Note: This is a finishing article for the ITC series written a couple of years ago. The first five links (in the Overview below) take you to many reports, pictures and audio messages that were delivered to us from the spirit worlds through our technologies, giving a taste of the scope of the achievements of INIT, the International Network for Instrumental Transcommunication.

Overview of INIT

Finer spirits were able to communicate with our INIT group late last century in extraordinary ways…

• phone calls,
• computer reports,
• pictures via TV and computer….

…thanks mostly to a stable, resonant “contact field.” As our spirit friends told us through a radio, “It can only work when the (mental-emotional-life) vibrations of those present are in complete harmony, and when their aims and intentions are pure.”

In other words, sharing honesty, trust, good will, and unity of purpose kept everyone cohesive, on both sides of the veil. That’s the only way that their side could convert their thought impulses to words and pictures that would show up in our technologies and make sense to us here on Earth—they could only be delivered through a harmonic contact field.

Being kind and respectful came naturally to our spirit friends at level 3, but for us INIT members living through Earth’s dramas here at level 1, it was often a challenge. When normal human doubt or envy or fear or resentment crept into a member’s mind and grew to be a problem, our spirit friends reminded us of the need to restore peace and harmony. If we failed to resolve the conflicts, and if hard feelings prevailed, there would be an interruption in the contacts from our spirit friends… (a natural consequence, not a punishment). Sometimes negative spirits would be attracted to our dark feelings and somehow be able to break into the faltering bridge with spooky, destabilizing messages. Bottom line: When sparks of ill will flew between us INIT members, the negative spirits added fuel to make matters worse.

So, the main danger to our ITC bridge in the late 1990s (or to any ITC bridge anytime, anywhere) would be an unstable contact field caused by negative thinking. We tried to avoid that. We did our best to stay positive, but mistakes were made, and negative thoughts leaked out. It started with small quarrels over a few important issues that were like double-edged swords, then the quarrels somehow flew out of control.

Double-Edged Swords: Science, Money, and Publicity

Small differences of opinion actually happened fairly often in our correspondence with other members, simply because we were “human” with diverse backgrounds. Some were easily resolved, some remained differences we could live with, and a few were left to fester and became problematic.

Three of the key issues that caused us problems were science, money, and publicity. They cut both ways, with benefits and drawbacks, bringing both promise and pain to our group.

Science should lead the way to future ITC development; most of us pretty much agreed on that. But it would have to be a new, open-minded science willing to see and explore beyond the limitations of Copernicus (1500s), Newton, Darwin (17-1800s), and the scientific method. A science eager to explore the rich life-energies that fill, sustain, and vitalize the cosmos. In short, our INIT group needed a science willing to explore consciousness and spirit… like German physicist Ernst Senkowski and a few others. But those open-minded men and wormen were outnumbered by highly skeptical scientists who nipped at our heels like jackals with their wailing howls of impossible, unprovable, and hoax… distracting us from our mission. So, working with science was a tightwire walk, and there were several painful missteps, including a US member’s insistence on scientific verification of our contacts, which was viewed by a few other members (and by some of our spirit friends) as toxic doubt that would ruin the contact field.

Money was needed to cover transportation and lodging costs for our annual meetings in the 1990s—before Zoom and Skype made videoconferencing mainstream. Money would also be needed to fund future research projects. Unfortunately, as is common with money, there was some debate about spending priorities, and there were accusations of mishandling money. Private auditors were brought in to examine the financial records of INIT’s nonprofit charitable account, but found no indication of fraud or mismanagement. So, money donated by our supporters was being handled properly. Still, the finance managers felt shamed and humiliated by the accusations against them, making it even harder for the group to agree on how best to spend the money.

Publicity was another double-edged sword. Spreading the word about our spirit phone calls and other extraordinary spirit communications could cut both ways. Our spirit friends made it clear that enlightening humanity will be a vital key to a peaceful, vibrant Earth future. On one hand, the ITC contacts we were receiving about our ancient past and the nature of the cosmos could certainly help enlighten humanity. On the other hand, much of that world-changing information was at odds with popular beliefs and theories of religions, sciences, and other human institutions. If word spread too fast about our other-worldly communications, some people would invariably attack or demonize ITC in order to protect and defend their preconceptions.

So, not an easy place to live, Earth… and a very hard place to get enlightened so that we resonate with the finer realms of the cosmos. ITC could make things easier, but only if colleagues could first understand and acknowledge the importance of sustaining harmony and vibrational purity in their thoughts and intentions, and if they could then figure out ways to collaborate in kindness, honesty, and trust in this world where brutal win-lose behavior is pervasive. Living things (including we humans) stalk and intentionally hurt each other (predators), take stuff from each other (parasites), and squabble with each other for an advantage (competitors). These dramas distract us from any good (win-win) spiritual quest. They darken our spiritual vibration. An ITC project (or any good spiritual quest) needs to figure out effective ways to purify the passions of its members—to redirect them from the dramas of Earth to the perfection of the source.

Brief ITC History Before INIT

Spirit communication through modern technology in the years leading up to INIT:

1901. US ethnologist Waldemar BOGORAS visited Siberia’s Chukchi tribe and, during a spirit conjuring ritual with the shaman, captured (on phonograph recordings) male spirits speaking English and Russian, and spirit wolves howling.

1910. Brazilian priest Roberto LANDELLwas observed conversing audibly with spirits through a small, handheld box.

1920s. US inventor Tom EDISON spent his final years trying to perfect a spirit communication device, and on his deathbed exclaimed, “It is very beautiful over there!”
Brazilian researcher Oscar D’ARGONELL wrote a book describing his long telephone dialogs with spirit friends.

1950s. Italian Marcello BACCI began talking to many spirits through his vacuum tube radio and continued for 40 years.
Italian priest Agostino GAMELLI, having trouble recording a Gregorian chant with his friend, father Pellegrino ERNETTI, muttered in exasperation, “Father, help us,” and his late father’s playful voice was captured in the recording, “Of course I will help you, Zucchini. I’m always with you.”

1960s. Swedish filmmaker Friedrich JUERGENSON captured spirit voices on tape (including his late mother’s) while recording bird songs, then spent a quarter century recording thousands of “EVP” voices and writing books about his discoveries.
Latvian psychologist Konstantin RAUDIVE spent his final years capturing and cataloguing some 70,000 spirit voices on audiotape, many under strict laboratory conditions, and documented his work in a book, The Inaudible Becomes Audible (published in English as Breakthrough).

1970s-80s. Retired US inventor George W MEEK decided it was high time to open dialogs with the other side through modern hi-tech equipment. In 1973 he recruited psychically gifted radio expert Bill O’Neil to open a bridge, and Bill soon developed a device he called Spiricom, a set of tone generators and frequency generators that emitted 13 tones spanning the range of the adult male voice. One of O’Neil’s invisible colleagues was the spirit of Dr George Jeffries Mueller, a deceased physics teacher (Orange Coast College) who simply appeared in O’Neil’s living room one day as a semi-materialized spirit, and announced that he was there to assist in the project of Meek and O’Neil. By the fall of 1980, Spiricom had advanced to the point where Doc Mueller’s spirit voice, although quite buzzy, was loud and easily understandable, and Meek and O’Neil soon catalogued more than 20 hours of dialog with their spirit colleague Doc Mueller. These are reported in some detail in Meek’s book, After We Die, What Then?.
Hans Otto KOENIG developed new spirit communication technologies from 1982 to 1988, employing extremely low frequency oscillators, as well as lights in the ultraviolet and infrared range. In 1983 he appeared on a popular radio program on Europe’s largest radio station, Radio Luxembourg. The host, Rainer Holbe, had Koenig set up his equipment under close supervision of the station engineers. One of the engineers asked if a voice could come through in direct reply to a question, and a voice quickly replied, “We hear your voice. Otto Koenig makes wireless contact with the dead.” Stunned, Rainer Holbe addressed the millions of listeners across Europe, “I tell you, dear Listeners of Radio Luxembourg, and I swear by the life of my children, that nothing has been manipulated. There are no tricks. It is a voice, and we do not know from where it comes.”
Ken WEBSTER received some 250 spirit messages in his computers (1984-5) from a 16th-Century Englishman named Thomas Harden who was apparently “haunting” Webster’s house. Harden claimed that he had owned the same house some four centuries earlier. Harden in spirit was apparently rather stuck in time, referring to Webster’s computer as a “light box” and typing a message to Webster onto the screen on one occasion, “What strange words you are speaking, although I must admit that I had only a poor school education myself. You are a good person and you have a fantastic wife. But you live in my house. It was a big crime to steal my home.” The many messages from Harden were in Olde English dialect and contained extensive details of Harden’s personal life, as well as life of that era, which were later confirmed through research at Oxford Library. Webster’s book, The Vertical Plane, documents those ITC contacts.
Klaus SCHREIBERbegan to receive spirit images on his TV set in 1985, including the faces of scientist Albert Einstein, Austrian actress Romy Schneider, and various departed family members, especially his two deceased wives and daughter Karin, with whom he was particularly close. His technique, set up by his colleague Martin Wenzel, involved aiming a videocamera at the television and feeding the output of the camera back into the TV, in order to achieve a feedback loop. The result was a churning mist on the screen out of which the spirit faces would slowly form over a period of many frames. Schreiber’s spectacular results were the subject of a TV documentary and book by popular radio-television commentator Rainer Holbe in nearby Luxembourg, in 1985.
Maggy HARSCH-FISCHBACH and her husband Jules Harsch of Luxembourg began to get spectacular voice contacts through radio systems early in their experiments in 1985. A high-pitched, computer-like voice came through their radios with growing frequency to announce the beginning and end of experiments and to share amazing insights with the couple. The entity producing the voice identified himself (or herself) as a finer spirit being who was never human, never animal, never in a physical body… living in a realm where every entity is recognized by its energy signature rather than by a “name,” but for the purpose of ITC could be referred to, by us humans, simply as “Technician.”  The small flat inhabited by the Harsch-Fischbach couple became a place of miracles, as visiting scientists and reporters saw spirit-world images flash across the TV screen and heard long discourses by various deceased personalities through radio sounds. The Harsch-Fischbach couple became the key founding members of INIT.

From www.worlditc.org/a_02_macy_itc_history.htm

On a closing note, humanity deserves another chance to uplift ourselves through inner spiritual work and through ITC. We’ll see what unfolds….

— Mark Macy