Electronic Contact with the Dead: What do the Voices Tell Us? (2017)
by Anabela Cardoso
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Overview
Electronic Contact with the Dead: What do the Voices Tell Us? is the culmination of twenty years of research into Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC).
ITC is the phenomena whereby allegedly deceased communicators relay messages and images to the living via radio equipment, televisions, computers, answerphones and other recording devices.
In this second work the author presents the reader with an abundance of dialogue with those who have gone before us. Subjects discussed include time, space, the nature of life, the group soul, reincarnation, God, life, and much more.
About the author
A Portuguese career diplomat since 1976, Cardoso is Editor-in-Chief of the ITC Journal, which she founded in 2000.
Review
Until I read the author’s 2010 book, Electronic Voices, I was under the impression that the “voices” purportedly coming from the “dead” through various electronic devices were all simple utterances too muffled, muddled, garbled, and indistinct to have much, if any, value. Listening to such voices was much like looking for faces or figures in the clouds: If you want to hear something, you probably will. However, Dr. Cardoso reported much more than simple “Hello, I’m here” declarations, which is about all I had heard or read about in my brief investigation of the field. In fact, she reported a number of philosophical discussions and one dialogue she had with a spirit communicator that lasted two-and-a-half hours.
“The anomalous voices exist beyond any doubt,” Cardoso states in the Introduction to her most recent book. “Some of them speak loudly, clearly and coherently; the content of what they say can be understood by any normal person who is not deaf and knows the language they are using.” She goes on to explain that most of the time voices affirm that they are “dead” and identify themselves with names. On the other hand, some of the proclaimed voices are the result of pure pareidolia, i.e., wishful thinking or projection of meaning onto some random blurred noise.
Cardoso, who speaks six languages, is a highly-respected retired diplomat, having served as Consul-General for Portugal in a number of countries, including the United States and France, and as Portuguese Chargé d’Affaires in Japan and India. She has been experimenting with Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC) and its variations, Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP) and Direct Radio Voices (DRV), since 1997 and is the founder and editor of the prestigious ITC Journal.
While summarizing some of the information from her 2010 book, Cardoso expands on that material in this book, compiling and comparing messages recorded by other researchers, especially Adolf Homes of Germany, and adding some observations of her own. She discusses obstacles to communication, the nature of the next world, the spirit body, the role of affinities and the group soul, time and space, suffering in the material world, and reincarnation, to name just some of the subjects on which the “dead” have communicated. The appendix sets forth details of controlled experiments carried out by the author over a two-year period which “shows, beyond doubt, that the electronic voices are real,” in spite of being referred to as nothing more than anecdotal by some parapsychologists.
This book offers much food for thought in the most important of all subjects — whether this life is all there is or whether it is part of a much larger life.
Reviewed by Michael Tymn, author of The Afterlife Revealed, The Articulate Dead and Resurrecting Leonora Piper, among other books on psychical research and the afterlife.