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Articles > Research Articles 4Cell EVP Demonstration
by Tom and Lisa Butler
The AA-EVP has been looking for an effective way to use EVP as a research tool for studying etheric to physical influences. Part of the problem is finding a way to make the recording of the phenomenal voices more reliable. There has also been a problem with experimenter ability, which varies considerably amongst people willing to participate in experiments. The Association is a teaching/learning organization and our preference is for people to focus on personal growth, rather than to enter into organized activity that might cause undue demands on performance. This is not a competition. One initiative to increase our understanding that has proven to be very effective is the 4Cell EVP Demonstration, which is being conducted by AA-EVP members and tracked in the Idea Exchange. The 4Cell project is designed to function as a testbed in which new ideas can be tried and the limits of EVP can be explored. As 4Cell matures with more cells and more experiments on record, we anticipate being able to provide solid scientific evidence of the existence of EVP, and the fact that EVP is proof of personal survival. Further, we expect this proof to be in a form that the scientific community will be able to accept, and therefore, feel obliged to repeat the experiments. The 4Cell EVP Demonstration protocol is is explained here. We are available to assist researchers in setting up Cells to meet their research goals.
Each cell consists of four people:
Cell members have been asked to rotate positions, but we are finding that it is more important that the cell have some degree of recording success than it is to rotate positions, so we are now asking that each Cell has at least one experienced experimenter with some level of confidence that at least some utterance will be recorded. The Cells were also asked to record on a regular, weekly basis, but now we see that there are too many normal living interruptions, and it is better that the group try to record when possible, perhaps on a monthly schedule. Since Cell members are usually scattered around the country, it is impossible to physically supervise the experimental cycles, so many experiments by many different Cells over may months should provide dependable "proof" of the concept, even though individual results should be judged on a case by case basis. In the event that one of the four members is temporarily not able to participate, the function of Receiver and Scribe can be combined. But separation between the Questioner and the Sender is required to address the possibility that the Questioner is asking something that is emotionally charged. This also separates the expected response from the send/receive process. The reason we are asking the Scribe to independently decide whether or not the request has been correctly responded to is to see if he or she is able to arrive at that conclusion without "group think" unconsciously guided by the Questioner. The protocol does not require a specific type of question or method for obtaining the EVP, except for the controls of who knows what, when, who attempts to record the EVP and who makes the first interpretation of the results. The reason for this is that the group dynamics are as much an interest to us as are the resulting EVP. One of the predictions is that a cooperating group will have better results than one that experiences internal conflict. The concept is that the rapport of mutual cooperation builds the kind of etheric/physical energy necessary for etheric to physical influences. Another term for this is "Contact Field." We did not know how well the Cells would do when we began the project. The first two Cell reports made it clear that the communicating entities were happy to participate and that they could do all that we asked. Let us first give you a summary of the results received by the Cells as of July 2005 and then we will discuss the implications of those results and what we see for the future. 4Cell 1 – Voices: Andrea Carr, Siobhan McBride, Karen Mossey and Sue Mousseau (James Jones replaced Sue in experiment four and then the group dissolved):
4Cell 2 –Infinite: Mary Jo Gran, Rheta Conley, Shelly Morrison and Vicki Talbott:
4Cell 3 –White Noise: Michael Hester, Cheryl Hoes, Bill and Hedi Ambruster and Eric Cole:
4Cell 4 –Delta: Erland Babcock, Bryan Kaplan, Richard Shenk and Harry Flagle:
A successful experiment is one in which an EVP has been recorded that either specifically answers the question or responds in a way that an answer can be reasonably construed from the EVP. For instance, in Cell Voices experiment 2, “Level six” Even though we do not know if that is a correct answer, it is appropriate. Of the eighteen experiments conducted thus far, eleven or 61% have been successful. The etheric communicators have had a very large number of possible answers from which to choose. For instance, in Cell Infinity’s experiment 4, asking for Jim's Montessori School Teachers, the expected answer was given as “Vivian” and “Rosmund” How many first names are there in the western culture? There must be thousands. The odds of a person guessing the correct name must be about the same as winning the California Lottery. What are the odds of selecting the right name twice in the same EVP? Guessing eleven appropriate answers out of eighteen attempts must be similar in difficulty to winning the California Lottery eleven out of eighteen tries. The results of the experiments would be astounding just because of how much the answers have exceeded what would be expected for guessing. Since we know that the communicators are intelligent, aware people, the gratifying part is not beating the odds, but how cooperative they have been. We wish to thank all of the Cell members for their continued participation in the experiment. We especially thank Shelly Morrison and Vicki Talbott for moderating the Idea Exchange forum and for helping everyone get through the complicated protocol. And yes, a hearty thanks to their etheric partners who have been so willing to help us learn. A powerful research tool The 4Cell EVP Demonstration protocol has demonstrated that the etheric communicators are very interested in assisting us in our research. In fact, it seemed clear that some of the Cells improved each cycle, as Cell members on both sides of the veil became more adept at communication. We are convinced that any researcher can easily form one or more experimental Cells to conduct experiments to study the nature of reality and/or to discover information, such as the location of missing people. If you are such a researcher, please contact the AA-EVP and we will attempt to assist you any way we are able.
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