Lucy, I heard back from my friend but she has lost her notes, etc. and can't remember that much about it now. There didn't seem to be a specific time period.

Love, Mairlyn

Hi Alysia-
The resonance thing is a little more complex. It's easy to put a microphone in front of a loudspeaker, and turn the volume down to where it rings, but doesn't squeal. That gives good resonances, but gives a very narow bandwidth - like only a single tone would get through. Some of the other sites associated with EVP's indicate that researchers seem to have used multiple resonators, more like a harp than a guitar, so that it could resonate to all frequencies. Presumably this was useful, but any recorded conversations in such cases were still all passed through the mind of a competent psychic medium. 

The other aspect of resonances is that the spirit world has got to have more than our everyday three dimensions in order to allow the information structures of the "self" to remain coherent, even though distributed over large spaces. In a sense, we live in a 7-space. We have the 3-space of this moment's everyday experience, plus another similar 3-space into which we are moving in the next instant, plus one vector of connection between the two, giving a total of seven vectors involved in any event.  That works for us, but still is probably not  enough for a spook to survive.

From a purely topological perspective, the next naturally occurring dimensional order after 7-space is 127-space. The Egyptians used this. Remember the Egyptian negative confession in the hall of Maat? - One third of the dimensions are associated with processes, things that people do, one third relate to objects and what we do things with, and the last third relate to the logic and relationships among things and processes. The three categories are redundant.  The Egyptians denied having sinful actions, thus the one third of the possible sins in a 127 dimensioned world, and the other two thirds were included automatically, because the definitions are redundant. 3 x 42 = 126, plus Osiris, the "all God" for a total of 127.  For spirits, this would allow a spirit to be defined by 7 dimensions of the immediate moment, seven dimensions of the next moment, and about 113 ways to get there, which fits nicely with the idea of a distributed entity in the "Spirit world".

If we built one, a resonator might be successful. The tricky part is how to build a 127 dimensioned resonator. Thus far, the human mind still seems to be the only thing that links to the spirits and their world. However, there might be some way to fake the dimensions, in the same was as we can draw a  cube (3-space object) on a sheet of paper (2-space projection). Maybe a 3-space projection of 127-space? Or maybe if I were to hold my mind in the proper way ...

dave

Hi Alysia- rofl-
The dimension thing has two definitions, how we do operational measurements (a foot long, six inches wide etc), and how we discriminate between kinds of measures (in and out has nothing to do with right and left etc). Properly, the whole thing is called dimensional analysis, and forms a trivial part of topology.  Remember the teacher telling you that you can't add apples to oranges? (Ugh.)

However, when we put two ideas together, we get a third that has an added quality contained by neither of the beginners. That third quality, called synergy, The synergy over any set of dimensions (like length, width and height) gives a new set of dimensions that have properties not possessed by the beginners, and of course the beginners are there still too. Thus, three dimensions give rise to seven, and they give rise to 127 etc.

I recall the story of a guru explaining the world, "The world rests on the back of a giant Turtle." A listener protested, "But what does that turtle rest on?" The gurur replied, "It rests on the back of another turtle." Not yet satisfied, the listener repeated, "And that turtle, on what does it rest?" The guru said, "That rests on the back of yet another turtle." This went on for several minutes, until the guru finally smiled and said, "Be at peace brother. It's turtles all the way down."

Or is it all relative?
dave

I saw "White Noise" last night. I wasn't impressed since it was so Hollywoodized. It was ok though.

Love, Mairlyn