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The issue of whether human consciousness survives beyond physical death and if so, in what way, has intrigued our species since time immemorial. Nor has the matter been one of mere academic or theological interest. Rather, human beings have long and diligently sought to communicate with those who have made the transition from earthly life to whatever realm follows death in order to gain, among other things, meaningful solace and psychological closure, worldly advice, or spiritual wisdom. Indeed, so impassioned has been the ongoing drive to contact deceased loved ones and friends that history is filled with the lore of contact-seeking through such means as exalted oracles, spirit mediums, journeying shamans, ouija boards, and automatic writing. However, Western materialist science has traditionally maintained a dismissive, even cynical, attitude to all notions of communicating with the dead, and for several reasons: the wholly subjective nature of such experiences; the innate susceptibility to charlatanry, imagination, and overriding personal desire; and the difficulties involved in conducting any truly scientific investigation and obtaining independent verification. Science has therefore in effect held beyond the veil to mean beyond the ability, and hence the desirability, of being investigated. As far as mainstream culture is concerned, the image of seances held in darkened parlors by exotic mediums during the late 19th and early 20th centuries still serves as a visual emblem for the bamboozlement of well-meaning but emotionally overwrought or greedy, and thus gullible, common folk. Nevertheless, the advent of such modern-day phenomena as telepathic channeling of discarnate sentient entities, near-death experiences, and past-life and spirit-releasement therapies has served in recent years to renew the debate about the post-death survival of consciousness, at least among people who have experienced such phenomena firsthand, conventionally trained researchers who have chosen to seriously investigate them, and those whose New Age mind-set predisposes them to believe in their legitimacy. The rest of the population, it may be postulated, is continuing to await the arrival of more tangible, observable evidence for the survival hypothesis before seriously entertaining the matter. That day, however, may already have arrived. Since the mid-1980s, there has been a small, multinational network of private experimenters and researchers, now known as the International Network for Instrumental Transcommunication (INIT), who have been using conventional electronic equipment such as radios, televisions, telephones, and personal computers to receive and record intelligent signals in the form of voices, images, and text from self-identifying deceased individuals whose consciousness appears to persist on nonphysical planes of existence. These individuals, or transpartners, appear to be former colleagues, loved ones, and others who have made the transition from Earth to the spirit world. Atlantis Rising recently discussed the state of the organization's inquiry with INIT cofounder and leading American researcher Mark Macy of Boulder, Colorado, who co-authored a book in 1995 entitled Conversations Beyond the Light and now publishes a thrice-yearly newsletter on the subject. A former technical writer and author of anthologies on global problem-solving, Macy survived a bout of colon cancer in 1988 with his life intact but his belief system about God (agnostic) and death (fearful) severely challenged. Inspired as a result of his experience to learn what happens when we die, he encountered researcher and former industrialist George Meek, who showed him a personal letter from Meek's wife that was received through a computer after she died in 1991. This startling hard evidence of life after death overwhelmed Macy, and led him to explore with Meek the young field of instrumental transcommunication (ITC), an area in which Meek was already active. From Meek, Macy learned of a spiritual communication device called Spiricom, a set of tone generators that emitted a buzzing sound comprising 13 tones spanning the range of the adult male voice, and which had been developed in 1980 by a technical wizard named Bill O'Neil under Meek's patronage. Spiricom reputedly enabled O'Neil to conduct a dialogue with the voice of a NASA scientist, Dr. George Mueller, who had died in 1967. O'Neil and Mueller were apparently able to use their collective minds to modulate the unstable buzzing sound of the Spiricom device into a facsimile reminiscent of the voice Mueller had used while alive. After a time, the facsimile became sufficiently clear that an audible dialogue between O'Neil and the spirit of Mueller could be heard through the buzzing sound, with Mueller's voice sounding robot-like but nonetheless infused with a definite, living intelligence. This experience awakened Macy's spirituality, causing him to acknowledge for the first time the existence of God and the immortality of the human spirit, and to view the physical body as merely the vehicle we use to navigate in the dense physical world for our period of earthly life. Realizing that physical life is only a transitory phase, he lost his fear of death and came to realize that many more exciting experiences await all of us on the other side of the veil. Since that time, Macy has progressively devoted his life to experimenting with, and writing and lecturing on, ITC and the information that has been conveyed to him and his fellow researchers around the world by their spirit colleagues, usually earlier ITC experimenters who have died but continue their work from the other side. Among the more astonishing results reported by Macy and others is the receipt of actual telephone calls with a deceased former European psychologist and ITC researcher named Dr. Konstantin Raudive, who died in 1974. In the spring of 1996, Macy dialogued with Raudive on the telephone for 15 minutes, and other researchers in Luxembourg have spoken with Raudive for longer periods of time. Such phone contacts, however, are not limited to professional researchers, but appear to be both a spontaneous and more widely reported phenomenon. For example, the renowned U.S. medical intuitive Dr. Carolyn Myss has reported that in December 1992 she unexpectedly received a telephone call from her Native American shaman-mentor, during which he asked her to write his life's story for publication. Some weeks later, she came to discover that her mentor had died in another city two days before her telephone conversation with him had taken place. ITC contacts are not limited to telephone calls, but have more often involved television pictures and computer images and textfiles. Computer contacts, for example, often occur after researchers leave home, having made sure that all of their equipment is turned off. When they return home, sometimes their computers will be running and new files either pictures or text will have been planted on disk, direct communications from an identifiable entity on another plane. The first color television picture of a spirit entity was reported in October 1995 in association with just such a computer contact, when a German researcher awoke with a compelling urge to try an experiment with his color TV set. Accustomed to receiving paranormal video images on his monochrome TV set, but only after being notified in advance by phone by his spirit colleagues, the researcher this time just turned on his color set and trained his camcorder on the picture tube. At that instant, an image of Swedish ITC pioneer Friedrich Juergenson, deceased since 1987, appeared on the screen and remained there for 24 seconds. Hearing a loud, cracking noise coming from the next room, the researcher ultimately got up to investigate after unsuccessfully attempting voice contact with the televised image on his set. Upon entering the room, he discovered his computer running it apparently had been switched on paranormally and on the screen he found a typed message to him under the name Juergenson. What does it take to establish contact with deceased persons across the veil? Macy emphasizes that ITC contacts are not so much a result of modern communications technology, but derive from the minds of living persons on Earth linking closely with the consciousness of minds in subtler, nonphysical levels of existence in a positive, loving spirit of cooperation. This harmonious vibration has been coined the contact field, and represents the pivotal mediumistic bridge that enables inter-dimensional communication with the spirit world to occur. According to information received during various ITC contacts, it is strengthened by work[ing] on the inner life, the eternal center, and results from the unified cooperation of people who are concerned and whose efforts are supported in ITC circles. In effect, researchers' spirit colleagues have said, ITC can only work when the vibrations of those involved are in complete harmony, and when their aims and intentions are pure. Macy's personal work to date suggests that a passionate desire for contact and a constant, favorable holding in thought of a deceased person with whom there was a strong emotional attachment, combined with steady efforts over time by a person to improve their mental focus and clarity through prayer, meditation, and other forms of psychic attunement, is the best way to achieve stronger and more frequent contacts with like-minded colleagues on the other side. As Macy states, however, ITC has thus far been provided no user's guide or start-up manual for establishing dependable receiving stations. Contact work is still very much a case of trial and error, although Macy is confident that he will be able to develop a strong contact field in the future among colleagues on both sides of the veil, and thus a reliable receiving station in Colorado. Thus far, however, the contact field in Western Europe remains the strongest, as evidenced by the plethora of contacts received by the research teams there from a variety of sources. The question inevitably arises as to what has been learned substantively as a result of ITC contacts with the spirit world. Evidently, quite a lot. For example, the spirit colleagues of ITC experimenters report that a multidimensional structure of nonphysical reality exists beyond the earth plane, with the multiplicity of dimensions superimposed and interacting in a complexity impossible to readily convey, or even comprehend, in human language and three-dimensional constructs. The immediate, next stage after death appears, however, fairly simple to understand. When most people die, they emerge onto the third or mid-astral plane, a world of energy that shares the same space as the Earth, but where individuals are regenerated from their wounds and illnesses and are eventually able to create their most desired image of themselves and their surroundings merely through the power of their thoughts. One German boy, Ezra Braun, who died of leukemia at the age of 12 in 1986, had a picture of himself sent to the personal computer of a European ITC researcher in 1992; the picture showed a smiling young man in his late teens or early twenties, his arm raised in a wave, his face easily recognizable as that of the boy, only older. His ecstatic, still earthbound, parents confirmed the boy's identity, as well as many other details concerning the boy's pre-death interests and possessions that were contained in the transmitted picture and in an accompanying written transmission. In addition to providing a clear view of what life is like on the other side of the veil and occasionally providing communications from departed loved ones and missed friends, ITC transmissions have also provided spiritual insights from higher levels of consciousness through angelic beings who have never assumed human form. Via letters sent to researchers' computers, these beings have also provided a significant quantity of hitherto unknown information on the prehistory of the Earth that conventional sources have been unable to provide. They state, for example, that a planet once existed between Mars and Jupiter, known either as Maldek or Marduk. Although its inhabitants were highly advanced technologically and space travel was routine for them, their technical ability exceeded their better sense, and their planet exploded, creating the asteroid belt that exists today. Before the final detonation, however, some of the Mardukians traveled to Earth and seeded a ciVilization that eventually became Atlantis. When these former denizens of Marduk interbred with the primitive beings that pre-existed on the earth at that time, they began the heritage of our own species, approximately 20,000 years ago. Although reminiscent of the theories of researcher Zecharia Sitchin as to the origins of man, these revelations are distinctive in that Marduk is claimed to have been destroyed as a planet and now continues to exist only on the astral plane. This subtle world is where many people on Earth go after their demise, to continue living an earth-like existence, but in their astral bodies. Interestingly, people on Marduk apparently have a limited vision of themselves; like the physical earthlings they once were, they believe that their astral planet is the full extent of reality. Many Mardukians do not acknowledge the existence of life on the physical Earth; rather, many believe that their notions of an earlier existence in physical form are just bad dreams! (What a disappointment to realize that spiritual myopia seems to persist, at least for some of us, even after leaving earthly life.) The determination of who gets to communicate to living ITC researchers is made on the other side of the veil, according to Macy. While there is evidence of an overall plan for the work of ITC, few details have been forthcoming thus far. Well-known personages have been known to communicate, such as 19th century English explorer Richard Francis Burton, French author Jules Verne, or American composer Scott Joplin; however, transmissions are more likely to originate from deceased ITC researchers, presumably because of the importance of fostering the energy of the contact field among people who have been involved in the ITC endeavor for a while, both those living on Earth and those existing on the other side. Still, as in the case of little Ezra Braun, deceased loved ones of the experimenters or their friends are sometimes permitted to communicate to ease the hurt and loss of the survivors. In any event, any close emotional attachment that pre-existed on earth seems to be a key to adding power to the strength of the contact field. The modern scientific community has not, to date, had incentive to explore the ITC phenomenon in any meaningful way. Despite some rigorous and clearly validating testing by leading sound engineers in England of ITC pioneer Konstantin Raudive's results with taped spirit voices in the early 1970s, the limitations of the current scientific paradigm may just be too great to be surmounted by simple curiosity. This despite the receipt of even more profoundly anomalous, inexplicable transmissions via television, telephone, and personal computer in the decades since Raudive's time. Nonetheless, Dr. Willis Harman, the former Stanford engineering professor and president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) in California, championed the work of Macy and other ITC researchers and wrote of it as a challenge to modern science, before he died in late 1996. Ironically perhaps naturally a recent ITC contact with an angelic being indicated that Harman, having now made his transition, intends to work closely with the [spirit] group who is trying to contact Mark Macy. Macy and his fellow INIT researchers are now in the planning stages of a collaborative effort to subject ITC to scientific scrutiny, involving IONS and the Monroe Institute, both respected U.S. research organizations known for their work in the frontier sciences. Will they, with the assistance of their former colleagues beyond the veil, be able to prove once and for all that human consciousness survives death? Time will tell. For the present, Macy regularly monitors his wide-coverage array of multiband radio receivers and works at educating as many people as possible about ITC through workshops, presentations, and publications. He believes that, should he and others succeed in regularly stimulating clear images, voices, and text from the beyond, ITC could ultimately become a conduit of the love and wisdom from the highest levels of spirit, and thus help transform the world in a very fast and positive way. We hope so, too. Macy may be reached at (303) 673-0660; init_us@aol.com; website: www.worlditc.org. Return To TOP |
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