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Research > Research Articles Grants for Research into Life after Death News Release February 2007 The Helene Reeder Memorial Fund for Research into Life After Death, (HRF) awarded in December 2006 grants for two research projects as follows: Mrs Sonia Rinaldi at the International Instrumental Transcommunication Research Institute in Brazil for “An investigation into possible unexpected intelligent disturbance in the visual and audio range” receives EUR 5000. Mr Christian Gaden Jensen et Prof Etzel Cardena for a project “To investigate various aspects of psychic practitioners in Scandinavia” receive EUR 2000. The HRF was grounded 2004 thanks to a Swedish doctor Helene Reeder. When Helene Reeder transitioned in 2002 she made the Swedish Society for Parapsychological Research her main heir, with a wish that the amount should be used for research into life after death. Consequently the HRF favours research projects with clear focus on this topic. The Helene Reeder Memorial Fund for Research into Life After Death, (HRF) awarded 2005 grants for EVP researchers Paolo Presi and Alexander MacRae, EUR 7000 each, for their respective research project using communications through EVP to investigate the possibility of post-mortem survival. According to plans the HRF, address c/o edgar.muller@telia.com will also in the beginning of this year publish an announcement for grants for Research into Life after Death, in the range of EUR 500-7000 each. This announcement will be sent to researchers, Journals, Institutions and other addressees involved in the topic. Stockholm January, 2007 The Helene Reeder Memorial Fund Edgar Müller From the Winter 2006 AA-EVP NewJournal HRF Grants Awarded The Helene Reeder Memorial Fund for Research into Life After Death, (HRF) awarded grants for EVP research last December to Paolo Presi and Alexander MacRae. The grants were for EUR 7,000 ($8,360) each for their research project using communications through EVP to investigate the possibility for post-mortem survival. AA-EVP member Edgar Muller was instrumental in convincing the board of the HRF that EVP was most suitable for scientific research. Edgar wrote, "It is possible to create serious protocols for the experiments; both prospective and retrospective experiments can be carried out; it is possible to use external neutral persons and sophisticated software to evaluate the results, and so on." "The HRF will be awarding these grants each year. Anyone can apply, the only limitation being that the application be filled out in English. [See "Announcement for Grant" on Page 6.] "The objective of the fund is to support research into life after death, so there will be competition between various other fields of research such as NDE, reincarnation, mediums, ITC and others." From the Fall 2005 AA-EVP NewJournal A Second Grant for Alexander MacRae Alexander MacRae has received a grant from Bial Foundation to see if there are any time and content links between what the person conducting an EVP session says or asks and the utterances recorded. The project requires four sessions a month over a period of two years and Alec says that it is taking up almost all of his time. Each session is precisely three minutes long with a set of six questions being asked at 30-second intervals. The six questions are predetermined and are the same in each session. They are all different and include, for example, "What is your name?" and "What is the time?" Alec wrote, "I extract the utterances from the recording, then put them in random order and send them to Professor Vorster who determines if each one could be a response to any of the questions, and if so he marks on a chart the number of the question concerned. For example, if the utterance was "late afternoon," that would be category 2, and so he would put 2 on the chart. "I know when that response was recorded and so I can plot it on a chart as to when it occurred and what type of response it was." Alec also has a listening panel review the responses and assign categories independent from Professor Vorster. Alec continues, "So, for example Vorster had considered a response to be category 5, but only two people agreed with him, then his categorization would only have a value of 2. It’s all a bit statistical, and we already know there are responses, but to prove it to the scientific community we have to go through this sort of thing. If there are links between the questions and the answers then these will show up on the three-dimensional chart in the end as mountains and hills." Alec tells us that the entities are starting to learn the procedure and are giving answers just before or at the same time as the question is asked. On a couple of occasions Alec wrote that they "reversed the situation and asked me the question instead!" From his reports, we believe that some of the lessons we are learning in the 4Cell experiments are being confirmed with Alec’s work. Alec is also encountering some interesting problems that might best be described as "bored entity syndrome." We will try to report in some detail about this in the next NewsJournal. From the Summer 2005 AA-EVP NewJournal ITC Research Grant By the SPR Anabela Cardoso and David Fontana have been awarded a grant of £8,500 ($15,400) for research into Instrumental TransCommunication (ITC.) The grant, funded by Mr. Oliver Knowles and administered by the Society for Psychical Research (SPR) in London, is for the study of ITC as it pertains to the vibrational aspects of paranormal phenomena. As reported by Cardoso and Fontana, "In sum, the proposal involves two main initiatives which it is hoped to carry forward concurrently. In one of them, samples of the voices received by Anabela and by up to five other leading researchers (already selected) will be submitted for acoustic analysis by acoustics expert Daniele Gullà and his team at Il Laboratorio in Bologna, Italy, a laboratory that specialises in the technical investigation of paranormal phenomena, and to an independent international laboratory that will be blind to the paranormal origin of the voices. "The purpose of the analysis will be firstly to identify the acoustic characteristics of the voices in order to study the way in which their acoustic vibrations may differ from those of normal human voices, secondly to study the acoustic differences, if any, between EVP voices and DRV voices [DRV = Direct Radio Voice], and thirdly to study the acoustic differences, if any, between the voices received by different experimenters. In addition, if recordings made by communicators when alive are available, we hope to have these acoustically analysed in order to effect comparisons between their human voices and their ITC voices. "In the second of the initiatives, we intend to obtain readings of the electro-magnetic vibrations in the studios of researchers during successful ITC sessions. This will allow us to ascertain whether or not there is any measurable variation in these readings when communications are being received. As part of this initiative we also hope to take measurements of geophysical variables in the studios of successful researchers in order to help ascertain if the location in which research is carried out is associated in any way with this success. "The grant is awarded to cover expenses for this work (principally travel and accommodation costs incurred by the investigators, fees for acoustic analyses by the independent laboratory and cost of equipment used to monitor conditions in the studios of those involved in the research), and no payment will be made to Anabela or to David. The results of the research, which is expected to take from one to two years, will be published in due course in this Journal of the Society for Psychical Research and elsewhere. Our very warm thanks go to Mr. Oliver Knowles for his generosity in supporting this work, and for his readiness to identify the relevance of ITC to his own research interests." For all of us in the AA-EVP, we congratulate Anabela and David, as well as Alexander MacRae (next article) for most important breakthroughs in the future history of ITC. From the Summer 2005 AA-EVP NewJournal SPR Research Grant for Alexander MacRae By Professor David Fontana As Chairman of the Committee responsible for the award, I am delighted to announce that Alex MacRae has been awarded a research grant of £1,500 [$2,720] by the Society for Psychical Research (SPR). The research will focus upon the reconstruction and testing of the germanium device put together during the Scole investigation (in response to instructions from the spirit communicators) to facilitate the reception of voices by ITC. For comparative and other purposes, the device will be used alongside the Alpha Interface System developed by Alex and associated with successful EVP results. We wish Alex well with his research, and look forward to hearing details of his results in due course. From: ITC News, ITC Journal No 21, March 2005, published by Anabela Cardosa. http://eureka.ya.com/cadernostci/
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