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EVP Pioneers
Friedrich Jurgenson 1903 - 1987
Recorded
his first strange voices in 1959.
He
is recognised as the father of E.V.P.
His
book 'Voices from the Universe was published in English.
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Kostantin Raudive 1906 - 1974
Started
an interest in the paranormal while at Edinburgh University in 1934.
He
was inpressed by Jurgenson book that he decided to instigate a research project
while living in Germany.
'Breakthrough'
considered by anyone studying E.V.P to be the most important book on the
subject.
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Gilbert Bonner 1924 - 1997
After
being interested in Faith Healing for some years he read Raudives book and it
predicted his life path.
He
was the most regular participant in continued research was not interested in
where the voices originated, but only in trying to scientifically prove that
they existed.
He
proved with the help of the British Government that they were real and conducted
experiments in a Faraday Cage.
He
managed to amass one of the best library's of actual taped recordings of E.V.P
that exist today.
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Oliver Lodge 1851 - 1940
President
of the Society of Psychical Research between 1901 -1903. A great friend of
Edison, Marconi, Myers and Doyle.
He
invented the Coherer that lay the way for radio to develop into what it is
today.
His
son Raymond was killed in the first world war and his book named after him
'Raymond' was a best seller of it's day.
His
subsequent book, 'The survival of man' and 'Why I believe in personal
immortality' are still as fresh today as when they were written in the 1920's.
F.W.H Myers indeed contacted him on several occasions after his death.
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F.W.H.Myers 1843 - 1901
Fellow
founder of the SPR and co - wrote the first real work on spiritualism called
'Human personality and its survival after bodily death' along with 'Phantasms of
the living' he set the imagination of the Victorians racing.
He
investigated many famous mediums including the most famous ones of the period
such as Mrs Piper and Eusapia Paladino.
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Thomas Edison 1847 - 1931
The
father of mass entertainment.
Motion
picture machines, The electric light bulb and count less other inventions and
ideas.
In
1876 he established the worlds first industrial research laboratory.
The
Menlow Park Lab brought together many great scientist and creators of the day.
Edison
always believe that if radio waves can be transmitted over vast distances he
thought it possible to develop a devise that would communicate with the other
side.
He
knew that someone with great knowledge had to go pass away and carry on the
research in the next world.
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Conan Doyle 1859 - 1930
Famous
the world over for writing the famous Sherlock Holmes books, he was indeed
interested in spiritualism and all things unexplained throughout most of his
life.
Her
was an avid member of the Society for Psychical Research in London and soon
became very close friends F.W.H.Myers.
His
second wife Jean Leckie had mediumistic powers that began him on a path of
discovery, and sometimes ridicule as the saga of the Cottingley Fairies can
confirm.
To
books any one interested in early spiritualism he wrote in 1918 called The New
Revelation and The Message.
Both
showed the hungry public an unclouded view of the afterlife.
He
was involved in some dubious activities such as Spirit Photography, but until
his dying day where 8000 people attended his funeral in The Albert Hall in
London he remained, and remains a true believer in an afterlife.
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