Instrumental TransCommunication (ITC) – a Transpersonal Connection Anabela Cardoso

Lic. in Germanic Philology (Master's degree) Doctor in Public Service (Honoris Causa) ITC Journal Research Centre anabela@itcjournal.org

Abstract The author introduces EVP/ITC, the method to attempt the contact with unknown dimensions of life through electronic devices. As early as the 19th century, hints about the advent of EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena), the popular form of what we currently call Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC), were received on Earth. Anomalous electronic contacts started early in the 20th century via the telephone but it is the renowned Swedish artist Friedrich Jürgenson who is rightly called “the father of electronic voices”. The Latvian philosopher and psychologist Dr Konstantin Raudive is the most prominent figure among his followers. The end of the 20th century saw incredible developments in the field with the appearance of other forms of electronic communication, namely video images and computer texts. The recipients of these advanced contacts, which yielded hundreds of pages of mindboggling information, were the great transcommunicators of Luxembourg and Germany. The German Professor of Physics Ernst Senkowski followed and studied their work painstakingly and published comprehensive reports about the phenomena he witnessed. To conclude, the author describes her experiences in ITC and the current state of her research.

Key words: EVP, DRV (Direct Radio Voices), ITC (Instrumental Transcommunication), electronic voices, Schreiber method, transpartners. ____________________________________________________________

The announcements Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP), later called ITC by the German physicist Ernst Senkowski to comprise other forms of electronic communication besides voices, is a new method allegedly devised by scientists in the next dimension of life, to contact our physical world and enable us to attempt communication with our deceased loved ones and other entities in that dimension, via electronic means. By the middle of the 19th century, Allan Kardec, the brave French scholar who codified Spiritism in its erudite version, avowed that the way of communicating with the world of the deceased would radically change in the future. Until then, human mediumship had been the vehicle that purportedly conveyed the messages from the dead. I quote from The First Book of the Spirits: Question 468: Is not the loss of those who are dear to us a legitimate source of sorrow, seeing that this loss is both irreparable and independent of our action? Reply: This cause of sorrow, which acts alike upon rich and poor, is the common law of humanity, for it is either a trial or an expiation; but you have the consolation of holding communication with your friends through the means already possessed by you, that develop further every day, while awaiting other means that will be more direct, and more accessible to your senses. And in Kardec’s Revue Spirite, I found the following passage: ... Later on, electricity will make its mediumistic revolution, and since everything will then be changed in the way of reproducing the thought of the Spirit you will no longer find such defaults, which are sometimes regrettable especially when the communications are read in front of strangers (Kardec, 1864). Later, already in the 20th century, other mediums predicted the same method. In 1936, publisher Paul Leymarie released Suzanne Max-Getting’s Messages by a Liberated Spirit (Grandsire, 1998). The 26th of these messages, of February 2nd, 1930, announces: … the Spiritualist movement is beginning to spread. The role of mediums in the future…We will speak to you through the medium of the phonograph and you will see us on film… the medium will play a passive role in the future. … In many cases the devices will replace the work of the mediums … We will thus do without the mediums through the phonograph………………………………………………………………….. The beginning Since the middle of the 20th century, our civilization has rapidly evolved into a technological society based primarily on electronics. And with electronics, the way the so-called spirits communicate with us changed as Allan Kardec had already prognosticated. Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC) is the latest development in the communication between dimensions. But anomalous electronic communications were reported much earlier via the telephone. Oscar D’Argonnel, the meticulous Portuguese-Brazilian investigator who applied experimental research to the study of the paranormal phenomena of Spiritism, was apparently the first to describe and report on the anomalous telephone calls (D’Argonnel, 1925). Years later, purely by chance, the catholic priests and scientists, Fathers Gemelli and Ernetti, were the first to record electronic voices; The American photographer and medium Attila von Szalay, in collaboration with Raymond Bayless, followed. However, these initial occurrences did not reach far because the voice phenomena remained isolated and ignored. Although there were others who previously recorded electronic voices, we may rightly call Friedrich Jürgenson the great pioneer of the voice phenomenon. He discovered EVP on the 12th of June, 1959, by chance, while recording the songs of night birds, and never knew that other investigators had recorded electronic voices before him even if in sporadic occurrences. A famous artist of his time, privileged to see some of his paintings hanging in the Museum of the Vatican alongside those of Michelangelo, a singer who performed at La Scala in Milan, self-proclaimed atheist confidant of the two Popes of his time, Pius XII and Paul VI, Jürgenson achieved the unthinkable. His intelligence, sensitivity and commitment prompted him to spread the good news to the world. He spared no difficulties or efforts, but dedicated his entire life and career to the noble mission of opening the path of understanding to humanity. For the first time, objective communication was achieved with an unknown dimension of life from where the dead could speak with the Earth. However, regrettably, the great pioneer’s heritage has not been duly cherished and honoured. Orthodox, uninformed parapsychologists contributed to this state of affairs by dismissing the evidence without studying and learning about it from the beginning. Although there are exceptions, they usually base their mistrust on futile claims of anomalous electronic voices posted online by uncritical or unscrupulous operators. The latter are normally frivolous or misguided experimenters who pursue what they call ghost hunting with disastrous results. Jürgenson himself advised against this mess that darkened his last days in our world. Already during his lifetime, he became disturbed by the fact that “in his footsteps followed charlatans, quacks, fanatical occultists and the like, who utilized his discovery and just minted coins from it” as his close friend and admirer Anders Leopold reported (Cardoso & Leopold 2023). Friedrich Jürgenson’s books were published in Swedish and in German but there is a recent English translation (Jürgenson, 2004). The most illustrious of Jürgenson’s followers was Dr Konstantin Raudive, a Latvian philosopher and intellectual, disciple of Carl Gustav Jung, who taught at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. With published work to his credit, he managed to assemble around him and his work on electronic voices, scientists from prestigious European institutions. Professor of Physics Alex Schneider of St. Gallen University, Prof Dr Gebhard Frei, Theodor Rudolph, high-frequency electronics engineer at Telefunken Co, Dr Ing. Franz Seidl, who invented the Psychophone as well as a special hearing device which allowed the deaf, even by birth, to hear, and the renowned German parapsychologist Professor Hans Bender, to name a few, are some of the top European experts in the field of physics and electronics that collaborated with Raudive. Some also developed their own voice experiments successfully. Raudive’s book about the voice phenomena, Unhörbares wird Hörbar, was published in Germany in 1968. The English translation, entitled Breakthrough, an amazing experiment in electronic communication with the dead shook the world and encouraged thousands of people to experiment with electronic voices. Raudive’s excellent book was republished by White Crow Books recently. Later, other experimenters followed in Jürgenson’s and Raudive’s footsteps and obtained good results. The great transcommunicators In the late 1980’s, Maggy and Jules Harsch-Fischbach from Luxembourg and Adolf Homes from Rivenich, Germany, stand out among other important researchers from around the world such as Peter Härting (Senkowski, 1995, 2000) and the Italian Marcello Bacci (Bacci, 1991). Together with those of Adolf Homes, their results are the most impressive in the history of what was already called Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC). The new discipline comprises all forms of paranormal communications received through electronic devices – EVP voices that cannot be heard directly but only when rewinding the recording, Direct Radio Voices (DRV), which can be heard by anyone present in the room, anomalous images and computer texts, ‘phone calls and other messages such as those received through mobile phones that are currently reported by many people. The famous contacts of Luxembourg and Rivenich were followed, studied and compiled by Ernst Senkowski in his major work Instrumentelle Transkommunikation (Senkowski, 2000). The German physicist and the Italian Dr Eng. Carlo Trajna are rightly considered the most knowledgeable academics in the field of ITC. Both scientists carried out their own experiments with success. Other scientists and researchers from different regions of the globe witnessed the contacts of the Harsch-Fischbach and of Adolf Homes, and even interacted with the communicating entities (Senkowski, ibid). The operators were the recipients of mindboggling information and wisdom purportedly imparted by high beings. Maggy was a school teacher and Jules Harsch-Fischbach a Luxemburgish lawyer who worked for the Government while Adolf Homes was an unassuming carpenter who had difficulty understanding most of the information he received and often asked Senkowski to clarify its meaning. The Luxembourgish operators called the high entity that directed their contacts, the ‘Technician’. This enigmatic being of extraordinary knowledge and wisdom avowed: “I am not a being of energy nor a being of light, I am not human, I am not an animal, I have never been incarnated; I am of a completely different nature and I am not God either” (Locher and Harsch, 1989, 1992, 1995). In her book, written in collaboration with Dr Theo Locher, the President of the Swiss Parapsychological Association, Maggy Harsch reproduces some of the many conversations with the Technician and the ethical advice received from the latter (Locher and Harsch 1989, 1992, 1995; Senkowski, 2000). Adolf Homes’ amazing computer texts Besides his monumental work, sometimes called the ‘Bible of ITC’, Senkowski collected Homes’ messages in a special, separate publication entitled Transkommunikation, Vol 4 (German original, 1999). There is an Italian translation of the same work Transcomunicazione (Numero Speciale, 1999). Often, the texts appeared spontaneously on Adolf Homes’ computer screen, mainly in reply to questions previously put to the communicators by Senkowski and others. Some of those questions had been written on a piece of paper at the German physicist’s house in Mainz but not communicated to Homes who lived in Rivenich. Nevertheless, the replies appeared on Homes’ computer screen or diskette making reference to Senkowski’s queries (Senkowski, ibid). I transcribe below a few sentences, randomly taken from Homes’ computer texts, which illustrate the anti-paradigm, non-anthropocentric content of ITC messages received from non-human entities who claimed to be high beings of a different nature. “... All that lives, and everything lives, is part of creation. Concepts live, the dead live, computers live, everything lives. Every life is fulfilled through transformation. Every life in the worlds, even the most diverse, searches [for] unlimited perfection ...”. And “... Every life – animal, plant, mineral, and all kinds of coarse matter as well as subtle matter – consists solely and absolutely of information”. Or, “Our request to you is that of identifying yourselves with your planet and all life in it because everything of you is formed of identical elementary particles. To us silicon, nerve cell and consciousness are absolutely identical...” (Senkowski, 1999, German original p. 49; Italian translation, 1999, p. 132; Cardoso 2017, p. 19). Over 200 long computer texts were received by Homes and analysed by Senkowski and his colleague Dr Vladimir Delavre. Overall, the teachings received from high entities insist that spiritual progress is not connected to any religion or spiritual practice but rather to the respect for Nature and every life form, as well as to the development of inner consciousness. The Technician declared in Luxembourg: “The respect for each living being is part of the upcoming spiritual development of man”. And added, “In the future ITC should encompass human rights and the protection of animals and of Nature” (Locher and Harsch, 1989, 1992, 1995). Also in Luxembourg, a deceased French scientist intruded into the established DRV contact, and delivered an astounding direct speech. I quote Senkowski’s report on the unexpected occurrence. “In the presence of seven persons (B.W., J.P.S., Meek, Resch, Senkowski), Henry Sainte Claire Deville made contact on May 2nd, 1987, 8 p.m., as the speaker of transgroup LIFELINE (MTC partner of American METASCIENCE). He spoke in English with conspicuous French accent, directly via the loudspeaker of a USW receiver of the ESB within the 90 MHz range; intelligibility 100%. Investigations showed that drop-in communicator Deville, unknown to all those present, had been an excellent French chemist of the 19th century who, among others, was the first to study the properties of crystalline silicon. The year 1881, as that of his passing, is correct. Full transcription of the original: “My name is Henry Sainte Claire Deville. I left your world in 1881, and I am speaking to you in my name and in the name of our staff from LIFELINE, the scientists. Your project as well as [those] from LIFELINE and from TIMESTREAM is to set fire to minds, to set fire to minds in your world, and in that moment to try to master time. I can give you a few explanations. The void dreams the universe, but the void is unconscious. Universe has consciousness and it can control the voice. A strong force, the inertia of normality, reigns in the universe. So the universe always chooses the same state as before; it sustains itself; it limits itself. I repeat: the universe is dreamt by the void. It is varied out of grains, grains of virtual existence, grains called selectons. Selectons are really tiny dots consisting of a circle rolled up compactly. Forever they roll back into the void; forever other bits of void roll back to replace them exactly. All these selectons roll up compactly in the same direction, thus time flows in one direction in the universe. In our space selectons are not rolled up, so there in the Never-Ever all time is one and timeless.” (Senkowski, 2000, p. 306, Cardoso, 2017, p. 66). I listened to this message on a copy of the original audio, which Senkowski kindly gave me. The question of God has preoccupied humanity since ancient times. The higher entities who spontaneously or in response to questions from Senkowski and other scientists, broke into Adolf Homes' computer, approached the subject from two different angles. On the one hand, there is what they call the “Divinity” or the “God of the Origins”, “the Principle” that is, the source and totality of all that exists. The source, or the principle, cannot be described or understood neither by us nor by our transpartners, even the higher beings in question. God is all that is and is beyond any possibility of expression or comprehension. There is nothing else to say. On the other hand, also according to the messages, there are the “pseudo gods” or “secondary gods”, i.e. the gods of all religions, created by man to serve his own purposes and very much the result of the human fear of death. Those anthropomorphic gods have manipulated to disturb the divine order of the origins, the “Truth”, as the communicators also call the “God of the Origins”. Much remains to be said about the transcendental information received by Maggy and Jules Harsch-Fischbach and by Adolf Homes from superior beings of non-human nature. However, this article focuses primarily on my own experiences in an area that I never thought would become my main interest to the point of radically changing my life as it did. My personal involvement I have been experimenting with Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC) with good results since the beginning of 1998. At first, we were a small group of three friends and we started experimenting with visual ITC using the Schreiber method. Klaus Schreiber was the German experimenter who spread the word about the capture of the transimages – paranormal images that appear on a TV or computer screen, spontaneously or upon demand by the operator. Schreiber, reportedly under the guidance of his deceased daughter Karin, discovered the feedback loop method, also known as the Schreiber method – The operator connects a video camera to a television without images, or to a computer screen without streaming or Internet, in a closed circuit. The screen will reflect what the video camera captures. Unstable, oscillating light spots normally form, and the video camera will project the filming back again into the screen in a feedback loop. The short video (of no more than a few minutes) must be examined afterwards, frame by frame, and a transimage might appear. Apparently, the method allowed the German pioneer to obtain post- mortem images of his deceased family members. Schreiber’s work was closely followed by Rainer Holbe, a reputable German journalist who published extensively about it (Holbe, 1987). Senkowski describes his close contacts with Klaus Schreiber, as well as some of Schreiber’s results, in his previously mentioned work, Instrumentelle Transkommunikation (pp. 70-72, 294-295). We obtained interesting results from the beginning (at the very end of 1997) but I decided that the transimages we got, although good, did not have the photographic quality I aimed for. They were recognizable, although slightly blurred. I aimed at credible evidence from the very beginning of my ITC involvement. After all, this practice is supposed to be the experimental demonstration that life continues after physical death… Carl Sagan popularized the well-known saying, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”, and I must say that I abide by it. The first transimage we received very much resembled the deceased Dona Dae, as I called the aged harlequin Great Dane female dog I had rescued and taken care of a couple of years before, after finding her dying of hunger and carelessness on the streets of the village near my house. The transimage clearly reflected the black and white spots on her head as well as her pointed ears. We received several other transimages, although perhaps less identifiable. But one of them is of special value and deserves special mention. I called it ‘the Mask’ because it seems to depict a mask. Below, I reproduce the original image without editing at all, and then the same one with slightly improved contrast.

However, the most interesting thing about this image, which I obtained while experimenting alone at home, is the circumstance that when I asked Rio do Tempo why they had sent me the image, they replied, “The mask is our way to tell you that our world unveils the truth” (literal translation). This happened later when I was already receiving DRV, at a time when I was very preoccupied with the meaning of the “Truth” from an existential, ethical and philosophical perspective, and used to frequently ask my communicators about the existence of “Absolute Truth”. I describe in detail what took place in my first book Electronic Voices, Contact with Another Dimension? (2010, pp. 106-107). The Voices On March 11, 1998 my life changed forever. On that unforgettable day, the amazing Direct Radio Voices (DRV) burst dramatically from the loudspeaker of one of my radios while, as usual, I experimented with EVP voices. AUDIO 1. First DRV http://www.itcjournal.org/?p=6658 Inevitably, some of the audios that I present in this article have already been made public in other presentations and conferences. I repeat them here because of their importance, or their meaning, regarding the text. But I have received thousands of voices, particularly DRV, which are not included in this article and which I will gladly disclose if requested. Typically, in EVP experiments, the operator sits in silence and asks questions, at a regular pace, of potential invisible communicators. If suddenly, the radio answers out loud one of those questions and starts talking to you, as happened to me, words cannot describe the surprise, the emotion and, above all, the shock it produces in a layperson as was my case. After that memorable evening, I could not sleep properly for at least one week. I would wake up in the middle of the night covered in sweat, my jaw shaking noisily and my whole body trembling. I wasn't scared but was definitely incredulous at the idea of being in contact with the absolute unknown, which I never suspected existed. I have written extensively about this extraordinary event and the impact it had on my life in some of my books (Cardoso 2010, 2017, 2021) and in many other works (see, e.g., ITC Journal). In ITC terminology, EVP are voices which are not audible when the experimenter makes his or her recordings but during playback only. Conversely, the DRV are voices that come into the air directly from the loudspeaker of a radio and which may reply to the Earth operator’s questions, thus allowing for a dialogue. From that day of March 1998, until today, I never stopped working in ITC. My enthusiasm for these mysterious voices was such that I sacrificed my personal and professional life to the needs of this mind-boggling quest. Perhaps because having no experience or knowledge of so-called paranormal phenomena, I considered DRV to be virtually impossible until one day I experienced them personally. DRV allowed me to objectively communicate with an invisible dimension of life and ask some of my beloved deceased relatives, as well as unknown people, who claimed to speak from another world, about their living conditions. This was the case of Carlos de Almeida, my main communicator, who seemed to be in charge of the contacts and of establishing the so-called ‘Bridge’ that he specifically mentioned, as well as directing the flow of DRV I received almost daily. He spoke with me for a couple of years, and introduced other people, namely some of my family members. I believe he helped them to communicate. I was thrilled and rejoiced every single time I turned on my radios and his familiar voice echoed in the room. This was bliss! I never experienced such a happy time in my adult life. But suddenly, one evening, he told me that he “was ready to leave [his world] and move on [to a more advanced level]”. Since then, he never spoke with me again. I truly miss him - his kind, cheerful but assertive manner and his sense of humour. AUDIO 2. Esta menina quer dançar a valsa? http://www.itcjournal.org/?p=6664 Carlos de Almeida was a fantastic interlocutor, full of life (pun intended...) and energy. To give my readers an idea of his playful character, I will tell the story of one of his humorous interventions. One evening when, as usual, I called him, he suddenly exclaimed in a playful tone, Esta menina quer dançar a valsa? (Does this young girl want to dance the waltz?) and continued: “isto é, possibly: Rio do Tempo…?” (this is Rio do Tempo ….? unintelligible). It is impossible to describe the joy that these dialogues brought me. Besides, he “spoke from another world” as he used to say, and he was inviting me to dance the waltz! What an incredible situation. When I listen to some of Rio do Tempo voices, as I am currently doing for this article, even I find it difficult to believe what I experienced and I am now telling you, given the far-fetched nature of what I am saying. Which, however, is absolutely true… My amazing experiences with the voices meant overwhelming joy but also some pain and bewilderment. Both alternated in my spirit depending on the day and the occasion. The ITC work required immense dedication and it became a full-time job if I wanted to do it well, because I received many voices and they require a lot of work. That was the reason why I retired before completing my time in the diplomatic career - so that I could reciprocate the efforts of my communicators which enabled the ITC results I got. But “it was all worth it”, as a voice that identified itself as belonging to my deceased father, answered me one day when I asked him if the happiness he enjoyed in his new life in the other world was worth the hardships he had endured during his life on Earth. Gradually, our little group of three people separated and I was the only one who carried on experimenting, always with great enthusiasm and elation. Of the three, I was also the only one really interested in the phenomenon. That was when I contacted Professor Ernst Senkowski for the first time and told him what was happening. He was welcoming, understanding and enthusiastic. We kept in close contact until a few years ago, when his long life in this world ended. I owe a lot to this brilliant academic, who generously shared with me his deep knowledge and experience in the field of ITC. His wisdom, intelligence and profound erudition left an imprint on me that has lasted ever since. Ernst Senkowski was the master and friend any ITC operator aspires to. My gratitude to him is endless. A tsunami of voices For many years, at my house in Galicia, Spain, as well as at my house in Lyon, France, and again in Galicia to where I returned at the end of my diplomatic mission in France, DRV happened on a scale that I could never have dreamt of. Particularly in my first two books (2010, 2017), I reported on the most significant content of the DRV I received and compared it to the information obtained by other reputable ITC operators, mainly, but not only, Maggy and Jules Harsch-Fischbach from Luxembourg and Adolf Homes from Rivenich, Germany. In these works, I mention many of the topics that, in general, concern humanity: God, suffering, reincarnation, the meaning of life, death, love, ethics and others. The most important characteristic that I found in the transcendental communications that I examined, was the concurrence of information obtained by ITC operators from different parts of the globe, and even from different times, who had never met or talked to each other. Nevertheless, they say basically the same thing… Stations in the next world My communicators claim that they speak from a Station - a concept already transmitted to Friedrich Jürgenson and from him onwards- and called it Rio do Tempo. AUDIO 3. Falamos da Estação Rio do Tempo, vais ficar bem contenta, aposto! http://www.itcjournal.org/?p=6675 Literal translation: We speak from Rio do Tempo station, you will be very happy, I bet, followed by an abridged version of Torre, Torre, é o Rio do Tempo (Tower, tower, it’s Rio do Tempo). I think the last words, “you'll be very happy, I bet” are probably due to the circumstance that on numerous occasions, I insisted that my communicators tell me the name of the place they were speaking from. Notice the colloquial language used by the so-called dead - ‘I bet’ is a popular expression not a refined one. This seems to be the rule not only in my communications but in the ones of other operators, also. Except when the dead transmit scientific information, the language they use is simple and very easy to understand even when they use metaphors. During the same very long DRV session, the communicators announced that they were speaking from a tower: Torre, Torre, é o Rio do Tempo! (pronounced differently four times). The voice that says “Torre, Torre, é o Rio do Tempo!” was so loud that I had to significantly reduce its amplitude before digitising it on my computer. AUDIO 3. (Only): Torre, Torre, é o Rio do Tempo! http://www.itcjournal.org/?p=6680 In the initial coarse noise, before the loud voice from the station that identifies the tower starts to be heard, we can perhaps hear “…. teu pai” (….your father). The repetition of the utterances (four times in the original DRV recording) was effected by the paranormal male voice not by me in the audio. In Luxembourg, the group that communicated with the Harsch-Fischbach couple, Zeitstrom, mentioned the existence of a tower in the main building of their station, and were even able of sending an image of such tower to the computer of the Luxembourg operators (Schäfer, p. 278; Locher & Harsch, French ed: pp. 157-158, Cardoso, 2022, pp. 48-49). I describe other very impressive similarities in my article published in Academia.edu. According to the information received from our transpartners, as Senkowski called them, those stations, or communication centres transmit from their dimension to ours and other physical worlds. They are under the strict control of higher entities who authorize and supervise the contacts. Only some have access to the stations, and we should not fear malevolent interventions from the voices that originate therein, namely the DRV, because the so-called ‘bad spirits’ are not allowed to communicate from there. When possible, I mean when the contact ran easily, something that did not always happen, I asked my communicators all kinds of questions about existential matters, and obtained responses to a number of them. One very important requisite for these advanced contacts (the ones transmitted from a station) to take place, seems to be the indispensable permission not only to communicate with a certain person on Earth, but also to answer questions about specific issues, which we cannot identify in advance. A conspicuous example of this situation happened in the 1920s when the Brazilian researcher Oscar D’Argonnel (ibid, 1925) was repeatedly informed by the entities that communicated with him through the telephone (I quote and translate): “… I have already told you [D’Argonnel] that here, we cannot do anything without higher permission…” (p. 45). And, “We have strict laws here and today I am not allowed to chat with her [his wife]” (p. 21). This little book, the first to report on the anomalous telephone conversations, as I pointed out above, is a jewel for any serious ITC researcher. In general, all the aspects of those extraordinary telephone contacts of 100 years ago bear a great resemblance to the current ITC ones, both from the point of view of the acoustic characteristics of the voices and the content of the messages. In Luxembourg and at Adolf Homes’, messages were subject to fewer restrictions, perhaps because they were devised and implemented directly by higher beings. According to our communicators, the expansion of human consciousness is the main purpose of our earthly life. A French researcher, architect Pierre Théry, reported on the first telephone call from the deceased Konstantin Raudive to a lady in France, Mme Aline Piget. During his reasonably long conversation, Dr Raudive told Mme Piget: “…. I would like you to know, dear Aline, that the object of an earthly life is not just the goodness. The object is to be conscious...” (ITC Journal, 2, p. 42-43). I had the opportunity of exchanging views with Pierre Théry about this important event and of discussing with him its authenticity, which he fully supported. Mme Aline Piget knew about ITC since the death of her beloved son. She had had contacts with him through the French EVP pioneer Monique Simonet (Simonet, 1991, 2004) but she never expected a telephone call from Konstantin Raudive! Faced with some doubts from her friends about the genuineness of Raudive's voice, Mrs. Piget requested an analysis from Pr G. Ferrandi, a proficient French acoustic engineer. His study involved computer sonograms and established that he was "convinced of the presence of a paranormal voice". Konstantin Raudive was one of the regular communicators in Luxembourg and at Rivenich. He counselled humanity on ethical values and behaviour. EVP experiments under controlled conditions Some years ago, I was invited to devise and direct a research project on the anomalous electronic voices. My proposal intended to emulate the EVP tests carried out in England with Dr Raudive before the publication of his Breakthrough as described by Peter Bander (1972). The experiments took place at the Acoustics Laboratory of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Vigo, Spain, under the strictest and most controlled conditions currently available. The internationally renowned acoustic expert and recording studio designer Philip Newell supervised the tests. The results of the investigation were published in NeuroQuantology, a peer-reviewed journal, under the title ‘A Two-Year Investigation of the Allegedly Anomalous Electronic Voices or EVP’ (NeuroQuantology | September 2012 | Volume 10 | Issue 3 | Page 492-514). Anomalous voices were recorded in most of the many sessions. On page 497 of the report, I peruse the circumstances of a DRV that mentions the deceased Raudive’s presence in the professional recording studio where the experiment took place. Scholars interested in psychic phenomena would benefit from reading this report, which, together with Professor Hans Bender’s testing of Jürgenson’s voices (Bender, 1970, 2011), is the only study on anomalous electronic voices published in a scientific journal. DRV contacts with my loved ones and others For many years, the DRV did not stop at my house and I rejoiced. I doubt that there is anything capable of causing as much joy in a person who has lost a loved one as recording and listening to voices that identify themselves as those of our loved ones and tell us: “We [they, the dead] are alive and happy in another world!”. Often the voices call me affectionately by my pet name, which only my family knew and used. They say, for example: “Bela, it’s your father João Cardoso speaking!” or “It’s your grandmother who speaks”, “Bela, it’s your brother, Luis Cardoso! We are here with you!” and so on. AUDIO 4. Somos mortos, Oh Bela, é o pai! (We are the dead, oh Bela, it’s the father!) http://www.itcjournal.org/?p=6683

My own voice uttering Rio do Tempo, can be heard in the background of the male voice that says firstly “Somos mortos”. AUDIO 5. Luis Cardoso http://www.itcjournal.org/?p=6686 As usual, the voices were babbling and I asked, ‘who is speaking’? The voice answered: Luis Cardoso (my brother's name). AUDIO 6. É a tua avó http://www.itcjournal.org/?p=6689 There were voices and I asked ‘Who is speaking from there?’. Reply: “É a tua avó” (It's your grandmother). I understood and asked, ‘Is it grannie?’ and the same voice replied “É” (It is). On another occasion, when I was about to leave my recording studio, a sweet voice that very much resembled my grandmother’s, uttered: “Where are you going Belinha?” and another voice continued: “Rio do Tempo, the dead pass through here!” (translation from the Portuguese original). AUDIO 7. Onde vais Belinha? Rio do Tempo, aqui passam os mortos! http://www.itcjournal.org/?p=6692 Bela and Belinha are my childhood pet names. When such amazing things happen, we realize that they are a gift from unknown realms of infinite love and compassion, and we thank God, or the Universe, for allowing this glorious blessing to fall upon us. Maggy Harsch-Fischbach writing about ITC, used the expression “The heavens have opened to comfort bereaved human beings!” (Locher & Harsch, 1989, 1992,1995). A very perceptive way of putting it. But not only my beloved family members spoke through the DRV. Other people, some of whom I don't remember meeting, identified themselves at my request. I offer two examples among many - a male voice that responded to my question, ‘Who is speaking?’ with “É Pedro Roque! Estás boa?” (It’s Pedro Roque! Are you all right?) and ended by saying “Fala Pedro Roque!” (It’s Pedro Roque who speaks). AUDIO 8. É Pedro Roque! http://www.itcjournal.org/?p=6695 And a female voice that used to speak with me often and identified herself as Joan Colbert. I didn’t know either of them or, in any case, I don’t recall knowing any of them. AUDIO 9. Fala Joan Colbert …... http://www.itcjournal.org/?p=6698 This is a fragment of a much longer audio; I ask, who is speaking? and the female voice replies, “Fala Joan Colbert” (It’s Joan Colbert speaking), followed by a couple of unclear utterances (starting perhaps by “a Bela … porque os perros estão ali… …. ?? é do outro mundo…??.... sou a Blackie”; translation: Bela … because the dogs are there…. ?? it’s from the other world…??.... I am Blackie). My interpretation is only probable and, unfortunately, I cannot fully confirm its accuracy. I believe it is what the voices say but I cannot be sure because some voices are not clear enough. The voice that I believe says sou a Blackie (I am Blackie) is difficult to confirm also. It sounds like a youthful voice, apparently different from Joan Colbert's, but I can't swear that it says Sou a Blackie, although it certainly sounds like that. I wish it were true because I absolutely adore my beautiful Blackie. She was one of my four Doberman puppies that came with me and her parents when we moved from Japan to Lisbon. She suffered a lot before her transition to the next dimension and I love her dearly. But some utterances are not intelligible with certainty and we should not take them for granted. This is a golden rule in ITC. At the end of this piece, the initial voice utters clearly: “É do Tempo, falamos de outro mundo…??…” (It’s from [Rio do] Tempo, we speak from another world….?....). At the time of Carlos de Almeida, when he used to talk to me almost daily, the kind, friendly and understanding female voice that identified herself as Joan Colbert, spoke with me many times, usually recognising the name of the station, Rio do Tempo. I often heard her pronounce my dogs' names and, once, she even said "Let Surya [my dog Surya] talk with her [me]!". She spoke in Portuguese, sometimes mixed with English words. I am very fond of her even though I don’t know who she is apart from what she told me from the station. AUDIO 10. Sim aqui, mas não fala o Carlos de Almeida! http://www.itcjournal.org/?p=6701 In this example I ask, ‘Is it from Rio do Tempo station?’ and the same feminine voice responds: “Sim, aqui, mas não fala o Carlos de Almeida! ” (Yes, here, but it is not Carlos de Almeida who speaks!) I draw my readers’ attention to the very interesting situation reflected in this audio, which emphasizes the independent condition of the communicators and also their sense of humour. This is what happened. During the initial years of DRV, my enthusiasm was overpowering and I used to call, or better, shout out Carlos de Almeida’s name insistently as soon as the voices started. After all, he was my main communicator and we shared moments of glory through these incredible conversations. Nevertheless, on this particular evening, the voices started and, atypically, I did not call Carlos de Almeida. I just asked if it was from Rio do Tempo station. But the communicator, apparently Joan Colbert, wittingly drew my attention to the fact that I called Carlos de Almeida over and over again… Thus, she replied: “Yes, [Rio do Tempo station] here, but it is not Carlos de Almeida who speaks!” Other voices spoke a lot but did not identify themselves except for the name of the station, Rio do Tempo. They called me Anabela or Anabela Cardoso, an interesting difference from the ones that claimed to be my family members. One of my most remarkable DRV recordings is the one I titled Bela, Bela, Bela! The female voice calls me three times and I answer. This is an excerpt from a much longer talk, which, however, was not as clear as the initial conversation, as is sometimes the case. AUDIO 11. Bela, Bela, Bela! http://www.itcjournal.org/?p=6704 I will briefly explain the content of this audio to my readers. DRV had been speaking for a while (not included in the audio). When I apologized for not being able to respond directly, the female voice called my pet name ‘Bela!’. I understood and immediately tried to tell her that I was listening but wouldn't be able to answer directly. Then, very appropriately, she called me again two times and when I replied ‘Sim!’ (Yes), she remarked, “You already answered, the answer came right to our space!”. I continued and said ‘I am answering but…yes, now I can understand you better……’; I paused and she added “So you wanted to chat?”. The interaction between us continued but in a less directly understandable way. Dogs can talk Moreover, almost all of my deceased dogs and one of my little cats spoke with me with human voices and identified themselves with their names. The most extraordinary of these wonderful communications, which I cherish with all my heart, is the incipient dialogue I maintained with a childlike voice that identified itself as belonging to my deceased female Doberman dog, Nisha. She gave me a moving message of relief and comfort for the deep pain I feel over her and her family's disappearance, avowing, “Nisha, nós estamos aqui” (Nisha, we’re here!). The next day, I asked my communicators from Rio do Tempo Station if it had been my Nisha who had spoken. Their reaction could not have been more affirmative: “Sim, por acaso, foi p’ra ti!” (translation from the Portuguese original: Yes, it happens that it was [Nisha], it was for you!). Later, Nisha spoke a couple of times more and identified herself. I recognized that it was her speaking and I asked ‘Mammy?’ because that was what I called her, and she replied “Sim!” (Yes!). The slightly noise cleaned file comes first and the original recording follows. AUDIO 12. Nisha talks and Rio do Tempo’s confirmation http://www.itcjournal.org/?p=6707 I love the beings we call animals, particularly those who live with me, as much, or, in many cases, more than the humans I have loved throughout my life. Nisha’s conversation was one of the most memorable and moving events in my twenty-five years of ITC practice. It has brightened my life since then. The story of a short audio For my own good because I love them and for my readers’ information because it is typical of the language of many electronic voices, I publish the fragment of a recording in which the communicator suddenly tells me, “Teu perro (perro = dog in Spanish) está no Sol com o Só, perro!” (Your dog is in the Sun with Só, dog). AUDIO 13. Teu perro está no Sol com o Só, perro! http://www.itcjournal.org/?p=6710 I will examine this voice as best I can. In some of my previous works (Cardoso 2010, pp. 196-197), I explained that my communicators tend to use the Spanish word 'perro' for dog instead of the Portuguese word ‘cão’. Perhaps because ‘cão’ in Portuguese is a nasal, dull sound that is easily lost in this type of acoustics. But 'perro' with its strong-sounding double consonants, is much more identifiable and I think that's the reason. I should add that my Doberman dogs, and very particularly my dog Surya, about whom I have written extensively in my books (e.g., Cardoso, 2021, pp. 73-77), are always in my mind. I have never loved anyone as I love them and thus, I often questioned my communicators about their fate. I mentioned Surya, whom I call simply ‘my dog’, in almost all our DRV conversations. This must be the reason why Rio do Tempo’s voice suddenly spoke about ‘my dog’. The voice uttered, “Your dog is in the Sun with Só, dog!”, and I believe that, in this context, the sun should be understood as the symbol for ‘The supreme Light’, the source of all good, energy, power, beauty, far above our understanding. Interestingly, Rio do Tempo communicators had told me years ago, “Carlos de Almeida is in the Sun” but I kept asking about him and, in the following months, I was told that he had “left [his world] to a more advanced level [the Sun]”. I remarked: What do you mean when you say that he is in the sun...? A male voice responded: "Yes, he is in the sun, but it's not your sun!" (Cardoso, 2010, p. 98). My dog’s name, Surya (a Sanskrit word), is related to the Sun god in Hinduism. He was born in India when I lived there. I have described the distressful life of my other dog, ‘Só’, in numerous works (See e.g., Cardoso, 2010, p. 108). When Rio do Tempo’s DRV became stable, Só was one of my main communicators. I must have over hundred recordings that start by “I am Só, or “It’s Só, I am a dog, I think” and so on. Rio do Tempo voices also declared, “Só is a boss dog” on numerous occasions. Só often brought some of my family members to speak with me via the DRV. Indeed, the next world ways are not our ways and this is a very comforting thought for me. Nonetheless, if we may expect a loud message from people, most of us will not expect it from our dogs, cats or other animals we loved and shared our lives with. I must confess that I didn’t, thus the surprise and amazement I felt are indescribable. I will be forever grateful to my communicators for this immense joy. I have been asked about my dogs' use of the human language, as they did, on numerous occasions. How can that be? people ask me. And I explain that communications with the next dimension of life occur through the exchange of thoughts and love, as confirmed by the communicators themselves not only to me but also in Luxembourg and Rivenich, to quote the most significant ones. Thoughts that basically become language through electronic devices but not only. Obviously my Nisha, to whom I am deeply attached, had to necessarily use human language, the only language I know, to enable me to understand her. Our interlocutors, our transpartners, informed that there is an important element of telepathy in the success of the electronic communications that we call ITC. An entity, who identified himself as Dr George J. Mueller, told Adolf Homes via the DRV: “All systems are basically guided by the mind. Telepathy. Only then can you hear me on the radio” (Senkowski, 2000, p. 329). Moreover, we know that ITC contacts, namely the DRV, involve a process of learning. Therefore, it seems that this was the way for my brilliantly intelligent Nisha to communicate with me. I have a couple of perfectly clear EVP voices that seem to encourage Nisha to go forward and speak through the radio. In the next EVP example, besides the voice that encourages Nisha, we can hear a totally different voice (like an old woman whining) that utters in German “Ich war medioker” (I was mediocre), followed by the initial voice that repeats “Nisha!”. AUDIO 14. Va Nisha! Ich war medioker, Nisha! http://www.itcjournal.org/?p=6713 On another occasion, voices from Rio do Tempo told me, “Nisha learned to speak through the radio and she wants to speak with you!” (translation from the original). What I explained above confirms my opinion about these remarkable electronic contacts - we, ITC operators on Earth, play mainly, but not exclusively, a passive role. The active action belongs to our transpartners. Actually, we do not need to learn how to speak through the radio. We just listen … Strange characteristics of the anomalous electronic voices Years ago, I received an intriguing reply from my Rio do Tempo communicators that I was not able to fully clarify. To my naïve question, ‘Do you have there [in their world] a sound process that enables you to hear what is said here [in my studio]?’ A male voice that very much resembled Carlos de Almeida’s usual voice, replied clearly “É ritmo, nós sabemos quando o seguimos” (It’s rhythm, we know when we follow it). AUDIO 15. É ritmo, nós sabemos quando o seguimos http://www.itcjournal.org/?p=6716 I suppose Carlos de Almeida meant my brain rhythm because what else could it be? Moreover, on another occasion Rio do Tempo communicators told me “we manipulate the radio waves [to make the DRV] through the electromagnetic waves of your brain [mine]” (translation from the original). Thus, it seems that the Earth operator contributes to the materialization of ITC messages (in my case the DRV), even if in a subtle way. The years went by and I lived in the bliss of speaking with my dear communicators almost every evening. There was a particularly moving conversation with my beloved deceased grandmother that lasted for a very long time. I learned about her beautiful house in her new world and had news of the dogs of my childhood; she even mentioned the flowers she loved and other trivial information which, nonetheless, is of great importance to us who miss our daily lives with them because we recognize their identity in the trivial details that are unimportant to others. A reasonable question from my readers might be - why do you say that it was your grandmother? And my reply would be - because the voices from Rio do Tempo Station that introduced her, told me that it was my grandmother. And, so far, my communicators have never lied to me. Also, because what she said fits her likings when she lived in this world. And, although a complete testing protocol to certify that it was my grandmother who spoke does not exist, we have to put trust at stake. Frequently, the voices do not resemble the human voices of the deceased individuals they are supposed to belong to. Probably because they are synthesized, they sound robotic most of the times. But the content of their speech, particularly when the voices identify themselves as people we knew well, is very revealing and unique. I have had voices who spoke with the accent of the region in the south of Portugal where I was born and, within that region, used linguistic expressions typical of the town where I grew up. This happened to the point that I, being younger and having left the place many years ago, had to ask some of my relatives who still live there if they recognized them. They didn’t but inquired of older people who were able to confirm the expressions - typical, as I said, of one town only … One very interesting and puzzling feature of the anomalous electronic voices is the semantics of the language they use. In addition to the usually strange grammatical form of electronic voices, which is not necessarily incorrect but is often bizarre because it adopts forms that we do not use, the metaphorical aspect predominates. I will cite one example among many. I once asked if the time of death was predetermined, and the communicators confirmed, adding: “Pode dar o passo e o compromisso, está marcado para toda a gente!” (You may take the step and the commitment, it’s predetermined for everyone!). Of course it is easy to understand what they meant, i.e., there is no doubt whatsoever about the time of death being predetermined; however, the expression they employed “take the step and the commitment” is not used in Portuguese, ever. The proof Naturally, the psychokinetic interpretation of these amazing electronic voices that some like to put forward, although nonsensical, cannot be disproved. But it cannot be proven, either. It cannot be proven that the mind of the operator produces - and I cite examples exclusively from my own experiments - female and male choirs of heavenly beauty; voices of children as well as female and male voices, sometimes robotic but other times well-modulated; voices that identify themselves as beloved pets, beautiful music of characteristics unknown to us and more. AUDIOS 16 and 16 a. A MUSICA http://www.itcjournal.org/?p=6719 http://www.itcjournal.org/?p=6722 Note on the audios: The audios reproduce two of the musical pieces that I received (I was so stunned that I did not record the first one). The acoustic signal at the beginning is the agreed identification signal of Rio do Tempo at that time. During one of the musical pieces, dogs can be heard barking in the distance; those were my dogs playing in the garden. Dr Uwe Hartmann, Professor of Computing Science and a musician himself, carried out the study of one of these musical pieces, which were transmitted by my Rio do Tempo communicators on three different occasions with slight musical variations at the end (see ITC Journal 37, pp. 43-57). Confronted with the psychokinetic hypothesis, Friedrich Jürgenson replied that if he had such abilities, he would certainly be the most powerful individual on the entire planet, coveted by the dominant powers and governments. I could not agree more! More about electronic voices and a protocol of verification As above said, the DRV do not always sound like human voices. Often they sound robotic and use strange grammatical forms. Friedrich Jürgenson already mentioned these characteristics. Thus, we must ponder that they belong to electronic voices from the beginning. However, it is also true that many DRV obtained by Friedrich Jürgenson sounded like the voices of his friends while alive (Jürgenson, 2004, Cardoso & Leopold 2023). Much later, in Luxembourg, the high being that we call the Technician assured Maggy Harsch-Fischbach that they would “try to synthesize the voice of a certain woman [Margret Mackes, a friend of Maggy Harsch] as closely as possible”. Indeed, her husband immediately recognized her voice but Maggy added, “On other occasions, the voices sounded different from the voices of the people they were supposed to belong to while alive” (Locher and Harsch, 1989, 1992, 1995). Contacts in Luxembourg came mainly through the DRV while the setup of the devices was instructed by higher entities from the next dimension. The well-known investigators of psychic phenomena, D. Scott Rogo and Raymond Bayless, inform on page 136 of their excellent book Phone Calls from the Dead: “…We collected no fewer than three instances of these record player voices, which constitute even further evidence that the dead can communicate with the living by producing ‘prints’ of their own terrestrial voices over electrical equipment”. My transpartners at Rio do Tempo Station remarked similarly when I asked them how they produced their voices. A female voice replied, “Damos-lhe a certeza que mascaramos, fazem-nos um sonograma” (You can be sure that we mask, they make us a sonogram). It is interesting to note that in Portuguese, the verb used by the communicator, “mascarar”, can also mean wear a cloak or a mask. And, as we know, a sonogram is a voice print. Another remarkable match! AUDIO 17. Sonograma http://www.itcjournal.org/?p=6725 I have disclosed the frequencies I tune my radio receivers to. They are all for the exclusive use of the State - in this case, the Spanish State where my current house is located. Commercial stations, radio ham operators and other emissions cannot use them (see Report ITC Journal 41, 42). As I said before, I received beautiful singing, choruses and strange pieces of music on many occasions. Also, replies to my many queries. For years I lived in a kind of dream because, not being previously acquainted with the so-called paranormal, these incredible manifestations exposed one side of reality that I never thought existed and, even less, would open up to me. I remember when, at the end of one of the choirs, a male voice shouted, Somos doutra dimensão, somos p’ra lá do tempo! (translation: We are from another dimension; we are from beyond time!) AUDIO 18. Fragment of a choir “Somos doutra dimensão” http://www.itcjournal.org/?p=6728 In another choral song a female voice sings beautifully “We are the dead, here!” AUDIO 19. Nós somos os mortos, aqui! http://www.itcjournal.org/?p=6731 Among the beautiful pieces of music that I have had the privilege of receiving from Rio do Tempo, I particularly love a touching song in which a beautiful female voice and a very suggestive and emotional male voice sing beautifully and repeat: “… Nós somos vós … Somos todos pobres homens!” (Translation: We are you, we are all poor men!). AUDIO 20. Somos todos pobres homens! http://www.itcjournal.org/?p=6734

On some occasions, Rio do Tempo choirs and musical pieces lasted more than an hour interspersed with high-pitched radio white noise. I divided and filed separately some of the most beautiful pieces of the recordings. AUDIO 21. Fragment of male and female choir http://www.itcjournal.org/?p=6737

A protocol of verification Usually, Rio do Tempo voices speak in Portuguese, my mother tongue, but when Professor David Fontana, years ago and without previous notice to me or anyone else, asked the communicators to repeat after him a sentence in English, they complied with his request loud and clear. He repeated his unprecedented protocol of verification twice - in Galicia, Spain and in Lyon, France where I was living at the time, using two different phrases. Unfortunately, Professor Fontana did not use the microphone which was a little far from where he was standing up in my studio. His first request to the communicators to repeat a phrase after him, is barely audible and I had to amplify the sound and perform noise reduction to make the conversation more intelligible. When I noticed that he was speaking without a microphone, I handed it to him and he reiterated his request. The communicators responded a second time and repeated the phrase he had dictated. My screams of joy upon hearing the voices repeat what David Fontana had requested can be heard at the end of the audio. AUDIO 22. How Are You? - Noise reduction http://www.itcjournal.org/?p=6740 AUDIO 22. How are you? - Original http://www.itcjournal.org/?p=6743 The conversation continued for a while with David Fontana expressing his delight that the communicators spoke in English and the communicators responding: “Eu confio (Portuguese; ‘I trust’ in English), do you know what is true to you?”. A very pertinent observation! Prof Fontana reports the occurrence in his book Is There an Afterlife? (2005, Ch. 14, pp. 371-377). The unpredictability of electronic voices There was a long period of nearly two years when I did not receive any voices, DRV or EVP. But I continued with my usual routine of experimentation, although very distressed by the idea that the voices would not come back. I honestly thought they wouldn’t, although I hoped with all my heart that they would, of course. As a matter of fact, this situation occurs in many of the so-called paranormal cases of any nature that last for a long time. However, one evening when I least expected it, the voices burst out again from the loudspeaker of one of my radios and uttered the glorious: “We came back, we returned, you had faith in Tempo!.............” (they often say ‘Tempo’ only, instead of the full name of the station, Rio do Tempo). AUDIO 23. Voltamos! (We came back!). http://www.itcjournal.org/?p=6746 This is a section of the long DRV that can be heard in its entirety on the CD that I prepared a few years ago to illustrate one of my books: http://www.itcjournal.org/?p=4621 Rio do Tempo voices continued ever since, although not in the same format as before. The surprising ‘new’ voices Even when they do not speak with me, my communicators ask me to connect my radios on scheduled days of the week for them to practice. This has happened during the last seven or eight years and when I enquire about the nature of their work, they respond without fail: “We are working to be able to speak to everyone in your world [mine] interested in our world”. To give my readers an idea of what the communicators mean, I publish one of the many recordings in which they repeat phrases in a monotone tone reminiscent of a robot. In his books, Friedrich Jürgenson mentioned the “work of the robots” within the scope of the voices that he recorded (Cardoso and Leopold, 2023; Jürgenson, 2004), and I have also registered several voices that speak about “the robot”. Naturally, we can envisage those “robots” from two different perspectives – they could be very advanced technical devices that belong to the other world, which they call a robot by analogy with our somewhat similar machines; or a metaphor for something else. In my opinion, it is more likely the former. In this recording not all the words are easily identifiable but we can hear at 00’:04’’,8 “somos muertos” (We are dead, ‘muertos’ in Spanish) “é a voz do amor” (It’s the voice of love), at 00’:14’’,38 É a voz do amor (It’s the voice of love); at 00’:27’’ “O amor não se perde” (love does not get lost), at 00’:35’’,8 Somos mortos, (We are dead, this time ‘mortos’ in Portuguese), at 01’:33’’,25 Trabalho (work), 01’:34’’,6 Perro and at 01’:43’’ Perro aqui….? AUDIO 24. Trabalho http://www.itcjournal.org/?p=6749

The latest events The latest developments seem to be related to voices that appear recorded when I talk to other people, either in interviews or on my mobile ‘phone, and comment on the conversations we are having. Will these extraordinary occurrences be part of Rio do Tempo’s work? I think they might be. The first of these situations took place many years ago while, if I remember correctly, I was casually talking with Professor Fontana and simultaneously recorded the conversation we were having. But the most conspicuous ones happened over three years ago (see: itc anabela cardoso | ANOMALOUS ELECTRONIC VOICES (wordpress.com). More recently, in interviews I did for the New Thinking Allowed channel of Jeffrey Mishlove, viewers immediately detected strange voices and other bizarre sound effects straight from the air. Several of the viewers’ comments mention them. See: Instrumental Trans Communication (ITC) with Anabela Cardoso - YouTube And: Learning From the Voices of Instrumental Trans Communication with Anabela Cardoso - YouTube And: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFs4KpsA0Gs Nevertheless, the most extraordinary situation happened during the first long interview I did for the Portuguese channel EXO Realidades. During my talk with the interviewers, over eighty anomalous voices appeared recorded on the video. As in Jeff Mishlove’s interviews, some of those were heard live by the viewers. As usual, the recording was done by the interviewers via Zoom. See: Entrevista EXO Realidades (Parte I) - YouTube Some of those electronic voices were of such clarity and relevance to the context of our conversation that I made a video about the occurrence for my own YouTube channel, pointing out some of the voices. See: Vozes anómalas na entrevista de EXO Realidades - YouTube The same thing happened in the second interview on the EXO Realidades channel, although less voices were registered this time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoED2vEjnxw&t=2727s In my opinion, it is not absurd to assume that this new development is related to my communicators’ wish to be able to speak to everyone in our world as they reiterated on numerous occasions. By inserting their voices during public events, they become noticed by thousands of people who listen to them. Besides, my personal involvement in these interviews is minimal. I don’t record the videos or ask the questions. I am only present and answer what I am asked but I do not intervene at all in the recording process. I posit that the anomalous electronic voices are a joint venture; they are the outcome of a deep bond between the communicators and the recipient as Professor Senkowski used to put it. However, it is unquestionable that the communicators play a much more significant role than I do. The mobile ‘phones An interesting recent development in our field is the appearance of strange verbal interferences, and even written texts, in conversations held through mobile phones. It has happened to me but other operators have reported similar episodes. As mentioned earlier, my interlocutors have told me over the years that they “work [in my studio] so that [one day] they can speak with everyone in our world interested in their world.” They refer to the many times that, at their request, I turn on my radios for many hours and they do not speak with me. But the noise made by the radios changes frequently and it is obvious that it is being manipulated. I have no reason to doubt my communicators, thus I ponder that the public interferences, for example during interviews, mobile phone conversations and perhaps others that we are not aware of, might be the result of that labour. Let's hope that the outcome will be what our dear communicators endeavour to achieve: “To be able to speak to everyone in the [our] world”! Definitely, we, humans and all other beings on our planet, desperately need a paradigm shift. I am sure that this is their main concern and the purpose of their work.

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