Breakthroughs #1

Book Introduction One by Dr Theo Locher
Book Introduction Two by Prof Dr Ernst Senkowski

Chapter One:
What in the world (and beyond) is going on?
by Dr Theo Locher, Parapsychologist

Introduction One
by Dr Theo Locher, President Swiss Association for Parapsychology

This publication deals with the latest group of manifestations in modern parapsychology. If you are convinced that most people continue life after bodily death in full consciousness and with active minds, the possibility of contacting them must seem probable to you. If you believe in the long sleep of the dead until judgment day, any contact with them seems to be unthinkable. Many Christians also think contacting the dead is prohibited and is an abomination. Changes of the Bible during the early centuries made spirit communication, or transcommunication (TC) taboo to the faithful. Admittedly, there are serious dangers when contacting the other side as many painful experiences have taught us. It is therefore important to know how to avoid them.

If your world view is a materialistic-scientific one and you are convinced that death of the physical body is death of the whole being, you must consider any contact with a nonexistent beyond as pure nonsense. What we said so far suggests that the majority of 20th-Century Western citizenry -- Christians and materialists -- have the wrong idea about the beyond. Practical experiences with the new phenomena also have taught us this.

What does the scientist have to say about this? If he takes a closer look he will notice that the phenomenon cannot be explained with our conceptual models of physics, biology and psychology. New conceptual models have to be developed. This phenomenon of ITC (instrumental transcommunication) is revolutionary and does not fit into anything. But this is just why it could cause a flurry of activity and give us new knowledge. Scientists should almost jump at researching these manifestations. We know that this is not the case now, nor was it ever during the golden days of mediumistic writing or speaking, nor the days of the great materialization mediums.

Why did science fail so miserably then, as it does today? Because of its limitations and narrow-mindedness. True scientific thinking calls for a mind free of prejudice, which is rare among so-called "schooled scientists." Konstantin Raudive, who died in 1974, spoke about this through the loudspeakers of the Luxembourg researchers Maggy and Jules Harsch on February 8, 1987. He explained that new ideas are only accepted if scientists can fit them in their understanding of their world and their present reality. Our task is to broaden this understanding.

What purpose will ITC serve? Most obviously it will console those who grieve for their loved ones. It has helped locate missing persons. Beyond that, it widens our understanding of the purpose of life and gives us rich knowledge of the life that is awaiting us after bodily death. What other area of research comes close to offering so much?

ITC boosts self-realization and spiritual advancement of each person who studies its phenomenon. Mrs Maggy Harsch is convinced that ITC was planned by higher forces for this purpose. The spread of its knowledge cannot be stopped any more but is often hindered by the grudges and envy existing among some experimenters. If these people only realized how much of their destructive thoughts, intended for others, reflect back onto themselves. It would scare them if they knew how much they disrupt the bridge building efforts of the other side.

ITC is like a fine net of vibrations which can only spread in a world where people can unite to pursue the same positive goals. This means creating more ITC stations which cooperate in a positive manner. Only then can the problems of mankind be thoroughly dealt with. It can only come about if we tolerate each other and learn to cooperate. The Swiss Association for Parapsychology supports ITC research. It published reports about ITC in the Swiss Bulletin for Parapsychology and in an issue of its sister publication Orientierungsblaettern (Orientation sheets). Since 1985 the association has informed its readers about ITC research through written reports, pictures, lectures and demonstration of audio/video tapes and slides. The association supports future experiments through financial grants and in 1988 informed the broad public in a newspaper interview in the Swiss newspaper Bieler Tagblatt. In 1994 it issued the annual Swiss Prize to Maggy Harsch-Fischbach and Prof Dr Ernst Senkowski for their work in ITC.

The final conclusion of reasoning will be the understanding that there are many things which are beyond our comprehension. --Blaise Pascal

Introduction Two
by Dr Ernst Senkowski, President Association for Psychobiophysics

For more than three decades subjective spirit contacts via human medium have been supplemented by paranormal signals, which were discovered and documented long ago -- by Carl Wickland and others -- and are reaching us via electronic equipment used in the home.

Although accounts of this voice phenomenon involving voices captured on recording media have been documentd as early as 1902 (when Waldemar Bogoras found spirit voices on a phonograph record he had made), this electronically assisted transcommunication, or ITC, began as a field of study in the 50s with tape recorded voices, which are easy to register (Juergenson, Raudive).

Although a definite interpretation is not always possible, thousands of confirmed examples point to those who have died as the originators of the voices. The development of the phenomenon continues in essentially two directions. One, the acoustic phenomenon has expanded from faint voices on tape to direct electro-acoustic voices of occasional full dialogs via ordinary radio sets (Bacci), telephone (Boden, Harsch) or through specialized setups (O'Neil, Koenig, Harsch, Haerting). Two, paranormal TV (Video) pictures have been observed and documented (Schreiber, Harsch, Cremese) as well as messages and pictures received by computer (Boden, Webster, Harsch).

The meaning of the entire audio-visual complex of manifestation is found on at least two levels: In scientific terms we are dealing with paranormal (Resch: "Violating the usual norms"), objective events which question once more the exclusive validity of traditional views and categorically demand their expansion. The view takes into consider-ation the tight linkage of psychic and material energy components of the life consciousness circle within the holographic, morphogenetic contact field. An adequate (para) physical description of these mutual effects are at best only beginning to be seen. (as in Jahn/Dunne, Heim).

In general human terms we can take note of trans-information and evaluate its suspected source. Because of the inherent uncertainties and discrepancies of their content and transmission, personal evaluations are not generally binding and do not justify dogmatism. With a spirit(ual)istic hypothesis we can differentiate two groups of those who manifest themselves: Humans who have died, and nonhuman entities. There are no distinguishing criteria beyond the context of their manifestation. In the final analysis everything points to a badly needed expansion of our customary worldview. The universe is taking the shape of a diverse and unimaginably complex place wherein man experiences part of his existence as a spaceless, timeless being and belongs to most diverse fields and dimensions.

Jules and Maggy Harsch have shouldered a huge amount of work with these experiments. Both have full-time jobs. Try to imagine their "spare time" after the experiments described in this book with computer, video equipment, telephone and other equipment combinations, maintaining the necessary contacts with other researchers all over the world by letter, phone and fax, translating spirit messages from their native Luxembourg tongue, writing articles, typing them into their computer, printing them out, making photocopies, sorting and stapling the pages into issues of the CETL INFOnews, addressing and mailing them to subscribers in 12 different countries. It is understandable that there is no time or strength left for personal consultation of other experimenters and the many people who are looking for help.

The various messages from the other side are printed here unchanged though some of them seem questionable to us. The readers should use their own judgment as to what they can or cannot accept. Swejen Salter speaks with Maggy Harsch in the Luxembourg language on the phone as well as over radio and TV loudspeakers. Computer text is transmitted in German. In the presence of foreign guests she speaks the language of the guests.

Chapter One
What in the world (and beyond) is going on here?
by Dr Theo Locher, President Swiss Association of Parapsychology

The phenomenon of transcommunication, or spirit communication, is thousands of years old. The shamans of old knew about making contacts to the spirit world because of the painful trials they had to undergo. In spiritism it was a matter of apparent spoken contacts between deceased individuals and their living relatives which often served to satisfy a desire for sensationalism through contacts with often primitive beings. The means of communication often was through table knocking, ouija board, automatic writing and through trance mediums. In spiritualism however, the participants were striving to exchange thoughts of higher ethical and moral value. Advice, consolation, and teaching from higher spirit beings was transmitted by means of telepathic mediums, automatic writing and the trance-mediumship of humans who maintained their high ethical values.

There are other forms of TC such as the direct voice which occurs independently and without the vocal cords of the medium (Leslie Flint and John C. Sloan), as well as direct writing in which the hand of the medium is guided by the spirit control (see Cox/Richards experiments under fishbowl glass and the phenomenon of the Roman medium Demofilo Fidani).

Voices through conical tubes (trumpets) could be considered instrumental transmissions. Spirit voices were recorded on early grammophone records in 1901-1902. Spirit messages were transmitted through telegraph and wireless radio even before 1915 (David Wilson). Since 1920 there have been many predictions of ITC, according to Dr Senkowski. In 1920 Thomas Edison confirmed that he was working on some sort of telephone to the spirit world. G. Marconi and Nicola Tesla were also convinced of the possibility of an instrumental link to the beyond.

The other side started early to give instructions for the building of receiving devices. The American medium Francis GRIERSON in 1921 published a book: Psychophone messages. In the decades that followed, the microphone, tape recorder and loudspeaker were the most essential tools in the development of ITC. Concerning paranormal telephone messages I want to mention the "Chopper Spook" case in Germany and Manfred Boden's conversations with discarnates and other entities. In addition, there were two Swiss cases reported in the Swiss Bulletin for Parapsychology and, of course, the collection of phone calls published by Scott Rogo and Raymond Bayless (Phone Calls from the Dead 1979/80). More about these cases later.

In Luxembourg all five types of presently known ITC phenomena were encountered such as:

The phenomena were found to be genuine by a large number of scientist who witnessed them and participated in contacts under very controlled conditions. Some of these phenomena also were encountered with the Italian group of Marcello Bacci and the German gropus of Haerting, Manfred Boden, Klaus Schreiber and Hans Otto Koenig.

A complete explanation of the phenomena is still not possible. There are the animistic hypotheses (anima, or soul) which assume the subconscious abilities and forces of the experimenter and participants influence the electronic equipment and cause the voice manifestations. In my opinion none of the animistic theories does any justice to all presently known ITC phenomena. The spiritualistic explanation (influences of intelligence that reside in an ethereal body) is the only one I can accept.

The beings who announce themselves are of very diverse spiritual development. We only have to consider the seemingly souless entities who communicated with Manfred Boden. As for the Luxembourg phenomena, the main communicators, who are the higher being "Technician," Konstantin Raudive, Richard Francis Burton, Swejen Salter and others, have proven their credibility by the content and overall ethical level of their messages and their attitude. These messages have been received since 1986 through tape recorders, radios, TV, telephone and computer.

Not everything is acceptable or easy to understand by the outsider. We nevertheless should take note of it in the hope to understand it better later on. The question of impostors could be brought up at this point. The morally high attitude of many messages speak against it. However, it is entirely possible some beings may use our equipment and pretend to be well-known and trusted spirit collaborators whose voices they imitate. We know of such cases in parapsychology for over a hundred years. A warning against gullibility is especially appropriate for the ITC researcher because of the difficulty of understanding the voices. The experimenter's wishful thinking is often tapped by lower beings and convincingly used in their transmissions. The experimenter's own ethical attitude also seems to be important as to what level of being will contact us. I am convinced that existing ITC phenomena can ultimately contribute to changes in the understanding of life after death of millions of people if the phenomena are studied long enough. This, however, may take decades.

Voices on audio tapes appeared almost simultaneously in USA and in Sweden. Raymond Bayless and Attila Szalay in 1959 reported in the Journal of the American Society for Psychic Research about their success in receiving paranormal voices on wire recorders. The report unfortunately was hardly noticed. In a separate development the Swedish painter and singer Friedrich Juergenson in the summer of 1959 discovered human voices on his tape recordings of bird songs. He is said to have recognized the voice of his mother. Over a period of years he received thousands of these voices. He wrote down his experiences in the book Sprechfunk mit Verstorbenen (Recording the Voices of the Dead)* which appeared in 1964 in Sweden and was translated in 1967 into German. While the book was never published in the English language, it moved many people to experiment with their own tape recorders. His best known successor became Dr Konstantin Raudive, a Latvian psychologist who lived in Germany.

People who were in grief over lost family members or friends sought consolation by contacting them with the tape recorder. We must here point out a great danger many are not aware of. Any spirit can pretend to be the one they look for! They can telepathically tap the mind of any living human and provide any answer the experimenter is looking for. This may result in blind trust and great psychological entanglement of the experimenter.

During my two visits to Dr Raudive I convinced myself that the phenomenon was genuine. I also recognized the unreliability of the playback interpretation. It is easy to project your own imagination in the background sounds, particularly when listening to unintelligible, quiet voices. I therefore arranged a listening test to test the listener's hearing acuity. Ten motivated persons were trained to listen to tapes of spirit voices. They were then given a cassette with over 20 voice samples which they had to identify on three different days as accurately as possible. Each day they wrote down what they heard. After the third analysis the text they thought was most correct would be underlined. A member of the Swiss Association for Parapsychology evaluated the results and compared them to an analysis of a very experienced and critical voice experimenter. The statistical evaluation showed that vowels were well understood (38.2 percent) but consonants were not (16.9 percent). The comparison of the words was catastrophic. Too much had been projected into the background sounds.

Meanwhile, new technical developments on both sides have brought an improvement in voice quality. Only a few should be mentioned: F. Juergenson, who developed the radio method, Franz Seidl, who built the broad-band psychophone receiver, George Meek, whose associate O'Neil in collaboration with Dr Mueller developed and built the Spiricom device, and Hans Otto Koenig who successfully built and used ultrasound equipment. Good communication to some degree seems to be dependent on weather conditions, disturbances through moon and sun and the attitude of the experimenter and other participants. According to Prof Alex Schneider we can assume voices are formed by affecting modulated electromagnetic vibrations.

How are paranormal voices formed? As a parapsychologist I considered it my task to put together a list of explanations. Dr Raudive made the publication possible in his first book Breakthrough (softcover edition published by Lancer Books, Inc., 1560 Broadway, New York, NY 10036 under LC number 79324-175).

Theories 1 and 2 will never do justice to the entire phenomena and should be dropped today. As for theories 3 and 4, we can assume the originators of the voices are themselves advanced enough to use all spirit techniques and know how to handle ethereal substances. The latter may well include magnetic and electromagnetic energies, or their spiritual equivalent. Only theory 3 and 4 are believable. Therefore a life after death is likely for most people. This conclusion makes research of the voice phenomenon most important.

Available literature. Those interested in ITC will find much literature on the subject from the pen of Friedrich Juergenson, Konstantin Raudive, Franz Seidl, George Meek, Sarah Estep, Ernst Senkowski, and Mark Macy. The Luxembourg CETL newsletter INFOnews until recently was issued bi-annually in German, English and French. It reported about the research and development of Maggy and Jules Harsch and their collaborators of spirit group Timestream. The in-depth reporting of ITC has now been broadened through international journals Contact! in the USA, QuantenSprung in Germany, and RITI in Brazil. Translations of Contact! and QuantenSprung are available in other languages as well.

The largest ITC organization is the German VTF with over 1,000 members founded in 1975. Their members receive a quarterly newsletter called VTF POST. Hans O. Koenig in Germany later founded FGT, another group that has their own newsletter. Sarah Estep in the USA reports about ITC activities in her AAEVP quarterly newsletter. The German-speaking technical and scientific reader might want to acquire the semiannual journal Transkommunikation published by Dr Ernst Senkowski and Dr Vladimir DeLavre.

In 1970, for the first time to our knowledge, paranormal voices were heard directly from a radio loudspeaker! The voices received in Grosseto in Central Italy can only be compared to the voice phenomenon of the American Metascience Foundation and those of Hans Otto Koenig in Germany. The Grosseto group of Marcello Bacci recorded these voices on tape for a period of 15 years. However, the majority were of poor quality. Bacci and his group rarely went public and were persistent in their weekly "laboratory" sessions attended by many friends. The characteristics of the voices showed that they could not be explained as radio transmissions or disturbances. This view was shared by technical radio experts, none of whom could explain them rationally.

Text was received in Morse code and identified by experts to have the same expressions and paranormal content. This is strong proof of the objectivity of the phenomena. They seem to localize in the radio receiver from where they manifest in the loudspeaker loud enough to be heard by the participants. The tape recorder is working and records all acoustic phenomena coming out of the loudspeaker along with all other noises, including occasional paranormal knocking sounds.

The Italian participant Dr Carlo Trajna called these voices "paranormal electro-acoustic direct voices."

Marcello Bacci, left, with his paranormal direct voice equipment, in Grossetto, Italy.

Voices that formed in the tape recorder after having modulated environmental sounds (carriers) he calls "paranormal electromagnetic voices." To prove the paranormality of the experiments, Trajna set up two radios 3 feet apart. Both had an antenna connected and were tuned to the same station. From one radio he heard only the radio broadcast while on the other set he heard the paranormal voice. Even after the dial setting was changed, the voice did not disappear!

Voice manifestations improved when Bacci touched the tuning condensor with his finger. According to Trajna, the experimenters by their presence furnish an unknown energy that makes voices possible. Bacci is considered to have some mediumistic abilities.

The partial or full sentences would often seem disconnected or make no sense. Often they would answer a question. Up to 1,000 words would be received in a typical 15-30 minute session, mostly in an old Italian dialect. Words would be deformed. New words would be created. The tempo and rhythm of the voice would change. Sometimes there would be a mixture of several languages. When Dr Senkowski was visiting, Italian and German voices could be heard:

Metascience Foundation was founded by engineer George W. Meek in Franklin, North Carolina, USA. Meek is the retired president of a refrigeration and air conditioning firm which contributed several new technical developments. He had organized research labs in several countries before turning his attention to transcommunication in 1970. With the electronics engineer and prolific inventor Paul Jones and the technician Hans Heckmann he started a small electronics lab in the suburbs of Philadelphia in 1972-73. In 1974 the electronic technician and psychic William J. O'Neil had been experimenting independently with often uncontrolled and frightful results in his home in a rural part of Pennsylvania, USA. His situation could serve as a warning for other ITC experimenters who are strongly psychic but are mostly ignorant of their abilities and their interaction with the spiritual realm.

George W. Meek realized the great potentials of the psychic O'Neil and strongly supported and guided his efforts in the years to come. In 1977 O'Neil established contact with an American physician and former fellow radio ham who had passed away only five years earlier. O'Neil was using single side band radio equipment and single audio carrier tones when he started out. He recorded their conversation which was perhaps the second free-flowing instrumental conversation between beings on both sides of the veil.

When his communicator disappeared, O'Neil was contacted by Dr George J. Mueller, a university lecturer, physicist and electronics engineer who had worked for NASA and had passed over in 1967. O'Neil with Mueller's guidance (Dr Mueller's hobby had been music theory) built a 13-tone generator. It produced a mixture of tones in the human male voice range. The tones were modulating a high frequency RF carrier, at first in the 10-meter band, but later in the FM band. It was radiated with a loop antenna across O'Neil's living room and received demodulated signals on a ham receiver (later an FM receiver).

Like the experiments of other researchers, the purpose was to offer the other side a combination of suitable sound energies to impinge their voice on. At first O'Neil produced a 13-tone cassette by playing the tones individually on his home organ. He recorded them separately and then combined them on one cassette. This method was very noisy. Later on, O'Neil ingeniously made cutouts on a strip of wood so he could depress 13 keys at once. The other members at Metascience shook their heads and supplied him with a noise free tone tape and later a professional tone generator. Curiously, he claims that they never gave him the results that were as good as his home-brew equipment. The tones were transmitted through what O'Neil called a transmitter feedback device (TFD). They are commercially available as "microphone transmitters" operating in the FM band and are used in wireless public address systems. The RF signal was picked up by the home-made twin-lead "dipole" antenna of an FM receiver. O'Neil did not bother to cut his "antenna" to the proper wavelength (perhaps on purpose). After demodulation of the FM signal the tone combination was amplified and beamed into the room (fairly reverberant) by two loudspeakers. A "feedback microphone" built into the TFD device picked up portions of this sound and fed it back into the system.

Such a closed loop system, if not attenuated, would break into uncontrolled feedback oscillation, a condition not unlike a cat chasing her own tail. O'Neil operated this system somewhat below the point of oscillation, where it seemed to have been most effective. Dr Mueller's voice sounded similar to someone without larynx who was using an artificial larynx. Indeed, the 13 tones may have served as Dr Mueller's voicebox.

George Meek called the system Spiricom. The voice of Mueller, at first very robot-like, soon became smoother and more controlled. The data and identification material he transmitted, including social security number, unlisted phone numbers and much personal information, was carefully checked out and found to be correct. In fact the identification was overwhelming. After announcing his decision beforehand, Dr Mueller ended the contacts at the end of 1981. It was felt he was moving up to higher spiritual realms, or vibratory regions.

During the Easter Week 1982 at the National press Club in Washington DC, George Meek made public the outcome and details of Spiricom. After handing out extensive documentation to the press and playing back Spiricom conversations he remarked that:

It may even stop wars. It would lead too far to explain the other Metascience systems Mark 1 through Mark 5. Although technically more advanced, none came close to being as successful as Spiricom. O'Neil's psychic energies were necessary for the voice manifestations. One should not judge O'Neil's contributions as too small nor his job as too easy. Often weeks of seemingly futile contact attempts passed. Meek warned against contacts when O'Neil (or any other medium) is physically weak, during periods of agitation or when mentally ill. Meek in his 100-page booklet Spiricom, as a warning to future researchers, depicted the many dangers that accompany contact with beings from other dimensions.

As director of the Metascience Foundation George Meek for years published a newsletter Unlimited Horizons which was sent to readers in 23 countries. Today his successor Mark Macy (Continuing Life Research) publishes the newsletter Contact! which reports on ITC developments internationally. Similar newsletters are published in other languages by associates of INIT, the International Network for Instrumental Transcommunication.

H. O. Koenig works in the field of electro-acoustics and lives in Moenchengladbach in western Germany. During many years of EVP and ITC activities he developed several electronic systems which he called "generators". He produced complex carrier mixtures of ultrasonics plus audible sounds by mixing fixed ultrasonic frequencies with warble generator ultrasonic frequencies. This resulted in an audible sound not unlike a police car siren but with a constantly changing frequency.

Hans-Otto Koenig

In a later system he used an infrared transmitter signal which is received and demodulated by an infrared receiver. The receiver output then modulates a 37.5 MHz VHF generator signal which is radiated across the room and demodulated by a VHF receiver. The output of this receiver then establishes a feedback loop by feeding a signal back into the infrared transmitter.

Prof Senkowski had an opportunity to investigate Koenig's ITC system and commented:

Concerning a scientific description of the phenomenon, Senkowski had this to say:

Senkowski assumes that "contact fields" are a combination of physical and psychological fields. In his opinion, the computer-like, chopped syllables and words indicate a synthetic language which is transmitted in impulses. The voices often seem distorted in spite of loud volume and relatively good signal-to-noise ratio.

H. O. Koenig was accused of deceptive manipulations by another researcher who was obviously very envious of him. To prove that his experiments were not fraudulent the physicist Senkowski, the engineer R. M. Schaefer and the communication specialist Dr Ralf Determeyer examined his equipment setup. Their report confirmed "the lack of any manipulative elements, be they mechanical, electromagnetic or of subjective-psychological nature."

Koenig himself assumes the existence of an omnipresent PSI field (possibly very weak) that helps departed spirits to manifest themselves on magnetic tape. This would explain the success of his electroacoustic ultrasonic generators which reinforce this weak field. Koenig employs electronic filtering to eliminate much of the audible tones and their harmonics while he is recording the voices. His entire technique is very clever and hard to understand by a nontechnical person. He believes that spirit beings "speak" primarily in the ultrasonic region. "Their signals heterodyne with the multi-frequency energy of his generators. The voice signals are thereby transposed into the audible range".

He confirms this theory through repeated measurement in the ultrasonic range with different human subjects. "Special frequency mixtures can produce a favorable resonance for contacts of earthside and a spiritside being".

In 1984 Koenig founded the "Forschungs-Gemeinschaft fuer Tonbandstimmen" (FGT) (Research Association for Recording Paranormal Voices) and published the first issue of his quarter-annual newsletter Paravoices. The group's name was meanwhile changed to "Research Association for Transcommunication".

During the Basel PSI Days 1985 in Switzerland, Koenig conducted a workshop that was attended by 300 people. With the help of his receiving system, he established contact and carried on a two-way conversation with the spirit world which could be followed closely by the audience. The exchange lasted about six minutes.

Koenig first asked the mediator to identify himself. The answer, as so often in past contacts, was the name of the daughter in spirit of Mrs Marlene Dohrmann: Anja.

Some of the answers were difficult to understand and their interpretation may be questionable. It was later found that during playback with increased speed some additional but unclear voices could be identified. To make it easier for the untrained ears of many listeners, the voices were played back several times in rapid succession. The entire demonstration was filmed by a TV crew of Radio/TV Luxembourg.

The contact attempts of H.O. Koenig usually proceed as follows: After Koenig's introduction and repeated invitation for someone to come forward and speak, eventually an audible reply comes across:

Koenig then asks questions. The answers often do not come immediately. The voices themselves vary greatly, often computer-like, sometimes distorted or fluctuating. The language spoken may be German, English, Spanish, Italian or French or even a dialect of these languages. Often the voice may be that of a relative or friend participating in the session. A group of young people came through whose parents had all lost them through accidents. Some young people had previously responded to contact attempts of their parents, totally independently of H. O. Koenig. Some communicating spirits identify themselves by intimate details. It is customary to close each session with the announcement: "End of Contact".

Koenig introduced a modified version of his infrared system at the annual meeting of his research group in 1989. Anja, the departed daughter of Marlene Dohrmann, addressed her mother and Koenig:

She then confirmed that she also heard them both clearly. A live session on the last day of the meeting gave convincing proof of life after death. Much of the communication was on a high ethical level. The paranormal statements included:

Peter Haerting was a sound technician at the Staats Theater in Darmstadt, Germany which gave him special qualifications for spirit voice research and ITC. He founded the Darmstadt Research Group for Spirit Voices for the sole purpose of achieving voice contacts and to promote information exchange. Several people who attended sessions in his home went on to receive their own voices.

In early 1985 Peter Haerting and Jochem Fornoff started issuing their own newsletter, Info. In Spring 1987 the activity of the group changed when they learned of the astonishing successes of the Luxembourg research group CETL. When they saw the Luxembourg system they duplicated the important components such as a radio that operated near the Eurosignal (87.5 MHz). Their TV set was tuned to the idle channel 21. They used infrared lamps, one psychophone broadband receiver and a psychophone with built-in generator. Their recording equipment included a low noise mixer and microphone pre-amplifier.

Their first success took place April 21, 1987. A deep, dragging male voice could be heard from their loudspeakers. The intelligence behind the voice called himself "ABX Juno". When they asked for the meaning of the abbreviation they were told: "A stands for "Aussen" (the German word for external or outside), or coming from the outside. B stands for biological, or penetrating the earthly biological life form. X stands for experiment and Juno is the name of the entity. On April 27, again, voices could be heard directly out of the loudspeaker, similarly to the "direct voices" of Marcello BACCI in Grosseto, Italy. This is important for scientific proof. The phenomenon becomes more convincing when it occurs for different experimenters and at different locations. Although the male voice was not always intelligible, the experimenters could understand that it was referring to relatives who had passed on. The voice addressed the experimenters by name but a dialogue was not established. It was noticed to everyone's surprise that changing the radio frequency did not stop Juno's voice. Twice they were given new numbers for the generator/transmitter setting of the psychophone. General and personal messages were cordial and friendly. ABX-Juno: "Use your strength for a positive balance. Concentrate your thoughts on what is good."

A cassette was made of all good voices gathered by the Haerting-Fornoff group. Prof Senkowski investigated the equipment closely at Haerting's home and declared that manipulation was not possible. He too was addressed by name when ABX-Juno came through.

The last spirit message was given on January 19, 1988. No contact could be made after that. On December 4, 1988 Peter Haerting died after offering advice to his fellow experimenters unselfishly and spreading a better understanding of the ITC phenomenon in his newsletter Info.

The Rosenheim Case.

Paranormal events in connection with the telephone have existed for a long time. A case in 1967-68 in Rosenheim, Germany, involved expensive calls being made mysteriously to an automated time-of-day service, and charged to a Rosenheim resident. The case was thoroughly investigated by parapsychologists and, as a result, the lawyer Sigmund Adams did not have to pay an enormous phone bill. It was established that an unexplained intelligence was responsible for the phone calls. After removal of the lines and telephones and the installation of a sealed counter it could be proven that a four-digit number (for getting correct time) was continually dialed faster than the selector dial would have allowed! The counter even started running when a psychic, the clerk Annemarie Schaberl, approached it with her hand.

A small book could be written about all the other thoroughly documented phenomena of the Rosenheim case. The city of Rosenheim spent a total of Dm 90,000 for the replacement of all telephone lines and phones as well as the installation of an emergency generator.

The lawyer Adams gave an open lecture about this case in 1971 at the University of Berne in Switzerland. For clearing up this paranormal incident he was awarded a commendation and the annual monetary award of the Swiss Association of Parapsychology.

The Chopper Case.

This case centers around a dentist, Dr Kurt Bachseitz, in Neutraubling, Germany and his young assistant Claudia Judenmann, a minor, who was the battery that provided the psychic power for phenomena which lasted almost a year. The postal authorities (whose responsibility is the German telephone system) tried by every possible technical means to find a rational explanation for this voice phenomenon. The deep male voice of a spirit calling himself "Chopper" was constantly heard on the telephone, even after the line was replaced. In fact, when the line was cut, the voice could still be heard on the phone!

We do not want to get into the silly explanations of journalists and "scientists." The physicist Dr Wolfgang Ehrenberg of Munich, Germany, came closer to the core of the phenomenon when he wrote:

These are the thoughts of a true and open-minded researcher, in contrast to the many short-sighted explanations by "specialists." During the eight-hour hearing, only recommendations for psychiatric examination were considered. The judge turned down every other argument as "nonsense." The superficial thinking of people is demonstrated by the fact that most readers believed the nonsensical explanations of the mass media.

Two Swiss phone calls.

Mrs K.S. in Pieterien, Belgium, wrote me a letter on January 16, 1980. Her husband had urged her to inform me about an exciting incident. It had happened to her the day before and was still fresh in her mind:

Explanations: The animistic theory could be applied here as follows: The insecurity of her soul caused by the bad news of her girlfriend's cancer, triggered in her subconscious mind a search for the parental security of her father. When she dialed her parents' phone number, her subconscious produced the acoustical hallucination of the trusted voice of what had been her "protector" up to now.

The spiritistic theory explains that the departed himself is speaking, that he reacted normally and laughed at the "expectation" to be dead. This would assume a physical effect on the telephone. Inductive effects or magnetic effects? Impingement on the membrane? Who knows?!

Another spiritistic theory considers that a telepathic contact between father and daughter is possible. The telepathic transfer of words from the father to the daughter, including typical behavior and tone of voice is experienced by her like a real phone conversation. In this case the deceased wants to restore the balance of her soul and make it clear to her that his life continues and she should not mourn for him.

A woman called me on November 12, 1985, after reading an article about telephone conversations with the dead in the Biel newspaper and later sent me a detailed written report. I compared this with my written telephone notes and the explanations of two witnesses. Earlier paranormal events in Mrs A.G.'s life showed her to be quite sensitive. Here is her report:

It becomes clear from what Mr R. said at the time of the phone call that he was not aware that he was dead. He either had not realized it yet or he was momentarily in a dream-like condition. The question of how contact was established remains unanswered for now.

Two Americans investigate paranormal phone calls.

D. Scott Rogo and Raymond Bayless were doing research in parapsycholgy. Bayless experimented from 1956 to 1965 with the EVP phenomenon but the writings about his work with the medium Attila von Szalay were largely ignored by parapsychologists. Since 1976 Rogo and Bayless searched for and collected many cases of paranormal phone calls. They analyzed these calls by interviewing witnesses. Their correspondence grew enormously. Many cases were brought to their attention by well-known researchers such as Prof Dr Gertrude Schmeidler, Dr Montague Ullmann, Dr Stanley Krippner, Prof Walter Uphoff, Dr Berthold Schwarz and John White. Some of the reports were from cases which they had researched themselves. They spent three years collecting over 70 cases. Although most parapsychologists ignore the calls, it took the two men only two years of study to become convinced that these phone calls were real. In Scott Rogo's book, Phone Calls from the Dead, 50 cases are depicted.

The research work of Rogo and Bayless is the first thorough investigation of this new phenomenon. Rogo himself possesses paranormal abilities. He has experienced bi-location or out-of-body experiences.

Most paranormal phone calls last only a few seconds and give the name of the caller and a quick "hello" or "good-bye". Perhaps the deceased relatives only wants to prove that they are still alive but they lack sufficient energy for a conversation. Many callers do not seem to be aware yet that they are in the spirit world. They are confused, and their calls are short.

This is in contrast to those who passed away some time ago and whose voices are clearer and their calls last longer. The authors found only one case of a long conversation right after death. Most calls are made longer than 24 hours after passing over.

Certain conformities were observed: When the recipient of the call becomes aware that the caller has passed on, the physical shock shortens the call. The released emotions interrupt the flow of energies necessary to maintain the contact. The spirit callers occasionally try to identify themselves by statements nobody else would use. One mother whose daughter died two years ago heard her say on the phone: "Mommie, it's me; I need twenty bucks to come home." The mother immediately recognized her daughter and her shock was so great that she fainted. The puzzling thing about this case was that the telephone company had announced a long distance call to the mother but had no records of the call later on.

The actress Ida Lupino was living in Los Angeles during the second world war when her parents' home in London was destroyed by a bomb. Endless difficulties resulted when apparently no written document and disposition of the property could be found. The family did not know whether their father had made out a will.

It was at that time that Ida Lupino in Los Angeles received a phone call from her deceased father. His voice sounded as though he was in a hurry. He informed his daughter to look for the documents in the cellar of the destroyed house, giving her the exact spot. Mrs Pendelton, who shared an apartment with Miss Lupino and was present during the incident, confirmed the call for Bayless's investigation and reported that her friend was in shock. When Miss Lupino passed on the information to the London authorities the documents were promptly found.

The departed often have a strong urge to speak with their close relatives. This becomes clear in the following example:

The spirit's desire for communication is understandable, but who accomplishes the connection for them? How is the other side using our telephone net? And how can they make a long distance call when the call has to be facilitated by an operator and cannot be dialed through automatically?

(Translator's Remarks: "Long distance calls" from Konstantin Raudive of spirit group Timestream were made to experimenters in several countries between January and March of 1994. Our technical situations seem to be of little concern to the other side. Long distances are meaningless. A call to Maggy and Jules Harsch in Luxembourg appears to be no more difficult to make than calls to the USA, Brazil, China, Sweden, or other locations contacted during that three-month period. Telephone company long lines and repeater-amplifiers are bypassed and do not even come into play. Timestream needs only a telephone at the earth location to manifest their voices. Is this ITC? Would it make that much difference if it wasn't? Call it what you will, even a "Direct Voice phenomenon." Life after death and the reality that is awaiting all of us is full of wonders and surprises. Can we really analyze it with our present low level of understanding?)

The Manfred Boden phenomena were investigated by Prof Ernst Senkowski, Dr Ralf Determeyer and Guenter Heim who had a business degree. All of them were known as critical experimenters and researchers of paranormal voices. In January 1982 Determeyer wrote a 20-page analysis of Boden's phone connections. He pointed out that all phenomena around M. Boden probably are closely connected to his psychic ability and sensitivity.

Early on, Boden, a very nervous chain smoker, tried his luck at capturing spirit voices on tape and was immediately successful. Later on he was told:

We are going to come through on telephone.

Manfred Boden (right) with Rainer Holbe in the TV studio of RTL Luxembourg

While he was talking with someone on the phone, especially his computer friend Juergen W. or his girl friend Ursula D., they were interrupted and "pushed off" the line by an unknown entity. This entity answered each of Boden's questions with yes or no by an agreed clicking sound. During a conversation with Ursula D., Boden heard three additional voices, a French speaking male voice and two English and German speaking female voices. He entered into conversations with them, asked questions and received answers. Strangely enough, Ursula D. could not hear the three voices but could hear Boden's voice plus a high squeaky voice. The entities explained that Ursula could not hear them because she was not psychic. Boden often received answers before he had asked the question, confirming the concept of telepathy and reading of one's mind.

The beings were not malicious and objected to Boden's high intake of alcohol. They always greeted him politely and afterward took their leave just as politely. The phenomena occurred independently of who originated the call. Boden usually recorded the conversations and made notes of the questions he was going to ask. The entities said the contacts were possible because of Boden's psychic sensitivity. They described themselves as energy beings. They spoke of energy fields, states of matter, etc.

All these calls took place between 1981 and 1983. The entities often called Boden themselves. In the beginning he would get calls from deceased members of his ham radio club who also came through during his ITC experiments. However, most of this was mixed up sentence fragments. It may well have been mischievous spirits who played the part of his friends only to fool him. When he initiated court orders against persons unknown, the paranormal calls multiplied. When he installed an answering device the calls were recorded. His tape cassettes suddenly showed meaningful changes in the ITC voices. Other cassettes contained voices which were never recorded during ITC contacts.

February 3, 1983 began a period of rest that would not last very long. The friendship with Ursula D. was ending. She accused him of interrupting her sleep at night with telephone calls of heavy breathing. These calls did not come from him. At the same time he received strange phone calls with Ursula's voice which could not be from her. Some beings were doing a good job of making him a nervous wreck.

Manfred Boden later on made copies of these calls and sent the cassettes to several researchers including this author. Most expressions of the beings were banal and lacked any meaningful content. To identify the caller, Boden requested monitoring of all incoming calls. This proved unsuccessful except for 17 calls which according to the monitor were coming from his business friend Juergen W. This friend had been experiencing spooky happenings with his computer and telephone himself. He was considerably upset and for years feared for his reputation. He wanted to have nothing to do with these things anymore.

What had started as a harmless entertainment for Boden now seemed to turn into a nightmare. His girlfriend Ursula, an already unstable person, got involved in the practice of black magic. This seemed to bring about increased low-level spirit activity. She mentioned to Dr Determeyer that she would love to shake the devil's hand.

Boden and Ursula may both have been the driving force and batteries for the paranormal happenings. Further proof of this could be the other paranormal phenomena in Boden's apartment. There was the tilting of empty bottles, the mischievous disappearance and reappearance of a spring from his computer keyboard, the disappearance of the thermal element of the stove burner, and more.

Parallel to computer and telex interferences, Boden was haunted in different ways by anonymous phone calls, especially between July and October 1981. The phone calls showed a broad spectrum of phenomena. Thanks to his recordings and files, we could paint a picture of these normally nonreproducible events.

I have made a first analysis of this material. Not all of it but certainly much of it speaks for paranormality. Most striking is the astonishing variety of phenomena with symptoms such as unexplainable wrong connections, the voluntary and involuntary breaking up of normal conversations, "intelligent" responses by means of knocking sounds and finally a variety of anonymous calls of different types, often until late into the night. Boden felt this as a pressure on his psyche, perhaps even as a psychic terror.

During May/June 1984 Boden had some very puzzling phone calls with two of his acquaintances, which included a constant generator noise that was only heard by Manfred Boden. His wishes spoken out during the conversation were immediately becoming reality. When Boden asked a friend Gerd Betzold during a nightly phone call to wish for something, Betzold suggested music of the spheres ... which became immediately audible. As it turned out, part of these spirit phenomena were paranormally erased on Boden's tape. The phenomena repeated themselves with each new wish. Music accompanied by sounds of rushing water and cuckoo calls. By request, Boden's spirit contacts produced at first three and then again five cuckoo calls. Curiously, his friend did not hear any of it on the line. To prove to him that the spirits were in his room, Boden concentrated and wished for some drastic spirit manifestations. This immediately happened in his friend's room in Stuttgart while he described it on the phone. Flowers, audio cassettes, a picture and other items smashed to the floor. A flowerpot flew against his head. It is understandable that the man, after cleaning up, avoided further contacts with Boden.

It should be noted that whenever Boden spoke on the phone, the sound phenomenon ceased and only started up again when he was quiet. One could almost assume that his body was used as a source of psychic energy which was less concentrated when he spoke.

The computer phenomenon of Manfred Boden.

Nothing is sacred from the paranormal effects in our physical environment anymore. We saw these effects on incandescent and neon bulbs (Rosenheim case), telephones, tape recorders, telex and computer. As far as we know the paranormal effects on the Boden computer programs are the first of their kind in the world. The aforementioned three researchers, Senkowski, Determeyer and Henn also investigated these phenomena. Boden, who was trained as a cabinet-maker, had become a self-taught construction expert and had owned a personal computer for some time.

On December 10, 1980, he was working together with Juergen W. on his Commodore CBM 8032 computer when they entered the text of a biorhythm program from disk and displayed it on the screen. With each command the text changed, at first letter by letter and then line by line. Boden's first name and family name appeared, then the name of a mutual acquaintance of both men who had died just three months previously. The changes manifested as an exchange of single letters and figures overwriting the original text. These mysterious changes culminated in the slowly printed sentence:

A later text, slightly changed, gave the cause of death, "HEART ATTACK," followed by, "HI, HI" Since Boden is overweight and drinks and smokes excessively he was well aware of the danger of a heart failure and had reason to be concerned. This situation may well have been exploited by deceitful spirits. On August 4, 1982 the author visited Determeyer and Boden in Germany to orient himself more accurately and to receive more documentation.

Before the day of the announced death I assured Manfred Boden that a deceased friend would never frighten him like this and that therefore an impostor or deceptive spirit was behind it. He need not worry! After the death-date passed, Boden called me to say he was still alive. Judging by the shaken tone of Boden's voice, psychic pressure on him must have been considerable. I mention all this as a warning to experimenters who get involved in similar situations and who are looking for thrills. The influence of these phenomena on Manfred Boden shows in the questions he sent to Juergen W.:

The author got to know Manfred Boden as a very nervous, emotional person, but also as open and honest. He was subject to errors and memory lapses.

The large amount of material that accumulated tilts the scale toward paranormality. Boden certainly did not make things easy for himself. We only have to look at the many partial reports, additions, notes, tape transcriptions and letter exchanges.

Prof Senkowski took great pains in his analysis of February 1981 to evaluate the computer phenomena and give a comprehensive description of the happenings. He concluded, "The explanation that computer phenomena were caused by system trouble cannot be accepted. The changes were carried out with intent."

The happenings must therefore be classified as paranormal and catalogued as a new form of psychokinesis. Accidental changes are very unlikely. It is not printed as random characters but as recognizable information. It can only come from an intelligence that intervened with a purpose.

Finally, let me give you a sample of Boden's own report about the computer changes:

1. Statement in line 1250: "YOU DIE". When we saw the print-out, Juergen and I were surprised and asked ourselves: "Who should die? The program was erased by the computer and a new disk readout now read as follows:

16th-Century Englishman comes across 20th-century computer. Quite different from the Manfred Boden case is the involvement of Ken Webster and his computer. Ken Webster, a teacher, was born in 1955 near Chester, England. During the renovation of his old house, beginning in November 1984, several psychokinetic phenomena occurred: Furniture moved and tools disappeared. There followed a message through Ken Webster's personal computer. When Webster called up a disk file, the screen of his monitor showed a strange, senseless poem which was signed by a "Group 2109". He did not like the approach and the coldness of this group who wanted to experiment. Another communicator took over.

During the time that followed, more than 250 messages appeared on the computer screen and on paranormally altered disks. This happened with several different computer systems! Most texts were written in a Middle English of the 14th to 16th Century. Webster's colleague Peter Trinder, an English language expert, analyzed over 2,000 words. The main communicator was Thomas HARDEN who sadly complained about the constant watch the sheriff of Chester had imposed on him. The Harden text at times was confusing. He expressed great affection to Webster and he claimed to be able to see into the past and into the future. In his desperate situation he hoped for Webster's help. One almost gets the impression that this 16th century former earth citizen could jump the barriers of time with his computer questions and answers.

The existence of Thomas Harden could be traced with the help of old documents. He lived in the time of Henry VIII who had broken ties to the Pope. Harden's name is in the listings of the Oxford Brasenose College where he received a master of arts degree in 1534. He was later expelled because he refused to remove the name of the Pope from the mass books. He was then a deacon of the Oxford College chapel and a follower of the Pope.

A few weeks after the first message a second one appeared on a disk. It was transmitted in an old form of English. The spirit Harden, who could hear Webster and his mediumistic girlfriend Debbie, was astonished about the strange English they spoke. One message read as follows:

The 64-year-old Henry VIII is sitting on the throne, says Harden, whose messages are full of historical fragments of information. For instance, the city name of Bristol, later named "Chester," was almost unknown then. Harden came from this city.

Thomas Harden still lived in the year 1546. He noticed the computer near "his" chimney as a "box full of lights". He asked many questions about our time.

A few times the computer turned on by itself. (This also happened to Boden and CETL Luxembourg.) He communicates not only by computer with the inhabitants of "his" house, but also by direct writing on an empty piece of paper and by writing with chalk on the floor! Thomas HARDEN the spirit is still tied to the environment of his life time. He wrote by computer that he saw Webster and his girlfriend and could see the signs on the "light box". The letters he transmitted developed according to his wishes or his projections in the "light box". This reinforces the Theory that projections (imagination) can influence matter. When the computer was turned on, the paranormal text appeared on the screen. Sometimes, when new names appeared on a disk, text on the disk was partially or wholly erased.

Trickery is ruled out because of the amount of text on disk in an early English language and because of many historical agreements. Nobody questioned the integrity of Webster and his colleague. A planned manipulation of the disks with the historically correct Mid-English text is quite unlikely. Friends and colleagues witnessed and vouched for the phenomenon.

Several explanations come to mind. In the most obvious one we can see Thomas Harden tied to the place of his problems. He never fully became aware that he had passed on. He has the ability to operate a computer by the power of his mind (psychokinesis). The spiritual and the material are not totally separated. Under certain conditions mutual effects are possible.

In another explanation, dead computer technicians have developed techniques to operate our computers so that beings "stuck" between dimensions can be freed. It would be Ken Webster's task to enlighten Harding about his death.

Another incredible theory would be the occurrence of a time gap (jump) whereby a person of the 16th Century can simultaneously be aware of and act in our century, though he has no knowledge and understanding for our time. According to Immanuel Kant, time is only a category of thinking for man. Is everything really "timeless-simultaneous" in the "Never-Always" as Prof Senkowski put it? Or can it be both?

Sources: Parapsychological Review, New York, May/June 1986, Ernst Senkowski: The case of Ken Webster, May 1987.

Can a computer pick up telepathic messages?

The journal Astrology and Psychic News reported that 22-year-old Norman Ling in California picked up the thoughts of Mrs Standart, a professional medium, on his home computer. The medium and spiritual advisor confirmed to him that much of the computer text is well known to her. She is said to experience telepathic contacts with other mediums over long distances.

It is puzzling how her thoughts can be converted into writing. Is it the human psyche which probably under rare circumstances (thank God) can do this? Is it spirit beings who accomplish this with their own technical transfer systems?

Klaus Schreiber was trained as a saddlesmith and experienced much poverty in his youth, during World War II, and while his father was jobless. His mother had the gifts of healing and dream interpretation and could foretell death. She behaved very strangely before the death of Klaus's son Robert and his first wife Gertrud, but had said nothing specific to forwarn her son Klaus of the impending losses. Klaus Schreiber had married Gertrud in 1946. Their son Robert was born the same year. It wasn't until 14 years had passed that their daughter Karin was born as the fourth child. His wife died shortly after birth. Little Karin was raised by Klaus's brother and his sister-in-law.

Karin died a painful death at age 18. Her brother Robert, who was crazy about motorbikes, had preceded her at age 22. Klaus Schreiber's nephew died shortly after Karin and his heart-broken mother, Klaus's sister-in-law, followed him a few month later.

Afterwards, Schreiber's brother-in-law, a badly injured war veteran, committed suicide. In 1977 his 81-year-old mother passed away.

Schreiber later claimed to have been in contact with all of these relatives through his tape recorder. From some of them he received video pictures.

Schreiber was a practical person who had both feet solidly planted on the ground. However, the suffering that surrounded him may have strengthened the psychic sensitivity of this man. It made him particularly receptive to the spirit signals. At the age of 59 for health reasons he had to take an early retirement. His happy disposition did not save him from illness. He was plagued by arthritis and bronchitis. He built his row-type home all by himself and largely financed it by playing drums every night in a small band.

The pictures of Klaus Schreiber and his images in this section are reproduced from the book PICTURES FROM THE WORLD OF THE DEAD. .. by Rainer Holbe

Spirit voices changed Klaus Schreiber. It turned out that his psychic sensitivity was real. After ethnologist Dr Walter Frank demonstrated spoon-bending on television in 1985, Schreiber soon learned that he could bend not only spoons but knives, forks and even an old horseshoe.

As early as 1982 he had the ability to receive voices on tape. One morning, he was listening as usual to the RTL (Luxembourg) show Incredible Stories.

It was all about Instrumental Transcommunication, or "EVP" (electronic voice phenomenon) as it was called up to then. It would become a turning point in his life. The same evening a heated discussion about this program developed among his friends in his cellar recreation room.

They decided to try it themselves immediately. Schreiber addressed Peter, a roofer and mutual friend who had died. When they listened to the tape playback they suddenly heard: "HELLO FRIENDS!" in what seemed to be Peter's voice in their local accent. They were all deeply affected by the experience. This would be the last happy party in this small, downstairs room of Klaus Schreiber's home. Little by little the basement was turned into a lab with electronic audio and video equipment, cassettes and written records. Klaus Schreiber had changed.

His solid knowledge about eternal life helped him bear this new blow. "She went to join other people whom I love", he said to those who expressed their condolences. During his ITC experiments he soon heard the voice of his daughter Karin who announced herself as Karinchen, a name he used when she was a little child. She also said: It is good, I am alive. From his first wife Gertrud he heard Everybody is alive.

Like a thousand other experimenters, he received mostly short, unconnected phrases which sound banal to the outsider. Senkowski once described them as "materialized thoughts which reach us." He said "The vocabulary used in Transcommunication often consists of only a clue for the survival of the individual personality." Schreiber recognized his loved ones by simple remarks that were typical of them. For instance Karin said: Karin and Klausi (a diminutive for her father) or: Simply tops. Another remark, Karin blood poisoned and the doctors are too slow, probably refers to the late diagnosis of Karin's condition which caused her death. True to the character of his father, Schreiber received from him harsh talk and humor but also suggestions for improving their communication.

The technical aspects of the Schreiber experiments.

Schreiber made his voice experiments with the psychophone devised by the Austrian EVP pioneer Franz Seidl. This is simply a broad-band receiver which was tuned to produce a language mixture that could be used by the other side. He also used a radio frequency that Friedrich Juergenson often worked with. When playing back tapes he employed a filter to eliminate unwanted sounds. His interpretation of spirit voices, especially of names that were important to him, was later confirmed by Senkowski who investigated his equipment.

Klaus Schreiber and his spirit pictures.

Long before he thought about spirit pictures, his communication partners were talking about it and they now wanted to show themselves on television. Schreiber tried in vain to see paranormal pictures on the screen while watching an empty channel. He also hooked up a video camera to the set and aimed it at an empty chair, but without success. He then gradually set up a combination of equipment consisting of a B/W video monitor, several video recorders, one video camera and two separate video amplifiers. The camera was aimed at the TV screen slightly off center and at a small angle.

The camera output was fed back into the TV monitor thereby forming an electro-optical feedback system. The TV screen was sufficiently lit by natural light from the windows and an additional room light. There also were two UV lights at both sides of the TV set.

Schreiber controlled the amount of light on the screen, adjusted the zoom lens, camera angle etc. and obtained a picture that was not unlike the mirror image you see of yourself when standing between two dressing room mirrors. It is a TV image within an image repeated multiple times and each image getting smaller. By changing the camera distance, angle, focus and light reflections, or increasing or decreasing the video output, Schreiber obtained a TV image of light patterns that would periodically vibrate or change slowly (feedback oscillation). The video recording time was 1 - 3 minutes. He then observed the video playback at very slow speed, often advancing the tape frame by frame. One minute of recording produces 1800 individual frames. Later on, Schreiber and his technical advisor and friend Martin Wenzel covered 1/4 width of the TV set with a wallpaper pattern, newsprint or patterned cloth. This provided even more random images.

From interesting frames he made still shots. Images that had good picture quality and were promising he filmed again on a second video tape by using the same procedures. This is a time-consuming process which increases wear on the video tape and VCR. Occasionally he repeated this video playback and retaping several times. He noticed how human faces formed out of washed-out images. A few were unknown, many he recognized as relatives. Some were prominent people such as movie star Romy Schneider and Kurt Juergens as well as the face of King Ludwig II of Bavaria. There were images of young people whose voices had already been taped by relatives. According to Senkowski the similarity to existing lifetime photos was so great that accidental images could be ruled out. In the presence of Senkowski and his family, a recognizable face would "build up" after several playbacks and retaping.

It seems there is a picture improvement up to a certain optimum point. Any further copying will deteriorate the picture quality.

During this procedure a form-shaping "morphogenetic" field may be active which strives for maximum similarity with a matrix picture. This could compare to the shaping of a life form out of ectoplasm during materialization. We can assume there are occasional mutual effects between physical fields and the physiological and psychological "abilities" of man which make spiritual impingements possible.

With all this activity the attempts to get pictures of his immediate family were in vain. During the experiments he sometimes heard:

Klaus, we come on TV on an empty channel.

Little by little the head of German actress Romy Schndeier formed the nebulous image (look at the video clip on this site)

When he followed the advice of the other side, it was by videotaping a regular TV program. At one point he noticed a small change in the picture. During very slow picture playback he found a paranormal face which moved, smiled and changed slightly within 5-6 frames. He also received a video sequence of his daughter.

Klaus Schreiber plays back daughter Karin's voice and shows her picture on video.

Karin Schreiber (left), shortly before her untimely death, and as she appeared to her father later on, during his video experiments.

When he and his second wife Agnes went outside they saw a beautiful red rose that had opened up and was in full bloom. A botanical miracle for the month of December at such a latitude. During the same month he unexpectedly found in his outside shed a special power connector which the other side had recommended for still-picture viewing. Did Karin materialize it?

Karin became the mediator between her father and all other dead family members. There followed a series of pictures of most of his relatives.

Some of these were not clear or sharp enough. Schreiber claims to have recognized his dead mother on three pictures. Far more recognizable was the smiling face of his son Robert. Incidentally, during Robert's early voice recording the sound of motorbikes can be heard.