The right circumstances would be a house that is reputed to be haunted. It's better to not have to go looking for spirits. To know that they are already there helps a great deal. To have right equipment would help. Make sure you have enough batteries, tapes for recorder or a microphone is necessary. If it's a digital recorder, knowing how to use it is a must. Although this sounds like a no-brainer....you would be surprised at number of people buying these recorders and then not knowing how to use them or not being able to understand directions.

Another suggestion would be to meditate. Meditation helps to clear mind while opening up mind to elements at same time. I must confess that I don't think I meditate well but I have been told again and again that as long as I keep trying, I am on right track. It is important that you continue to try.

Find a spot that you think will work and get comfortable. You can begin by asking simple answer questions. Don't expect long, drawn out explanations. You will be lucky to get simple answers. Just keep asking questions that are respectful, show courtesy and are informative. Don't ask questions that are too difficult to answer. Remember, these are people and may only be able to answer using one word.

These simple rules will enable just about any one to obtain EVP. The point to remember is to keep trying. Eventually you will succeed. The dead do want to talk with you. You need to be patient to receive message. Also, too, dead may come to you in dreams with messages...but that's another article.

Good luck!!

There are many flaws in argument or assertions about lost continent or continental polar shift and ecologic or cataclysmic events. We shall deal with them later but at this juncture it is worth noting that Mungo Man and other evidences of great antiquity to support Churchward's theories of Mu have been proven archaeologically. He does an excellent job of deciphering totem poles of Haida nation in his book 'The Lost Continent of Mu and I have found a stele at Chichen Itza that supports his Greek to Cara-Maya story of destruction of Mu. There are many statues and artistic works in area to support it as well as other esoteric symbols on stele. My efforts almost landed me in a Mexican prison with no 'rights' as a Canadian or American resident. The author of this particular piece is right to focus on Hawaii and he might be amazed to know that highest 'northern' (Hyperborean according to ancient Greek scholars) shamans, or Druids have their most adept members in Hawaii. This was from a credible source, I trust. So just because he tried to make sense of facts and made many mistakes does not diminish my respect for passion and courage of Col. James Churchward. He tried to give mankind a truer picture of his roots and cultural footing. We must try to establish what relevance our past immoral behavior has for people of future.

"The inspirational and creative level of mind which operated at a higher state of consciousness was recognized as province of a 'higher spirit' - a 'High' Self - which was immortal and which motivated individual towards spiritual aspirations and noble deeds. It was considered to guide and inspire 'human' self, for it had divine-like qualities...

Among shamans of northern traditions, however, was an oral teaching {The Bardic Tradition of Bairds by which my genes do instruct.} that recognized a fourth intelligence - an instinctive and automative one which controlled and maintained physical body, and which was responsible for its protection and survival. This intelligence operated at deep levels of unconscious activity {Partially, perhaps, 'history book' of our genes according to Dr. Collins head of Human Genome Project.} and was likened to an animal spirit because its action seemed largely instinctive. Since it normally disappeared when human being suffered death it was not regarded in same way as other 'spirits'...

Each technique has been effective within its own culture, but has derived from an earlier universal system of prehistory. By recognizing parallels and integrating principles into a single harmonic system in spirit of travelling shamans. I hope not only to get closer to original system, but also to provide modern people with a clear path to Cosmos of shaman, thus securing a firm foundation from which Inner Space may be explored and benefits shared.

Travelling shamans who went beyond limitations of their own tribal customs recognized that no single group possessed all Truth {Thus Kelts were into 'Brotherhood' rather than racial purity or ethnic ascendancy.}, and so journeyed from tribe to tribe and place to place seeking knowledge, gaining new insights, weaving what they learned into what they already knew, and imparting wisdom." (5)

It is good to see that there are many people in every age who see that Inner Space and travel offer much insight. Despite prevailing attitudes of last 5,000 years that have sought to homogenize, enslave or create class hierarchies, and manage us for their benefit, shaman’s road has borne wondrous fruit. In recent times quantum (once derided as 'atom-mysticists') physicists and people like Lovelock, Campbell, Chopra etc., are our adept cells. The past had De Danaan or their 'brothers' of race of hominids we have just found near Lake Mungo.

“The Pre Ragnarok Viking Gods.

This section was inspired by Erik Linklater and legends of Orkney Islands, guided by Thor, and tested in meditation. It contains no material of German origin. Written 1989.

The Sagas were written by shamans and other leaders to define social, spiritual and psychic objectives of race. Where an image produced inspires Man and is acceptable to spirit guides, then those spirit guides will use image as an interface and bring it to life, thus creating an archetypal God. The fossilised Gods of monotheism on other hand are just political, mental or psychic control mechanisms stuck in time until dismantled. Spirit guides do not have a brain and need you to do their thinking and meditation for them. If one serves Gods, then they will serve you. There are no free lunches. (Note written February 2000.)

When man can generate enough energy and responsibility for his actions, he will no longer need God or Gods. Until such time he needs a first rate energy source. The Viking Gods provide a first class source of energy, suitable for propelling man through enlightenment (as in Zen). They will help conquer Zodiac and Akashic Elements (Fire, Air, Water and Earth), and other Frost Giants of emotion.” (6)

These wise people were often called 'messengers' among natives of North America and 'gods' among lesser ethnic groups who sought to create Olympians or other gods they could interpret for. When last Mungo Man went to whatever planet or end they sought, we do not know. Was it when genetic viruses took all large animals like Mammoths and saber cats? No, because there were still mammoths on Wrangle Island 4,000 years ago. I don't think more advanced humans of Mungo strain would have allowed US to do what we've done to our native 'brothers' and our own mothers and sisters. Perhaps I'm a dreamer or an idealist, maybe I'm like Heraclitus of Ephesus who shunned his position and power for pursuit of some ludicrous and intangible 'knowledge'. Maybe I'm an extreme individual and 'neurotic' or just a naive cultist of some kind. I've been called many different names or labeled a witch, agnostic, atheist, alchemist, and other things I probably am, as well. It would be difficult to put me alongside many others in a pursuit because I value and respect so many different people and approaches. Krishnamurti (sans Theosophists), Yogananda before he reached out to normative religion and even as ecumenicist, Jung and philosophers of 'cell diffusion' like Campbell. I hope you put me alongside these people or simply with those who wore my name so proudly in pre-Christian times - BAIRDS! These are my ancestral 'allies' or 'guides'.