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Mark Macy and ITC:
instrumental transcommunication, the use of technologies
to receive voices, images, and text from the spirit world

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In the 1980s and 1990s, Mark was involved with a project that produced many photographs and various tech-based communications from the other side.

This work had similarities to The Scole Experiments (see afterlife item #3), in that, a team of scientists in the spirit world worked with technicians here on Earth.

You’ll want to read many of Mark’s articles wherein photographs of people and landscape of the astral realm are featured.

my observations:

We’ve spoken of Father Benson’s Summerland of English cottages and small farms, nestled near a university town. All that is well and good, and it’s what I prefer; however, the astral realms are gigantic in their spatial dimensions, stretching untold millions of miles, and in some of those far-flung “neighborhoods” we might find elements that are quite alien to us. Tom Campbell spoke of this factor, which might be relevant to anyone who is preparing for “advanced” OBE exploration.

And so it is with many of the regions Mark has encountered via reports received. Some of the inhabitants featured in the articles are not necessarily in Summerland but in worlds or regions inferior or lower-level than where we want to go. Also, in line with this, the behaviors and attitudes of ones in some of these areas are not necessarily "saint like" or perfect.

I offer this caveat for the newcomer to this field of enquiry.

photos sent, via electronic equipment, from scientists on the other side

Marie Mreches, an ITC researcher, who passed to the other side, continued to work on the project. What we are looking at, as per Marie’s own testimony, is an image of her emerging from an ocean in Summerland after she went for a swim.

Lovers in Summerland at seaside.

A country scene from Summerland.

the afterlife will be more real, more physical, not less

Victor Zammit: “We sometimes hear people claim that they know, without a doubt, that in the afterlife you don't have a body. They feel sure that you don't eat or drink, and you float around as a kind of blissful disembodied awareness. [However] people will find themselves in a world that is very physical and similar to life here. This is [why] we sometimes hear that there are people who don't realise that they have died because everything is so solid and earth-like…

Editor's note: See the work of Dr. Wickland who spoke to wayward discarnates via the trance-meddiumship of his wife. These earthbound spirits, only with much debate, could be convinced that they were so-called dead.

“Out-of-body explorers are unanimous about the fact that the lower levels of the astral world are solid and earth-like. Jurgen Ziewe has been having out-of-body experiences for hours at a time in full waking consciousness for over forty-five years. He explains that we need to get used to the fact that our afterlife will be more real not less real, more physical not less physical.”

Editor’s note: It is more real because, when you find something you really like, you can stay with it, even unendingly, if that’s what you want; unlike our world wherein all good things live under constant threat of perdition and then pass away. See more discussion in the “holodeck” writing.

from Mark's 07.16.23 posting

Here’s a preview of some ITC contacts that were especially mind-boggling or evidential or controversial. (There’ll be a lot more of these contacts in later articles in the series.)

The Seven

By the time we founded INIT in 1995, my colleague Maggy Fischbach of Luxembourg and her husband Jules Harsch had been in contact with the Timestream Spirit Group for about a decade. The spirits were talking through Maggy’s radios, calling her on the phone, and delivering images through her TV and computer. It was a magical time, especially when a high-pitched, precise voice introduced itself through the radio as a superior “gatekeeper” for the communication bridge being developed between the couple and their spirit friends.

It soon became clear that the bridge would not be possible without the support and protection of The Seven finer beings who displayed unimaginable knowledge and power, as well as unbounded love and patience. The spirits at Timestream, most of them having lived lifetimes on Earth, sometimes called them “People of the Rainbow” because of the vivid colors and light they emanated when visiting Timestream at level 3.

The Seven themselves apparently have a “home frequency” around levels 4 and 5, that spiritual frontier where subtle form melts away into formless, brilliant consciousness (as the pictures above suggest).

Jules Verne Palace

One particular picture of a spirit-world palace was probably the most controversial of the ITC contacts Maggy Fischbach received, as we’ll see in a moment. But first some backstory….

The late French sci-fi author Jules Verne sent Maggy three contacts in the spring of 1994, when she attended an afterlife conference in Paris to share her research.

• The first was a long letter delivered by FAX (excerpt below), which she could share at the conference.
• The second was a portrait of Jules Verne standing in front of a pegasus, with an inscription, “What I see here far exceeds any fiction that I could produce!”
• The third was a picture of an elaborate spirit-world palace where Jules Verne says he awakened after he died in 1905. (This is the controversial picture that we’ll examine in a moment, but first…)

Jules Verne’s letter and pegasus picture. Before the Paris conference Maggy had received a letter from Jules Verne, through her FAX machine, in which he described waking up in paradise after suffering a most painful death. Here’s an excerpt:

… I suddenly realized with amazement that I no longer had pain—anywhere—and that my blindness had completely disappeared, which allowed me to observe, among other things, that I was in a sumptuous palace bringing to mind the splendid residences of the rajahs, with walls constructed not in sandstone but in resplendent white marble. The opulence of many mirrors reflected the blaze of the solid silver furniture. The mural paintings showed courtiers and girls who were dancing, and I noticed a pleasant freshness emanating from a number of little fountains surrounding luxuriant green plants. My hearing, now completely restored, finally permitted me once more to savor the melodious warble of the countless birds.

I then heard music so soft and sweet that I cried with joy. Slender, fine and exquisite creatures, reminding me of my Honorine when she still possessed all the beauty and freshness of her youth, and who, molded in their orange and blue silk garments which contrasted with their tanned skin, invited me to sit upon the soft pillows and inquired as to my desires and wishes.

They spoke to me in a language that up until then I had never heard but, strangely, I understood immediately—and I was even able to answer them in the same idiom. (It was only later that I was informed that it was the “Language of the River” that each one acquires as soon as one arrives here.)

For a long time I thought I was dreaming, and it was only after weeks and months—which somehow seemed to me to pass like the flight of swallows—that I finally understood that I was deceased….

Editor’s note: I communicated with Mark stating that this landing-place world in which Verne found himself did not seem to be Summerland, as such, but some “lower” level. Mark agreed.

Jules Verne’s palace picture. After getting that magnificent letter and pegasus picture before the conference, Maggy probably wasn’t too surprised when she got home and found another picture from Jules Verne in her computer. The surprise came years later, when we learned that this picture of a spirit world palace was almost identical to a 1928 photograph of a temple in India.