Andres Ramos

I tried both but without success.  However I did only  short tests over an hour approximately. Most strangely  I got some fairly good images from reflection in my glasses.

You mean the experience of deciphering  the content starts new with every time we listen to the audio? I am inclined to agree.

That's  interesting. I once read his book "Exploring the mindful way". Tom and I had a lose cooperation  for a while. I do not agree with everything he says but he's  the one with best structured  works about EVP you can find and he was the only one who developed  a model for paranormal perception.

A thrilling idea Fernando!

As i read your posting the question in me came up, "Why not let the people choose letters directly?" However after some deep thinking I came to the conclusion that it really makes sense to start with the most simple information transfer possible. It would be logical to think that the more information spirits want to convey the more the mediums must be trained for this puropose. The crown of these skills is automatic writing that is only given to a handful of mediums. A binary information is just the decision that there was something or there was nothing. A good way!

I just want to add that we might have to add a feature for synchronizing spirits and mediums. The simplest approach could be to switch on a lamp for a constant time of, lets say 10s, and in this time the medium is waiting for "something". If there was something it's a logical "1", otherwise it's "0". This helps the medium to concentrate only when it's needed and simultaneously tell the spirits when we are expecting their impacts.

What i forgot to mention, another benefit of your binary method compared to plain letters is that your method keeps the mediums away from forming words by their own subconscious mind. If they are just creating ones and zeros they'll never know what comes out.

Some years ago i had a crush on making steampunk-like equipment. One of my first creations was a nice compass I made. It contained an iron wire with neodymium magnets on a low friction glass bearing and a nice scale. Everything was contained in a plexiglas sphere. OK, plexiglass is not really steampunk but the rest was made just of metal and wood.

My homemade steampunk compass

It was a really nice device and worked pretty well but one thing was disturbing. I observed that the compass needle never came to a rest - really never!

The restless needle

First I thought this could be due to environmental magnetic field caused by power supply lines. However power supply lines in europe allm are running with 50Hz AC, much too fast to follow for the needle that was wiggling around much slower. Then I thought it could be an overlay of different ac fields with a resulting beat frequency that was slow enough to deflect the needle. But this is also unlikely since every power line runs the same frequency of 50 Hz and they're all phase synchronized, even multiphase systems  have a constand differation angle between the phases, thus no interference could cause this effect.

OK, then it's mechanical vibrations of the building I guessed. Thus I ckecked the movement of the needle at different time points at day and night. It could be expected that at night the vibrations would be smaller when everyone sleeps in his bed and the traffic outside has stopped. But it made no difference. The needle kept moving. Then I placed the compass on a cushion and some folded blankets. This at least should diminish possible vibrations, but no effect, the needle was moving constantly.

Then I thought it could be influences from steel constructions and other magnetic materials in  the building itself. This of course is true but these inteferences are just causing constant deflections, they are adding a kind of "DC" offset that yields to a constant error of the needle but not a varying one.

Of course it might be possible that these deflections are caused by subtle changes of earths magnetic field and in fact this geomagnetic field is prone to changes permanently. However these are so small and subtle that you normally need a very sensitive fluxgate magnetometer to detect them and you can detect them just in magnetically quiet rural areas.

Thus I'm not sure if this effect is paranormal or not but it leaded me to the idea of an experiment. I would like to add a photoelectric barrier to the needle. The moving needle then shadows the light falling on the phototransistor more or less. Thus the tiny movements could be made measurable as a voltage signal for further investigations. Probably we could see if the deflections can be correlated with psychic events, moods or meditation.

Tell me your ideas please.

Sorry, I live in northern germany. Too much of a distance to throw it over the atlantic.

But thanks for wanting to share it with me.

6 hours ago, Arizona EVP said:

Nice effort.

I always like the way responses can evolve.

In the example of a strong sound (Denoised): "Wir werden noch mehr"

I hear 2 overlapping voices that seem to say in English:  We're not dead  and  We're not deaf

 

Very good Ron! It's not unusual we are interpreting the voices according to our native tongue. I experienced that a lot with streams from Michael Lee, i decoded. Sometimes I am not sure if it's our own interpretation or maybe the content that changes. I experienced dome occurence of voices that i recorded and interpreted and a few days later i revised them and the content was totally different. I know another experimenter in germany who confirmed this phenomenon.

7 hours ago, Arizona EVP said:

Hello Mr. Ramos,

Do you have any audio of your laser experiment that I can listen to / analyze.  

Ron

Hello Ron!

Thanks for your comments. The problem is that this experiment was a failure in relation to the laser. With the described setup i could gain voices but they are not related to the laser setup, instead they where just direct microphone voices. Since this article describes a laser experiment i refrained from putting voice samples here because they would give the reader the false impression the laser setup had produced spirit voices.

I can give you a link to my sample filebase with direct microphone voices because i have put the samples from the laser setup there.

Direct Microphone Voices

InI thought about making a document template for ITC session protocols where you can enter when, where and what you where doing in an ITC session. I think there are some templates around in the community but I would like to take advantage from the fact that lots of skillful people are in this forum who could participate with their knowledge. I own a program named "PDF Maker". You can design pdf documents with it that can be filled out electronically and then saved as a fix(non editable) pdf. Or you just print it out and fill it out by hand. I would like to discuss what data is useful to be documented and what not. I think a minimum set of data should be:

• Name of experimenter
• Date and time of session
• Type(Image/Video/Audio)
• Referenced files (image/video/audio)
• Environmental conditions?
• Interpretation of received content
• Peer reviewed?

Any more ideas?

2 hours ago, Fernando Luis Cacciola Carballal said:

WOW, I just read the index and this seems very very valuable. You don't read this on wikipedia!!  Thank you!

Thank you Fernando! But better read it before you praise it, or dump it.

25 minutes ago, Fernando Luis Cacciola Carballal said:

And now I have to ask why?

 I'm a 2º degree black belt in Taekwon-do (though I started at the turn of 40, so even 9 years later I'm still like Kung Fu Panda at the start of the movie) 

Then you are my hero, Fernando! I also own a black belt. I use it to keep my trousers from slipping down to my feet.

Generated words contained "avoiding taught, "actual joy measurements", "democracy  Desaster ", "everybody coming", "tones", "personalized  body", "independent  collect"

Interesting since we are facing democracy disasters  everywhere, we tend to not being taught by the mainstream, we experience joy in our measurements,  today i wrote the article about laser and tones.

On 10/12/2020 at 12:52 PM, Stephen said:

Hi all,

I'm a graduate in Psychology and Theology, trained in hypnosis and psychotherapy, PhD Psychology with has a lifelong interest in and study of Metaphysics and Parapsychology. Following PhD research I taught Psychology at Universities and Colleges of Further Education  and spent eleven years teaching English in the Czech Republic. In addition to being the Founder and Principal of the School of Metaphysics and Parapsychology (London) I''m a writer, actor and voice artist and continue to pursue these passions.

Stephen,  I have a very personal question. Can you as a specialist for hypnosis tell me if one could hypnotize himself unintentionally? As I was a little boy I had a disturbing  experience.  Near my bed I had a piece of cardboard  hanging on the wall with my school lessons for every day written on it. When i moved around in my bed it happened that I pushed the cardboard and then it began to swing forth and back slowly, like a pendulum,  making a rhythmic soft scratching sound. I remember  I was somehow attracted  by this sound and I started to push the cardboard  intentionally  again and again and again. After a while I got the feeling that I started to drift away somehow. My mind seemed to became 'misty' and i felt like I was drowning in myself. In the end I felt I wasn't really there anymore as if what I saw was a projection on a screen I was watching from the distance with lots of empty space around me. I tried to tell my mom but she didn't understand. It seems after some time  this phenomenon faded. Or i just got used to to this state I am still in. Can you tell me something  about this?

Today i got "mDax", "Mazav", "Terz", "Tecuo Hept"(sounds like maya speech), "BuMueh"(african language?), "Mamy",

I wrote this treatise a while ago. This is a paper that discusses the role of noise in ITC experiments and some effects related to it. Maybe you'll find it useful to read.

Treatise on the phenomenon of spirit voice manifestations in noise.pdf

"Black Belt" is my new favorite!

1. Abstract

My first laser experiment was a failure. But now as I had dived into this area I wasn't willing to give it up too fast. In our group discussions we talked about laser interferometry. This well known technique is based on the overlay of two laser beams coming from the same source and running over different paths by use of a beam splitter. If both beams come together again they are creating an interference pattern. This phenomenon is due to the oscillating nature of light that shows a sinusoidal waveform.

The cool thing about LI is that it is a very susceptible measuring technique for tiny changes in the laser path. The wavelength of a laser is measured in nanometers. These are the thousand-billionth part of a meter. If a change of the path lengths appears in one of the laser beams that comes to fall in this magnitude there will be a tremendous change in the interference pattern. My idea was that maybe spirits could project enough energy on the path to cause such changes.

2. Principles of laser interferometry

In the schematic above you can see the classical "Michaelson-Morley" interferometry setup. A laser beam, emitted by a laser diode, is hitting a beam splitter in an angle of 45°. The beam splitter merely is a simple sheet of glass. It lets pass a part of the beam and another part is reflected. The difference between a beam splitter and ordinary window glass is that a bleam splitter is covered with a thin layer of reflecting material so that the original beam is split in two new beams with each 50% intensity. A normal sheet of glass does not provide the 50:50 ratio but later it turned out that this fact was not that important.

Both beams go over separate paths that are having a mirror placed. The mirror throws the beam back to the splitter. There again they become split and one part of each beam now runs through a biconvex lens. The lens is projecting both beams overlayed on a screen.

In the area on the screen where this happens a characteristically interference patterns appears, a structure of bright and dark lines. If you now would place a small photodetector at one of these lines so that it just gets the light from this line you made one of the most susceptible instruments on earth. If anything on the laser paths changes down to a fraction of a nanometer the light of the lines will change. The dark lines will become bright and vice versa. You just need to amplify the signal from the phototransistor a bit and you are done.

A good article covering laser interferometry can be found here.

An introductional video from Varanormal can be seen here: Varanormal video about laser interferometry

3. Mechanical setup

While the previous setup was tricky, this one was challenging! As I already said in the previous chapter, the slightest change of the laser paths yields into a strong change of the interference pattern. Thus I had to make everything solidly fixed. Another challenge was the needed accuracy. 

Mechanical setup of laser interferometer

The beam needed to be split. Therefore I obtained some pretty expensive and rare beam splitters, small sheets of glass with a very slight reflection layer on them. Everything, splitters, mirrors, diode and phototransistor should be adjustable but also capable of being fixed. Otherwise the laser beam would be defocused permanently.

Thus I used magnets as mounting bases and angles and screws for the splitters. The phototransistor was placed on a threaded rod where you can adjust its height by using nuts. I placed it accurately so that it was getting light from one interference line, more or less.

4. Electronic schematic

As you see the schmatic is simpler compared to my first design. This is because some experience was getting in the considerations. The laser driver is now simpler as I observed I didn't need as much preamplification as I expected before. Also the receiver unit became simpler. The use of a phototransistor facilitated the electronic a lot and since the interference pattern changes dramatically we don't need so much amplification here too. To keep it simple I just used simple transistors.

What I did was to throw in an AC hum filter. Most powers supplies and wall adapters are a mess in respect of audio applications and some capacitors and inductors help a lot to get around this annoying problem.

5. Test results

Signal after switching on the laser

The signals the LI produced are not comparable with anything I have investigated before. What I got was a noise, pure and clean sound, like ocean waves on a shore, going up and down in the amplitude very slowly. After switching on the laser they appeared more rapidly but then calmed down more and more. I think there are temperature effects playing a role here. When the laser heats up it affects the length of the laser paths and this signal calms down the more the temperature distribution reaches equilibrium. But this is just a hypothesis. It does not explain the up and down of noise. The signal appeared to me like energy waves.

Energy wave in detail

The spectrum of the signal was a little weird. I was used to the more or less spectral compositions that are declining with 1/f but this spectrum showed more of a bandpass characteristic.

Spectrum of interference signal

The first experiments I did without any laser modulation to make a slow approach at the start. Then I found voices. They were scattered unevenly over the signal. Sometimes they occurred very strong when the energy wave was reaching it's maximum and sometimes they hid as whisperings in the calm areas.

An example of a strong sound (Denoised): "Wir werden noch mehr"

An example of a soft sound(Denoised): "Wo Licht?"

Another example (Slightly denoised): "Der Arme stirbt"

This was impressive by its simplicity: "Hallo?"

Basically I got two types of voices, fast ones and slower ones. The fast ones I needed to slow down with the tempo function in Audacity and they became a more vocoder-like quality.

Another thing I observed was that the most voices appeared shortly after switching on the device. This phenomenon I was already facing with direct microphone voices in an extreme manner. By some miraculous effect it seems that the energy for the voice transmission is stronger after switching on the equipment and decreases by the length of time. The authors Spirik & Loos also reported this phenomenon in their book "Nachrichten aus dem Jenseits"

A gallery of recorded voice samples can be found here.

6. Anomalies

It's always weird to talk about anomalies in ITC that is regarded as an anomaly itself but since we experimenters see ITC as a normal part of our life we can talk about anomalies in a sense that we observed something we haven't expected.

I want to put  right here at the beginning that we currently have no explanations for the observed effects. Thus I will only document them here without putting any theories or assumptions so far.

6.1 Bumps

I called them Bumps because they resemble a very deep bumping sound. They normally occur in a pair of two: "Bump"

6.2 Spooky Sound

I had no better designation for this sound because it really sounds a bit spooky, like a soft howling voice: "Spooky Sound"

6.3 Laser shots

Sound pretty much like the laser shootings in StarWars: "Laser Shot"

6.4 Hum bursts

I think these are also voices but they come in like a strange humming wave: "Hum Burts"

6.5 Tones

This is the weirdest thing we observed with the laser interferometer. To be honest we actually don't know if it is really a paranormal phenomenon yet. It is an ongoing research to discover what is behind this and we will post our proceedings in one of the blogs soon. We oberved the "tones" only after a while after we employed the interferometer as an audio stream for long term investigations. The tone is sudden and very strong, having an outstanding low frequency burst with a duration of almost exactly 1s.

Hear: "Tone"

Time domain signal of tone

The tones are following special rules I just want to put here. They were found empirically.

• Width of tone is always around one second with very low deviation
• The distance between two consecutive tone in a group are generally 1.5s, 4s and 9s. There may be some particular distances that deviate from those values
• The dominating frequencies are basically 27 Hz, 70 Hz, 129 Hz, 227 Hz, 327 Hz

Don't ask us anything about the meaning of these tones yet. We have no idea!

7. Evaluation

In my eyes the first steps and results in laser interferometry are opening up a complete new field of research. We have only begun to lift the cover a bit. What now is needed is a more stable setup that I already developed and it will be described in a following topic. Then we can do more long term experiments. This is really something I would like to get some volunteers aboard to analyze the huge data we will gather by the time in search for voices and tones. Anyone is welcome to participate!

1. Abstract

During my years of research I frequently got information about the use of laser light in ITC. The application for lasers in ITC seem to differ widely. I read about the works of H. O. Koenig who used laser for audio transmission to be intercepted and modified by spirits. But there were also other experimenters who used laser illuminated crystals to improve their session results.

My first idea was establishing a microphone based audio stream over a laser beam and recording it. A nice add-on would be to shoot the beam through different types of transparent media like rock crystal, tourmaline or even pure water and see if there would appear any voices in the stream that were not the usual ones we always found in any kind of noise and thus would not be caused by the laser.

2. Mechanical setup

This experiment was a bit challenging in terms of mechanical assembly. Normally I just have to stress my mechanical skills for drilling holes in casings and gluing. To gain enough flexibility I conceived a small platform of iron sheets and placed the laser diode and the receiving photo diode as components fixed on neodymium magnets. This way I was free to place the components wherever I wanted. That turned out to be an important feature because I wanted to place different media in the beam path and also use mirrors.

3. Electronic schematic

The schematic above shows two units. One is for driving and modulating the laser diode and the other shows the photo receiver and amplifier. OP1 and it's surrounding components are used for generating a virtual ground potential between the 12V power supply and real ground. This is a commonly used technique when you are working with op-amps and unsymmetrical power supplies. The laser is driven by a controllable current source made with T1. The preamplified modulation signal is steering the base of the transistor. The small unit in the lower left edge of the schematic is the adaption of a condenser microphone I used as the audio source principally. However you can also employ different audio sources. The laser is amplitude modulated, what means the light intensity of the laser is regulated up and down according to the amplitude of the modulation signal.

The laser light is received by a photo diode. It's signal is amplified in OP3. Since the diode is DC coupled I use P1 to compensate the DC offset resulting from the base intensity of the laser beam.

4. Test results of audio laser transmission

I did many test runs with directing the laser beam in the photo diode or using mirrors, crystals and water. A nice effect was the amazing illumination of rock crystal placed in the laser beam. It appeared like a light cloud made of millions of small points floating inside the crystal.

The laser in action

Illuminated rock crystal

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Quickly I got some voices that knocked me off my feet, like "Und sie sind in Panik. Wir sind zwei!". I was so amazed that I was inclined to see this as a major breakthrough in ITC research. However after some test runs the voices disappeared and I didn't know why. I made more tests under different conditions to find out what the the crucial element of success in this experiment was, wether crystals, mirrors, beam-splitters, lenses, water or whatever. After some hours of intense testing it seemed I had found out that it was the presence of the laser itself!

Audio signal of laser

In my last experiment I directly recorded the signal from the microphone and the laser was in operation without modulation just standing beside without any connection to the setup. That totally befuzzled me! I had no idea how the simple presence of a laser beam should facilitate an ITC connection. Luckily this hypothesis got wiped out as fast as it came. In the end I found out that the very good voices I had caught were plain direct microphone voices and the laser had nothing to do with them!

This was a big surprise because I never had success with direct mircophone voices before. Obviously my energy field had grown by this time. This was the reason why they became possible. I could verify this by several more test runs I did with a self constructed condenser microphone that delivered excellent results without any laser working around.

I did some more experiments where I replaced the microphone with different audio sources. I used recorded noise, glottal impulses and vocoder samples but I gained no results.

Thus you see, in the end it was a failure and a success at the same time. The laser failed but I gained new insights by direct mircophone recording. There will be another topic on the insights gained.

7 hours ago, Amy Lange Zubak said:

Put me down for....

Graphics 

Video Captions 

Random Miscellaneous needs 

Hi Amy! Glad to have you here with us.

Welcome Shiva Rose. You seem to be someone dealing with the paranormal  since your childhood? I am so glad to have such an experienced soul here with us!

Just asked myself if it makes sense to display the stream in a mix of capitalized and non-capitelized letters. Wouldn't it be easier to read if everything would be displayed in capital letters?

In the stream I just got "Abba". Didn't Björn, Benny, Anna and Frida wanted to come together in a studio to record one last album?

4 hours ago, Fernando Luis Cacciola Carballal said:

@Andres

As a first step, I would just feed the noise through the audioport and let the software do it all so maximize the flexibility in the development phase. I don't think we need to care for any real-time processing just now. 

But surely, once the system starts to settle, an arduino transmitting UTF32 datagrams would be far better in terms of a complete device. Even better would be to put a display an everything to build a sort of "pager" from the other side.

 

 

Excellent approach  Fernando! I totally agree with you. At least during the development  process we need to minimize our efforts by doing most things in software.

On 10/14/2020 at 2:06 AM, Fernando Luis Cacciola Carballal said:

I totally agree with you Andres.

And what you mentioned about the beginning of clairaudience is very interesting. What started to happen to me is that when I'm close to fall asleep, sometimes I hear in my mind very clear voices. And it is definitely not a thought but a voice, as I can even tell where it comes from, spatially speaking. It happens rarely, and only in that in-between state

And of course I agree about the sometimes necessary pain, since I just experienced it.  I realized in my therapy session this morning how much I'm not off the hook yet, but, it doesn't matter.  The time is now and I'm ready!

I suppose I should tell you that I'm sorry that you are also going through your own pain, but we just said that it's a necessary step! So, just hang in there 

I do believe in "permanent bright shinning light".... but that's God, and the really high spirits whom I hope to channel in with this work.  But we, humans, are just learning and evolving the best we can.  Yes, it's a great goal, but to get to any point it's fundamental to know where you are now, and we're not there.

 

You are showing  a spiritual  and simultaneously very  realistic worldview. I like this very much.  As I said that I don't  like people who see themselves and everything is bright shining light I meant that those are neglecting that anything else exists and pain is always an abnormal  state. I don't like pain but I know it is inevitable if you want to evolve.

What you say about voices in the intermediate state between being awake and sleep is really intriguing as I am encountering similar phenomena  since decades. But there are no acoustical voices i hear but very strong thoughts breaking into, almost like voices but so clear the even they are thoughts they have a voice like characteristic. Furthermore sometimes I can see flashes of images just for a fraction of a second often in a kind of wild camera movement.  I had some thoughts how to document this as these are unmeasurable  events in my mind. I had the idea to put a voice activated digital recorder next to my bed in order to describe in words what I experienced directly  after being conscious again.

2 minutes ago, Andres Ramos said:

You got it Frank!

Sorry, be patient with me please. I almost can't  memorize more than 4 numbers. Names aren't much better.