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Portions of the following article was initially published in the Spring 2002 issue of
the AA-EVP Newsletter. Our thanks to Anabela for taking the time
to write this article for us.
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Brief
Remarks on the Role of the Recipient in ITC
By Dr. Anabela Cardoso
©Anabela Cardoso - All Rights Reserved
The
Development of ITC
Unfortunately
the history of communications between our world and the next and of the many
attempts made on both sides to develop and strengthen these communications
remains to be written in any kind of systematic way.
The field itself is a vast one, encompassing manifestations from earliest
times and in primitive and advanced civilizations from both West and East. It also includes the observation and study of behavior by
animals and children in relation to the Unseen, the evidence accumulated through
mediums, the extensive array of physical phenomena reported by investigators
across the centuries, the paranormal experiences of mystics and saints of all
religions, and the development in our own time of ITC.
In
my own view, ITC is a logical and necessary step forward in attempts to
communicate between the worlds, and serves in many ways as a successor to
mediumship and to the production of physical phenomena, in particular the
physical phenomena of the direct voice demonstrated by Etta Wriedt in America
and by Leslie Flint in Britain and by many others. ITC is in fact an ingenious method devised by our friends in the next
world to convey to us more extensive information about the nature and purpose of
the next life, and to convey this information free from the limitations imposed
by preconceptions within the mind of the medium. Frederick Myers tells us that ‘The medium is not a medium but an
interpreter’, and goes on to say, through the automatic writing of Geraldine
Cummins in ‘The Road to Immortality’, that conveying his thoughts through
the medium is like dictating to a rather obtuse secretary through a frosted
glass window. If we remember that
Myers was working through one of the greatest automatists in the history of
Western mediumship, the implications of what he was telling us become clear.
Equally clear and equally understandable is the desire by communicators
in the next world to develop more objective tools to convey accurate information
between the two planes of existence.
In
addition, communicators in the next world appear anxious to develop what Carlos
de Almedia, speaking to us from Timestream Station, referred to as ‘A channel
for those humble people based upon love, the panacea for the world’. Such a channel would indeed be something beautiful would it not! Through it, as Carlos de Almeida goes on to say, ‘those at
Timestream Station communicate not only with this but with other physical
worlds’, using modern technical media such as microphones, telephones, audio
and video tape recorders, fax machines and computers. The aim of the communicators is to reach a stage where a
direct dialogue between the two worlds becomes possible.
The
ITC phenomena first became apparent in the second half of the 20th
Century, and the names of the most renowned ITC pioneers in this world, such as
Father Gemelli, Father Ernetti,
Friedrich Jürgenson, Konstantin Raudive, and George Meek will by now be
familiar to the majority of readers. Throughout
this early work and to this day, one of the most extraordinary common elements
of ITC and of all other communications between the worlds is that every development has been devised and initiated by
our friends from the other side. The
role played by those involved on Earth is entirely passive and receptive.
The best we can do is to try to understand and help the process, and of
course to be grateful for it and for the extraordinary effort and ingenuity put
into each advance by those on the
other side. But in a sense of
course, the fact that all the initiative does come from the other side should
not surprise us. The next world
must surely be a step forward in the unending process of life, and must possess
more advanced tools to facilitate the acquisition of wisdom and of spiritual
growth. The next world represents a
stage of consciousness beyond our own, and beyond the limitations imposed by the
dense physical matter of the human body and the human brain, limitations which
severely restrict and colour our
view of reality.
It
is important to stress however that although the first ITC communications to
Gemelli, Ernetti, and Jürgenson may have seemed a sudden breakthrough, they
were in fact the culmination of a long, difficult and laborious process of study
and research by those responsible in the next world. A process moreover so
sophisticated that the communicators were actually able to refer to the
recipients by name. Later researchers on this side were able to help the work by
experimenting with new ways of improving reception, but even here they were
guided and directed at each point by the communicators.
The
Nature of the Next World as Revealed by IT
When
I once asked my communicators from Timestream Station if the extraordinary
capabilities that allow them for example to communicate by telepathy with
animals and plants, to transport themselves by thought from place to place, and
to function consciously and simultaneously in their world and ours, were the
result of special practices, or were natural features of their world, they
answered that the latter is the case. It
thus seems that they are subject to quite different laws of reality from those
that appear to operate in this world. I
have yet to discuss with them whether their laws are unique to the level of
existence from which they themselves operate, or whether they apply to other
levels as well.
I
have however been able to make quite detailed enquiries about the conditions
under which Timestream Station communicate.
For example, when I relayed to them a question from the eminent psychical
researcher Professor David Fontana, Past President of the British Society for
Psychical Research, as to whether mediumship abilities are necessary for ITC
recipients in this world, they answered categorically that no they are not.
In reply to my querying why, in that case, do some people here on Earth
get ITC results after only a few attempts while others do not after months and
even years of trying, they told me that ‘It depends upon Timestream’.
In others words, it appears to be the communicators themselves who make
the decisions, although I do not know as yet the basis upon which these
decisions are made. In reply to
another of my questions, this time about the extent to which the recipient can
influence the content of communications, Timestream assured me that such
influence plays no part, ‘We speak directly through the instruments’.
From
my own experience since March 11th 1998 in ITC using the Direct Radio
Voice method (DRV), and before that
using EVP, I can confirm the passive role of the recipient.
The communications have always taken place independently of my own will.
I can never assure anybody that on such a day and at such an hour
Timestream will speak with me. It
is true that they usually tell me in advance that they intend to try to speak,
and at what hour the attempt will be made, but they do not always meet with
success. The only exception to this is when Timestream go on to
confirm and reconfirm a particular date and time, though they themselves have
told me that even then they can never be absolutely sure of being able to make
contact. Of course, I have always
submitted the details of the experimental conditions in my studio to them for
their approval. Thus I always check
with them on the suitability of my various items of equipment, of the
frequencies I use for radio white noise, of the times at which I turn on the
radios, and even of the intensity of white noise coming through the radios (I
now use five of these simultaneously). My
belief is that since it is the communicators and not the recipients who
establish the contacts, they are the best judges of what suits them best.
In
my own case for example, I am told by the communicators that while recording
DRVs I must not have either of my computers turned on elsewhere in the house, as
the frequencies emitted by computers are highly disturbing for their work. I am also told I must not use my mobile telephone, though I can use the
house phone. As an example of the
errors that I can make, I once bought a very sophisticated CD recorder in an
attempt to improve the quality and the durability of my recordings.
My intention was to record directly onto audio CDs instead of using the
more perishable audio tape. However,
I only used the new recorder once.
Foolishly I had omitted to consult with Timestream beforehand, and when I
attempted to use it I was told that the laser technology of the CD recorder made
it unsuitable for their work.
Even
the type of questions and the topics of conversation depend upon the
communicators rather than upon the recipients.
Timestream will only answer the questions or talk about the things that
they feel are appropriate. However,
I have no wish to question them about the future or about mundane issues, and as
I am not a scientist I also do not question them about scientific issues.
My main interest has always been to ask them about the meaning and
purpose of existence, the role of animals and plants from a transcendental point
of view, the life conditions on their level of existence, and the technical
requisites most suited to them. I
have received very significant replies to all these questions, and therefore my
communications with Timestream very much suit my own interests.
The
Role of the Recipient
From
our side, we provide the devices, and find the time and the dedication and
motivation to take part. We wait
patiently for results, we hope, and we might pray.
Certainly we love. I
personally find that the love that unites the experimenter and his/her
communicators is of extreme importance. It
is love that makes possible the recipient’s necessary patience and strength of
will to comply with the sometimes difficult or unusual circumstances within
which the contacts take place, such as having to listen in at late hours and at
inconvenient times.
In
saying that our role in ITC as recipients is a passive and receptive one, and
that the design of this amazing breakthrough in communication between the two
worlds originated in and is dependent upon the next world, I do not wish to minimize
the role of the human being. Timestream
Station have themselves told us that his or her personality, knowledge, and
level of spiritual development all influence the contacts.
A strong resonance between the communicators and the recipients is
certainly also necessary. I
personally feel this resonance as an encounter of hearts and minds.
Barriers disappear. Recipients
cease to feel alone or even on their own. They
become part of the communicators and the communicators become part of them.
A transcendental sense of belonging together develops, and telepathy
between communicators and recipients may even emerge.
There
is no need for names or personal identifications from communicators, although
these may be given on request. However,
one comes to know without doubt that those one loved in this world and who have
departed from it are present in another dimension in the next world. They are part of the communicating group – so much a part in fact that one
cannot think of them as separate from it, and indeed does not wish to think of
them as separate. One comes to love
the whole group , with a pure love of a different nature from that on Earth,
because they are the Group Soul to which one oneself belongs, a Group Soul that
includes people, animals, plants and even minerals. Frederick Myers in ‘The Road to Immortality’ and Carlos
de Almeida in communications from Timestream (see e.g.
http://pagina.de/riodotempo)
both speak clearly about the Group Soul.
In addition, it has repeatedly been said both through mediumship and by
Timestream that the spiritual levels of communicators and recipients are in
correspondence with each other.
I
have been warned by readers of the ITC Journal which I edit and by visitors to
my website that I should not be too free and easy when I speak of ITC, and that
I do not sufficiently stress the possible dangers of ITC contacts.
However, from my personal experience there is no need to heed these
warnings or to stress these dangers. I
have experimented on thousands of occasions with EVP and with DRV and not once
have I received a negative contact. Some
jokes yes – it seems that our friends on the other side have not lost their
sense of humor – but I have never received either mischievous or disturbing
communications.
Conclusion
It
is my conviction that recognition of the existence of a next world and
confirmation of the reality of ITC will come through the efforts of science.
The people at Timestream Station tell me they look forward to that
happening. It is time therefore
that ITC experimenters and researchers make a serious and sustained approach to
the scientific community for this purpose.
Experimentation under carefully controlled conditions can then take
place. Results from all over the
world can be carefully examined and analyzed from a scientific and technical
perspective.
If
we finally succeed in rousing the interest of orthodox science in ITC, our
contribution to the extraordinary endeavors of our friends in the next world
would be a particularly valuable one. In
fact, our role in ITC work might then become decisive.
Let us hope and work for that day.
©Cardoso2002
http://www.terra.es/personal2/986313268/
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