February 20, 2007
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Two Priests
In the early 1950's in Italy, two Catholic priests, Father Ernetti and Father Gemelli, were collaborating on music research. Gemelli, was President of the Papal Academy and Ernetti, an internationally respected scientist, physicist and philosopher, was also a music lover.
They worked together in a physics lab with oscilloscopes, filter systems and other electronic gear in an effort to find ways to produce clearer singing voices.
For years, Father Gemelli had often silently called upon his deceased father for advice when he faced crisis situations. He had never received a conscious reply from his father, but things seemed to work out; it was one of those reassuring rituals that everyone uses to get through tough times. Or so he thought.On September 15, 1952, while Gemelli and Ernetti were recording a Gregorian chant, a wire on their magnetophone kept breaking. Exasperated, Father Gemelli looked up and asked his father for help. To the two men's amazement, his father's voice, recorded on the magnetophone, answered: "Of course I shall help you. I'm always with you."
The two men stared at each other shocked. Father Gemelli began to shake. Sweat broke out on his forehead. Was this the Devil? But Father Ernetti’s scientific curiosity was piqued. He calmed Gemelli. "Come, come, let us try the experiment again.,, They did. This time a very clear voice filled with humor said: "But Zucchini, it is clear, don't you know it is I?"
Father Gemelli stared at the tape. No one knew the nickname his father had teased him with when he was a boy. He realized then that he was truly speaking with his father. Though his joy at his father's apparent survival was mixed with fear. Did he have any right to speak with the dead?
Eventually the two men visited Pope Pius XII in Rome. Father Gemelli, deeply troubled, told the Pope of the experience. To his surprise, the Pope patted his shoulder and told him. "Dear Father Gemelli, you really need not worry about this. The existence of this voice is strictly a scientific fact and has nothing whatsoever to do with spiritism.
The recorder is totally objective. It receives and records only sound waves from wherever they come. This experiment may perhaps become the cornerstone for a building for scientific studies which will strengthen people's faith in a hereafter.,, (Italian journal Astra June, 1990).
The good father was somewhat reassured. But he made certain that the experiment did not go public until the last years of his life. It wasn't until 1990 that it was published.
In 1956, two California men Attila von Szalay and Raymond Bayless, captured paranormal voices on audio tape. They reported their results in the Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research in the winter of 1959.
In 1959, the man who was to become a great pioneer in the recording of voice phenomena, Swedish film producer Friedrich Juergenson, captured voices on tape while taping bird songs.Today, in Luxembourg, and in many countries all over the world, a new science is being born, the science of Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC). Today, using high-tech communication, the "dead" are now transmitting information to scientists in pictures, text, and voice via television screens, computers and telephones.
The undisputed leaders of this new science of ITC, Jules and Maggy Harsch-Fischbach, who run the Transcommunication Study Circle of Luxembourg (CETL), received the Swiss Award for Paranormal Discoveries in Bern in 1992.
