American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
This article or section needs additional references or sources to improve its verifiability. It may be using the words or ideas of other publications in its text, without citing the source(s) of the information. Please help improve this article by introducing appropriate citations. This article has been tagged since March 2007. (help) |
The American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena, or (AA-EVP), is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization focused on educating and supporting people interested in electronic voice phenomenon (EVP). The AA-EVP has more then 30,000 members in twenty countries. The current directors of the Association are Tom and Lisa Butler.[1]
Contents |
[edit] History
The AA-EVP was founded in 1982,[1] although their roots go back to the 1970s, when their president, Sarah Estep, began hearing mysterious voices on her husband's TEAC reel-to-reel recorder. Estep concluded the recordings were made by spirits from the afterlife or alien beings living in a non-corporeal state.[2]
[edit] The AA-EVP today
The Association distributes a newsletter, and has members in at least 40 U.S. states[2] and 20 countries.[1] They also arrange an annual conference, and host advice-driven articles and what they say are EVP examples on their website.[3]
The AA-EVP actively supports the Survival Hypothesis, which postulates that humans exist as both physical and non-physical beings, and that when a human dies they do not cease to exist, but rather revert to being purely non-physical in nature.[3] Estep claimed to have recorded over 20,000 ghosts and aliens. She said that some of the recordings yielded coherent and understandable messages, but that others were unintelligible.[2]
The AA-EVP website contains what they say are EVP samples, as well as photographic and video examples of what appear to be other-worldly beings, which the Association accepts as corroborating evidence of the Survival Hypothesis.[4]
The organization is often quoted in books regarding the subject of EVP including "Communicating with the Dead"[5] and "Spirit Rescue".[6]
[edit] Criticisms
Due to the association's fundamental belief in both the scientific legitimacy of EVPs and their support of the Survival Hypothesis, they are viewed as inherently biased by some skeptics.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c About the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena, AA-EVP Website
- ^ a b c d EVP Entry, The Skeptic's Dictionary
- ^ a b What is the Survival Hypothesis?, AA-EVP Website
- ^ Examples of EVP and ITC, AA-EVP Website
- ^ Belanger, Jeff (2005). Communicating with the Dead. ISBN 1-56414-793-2.
- ^ Davidson, Wilma (2006). Spirit Rescue, A Simple Guide to Talking with Ghosts and Freeing Earthbound Spirits. ISBN 0-7387-0907-7.
[edit] External links
- AA-EVP Home - The official website
