Michael Lee

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: I have a photon map counter.... Hear our sensor... A bit-rate... Ready to make automatic Here's another set of 4 clips from culled another 1 minute run: clips_phonetic_typewriter_10_12_2020.mp3 What I hear... Pulse channel portal.... (From) easy to talk... We hear our sensor gone catiotic (chaotic)... Sounds like happy voice 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.

Fernando, I agree that ITC, when the technology improves and becomes more of a mainstream tool, spiritual evolution will be its primary purpose. I almost wonder, though, if there isn't some spirit pushback from some factions to delay the development of this tech as its effect will be powerful - hopefully mostly good.

For many years, I've seen myself as one of those special people who can visit the spirit realms at night during my dreams. So special, that frankly, no one, besides myself, really cares. I could tell you any of the adventures I've had and you'd either think I was going crazy or I was already there. You see, it's one thing to report to what I'm seeing and hearing and it's another to see it and hear it yourself. Years ago, I dreamt about researchers somehow tapping into my brain while I was projecting, so they could record my view. I've known about ITC for over a decade, but thought it was outside of my expertise. I'm really good with computer programming, but my electronics skills were "shockingly" bad. I always thought ITC was about making fancy electronic devices that somehow picked up the spirit ether. Thanks to random YouTube videos I cam across in 2018, I realized that ordinary electronics could be used just as well. At first, I followed the strategies of the tried and true like software Ghost Boxes, but realized I could do better, a lot better. The principle behind a ghost box, is a fast scan through radio stations with intermittent sound and silence. Spirits are somehow able to amplify bits and pieces of the audio and extend them into the silence. The one thing I didn't like about this setup, is that the source audio (radio clips) was unpredictable and unknown. I wanted to know what was real and what was supposedly "spirit." Thus, I developed my first invention, which I'll describe in my next post. Hint: it resembles EVP maker, but once again, it's more predictable and more known. No randomness. Let the spirits do that

Excellent. Water seems like a great medium for spirits. Agitated water (e.g., boiling), even better. How many frames do you collect in a typical experiment? I imagine you sift through each frame looking for anomalies.

I am an avid explorer of the spirit world. I started astral projecting back in 2000. Recently, in late 2018, I began my quest for spirit communication with electronics and computers. In this forum, I hope to learn from others and share what I've (re-)discovered in this field and software I've written. In my day job, I develop and use machine learning methods to solve various research problems. Before getting in to ML, I developed computational chemistry methods. I received a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from UC Berkeley in 2000.