Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC)
Instrumental transcommunication (ITC) is a field of research that studies the possibility of communication between the living and the people who have died, through electronic devices. The term "Transcommunication", coined by the German researcher Ernst Senkowski, originated from the combination of the word "transcendental" and "communication". The electronic devices used in the ITC are mostly ordinary devices, such as recorders (tape or digital), radio, television, landlines or cell phones. Over the years, other instruments have been built by researchers for more accurate results.
Through these devices it is possible to obtain records of audio, video, images and texts from the spiritual world. Among the various types of modalities in the ITC field, the most popular is the "Electronic Voice Phenomenon" (EVP), which is the capture of voices in audio files, perhaps due to the greater ease in its capture.
Although not yet recognized by science, several celebrities from the scientific world have had experiences with ITC, among them are Thomas Alva Edison, Guglielmo Marconi and Nikola Tesla. Today we find in the world thousands of researchers who practice ITC getting messages from the spiritual world. Below we will cover the works of the most renowned researchers in this area.
Agostino Gemelli and Pelegrino Ernetti
The experience of the priests Agostino Gemelli and Pelegrino Ernetti is reported in François Brune and Remy Chauvine's book "Direct Line from Beyond" (“Linha direta do além”).
"It seems, in fact, that the first recorded case of voice, and identified as coming from the afterlife, happened in Milan, in the laboratory of experimental physics at the Catholic University. There, two good priests were carrying out experiments: Father Agostino Gemelli, renowned physicist, founder of that university, and then president of the Pontifical Academy, and Father Pellegrino Emetti, Benedictine, also a physicist and specialist in pre-polyphonic music.
They tried to filter out Gregorian chants to eliminate the harmonics. There were no tape recorders yet, but only wired. This thread broke frequently, and then it was necessary to give it a knot, as thin as possible, so as not to hinder listening, but solid enough.
That day, Sept. 17, 1952, the thread had just broken once more, and priest Gemelli had said, "Oh, Daddy, help me!", as he had a habit of saying for many years, since his father’s death. Once the repair was done, the two priests began to listen again to the tape, or rather the wire. But, instead of the expected Gregorian chant, they listened, astonished, to his father’s voice: "Of course I help you, I am always with you!"
Priest Emetti, who told me the story, told me that, at that very moment, Priest Gemelli was shocked.
But Father Emetti encouraged him to proceed and make another attempt. Then they got the same perfectly recognizable voice that said in a slightly ironic tone: "But of course, zuccone, don’t you see it’s me?". Zuccone is a type of large pumpkin, and it was the affectionate term that his father, while alive, employed whenever he addressed him.
The event seemed to them quite important, and soon they decided to bring it to the knowledge of Pope Pius XII. Priest Gemelli was so confused at having to tell such a story that on entering the Pope's office he asked Priest Emetti to tell the story himself.
Pius XII calmed Priest Gemelli down: "My dear Priest, calm down. It is a strictly scientific fact and has nothing to do with Spiritism. The recorder is an objective device that cannot be suggested: it captures and records sound vibrations from wherever they come.
This experience may perhaps mark the beginning of a new scientific study that will confirm faith in the hereafter. I am convinced of the authenticity of the text I have just quoted, for it was Priest Emetti himself who, after telling me the story in detail, gave me the number of the Astra magazine, where it appears".
The modern phase of ITC began with Friedrich Jürgenson (1903-1987). He was born in Odessa, Ukraine. After living through World War One and the Russian Revolution as a child, Jürgenson trained as a painter at the Art Academy and as a singer and musician at the Odessa Conservatory.
On June 12, 1959, Jürgenson, and his wife Monica went to visit their country house to enjoy the warm summer. Jürgenson brought his tape-recorder to record the singing of wild birds. Listening to the tape he "heard a noise, vibrating like a storm, where you could only remotely hear the chirping of the birds, especially the chaffinch.
“My first thought was that maybe some of the tubes had been damaged. In spite of this I switched on the machine again and let the tape roll. Again I heard this peculiar noise and the distant chirping. Then I heard a trumpet solo, a kind of a signal for attention. Stunned, I continued to listen when suddenly a man's voice began to speak in Norwegian. Even though the voice was quite low I could clearly hear and understand the words. The man spoke about 'nightly bird voices' and I perceived a row of piping, splashing and rattling sounds. Suddenly the choir of birds and the vibrating noise stopped. In the next moment the chirping of a chaffinch was heard and you could hear the tits singing at a distance - the machine worked perfectly!"
Jürgenson continued to investigate these phenomena and at first he thought it was his "friends from outer space", but very soon he began to believe that these voices were "from the other side", or the 'Voices of the Dead'. Was he close to solving one of the fundamental mysteries of death? At this moment Jürgenson experienced a remarkable event that would change his life:
"I was outside with a tape recorder, recording bird songs. When I listen through the tape, a voice was heard to say "Friedel, can you hear me. It's mammy …." It was my dead mother’s voice. 'Friedel' was her special nickname for me."
From this moment on, Jürgenson abandoned painting for his audio recordings and in 1964 he published the book "Voices From Space".
Constantin Raudive
Constantin Raudive (1909 – 1974) was born in Latgale in eastern Latvia. In exile following the Soviet re-conquest of Latvia in World War II, he taught at the University of Uppsala in Sweden.
Raudive studied parapsychology all his life, and was especially interested in the possibility of the afterlife. He worked with Friedrich Jürgenson and spent much of the last ten years of his life exploring the "Electronic Voice Phenomenon" (EVP).
In 1964, at the time of a recording, he had to leave the room. When he returned, he rewound the tape to find out where it had stopped. It was then that, after hearing the recording of his last words, he had a great surprise to hear, on the recording, the voice of his deceased mother, who called him by his nickname: "Kosti, Kosti!".
With the help of various electronics experts, he recorded over 100,000 audiotapes, most of which were made under what he described as "strict laboratory conditions".
Sônia Rinaldi
Sonia Rinaldi is one of the main Brazilian researchers in ITC and founder of the National Action of Transcommunicators (ANT). When she started experimenting in 1988, Sonia used a common recorder and a shortwave radio. The first thing she heard was her name. Today, she reports talking to relatives and friends who are gone. The recorder was replaced by a computer equipped with a software specially made to record sounds.
"We have records and complete documentation of about 300 phone calls to the "other side" duly witnessed by about 260 people who participated in the experiments. Our rate of recognition of the deceased’s voices is 83%, a very high rate. In other words, there were hundreds of parents who lost their children and were able to recognize their voice in dozens of recordings. "(Sonia Rinaldi).
Sônia has already written 7 books on the subject. Her most recent book, "Gravando Vozes do Além" ("Recording Voices from Beyond"), features dozens of documented cases and brings a CD with 62 recordings.
A documented case of transcommunication
A fully documented case of transcommunication occurred in Brazil in 1999. On September 10, 1999, at 9:30 pm, the psychologist from São Paulo, Zilda Monteiro, received a voice message in her cell phone. The voice whispered "I love you ... I told you". At first Zilda did not understand the message and even thought to erase it, but then she remembered a conversation she had had with her ex-husband Edson, less than a month before, when he was hospitalized with heart problems.
In the conversation, Zilda asked him to call her as soon as she left the hospital, to which he replied, kind of jokingly: "If I do not call from here, I'll call from there". Edson meant that he would call from the Spiritual Plane if he died. Even in the period when he was married to Zilda, her ex-husband had made several experiences in transcommunication, making several recordings at the time in "cassette" tapes. Edson spent 39 days in hospital but his clinical condition worsened, and he died on August 16, 1999.
Zilda then showed the message to Edson's mother and aunt, who immediately recognized his voice. The audio of the message was sent to the researcher Sonia Rinaldi, who passed it on to the engineer Alessandro Pecci, so that he could analyze it and issue a technical report. The purpose was to do a voice analysis using the voice recorded on the cell phone's mailbox and compare it to Edson's voice when he was alive, recorded on the cassette tapes of his experiments in transcommunication. As a final result, the expert concluded that the voice recorded in the audio message was fully compatible with Edson's voice.
The future of ITC
Despite the huge amount of material evidence, ITC is still a long way from being officially accepted by science. There are several procedures to be performed before this occurs. The first step would be to build a sophisticated laboratory for capturing and recording messages, with special shielding to ensure that they will not suffer any kind of external interference, so it can be really verified that they come from an unknown source.
Then the study would need to be published in a renowned scientific journal, so that it could be analyzed by the international scientific community. The big barrier today is the lack of funding for research, since the whole process would require millions of dollars in investment not only in sophisticated equipment but also in a large team of researchers.
I have no doubt that one day we will come to this reality. In any case, ITC already represents another conclusive evidence of the continuity of life after death.
