How do we know who is speaking?

Question: We recorded three messages in the same male voice. We could not recognize the voice, or what the messages might mean. Why would he be contacting us? How can we find out who he is? And why are the messages so ominous...?

Answer: We like to see people test these phenomena for themselves. While it is relatively easy to record an EVP, it is quite another problem to understand who is speaking and why. First I should say that the examples at aaevp.com have been selected from hundreds of recordings members have made. Even the Butlers might record many times before finding an utterance which is suitable for sharing with others.

Most EVP are words spoken by strangers. Tom Butler compares a recording session to calling a distant telephone booth. Someone may answer, but when they do, you have only what they say to tell you who it might be. Sometimes a friend answers, but most often it seems that a passing stranger picks up the phone.

We think we look like energy to our etheric communicators. Rather than the imagined ghost looking into our room as if through a window, we think a better model is a field of energy in which each of us is a nexus of brightness. Others probably "look" at us by turning their attention to us, and when they do, they probably see us as we see ourselves. Right now, I am sitting in my office typing on the computer keyboard. I am dressed to go shopping and the day is exceptionally cool for this time of year. I see myself as this. We think my "light" tells others my self-image, and it is through my personally visualized reality that others can know who I am. When we are perceived, we can also perceive the perceiver if we would take the time to learn and do so. So this is a personality-to-personality exchange of information in the etheric. The physical exists as our local construct and has little to do with the communicators. That is the model that seems to explain what we are learning via our etheric studies.

When you record, you express a desire for communication, but when communication occurs, you or an interested observer must transform the information into a physical form. We think that the actual voice formation occurs in the recorder as the transformation of available audio-frequency energy under the influence of a weak telekinetic signal. This is initiated by the communicator but actually implemented by an etheric personality in a physical body.

The communicator may have a memory of a language from a previous physical lifetime, but it could be one from anywhere in reality and is not restricted to a person who once lived in the physical. Because it is brought into the physical as a concept that must be translated into physical words via your personality, it is expressed in a language we understand and in terms which agree with our expectations. That is why we think EVP are virtually always in a language we or an interested observer understands, and why people who think the entities must be stuck in haunted houses record messages that confirms their expectation. The actual communication may come as a concept such as "I would like to talk to you" but be recorded as "help me." The Butlers would probably record the message as "communicate with me" because they do not think the entity is stuck anywhere.

So in answer to your questions, The communicator may be simply responding to your call for communication. You could ask who he is but like the distant public telephone, he may not be passing by again. The message is in the eyes of the perceiver. What you quoted does not sound ominous to me. The communicators do not at first always understand who we are or where we are. They are also in a larger community. No telling what the personality experienced on his end of the circuit, but it is possible that "It's mine" was directed at another personality as "I will respond." We see a lot of "They can see us" messages that are clearly directed at other etheric personalities. And don't forget that, when you transition, you will probably continue to construct a local reality. The etheric personality might actually answer a telephone because that would be a familiar act.

Question: Can my friend on the other side help me make money at the horse races?

Answer: One of the ways skeptics dismiss any form of communication across the veil is by asking why mediums are not all rich by winning the lottery or picking the right horse in a race? We believe the answer is that the communicators live in a world that is much more conceptual than ours. While they experience life as senses, feelings and comprehension, we experience life as interaction with things and learning to distinguish kinds of objects. The concept expressed as an impression of color and beauty might come to us as a flower. In fact, what flower we sense as a medium would depend on what we pull out of our personal library of images. The communicator tries to covey the essence of flower because we think that is how they experience reality. We turn that essence into a specific yellow rose.

The communicator also senses our physical world through our senses. We are pretty sure we are just energy to them, and that all of the communication is our etheric Self communicating with their etheric Self as thought balls or gestalt packets of energy containing what we or they intend. If we see ourselves wearing a red shirt in a room with a recorder in front of us, they will be able to reflect that information back to us in an EVP message, but not because they see us; it will be because they see through our etheric Self how we see ourselves.