Andres Ramos

Good idea. I would like to suggest to create the new document section Gismo required as an Ad Hoc solution. Then we can close this thread and I will open a new one where we can collect and discuss ideas for an improved forum structure.

What do you think?

Thanks for your most valuable comment Jeff. I love the image of a flying by bar magnet!

Your comments are raising the question if there are any structured investigations about the physical anomalies occurring if a UFO encounter is taking place. Is it a magnetic anomaly, a static electrical one, do car engines stop working, is gravity changing, is the flow of time affected?

I will read the documentation you provided.

Hm, I see. The question is if we should provide an additional documentation section for every main section like ITC, Paranormal, Mediumship or a document subsection under "Resources" that probably is divided into more subsections related to certain topics.

Gismos question comes at the right time because I see our forum is not well structured and unclear because of too much sections on the main level. We need to consider a stepwise restructuring and I want to submit a plan we should discuss on the admin group once I made up my mind about this.

For now, I suggest to make a new section "documentation" in the section "Resources".

A great work you did, Michael. An awesome piece of software!

In order to make the chaotic behavior and the related frequency bifurcations visible I used Sonic Visualizer that Keith kindly provided in the Varanormal download section. In the following video you can see the frequencies as lines in a horizontal waterfall diagram. The amplitude of each frequency is displayed as brightness of the respective lines. During the video I slowly turned the tuning potentiometer from the right to the left.

Please see how every state of stability is characterized by a certain composition of distinct frequencies, how these compositions change abruptly and how they are separated by areas of chaos. Please also see how at certain points the frequency lines are going through bifurcations or reversly back into single frequencies.

Video: Chaos, Frequencies and Bifurcations

Jeff took the time to replicate my circuit without the binary counter and he could confirm my results. That means that this effect is not bound to some special weird environmental conditions at my place. He made the following screenshots from the oscillations.

Oscillation patterns (oscilloscope screenshots)

I think you can see the principle. Basically we can observe bursts of very fast impulses packed in one "meta-impulse" that again is part of a burst of more meta-impulses that again form a package of meta-meta-impulses and so on. The analogy of self similarity and bifurcation coming from the chaos theory comes into my mind here.

Schematic of NE555 chaos circuit

You see how simple the circuit is, honestly much too simple to produce such complex oscillation patterns. What I found out and Jeff could confirm is that an overlaying oscillation emerged in the circuit. Something that made the whole circuit oscillate in itself. This could be proved because the oscillations only took place if the power supply was done via a radio choke. Normally no electronic engineer would do that. All power and ground connection always shall be low impedance to provide proper function but in this case the effect seemed to require instability.

Here some audio exports I could make from a bunch of recordings I made that could possibly be spirit messages. I put them here without interpretation.

• Warte.mp3
• Voice.mp3
• Kontakt.mp3
• Klasse.mp3
• Speech.mp3

I opened this thread because I stumbled across an interesting effect lately. It is not necessarily a paranormal effect but weird at least. I called the resulting device "Spica", a phonetic acronym for "Spirit Chaos" generator. Moreover Spica is the brightest star in the constellation Virgo.

By beginning of October 2021 I wanted to built a simple electronical square wave oscillator. This work was related to my ongoing research with the VISPRE. Really no big thing to realize this function by use of the NE555. This circuit is one of the most famous in the world. It is a simple and clever made timing circuit that can be utilized in monostable or astable (oscillating) mode and it was so successful that it flooded the electronic community and industry since the early 1970's in an abundance of applications. This circuit still is produced in number of about 1 billion/year(!) and there are NE555-competitions in the internet of the craziest things you can use a NE555 for.

I used this circuit in various aplications as well. Now, in October 2021 I wanted to realize this very simple square wave application with the NE555. However curiously, in my breadboard layout I made a mistake. I forgot to tie together two pins that are controlling the upper and lower trigger levels for the oscillation. It turned out that by omitting the connection between pins 2 and 6 the NE555 showed a very strange behavior I never witnessed before. Instead of emitting just one fixed frequency as I wanted it to generate and what is the only way a NE555 can work, a whole group of frequencies were generated simultaneously almost like a chord. I had implemented a potentiometer that originally just was provided to tune the frequency. Now, turning this poti made the groups of simultaneous tones jump from one configuration to another one with different compositions. Those areas were intermitted by small areas of noise.

Obviously the circuit was generating very complex patterns of oscillations. Because the frequencies were rather high (100KHz - 330 KHz) and only partially in the audible range I thought about converting them down to the audible range by using a binary counter stage that divided the frequencies by 2 in every stage. Because the counter has 11 stages I could tap the audio signal very comfortably at the stage where I got the best sound.

This video gives yo an impression about the oscillating patterns.

At this point I reached out for Jeff to support me with his knowledge and skills.

Hello Spidermeema,

I feel sorry that you did not feel accepted the first time you were with Varanormal and that this obviously was the reason you left. Maybe we all (including the admins) are too busy in general to pay attention to possible harrassments. I want to apologize for that. In case this happens again, don't hesitate to call the admins.

Andrés

Hi Keith, do we already have standardized templates for video (Intro, format, size,..)? That would be great. My last video was hosted on my channel but I rather would load it up to Varanormal. Is this possible?

Just read an interesting and funny article in Fortean Times about the quest for UFO, or how it is called now UAP, contacts.

This little device was sold for £9 and comprised a magnetic compass needle, a battery and a buzzer. The assumed electromagnetic field of an UFO would cause a deflection of the needle that closed an electric circuit and activated the buzzer. If this device really worked is unknown

A very good plan Steve! What about constituting a review board with skilled people to do the proofreading (typos, grammar) and 1st level peer review (document structure, argumentation, logic fallacies)? I think you and Gismo would be just perfect board members.

11 hours ago, Michael Lee said:

I've put a graphical interface onto my Spiricam program and managed to package it with pyinstaller, so it can run as an executable (amidst a ~1GB sea of support files).

If anybody has a Windows PC with a webcam (or one they can attach), and wants to experiment with visual ITC, let me know.

Here's a screenshot of the program:

Man, you again made a great piece of software!

Since I have phyton and Anaconda already installed, your phyton files would be enough for me to make your app run.

19 hours ago, Karyn said:

Wonderful work Andres, I could hear the only German words I know quite distinctly.  

 

Thank you for the "peer review" Karyn!

Yes Jeff and I am still curious where the limit is. I feel this technology still isn't fully exploited.

And here is the rest from today. Incredible results gained from an almost squelched relay and the Lingua. The lingua adjustment is very delicate and depends heavily on the audio level. A slightly decreased level and the lingua wipes out the signal, a little too much and the relay impulses come through as heavy pounding. If the signsl is in-between the results are amazing! The signal level sensitivity reminds me of Keith's experiments with Krisp.

Alte hat sie blöd.wav Artur ist beinah platt.wav Blieb in Deutschland.wav Dein Vater macht die Marter.wav Deine Löschung.wav Erleide den Herztod.wav Gehalt kommt.wav Merkels Erbildung ertönt.wav Mir fehlt sowohl die Hoffnung.wav Werde tagen.wav

Very true! Sometimes it's just too interesting.

 I accidentally discovered another mode. At some point the neon lamp generated a steady sequence of impulses like a square wave. By listening to this signal through the Lingua I heard faint voices.

• "Im Rückblich digitales Format" -> "In a view back a digital format":Im Rückblick digitales Format.wav
• "Zug aufnehmen half ihm" -> "More tension helped him":Zug aufnehmen half ihm.wav
• "Es wird hell" -> "It becomes brighter": Es wird hell.wav
• "Verehre Putin" -> "Admiring Putin": Verehre Putin.wav
• "Epidemisch" -> "Epidemic":Epidemisch.wav

The VISPRE seems to provide endless modifications of operating modes. Then I used it with the two springs and the springs  stretched up to the point where the relay oscillations were short before tapering off. The signals are distorted but noise free.

• "Da kriegst du Pakete" -> "Parcels delivered": Da kriegst du Pakete.wav
• "Over the board":Over the board.wav
• Unknown voice:Voice.wav
• "Wer ist bitte der nächste Pole?" -> "Who's necxt from poland, please?"
• "Der Dialog ist fantastisch" -> "The dialog is fantastic":Der Dialog ist fantastisch.wav
• "Du bist jetzt für fast alle da" -> "Now you are here for almost all of us":Und du bist jetzt fast für alle da.wav
• "Da erlebst du Erfolg" -> "There you are experiencing success":Da erlebst du Erfolg.wav
•  

Wer ist bitte der nächste Pole.wav

Michael Lee already wrote a small manual about the parameter settings. I can add an installation guide and this should be enough for a start. We now need to find a place in the forum where we can put the SW for download and everyone can find it.

6 hours ago, Karyn said:

"Keep the body quiet; keep the body in the open when weather permits, though not too much in too strong a sun. Do have cheerful company about the body, and the conversation should be creative, constructive, and never just gossip." 

Still lots of optimization potential in my life...

2 hours ago, Fernando Luis Cacciola Carballal said:

Hi Andres! Indeed, the kabbalah covers some of the spiritualists ideas.

Not that I know a lot about it, but one of my coworkers is Jewish, and in a few occasions I talked about spirits, the afterlife, etc... and he replied that he knew about all of that because it is taught in the kabbalah.

As you know, about a half of Christianity is actually Judaism, and their religion was very interesting.

For example, I found that they have some interesting concepts about Abortion, as I've discovered when I made a research for a paper on the subject I begun writing (but never finished). 

 

 

Hello Fernando,

this is very interesting! I didn't know that abortion basically was accepted in the Jewish tradition. Likely it is the same like with Christianity when at a certain point abstraction and orthodox interpretation came into power. The Jewish kabbalah is so amazing because it comprises the most detailed descriptions about the origin of the creation and it also provides a path for spiritual learning.

May be embarrassing, but my interest for the kabbalah and Jewish tradition came from watching the movie "Indiana Jones and the raiders of the lost ark". After that movie I started to read books about the Ark of the Covenant, I read "The Golem" from Gustav Meyrink and "The Tomb of God" from Andrews & Schellenberger.

I also learned that the kabbalah is not a pure Jewish work. The holy priests who wrote it were pretty open minded and adopted some spiritual concepts from the ancient Greeks as well. In fact it was a collaborative work. One day when I have more time and leisure I want to read some books about the kabbalah as I feel it is somehow near to me even I did not grow up in the Jewish tradition.

Yes Jeff, I talked to Michael Lee yesterday and said I want to help him to promote this great piece of sw-engineering he made. I mean this is a professional tool especially designed for making spirit voices audible that are deeply buried in interference and noise you get for free!

The setup is a little complicated but not that hard to do. I will write a small how-to as a one-pager how to do it and later I will make a video too and share it.

@Michael LeeMaybe you can give me some descriptions for the user parameter settings represented by all those sliders. Then I would work that into my one-pager. I also would like to put your Spirit-Communicator files as an zip archive into the sw section together with my "manual". Would that be ok?

Amazing! I always was interested in Jewish religion and tradition, especially the kabbalah, since it is oldest spiritual culture that still is existing today. Thanks for this, Karyn! 

With much help from Michael I managed to set up his Spirit Communicator programm on my PC today. Thank you so much for this Michael Lee!

It works great! Basically I get a stream of continous voices but voices still are is not optimized and dull due to the low frequencies in the signal. Here some exports:

• "Könnt ihr denn nicht Programme nutzen" -> "Why you can't use software?":Könnt ihr denn nicht Programme nutzen.mp3
• "Würde dir was vorlesen" -> "Would like to read something for you":Würde dir was vorlesen.mp3
• "Ihr macht so feine Versuche" -> "You all are making such fine experiments": Ihr mach so feine Versuche.mp3
• "Weckt er Welt, erfolgte maßvoll" -> "Awakened the world in due course":Weckt er Welt - erfolgte maßvoll.mp3
• "Er würde dir noch mehr Fragen fragen in der Hölle" -> "He would ask you more questions in hell": Er würde dir noch mehr Fragen fragen in der Hölle.mp3

Here is the complete recording: ML 2021-10-12.mp3

The last days I spent fathoming the possible improvements for the VISPRE. I tried,

• Using a loudspeaker as a replacement for the relay
• Replacing the oscillating relay by a non-oscillating
• Using the neon lamp to trigger electronically generated trains of impulses with adjustable pitch
• Elongating very short impulses in the above mentioned setup
• Adding reverb electronically

In the end I really was pleased to see that all those ideas made the result worse and not better. So, in the end the magic is in the mechanical parts and the oscillation patterns they are generating. I am very pleased that a Edison-style technique outperforms all the electronic stuff.

I have put the VISPRE back into it's original state again. The only thing I added is to another softer spring in series to the original one. It really would be an improvement to make a small hook at the diaphragm in order to connect different springs.

With the softer spring the signal has more reverb and thus has a more richfull sound.

Another improvement is in the setup. It turned out to be favorable to let the acoustical waves being reflected from a wall and to catch this signal with a microphone. Therefor I implemented an electret condenser microphone beneath the resonating tube facing outside.

I routed the signal through the Lingua, recorded it in WavePad and applied a high-pass filter (250Hz 6dB) and 20% denoising (auto spectral substraction). Hear the following audio clips. A person named "Ben" was mentioned multiple times.

• "Erik meldet" -> "Erik is reporting": Erik meldet.mp3
• "Es sind Wellen" -> "They are waves": Es sind Wellen.mp3
• "Meldet bitte" -> "Reporting please..": Meldet bitte.mp3
• "We can't stand...":We cant stand.mp3
• "Bitte der Ben" -> "Now Ben please": Bitte der Ben - Ben.mp3
• "Meldet Ben" -> "Announcing Ben": Meldet Ben.mp3

I think a new test setup would be appropriate to optimize diaphragm diameter and spring type.

Addendum: The new recordings with increased lingua processing level and the new spring the results are really good. Got a lot of messages in bavarian dialect.

• "Bringt uns der untere her" -> "The lower one brings us here":Bringt uns der untere Ehr.mp3
• "Brüder Jahn" -> "Brothers Jahn": Brüller ja.mp3
• "Delta hoffen" -> "Hoping delta": Delta hoffen.mp3
• "Du böser" -> "You nasty one": Du Böser.mp3
• "Du kriegst deine Compliance" -> "You will get your compliance":Du kriegst Deine Compliance.mp3

The mechanical oscillations are the only ones that are generating this snaring sounds the spirits use to make formants from.