This ITC image is from a video transmission received by Hans Otto Konig on a basic television set. A clip of the video was shown during a spiritually pathbreaking 1995 New York City TV newscast report that now may be viewed on You Tube.
In 1995 New York City TV station WCBS-TV aired a news report about Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC) entitled "Voices from Beyond." ITC researcher/author Mark Macy chronicled in his book Miracles in the Storm (2001) some of the circumstances leading to the 1995 American news telecast, an unusual one among the typical corporate news media offerings of the era. In October that year was also seen the ABC primetime special about paranormal phenomena "Ghosts, Mediums, Psychics: Put To The Test" with an episode from the special broadcast the following year on "20/20."
The ITC manifestations are described by Mark Macy in the first chapter as commencing at "a time when the world was preparing for a spiritual renaissance." One can only wonder when such a renaissance of widespread expanded consciousness may gain momentum as accurate information about the variety of 'paranormal phenomena' cases remain unknown or ignored by a multitude of people. Anyone relying on the commercial mainstream news media must not be aware of the influence of bureaucratic corporate agendas behind the scenes.
The 1995 WCBS newscast report suggests that there can be successful breakthroughs in commercial media journalism with innovative spiritual topics addressed factually. Michele Marsh is heard responding to reports about otherworldly telephone calls from 'Konstantin Raudive,' identifying the voice as that of the late psychologist and ITC pioneer. She is heard to declare: "Right now you might be wondering, 'But where's the proof?' Couldn't anyone make a call and fake a voice like this?" The question ignores the extensive body of testimonials and evidence resulting from ITC research during the 1980s and '90s. In the newscast, footage is then shown of a university professor commenting about the evidence despite having so knowledge whatsoever of the scientific work involved. Marsh thereafter explained about ITC:
There have been thousands of contacts in 11 countries around the world, including the U.S. They all come through electronic devices.
According to a team of ITC experimenters in Luxembourg, these images just appeared on their home computers. And later words on those same computers explained the pictures. And of you choose to believe it, here's the message from the spirit world — that the Other Side resembles life here on Earth with mountains, rivers, trees and homes but there's one big difference. Nothing is matter as we know it.
German physicist Dr. Ernst Senkwoski is next introduced as having "devoted decades of his life to the study of ITC." Marsh asked him: "And what type of messages are you getting?" He commented about his perception of life in the world of the communicators: "Apparently it is not a world like ours here with space and time as we know it. But it seems to be something like a dream-like world in which your ideas are reality for you."
He meant that it would seem physical limitations aren't the same on the Other Side as on Earth. Mark Macy wrote in Miracles in the Storm: "When we die on Earth and take up residence in the astral world, our new body is whole and in the peak of health until we decide to move on to the ethereal realms . . . Many mystics say we have three of these Light bodies, or sheaths, around our soul. They have no form; they are like balls of living energy or clouds of pure love and wisdom."
Considering Michele Marsh's pioneering 1995 network newscast report today, it seems obvious that the subject of Instrumental Transcommunication needs a more detailed approach to be effective. Examples of longer and more substantial documentaries about ITC are the topics of recent articles at this blog.
Mark Macy wrote in Miracles in the Storm:
In the 1980s, a few scientists and researchers claimed to be enjoying long dialogs with spirit colleagues by telephone and radio, and they began to report images from Beyond through TVs and computers. Those events apparently were being made possibly by the collaboration of ethereal beings, or angels, and I have to make it clear that they were miracles, not phenomena.
Miracles involve the influences of higher spiritual powers.
Retired industrialist George Meek became Macy's spiritual mentor. Meek with retired physics professor Dr. Ernst Senkowski had traveled throughout Europe visiting ITC researchers as there were widespread experiences of the miraculous ITC.
In 1983, a German experimenter named Hans Otto Konig had successfully demonstrated his "Ultrasound" device to his audience of millions during a live television show broadcast from Station RTL (Radio-Television Luxembourg). Konig and the program's host, Rainer Holbe, stood wide-eyed as loud, clear voices were conveyed through the device — voices that technicians and engineers could not explain by any normal means.
Following this event, the research of Maggy and Jules Harsch-Fischback in Luxembourg also resulted in astonishing evidence. "They had received their first loud, clear spirit voices through radio sounds in 1985, their first spirit telephone call in 1986, their first clear television images from the astral worlds in 1986, and computer contacts beginning in 1988." In 1993 the couple received their first fax machine print-out of a communication from "a dedicated team of spirit colleagues calling themselves Timestream." An international research association formed around the Harsch-Fischbachs in 1989 and several years later Macy agreed to collaborate with them and Hans Heckmann to publish the couple's research results.
Mark Macy decided that "ITC needed good publicity in North America" but there was a lack of interest beyond some telephone conversations that went nowhere—from a producer of a paranormal-themed informational series called "The Extraordinary" and from an enthusiastic yet unrealistic 'Hollywood agent.'
While the research was heating up quickly in Europe, it was still virtually unheard of on this side of the Atlantic. In Europe, information was pouring across the veil through various experimenters' televisions, computers, telephones, and radios in the form of voices, images, and text. Here in the States a small network of experimenters were receiving little more than short, faint spirit voices on tape. Several of us had received a short flurry of [anomalous] phone calls a few months earlier, but otherwise ITC had not opened up in the States as it had in Europe.
I was determined to spread the word. If enhanced ITC contacts were more widespread in the United States, the field would attract the attention of the American public. Then, as has always been the case throughout the history of our country, Yankee ingenuity would take over, and ITC would soon light up the world.
Macy reported that he first was contacted by WCBS TV news anchor/reporter Michele Marsh in May 1994 after Marsh had learned about him from a socially prominent mutual acquaintance, Juliet Hollister.
Ms. Marsh asked me to fill in any details that Juliet might have left out, and the more I talked about ITC, the more excited she seemed to become. By the end of our conversation, she was determined to produce a serious, in-depth report on the miracles.
Macy planned for her to interview the Harsch-Fischbachs in Luxembourg at the annual ITC experimenters conference in September. He commented about Juliet Hollister: "She wrote that she had been a strong supporter of George Meek's work . . ." With the support of Eleanor Roosevelt in 1960, Hollister founded the organization The Temple of Understanding.
Meanwhile, in Germany, physicist Ernst Senkowski and experimenter Adolf Homes were getting ready to be on a live TV show the following day. The feature magazine program on SAT1 television network had set aside two blocks of time totaling thirty-three minutes, during which Homes would try to make a live contact with the dead before seven to eight million viewers.
The next day, the program started off badly. The live ITC experiments were sandwiched in time slots between filmed reports on rape and other subjects that attract negative spiritual influences.
As the cameras zoomed in on Adolf Homes, he went through his typical routine of summoning his spirit colleagues in an otherwise silent studio. The moderator, a vivacious young woman, apparently found the process rather odd and started to laugh. She excused herself and struggled to maintain a serious demeanor, but a somewhat comical air had already been set for the ITC experiment, further damaging the contact field for the experiment.
No contacts were made, and most of the viewing audience probably felt a little bit let down. The more skeptical viewers might even have shrugged Homes off as a nut, which was certainly not fair to the serious experimenter from Rivenich. Nor was it a good sentiment to equate with the young field of ITC. Such attitudes might disrupt the broader contact field that was developing among researchers in various countries.
The Luxembourg couple, Maggy and Jules Harsch-Fischbach, seemed appalled by the outcome. Maggy claimed the researchers had damaged ITC badly by participating in a sensationalistic event such as that program.
Ernest Senkowski and Adolf Homes disagreed. Ernst argued that it wasn't so bad, considering the general nature of TV anyway. He felt the program probably made a lot of people think about the possibility of ITC, even though the on-air contact attempt had failed.
Macy wrote that within days Adolf Homes and Maggy Harsch-Fischbach both independently received messages from spirit colleagues in relation to the incident. Konstantin Raudive's message to Maggy is quoted: "ITC can only work when the minds of those involved are resonant and ethically pure. Public ITC experiments in a sensationalistic environment will not only fail, but can damage the contact field as well." Macy reported that another 'spirit colleague,' 'Professor Bender,' said that no irreparable harm had been done with the incident and, in fact, many people's minds had been opened up in regard to ITC.
In June 1994 Macy gave two speeches about ITC in New York City. The events had been arranged by Juliet Hollister, who publicized the events with a joint radio interview with Michele Marsh on a local radio show. Prior to one of the lectures, Marsh taped an interview with Macy. He recalled:
TV viewers throughout the larger New York metropolitan area were deprived of her presence on the 6 o'clock news that evening, as she sat through my talk. She told me afterward, "I really enjoyed the presentation. Fascinating!"
Juliet Hollister is a subject for the first chapter of Rosemary Ellen Guiley's book Angels of Mercy (1994).
According to Ms. Guiley's book, Juliet had experienced a miraculous and life-changing event one chilly autumn day in 1984. It had happened like this:
On behalf of her Temple of Understanding, Juliet was making final preparations for a world conference which would be held at Saint John the Divine Cathedral in New York City, and would involve His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Assistant UN Secretary-General Robert Muller, and many other spiritual and secular leaders whom Juliet had befriended over the years.
Juliet was lying down for a rest before the event when a being of Light appeared in the room. The being was aware that Juliet would deliver the closing speech at the conference, and he asked her to remind the thousands of people in the audience that angels are real, that they love us humans, and that they want to help us. Before they can help us, however, we have to acknowledge their presence and invite them into our lives, said the being, who tanked Juliet on behalf of the angelic kingdom for her good service over the years, and who then identified himself as Archangel Michael.
Mark Macy chronicled that the Harsch-Fischbachs became pessimistic about campaigning to reach the mainstream public and in the summer of 1994 they put an end to his plan for media coverage of the annual meeting.
Maggy explained that a Luxembourg TV team lead by Rainer Holbe had visited the meeting in 1992, had taken some film footage, and had chatted with Maggy briefly in private, all handled very carefully so as not to intrude on the meeting. A live contact occurred during that meeting. The following year, however, a French TV team were allowed to cover the event, and they had no consideration for the meeting. Maggy and Jules had been disturbed by the bright lights and cables to the point that no contact attempts had been possible.
Mark Macy contacted Michele Marsh and told her that the promised interview had become doubtful.
Ms. Marsh expressed disappointment, but she was already exploring other options. She was aware that Ernst Senkowski had a large archive of videotape and documentation from most of the major experimenters in Europe.
Macy promised to help her get an interview with Ernst and Marsh asked for Macy to work exclusively with her for the time being as the news report was planned to air in the autumn. Beyond the planned TV break, Macy continued to lecture at conferences about ITC.
Producers for a popular daytime TV show, "The Other Side," drew me aside after one of the workshops to ask if I'd be interested in sharing ITC information on their program. I thought of my promise to Michele Marsh. "As long as it's after October there shouldn't be any problem."
He agreed to appear along with Juliet Hollister on an episode of the hour-long daytime TV talkshow. The show's producers convinced him that they would do a serious job of presenting the subject.
I sent the producers a short video sequence of inventor Bill O'Neal talking to the spirit of Dr. George Jeffries Mueller through the Spiricom device; the sequence of nineteenth-century chemist Henri Sainte Clair de Ville in his spirit body, turning his head slowly from left to right; and an audiocassette containing Konstantin Raudive's recent phone dialogs with George Meek and Sarah Estep.
Mark Macy uploaded the clip of "Henri" (Henri Sainte Clair de Ville) to You Tube in 2013.
Mark Macy's account continued:
Finally the day came. I was eager to experience the final result; I had shared so much good, positive information with the producers of "The Other Side" that it would have to be a purely positive look at ITC. Or so I thought. After Juliet and I got seated on the stage before the live audience, the director gave the signal to begin, and a deep, intimidating voice boomed into the room, delivering a frightening message. It was Konstantin Raudive! The producers had dissected his dialog with Sarah Estep, and the portion they played to open the show said, simply, "I'm as fine as a 'dead' one can be." The cameras panned the audience, and in the monitor I could see the facial expressions being transformed quickly from anticipation to trepidation, from "oh-boy!" to "uh-oh."
If anyone listening to the show had been afraid of death before that, their fears were now locked in a bit more tightly. Just the effect I'd been hoping to avoid. One main purpose of ITC was to remove the fear of death from humanity, not to stir it up! Fortunately the show was live, and I had the opportunity to explain to the audience that the line had originally been intended as a humorous, warmhearted reply to Sarah Estep's greeting, "How are you, Dr. Raudive?" That seemed to ease the tensions in the audience a little bit.
The rest of the program went well. Juliet used her eloquent, flamboyant style with lavish arm gestures to describe the miraculous contact we had experienced in Luxembourg three months earlier. The audience was captivated by the wise woman's words. Film footage of Bill O'Neil talking through the Spiricom device to an invisible colleague ran on the monitor as I talked about the historical background of ITC. Then the image of spirit friend Henri Sainte Clair de Ville turned his head was played as I discussed the miracles under way in Luxembourg.
Later I told the producer it had been an excellent show, except for the deceptive use of that opening line.
"Ah, well," he shrugged, "we had to make it a little 'sexy' to stir up the audience."
Michele Marsh's ITC report was postponed from October 1994 to February 1995, complicating Mark Macy's predicament once again. He wrote about Michele Marsh's reaction upon learning about his November appearance on "The Other Side" —
. . . she called me on the phone and blasted me for the betrayal. I had promised to help her be the first American TV person to air a program on ITC, and now I had appeared on another program.
When Maggy Harsch-Fischbach learned of my appearance on "The Other Side," she blasted me too. She questioned my judgment for appearing on a "poor quality" program and said that if other researchers wanted to compromise their morals for a little glory, that was their business. I should have known better. Then she said my only role was to publish the results of their work in English and to present them before groups of people who already were spiritually aware.
Family members and close friends asked my why I was putting up with all this antagonism from various directions, and my answer was simple: The incredible contacts being received in Luxembourg, in my view, were unprecedented in human history.
Employed wisely, it [the miracle of ITC] could usher in a new era of peace and spiritual understanding to a very troubled world. So I would do whatever I could to nurture its growth. That meant not only supporting Maggy however I could, but also spreading her miracles far and wide in a positive light. If that involved getting stuck in the middle once in a while between strong egos, self-centered motivations, and irrational demands (my own as well as other people's), then so be it. After all, what is life on Earth, if not a perpetual dance between the light and dark elements of our inner natures? The point of the dance is to learn the steps and keep moving toward the Light.
During a spring 1995 speaking tour, Macy participated in two live radio interviews on the same day that showed what a difference the mentality of a talk show host can make in expanding the consciousness of an audience.
There was one particularly grueling interview by a bantering personality on a morning talk show who squeezed in a few potshots about talking to dead people, and who seemed to enjoy my struggle to retain some dignity for a field of research that I obviously took seriously. He made it clear that he didn't believe a spooky word I was saying.
I thought of the hundreds of men and women driving to work, listening to the humorous bantering of the radio personality mixed with serious dialog between my good friend, the late Konstantin Raudive, and me.
What were they thinking about ITC? Was it just one more source of a morning chuckle, or had it stirred something deep within some listeners? Would they search out more information about ITC, or would they quickly forget it and go about their mundane business? I would never know. Such was the nature of publicity through the mass media. You could do your best to prepare the seeds of information you wanted to cast to the world, but you could only hope they would fall on fertile soil.
At the university radio station a few hours later, the young talk show host admitted that he had a deep interest in spirit communication. The half-hour interview went so well that it was extended to an hour, and we discussed the research in some detail. It was one of the better interviews I had enjoyed.
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