What the Hell is Heaven and How Do I Get There?

Thursday July 26, 2014

I thought this question was well worth the Daily Spook treatment so thanks Kate for grilling me and my spooks! It is actually something that is addressed in my book and a question I am often asked. Well, not me personally as I have to confess when I answer questions it is generally with the help of Arty, P and others! Let's just set the scene for the answer...

Why is it that only the good die young? Surely if you are good you don't deserve to die young at all? Does that mean if you're bad you should die as soon as you have unleashed your badness upon someone? Picture this; a man loses his job in wartime England. He has four children, a wife and no means of putting food on the table for his family.  So, he steals a few loaves of bread. Is he a thief that should be condemned or a man that will do anything for his family regardless of the consequences to him?  So what we have to decide first Kate is the definition of "good" and "bad."

Goodness or badness it seems, and  according to spirit is based on intent. Our bread-thief didn't want to get away without paying, he wanted to feed his family. Let's assume a person has a drink problem that manifests itself because of underlying psychological issues. Our man Joe didn't want to be a drunk it's just that it developed over time as a means of coping with a life he couldn't cope with sober. When Joe get's poodled, he beats his wife and children. When he sobers up he is filled with self loathing and can't bear to think about what he has done.  Joe is ill. That doesn't mean to say what he is doing is ok, no no no! The clincher here is whether Joe chooses to get help because he knows his impulses and addictions are wrong and hurting others. Joe doesn't go to hell for being a violent drunk, he goes to hell (well he doesn't actually go anywhere but you know what we mean) because he won't do anything about it and therefore makes others needlessly suffer.

Annie goes to church religiously, every Sunday of her life best frock and hat. Kitty can't be bothered with all that hoo har but has a strong faith in God. She prays by her bed at night, asks God for help when things are bleak and thanks God when things come up roses. Does Annie get a better seat at St Peters dining table whilst Kitty has to have jam sandwiches with the sinners? No. Why? Because we are taught that the universe, your God, my God is not judgmental. All love in spirit is equal once we get there. Church is a social thing, people who share a common faith and a common way of wanting to celebrate it and not a way of racking up brownie points so you get a window seat on a comfy cloud!

So..now we have that sorted, sort of, we have to get to heaven and hell. Well Kate the short answer is no; because there is no physical place because there is no physical about the afterlife at all. The only way Arty feels it can be explained without adding confusion is that heaven and hell are a state of mind or a state of being.  The purpose of the afterlife is to allow us to redeem ourselves, review our thoughts and deeds and hopefully make a better go of it next time and so we carry on with our spiritual journey.

There is no doubt as a reader, I have encountered angry spooks, happy spooks, kind spooks who have helped me and mean spooks who have tried to do the opposite. So it doesn't follow that once we die we go through the heavenly sheep dip and come out whiter than white the other side, all forgiven and penitent. No we tend to hang around in our "human spiritual form" for a while until we and those who love us accept the finality of our exit from the mortal world. For a while we remain exactly who we were but with no physical attributes. It is another way of learning and if you like, the intermediate experience to being a spirit real. We are a human spirit at first and that is why we can retain our original selves and where they fit within our human environment.

Once we progress from that point (and as an aside we can come back from that and interact with the human but that's for another day), according to my beloved Arty, we go through a phase called "the knowing". Arty calls it that to explain what it is, rather than there being a big door with a flashing neon sign that says "This way to the Knowing!" This is really the "heaven" or the "hell" that we think of as a place of flames and a little red guy with a pointy stick, or clouds and lollipops as far as the eye can see. When we go through this we have to feel, and that is the key to the knowing it should perhaps really be called "the feeling."

It's not a movie of our life because we have no eyes and what's the point in watching something you already know anyway? If you were a thief and you denied it in court and got away with it you will only deny it again! The knowing is about feeling the impact of our thoughts, and deeds. I had violent parents, so let's say when they pass on they will have to feel how I felt as a child. Trapped, beaten and no where to run. They will also feel the physical pain of each blow as it happened when they were in the living. On the flip side if you are a good person you will feel that which you bestowed on others by being kind and good. You may be a mix? Someone who started out on a wrong path but righted it. You don't get to avoid the grubby bits just because you made good, you still have to do both.

We also go through a healing process whether we are deemed good or bad. No soul is returned to earth broken or damaged that is something we do to ourselves. Most of us bear battle scars of human life when we get to the next world. Whether it is as an abused child, a starved prisoner, a tortured mind or a physical disability we are healed and made whole again ready to go onward; maybe back into the human world or maybe a higher spiritual progression.

The payoff? That is a really human concept. What do I get when I die if I'm good when I am alive? There is definitely no bag of lollies, new car or holiday for two to the Bahama's if you live a good life and why should there be? A good life is what is expected of us when we first get here on earth in human form.

The payoff for good is peace and spiritual progression, the value of which we never truly know until we get there.

Similarly if you are evil it can be traumatic. I remember for a few years seeing the spirit of a ne'er do well family member who had been quite quite evil in his life. I wanted no connection with him and so he was always outed from my spook space and ignored.   I wondered why he kept coming around me, I despised him for his evil ways as did many others. The one night I was "dreaming" of P as she sat on my bed she said "You have to forgive him." I knew instinctively who she meant, and realised that his "hell" was not being healed or progressing because forgiveness wasn't forthcoming. To make matters worse for this troubled spook he was (even as a spirit) afraid of going on to the knowing because he feared having to feel the physical pain and emotion of his misdeeds. In some ways he had learned a lesson and the mid-plane existence was his hell. He eventually did make it through the veil to the other side and I saw him a couple of years ago and this time I didn't feel the evil, dark fear and hatred he just felt like every other spook! he even smiled. Which gave me the creeps, just a little. Alright a lot!

As usual I do hope mine and Arty's collaborative effort make sense; all or in part!

Divining with the Divine

Tuesday June 17, 2014

The latin word of origin for divination (telling the future) actually means to foresee but has also been translated as "inspired by God." Essentially what divination or reading with tools is, is taking a random object, series of events (fall of the cards for example) or signs and symbols and put them together to interpret the meaning for the person with the issue they need advice on.

One of the things that differs for each reader is how we do it. What we need as clue cards to the message we are trying to bring through for the sitter.  Tea leaves, coffee grounds, cards, pendulum, crystals or tarot cards the tools are many and varied. Most people who use tools will later go on to trust their own intuition and spirits. Other chose to stay with the prompts and hints of visual aids and are still as good a readers. Me personally my preferred "tool" is spirit. I cannot read for anyone unless I have a spook present. I need to see that spirit or at least feel them before I can kick off the read.

In the early ages seers, mediums etc who had no tools to speak of were thought to be witches or warlocks, subjected to horrible'punishment' because no one could actually see where or how they were getting their information from. I believe, as do many others, that Jesus was one of the first mediums and in some ways he literally put the fear of God into people with his abilities, even though he only sought to do good with them it frightened people and for wanting to do what so many of us do nowadays, he was crucified.

So how does it work? Does a big invisible hand come down from the sky and create patterns and chose cards for us? How can it possibly be preordained what cards will come up? Seeing in crystal balls etc is just a confidence trick of the best kind. Because it really isn't a trick at all. Using a tool in that way gives the reader confidence that she or he can "see" her own visions rather than trust in something we hear or see but not with our biological ears or eyes. It is the same with the practice of psychometry, the practice of holding a piece of jewellery or item that belongs to the querent is said to be so the reader can "feel the vibrations" of the sitter. precious metals have their own molecular structure and vibration and so to assume that intermingled with the scientific composition of a precious metal there can be any kind of human element, is scientifically ridiculous.  Sure sweat, DNA and your Avon hand cream might rib off but there is no part of you as a person that is "absorbed" by a ring or a watch. I had a dear friend who used to read that way and she was brilliant. One day I asked her why she did it that way and she said "To be honest kid, I just need to do something with my hands because I can't smoke inside!" God love her and so did I! she was just a darned good medium who needed a spiritual "blankey" to comfort her during readings!

I am a firm believer in the notion that spirit can influence things in the physical. I don't believe anything is preordained though because as a medium one of the pre-read cautions is, "This is what is here for you now, you can take it or leave it." That is also why when using tools, particularly tarot cards that if you throw them twice you won't get the same cards. If life was pre ordained you would. it's as simple as that. So declining the notion that we can meld with a piece of precious metal I DO believe (and so do Arty and P) that when Tarot cards, crystal balls, rune stones etc are being used, there is an energetic influence at play. You shuffle the cards and even if you don't hear it maybe that inner voice says "stop and split now."  

Pendulums are another energetically influenced means of divination but what never ceases to amaze me is the number of people who think because it moves it is telling the truth! Do you KNOW how many spooks  are around at any given time? It isn't always who you think it is influencing the movement of a pendulum and if you aren't a medium and can't see that then you are playing with fire. Opening an energetic door that you might not be able to close to easily. it is the same with ouja boards, unless you really know what you are doing it is a dangerous practice and nothing like reading tea leaves or coffee grinds because with such methods (pendulum, ouja etc) you are effectively summoning spirit. Sometimes they just don't like that, especially as the world gets more and more conceited and selfish in it's use of spiritual communication.

So, in short there are two ways of using tools. One is a placebo effect; crystal balls, psychometry etc. Things that don't move and all you can possibly do is use them as a prompt or confidence booster from the spooks around you. The other is something which the energy of the universe may or may not be influencing; which cards are drawn, which runes come out, which way the pendulum swings.

Whatever your method it is important to clearly understand that you need ot have the connection and the protection before you begin. You have to be psychic or a medium to read with any kind of divination tools, so really why use them at all?? Good point me! 

A Spooky Adventure - Midnight at the Moulin Rouge

Thursday June 12, 2014

If you have been hanging out on my Facebook page you will know that recently we have been looking at doing some documentaries on all things spooky. Sort of medium meets scientist if you like. One of the things I don’t want to do was EVP’s in prisons, mental homes, hospitals. I mean pardonne moi for stating the obvious but hasn’t that been “done to death?” I rather like the idea of identifying the resident off worlders, connecting with them and then doing all that kind of stuff. Give them a name, a face and a story. After all that is probably why they are there, they want to be heard.

Here is Part I of what happened on my recon mission to a Queensland brothel that was reported to be haunted. Before I start let me just say this; don’t you go getting all judgemental with me because it’s a brothel.  You WILL get an argument out of me aif you do but this isn’t the place to do it. God is NOT judgmental so you don’t have the right to be either. Suffice to say ALL of the people I met on my research affair were the nicest people. Kind, accommodating and deserving of your respect. 

Now onto the dead ones. Let me state without a shadow of a doubt…it is haunted!  One of the things I like to do when we know we have a throng of spooks waiting is to talk to them. Upon arrival there was a short-ish man in spirit who just seemed to make me laugh but was like the smart kid at the front of the classroom shooting his hand up "Miss! Miss! Pick Me! Pick Me!". Although I could only see him in my spook space, he was a complete dag and seemed to be up to all sorts of antics. He didn’t feel like he belonged at the Moulin Rouge (not the real name of the establishment so God help me if there really is one called that because it’s not your place..ok?) He felt like he was with someone who was there. We eventually had a little chat, validated him and who he was with and he hung around a while to see what was going on. He even told me where to look and where not to go. Thanks Dad! You know who I mean..no not my Dad you idiot…I don’t actually know who he is. Ooops wandering off…ok back now!

Walking around with the Manager of the Red Windmill he was telling me where the lurking spooks were reported to have been seen by the girls. It was important I didn’t know too much in case it looked like a set up.  Dad wasn’t even mentioned before he introduced himself so I think they got that I was intending on acting like a pork chop with integrity!  There were definitely good and bad energies, entities and spirits there.  Some lurking and some shoving me on the stairs or tapping me on the shoulder. In the end we had three main players and two family members that we could positively identify. The main spirit-players; Mr G, Skinny Guy and Mary. The gatecrashers; Dad and Margaret. I would like to apologise to Margaret for not realising who she was straight away.  Sorry Margaret.

There was no doubt there were cold and warm spots in the establishment. Similarly I felt both friendly "Hey stop for a chat" energies as well as some less endearing spirits.  One of them hissed at me and said "Go away you big baby" but that was later on.

Once we can “feel” there is someone around in spirit I like take photo’s lots of them because it's really only one in one hundred that you get anything in the frame. Even that doesn’t always work and to be honest I have only met one spiritual being who will be photographed on demand. Most times I see them, click and they are gone and I am left with just a splurgy light thingy when the image comes out.   Having said that once I decided to take photos the bizarre stuff kicked off. Remember, I am a a pork chop with integrity, there were witnesses to everything.

I took photos all over the place but the camera would not work in one particular room ( in the living area for the girls) with one particular person in it. You know who you are Lollipop!. After trying all three cameras I bought with me to cover off "equipment failure" I decided to leave it and carry on about the place taking pictures, clicking and flashing like an old pro myself I was!  When it came to downloading  from the memory cards there was NOTHING on any of them, nothing…except…two pictures of Lollipop.  If that wasn’t a spectacular start to the 24 hours I don’t know what was! It reminded me of the time I went to a cemetary to take pictures and record.3 hours of tape was just three seconds of  "Go away" and 211 digital pictures were all just grey fuzz like when the television programming ended in the 1960's, white noise and grey fuzzy.I know spirit can interact better with electronic equipment than some people, so I was annoyed but not surprised. I just wanted to know what the caper was though? Was someone trying to tell me not to take pictures anywhere else?

As I was walking along the hall I muttered an apology to the naked man standing in one of the bedrooms and properly averted my gaze.  I thought he was an idiot for leaving the door open when there were strangers around but I have eye balled enough bare bums in my time for it not to ruffle my feathers.  I turned around in the stairwell and the Moulin Manager was behind me coming up the stairs. To protect the innocent I shall refrain from describing under what circumstances and his attire but I almost peed my pants laughing! I quizzed Lollipop who was the other guy? I feared the two and only males on the floor would be in cahoots playing practical jokes on me all night. Lolly casually responded that there was no other man in the building. Gosh! Naked spook bum! He looked so real and usually when I see spirit in the physical environment they are grainy or don’t hold there for long but in this instance this perky pink derriere looked jolly real to me! My very first naked spook!

Two things became obvious when it came to pinpointing the most ethereal activity; around the pool table was definitely spook central and Mary liked to walk the hall upstairs with a frosty look on her face. I feel she considered herself house-mistress for the girls.  At one point I was sure I saw an older man leaning against the pool table, looking directly at me. Time and time again as I passed a black leather chair I saw someone sitting there as if they were waiting for their turn at pool. Then there was the tall dark shadow that I am sure was not good, it loomed over the pool table like the dark miserable energy it was.  Skinny Guy liked to hang out by the kitchen door or in one of the bathrooms. Which had frightened many of the girls already. Not least little Miss Sarina who simply refused to go in one particular room unless she had an armed guard and a string of garlic!

Taking the first daylight photos this is what we got. Now let me tell you that usually spiritual energy is more active at night.  I have said before that Arty explained this is because of the less unnatural light and the slowing of human energies.  It is easier to manifest at night than in the day but you will see from these photos those we had connected with were giving it a red hot go to be seen.

I had managed a spook-up (like a hook up but spooky!) with Mr G who explained he was in his late 50’s and worked for himself when he hopped off the human merry go round. He owned a business, had one daughter and was separated from his wife. He didn’t say divorced he clearly said separated. His family he felt had used him and not been as genuine as they could have been and when he had a heart attack (too much rich food and wine he smiled). They were “faster to the bank than they were to the funeral home.” 

That was a little sad as he struck me as such a genuine man. Salt of the earth type who got where he got through hard graft without any tricks or handouts. In fact he confirmed he had no handouts and he started things from scratch. When I asked him his business he said “manufacturing and insurance.” The two don’t really go together but we were located in a semi industrial area so I pondered whether he was actually from the area and the word insurance was just a furphy.  Maybe he had a local factory in the same area but decided to hang around the girls rather than his family? he mentioned he was there because he wanted company and I never thought at the time to ask him how a spook becomes lonely! His story made sense to me and is worthy of some local research to back it up.

Tomorrow I will ramp it up a little as the evening goes on and tell you about Skinny Guy (heads up he is a voyeur…tsk…tsk). For now let’s evidence where we pinpointed ‘the action” to be…..a demain mes enfants! See you tomorrow kids!  Bis morgen kinder! 

Orb It!

Saturday May 17, 2014

Do you know what the photo is to the left? Yes it's actually a photo and not a computer graphic or a man created image. It is an orb blown up 600%! 

The one below hasn't had anything done to it, both images were taken with the same camera at night.  It is the flash that picks them up but to be honest I have no idea why a camera flash will illuminate orbs and a flashlight won't.

Two separate and distinct orbs 16/05/13

One of my favourite questions is "Which came first the energy or the matter?" It's a sort of chicken and egg one only easier. Nothing could happen to the matter if there was no energy to make it happen. Case closed, with a  little bit of a smug grin! I believe that the orbs represent and are the origin of us and the end of us if you like. They are us. The interesting thing is that we  human beings must either give off or generate slightly different types of energy, because these little suckers are all around me when pictures are taken. There never seems to be just one, but a whole gang of them as if I am some kind of orb magnet! Like  a chick magnet only better boys!

It sounds conceited and I don't mean it to, it just is what it is. The other thing is that when I am in bed at night; (don't forget I live on a mountain top on acres, no street lights, no one around me, no  nothing just peace perfect peace!) I always hear voices. Lots of them like a group of people are having a conversation and I can't make out the words I just know they are all talking. When you look at the photo (left) I have to wonder if I am hearing all the souls who wait outside my house? My belief is that orbs are the purest form of individual spirit. When they don't manifest in a form we recognise as previously human this is what we get; an orb. I guess you could say that all those little shiny guys hanging out by my hedge are actually 'people that once were'.

On and off throughout the year I read and quite often I will have someone in spirit come into what I refer to as my spook space, wanting to connect with someone that hasn't booked a reading or unbeknownst to me, will book a reading soon.. I don't know if it is by chance or they know something I am too slow to catch on  but it always works out that I can make a connection with a solid validation. Sometimes I actually get names that they want to speak to or their own. I can't help thinking that all these hanging around me orbs are in my spook space just waiting...waiting. 

On a more scientific note everything travels on a wavelength; light, sound, heat, energy you name it it has to travel on a frequency. What we are talking about here is a visual wavelength; specifically how we SEE spook and the energy frequency in which they appear. Each type of energy has it's own frequency. Getting too intense...but wait there's more!  It has already been  "established" that the energy of spirit is radiant energy, electromagnetic energy to be specific. EME has a visible colour spectrum and the colours we see for the two separate and distinct orbs that we shall call violet and/or indigo are actually the lowest wavelength frequency. The smaller the wavelength, the smaller the structures with which they interact and the more powerful the energy.  That is actually a scientific fact as is that violet and indigo are the lowest wavelength of the visible elecrtomagnetic colours. So our orbs are not only the strongest type of radiant energy, they are the lowest wavelength.

I am no scientist but I do hope this makes some sense. We communicate, as opposed to see, on a different frequency..but I am not going to confuse either of us with that at the moment!

Industry Standards? Don't make me drop a house on you!

Anyone who knows me knows there were a few weeks in March/April where things were a bit rough to say the least. The most shocking thing was that a lot of the hurt was caused by other practising mediums trolling me on Facebook! People that I don’t know, who have never met and quite honestly I don’t want to meet them! It lead me off in the direction of some research and I was gobsmacked with what I found! This industry needs professional and moral guidelines because it’s seems sometimes a mediums moral compass accidentally points to “bitch!” Because we are spiritual people we seem to think we can get away with it too!

The psychic arts are a multi- billion dollar industry, unregulated and unsupervised. No one has to answer to anyone. F-k you all! We can do what we like when we like and hang the consequences.  We can charge as much as we like, call it what we like and make as many claims about our abilities as we like. A tepid application of the Trade Practices Act might get you your money back but who wants to go through that kind of embarrassment and expense?

If a Doctor, Lawyer, Check Out Operator or Cleaner did or publicly said some of the things that have happened over the last few months they would undoubtedly be in serious trouble. At the very least humiliated for their gross lack of professionalism and warned by their employer or ruling body. Heck even one of John Edward’s staff jumped on the bandwagon by making publicly spiteful comments about someone else when allegations by a random nutter were posted on his page. Why would someone like him bother? People are so desperate to be the next John Edward, but you don’t fool me. You want the money and the big house, the fame and the recognition. The material stuff, not the feel good, that’s just a bonus to roll in after the crowds have adored you and you have waved goodnight.

My research indicates a large number of Australian and US Facebook pages that are owned by mediums are also used to bitch out other mediums or metaphysical practitioners. To make sly comments, open and scathing criticism and generally mud sling and bleat not very sweet nothings about people who apparently share the same goal; the greater good. No other industry or profession does this!!!!

Just before I go any further I would like to say I have had the absolute HONOUR of never having a client express any kind of disappointment in me. Ever. It doesn’t mean it isn’t there or that it isn't coming at me one day, but so far never has a client seen fit to attack me. It might come and if I deserve it, my chin will be sticking out and ready to take it.

So how did we let it get so out of control? How did we go from people who genuinely deal in love and light and the energy of God to egotistical malicious hurtful people who attack anonymous individuals or name names because we simply think we are better than them? How did some of us become vipers who goad others into a vicious frenzy so they cause harm and hurt? Then hide behind social media, ‘pen names’ or the skirts of sacrificial friends?  It seems we will do everything we can to enhance our own reputation by spewing forth angels, auras, peace love, mung beans, fairies and butterflies but at the same time spit fire and the f-word whilst doing everything we can to destroy someone who, in the grand scheme of all things our own  is completely meaningless?

Can you imagine if Coles and Woolworths decided to launch attacks on each other because they both sell cornflakes? Stop for a minute because that is exactly what is happening. Petty jealousy, rivalry, and EGO.

Do clients really want to seek hope and guidance from people who take others lack of tolerance and understanding only to weave them into a hangman’s noose?  Do we really need to trust in someone who makes poison darts for others to send on their way? What HAVE we done? We think we are oh so good with our connection to spirit and our “loved ones” and “God” and the “Divine” but we haven’t evolved spiritually at all! We should be ashamed of ourselves!  We have learned something new  about the two worlds in which we live and have no real clue what it could possibly mean to the human race we are too busy making money, the understanding can come later right? We have de-volved not evolved. We have caved in. In the wrong hands active spirituality is just a money machine, an ego trip.. We aren’t learning to be good and kind through our own spiritual connection. We are learning pomposity, greed, avarice, competition and spite. We are learning that we must destroy the next person in case they are better, bigger or stronger than us. Look what happened to Jesus when the power brokers feared his compassion and passion. Nothing has really changed has it. Shame on me. Shame on you. Shame on all of us for dragging God out from his chair and shooting at his feet to make him dance so we can get our face on the internet, or better still on the telly.

The power of God and the Universe is scientifically, morally and spiritually stronger than we can comprehend. Unseen life and forces can communicate and move amongst us, seeing hearing and knowing everything we do and think.  It goes without saying that the life after death is a wiser, kinder and much more humble way of being. That is why we use it to guide us and to teach us.  Only we turned prophets into profit without turning a hair.

I admit I make a very small part of my living out of reading and so far my spiritual helpers (my beloved Arty and P mostly, but there have been and I am sure there will continue to be others along the way) have been kind and supportive and I have managed to do right by others as far as I know.  I’m not going to say I don’t enjoy it. I have had more laughs with and involving dead people than live ones recently. A medium once said to me, “You have more dead friends than live ones.” I wonder why? I love my human friends very much, but these last few months and my factual research has left me reeling and wondering what motivates someone who practices the psychic arts to then show their dark side so vehemently and so viciously.

I know for sure that not everyone is like this and I thank God, literally. This is just another and hopefully tiny facet of the industry. Are we really so dumb that we are reading, and seeing and connecting for other people but we don’t get the message ourselves? I am sure my beloved Arty and P would drop a house on me if I ever behaved like that.  The world is awakening and it won’t be long before we are all our own spiritual counsel and mediums won’t be needed. Make hay whilst the sun shines but don't steal anyone else's sunshine whilst you are doing it. There is plenty to go around.

Me? I took a year out of work to write a book and explore my own spirituality after spending years battling with it, not really understanding it and trying to find out where it fits in my life. For the most part I have loved and been loved  and have met some truly beautiful people, mediums, psychics and everyone in between and on either side! But the tiny peek into the human dark side of this "industry" has left me reeling. I’m not the only one either but I am not here to speak for others. I am here to speak for me, and me alone in the hope that others who have been subjected to this kind of treatment (I can name 9 without trying!) can be heard by default.

Kindness costs nothing. Your ego will cost you everything. You can be sure of it.

The word on EVP - Part II

Wednesday April 16, 2014

Let's not forget we are trying to explain EVP in a more or less "non scientific way" so we can all have at least a basic grasp of what EVP is.

First of all think of a dog whistle. You know that high frequency whistle that we humans can't hear that our canine friends respond to? Dogs can hear it, we can't. So that being the case we have the principal in place for Part II; it is quite possible there are noises we cannot hear with the 'naked ear'. Regardless of whether some EVP recordings are considered genuine or not it is no longer in dispute that their are sounds that are such a frequency or pitch that the human ear can't hear them. it makes perfect sense that if they aren't generated by a human there is less likelihood we will understand the concept, science or language behind these noises. Don't forget, no one has ever "gone to dead" and come back again to explain the science of the afterlife. Near death experiences are always personal rather than research gathering. What we don't know is far greater than what we do know, but we make judgments on that tiny little atom of knowledge anyway.

The second part of the mystery is how are the noises made? Spirit does not have a human voice and yet we always record human voices that are reported to be EVP's. It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Dogs don't make noises like humans so we can understand what they want! Spirits are no longer human so why do we expect the,m to mimic us like parrots? Get the principal here or are we getting a little too 'out there?'

It is an interesting concept that we don't question as much people "seeing" spirit but we do question the hearing and recording of them. This is because when we see, we have hard evidence in plain sight that we can easier process with our human brain-processor. When we record sound we have nothing tangible to prove anything other than some distorted sounds that we decide to put into words. We more readily accept the appearance of spirit than the sounds of spirit for some reason.

I have found one thing over and over and that is mediums tend to get better (clearer) EVP recordings than those who are just experimenting. So there has to be some kind of connection energy there. I remember once I left a recorder on my bedside table and the next morning it was clearly the sounds of people talking, people walking over a wooden floor and the scrape and squeak of wheels. The apartment I lived in at the time was a converted tobacco factory and the bedroom where the recorder was carpeted. There was actually a name on the tape and we (my husband and I) went looking for him. We found him as an old employee of the factory so that EVP was genuine and real, it must have been.

Some EVP's are really a bit of a stretch seriously. I mean if you go to a lunatic asylum, disused hospital or something similar you really aren't going to get a recording of someone saying "Do take a seat and stay for a nice cup of tea!" are you? The energy that was generated in that physical place was pain, frustration, hostility, fear and all sorts of other negative things. Soit's always "Go away" or something like that. I always kinda switch off when I hear those kinds of EVP's. They have been done to death. Literally!

You can record an EVP on anything, pretty much any recorder will pick it up, I guess the more sensitive the recorder the broader range of frequency but I also feel the speaking spooks 'know' what frequency they need to play on to be heard. I am also of the belief passed from Arty and Nikola, that we don't know enough about energy to actually find (hear) a lot of the communication. Just imagine for one second there is an energy we have yet to discover and name. It would be arrogant to think otherwise. To think we have discovered all we have to discover in the field of energy. Thank goodness some of science's greats didn't think that and leave it there. The highly specialised equipment required is really for the afterwards part! Don't forget with an EVP recording, like a dog whistle, you might only hear 1/10th of what you actually got with the naked ear. Again you can only test for something if you know it exists in the first place though.

Much of my channelling about communication comes from Nikola Tesla (What? You don't actually think I claim to know all this myself do you!??).  Edison filched some of his work but in the 1920's they were both working on the same thing by the same principals of electricity and current transfer. But did one of them actually discover the ability to record the dead? Nikola says "He knew it was possible but it wasn't where his work lay at the time. " In 1933 Decca Records allegedly produced records (vinyl) that recorded communication with the dead.  This was apparently done under controlled conditions to avoid future allegations of recording fraud but still it doesn't stop the nay sayers I guess.   How they did this was rather ingenious, they spoke into a normal microphone which in 1933 was going to be in no way as sophisticated as those we have these days. The mics were placed in different areas of the room to enable different energies to be heard.  Apparently these early tests produced results but fear of losing their jobs (as sound engineers!) they refused to publicly release the material although they confirmed that had captured "spirit voices". It wasn't until 1938 that a spook was recorded on a phonographic record. His or her first LP I guess!

The "voices" heard on EVP messages almost always demonstrate a frequency outside of the normal human voice range. Not to be confused with the normal human hearing range. This is why the production and analysis equipment is more important than the original recording equipment in some ways. A human voice ranges between 300hz & 1000hz, in general terms. Spook voices seem to reach as far as 400hz.  So we know they CAN be recorded so let's ask again, "How does it work?" I roll my eyes at this point because that actually is NOT a scientific question.   Some out there have weird and absolutely nutty explanations that the voices are "left behind" or an imprint remains. I mean seriously! How many times do you have a conversation with someone and then go back to the same place and hear it again because you left a "voice imprint." Ooh! ooh! I know the answer to that one! NEVER!

So Nikola, Arty and I; by the way the last line amused both of them and Arty says he is 'rather fond of my wit' but I digress and shall not further! Nikola, Arty and I all agree that an EVP is a spirit who is present at the time of the recording and not like a lingering smell but only audible! Another mystery solved. As we all know when we "see" someone who has passed over we really can't be seeing them at all because they no longer have a body. We are "seeing" something spirit has conjured up for us so we can, well, see them! This is the exact same principal for the "voices".

Going back to the adage that we are part electrical energy which upon death cannot be destroyed but only reformed AND that there is other energy around us that we cannot detect that spirit can use. Like the noise of the energy of the dog whistle, spirit uses their own energy and other energies to create and form words that we can understand. THAT is why they are distorted and sometimes have to be (wrongly) interpreted. Think of it as giving a spook energetic play doh! They make words out of it! The energy can be angry or sad but they have to form the words so we can record them. They DON'T talk! If that makes sense.

Mediumship communication is far easier because to all intents and purposes it is "silent" to everyone other than the spook and the medium, the exchange of energy is far easier as it goes from "mind to mind" if you like. As a medium I don't "hear" with my ears it is like a process of transferring thoughts into my head. Whereas with EVP you are asking  spirit to come into the human world. We do that all the time; we go to foreign countries and expect them to speak OUR language rather than learning about theirs!  We can't learn about spiritual language and the ability or not for speech because we are trying to put the cart before the horse. Good grief we aren't even sure where the spiritual dimension is, let alone be able to shout at them in the hope they understand us!

Someone once asked me about other equipment to make the energy or ability to hear or "speak (by spirit) stronger." I am reliably informed by Nikola that it makes things worse not better. They have a  bit of a laugh about all the "balderdash" that is spoken and the "gadgets" we will buy just because someone tells us it will make things work better. The fact is we don't understand the afterlife well enough to make anything with any reliability yet.  All we can keep doing is EVP recording and analysis and hoping that the spiritual side keep cooperating so we can learn. In the meantime we can continue to pretend we know everything I guess!

“Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.” Nikola Tesla

What's the word on EVP? Part I

Tuesday April 15, 2014

I am not a scientist. Not even close. I had an asthma attack in a chemistry class once when we were doing something with magnesium sulphate and accidentally electrocuted myself trying to change a power plug. I was 7, give me a break ok! So what qualifies me to write about EVP, electronic voice phenomena? Well other than Arty and Nikola Tesla nothing to be honest. I first saw Tesla as mentioned in my book when I wrote it and he tried to explain electronic things to me in terms of communication. He had to dumb it down. I mean really dumb it down so I could understand communication by spook. So there you go; that's what qualifies me to write about it. Expert advice I don't understand! 

Let's start with the obvious and something I repeat a lot. Our "minds" are the part of us that is spiritual. That intangible part of us that only we can get into and the place where we generate thoughts and feelings that are totally unique to us. We may one day be able to transplant a brain but never a mind. Never mind. 

Our brain creates electrical energy, our mind IS electrical energy that we then individually play doh into thoughts, dreams, spiritual experiences. It is the part of us that remains after death. We have labelled this energy a type of electromagnetic energy.  That's what we call it because it acts like EME, which means that the first place you should look for spooks in your house is more than likely in the microwave! Different frequency perhaps or we would all be able to boil cabbage in our ears! 

We must remember though when making claims of recording the dead that they have absolutely no biological attributes that enable speech and speaking as we know it. So we aren't recording voices of any kind. No way no how. It is simply not possible. It is like when people ask me when I talk to their loved one's do I hear "a" voice or do I hear "their voice".  It's "a" voice although sometimes I will be given an accent, a word or a phrase they used to use which helps validate them. But I am not physically "hearing" voices, my mind is downloading a message, essentially from another "mind" and I am decoding it.

Confused yet? Let's go deeper! So what exactly are we recording? Who is making the noise and how do they, if they do, make it sound like words? It's not a "mind" connection because we are recording it on a mechanical device. I have done a few experiments, one was leaving a digital recorder on "meeting" mode overnight and aside from my husband snoring and making other "man noises" we also heard people walking across a wooden floor, what sounded like squeaking wheels and muffled talking. Kind of scary are we were living in a warehouse apartment at the time with a carpeted bedroom. What we seemed to be hearing was the noises in the old tobacco factory that was the converted building we now call home. We had carpet on the floor in the bedroom so there was no way the noises could have possibly been "other stuff" happening whilst we were sleeping - a mouse with clogs on maybe? We didn't live in a windmill so it couldn't be. 

My very first EVP experiment was accidental a product of leaving a tape recorder running overnight. It was part of a "stereo" unit so there was no external microphone. The morning after there was nothing on it other than a clear voice (not distorted) saying remember me....we had a little boy.  Unknown to me at the time I was about a month pregnant and yes I had a boy. Who was saying remember me? I don't know - a past life connection? A spook who had visited once before? I don't know but whoever it was it was like a reintroduction rather than a request.

But here are where my experiences and others end because all the EVP recordings I have heard to date have been unclear, sometimes hard to validate or interpret properly and involve non mediums but rather people with voice recorders.  The human brain is a fickle little piece of us. It can drive us off on wild goose chases so if we want to hear something there is a good chance we can distort our own thinking to distort the crackle and hiss of EVP into a scary message or a warning in a lunatic asylum.

So HOW does it work if indeed it does? Where do science and the natural being of life cross over? Part II is where we find out who said what in the spook world.