Ep 162: Connor J. Randall and the Estes Method
“...I am inclined to believe that our personality hereafter will be able to affect matter. If this reasoning be correct, then, if we can evolve an instrument so delicate as to be affected, moved, or manipulated...by our personality as it survives in the next life, such an instrument, when made available, ought to record something..”
– Thomas Edison, from an interview with Scientific American Magazine, 1920.
Background:
Those skeptical of the existence of a spirit world will often cite that there is no credible evidence leading to proof, this being the basis for their disbelief. Yet what constitutes as evidence or proof seems to be a personal decision, as there is an endless supply of visual and audio recordings and environmental data which at the least appear to be genuinely anomalous and unexplainable. For the mainstream scientific community, these anomalies would need to be consistently repeatable under laboratory conditions for the implications of the data to be accepted. But for paranormal researchers attempting communication with the "Other Side," although elusive, there are enough occurrences of contextual dialogue that their practices have become meaningful. The phenomenon of contact with the unseen world via electronic devices is described generally as "Instrumental Trans-Communication" or ITC. First defined in the 1970s by Ernst Senkowksi, researchers have been refining and evolving new techniques for ITC ever since, employing new technologies and modifying established methodologies. One such creative experimentation resulted in the "Estes Method," developed by our last episode's guest, Connor J. Randall, and his investigation teammates Karl Pfeiffer and Michelle Tate. Named for the place where it was first conceived, the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, the Estes Method has not only added a layer of objectivity to Spirit Box ITC sessions but has also yielded some compelling "evidence." Join us for another conversation with Connor as he discusses this and other ITC practices used at the Stanley Hotel, which then lead to the experiments seen in the Hellier documentary series.
Location:
The historic Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO, the inspiration for Stephen King’s novel The Shining, which would later become the inspiration for Stanley Kubrick’s motion picture also titled The Shining.
Reference Links:
The full version of the movie “The Stanley Effect” on http://www.ghosttown.tv/
“Frank’s Box: The Broken Radio” by Karen Stollznow on Skeptical Inquirer
“The Haunted Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado” on LegendsOfAmerica.com
“Did Thomas Edison build a spirit telephone?” from the Living Life in Full Spectrum blog
Related Books:
Suggested Viewing:
The Spirits of the Stanley – watch Connor J. Randall, Karl Pfeiffer and Michelle Tate carry out their ongoing paranormal investigations at the Stanley Hotel from January through March of 2016 on TheDarkZone.tv website.
Watch Hellier Seasons One and Two for FREE – start here at hellier.tv
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CREDITS:
Episode 162: Connor J. Randall and the Estes Method. Produced by Scott Philbrook & Forrest Burgess; Audio Editing by Sarah Vorhees Wendel and Zach Bair; Sound Design by Ryan McCullough; Tess Pfeifle, Producer and Lead Researcher; Research Support from the astonishing League of Astonishing Researchers, a.k.a. The Astonishing Research Corps, or "A.R.C." for short. Copyright 2019 Astonishing Legends Productions, LLC. All Rights Reserved.