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ELECTRONIC VOICES: CONTACT WITH ANOTHER DIMENSION? by Anabela Cardoso. Hampshire, UK O-Books/John Hunt Publishing, Ltd., 2010, Pp. 236. $24.95 (paperback). ISBN 978 1 84694 363 8.
Anabela Cardoso, a high-ranking Portuguese diplomat, has written a remarkable book about instrumental transcommunication (ITC), Electronic Voices: Contact with Another Dimension? TTC refers to electronically received forms of apparent communication of unexplained origin. Although ITC phenomena include voices, images, and texts, Cardoso has focused primarily on voices. The voices state that they are deceased, and their speech often seems to come in direct response to experimenters' questions and comments. They range in length from one or two words to several sentences. Voices vary in strength and seeming gender. Some seem to lack characteristics of a human voice and some seem robotic.
Cardoso describes her three goals for the book: (1) to help readers try to receive the voices themselves; (2) to contribute to a better understanding of processes which seem to encourage reception of voices; and (3) to encourage the scientific community to study and analyze these phenomena, using sophisticated technical methods of voice analysis she says are now available.
She very effectively achieved her first goal: she describes conditions and equipment she's used over the years as she's received a tremendous number of voices. An entire chapter is devoted to details of how to prepare an environment conducive to the reception of voices.
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