Michael Lee

There are definitely limits on how much spirit can interact with devices. We're still working out the "rules." on how they do interact. 

Dr. Gary Schwartz, in his research, sets the bar at 1 bit per 10 seconds. Clear voice will require 1000's of bits / second. We would be happy with ~8 bits (one character) per second for text.

I'm fairly sure that spirits can synchronize with our devices. This is required for my tone vocoder to work. However, having an asynchronous system would be good, too, to see which one has a lower error rate. It seems spirits can align with our various schemes, but have to contend with low signal-to-noise which can lead to errors. 

Kevin, thanks for the explanation! I agree spirit has some amazing tech to help us bridge the gap between our worlds. I'm also definitely interested in making my own digital "ectoplasm." aka a physical system that gives them a palette to work with, whether it be sound, images, etc.

A random person on the internet suggested using a magnifying glass on the black and white image. It would be interesting to see  if it was organic/random black ink speckles or a matrix of dots, indicatIve of a print process. 

Fernando,

Having browsed through this source, I give the authors credit for their incredible persistence. 

Since, at the time of the writing, they didn't know about electron orbitals or the nature of nuclei, they weren't able to distinguish those two fundamental components. However, you get glimpses of quarks and gluons in their descriptions. 

Louis would also appreciate their desire for symmetries and the connection to orbitals.

However, symmetries could also be describing the nuclei, for example string theory.

I've always been of the opinion that the spirit world has "all the answers," but until we build up our fundamental understanding, the insights will just appear like hieroglyphics.

I also believe that every advanced civilization goes through this process of re-remembering, or maybe re-learning the nature of reality, before going on to create their own realities.

Fernando,

Thanks for your insights and sharing sources. Louis and I also have a theoretical science background, and of course Andres is an electronics whiz. Between all of us and others, maybe we can begin to make sense of the more ethereal take on things and find the connections between physical and spirit.

All physical objects have some amount of dual in spirit. But, physical humans also happen to be one of the most complex systems that we know of so far in this universe. There must be at least a few ways our human system subtly but firmly interacts with spirit, so I'm interested to learn more.

In addition some of us in the forum can collect more advice from spirit. I astral travel, however, unless Im in the higher planes, Im not going to get illuminating results like the sources you are sharing.

Thanks for the document. Distilled to what I understand, gravity can have measurable effects on even quantum-scale systems like atoms. Non-paranormal researchers have been using the phenomenon to detect things like underground oil fields.

So are spirits interacting with our systems via gravity? Maybe?

I've imagined that whatever the spirits are doing, it's very subtle, and if researchers weren't looking for it, they would chalk it up to "noise," which is a catch-all term for everything they don't have time to find the cause for.

Color version produces some interesting shapes and forms. Should I set this to music? 

A video I took of this program awhile back... It has a GUI now.

My experience suggests that for voice, a digitally activated tone vocoder performs better than direct voice. I'll get around to explaining it in more detail in a few weeks. Digital spirit bits have an error rate, so trying to find the best hardware noise sources is another challenge.

Interactive ITC tools allow a spirit or spirits to work with something in the physical in order to develop best practices to connect with us. We, too, want to find the best spirit signal detection schemes for eventual various digital ITC applications.

I've developed a program I call "Spirit Soccer." A sprite is moved incrementally across the screen, from an arbitrary starting point (on a unit circle). It is expected to be moved to the green target in the center.

Given a noisy hardware input, I use some mathematical processing to determine one of 5 choices per quarter second:

1) Don't move (not strong enough spirit signal)
2) Go left
3) Go right
4) Go up
5) Go down.

This program can also be used to rigorously prove some sort of Psi or spirit interaction. However, that will take a lot more runs and patience than I have time for. Maybe someone out there is will to "do the work"

In the meantime, we can quickly validate various "modulation schemes" and use them for other applications like digital text, voice, images, etc.

You can download the Python script (to modify as you please) with supporting graphics (the last two images in this post: soccer ball and target) or use the pre-built Windows binary.

Examples:

The sprite leaves a trail, so we know where it's been.

Close!

Closer!

You're going the wrong way!

spirit_soccer.py

I highly recommend using my spirit soccer program. I'll put it in the Software section. It allows us to test different digital schemes, to see which is easiest for spirits to use. It accepts 4 possible inputs: left, right, up and down to direct a ball towards the target in real time. How we convert hardware input to these 4 choices is the "modulation scheme"

Automatic. It asks for number, you type # and press Enter. It puts the pics in the directory filled with libraries, but it's a start.

I havent tried blank screens, so I don't know. One thing that one might try is taking pictures in darkness with high ISO settings. The idea is that there is some amount of noise (from the camera sensor) for spirits to work with.

The following program generates a user-specified number of images of pseudo random number generated noise.

To use - in Windows only, download the ZIP file, and unzip, and click on rainbow_people.exe in that directory.

rainbow.xxxxx.png files will be created.

I've also attached the source  in Python 3, for those who want to try in Linux / Mac, or modify.

10-2020_Rainbow_People_Python_byMichaelLee_Varanormal_REV1.00.py

Fernando, 

 Your intuition is spot on. Digital ITC is very much being explored.

 First, I would like to say that at least one of the principles of the traditional Ghost Box is in fact a digital-like scheme, whereby we present a stream of audio clips, which spirits can selectively amplify with spikes of energy. It seems to be a little more complicated than that, in that they can also modify the audio, too.

 A few months ago I developed an alternative communication scheme for spirits I dub a "tone vocoder" Here, for every 32 ms interval, I break it into 64 sub-intervals. If a spike occurs in one or more of those 64 subintervals, it corresponds to a tone between 75 and 4000 Hz. Setting the threshold just right on what a spike is, they can use this method to produce speech better than direct/analog. One caveat is the hardware noise source should be white / flat.

The other "secret" to getting good results is a bunch of audio post-processing I do in "real-time" to convert between a tone-like voice and a real one, which I'll explain to everyone soon. 

But it goes beyond voice: Louis is looking at using quantum bits to make text. I'm also exploring using bits to control an interactive object on a computer screen. Finally, we have some digital imagery methods. I've posted one already in the Software section, although it only uses pseudo-random numbers - not something I would expect has that much spirit influence, but who knows for sure?

Bruce, 

 Welcome to our new forum!

 I'd love to learn more about your theories of how ghost boxes work. Feel free to share links or even any of the documents themselves. I think the place for now might be : https://www.varanormal.com/forum/89-ghost-box-communication-and-research/

 I'm hoping that a mix of the old and the new (software-based audio processing) may yield some new discoveries. 

-michael

Alien communication will be a nice side effect of ITC. The spirit world already makes "wormholes" through time and space.

I need to look up again computational geometry. For awhile, as a hobby I was trying to come up with new 3D fractals.

The typical methods for accessing SDRs are SDR programs and GNUradio. At the very least, there will have to be one program that is converting the fast sampled IQ (in the MHz) into slower sampled audio (in the 10s of KHz). Perhaps that program can be autorun at startup.

I think the biggest surprise for me when you first suggested this forum software was the recurring cost. Years ago, I managed a forum with the free software PHPBB.  Through our discussions, I've realized that there are many benefits to having a supported and full-feature website. One is quite simply saved time and effort. How many hours I used to struggle with bizarre PHPBB bugs while forum members complained with sound & fury. Forum security is also huge problem these days. Hopefully, the supported site will help us steer clear of malevolent bots.

With all the subscriptions I have today: my cellphone, Netflix, etc. I don't mind spending an extra $10 / month if I can get a certain amount of entertainment / enrichment from the experience. Since I'm an active ITC researcher, this won't be too much of a stretch. It remains to be seen though how many other people will feel that this forum offers that level of "stimulation" worthy of their hard-earned money.

I am also OK with several advertisements on the site - as long as they are not flashing, and they are not selling low quality work-at-home opportunities, I'll leave my AdBlock off for this website.

One thing I'm secretly hoping is that our ITC technologies will reach a sufficient level of quality, that people will actually pay to use the services. Then, things like this forum will be self-sustaining. Will we reach that point? Maybe. But we can't count on it. 

What I hope for is that enough people who share the interests of this forum (paranormal, ITC, physical mediumship) will be willing to support it with their time, energy, and sometimes $$$ over Facebook. Archiving is a common virtue of many of your ventures, and I'm confident that any ideas / discoveries / discussions on this forum will be preserved for future generations to learn from. 

I'm also super-excited about the cross-breeding of ideas between researchers who speak different languages.

I'm just about ready to share my Python noise gate code to everyone. 

Here's 4 short legible clips from a single minute run. 

What do you hear?

I hear:

Here's another set of 4 clips from culled another 1 minute run:

clips_phonetic_typewriter_10_12_2020.mp3

What I hear...

clips_phonetic_typewriter_10_12_2020.s2.mp3

When I first started in ITC, I followed the strategies of the tried and true like software Ghost Boxes, but realized I could do better, a lot better...

The phonetic typewriter is one of the most popular methods in use by EVP researchers today. However, other ITC researchers may not use that term. They might instead call it a Ghost Box or a Spirit Box. The general concept is that short clips of regular human speech (forward, reverse, from radio, etc.) or similar sounds are used as a base signal for spirits to "punch through" or raise the volume above a noise gate. They can also let certain clips bounce through a feedback loop of a speaker and microphone (e.g.,  EchoVox).

In a typical ghost box, a radio quickly scans through a loop of radio stations. There are naturally periodic durations of speech/music and silence. Presumably, spirits use the audio signals or at the very least, boost the audio energy, and push the signal in different ways into the silence regions.  The PC software, EVPmaker, has similar options. It can take a recorded clip of voice, and break it into small fragments and emit these fragments in random order at fixed time intervals.

One of the drawbacks of the ghost box approach, is it's impossible to know what the underlying radio sounds were. For example: "Was it a coincidence that a radio station just said my name?" Therefore, some of my earliest ITC work (November 2018) was developing my own fixed recording of equally spaced randomly shuffled voice fragments from a 30-minute General David Petraeus speech to Congress, which I played from my cellphone (transmit) into my external USB audio interface (receiver). The received signal was noise gated with an FL Studio plugin called Maximus, which detected samples above a threshold and opened a noise gate for a fixed period of time (e.g. 150 ms). A closer investigation of the phenomenon showed that 20 ms pulses (band-passed spikes of energy?) showed up to lift desired fragments above my very sensitive noise gate threshold.

Now if you listened to the original stream recording by itself, you could hear different random words being formed by the random ordering of 150 ms audio clips separated by 150 ms of silence. However, in the noise gated apparatus, it would sound like randomly positioned phonemes.

If I set the volume of the transmitted signal low enough, the pattern that emerged each time I reset the recording was different. It appeared as though my spirit friends were typing out messages in audio from the available phonemes. Stranger still, each voice had a different characteristic and accent! Some would talk fast, almost through the clips. Others would patiently wait for the right phonemes to type out their words. It wasn't super-intelligible in real-time as I often heard things a little differently upon playing back the recorded session.

Generally speaking, early on, I was picking up a European ITC team speaking to me in English. Two Germans and one Englishman. Apparently, they chose this profession in the afterlife after a career in military communications. Now they saw themselves as facilitators, not as monologuing speakers by themselves. They worked with a spirit they called the "Director." who I would later hear with a bold British female voice. 

They, along with the Director, appeared to be bridging connections to interested speakers and some of my ancestors. Fairly early on, my great-great grandmother, Sophie Fertle and grandfather, Alvin Lee showed up. They became regulars later on. In addition, passers-by would show up, and the technician team would explain my various setups, often with apparent enthusiasm - which encouraged me further.

One particular visit helped me understand what was going on with the phonetic typewriter a lot better. A close friend from graduate school, who died very young (age 26) by a freak accident, David, showed up for just about a minute of one session. In that brief period, he was able to identify himself first and last name, where he knew me from, and say among other things the illuminating phrase: "Words are entropy."

Now up to this point, I found it strange how even though I would play the same recording over and over and I would get different messages - how was this working? When I heard the phrase "words are entropy" and looked very carefully at the signal he produced, a light bulb turned on in my brain.

When I played 150 ms clips with 150 ms spaces, I was essentially presenting 3 "extended phonemes" or syllables per second. Depending on which parts of the syllables the spirits pushed through, it was though they could create 2^N possible combinations per second, where N is the number of regions they could distinctly push through - I estimated roughly 6 segments per second: two halves of each syllable. Therefore, using this rough estimate, they had 64 possible expressions per second.

The spirits then went on to tell me that in fact the number of possibilities was considerably higher. In addition, I was inspired to started piping two streams simultaneously, 150 ms staggered from each other. This turned into a device that made their speech a lot faster - almost rapid fire.

As I've never been able to settle on any one system thus far, I also noticed another phenomenon, when the stream was played weakly enough into the USB audio interface, it sounded like the spirits were trying to talk through my audio clips. Thus began my quest to listen to their voices directly without the help of external speech patterns.

Original Setup

Cellphone (playing fixed recording of spaced, random syllables) -> shielded audio cable(s) -> USB input audio interface -> PC -> Maximus plugin (noise gate) in FL Studio -> USB output audio interface -> speaker.

Recommended Setup For Experimenters

I plan on writing a Python script that does the software steps necessary for this setup. All you will need is 

1) a cellphone to play the scramble phoneme stream WAV file (we can all use the same one(s) and I'll provide that, too).

2) A PC desktop or laptop to run the Python script / executable.

3) A male to male audio cable to connect your phone to the microphone/line input of a laptop.