submitted. Tom Butler's was one of them. It was not a winner, but is worth reading. (I helped copy edit). https://ethericstudies.org/case-for-the-survival-hypothesis/ See also, attached. BICS Essay by Tom Butler - Case for the Survival Hypothesis.pdf

29 winners. Essays will be published. Top prize $500K goes to Jeffrey Mishlove. His essay is here: https://www.nonlocalmind.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Jeff-Mishlove-Essay-for-Bigelow-Institute.pdf Includes a chapter on ITC. ************************************************************************************************* Winners: https://www.bigelowinstitute.org/News4.php Purpose of BICS Essay Competition Another purpose of the BICS essay awards is to raise the public awareness for the Survival of Human Consciousness topic and to stimulate research. One goal of the essay contest is to award contestants for writing papers that summarize the best evidence available for the survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death. BICS intention is to provide a public service by: 1. Creating and implementing the essay contest 2. Publishing responsible information to the widest audience possible. 3. BICS envisions the essays focus to be on scientific evidence as well as objective and subjective supported documentation as gathered From special cases, including older cases, from very credible witnesses From photographic or electronic data From all available literature From highly validated and authenticated human experiences From other relevant sources BICS has assembled a competent board of directors with deep experience in the topic to provide advice on the strategic direction and priorities of the Institute. The board of directors are: acclaimed journalist and author Leslie Kean, forensic neurologist Christopher C. Green MD PhD, theoretical physicist Harold Puthoff PhD, Brian Weiss MD who has lectured worldwide on survival of consciousness and associated topics, Rice University Professor of Philosophy and Religious Thought Jeffrey Kripal PhD, University of California Irvine Professor of Statistics Jessica Utts PhD, Anomalies Researcher, Molecular Biologist and Anomalies Researcher Colm A. Kelleher PhD, and BICS Founder Robert T. Bigelow.

Happy Halloween! Do you believe this is a good night for ITC? Do the spirits really come out, and is the veil thinner on Halloween?

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Theoretical physicists now believe we live in a multiverse of parallel worlds, each slightly different than the others. So there are multiple Andres' populating this multiverse, meaning you have way more than 4 brains!

From the paper: "A scientist always sees himself in the role of a neutral observer - to keep himself out of the experimental context. We ITC researchers know that it is not possible, since we are deeply entangled with the phenomenon we scrutinize. Thus we should involve ourselves deliberately. If we have completed a setup and it is working, it should be mandatory to train ourselves in checking out how much we can influence the phenomenon by ourselves. In the end everything is about our personal spiritual evolution. We should never forget this." I see this as an important and necessary, but interim phase of technological development. At some point, we need to minimize the operator effect either by shielding against it, or by enfolding it so completely within our devices that they become proxies for the part of the human mind responsible for ITC reception & transmission. When that threshold is reached, and messages become as clear and seamless as telephone calls (etc.), the technology will be universally applicable and will transform humanity.

The human brain seems to be a transducer of consciousness, including paranormal effects like clairvoyance, clairaudience, telepathy, etc. If we can understand how it accomplishes these feats, we may be able to model ITC devices to do the same. Here is a list of references, including how the brain works through fractals, quantum physics principals and detection in the brain, electromagnetic fields relating to consciousness, wave genetics, and brain-to-brain communication via EMF. There is another article I cannot find about measurement of wave patterns in the brain that form a novel type of genetic structure. (Current Artificial Intelligence models will need to be modified.) https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/are-human-thoughts-made-of-fractals https://www.inverse.com/science/consciousness-and-quantum-physics https://www.techgenyz.com/2021/06/14/researchers-build-the-first-modular-quantum-brain-scanner-which-can-detect-brain-signals/ https://aeon.co/essays/does-consciousness-come-from-the-brains-electromagnetic-field https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844021004680 https://stop5g.cz/us/wave-genetics-peter-p-garyaev-nominee-for-the-nobel-prize-in-medicine-2021-genetic-information-exists-in-a-form-of-electromagnetic-field/

Andres, when you are ready to be more active again, let us know if you are still interested in experimenting with cavitation and water conductivity inspired by Emoto.

I noticed that even though this paper was submitted in April, 2020, there are no comments. Other papers by Andres about the Coherer effect have attracted comments, and there are discussions about the effect scattered throughout Varanormal. So I thought I'd make the first comment about this paper. First, Andres, congratulations on an original experiment! It would be nice if you could summarize it briefly for us. Have you done any further experiments with the water coherer that you invented? (Hmm, I guess I should read): Your quantum tunneling theory relies on the notion that thought pairs particles to antiparticles in mutual annihilation, releasing a photon that creates a cascading avalanche, giving opportunity for a thought signal to penetrate the resulting noise. You further muse that this photon creation may occur due to the effect of a higher dimension on the 3rd dimension. (Have you read "Flatland" by Edwin Abbott, 1884?). The mechanism of this effect needs to be elaborated, along with an examination of Steiner's "thoughts are equivalent to electrons" comment. I wonder if any experiments have been done by physicists that demonstrate the annihilation - photon effect due to thought, with proper detectors. (With regard to dimensionality, the 2D theory of reality is quite trendy right now. https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-what-scientists-mean-when-they-say-the-universe-might-be-a-hologram , https://www.sciencealert.com/a-physicist-has-calculated-that-life-really-could-exist-in-a-2d-universe ) I'm impressed that you were able to hone in on the spectrograph to find an ITC message! I need to read your paper where you document additional ITC results from the coherer effect. I know you have moved onto other experiments. But if you have any update on the coherer effect, please let us know.

Andres and Gismo, these are good suggestions. We'd have to think about how to implement them, who can do it, and time-money involved. The Methodology article by Beischel and Shwartz is excellent! Here are two paragraphs at the end that caught my attention. "Through these methods, we are attempting to bridge the gap between the qualitative aspects of a more postmodern, feminist, and human science (Krippner 1995, White 1991, reviewed by White 1990, Irwin 1999) and more traditional quantitative parapsychological methods. Historically, “holistic” methods (e.g., assigning a global or summary score to a reading) and “atomistic” methods (e.g., item-by-item scoring) evolved somewhat independently over the course of research regarding the objective analysis of verbal statements (Burdick & Kelly 1977, p. 110). We find it important to include both methods during the analysis of each reading." Should we, and can we, apply the hybrid method to ITC, or focus only on one or the other (atomistic or holistic)? "Second, several of the suggestions involve phenomena that usually only occur spontaneously, therefore creating difficulty in designing repeatable experiments addressing them. Although drop-in communicators can be “asked for” (e.g., “during this segment of the reading, we are open to drop-ins”), would their appearance then provide the support suggested by this phenomenon? The same issue surrounds the appearance of cross-correspondence. Because these phenomena, although impressive and evidential, cannot be easily or repeatedly tested, they fail to meet the standard for “ideal” empirical research." With ITC, isn't it the case that what we mostly get are "drop-ins." So does that make it a poor candidate for ideal empirical research?

Complications of overturning pro-choice abortion laws: https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/abortion-miscarriage-oklahoma-bipoc-women-b1942049.html

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This is the heart of the debate. Is a fetus a baby? At what stage? How do we define life? When does life begin? Socrates taught that the beginning of knowledge is the admission that we are ignorant. Asking a question is innocent. Answering the question before there is enough evidence to back it up is less innocent. And imposing that answer on others is oppressive. This is how religion evolves. A great teacher asks a question. The student turns it into a answer. The students' student converts it into a dogma. Successive generations turn the dogma into a law punishable by death. Resistance and warfare follow. The founder of the religion is long gone, having no control over the corruption that followed. Your experience with Videncia was obviously very moving, and inspired you to begin your journey with ITC. I admire your passion and talent, and I hope you continue to maintain objectivity and an open mind. Given the limits of our knowledge, we might be able to approximate the veracity of psychic information in various ways. On the topic of abortion, for example, we could 1) peruse the published literature for "channelings" about when life begins, the consequences of abortion, etc. This might include ITC, though I suspect the topic does not come up very often in ITC; 2) create a survey of psychics and mediums to look for consensus, or not. The Remote Viewing community tends to be more "scientific" in its approach, so we could borrow some of their protocols for the survey. This is tricky, because its too easy to attract the answers you want to hear, so the survey would have to be carefully designed. Even if these methods came up with a definitive answer, I would be surprised if it had any effect on policy. Psychic detectives are used less and less in the courtroom, and their testimony is rarely regarded as decisive. More consensus has been built around the broad outlines of the afterlife based on work pioneered by Raymond Moody, and replicated by other methods. But that took years and years of cultural re-conditioning. So we plod along with ITC, hoping that a perfected technology will open the door to the unfiltered truth!

There is a complex interweaving of personal, social and karmic forces surrounding conception and birth. So the moral and ethical choices surrounding abortion cannot be oversimplified. Is an incoming soul aware of these forces? Do they have an inside track on creation that we don't? Can a soul decide to willingly withdraw its links to the fetus if it sees the life of mother, society and itself would be better served that way? And how would that play out in terms of a "hurting mistake?" Do we even know when these astral links are made, what they look like, and how they function? The scientific and philosophical questions about when life "begins" is missing an important contributor, and that is ITC! At present, our technology is rudimentary, but agreeing with Fernando, the ideal is that it reveals in an objective way what happens on subtle planes, and how souls integrate with physical bodies at birth and beyond. Reliance on psychics and mediums is fraught with problems, as the worldview of the psychic/medium often colors what they see. That's not to say there aren't methods to check a psychic's accuracy rating; just that this a problematical reliance that a successful implementation of ITC can theoretically resolve. Fernando's 3 stage adjudication of abortion choice is brilliant. Unfortunately, implementing such a nuanced process is unlikely in today's polarized world. Historically, the religious right has blurred any such nuance. In some middle eastern cultures, women are forced to remain barefoot and pregnant, and punished for asserting their rights to play any other role in life. This was somewhat true in Western cultures as well, until the human rights movements took hold, bringing in abortion rights as a natural adjunct. Even now, before the Texas ban was temporarily overturned by a higher court, we saw the reversion to dangerous back alley abortions. To be sure, the influx of religious right conservatism into the US Supreme Court is only exacerbating the polarization. I wish it were not so, and that creative ideas like Fernando's 3-stage process could be considered.

I don't understand how abortion rights are a misunderstanding of the nature of freedom. I can understand how rebelling against Covid guidelines is a such a misunderstanding, because collective survival trumps individual freedom in that case. But the analogy does not apply to abortion, because the evidence for harm to self, baby soul or society has not been established. On the contrary, the denial of choice for a woman is a human rights violation that men never have to face. Historically, it has been used to keep women under control and disempowered, and to expand tribal populations for political advantage. The religious right has not aligned with pro-life just to oppose the left. They passionately embrace it under the pretense of "sanctity of life" without proof, in order to dominate women and enforce their world view on others. It is the left that opposes this, not just for the sake of opposition, but to counter the threat.

The assertion that abortion is a "hurting mistake" has not been proven. The only evidence presented in this thread are anecdotal reports of channelers observing souls struggling to be born, astral black marks on abortion providers, and soul linkages at certain stages of fetal development. We don't know if these reports are accurate or the result of bias. Other psychics see a whole different picture. On the physical plane, abortion is often chosen as a way to reduce suffering, not induce it. On the spirit plane, love is the rule, and forgiveness for those who believe they have sinned, even if they haven't. If "hurting" is the standard for accountability, we're all in trouble. Much of the food we eat is derived from the killing of plants and animals, who suffer when they are destroyed. The very cells of our bodies are in a constant state of apoptosis - when those cells die, they suffer. But if they don't die, we die! By this standard, we would all be so burdened by "hurting mistakes" that our souls would be in a constant state of darkness, with no hope of redemption. That's not how the Universe is designed. Humans judging and punishing other humans for abortion does more harm than good. The welfare of the mother and her physical and social context are often ignored to the point of abuse. The victory of the left for human rights, civil rights, and women's rights, was not a mistake. Fernando's three layer system is one of the best I've seen to discern the propriety of abortions on a case-by-case basis, but its underlying moral judgment and belief about when "life" begins need to be balanced.