Association TransCommunication
(Formerly American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena (AA-EVP). Changed January 1, 2010)
- Directors: Tom and Lisa Butler
- Funding Status: USA Nonprofit 501(c)(3)educational organization
- Subject: The study of all objective forms of trans-etheric influence known as transcommunication. This includes Instrumental TransCommunication (ITC) and Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP), but it also includes some séance and haunting phenomena.
- Website: http://atransc.org
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About Association TransCommunication
The ATransC is a nonprofit educational association that is dedicated to the support of people who are interested in or who are studying transcommunication. The website offers examples, techniques and concepts concerning these phenomena.
Virtually all forms of paranormal phenomena that involves trans-etheric influences is considered transcommunication. This is an important perspective. It is hypothesized that the etheric communicators are intelligent and that such influences take effort—energy of some kind. This stipulation that the influence is initiated by an intelligent agent is the foundation for the belief that communication is one of the characteristics of many forms of trans-etheric influence. There is often evidence that these intelligent agents appear to be loved ones.
- ATransC is a member supported organization operated by volunteers. No salaries are paid and 100% of member’s dues and donations are used for the operation of the Association and support of its activities.
The Survival Hypothesis
People report experiences such as hauntings events or EVP, and these experiences can be verified and often replicated as objective events. Careful examination of these reports has not produced explanations to account for them based on currently understood science. In order to develop experimental protocols that might lead to better understanding of these reported phenomena, it is necessary to speculate that there may be physical and or nonphysical processes that are not currently understood by mainstream science. The Survival Hypothesis is designed to pose the question: "What if there is more to reality than has been documented? If there is more, what would it look like, how would it behave and how might it be studies?"
The Survival Hypothesis holds that people are etheric personalities able to exist in the physical aspect of reality because of the physical body. When the physical body "dies," or when the person is in some way distracted from the physical, personality changes its point of view back to its more natural awareness in the etheric aspect of reality. In effect, the hypothesis proposes that people exist before and after this lifetime.
Current research is showing that there is empirical support for the Survival Hypothesis, and that there is a clear need for further study. The implications to humanity in general, and specifically to science, are profound. At the very least, the new questions posed by current research foretell a new view of reality that promises to make these phenomena common-place and no more mysterious than is the rest of our world.
Member Benefits
The primary benefit of AA-EVP membership is the quarterly TransCommunication#NewsJournal NewsJournal. The NewsJournal may be received via postal service or email as a PDF file. Other benefits include access to an online NewsJournal Archive containing most past issues since 1982 and access to the Idea Exchange.
Certified Practitioner
Thus far, four ATransC members have been certified to function as proxy practitioners. Details and requirements are available here. A Certified Practitioner must be an ATransC member, must have exhibited continued ability to record meaningful and clearly understood EVP and be willing to assist others in contacting a loved one using EVP. The Directors will make the final determination of who is qualified, but applicants are expected to have demonstrated this ability to the Directors, usually for a year or more before applying.
Focus
Member support:
- Idea Exchange
- A discussion board on which members can share examples, help one another edit and understand examples and discuss questions about the nature of these phenomena. Group recording sessions for the Big Circle are coordinated in the forum and results of the sessions are shared.
- Big Circle
- This is a special section of the ATransC website dedicated to people who have lost loved ones and to sharing their successes in contacting them via EVP.
- TransCommunication#NewsJournal NewsJournal
- A quarterly, 20 page 8.5 by 11 inch newsletter containing news of developments in the field and articles about important aspects of this field.
- ATransC Document Archive
- The first issue of the AA-EVP newsletter was published by Sarah Estep in May, 1982. The current issue of the Association TransCommunication NewsJournal is 28-4 Winter ATransC 2010 NewsJournal. Eventually all of the past issues will be in the online archive. It is searchable and offers a wealth of information about both audio and visual ITC.
- Idea Exchange
Sarah Estep Research Fund'
- The Sarah Estep Research Fund
- This is the ATransC’s research program. It was begun in the Spring of 2008 after Sarah Estep made her transition and her daughter, Becky Estep, made a memorial contribution that was sufficiently substantial to begin the research program. Since then, a private donor has also made a substantial contribution designated to the study of real-time communication using EVP. This has resulted in a grant issued to the Windbridge Institute to study this question.
- The Sarah Estep Research Fund
NewsJournal
The ATransC NewsJournal is generally 20 8.5 by 11 inch pages covering news of current activities in the field and articles about EVP successes and technical issues. An example issue is in the here.
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