:: ITC

Rhyknow · Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:19 pm Post subject: ITC

to start off, hands up who saw the film "White Noise"? Well, you may recall that the bloke in that was trying to contact his dead wife using a TV? Welcome to a part of the crazy world that is... ITC.

There is somewhat of an urban legend going around that Thomas Edison, creator of the lightbulb and telephone theorized about the possible existance of a machine which permitted it's user to contact the dead. I'm not exactly sure whether this is true or not, but either way, he had a point. We've been hearing unexplained voices and sounds we can't explain coming from electrical equipment... well, pretty much since electrical equipment existed. Some of the voices can be easily explained, for instance a stray radio transmission, or interference of some other kind... Other instances can't. I'm talking about say, hearing the voice of your dead mother on a tape recording of an empty room. So how do we explain it? Well, I do beleive ITC holds the answers.

But what is ITC? Well, a lot of people i know tend to confuse ITC with EVP. Both methods allow contact with the dead, but that's where the similarity ends. First of all, lemme explain the basic idea of EVP. There are residual energies present in a seemingly haunted location. A researcher will walk around the haunted location with a tape recorder asking questions into the recorder. Then they'll play back the tape hoping to hear the voice of a spirit or entity replying to him. So basically they can't hear the spirit until they play the tape back. It's a one way conversation. ITC actually allows direct two way contact with an entity on another plane of existance, and actually allows the researcher to communicate in real time with the entity!
It also allows to visually capture the entity on a television, computer screen etc. Also, it's worth noting that it seems the entity that we talk to is on another plane of existance... a sort of afterlife if you will.
Secondly, ITC doesn't just allow contact with spirits of the dead. In the mid 80's a group of researchers made contact with a being called "The Technician", which insisted that it had never been incarnate. It was the Technician that gave us information on the other planes of existance, and set us up with spirit contacts... The Technician also talked about deep philosophical matters with researchers, such as human suffering, awareness and the way of the world.

It's a little hard for me to explain it all properly, because i've only really begun researching this. However I do plan to try it out soon with a friend of mine... I'll let you know how it all goes
In the mean time, if you are all interested, a fellow researcher sent me a couple of long, but interesting PDF documents. If you're interested please feel free to email me and i'll pass on the documents!

Rhyknow · Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:19 pm Post subject:

Here's a short essay I wrote, dealing with one hypothesis: whether we can try to prove the existance of an existance after death, using ITC

Introduction
Does life after death exist? Instead of trying to explain this with some deep religious theory, I thought i'd take a look at it scientifically, in particular relating to the use of Instrumental Transcommunication.

I:Basics of ITC
There is somewhat of an urban legend going around that Thomas Edison hinted at the possible future existance of a device which permits it's user to contact the dead, and other such entities. Whether this is true or not, Intrumental Transcommunication (ITC) is quickly gaining more and more recognition in the world of parapsychology. Over the past few decades researchers have gained a vast amount of progress in understanding and using ITC, going so far as to have a two way conversation with highly intelligent beings such as "The Technician".
The principal of ITC is simpler than the name implies. Take EVP for example. We're able to use common household appliances to record disembodied voices in our place of residence. However EVP isn't ITC. That's the problem. When the general public think of ITC, they automatically think of the film "White Noise" or, EVP. One particular part of ITC that is usually completely overlooked by the public is the capture of an actual IMAGE of a spirit on a television or computer in the static.
The scientific community, it seems, is still baffled by ITC. The conversation with the entity during the Luxembourg incident helped shed a small slither of light on the matter.
One of the main principals of ITC is that the dead are "Living", as if alive in another plane of existance. There is an unknown prescence (dubbed "the source" by some, pretty much a sort of... God) that "organizes" these spirits and entities to be able to communicate with us. Some scientists hypothesize that this event is random, others suggest that there is absolutely no coincidence about it.

II:Life after death?
An interesting theory was brough forth by "The technician", a seemingly ethereal being encountered during the Luxembourg Incident. One such spirit that researchers talked to descrived death as falling asleep then waking back up in a room that you don't know, in a different world. The implications therefore, are massive! The Technician itself described multiple realities, universes and planes that exist. This "new world" could be considered as another plane, another form of human concioussness. This implies that the majority of religions and their conceptions on 'heaven and hell' are both right and wrong. It is thought that one plane is considered as "Hell" in christian terms, basically where lost souls find themselves, "Heaven" where those who have acheived spiritual enlightenment go, and then a place in between where most of us end up, which is sort of like a parallel reality, so it seems that whoever you are, whatever you do, the majority of us all end up in the same place. Or do we? The only real way to find out is to die, of course, but one thing we can be relatively certain on, based on conversations with "the Technician" is that the spirit world isn't all that different from ours, simply a parallel existance. ITC has even permitted to show images of animals, landscapes and such in the spirit world. Even a type of laboratory! So does this mean that God doesn't exist? Not according to The Technician. It states that there is, at the centre of all the planes of existance, a prescence, which we could call "The Source", essentially this Source is the equivalent of God; just not in the way we could think of it. We tend to make the mistake of thinking of God as a singularity. Apparently; "God" is a prescence that we couldn't even begin to understand or try to imagine... Which kind of makes sense if you think about it. Something THAT great and potent... we can't limit it to human terms.
It's worth noting, to counter my hypothesis introduced earlier on, that at one point during the Luxembourg incident (which went on for years i might add) the Technician stated at one point that so called "beings of the light" had taken over one of the stations on the other side and proved to be capable of imitating the Higher Beings (which implies that there are other beings like the technician). So what are these beings of the light? Mischeivous spirits? Or something far more ominous? It's unclear although, as to what they are exactly.

III: Theories on The Technician
So just what exactly IS the Technician? Alien? No. "Higher Being" doesn't necessarily mean "Alien". It has clearly stated though, that it is NOT a spirit as it was never incarnate. Scientists in parapsychology have simply classified it as an "ethereal being", but just what does that mean? Well; let's look at the facts.
-First of all, we know that it is a sentient being. It made contact with us first. It proved to be able to produce intelligible conversations with researchers and proved to possess a higher intellect capable of perceiving human suffering.
-It seems that it helped find and organize spirit contacts for ITC sessions with researchers, which could imply that it "governs" the planes of existance
-It holds vast knowledge of the "omniverse" and general existance.
Of course, any ideas put forth would be purely hypothetical... I wouldn't like to speculate...

Rhyknow · Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:19 pm Post subject:

Here's an interesting quote from the book "Muses" p.251 (author unknown) that i think best describes the philosophy of ITC:
"The body is a physical means of communication between a person and other persons within their common physical world. It has not been said we need the body to exist. The body's death would only be the end of a group of relations with a specific community of other persons. The possibility of communications with other such communities in a different body could be maintained"

Rhyknow · Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:20 pm Post subject:

Here's an interesting passage from the book "Instrumental Transcommunication" by Senkowski, that deals with Direct Voices, a phenomenon in the broader range of Transcommunication:

While mediumistic transcommunication (MT) is externalized in verbal form by means of the medium's speech organs, the source of 'direct voices' in the vicinity of special-gifted 'direct-voice mediums' can clearly be located apart from them, in empty space or in/at trumpets that may be regarded as amplifiers.
A direct voice proclaimed the "crimes of the living" in the german town of Bingen in 858 AD; during the reign of Richard I, the english physicist Boyle reported repeated two-way communications with a girl's voice. The first observation in the last century was made by the Davenport brothers in Ohio, where the transentity John King manifested himself. Hyslop et al. published in 1913 under the imprint of the American Society for Psychical research a 200 page report concerning their successful experiments-even in daylight-with Blake in which voices were heard that were identical with those of deceased communicators during their lifetimes. Fanny Moser described the direct voice as the 'most remarkable of all' but-indicating the opportunities of fraud during séances held in darkened rooms- did not further the subject.

Bayless himself said "The direct voice phenomenon is the most convincing of all psychic phenomena. The great mass of evidence for man's survival after deal is, in my opinion, overwhelming. That man can, under certain conditions, hear the voices of those considered dead, must surely rank as the greatest discovery in all of the history of mankind".

Perhaps the disregard of direct voices is linked with the fact that the relatively more frequent mediumistic somatic utterances are more easily interpretable in an animist manner. But in the case of direct voices we have to do with an unusual combination of a (partly) materialized voicebox detectable with infra red technology and an information-conveying psychokinetic action whose forms of manifestation and contents disqualify any non spirtist 'explanation' as an improper evasion.

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Transentities describe the 'voice box' as an artificial mask-like larynx which they form out of organic substances taken from the medium with the addition of 'transmaterial' substances by exercising psychic influence. This 'ectoplasmic transformer' often appearing on the left above the medium after adaptation practices can be activated by trained deceased persons in such a manner that the voice is generated so that all present can hear, which is capable of speech and in optimal cases is similar to that of the deceased person. Occassionally direct voices have a huge loudness level which can be heard up to 150m away.

Rhyknow · Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:21 pm Post subject:

Continuing with Senkowski, he goes on to tell us that (and i have rephrased some of this passage)

The forms of ITC and contents indicate partly recognizable deceased humans and non-human "extraterrestrial" entities as originators and communication partners, whose interventions have on occasion called forth important historical developments (eg. Joan D'Arc). The theory of hallucinations are brought crashing down when more than one person experiences such an event, since collective hallucinations are considered, in the scientific world to be a myth.
An early indication of ITC can be found in "Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East" (Volume 2 of 15th edition p43) by Spalding:
"Your people (the americans) is going ahead and will make a discovery which will reproduce the voices of those who have passed away as accurately as it reproduces the voices of the living today, perhaps even more accurately."

Since around 1920 a wealth of communications (either transplane or normally) have been documented. Wickland received the following communication on April 14th, 1920:
"The time towards which we are all working will come soon, when an instrument will be invented on earth through which those who wish to hear the voices of the great masters of the spiritual world. Not yet, but soon, in time. Later overmore will be invented on earth through which the spirits will be able to speak"

Conte Mancini-Spinucci also gave to Senkowski a facsimile of a mediumistic message predicting the future of ITC. A similar message was also given in 1951 which reads:
"Out of the many further progresses humanity will make within the next decades, should a.o. be mentioned: Direct communication with the dead and inhabitants of more subtle levels of existence on and around our earth, in a different kind than hitherto through mediums, in a scientific way, almost mechanical(ly)"

It's worth noting that ITC has come under a lot of fire from the rest of the scientific community, mostly affiliated with physics and quantum theory, as this quote shows:
"Laughing scornfully, the dignified gentlemen of the French academy of science left the hall while the demonstration of the phonograph was going on and later declared 'we have checked and found that it is a matter of ventriloquist hoax, for it is impossible to produce a human voice from a roller'"

Voices on Tape

The first paranormal voices on magnetic sound carriers occured during an experience made to document the somatic utterances of mediums during séances using the unreliable magnetic steel-wire magnetophones. In the prescence of Padre Ernetti, Padre Gemelli unwittingly recorded the spontaneous voice of his dead father in the psysics laboratory of the Catholic University in Milan. Bayless claims that voices on tape or VOTs are genuine proof of psychic voices. It was Juergenson who first found the courage (though for fear of being ridiculed by the scientific community) the public about radio transcommunication with the dead; and now several thousand amateurs in technics have dictated themselves in varying levels of success either on their own or in groups dedicated to the practice of VOT.
Experimenters in VOT were particularily concerned with the recording of paranormal voices with improving their quality and quantity of recording.

Rhyknow · Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:21 pm Post subject:

Oki doks. Now here's an interesting incident that occured with the reseacher Boden, during which he began to receive telephone calls from spirits trapped in "purgatory"/"hell" (please remember we're not trying to think of these dimensions in the christian sense, we simply use these names for the best comparison possible)

Anyways, these VOT sessions includes such 'dramatic content' as eerie screams such as "hell begins here. We are ghosts, continue digging, you'll find us" and gregorian music appearedo n the tapes.

Again, it helps to bring the ideas of "dimensions" into play.

Recently i've come up with what some people might call a "crackpot theory" or even a "blashphemous theory", however it's still in the early stages.
First of all, a little background to my theory. During the Luxembourg experiments, contact was made by an etheral being known as the technician. When asked such theological questions about God, planes of existance etc, it gave us a number of statements, the most relative to my theory being:
-There is a concept of "heaven" and "hell" as in that they are different planes of existance with different conditions, where they have a certain set of characteristics that make them "pleasant" and "horrible" respectively.
-"God" exists in theory, called "The Source" however we cannot think of it as God in our terms, meaning that we cannot understand what God really is because it is too great for our minds to imagine, plus the Source is a collectivity and not a singularity.
-The Bible should not be followed as a complete rule, merely we should use certain parts of it as an example for how the human race should act if we hope to progress. Meaning that say morals such as "generosity" etc and general consideration towards each other are the only way to progress.

Anyways, all this got me thinking. Direct voices etc. The Bible is quoted as the exact word of God. So, maybe the people who wrote it were writing it under the guidance of ethereal beings and spirits, manifesting themselves through Direct Voices? Think about it. You hear a voice form nowhere, and you could imagine that it's God? That's my theory anyways, feel free to shoot it down.

Rhyknow · Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 5:22 pm Post subject:

The most common instances of audial ITC include:

The experimenter and/or other persons often adressed in familiar terms
The inner psychic situation of persons present and external circumstances
The transpartners, mostly specific deceased persons referred to by name
States of Existance and/or concioussness in the beyond
Problems of relevance to all humans
ITC, including scientific/technical advice
Prediction of future events
Jocular-ironical, probing and metaphorical remarks
Sexual allusions
Criminal components, usually under the form of threats
Test sentences appearing sensless
Animal voices
All kinds of noises
Diagnostic and theraputical advice
Indications for solving criminal cases

Instances 1,2 and perhaps also 6,8,14,15 allow us to assume that our contacts have at least a vague understanding of human conditions.

Instances 3,4 are statements which stress a happy, active life of the dead in so called "heaven" but also that of "hell"

Instances 9 and 10 have been encountered by so called "amateurs"

And now for a quick show of the "dimensions" i've talked about

Nirvana-Emptiness/Nothing-Pure Concioussness. End of revealed creation

Cosmic-Universal unification

Celestial-Incomprehensible

Mental-Causal 'roots of inspiration'

Highest astral plane 'heaven summerland'
Intermediate astral plane 'school'
Lowest astral plane 'hell'

Terrestrial plane

So. The highest plane "Nirvana" is where we can assume the Source is. It's pure concioussness which is a way to describe the Source
Next we hit the Cosmic Universal plane, where we have the astral bodies, so space,the omniverse
Then we hit the Celestial plane where we have ethereal beings such as The technician.
The next plane is Mental-Causal where the ethereal beings govern the lower planes
The Highest Astral plane is a place where the truely enlightened go after they die, because only they can comprehend what is happening to them
The Intermediate astral plane is where most of us go, it's reported to be just like our world
The Lowest Astral plane is where we go if we have lost our way
And finally the terrestrial plane is.... dum dum dum... earth