EVPs and Visionary Art: Cosmic catnip

“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.” – Carl Sagan

Wendy’s Coffeehouse EVP Curiosities

Before getting waylaid by one of life’s unavoidable monkey wrenches (previous post), I had been experiencing some fascinating anomalies with my podcast audio. EVPs. Electronic Voice Phenomena.

Some EVPs are indistinguishable in the recordings but there are a few that stand out and seem to be an intentional highlight of elements of the conversation. The common denominator with these EVPs is the topic: Ingo Swann.

Consider: Utterances in EVP recordings are often one to two seconds long, with a smooth rather than abrupt initiation and termination suggesting a similarity between the recorded content and human speech (Butler, 2002). Source: Link. Axtell, Cassie C., “Assessing Electronic Voice Phenomena through Speech Science” (2017). Honors Theses. 415. Link. 

In regard to my personal feelings about this situation, I have had a sense of connection to Ingo from the time of the initial interview with Elly, his niece. (A few years ago now).

From that time, it seemed his art was purposeful and intended to reach a wider audience. That has played out. The pieces selected for inclusion in the most recent book, Stardust Highways: Ingo Swann’s Art of Entertaining, Amazon, are extraordinary.

• Ingo’s work can be seen at the AVAM, American Visionary Art Museum.
  
  Also on display at the High Line Hotel. Link.
  
  This 2016 video promotes a La MaMa Galleria exhibit featuring several selections of Ingo’s Art. YouTube. Do be sure to read the comments.
• Edited exhibit summary: The paintings and collages included in the exhibition – spanning the early 1960s to the late 1990s – illustrate the unique way that Swann viewed the world. After abandoning his dream of commercial success in the late 1950s, Swann continued to paint only what gave him joy: primarily, the energy that he saw radiating from the people around him. Swann saw this energy – chi, aura, force – as uniting all living things to one another. He believed that if people were to harness their extra-sensory perceptions, to see these forces as he could, the world would change for the better.
  
  For this reason, this exhibition focuses on works from throughout his life that depict energy radiating from figures in rays, flames, mandalas, and halos. His subjects range from the mythological and ancient to hippies and hustlers. The latter of which, he may have seen outside of his home and studio on the Bowery in Manhattan. Link.

For additional insight into Ingo – Read his novel, Star Fire, Amazon.

Amazon Review from movie score collaborator Steven Halpern: “A true classic, that almost became a major motion picture. This book ‘previews’ research that only became public decades later. Even the songs that begin each chapter are prescient. There’s a soundtracks album that is quite amazing.” – Link.

I have sent copies of select EVPs to be reviewed and will share when I have more information. After 25 years experiencing non-physical presence affirmed via my visual nightlight interaction, it seems there is a new twist — expansion — highlighting the presence of extra-dimensional others via the audio element.

Who, what, why, how? Will the pattern continue? Fascinating.

Headline Highlights

• Tourist Attraction: Top Cat. Link. Purrfect 5-star average on Google Maps.
• AI Kerfuffle. Outrage over ‘average’ … Link.
• Doppelganger = Advanced AI can “build the photorealistic model of the person, making it possible to talk, gesture and make eye contact with them in three dimensions.” Source.
• Royal attraction. Harry and Megan UFO proximity alert. Source.
• Urban Sasquatch. “I also told him that sometimes, they make small X-es on the ground with two sticks. I even made one to show him. The next day I found 3 X-es on the ground which weren’t there the day prior, but these were at the park at a spot where I regularly stop.” Source.
• Cellphone friendly. NASA now requesting and accepting UFO reports. Source. Follow-up on that NASA UFO meeting. Link.
• UFO Twitter reaction summed up in this response…

The NASA approach is exactly the same as Project Blue Book. Plus they pretend as if the entire UFO experience has no history. They act as if any study would be more or less starting from scratch. In other words, more of the same and nothing to see here except a Bart Simpson…

— Whitley Strieber (@WhitleyStrieber) June 1, 2023

• Flip side of the coin .. research has been ongoing .. for decades.
• UFO researcher Stanton Friedman (Died 2019) was honored by Roswell, New Mexico, in the first round of inductees into its UFO Walk of Fame. 2022. “We wouldn’t have anything to celebrate if it wasn’t for pioneers like him that really took the time to investigate, to look at the science [and] to have that passion for the truth.” – Juanita Jennings, /City of Roswell. Source.
• The Stanton Friedman is Out of This World exhibit at the Fredericton Region Museum, New Brunswick, Canada, contains a variety of artifacts, documents and video recordings from the late UFO researcher. Source. Museum Link.
• Regarding his own sighting at 16, – UFO researcher Jacques Vallée knew further investigation was needed. “I realized,” he would later write in his journal, “that I would forever be ashamed of the human race if we simply ignored ‘their’ presence.” Source.
• Too cool for school…when sharpened. Obvious hindsight. Source.
• Free US Lighthouse. Several options. Source.
• Minor details… Georgia, USA residents: “Please take pictures with your clothes on when submitting them for your Digital Driver’s License and IDs,” wrote the department of drivers’ services. Source.
• Awareness. “While scientists have known that plants can respond to touch, this study shows that plant cells send different signals when touch is initiated and ended.” Source.
• Sound therapy. Research validates Binaural Beats enhances relaxation. Source.
• Haunted. Restored. Open for tours. “Boleskine House, which sits on the banks of Loch Ness, will be opened for tours from May 23, with previous owners including occultist Aleister Crowley and guitar legend Jimmy Page.” Source.

Wizard behind the curtain

“Whatever objective reality might be, it’s not what you see. What you see, according to evolution by natural selection, is just an adaptive fiction. That includes spacetime and all objects within spacetime. They are a user interface, not objective reality.” – YouTube. Donald Hoffman is a cognitive scientist at UC Irvine and author of The Case Against Reality, Amazon

“I’m claiming that experiences are the real coin of the realm. The experiences of everyday life — my real feeling of a headache, my real taste of chocolate — that really is the ultimate nature of reality.” – Donald Hoffman, Source.