Electronic Voices: Contact with Another Dimension?:

There are a handful of books written on this facinating subject about contacting the dead through Electronic Voice Phenomenon, but each one different. This book however goes a step further to describe Instrumental Transcommunications (ITC). Examples of ITC are capturing images from video cameras linked to TV sets and reviewing freeze frames. For anyone who has seen the movie 'White Noise', this book will help explain the methods demonstrated in the film. Computers used to capture EVP are mentioned.A recommended read from a different perspective of audio contact with another dimension.

Without a doubt the finest and most in depth book I've read on the subject.

A more update view on the phenomenon of evp. Not too heavy going. A must read for anyone interested in evp.

Very Good Book.Excellent service

It seemed a bit long winded. Took a long time to get to the point.

If you are one of those people, as I once was, who thinks that listening for electronic voices, purportedly coming from the "dead," is like looking for faces or figures in the clouds, this book and the accompanying CD with some of those voices, may prompt you to rethink it all. While many such voices are clearly muffled, muddled, garbled, and otherwise indistinct, the author reports receiving a number that were loud and clear. And they were often more than simple utterances. Some of them involved philosophical discussions, and one dialogue between the author and a spirit communicator lasted two-and-a-half hours. "It was against all I understood of reality, and certainly against all known laws of science that I could not only hear such voices, but that they appeared to actually come and dialogue with me from another dimension, which I supposed was the next world," author Anabela Cardoso writes. Dr. Cardoso, who speaks six languages, is a highly-respected diplomat, having served as Consul-General for Portugal in a number of countries, including the United States and France, and as Portuguese Chargé d'Affaires in Japan and India. The Foreword to her book is written by Professor David Fontana, former president of the Society for Psychical Research in London. In fact, Fontana was called in to witness some of the phenomena. "Firstly, I have no doubt about the reality of the voices received, and secondly, I am confident that these voices are not susceptible to normal explanation," Fontana offers, adding that acoustic analysis of the voices indicates that they lack characteristics present in the human voice, supporting the view that they are not manmade. Cardoso devotes the first 46 pages of this 236-page book to explaining the methodology and history of Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC) and its variations, including Electronic Voice Phenomena, (EVP), Direct Radio Voices (DRV) and Voices on Tape (VOT). She then tells how she became interested in the subject and of her initial experiments, beginning in 1997. She recalls having heard of ITC before her experiments but didn't take it seriously as she assumed that anything as important as contact with the deceased would be big news around the world. Still, she was puzzled by the fact that some respected scientists, theologians, engineers, technicians, and academicians were reporting contact with "other dimensions" or the "dead." She tells of contact from her deceased grandmother, father, and brother, and then from an entity calling himself Carlos de Almeida, a seemingly knowledgeable and experienced communicator who was able to answer many questions for her before he told her he would be advancing to a higher realm and thus unable to further communicate with her again. At times, Cardoso could hear the spirit communicators talking among themselves, as when they discussed how best to answer her question. There was much that was not clear, however, and it became apparent to Cardoso that there are many obstacles to inter-dimensional communication which are difficult to overcome. The purpose of it all? "Besides the obvious purpose of informing us that life does not finish with physical death, one of the main goals of the most comprehensive ITC communication appears to be an attempt to contribute to the expansion of human consciousness by conveying to us information of high ethical content which breaks with conventional human values," Cardoso answers. Now that she has been involved in the field for a dozen years, Cardoso laments the fact that mainstream science has been so stubborn and closed-minded. "Unfortunately, any high profile technician or scientist will, in general, not only refuse to examine the evidence but also refuse to supervise the reception at origin of the voices to be analyzed...," she writes, adding that the materialistic worldview prejudices them against even considering the various ITC phenomena. She points out that even the majority of parapsychologists know little or nothing about the subject. "Moreover, they also do not know that they do not know, and this is an even bigger problem," she adds. Yes, it is mind boggling and will probably exceed the boggle threshold of a large percentage of readers, but there are many other credible people reporting similar contacts and so it is extremely difficult for the open-minded person to write it all off as just so much bunk. For the truly open-minded person, Dr. Cardoso offers a very interesting, informative, intriguing, and inspirational read.

I heartily agree with the review by Michael Tymn in Hawaii (above). I've just finished Dr Cardoso's book and enjoyed it very much. The style makes me feel I know the author, since the narrative is essentially a personal journey explaining how she became involved in this research and what she discovered along the way. It seems to me she has bravely stuck her head up above the parapet, knowing there must be many people keen to pour scorn on such anomalous phenomena. She comes across as a very persistent and rational researcher. Also, acknowledging her emotional responses to events gives the text added interest and depth. I appreciated the historical survey of EVP in Chapter Two.Personally, given the shortcomings in the quality of some of the communications received, both in intelligibility and the sometimes incompleteness of sentences, I know I could not possibly have stuck with the project as the author has done; and for twelve years!Dr Cardoso gives an interesting view on the afterlife, making parallels with 'The Road to Immortality' - a description of `The Other Side' communicated to the medium Geraldine Cummins by the renowned (deceased) psychical researcher Frederic Myers. Cardoso draws out the similarities between this book, and her own research findings.If I missed one thing, it was a summary of the higher ethical teachings that she and other European researchers have received as a result of their research. I found it illuminating that the 'invisible communicators' were not always permitted to say what they wanted, being refused permission by a 'higher power', but nonetheless a hint of the substance of these teachings would have been welcome. There are other instances in psychical research evidence where it appears that we Earthlings should not be allowed to know everything of the next dimensions.This book is an excellent contribution to the literature, not least because the author's sources were mostly from research texts that have not been translated into English. The way the original language of the communications (mostly Portugese, some German) is followed by the English translation in brackets, was really helpful. This book provides one more step towards the eventual acceptance of survival after death - based on the evidence - and readers may even want to take up this line of ITC enquiry themselves. The book explains how to do it. A good read.

La lecture de ce livre est intéressante. L'auteur(e) est sincère et claire. On entre dans le quotient de ses expérimentations. Cependant, elle prend trop au pied de la lettre les informations que lui envoient ces "communicateurs" de l'au-delà, et n'envisage pas l'hypothèse (la seule valable à mon avis), d'entités facétieuses qui s'amusent (comme dans pratiquement tous ces phénomènes de TCI) de leur naïve correspondante avec un charabia métaphysico-ésotérique.

No existen muchos libros en el mercado que hablen de la Transcomunicación Instrumental seriamente y este libro de Anabela Cardoso es uno de esos pocos, un libro excelente y muy completo, lo único malo es que no está editado en español, pero su contenido es 100% recomendable.

This book is about ITC (Instrumental Trans-Communication): the phenomenon of humans who have passed away but are apparently existing in other, higher realities - and who can communicate with us in this reality through electronic means. Such a claim is seemingly bizarre and very easy to ridicule, but what is not so easy to ridicule is the author of this book - Dr. Anabela Cardoso. Cardoso is a professionally successful person of considerable status (a high-ranking Portugese diplomat) - in other words, a person far removed from the template of your average paranormal fraudster (typically pursuing money, fame, publicity etc.) The paranormal, or anomalous, areas are dangerous territories to enter - because they contain more than their fair share of fraudsters - lying in wait to take advantage of the needy of spirit and those who are grieving. If we are to enter such areas in search of any "T" Truth of the human condition we need a reliable and credible guide. In my opinion, Anabela Cardoso is such a guide - an intelligent and high-status person with nothing to gain from fraud, but plenty to lose.Reviewing the evidence presented in this book from Cardoso's own research, and the research she has included of credible and often scientifically-qualified others, has opened my mind to the possibility of a continuation of the human self/consciousness into other dimensions/realities. Included with the book is a CD of the voices which have been tape-recorded by Dr. Cardoso. These are not random noises which may or may not resemble voices, but distinct words and sentences - some representing conversation and even question and answer sessions. The recordings are not of fleeting noises either, but have been made over a period of about 10 years.Faced with Cardoso's evidence our choices are these: She is trying to defraud us; she is genuine but mistaken; she has been deceived by someone continually hiding in the bushes outside her studio for 10 years; or she has recorded the voices of entities previously existing on Earth who are now in another reality. For me, considering the quality of the evidence, the care and expertise taken in the compiling of it, the credibility and personal standing of the author - the latter choice is plainly the one.This book, read in conjunction with the credible researchers into other anomalous phenomena (like NDE's - e.g. Parnia; and past lives - e.g. Weiss) represents a growing body of evidence that the survival of human spirit/self/consciousness into other realities is real - at least as "real" as our present strange, post-Newtonian reality. The bottom line is that fundamentalist positions concerning the human condition (e.g. materialism, theism, atheism) are looking less and less safe.

It is a five -star research work. I am in touch with Dr.Anabela Cardoso. It is a frontier of knowledge that she has pushed. It is a top-work on life after life and survival of personality , memory and consciousness after physical death. It is a pioneering work. Congratulations to the author.

The story of Anabela Cardoso's search for the voices is suspenseful, and her breakthrough is thrilling. But the meat of the book is the evidence she brings forth and the case she makes for the voices as belonging to the deceased. I'm an afterlife specialist, and I came to this topic--Instrumental Transcommunication, or ITC--with a skeptical attitude. She disposed of that in a hurry, then laid the groundwork for deeper conviction. This is an important addition to the growing library of books on this topic, and hers is the one I've learned the most from. Dr. Cardoso is a master of this perplexing, strange phenomenon, and her writing is clear and easy to read. Don't miss this if you are looking for evidence of an afterlife.