Hi everybody,

First, I just need to congratulate you Craig; I think you’re doing a great job bringing much needed information and evidence for our continued existence into the public arena. This website has been most enlightening and down to Earth (pardon the pun) I’ve yet to come across on this subject. Thanks.

My question concerns ‘Afterlife Communications Devices’. Is it true that Sir William Crookes developed the cathode ray tube for an ACD? I’ve come across several references to this being the case, and that perhaps the original intention behind the development of the Television is not as mainstream science would have us believe.

Briefly, this is what I understand of the story so far.

At the turn of the 20th Century, ordinary people were increasingly finding their own direct experience of spirituality in seances, which was threatening to undermine the Church’s authority/monopoly, (amidst growing fears over loss of social control in political arenas too), and so the British Government launched a campaign to disprove the existence of the Afterlife once and for all.
To effectively do this, Sir William Crookes was tasked to select a team of leading scientists, and issue a challenge to hold these seances under strict laboratory conditions. Sir Crookes was one of the leading scientists of the day, well-known and highly respected, and the establishment wanted to use the results of his experiments to destroy confidence in the Spiritualist movement as a whole. And right enough, there did appear be a lot of frauds around! Understandable, perhaps.
However, after working with reputable mediums and documenting hundreds of physical manifestations, Sir Crookes and his team ended up collecting a wealth of empirical evidence which supported the existence of the Afterlife instead.
My understanding is that these seances were repeatable experiments, the scientific method, and that they took photographs, made plaster casts of limbs, and even collaborated fingerprints with existing police records and so on.
Sir Crookes' story goes on to sound like the conversion of St Paul on the road to Damascus! From what I’ve read, it appears that he then begins to attend seances regularly, with the intention of working with scientists in the Afterlife to develop the technology which performs the job of a living medium; technology which was allegedly suppressed by the establishment of his day, and later used to develop a device we now call the Television.

Please correct me on any of this, I’m still uncertain about the validity of the information I’m coming across, and the time-line seems to vary. It’s a recognised fact Sir Crookes was a pioneer in the field of early radio technology, and without a doubt a great scientist on every level – his remit had been to scientifically discredit the Spiritualist movement, not verify it, and yet he still published the results of his Afterlife experiments regardless of personal concerns over the repercussions. Consequently he was ridiculed and shunned by his peers, effectively ruining his reputation and career.
But, if it is true that the origins of our humble telly rest in a device intended as a medium for Afterlife communication, it’s not too difficult to see the threat it would’ve posed for the establishment, and why they would need to usurp or suppress it. Having a means to access the Afterlife in every home, at the flick of a switch, would have literally turned the entire world upside-down. Organised religion would not be possible. I doubt very much that all the wars and consequent suffering of the last 100 years could have been possible. The world today would be a very different place indeed.
The suppression of technology which could benefit humanity is a serious accusation, but going from their past record, it would be naive to think that mainstream science would not bend over to the will of big corporate interests. Around the same time as Sir Crookes was publishing his results on the existence of the Afterlife, Rudolph Diesel invented an engine designed to run on vegetable oils. Henry Ford was building the first cars using a robust plastic made from wheat straw, hemp and sisal. And who knows what Tesla was really up to.

The way these Afterlife speakers explain where they live, separately to the Earth plane, is analogous to the way different radio frequencies exist separately without direct contact. It's basically a difference in wave characteristic, which is the same principle as a radio or television tunes into different TV channels. And if the telly was originally intended as an ACD, it would account for all the EVP that people report is possible when tuned between the channels into static.
Surely with the advances science has made in regards to communication technology in all its forms, it’s not that much of a stretch of the imagination to think that a workable ACD might also be possible, if it doesn’t already exist by now.

Does anybody have any reputable references where I might inform myself further on the subject of ACDs?

Thanks again,

J.J. San Martín