This could be the year.

A couple of weeks ago I shared a rough cut of Dan Drasin’s landmark film, Calling Earth, which examines technical spirit communication with a focused, analytical eye… and which is close to completion.

Another film is scheduled for release soon… The Life After Death Project, by Paul Davids… and a short introductory trailer was posted this week.

I’ll include below some links to the two films and their producers, and to the new trailer. But first, let’s talk about this latest film by Paul Davids.

First I should warn you that the biggest surprise you’re likely to see in Paul’s trailer is the segment with me in it, which gets a little spooky… and I’ll explain in a moment what I think is happening with the distortions, gas-like emissions and shape-shifting. Meanwhile….

Paul’s film seems to be geared (moreso than Dan’s film) to the general public and mainstream market, for various reasons:

• It revolves loosely around a central plot, which is the life and possible afterlife activities of one Forrest J Ackerman, an avid writer, editor, agent, and researcher of sci-fi literature and monster movies. Ackerman was an atheist during lifetime, but apparently changed his tune in the afterlife. Paul Davids presents evidence that Ackerman has been busy since his death in 2008, creating strange anomalies in our world. Many of the interviews in the film are used to support that idea, while lending some insight in the nature of the spirit worlds and how they interplay with our world. (The weird goings-on during my interview might be a case in point.)
• The film is drawn more toward spooky anomalies (troubled spirits, bumps in the night….) than to serious spiritual influences on our world (inspiration, meaningful communications, loving transworld connections, our ancient spiritual heritage and paradise destiny….), which is typical of mainstream films.
• It includes a wide spectrum of interviewees—nurses, doctors, filmmakers, scientists, afterlife researchers, psychic mediums, NDE survivors, and others with strange stories to share.
• Also included in the film is a token skeptic in the name of “fair and balanced reporting,” a principle that originated in early journalism to promote objective reporting… but has evolved into something of a festering tumor in the body of modern journalism. The traditional mainstream media today (CBS, NBC, ABC, daily newspapers…)  often insist on dissenting views in the reports they publish. A recent example of how objective journalism has evolved into a media sickness is global warming. Though it is accepted as reality by more than 90 percent of climate scientists, mainstream reports about global warming usually give equal voice to a few loud, vocal detractors, who are often funded by energy companies and far-right political groups that choose to be in denial of the historic dangers posed by global warming, usually for financial, religious, and political purposes. In the case of afterlife reporting, decades of serious research can be undermined, negated and neutralized in a few seconds of film footage by the shallow comments of one or two skeptics.

All that said, Paul Davids’s film is inventive, fascinating, and enjoyable, and I think it’s something the public could enjoy… and learn from.

So… here’s the 8-minute trailer to Paul’s film:

And here’s what might be happening during my segment, which begins about 6 minutes into the trailer. First, there’s an emanation of spiritual substance (ectoplasm) from my hands. Then, the spirit group present at the event tries hard to open the veil between our world and theirs in a way that will manifest on digital recording media… not an easy task! The result is a melting-away of physical structure, especially my body. The strangest part is the last few frames, in which my face morphs into something kind of monstrous… which the spirit team could indeed have planned in honor of Mr Ackerman. 

This, of course, is speculation that makes sense to me based on 20+ years of afterlife research, especially ITC.

You’re welcome to consider other people’s speculations about those anomalies… but I’d urge you to be leery of those who express their views with “certainty.”

More about Paul Davids…       and his film….

A Huffington Post article about Paul’s film…

More about Dan Drasin…      and his film….

An FMBR event featuring Dan Drasin next month…

Read more about the DSM updates….

One complaint about the DSM has always been that disorders have been defined more by consensus among psychiatrists than by objective measurement of symptoms under laboratory conditions.

So… many people—patients as well as health professionals—yearn for a new and transformative DSM that would get more to the neurological, chemical and biological bedrock of symptoms and causes of mental disorders.

With that in mind, this is an excellent opportunity to begin to introduce spiritual influences into psychology and psychiatry—specifically, the presence of many invisible spirits flourishing among us physical humans and their effects on our thoughts and feelings.

Read more about those spiritual influences….

It’s just a matter of time before spiritual realities are tossed into the omelet we call modern science, and this could be an opportunity to start cracking the egg.

Other articles about science and the human spirit:

The material mind skews logic to explain consciousness  —  Science and NDEs  —  More modern-day epicycles  —  Foreign-accent syndrome  —  Measuring maya  —  Asteroids pummeled Earth for 2 billion years  —  Exoplanets and the prospect we’re not alone!  —  Mysteries of Eden  —  Combat killing and the human spirit  —  Noxious capitalism and the human spirit  —  Aurora theater tragedy  —  News in perspective  —  Pfrankenstein’s monster: big pharma  —  Preventing that pesky apocalyse  —  A life and afterlife debate  —  Updating the Therapists’ DSM Bible

The title: Calling Earth.

Dan explores the phenomenal history of technical spirit communication (from the work of Friedrich Juergenson and Konstantin Raudive) to the awe-insipring results of contemporary researchers including Marcello Bacci (Italy), Ernst Senkowski (Germany),  and Maggy Fischbach in Luxembourg.

Maggy isn’t shown in the film, even though I’m convinced that her results are unequivocally the best in the world. Having worked closely with her for a number of years, I’m sure that the miraculous contact field that opened up for Maggy (and which was used by our spirit friends to place phone calls to me and to various other researchers on both sides of the Atlantic) was made possible largely by the fact that she’s a very private, highly sensitive woman. She’s learned over the years that opening oneself up to the noble-savage soup of human emotions, especially the contempt of crusading skeptics, fouls-up the contact field and weakens the resulting communications from beyond. So… in case you’re wondering why “the Luxembourg group” doesn’t show up, even in good films like this one… that’s why.

The film also looks closely, here in the States, at the Butlers, Sarah Estep, and the EVP moms collaborating as “The Big Circle,” a name coined by their departed children.

This is a great film!… and it lasts about an hour.

Watch Dan’s film, Calling Earth, on Youtube…

…or view it below…. (Again, click on the   [   ]  symbol at lower right to go to full-screen mode).

This, by the way, is a not-quite-finished “rough cut” of Dan’s film. I’ll try to follow Dan’s progress, and then report when the completed film is ready for release. I hope to buy one of the first DVDs!

Happy viewing!… and, again, thanks Dan!

Explore more of Dan’s world of creative works….

Or, better yet, you can take a simple test to determine how outgoing or introspective you are. Just answer 20 true-false questions, tally the results, and voila!… you know where you fit in this world of extroverts and introverts.

The test, and a book on which it’s based, were written by a remarkable young woman named Susan Cain. Susan’s an introvert… (though her poise during a recent TED presentation wouldn’t suggest it!)

Take the Susan Cain test

Me? I’m heavily introverted (18 points out of 20 on her test). Always have been. As a kid, the thought of making eye contact with someone—anyone—terrified me. I always looked at the ground while standing or walking… which limited my aspirations as a basketball player.

The gag is that you can determine that an introvert likes someone if he looks at the other person’s shoes instead of his own.  :-)  That may be a bit of stretch, but it’s not far off.

“Painfully shy” is how one teacher described me.

“Inferiority complex” was a common term in the 1950s psychology… and I fit the diagnosis well.

I’ve been reading the Susan Cain book, Quiet (thanks to wife Regina, who selected it for her book club), and it puts a lot into perspective as I reflect on my life… and on the world.

In particular, my introversion explains a lot about my work in ITC and afterlife research… my theories about spiritual reality… my view of human beings as noble-savage creatures in a noble-savage world… my belief in a politics of good will… my struggle with public presentations and group efforts (including the miraculous INIT association that I helped establish late last century)….

Founding members of INIT, the International Network for Instrumental Transcommunication, 1995 (l-r): Mark Macy (usa), Tony Broad (gbr), Hans Luethi (che), Jules Harsch (lux), Irma Weisen (fin), Juliet Hollister (usa), Sonia Rinaldi (bra), Theo Locher (che), Maggy Harsch-Fischbach (lux), Guenther Emde (deu), Nils Jacobson (swe), Fritz Malkhoff (deu), Claudius Kern (aut), Ralf Determeyer (deu), Jonathan Marten (gbr).

In short, understanding introversion helps me understand why I look at the world the way I do… and why the bulk of my research today revolves around my writing, and no longer around public presentations and interviews and hands-on international collaboration.

Before I babble on about myself, though, here’s a bit more about introversion and extroversion as described in Susan Cain’s book. In a nutshell:

Around the year 1900, as the clamor of the Industrial Revolution was energizing the western world, a new kind of leader rose to the helm… the extreme extrovert. Electricity, indoor plumbing, assembly lines, and electronic communications were transforming society, which (especially here in the States) evolved from a “culture of character,” led by quiet, reflective people (think Abe Lincoln), to a “culture of personality,” led by out-going, confident salesmen and self-promoters (think Tony Robbins). Through most of the 20^th Century, introverts have felt pressure from parents, teachers, psychologists, and bosses to break out of their shells or lose out on life’s rewards. Even admissions people at stoic Ivy League colleges began to desire team players and hobnobbers over bookworms and intellectuals. Business schools today revolve around a culture of intense fraternization that sucks the life out of an introvert. Publishers no longer want bright, introspective authors unless they can puff up and promote their books.

In short, the past century in the USA, and throughout much of the western world, has been a golden age of the extrovert… the self-promoter… the networker. Quiet people typically have had a harder time making a ripple in society. Studies cited in Susan’s book have found that members of groups listen to loud, self-assured members with limited knowledge before they listen to soft-spoken members who are certified experts.

A Noble-Savage Parallel?

My first inclination while reading Quiet was to assume that if we could unravel the noble from the savage in human culture, the introverts would be among the noble and the extroverts would be among the savage.

Faulty thinking on my part, I soon realized.

Qualities of noble behavior include friendliness, congeniality, and cooperation, so in terms of sociability, the extroverts lean more toward the noble side than do their brooding, introspective peers.

On the other hand, conflict is a savage human behavior, and while introverts typically shun conflict, many extroverts thrive in it… so in terms of conflict, extroverts lean more toward the savage side.

It seems that the qualities of noble human behavior, such as love, trust, good will, and the desire to serve others selflessly, are spread out among introverts and extroverts. And so are the qualities of savage human behavior—fear, mistrust, vengeance, craving, greed….

So there seems to be no direct correlation between the introvert-extrovert scale in human affairs and the noble-savage scale that’s evolved from my afterlife research.

The Boon of the Blog

The modern blog is one of the sweetest fruits society has ever produced for the introverts among us. We can work quietly from the privacy of our homes, collecting our ideas, focusing our thoughts, and putting them “out there” with a press of the “Publish” button. We can go the extra distance to promote and publicize our blog with search engine optimization and email blasts if we want to, but it’s not in our nature to do that… nor is it necessary.

Fact is, we don’t really care how widely our message gets spread among the public. We simply have this information that we know has to be made available. Even if we know deep-down that it’s vital information that will someday transform the world (as in the case of ITC research or the “Vitality Ratio”), we don’t really care if it becomes mainstream next week, next year, or long after we’re dead. Our only compulsion is to make it available so that it can germinate when the time is right.

The rewards for our efforts—name recognition, monetary gain…—aren’t as important to most introverts as they are to many extroverts. Granted, to see our own efforts exploited for personal gain by others is unsettling, but it’s an ego thing… an unavoidable part of the savage side of our carnal composition. And, fortunately, society has certain built-in legal mechanisms to protect people from exploitation.

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Note: I hope to write a few more articles like this one—digging into human nature from a personal angle while drawing on the work of serious researchers.    — MM

… A Lawyer Presents the Evidence for the Afterlife…

… has been updated and is being made available in online bookstores on May 14, in the various e-formats (Kindle, Nook….).

Meanwhile, you can explore the book at the Zammits’ website.

View Victor’s website here

And here’s the outline of the book in its latest incarnation:

INTRODUCTION: WHY READ THIS BOOK? ……………..IX
ATTESTATIONS ………………………………………………… XI
1. OPENING STATEMENT BY VICTOR ……………………..1
2. SCIENTISTS WHO INVESTIGATED THE AFTERLIFE … 5
3. THE AUTHORS’ MATERIALIZATION EXPERIENCES …15
4. NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES (NDES) …………………….21
5. OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCES ……………………………..32
6. SCIENCE PROVES PSYCHIC ABILITIES …………………..40
7. REMOTE VIEWING …………………………………………. 48
8. DEATHBED VISIONS ………………………………………. 56
9. AFTER DEATH CONTACTS ……………………………….. 61
10. MENTAL MEDIUMS TESTED ……………………………74
11. PSYCHIC DETECTIVES …………………………………….. 84
12. SENSING MURDER (N.Z.)—MENTAL MEDIUMSHIP …93
13. TRANCE MEDIUMS INVESTIGATED ……………….. 99
14. WRITING MEDIUMS ……………………………………. 107
15. THE CROSS CORRESPONDENCES ……………………… 110
16. PHYSICAL MEDIUMSHIP—LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS . 113
17. THE SCOLE EXPERIMENT—STUNNING EVIDENCE …. 119
18. INDEPENDENT VOICE MEDIUMS ……………………… 125
19. MATERIALIZATION MEDIUMSHIP ………………………134
20. THE HELEN DUNCAN INJUSTICE ………………………..147
21. SPIRIT VOICES ON TAPE—ELECTRONIC VOICE PHENOMENA …155
22. INSTRUMENTAL TRANS-COMMUNICATION (ITC) ….164
23. THE OUIJA BOARD ………………………………………… 175
24. POLTERGEISTS …………………………………………………184
25. XENOGLOSSY ………………………………………………….192
26. CHILDREN WHO REMEMBER PAST LIVES …………….197
27. PAST LIFE MEMORIES IN DREAMS ……………………..206
28. PAST LIFE REGRESSIONS …………………………………..209
29. QUANTUM PHYSICS AND THE AFTERLIFE …………….219
30. CLOSING STATEMENT: SUMMING UP THE EVIDENCE …226
31. ANSWERING THE CLOSED-MINDED SKEPTIC ………. 234
32. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DIE? …………………….. 243
BIBLIOGRAPHY ……………………………………………………252
INDEX …………………………………………………………….. 278
ABOUT VICTOR AND WENDY …………………………… 287

Victor and Wendy have been polishing up the book regularly since its original publication a decade ago.
Happy reading!

View the subtitled Chico Xavier movie here…

Or watch below (click the [  ]  symbol at bottom right to view fullscreen)….

Like the other Spiritist movie I explored recently, Nosso Lar (The Astral City), the Xavier film can be seen freely at the moment… perhaps with a small window of opportunity. (It was just posted in the past few days, and it may or may not be removed soon from this link by the rights-holders.)

If removed from the free youtube site, the movie can be streamed from various other websites, for example…

(here…  here…  here…  and here…)

Not available on DVD

Be careful buying a DVD. Make sure it’s engineered for Region 1. The only DVDs of the Chico Xavier movie that I could find for sale online are in a format unsuitable for North America. (see international DVD format details)

In any case, if you haven’t seen the two-hour movie yet, you’re missing out on a moving, insightful experience!

About the movie

The film is an intimate portrait of the famous medium Chico Xavier, from his difficult childhood to his “disembodiment” at age 92… who wrote (through automatic writing) more than 400 books… all proceeds going to charitable causes.

Despite being taunted as a child as possessed, crazy, and a liar… being physically abused by his stepmother… and being assailed as a young man by a skeptical media and self-righteous Catholic priesthood, Chico Xavier led a life of love and enlightenment. His countless channeled messages from departed loved ones and healings of people suffering physically, emotionally, and spiritually were performed freely.

This all comes to light in the moving film, a poignant drama suffused with spiritual insights that Chico received through an intimate rapport with his spirit guide, Emmanuel.

Unlike the movie Nosso Lar, Chico Xavier has few special effects, other than a glimpse of ethereal impressions spinning in his head. It’s a down-to-earth film with an other-worldly backdrop.

Yet another study of near-death experiences (NDEs)—based on interviews with people who’ve died briefly and recovered—explores neurochemical explanations for the tunnels, doorways, glowing light, departed loved ones, and other lucid experiences… and notes that the crystalline afterlife memories are often much more profound and transformative than our normal, day-to-day memories.

Read that Plos One report….

This is one one many pictures you can see by googling “rainbow tunnel,” suggesting that many artists are inspired by an afterlife knowledge deep within. This photo was taken by TravelPod member misocutlet of Kuwana, Japan.
More here:
http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/nabana-no-sato-tunnel-japan

In a nutshell, the study published in Plos One concludes that about 5 percent of the general population and 10 percent of heart-attack victims report near-death experiences, yet no one really knows what they are… other than “flashbulb memories of really perceived hallucinations.”  Adding complications to the study is the fact that healthy people sometimes have similar experiences during meditation and when taking certain serotonin-mimicking hallucinogenic drugs.

Read a short history of hallucinogens….

Well, you and I know what NDEs really are. If you follow this blog you know that afterlife and the finer realms of spirit are the greater reality, while life on Earth is maya… illusion. That’s why, when our earthly blinders come down momentarily during an NDE or meditation, our glimpse of the other side is so lucid, so profound, and so life-changing.

Once we experience the greater afterlife reality and process it through our physical senses, our noble motivations take the steering wheel, guided by the finer spirit within, while our savage inclinations—fueled by hormones, ego, and our carnal composition—move to the back seat.

Read more about the spiritual basis of our afterlife glimpses….

Other articles about science and the human spirit:

The material mind skews logic to explain consciousness  —  More modern-day epicycles  —  Foreign-accent syndrome  —  Measuring maya  —  Asteroids pummeled Earth for 2 billion years  —  Exoplanets and the prospect we’re not alone!  —  Mysteries of Eden  —  Combat killing and the human spirit  —  Noxious capitalism and the human spirit  —  Aurora theater tragedy  —  News in perspective  —  Pfrankenstein’s monster: big pharma  —  Preventing that pesky apocalyse  —  A life and afterlife debate  —  Updating the Therapists’ DSM Bible

Read Part 2 of Maggy’s book in its entirety

Background. Swejen Salter was a scientist on planet Varid, one of Earth’s parallel physical worlds… each of which follow similar evolutionary paths with some variations. Societies on Varid, for example, evolved in a Dickensian way in which children were nurtured in large institutions by professional caregivers rather than in families… so that the noble-savage inconsistencies among parents didn’t pose the widespread problems that they do on Earth… where “sins of the father” are passed on from generation to generation to generation….

Read more about parallel worlds

Science on Varid was deeply involved in multidimensional research, especially ITC, unlike Newtonian science on modern Earth, which has blindfolded itself from the vast spiritual worlds that flourish with life all around us. Terrestrial science today is immersed completely in the illusory material world, whereas Varidian science was more integrated with spiritual reality.

This sci-fi-like scenario of many parallel worlds evolving separately like cages of lab animals under controlled conditions is just one of many mind-boggling insights into reality gleaned by Maggy Harsch-Fischbach through her other-worldly communications using ITC systems… and it provides the basis for her historic research.

Dr Swejen Salter died in an explosion on Varid in 1987 and was recruited in the afterlife to help Earth advance its multidimensional understanding. In Luxembourg at the same time, schoolteacher Maggy Harsch-Fischbach was attracted to ITC research while watching the TV show Unbelievable Stories being broadcast by RTL (Radio-Television Luxembourg).

A group of ethereal beings calling themselves “The Seven” were closely observing all of these scenarios. Like superhuman lab scientists, they were controlling some of the conditions in this multidimensional experiment involving many parallel physical worlds and their corresponding spiritual worlds. They put Swejen Salter in charge of Timestream spirit group, and they selected Maggy harsch-Fischbach as the first full-fledged ITC researcher on Earth, for whom a communication bridge would be opened, sustained, and protected by the ethereals.

The job of Swejen Salter at Timestream sending station would be to share information with Maggy Harsch-Fischbach in Luxembourg through the high-tech communication bridge being monitored and facilitated by The Seven,  especially the one calling himself “Technician.”

Maggy and Swejen often chatted on the phone like girlfriends, as Swejen coordinated the work of hundreds of people-in-spirit who all shared the desire to foster a connection with their loved ones back home on Planet Earth. Swejen and her spirit colleagues also talked through Maggy’s radio sounds, sent video images from the afterlife through her TV set, and planted files on her computer containing long messages and bit-mapped images. They even sent Maggy some FAXes!

In short, the doors were open wide, thanks largely to Technician, who described his assigned role as gatekeeper between heaven and earth.

Friendly, Insightful Dialogs

In one of her early computer messages to Maggy in the late 1980s, Swejen wrote:

I died at the age of 38 as the result of an accident. Death came suddenly and unexpectedly. I was totally unprepared and cannot remember my passing over. I awoke on a recliner in a cheerfully decorated room that I had never seen before. Before I could have a closer look around, a tall, imposing man entered the room and identified himself as Richard Francis Burton. He welcomed me and started showing me the world in which he had lived since the year 1890 of your Earth time. I felt happy and safe here. Everybody was friendly and helpful. Still, the change was difficult. It is not easy to adapt to a new life when one is torn away from a daily routine.

On one occasion, Swejen told Maggy:

Unfortunately I cannot and may not answer all your questions. Do not forget that I have to get permission for some of this information from higher beings.

On another occasion, Technician added:

Swejen Salter is being granted much freedom of information!

As Swejen got acclimated to her new afterlife surroundings, she reported to Maggy:

If you harbor bad intentions and thoughts you will not be here very long.

She explained that people who carry with them to the afterlife a lot of emotional baggage (earthly resentments, suspicions, fears, cravings…), and are unable to detach from the troubled thinking, might suddenly find themselves in darker, more confused surroundings for awhile, or reincarnate to Earth to try to work out the problems in another lifetime.

Spirit communication pioneer Konstantin Raudive, a Latvian psychologist, died in 1974 and also joined Timestream spirit group. In July 1986 he told Maggy:

On the third level of consciousness each of us individually will find ourself closer to our own true self. While on Earth I tried to be something other than my true self. Most people try to paint a picture of themselves other than what they really are. Today, on this world, I acknowledge my own true self more.

Swejen reported to Maggy that various deceased scientists were being drawn to ITC projects, including psychologist Karl Jung, Nikola Tesla, Guglielmo Marconi, Marie Curie and Albert Einstein.

When scientist Konrad Lorenz died in 1989, Swejen Salter reported his arrival at Timestream:

He (Lorenz) was transported to us in a magnificent ship surrounded by people. Imagine a Viking ship in which his (astral) body was brought to his destination. He is still in a state of sleep. But it can already be observed that his features and his body are changing and becoming more youthful. Lorenz will probably remain in this regenerative sleep for only a short time. The sleep duration varies from one individual to another. It is generally about six weeks of earth time. Some people need considerably less.

Maggy was told that she and Swejen Salter shared a certain spiritual resonance, and so did Konrad Lorenz, which enabled him also to communicate without too much trouble through Maggy’s ITC bridge.

Maggy recalled her contact with Konrad Lorenz, “Compared to others, who could no longer express themselves in their lifetime speech pattern, Lorenz seemed to have no problems putting his thoughts through a spirit apparatus and forming them into human language. As he spoke to me, his voice gradually lost the monotony of synthetic speech. Dialog became possible and I forgot that I was speaking to a “dead” one. I noticed that Lorenz rolled his “r” and spoke with an Austrian accent. He was very friendly, advised me to take notes, and spoke slowly and distinctly. He thanked me for the nice report I had written about him.”

Maggy was told on various occasions, by Swejen, Technician, and others, that the laws and principles in the spirit world were quite different from Earth, and information sent to our world had to be translated or polished into a context that could be understood by us terrestrial humans. If the information were delivered straight to our world in unfiltered form, it would seem bizarre and incomprehensible. Pictures from the astral worlds, for example, could be sent to us only if the images were earth-like enough for us to recognize.

That seems to be one of the main obstacles facing modern ITC research: the very limited understanding of us on Earth. Our multidimensional insensitivity filters out much of the information that could come into our world from beyond.

Another obstacle is our tendency to fall into negative thinking. A protected ITC bridge to finer realms can remain open only as long as there is a harmony of good feelings on both sides. Fears and animosities harbored by earth experimenters can attract troubled spirits into the situation. This is a problem our spirit friends have to contend with. Swejen Salter told Maggy in 1989:

Recently I have been very busy trying to avert negative influences. I am therefore avoiding contacts at present which could contribute to interference.

Successful ITC rests on the harmonic cooperation of the people involved. That harmony sets up a “contact field” of life energy conducive to close interaction by a spirit group. Then, when the factors of good will come together, miracles can unfold.

Around the year 1990, two annual conferences were to be held—a small ITC conference in Bad Muenstereifel, Germany, and a much larger PSI Days conference in Basel, Switzerland. Swejen Salter said the conditions (group harmony) at the smaller conference would be much more conducive for a live ITC contact. Swejen:

I do not know yet if a contact attempt is possible in Basel. It is too early to tell. At present the timelines are not favorable…. Conditions are especially good for a contact in Bad Muenstereifel. At the moment they are better than for Basel. Many good and serious researchers will be going to Bad Muenstereifel. The participants are able to build a favorable contact field with which we can work. There is a general feeling of responsibility.

I shall try to adjust through you to the light bridge. Ask your co-workers for video pictures of the equipment! I shall attempt to enjoin the participants positively in their thoughts. At the time of contact seven higher beings will be present in the hall. One of them is in contact with the medium Mr Zoennchen. Another being is guiding the contacts of the Group Homes/Malkhoff in Rivenich… The Technician is one of the seven entities. They are depending on the harmonic cooperation of all humans. Their main technical sources of help will be the Light.

While you make the introduction I shall try to orient to you by your voice. During the experiment all doors should remain closed. Ask the audience not to use any photo flashes. There is a danger that the energy field may collapse. Regular picture taking or audio and video recording are allowed.

After a successful spirit contact at the Bad Muenstereifel conference, Swejen reported to Maggy by phone:

We made the same efforts that you made in your cooperation…. The harmony was great and contributed very much to accomplishing the contact. There was joy and satisfaction but also confusion. There was tension and stress while operating the equipment. A total of 57 transmission attempts through space and time were made! Only two arrived, one of them distorted, the other one was clearer. We do not know the exact outcome and hope at least a few sentences could be understood.

Heli Schaefer on our side tried to harmonize the spirit groups involved. We had a few complaints about some technical steps on your side which proved more of a handicap than a help. Do not forget the people here have only one advantage that you don’t have: They have crossed the threshold of eternity, while otherwise they are still very much like they were on earth. Some of them feel too much is expected of them during this period of bridge-building. Of course we do not suffer from exhaustion as you do, but we know the feeling of not getting any rest because so much remains to be done. 

Other ITC Gems:

1 How we affect the spirit worlds       2 Reliable look in-beyond      3 Phone chat with an invisible friend      4 Murdered child is found and healed      5 How thoughts create reality      6 Strangeness of material reality      7 More about Planet Varid      8 Reincarnation from ethereal eyes      9 Convincing a skeptical public      10 How some people reincarnate      11 The end of reincarnation      12 Friedrich Juergenson makes contact      13 How the Luxembourg miracle began      14 How humans,  spirits,  and angels see God      15 The nature of spirit      16 Life on the other side      17 Avoiding dark forces in spirit work     18 How angel pictures are delivered to Earth      19 More afterlife descriptions      20 Timestream and othe spirit groups      21 Time and space in the astral realm      22 How things work in ITC      23 Power of thought      24 Reliable facts about the afterlife      25 Ethereal beings 1      26 Ethereal beings 2      27 Technical  ITC      28 Transimages      29 More transimages      30 Technical ITC: Transvideo   31 Technical ITC conclusions      32 The second epoch      33 Parallel worlds and shadow worlds      34 Medicine and the human spirit       35 Atlantis (Science may be closing in)      36 Humans came from Eden      37 Secrets of life and afterlife      38 Perspective from Beyond    39 The inside story of the afterlife

It’s more a philosophical essay than a scientific analysis, but it explains the dilemma involved in trying to fit mind and spirit into the modern scientific model.

Read here “Mary and the Zombies: Can Science Explain Consciousness?”

The essay, like science, looks at consciousness from the eyes of an objective outside observer… which could present an obstacle to understanding the mind.

I think we can get a much clearer understanding of consciousness through more subjective, more personal experiences such as meditation.

The more we learn through inner exploration, the more we move toward the Eastern  philosophy (and I’m talking way east of Notre Dame) that what really exists within consciousness (what people like me call “spirit” or “soul”) is the true reality… and that the material reality that we experience through the five physical senses here on Earth is the illusion, the “maya.”

Modern science, then, becomes little more than a concerted effort to measure maya… and to spin modern-day epicycles while trying to fit the grander picture of consciousness (spirit) into the constrained Newtonian model.

Hope that make sense!

Other articles about science and the human spirit:

The material mind skews logic to explain consciousness  —  Science and NDEs  —  More modern-day epicycles  —  Foreign-accent syndrome  —  Measuring maya  —  Asteroids pummeled Earth for 2 billion years  —  Exoplanets and the prospect we’re not alone!  —  Mysteries of Eden  —  Combat killing and the human spirit  —  Noxious capitalism and the human spirit  —  Aurora theater tragedy  —  News in perspective  —  Pfrankenstein’s monster: big pharma  —  Preventing that pesky apocalyse  —  A life and afterlife debate  —  Updating the Therapists’ DSM Bible

I’ve been doing these simple exercises almost daily for the past decade or so… gradually adjusting and fine-tuning them over the years as I’ve chatted with physical therapists and fitness people. The 12 exercises below are what I’m doing lately (March, 2013). They take about a half-hour to complete when I do all 12 in one session… which is rare.

Yoga on the floor. I might do the six yoga exercises (dark figures) when I get home from work… or after I climb out of bed in the morning… or before climbing into bed at night. I always do the yoga-like exercises on the floor. These exercises keep my body limber and flexible.

Isometrics in bed. I do the six isometric exercises (light figures) at any convenient time that I’m in bed… sometimes in the middle of the night when I wake up from a dream and can’t get right back to sleep, or sometimes during the day when I’m reading a book, or sometimes after I wake up in the morning. In any case, I always do the isometrics while lying in bed… the first three while lying on my back, and the other three while lying on my stomach with my toes hanging over the end of the bed. These are great exercises for keeping the body toned and looking fit.

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Counting and breathing. I coordinate each of these exercises with my breathing while counting quietly in my head… one beat (1-2-3-4-5…) per second. The four active yoga exercises (#1, #2, #4, and #5) use a complete in-out breath every second or beat. I breathe only half as fast for all of the other (stretching-flexing) exercises… so that each in-breath takes about a second or beat, and each out-breath takes a beat, and a complete in-out breath takes about 2 seconds.

About Each Exercise

1. Spinner: The first one’s easy: Stand up and spin in a circle 25 times, about a spin per second.

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2.  Neck and back stretch:  While kneeling, hands dropped to your side, shoulders relaxed: Move your hands behind you and grasp the first two fingers of one hand with the other hand. Chest out, head back, lean forward with back arched inward… then relax the arms and head on the floor with back arched outward. Then back up to original position. Do this 5 times, each time taking about 5 seconds and 5 complete breaths.

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3.  Leg lift and twist:  Lying down, raise one knee as shown, then drop it over the opposite leg, using the opposite hand to press the knee downward to the floor. Hold it for about 10 seconds. Do it 5 times with each leg.

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4.  Crab:  Sit up with your legs together on the floor in front of you, put your palms down on the floor beside you, and look down at your navel. Then… raise your torso toward the sky and bend your head back so you’re looking behind you. Then return to the sitting position looking down. Do that 25 times… 25 complete breaths… 25 counts or beats… breathing out during the stretch, and breathing in toward the sitting position.

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 5.  Straight-arm pushups:  Lying on your stomach, palms-down next to your chest, straighten your arms, pushing your torso up off the ground, so your body’s an inverted “V,” and look back under your body. Then… Keeping your arms straight, lower your body to the “cobra” position with knees and toes touching the floor and your eyes looking up at the ceiling, then return to the inverted “V” position. Do that 25 times… again, counting to 25 in about 25 seconds… breathing out during the downward motion, and in during the upward motion.

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6.  Leg-bicep stretch: Lie on the floor in a doorway (or next to the upright end of a wall or a square column or a tall, sturdy piece of furniture…) so that one hip is next to the upright corner. Lift the other leg—the outside one—cross it over the body so that the ankle catches on the corner. Use the inside arm to push on the knee to straighten the leg, and hold it for several seconds (anywhere from 6 seconds to 20 seconds), then relax by bending the knee for 4 seconds, then straighten and stretch again. Do the stretch-relax combination six to 12 times with each leg, until the leg feels well-stretched. Don’t overstretch and strain the muscle; you can “back up” away from the doorway or upright corner to lessen the stretch.

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7.  Leg-bicep, shoulder flex:  Lying on your back in bed, raise the knees so that the feet are flat on the bed. Clasp your hands below the navel, then flex 1) the muscles in the shoulders and 2) the leg biceps. Hold it for about 25 seconds.

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8.  Bicep, calf flex:  From the same position as the previous exercise, bend your elbows, then flex 1) the arm biceps (the front of the upper arms), and 2) the calves. Hold it for about 25 seconds.

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9.  Forearm/wrist, ankle flex: Lying on your back, legs straight out, flex your forearms, wrists, and ankles, as follows:

For 8 seconds, bend the wrists forward, fists clenched, while turning the ankles inward, soles facing each other, toes wiggling.

For 8 seconds, bend the wrists backward with fists still clenched, while turning the ankles outward.

For 5 seconds, bend the wrists forward, hands open, while turning the ankles inward, soles facing each other, toes wiggling.

For 5 seconds, bend the wrists backward, hands open, while turning the ankles outward.

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10.  Tricep, gluteus flex (i):  Lying on your stomach, head raised, legs extended, flex 1) the triceps (back of the upper arms) and 2) the backside. Hold it while counting silently to 25 for about 25 seconds… breathing in for one second then out for one second… each complete in-out breath taking about 2 seconds.

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11.  Lap, shoulder flex:  Still on your stomach, head raised, clasp your hands behind your back and raise them up, away from the body… and flex 1) the shoulder muscles and 2) the lap muscles (front of the upper legs). Hold it for about 25 seconds.

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12. Neck, shoulder, lower-calf flex:  Still on your stomach, head raised, with hands clasped behind your back, flex 1) the shoulders and neck, and 2) the small area between the ankles and calves. This time press the hands downward into the back, putting more tension on your neck muscles. Hold it for about 25 seconds.

(Finally, as always, if you have any health issues, contact a physician or physical therapist before starting a new exercise regimen….)