Journalist Savely Kashnitsky once told about his visit to the professor of the Penza Technological Academy Sergei Volkov, during which he witnessed an experiment in telecommunication with the other world.
Technically, the device for communication looked quite simple: two large mirrors, located opposite each other, created an "endless corridor", as in traditional girls' fortune telling on Christmastide. But instead of the girl, a television tuned to a non-working channel served as an impassive recorder of visions from the Looking Glass.
The lens of the camcorder "looked" at the TV screen. The dressing gown of a recently deceased woman was placed near the TV. And after a while a hazy image of a young woman with closed eyes appeared on the TV screen …
Six months ago, we talked about a similar method of communication with the other world. During this time, some of our readers sent to the editor a description of their successful and unsuccessful attempts at home, without any black or white magic, to see or hear those who, in the opinion of official science, have sunk into oblivion forever.
Frankly, it is worth doing such experiments only in two cases - out of simple curiosity, as in the same Christmas divination, or when such strong feelings are associated with the departed that the light is not sweet. Then a successful experiment can bring a long-awaited comfort and hope for a possible meeting in the future.
Curious readers who are simply interested in the very fact of such a seemingly impossible connection should be reminded of its pioneers.
When, in the second half of the 19th century, the American Alexander Bell invented the telephone, and the previously invented telegraph spread this news all over the world, one of the first to learn it was in Cambridge. The young teacher, Alex Griffith, was an amateur naturalist. When his young colleagues, having dismissed the students, went to play sports, go out with the girls or just have fun, Alex returned to his home laboratory, where he set up various electrical experiments.
Like Bell, he had been trying to transmit a human voice over wires for several years, but he got stuck in the same problem: how to make a device whose resistance to electric current would change in time with simple telephones. Convinced of his efficiency, he was the first in Cambridge to make a telephone connection with a friend who lived a mile from his home. To do this, he used the poles of the telegraph line running along the road.
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And immediately faced with the phenomenon of magnetic induction: the phone heard continuous clicks of telegraph signals. And then one day, trying to reduce this interference, he heard a weak human voice, it seems, a woman, which seemed to be turning to him with some kind of request. And it is not known whether Alex would have been able to hear the woman if the storm had not knocked down the telegraph poles somewhere and cut the wires.
Now complete silence reigned on the telephone line, and Alex, increasing the battery voltage, clearly heard a strange request addressed to him: a certain Anna asked to wire his father, living in London, that he was right about some Edward, and his papers are in her dresser rooms in a country house.
Most of all, Alex was struck not by the request of an unfamiliar woman, which he promised to fulfill, but by the fact of a telephone conversation when telephone communication did not exist in England. But the telephone stranger avoided any communication. Not yet knowing that the telegraph line was cut off, Alex assumed that the message somehow "leaked" from the telegraph line.
When the telegraph started working, he sent a telegram to London, signing it "Anna", and a few days later an elderly gentleman appeared in his house, who turned out to be the father of this very Anna. But what he told, struck Alex to the depths of his soul and turned his whole worldview upside down: Anna had already died a month. Contrary to the wishes of her parents, she was going to marry a certain Edward, whom her father, a large industrialist, did not like extremely.
According to inquiries, Edward was an ordinary marriage swindler, but his daughter did not want to hear anything. Then her father literally sent her away by force to his country estate. But the offended daughter stole some important documents from him, took it with her, hid it in a chest of drawers, and in despair she threw herself into the pond.
And now, having received such a strange telegram from Cambridge, his grief-stricken father first went to his country house, found the papers, and then went to the sender of the telegram. Alex without concealment told how he talked to his daughter on a closed telephone line. But now, no matter how they listened, Anna's voice could not be heard against the background of the interference of the working telegraph. Or maybe, having completed her mission, she no longer got in touch.
Such stories are not isolated, but in this case we are more interested in something else: it was Alex Griffith who, on the basis of his own experience, came to the correct, albeit not scientific, idea that the souls of those who have gone to another world cannot operate with material technology, for example, a telegraph key or a telephone receiver …
But, being "etheric beings", consisting of other, "subtle" matter, they can control "etheric vibrations" or close to them electrical and magnetic phenomena. And if they are provided with an electric or other circuit with a source of energy, they can control the electric current in it in an unknown way.
A century later, this idea was brought to life by enthusiasts of transcommunication, operating with turned on tape recorders with blank tape and radio receivers tuned to an empty band.
Later the same idea will be expressed by the American enthusiast of methods of electronic communication with the other world, hiding under the pseudonym Konstantinos: “Unlike us, people, representatives of the other world are immaterial. That is, in order to form some information for us in the material world, they must get the opportunity to "blind" it from something.
It was Konstantinos who proposed a way to get a TV picture from there (without sound) using a TV closed to each other and a TV camera attached to it, in the circuit of which a positive feedback is created (but below the screen backlight level). Then a purely noise video signal will circulate in this circuit, and correspondents from Through the Looking Glass are given the opportunity to use it.
He also found that for a more successful contact with a specific “soul”, it is necessary to use either a photograph or some thing that previously belonged to this person. Well, other technical details can be gleaned from the book of Konstantinos "Connection with the Otherworld".