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and the right hand was cut off this is

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the back of the head of a young girl in

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Nigeria from the ebo tribe who remember

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the life of a man who had had brain

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surgery for intracranial tumor and she

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was born with this remarkable scar in

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the back of her head

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again these birthmarks these birth

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defects make no sense in terms of what

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paul von ward who was not associated

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with our group claims to have found

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amazing similarities in the facial

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geometry of people who remember a past

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life and the person they claimed to have

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been in a past life and he is matched up

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photographs of the present person and

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the past life person he's developed six

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biometric ratios that he claims are more

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similar in these matched pairs than with

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control subjects

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the difficulty with Von Ward's data is

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that these measurements were not done

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blindly Vaughn Ward himself made the

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measurements on the subjects and on the

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photos of the deceased persons so what

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we would like to do is try to replicate

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his findings in a blind manner that is

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have one person make the measurements on

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the subject have a different person make

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the measurements unfroze with the

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deceased person and then a third person

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who doesn't know which is which see if

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they can match up the correct person

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with a deceased one of the problems

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we're going to have those we have a very

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limited sample of photographs of the

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deceased person most of these are in

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remote areas in underdeveloped countries

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but we do have some the second

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hypothesis about survival is that people

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who are now deceased are still surviving

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in some form and we have lots of

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evidence that contributes to this

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hypothesis most commonly are interactive

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apparitions and these are not talking

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about ghosts in haunted houses that just

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wander

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and don't talk to I'm talking about

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visions apparitions that interact and

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respond meaningfully with you these

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often occur around the time of the death

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of the person who's dead and they will

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communicate meaningful things to the

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person who's having the vision there

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have been some attempts in recent years

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to try to induce these communications

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with interactive visions Raymond Moody

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who coined the term near-death

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experience developed what he called the

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psychomanteum which is essentially a

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sensory deprivation room in which after

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an elaborate ritual people go into this

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room and try to invoke a vision of the

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deceased and in some cases with some

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good facilitators people do have these

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interactive visions there's a

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psychologist in the VA system of Albert

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Caen who was using EMDR to treat

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veterans with post-traumatic stress and

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he found serendipitously that some of

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them as he was doing this would have

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visions of their fallen comrades that

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interacted with them and this turned out

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to be so therapeutic for the vets that

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he started trying to induce it using

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EMDR and suggestion and in fact has

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claimed a fair amount of success in

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getting the introduced these visions

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which are interactive and communicate in

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then we have communication through

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mediums and you've heard this excellent

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presentation from Julie I won't repeat

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what she said I will tell you though

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that our lab Emily Kelly and our

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division has replicated this work with

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slightly different technology and found

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equally impressive results this is

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madonna's you know by Gary Schwartz is

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lab by our lab by a group in Scotland

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Archie Roy and Tricia Ritchie so it's

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been replicated in several places now in

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the last couple of decades Julie told

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you about the elaborate controls we try

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to put in to make sure that the medium

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isn't getting sensory cues from the

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sitter or using super sight from the

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there's another type of data from

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mediumship sittings that eliminates that

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possibility and that's what's called a

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drop in communicator these are allegedly

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deceased people who come to a mediumship

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session a seance and no one in the room

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knew of the medium nor the sitters knows

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this person these are unusual they

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provide great evidence because you can't

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get the information by normal means but

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they're rare

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however in Stevenson found more than 66

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Oh of these in the published literature

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let me give you an example in a small

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village of about 5,000 people in Tuscany

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there was a day laborer who in his 20s

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developed mediumship abilities and he

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used to give seances he didn't charge

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for them ten local villagers would come

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one of them would take VirB verbatim

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notes and it would have these seances

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periodically and at one point a

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communicator appeared at one of these

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seances and said his name was Giuseppe

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Riccardi and he was a Roman Catholic

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priest in Canton Ohio no one the room

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knew of this fellow he said that he had

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been shot with a revolver by one of his

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father Riccardi appeared in a couple of

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more seances over the pier in the next

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couple of years and all the times he

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appeared no one in the room had ever

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heard of father Ricardo at one of these

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seances there was an Italian researcher

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present who wrote to Ian Stevenson and

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said this guy says he lived in Ohio can

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you track down whether he really did

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well we didn't have a date of death so

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it wasn't easy but one of our research

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assistants contacted the archdiocese in

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Youngstown Ohio and confirmed that there

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was a Giuseppe Riccardi who had been the

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parish priest in Canton Ohio for four

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years before he was shot by a

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parishioner he had just finished Mass

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everyone left and one woman came in

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pointed a gun at him and said a few

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words and then shot him he lived long

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enough to ask her why don't you do this

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and by what he said to the medium she

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gave an answer he didn't understand now

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that we had the date of death from the

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Archdiocese he went to the newspapers

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and we found reports in several Ohio

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newspapers about this confirming the

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details of it

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so everything that the medium came up

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with an Italy turned out to be true we

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then contacted the researcher in Italy

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and said now we here's the date which

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has happened go back and check the

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Italian newspapers no account had

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appeared in the newspapers that were

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circulating in the small village in

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Tuscany they eventually found one report

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in newspaper in Rome that did report the

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death of father Giuseppe Riccardi and

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the newspaper account placed it in

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Canton China which is that 20 times the

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size of Canton Ohio so it's less of a

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mistake so it's unlikely that this

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medium had gotten the information by any

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normal means one other way you might be

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able to differentiate supersized um

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survival is by evidence of strong

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motivation on the part of the deceased

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the discarnate to communicate and

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there's another remarkable

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drop in communicator that Ian and

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Erlander Hamilton from Iceland studied

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they were doing studies of the

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professional Icelandic medium hoffstein

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bjornsen and at one of your instance

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meet seances a character appeared and

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said that he had been buried without his

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leg that had been dismembered shortly

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before death and he wanted the lake

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buried with the body

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no one in the room knew what he was

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talking about no one recognized the

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story this discarnate this alleged

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discarnate reappeared many times in

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different hafsteinn bjornsen seances

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with different sitters present and none

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of them ever recognized the story but

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eventually he gave enough detail that

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they're able to find the leg and bury it

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in the anonymous graveyard in the church

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that he claimed was his after that

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happened he never appeared again that

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suggests some motivation on the part of

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okay we also have evidence from

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instrumental transcommunication what

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used to be called electronic voice

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phenomena these are situations in which

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an alleged discarnates seems to be

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communicating through some mechanical

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device now if you lived electromagnetic

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like a telephone or television or a

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radio or a computer one of the

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difficulties with this research is that

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the signals usually come through on top