This is the first post in a while, so lets just jump right in. First, lets establish that there are a lot of people out in the world claiming to be psychics and mediums. That’s fine and good, but it is important to realize that not everyone has good intentions. Many self proclaimed psychics really are just normal people looking to make a profit off of the paranormal bubble that has grown over the past few years. While it is generally easy to spot phony psychics using simple logic tests, they are getting quite sophisticated and can easily fool someone new to the world of psychical research. With that said, what exactly are Psychics, Mediums, and Empaths?

A Psychic is any person showing (or having been said to possess) the ability to use ESP, or Extra Sensory Perception, to predict future events, discover information, or “tune” into other realities. A Psychic usually uses methods such as divination, tarot, or the so called “sixth sense” to reveal information to those who seek it.

A Medium is any person who acts as an intermediary between the physical world and the spiritual world. Mediums are often associated with the 20th century Spiritualist movement, although Mediumship has grown in recent years with the rise of the so called “New Age Movement.” Mediums can either possess the sometimes burdensome ability to see or detect spirits around them, or they may use specific meditation techniques to induce a state of trance so as to allow the spirit to communicate.

An Empath is any person whose nervous system is wired in such a way that they are highly sensitive to emotional energy, often to the point where the feeling becomes unbearable. Empaths often show strong sensitivity to other types of energy such as sunlight, electricity, and heat.

Let’s learn a bit more about each of these extraordinary types of people.

Are People Born With Psychic Abilities?

Paranormal researchers have shown that many young children between 6 months and 5 years exhibit psychic abilities, especially a very strong psychic bond with the mother. It is said that as the brain develops, either normal biological development or societal conditioning cause the psychic abilities of the child to recede until they are no longer present. Obviously, this is not always the case. No matter the case, it can be said that many of us are born with psychic abilities, but through the conditioning of our parents, teachers, and other role models, we slowly develop into psychically devoid humans. Not everyone experiences this recession of abilities. Some people are encouraged to explore their abilities and develop them; others simply were not conditioned  enough to let go of the brain structure that promotes psychic ability.

How Do Psychics Predict The Future?

This question is somewhat misleading. No psychic predicts the absolute future, as there is no such thing. Psychics are able to tap into that millisecond before all universal possibilities collapse into the one that will actually occur. In other words, Psychics can only give you one possible future. As a human being, you have the ability to choose your paths and make decisions, all of which are guaranteed to change the psychic’s prediction. This does not mean that the psychic was inaccurate, simply that your own actions changed the course of events.

Some psychics use methods such as divination or tarot to attempt to predict future events. The basic method for this is to concentrate all  of one’s energy into the device, therefore causing the device to react.

Can Psychics See The Past?

Psychics that are also sensitive to emotional energy may find it easy to see what may have happened in a building or to an object many years ago. Humans release emotional energy all the time, but that energy is much greater when a traumatic event occurs. This emotional recording of the event is stored in whatever environment or object just happens to be there at the time. Psychics may be able to tap into this stored energy and “play back” the event.

Viewing past events without the use of emotional energy may be somewhat difficult. To view the past, one must first assume that it is stored in some universal variable, and not simply destroyed as each second passes. Some say that time repeats itself in a never ending loop, but this is unsubstantiated at this time.

So Mediums Are Sort Of Like That Kid From “The Sixth Sense?”

Not necessarily. Not all Mediums can physically see spirits. Most Mediums do display Clairsentience, which is the sensing of spirit presence. However in order to truly see a spirit, environmental conditions must be ideal. This is why it is much harder to see a ghost during the day. The sun’s energy overpowers the energy of the spirit.

Why Aren’t Mediums and Psychics Used More Extensively In Paranormal Research?

The answer is simple. It is almost impossible to quantify a psychic or medium’s  experiences. There is no way to gather evidence and no way to substantiate it. As a research group, the DAPRS is actively attempting to obtain credibility for the field of paranormal research within the scientific community. Until there is a way to definitively record psychic and medium data, we simply cannot enter their experiences as evidence.

Is It Hard To Be An Empath?

This, like many things, is dependent on a person’s comfort level. Everyone shows empathy. It is a basic requirement for compassion and inside every decent human on the planet. The problems start occurring when you exhibit higher sensitivity to these feelings. Empaths generally “feel” another’s pain, sorrow, anger, or disgust as if it was their own feeling. This can also work in the spiritual sense, as they may be able to feel a spirits emotional state.

Hopefully this article has helped to shed some light on the subject. Of course, please feel free to submit any questions to our email at info@detroitaprs.info.

As was stated in several previous articles, we mentioned that 99% of all ghost sightings, photographs, and videos are simple mistaken identity. We are now going to explain exactly what we mean by that, and what can be done to counter this mis-identification.

We here at the DAPRS believe that most alleged ghost sightings can be easily explained through a simple psychological process that all humans share. Matrixing is the word for the brain’s tendancy to see patterns in completely random visual data. In other words, let’s say that you are staring at a dark hallway in an abandoned hospital. You see a “misty” form develop into what looks like a face. You snap a picture or two, and realize that the picture only adds detail to the supposed face. A good paranormal investigator, before wasting precious battery life, would halt before taking the pictures and realize that an old hospital is filled with dust. This dust is kicked up by the sudden activity in the once empty building. The good investigator would see that his brain is simple forming faces out of the random visual stimuli that is the dust cloud.

Matrixing is the arch enemy of serious paranormal research. It’s no wonder that scientific community is so unwilling to consider our theories. Look at the hundreds of so-called paranormal investigators proudly displaying photos on their blogs and case studies that are clearly nothing more than dust, fog, smoke, or bugs. It’s time that investigators begin the process of weeding out every image that is clearly not a ghost. That means NO cloudy mist figures or strange disembodies mist faces. The only things that the scientific community are interested in are full body apparitions and dimensional rifts that aren’t camera straps.

In order to promote serious consideration of paranormal theories, both the general public and researchers in the community must refuse to by into the garbage seen on the influx of paranormal themed reality TV and instead choose to deny ignorance and develop a standard by which to measure evidence gathered during an investigation.

Just remember…99% of all paranormal accounts are mis-identification. That leaves 1% unexplained. It’s this 1% that researchers need to focus on.

Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1875, after years of research and experimentation. Of course, he knew the technological significance of his discovery as evidenced by his famous words to his assistant: “Mr. Watson — come here — I want to see you.” Unbeknownst to him was the impact on the paranormal world that his invention would cause. For years to come, up until the present day, people all over the world have been receiving phone calls from deceased persons.

The ability for “spirits”, or even our accepted theory of residual energy, to harness electricity as a means of communicating with the living  has been known almost since its initial discovery. Considering that entities are thought to be composed of some unknown or undiscovered form of energy, it is only rational to think that they might be able to affect other forms of energy currently known to us.

Before we go further with this article, it is important to point out a commonly misunderstood paranormal aspect of a very famous inventor. Most people grew up being fed the idea that Thomas Edison was in the the process of developing a device that would allow him to contact the dead through the use of electricity. I am going to dispel that rumor now. Thomas Edison was in fact not developing any sort of technology that would allow him to speak with the dead. He mentioned his beliefs regarding the eternal future of our personalities and memories in a newspaper interview, never expecting them to actually go to press. The excerpt of that article is as follows:

“If our personality survives, then it is strictly logical and scientific to assume that it retains memory, intellect, and other faculties and knowledge that we acquire on this earth. Therefore, if personality exists after what we call death, it’s reasonable to conclude that those who leave this earth would like to communicate with those they have left here. . . . I am inclined to believe that our personality hereafter will be able to affect matter. If this reasoning be correct, then, if we can evolve an instrument so delicate as to be affected,  or moved, or manipulated . . . by our personality as it survives in the next life, such an instrument, when made available, ought to record something……”

With the Edison legend out of the way, it will be simpler to describe the field of ITC as it stands today. ITC, or Instrumental Transcommunication, is the field of research currently attempting to explain how and why entities are able to harness technology such as phones, televisions, computers, and radios. It is a very commonly reported experience in the paranormal world. The call from a recently dead relative; the computer suddenly “possessed”and typing out a complete conversation on its own; radios picking up phantom signals on stations normally filled with nothing but white noise; TVs tuned to a white noise channel that show phantom images and play strange sounds; all great examples of what ITC researchers are attempting to explain. Of course, as with all of the paranormal world, 95% of the experiences are simple misidentification of known phenomena. That the leaves 5%; what of that 5%?

White Noise deserves a paragraph of its own, considering that it is a recurring aspect of ITC. White noise is the electronic equivalent of white light. It is a flat combination of random analog data. It is basically what you see in the absence of a channel on old analog TVs and what you hear in the absence of a station on the radio. Researchers postulate that white noise is the optimal environment to paranormal entities due to their distinctive electromagnetic wavelengths, and the lack of distinction present in white noise. This lack of distinction allows paranormal entities a foothold in our reality, where a normal wavelength would drown them out. The same effect explains why ghosts are more easily experienced at night. The lack of sunlight (high intensity and uniform energy) allows entities of distinct, but often low level energy to make an impact on our reality.

There are many techniques and devices in use in the field of ITC today. While there are far too many to mention all of them in one article, a few set themselves apart from the rest and offer an interested person a quick glimpse into the theory and application of ITC. A camcorder set up to record a sort of infinite loop is a great way to disturb reality in a particular room. This dusturbance allows entities to grab a foothold and latch onto our reality. A loop is easy to setup by simply setting up a camcorder to output to a TV and directing the camcorder toward the TV. Set the TV output to a device like a DVR or VCR ,and you have an record-able infinite loop. Another device used is called Franks Box. This device has a catchy name, but is actually very simple. An old scan-type radio (A specific Radio Shack model is best) is modified to remove its ability to stop on particular stations. The result is a radio that runs up and down the band continuously, stopping randomly on “occupied” stations. The device is used in similar situations as a DVR in EVP work, where a researcher asks questions and listens for an answer over the box. The theory is that intelligent or residual entities would be able to use radio waves to formulate a specific message.

Finally, there are many paranormal research topics that fall under the broad umbrella of ITC. Fields such as EVP or Electronic Voice Phenomena or Paranormal Photography are all simply studies of entities affecting man-made technologies.

It is simple to get into the field of ITC for anyone. It can be done with commonly available technology; it can be done from the comfort of your own home; and results can be classified on a standard scale similar to that of the Hynek Scale (The scale used to measure assumed alien UFO sightings.)

For more information,visit http://www.worlditc.org/